In 1876, the United States launched the Great Sioux War without a formal declaration of war by Congress. During the nineteenth century, the rights of American Indians were frequently violated by the president and ignored or denied enforcement by federal courts. However, Congress generally treated the Indians with good faith and honored due process, which prohibits the government from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without a fair hearing before an impartial judge or jury...

Ignite Transformationin Your District CommunityCommitted to achieving better academic, behavioral, health, and life outcomes for students and the adults that support them, Phoenix County's school board agreed to a bold new approach. They found new leadership and embarked on a multi-year journey to transform their school system and community-wide partnerships into a coherent student-centered ecosystem.In The**Education Imperative...

Ignite Transformation in Your District CommunityCommitted to achieving better academic, behavioral, health, and life outcomes for students and the adults that support them, Phoenix County's school board agreed to a bold new approach. They found new leadership and embarked on a multi-year journey to transform their school system and community-wide partnerships into a coherent student-centered ecosystem.In The Education Imperative, strategic...

Sestets is the nineteenth book from one of the country's most acclaimed poets, a masterpiece of formal rigor and a profound meditation on nature and mortality. It is yet another virtuosic showcase for Charles Wright's acclaimed descriptive powers, and also an inquiry into the nature of description itself, both seductive and dangerous: "a virtual world/ Unfit for the virtuous." Like his previous books, Sestets is seeded with the lyrics of old love songs and spirituals, and...

The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge,And evening with its blotting paperlifts off the light.Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines--"Landscape with Missing Overtones"Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence w...

Charles Wright called his seventh collection Zone Journals to emphasize how the poems draw on time and place as their starting point. But despite the air of immediacy and informality, they are artfully composed, informed as always by Wright's profound sense of subliminal order."Called one of our best middle-generation poets, Wright offers as his seventh collection a series of meditations emphasizing time and place. He draws upon history (especially Renaissance Italy), his o...

You deserve success!You can live a rich full and productive life, by following the tracks and traits of creative people.There are observed traits that are common to almost all creative people, and those traits can easily be learned.With the traits of the tracks left by some very creative people, you can follow the tracks, and learn to unleash the very powerful genius of creativity that lies dormant within you.Enrich your life, become more productive, earn mo...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle AwardBlack Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace. Approaching his vast subjects by way of small moments, Wright magnifies details to reveal truths much larger than the quotidian happenings that engendered them. His is an astonishing, flexible, domestic-yet-universal vers...

The selected works of one of our finest American poetsThe thread that dangles usbetween a dark and a darker dark,Is luminous, sure, but smooth sided.Don't touch it here, and don't touch it there.Don't touch it, in fact, anywhere—Let it dangle and hold us hard, let it flash and swing.—from "Scar Tissue"Over the course of his work—more than twenty books in total—Char...

The collection of testimonies you are going to read contains the real stories that were written and submitted by each of the courageous men and women. Some are ordinary people who experienced extraordinary traumas and loss. Others are stories of veterans who served in conflicts from Vietnam, the Gulf War, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The common denominator in these testimonies is trauma which does not distinguish between military or civilian. Many of the stories describe thoughts of doing person...

This atlas focuses on selected aspects of cochlear anatomy as illustrated by material prepared by the microdissection technique**,** a three-dimensional perspective not possible with standard histological approaches. Although much of the material in this text was processed by the microdissection method, photomicrographs from conventionally cross sectioned inner ear tissues and scanning electron microscopy, are also presented. Taken together, these technical approaches provide different, co...

"Through Arctic Lapland" by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne is an adventurous exploration that takes readers on a journey through the remote and captivating landscapes of Arctic Lapland. The narrative is rich with vivid descriptions of the icy terrain, the unique flora and fauna, and the indigenous cultures that inhabit this frigid region. Hyne's keen observations and engaging storytelling immerse readers in the stark beauty and challenges of life in the Arctic, making it a compelling r...