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"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." —Wall Street Journal A
magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian
Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and
consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and
triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn True
West magazine's "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" Winner of
the Colorado Book Award Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names
are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable.
Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the
other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer’s
vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little
Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives.
Now, based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of
previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee
Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of
these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Both Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull were born and grew to manhood on the High Plains of
the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the
earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely, following
the buffalo and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian
nations. But as idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had
known a time without whites. Fur traders and government explorers
were the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soon
followed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trail
travelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, town
builders—and Bluecoats. The buffalo population plummeted, disease
spread by the white man decimated villages, and conflicts with the
interlopers increased. On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the
Little Big Horn, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and the warriors who
were inspired to follow them, fought the last stand of the Sioux, a
fierce and proud nation that had ruled the Great Plains for
decades. It was their greatest victory, but it was also the
beginning of the end for their treasured and sacred way of life.
And in the years to come, both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull,
defiant to the end, would meet violent—and eerily
similar—fates. An essential new addition to the canon of
Indigenous American history and literature of the West, The Earth
Is All That Lasts is a grand saga, both triumphant and tragic, of
two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to maintain the
freedom of their people against impossible odds. A Denver Post
Bestseller A Spur Award Finalist, Best Western Historical
Nonfiction Winner of the John M. Carroll Literary Award
Billy the Kid--a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William
Bonney--was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismaticrogue, and
cold-blooded killer. Asuperb shot, the Kid gunned down four
mensingle-handedly and five others with the helpof cronies. Two of
his victims were LincolnCounty, New Mexico, deputies killed
duringthe Kid's brazen daylight escape from thecourthouse jail on
April 28, 1881.
For new sheriff Pat Garrett, an acquaintanceof Billy's, the
chase was on. . . .
As the first dual biography of the Kid andGarrett, To Hell on a
Fast Horse re-createsthe thrilling manhunt for the Wild West'smost
iconic outlaw. Mark Lee Gardner digsbeneath the myth to take a
fresh look at thesetwo men, their relationship, and their epicride
to immortality.
In over two decades of practice, the author has been asked hundreds
of questions by clients, as well as estheticians. Now, the Skin
Care Answer Book provides concise, quick answers to the most-asked
consumer skin care questions and will help educate students,
licensed estheticians and clients alike about their individual skin
types. It is written in easy language and is set up in a Q & A
format, organized in chapters by subject so that it is easy to
navigate.
Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee
Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from
twenty-first-century wars. These soldiers, sailors, and Marines
have risked their lives several times over for their country as
well as for their fellow troops and civilians. Still, until now,
their stories have largely gone unnoticed by the public, perhaps
lost in the frenzied and often nasty debate surrounding those
conflicts. As the author writes, "This generation does not have an
Audie Murphy. I set out to change that with this book." Detailing
incredible and evocative feats-including an Army pilot who rescued
two fellow pilots from a deadly crash in hostile territory and
strapped himself to the helicopter's exterior for the flight to the
hospital-Greenblatt provides glimpses into the minds of these men
as they face gut-wrenching decisions and overcome enormous odds.
However, this book is much more than tales of riveting action. Each
chapter goes beyond linear combat stories to explore each hero's
motivations, dreams, and the genuine emotions that were evoked in
the face of extreme danger. Readers will be transported to a
variety of settings-from close-quarters urban fighting in Iraq to
mountainside ambushes in rural Afghanistan to a midnight rescue in
the middle of the Atlantic-as they accompany the men who do not see
themselves as heroes but as patriots in the line of duty.
The case for business sustainability has already been made;
organizations can no longer ignore the issue when climate change
affects supply chains and customer expectations require them to
take action. It has also been proven that businesses operating
sustainably drive innovation, build brand value and are more
profitable. It is therefore time to shift the conversation from the
'why' of business sustainability to the 'how'. The Sustainable
Business Handbook is a practical 'how-to' guide which aims to
demystify jargon and provide practical tools and tips for busy
managers. Rather than preaching the importance of sustainability,
it cuts straight to how businesses can become more resilient and
successful in the long term by becoming more sustainable. This
indispensable book is based around twenty top tips for transforming
your business and is interspersed with a range of individual
profiles and case studies of organizations successfully embracing
sustainability. With guidance on defining your organizational
purpose, engaging stakeholders and creating the right culture, The
Sustainable Business Handbook outlines how to shift Corporate
Responsibility from being a bolt-on to business operations to being
a source of innovation and new business, as well as societal good.
SHORTLISTED: Project Syndicate 2023 - Sustainability Book Award
WINNER: Business Book Awards 2023 - Change & Sustainability
Category The case for business sustainability has already been
made; organizations can no longer ignore the issue when climate
change affects supply chains and customer expectations require them
to take action. It has also been proven that businesses operating
sustainably drive innovation, build brand value and are more
profitable. It is therefore time to shift the conversation from the
'why' of business sustainability to the 'how'. The Sustainable
Business Handbook is a practical 'how-to' guide which aims to
demystify jargon and provide practical tools and tips for busy
managers. Rather than preaching the importance of sustainability,
it cuts straight to how businesses can become more resilient and
successful in the long term by becoming more sustainable. This
indispensable book is based around twenty top tips for transforming
your business and is interspersed with a range of individual
profiles and case studies of organizations successfully embracing
sustainability. With guidance on defining your organizational
purpose, engaging stakeholders and creating the right culture, The
Sustainable Business Handbook outlines how to shift Corporate
Responsibility from being a bolt-on to business operations to being
a source of innovation and new business, as well as societal good.
Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability,
'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate
sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine
and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on
research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via
the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The
book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs,
CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies,
including 3M, BASF, BP, DuPont, Google, GE, Huawei, IKEA,
Interface, Marks Spencer, Natura, Nestle acute;, Nike, Novo
Nordisk, Patagonia, Shell, Tata, Toyota, Unilever and Walmart,
explaining how they have gained recognition, created value and
boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In
also outlines what the private sector must do to lift
sustainability performance, protect business's license to operate
and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This
unique book, rich with quantitative and qualitative insights,
offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of
the most important developments and trends in corporate
sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also
appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a
critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix,
Chairman, Interface, and afterword by Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever.
Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability,
'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate
sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine
and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on
research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via
the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The
book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs,
CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies,
including 3M, BASF, BP, DuPont, Google, GE, Huawei, IKEA,
Interface, Marks Spencer, Natura, Nestle acute;, Nike, Novo
Nordisk, Patagonia, Shell, Tata, Toyota, Unilever and Walmart,
explaining how they have gained recognition, created value and
boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In
also outlines what the private sector must do to lift
sustainability performance, protect business's license to operate
and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This
unique book, rich with quantitative and qualitative insights,
offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of
the most important developments and trends in corporate
sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also
appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a
critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix,
Chairman, Interface, and afterword by Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever.
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"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street Journal A
magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian
Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and
consequential American Indian leaders, who led Sioux resistance and
triumphed at the Battle of Little Bighorn True West magazine's
"Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull:
Their names are iconic, their significance in American history
undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior
and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer's
vaunted Seventh Cavalry. Yet their legendary victory at the Little
Big Horn has overshadowed the rest of their rich and complex lives.
Now, based on years of research and drawing on a wealth of
previously ignored primary sources, award-winning author Mark Lee
Gardner delivers the definitive chronicle, thrillingly told, of
these extraordinary Indigenous leaders. Both Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull were born and grew to manhood on the High Plains of
the American West, in an era when vast herds of buffalo covered the
earth, and when their nomadic people could move freely, following
the buffalo and lording their fighting prowess over rival Indian
nations. But as idyllic as this life seemed to be, neither man had
known a time without whites. Fur traders and government explorers
were the first to penetrate Sioux lands, but they were soon
followed by a flood of white intruders: Oregon-California Trail
travelers, gold seekers, railroad men, settlers, town builders-and
Bluecoats. The buffalo population plummeted, disease spread by the
white man decimated villages, and conflicts with the interlopers
increased. On June 25, 1876, in the valley of the Little Big Horn,
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, and the warriors who were inspired to
follow them, fought the last stand of the Sioux, a fierce and proud
nation that had ruled the Great Plains for decades. It was their
greatest victory, but it was also the beginning of the end for
their treasured and sacred way of life. And in the years to come,
both Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defiant to the end, would meet
violent-and eerily similar-fates. An essential new addition to the
canon of Indigenous American history and literature of the West,
The Earth Is All That Lasts is a grand saga, both triumphant and
tragic, of two fascinating and heroic leaders struggling to
maintain the freedom of their people against impossible odds. A
Denver Post Bestseller
This significant new book by foremost experts in the field will be
the first that truly covers the topic of engineering geomorphology
as a distinct discipline and, as such, will be of paramount
importance to both practitioners and students. Engineering
geomorphology is concerned with the evaluation of landform changes,
especially the effects of construction on the environment, notably
on the operation of surface processes and the risks from surface
processes, whether current processes or the legacies of past
processes. Engineering geomorphology provides practical support for
engineering decision-making (project planning, investigation,
design and construction) and engineering geomorphologists form an
integrate part of the engineering or environmental team.
Engineering geomorphology has developed in the last few decades to
support a number of distinct areas of engineering, including river
engineering, coastal engineering, and geotechnical engineering,
where engineering geomorphology has complemented engineering
geology and has proven to be valuable, especially for rapid site
reconnaissance and slope stability studies.Geomorphology provides a
spatial context for developing site models and explaining the
distribution and characteristics of particular ground-related
problems (e. g. landslides, permafrost or the presence of
aggressive soils) and resources (e.g. sand and gravel). Engineering
geomorphology can also be applied to agricultural engineering,
primarily in the investigation and management of soil erosion
problems. This book includes basic concepts that underpin efforts
to explain the causes, mechanisms and consequences of landform
change. It then considers how the land surface works in the context
of wetland, flatland, hills, mountains, rivers and coasts; and the
techniques that are available to the engineering geomorphologist in
the field, in the laboratory, in the office and in the various
forms of remote sensing. Each succinct chapter is packed with vital
information, well-illustrated with diagrams and tables and fully
referenced so that the detail of subject matter can be followed up.
Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner recounts the thrilling life of
Jesse James, Frank James, the Younger brothers, and the most famous
bank robbery of all time. Follow the Wild West's most celebrated
gang of outlaws as they step inside Northfield's First National
Bank and back out on the streets to square off with heroic citizens
who risked their lives to defend justice in Minnesota. With
compelling details that chronicle the two-week chase that
followed-the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody
final shootout on the Watonwan River, Shot All to Hell is a
galloping true tale of frontier justice from the author of To Hell
on a Fast Horse: The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett,
Mark Lee Gardner.
"'I never once thought that this would pan out. Howdyshell had lied
about virtually everything we had talked about. I never believed
that he would give me the name of the person that he confessed this
murder to. Little did I know, there were still some surprises in
front of me.""
On the same night that author Mark Nosack graduated from the
Utah Police Officers Academy in 1979, Marilyn Greyeyes left a party
and disappeared. Just days later, two little girls discovered her
nude and horribly mutilated body on a barren hilltop. The murder
investigation went on for months but was finally closed due to lack
of evidence.
In 1984, young detective Mark Nosack picks up the cold case and
starts a new investigation. Among the evidence, he discovers a
small piece of metal that the original investigators couldn't
identify. Nosack realizes the item is a gun's trigger guard, and he
begins searching for the matching gun.
In a bizarre twist of events, Detective Nosack finds the gun,
and it eventually leads to Marilyn Greyeyes's murderer. But Nosack
soon discovers that it takes more than a murder weapon to put a
killer behind bars.
"So richly detailed, you can almost smell the gunsmoke and the
sweat of the saddles."-Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling
author From Spur Award-winning author Mark Lee Gardner, his classic
dual biography of Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett, detailing
Garrett's riveting chase of the notorious bandit-now updated with a
new afterword covering new developments in the Billy the Kid story.
Billy the Kid-a.k.a. Henry McCarty, Henry Antrim, and William
Bonney-was a horse thief, cattle rustler, charismatic rogue, and
cold-blooded killer. A superb shot, the Kid gunned down four men
single handedly and five others with the help of cronies. Two of
his victims were Lincoln County, NM, deputies, killed during the
Kid's brazen daylight escape from the courthouse jail on April 28,
1881. After dspensing with his guards and filing through the chain
securing his leg irons, The Kid danced a macabre jig on the jail's
porch before riding away on a stolen horse as terrified
townspeople-and many sympathizers-watched. For new sheriff, Pat
Garrett, the chase was on . . . To Hell on a Fast Horse recreates
the thrilling manhunt for the Wild West's most iconic outlaw. It is
also the first "dual biography" of the Kid and Garrett, two
larger-than-life figures who would not have become the stuff of
legend without the other. Drawing on voluminous primary sources and
a wealth of published scholarship, Mark L. Gardner digs beneath the
myth to take a fresh look at these two men, their relationship, and
what they would come to mean to a public enamored of a violent
national past.
This all new edition of Skin Care: Beyond the Basics builds upon
the strong reputation of its predecessors as an outstanding
resource for the advanced esthetics student and professional. Using
plain language, it explains real-world scenarios and profiles what
estheticians will experience when they are practicing in the clinic
environment. Detailed information on subjects such as acne,
sensitive skin, cosmetic ingredients and clinical management of
aging skin is included. The subject matter is presented in a direct
manner which leads to proven understanding in the classroom and
positive client outcomes in the student clinic. This book is a
must-have resource for future and existing professional
estheticians, and will remain a trusted reference tool throughout
your career.
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