A general description of karate, including its origins and development, warm-up exercises, basic and advanced strikes, and safety aspects.

Karate Strikes (Martial Arts)

Children's Books

CRAIG

STUART

SCHWARTZ

Conley

Sports & Outdoors

Capstone Press

Helene Cixous (Harvester Wheatsheaf Modern Cultural Theorists)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Emotional Equations: Simple Formulas To Help Your Life Work Better

Chip

Piatkus

In The Peace Chief, one young Cherokee must be reborn to lead his people through the difficult early days of sixteenth-century European expansion into America. Conley tells the story of Young Puppy, a member of the Long Hair Clan who mistakenly kills his best friend, Asquani. To avoid being killed--the usual remedy for restoring balance between the two clans--Young Puppy flees to the sanctuary of Kituwah, where, after a year in exile, his offense will be forgiven. Spiritually reborn as Comes Back to Life, he becomes the ceremonial leader of his people: the Peace Chief.

The Peace Chief (Robert J. Conley's Real People Series)

United States

Few writers portray Native American life and history as richly, authentically, and insightfully as Robert J. Conley. Conley represents an important voice of the Cherokee past. The novels in his Real People series combine powerful characters, gripping plots, and vivid descriptions of tradition and mythology to preserve Cherokee culture and history. In Cherokee Dragon, the tenth novel in the series, Robert Conley explores the life if Dragging Canoe, the last great war chief of the united Cherokee tribe. In the late eighteenth century, as the English settlers begin steadily encroaching upon the Cherokee lands, the Nation divided among several towns and many chiefs?unites in a series of battles. But the united front is not one that lasts: Dragging Canoe’s belief that they must fight the settlers to preserve their lands and their culture is far from universal.

Cherokee Dragon: A Novel (Robert J. Conley's Real People Series)

Adopted into the Cherokee tribe as a teenager, William Holland Thomas (1805–1893), known to the Cherokees as Wil Usdi (Little Will), went on to have a distinguished career as lawyer, politician, and soldier. He spent the last decades of his life in a mental hospital, where the pioneering ethnographer James Mooney interviewed him extensively about Cherokee lifeways. The true story of Wil Usdi’s life forms the basis for this historical novella, the final published work of fiction by the late award-winning Cherokee author Robert J. Conley. Conley tells Wil’s story through the recollection of the old man’s memories. Wil learns the Cherokee language while working at a trading post. The chief Yonaguska adopts the fatherless Wil, seeing to it that the boy dresses like a Cherokee and, for all practical purposes, becomes one. Later, representing the Eastern Band of the Cherokees in their negotiations with the federal government, Wil helps them remain in their ancestral lands in North Carolina when most other Cherokees are sent off on the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory. Thus, Wil becomes popularly known as the white chief of the tribe. He continues making money as a merchant and in 1848 is elected to the North Carolina state senate, where he assists in the creation of a railroad system to serve the copper mines in neighboring Tennessee. During the Civil War, he leads a Cherokee battalion in the Confederate Army and tries to persuade his cousin Jefferson Davis to expand the battalion of fierce warriors into a regiment. His achievements make his admission into an insane asylum all the more tragic. The Wil Usdi of Conley’s story is in increasingly bad health, mistreated in a mental institution that to twenty-first-century readers is little more than a jail. He dreams of women and warfare and boyhood games of stickball. Yet even in his demented state, Wil is proud of his accomplishments and never loses his conviction that Indians are “more human than whites.” Weaving together the disconnected stories of Wil Usdi’s life, Conley’s blend of thorough research and imaginative prose gives readers a deep sense of post-removal Cherokee history.

Wil Usdi (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) (Volume 64)

The Air Force needs to develop a second occupational competency, or paired skill, in many of its future colonels and generals. The authors report how a team of Air Force officers and RAND staff derived the minimum percentage of each occupation's future new colonels who should have each paired skill. The minimums could help occupational overseers guide appropriate numbers of officers into appropriate paired skills.

Targeting the Occupational Skill Pairings Needed in New Air Force Colonels (Technical Report (Rand Corporation))

Business & Money

Thomas, Brent

Moore, Craig S.

Job Hunting & Careers

RAND Corporation

College and Career Ready: Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and work College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high schools are doing. <ul>
<li>Includes clear guidelines for high school faculty to adapt their programs of instruction in the direction of enhanced college/career readiness</li> <li>Provides practical strategies for improving students' content knowledge and academic behaviors </li> <li>Offers examples of best practices and research-based recommendations for change</li> </ul>
 The book considers the impact of behavioral issues-such as time management and study habits-as well as academic skills on college readiness.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Jossey-Bass

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