Memoirs recounting life and service in the frontier army abound. Often they were penned by career officers who routinely seized the opportunity afforded to them, through their writings, to combine reminiscences with ambitious self-promotion, in the hopes of advancing their military status or potential political careers once their service ended. William Henry Corbusier's (1844-1930) memoir differs dramatically, though, in its tone and purpose. Perhaps this is due to the timing of their writing, which came after more than forty years in the army and after his retirement from medicine, the military, and essentially public life. Corbusier admittedly attempted to avoid the self-aggrandizing style of his peers and objectively recount the events that defined his military career. Ultimately, he is remarkably successful in his attempt.

Throughout his memoir, Corbusier's descriptions paint a rich and vivid portrait of army life over nearly a forty-year period of service. Rather than focus on his own accomplishments and distort their significance, the memoir instead chronicles the slow advancement of military medicine as well as the conditions Corbusier and others endured together. He opens with his recollections of mid-nineteenth-century New York City, which allude to his humble, but comfortable childhood.

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Robert Wooster - Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar, The Me moirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844-1930 (2003).pdf

William left the city and all of its potential behind, however, for a life of adventure, opportunity and medicine. His introduction to the military medical profession came in 1864 when he was hired as a contract surgeon and served with the Union Army. He witnessed first hand the grim reality of battlefield surgery. Despite this he was genuinely encouraged by his experience and embarked on a career in the Army's medical corp. From the eastern battlefields of the Civil War, he followed the army west, winding his way to Arizona in the early 1870s. He arrived there at a time when the Federal government was redefining its relationship with Native Americans. Facing the failure of the treaty and annuity system, as well as mounting costs for managing relations with Indian in the American West, the government became determined to establish and maintain reservations throughout the region. Corbusier witnessed the dramatic effects of this policy first hand, as one of the few medical officers to participate in the relocation of various Apaches to the San Carlos Reservation. While there, he lived among the Yavapai for several years. From Arizona, Corbusier's orders took him to both coasts before he arrived on the northern plains at the height of conflict following the great Indian victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. All along the way, Corbusier embraced adventure and was a keen observer, not only of history, but of peoples as well. At one point, he recalls his relationship with Red Cloud and other prominent Native American leaders, whom he forged relationships with during his service in the Southwest and on the Great Plains. He also offers his observations on the language and customs of those among whom he lived. As a result, his memoirs provide added insight into his published ethnographic studies. Before he retired a quarter of a century later, his duties also took him twice to the Philippines and finally the Yukon.

Similar memoirs, in need of a skilled editor and a patient publisher, likely exist--unknowingly-- in the attics of ancestors. Fortunately, William Henry Corbusier's memoir found both editor and publisher. Robert Wooster's light-handed editorial approach does not distract the reader from the subject of the manuscript. His subtle editions--correcting obvious spelling errors, and breaking large blocks of text into more readable paragraphs, for example--combined with his useful notes, not only add value to Corbusier's own memories, they further increase the reader's knowledge of locations, individuals, or events throughout the work. Ultimately, this makes the memoir very accessible beyond those who specialize in this particular era of military history. Although this is not a title necessarily aimed at students, it provides an excellent model that scholars editing future memoirs might follow. Certainly scholars of the frontier military will find Corbusier's memoir useful. When consulted in conjunction with the memoirs of his wife, Fanny Dunbar Corbusier, edited by Patricia Stollard, a more complete understanding of the events that shaped the life of a family will be realized.

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is a major new initiative from the U.S. Census Bureau designed to provide continuously updated information on the numbers and characteristics of the nation's people and housing. It replaces the "long form" of the decennial census. "Using the American Community Survey" covers the basics of how the ACS design and operations differ from the long-form sample; using the ACS for such applications as formula allocation of federal and state funds, transportation planning, and public information; and challenges in working with ACS estimates that cover periods of 12, 36, or 60 months depending on the population size of an area. This book also recommends priority areas for continued research and development by the U.S. Census Bureau to guide the evolution of the ACS, and provides detailed, comprehensive analysis and guidance for users in federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, and media.

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This newly designed field guide features detailed descriptions of 387 species, arranged in six major groups by visual similarity. The 47 color plates and 5 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 295 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.

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O USA - Vinay Rai, William Simo - Think India, The Rise of the W...ext Superpower and What It Means for Every American 2007.jpg

With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.

The buzzword of the twenty-first century is India—and it’s not just a story of software, outsourcing, and faraway call centers. With the economy soaring at 8 percent a year, India is a medical and pharmaceutical frontrunner, an R&D powerhouse, a rising manufacturing hub, and an up-and-coming cultural trendsetter in areas from fashion to film. And the world is taking note: Western companies from Lockheed Martin to McDonald’s are moving in, Ford is setting up factories, Coca Cola is heading to the countryside in rickshaws, and research centers for Fortune 500 companies are popping up everywhere. Meanwhile, the U.S. military is forging close ties, as India has become a key strategic partner.

Steel tycoon turned educator Vinay Rai, who now runs one of India’s two private universities— with fifteen campuses nationwide—couples with geopolitical writer Melissa Rossi to map out the rising new India. This colorful, lively, forward-looking account of India’s stunning world debut is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand India’s new muscle on the global stage.

• One out of every six people in the world lives in India.
• India’s top trading partner is the United States.
• India is:
The fastest-growing free market economy
The world’s top destination for retailers
The world’s youngest workforce (over 500 millionunder age twenty-five)

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Analyzes the Constitution's provision for impeachment and chronicles how this law has been used throughout American history to remove elected officials from power.

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Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. Illustrates how environmental decline relates to human health and to healthcare practices in the United States and other industrialized countries. Outlines trends affecting health and focuses on the connections between ways of practicing medicine and the environmental problems damaging ecosystems and making people sick.

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In this volume Ann Lee Bressler offers the first cultural history of American Universalism and its central teaching -- the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Although Universalists have commonly been lumped together with Unitarians as "liberal religionists," in its origins their movement was, in fact, quite different from that of the better-known religious liberals.
Unlike Unitarians such as the renowned William Ellery Channing, who stressed the obligation of the individual under divine moral sanctions, most early American Universalists looked to the omnipotent will of God to redeem all of creation. While Channing was socially and intellectually descended from the opponents of Jonathan Edwards, Hosea Ballou, the foremost theologian of the Universalist movement, appropriated Edwards's legacy by emphasizing the power of God's love in the face of human sinfulness and apparent intransigence. Espousing what they saw as a fervent but reasonable piety, many early Universalists saw their movement as a form of improved Calvinism.
The story of Universalism from the mid-nineteenth century on, however, was largely one of unsuccessful efforts to maintain this early synthesis of Calvinist and Enlightenment ideals. Eventually, Bressler argues, Universalists were swept up in the tide of American religious individualism and moralism; in the late nineteenth century they increasingly extolled moral responsibility and the cultivation of the self. By the time of the first Universalist centennial celebration in 1870, the ideals of the early movement were all but moribund. Bressler's study illuminates such issues as the relationship between faith and reason in a young, fast-growing, and deeply uncertain country, and the fate of the Calvinist heritage in American religious history.

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Many people believe that the piety of the Pilgrims typified early American religion. However, by the 1730s Catholics, Jews, and Africans had joined Native Americans, Puritans, and numerous other Protestants in the colonies. Jon Butler launches his narrative with a description of the state of religious affairs in both the Old and New Worlds. He explores the failure of John Winthrop's goal to achieve Puritan perfection, the controversy over Anne Hutchinson's tenacious faith, the evangelizing stamina of ex-slave and Methodist preacher Absalom Jones, and the spiritual resilience of the Catawba Indians. The meeting of these diverse groups and their varied use of music, dance, and ritual produced an unprecedented evolution of religious practice, including the birth of revivals. And through their daily interactions, these Americans created a living foundation for the First Amendment. After Independence their active diversity of faiths led Americans to the groundbreaking idea that government should abandon the use of law to support any religious group and should instead guarantee free exercise of religion for everyone.

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This profound and practical book conveys real portraits of how Christians are engaging this new religious presence in traditionally Christian societies."-Don Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences, University of Chicago, and author of Equality and the Family
The religious landscape of the United States has changed dramatically in recent decades. How are Christians relating to their Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and other new religious neighbors?
Using local examples, The Faith Next Door covers the gamut of Christian responses to America's multireligious reality. We read about the debate over a new Hindu temple in town, the Episcopal church that has hosted a mosque since 1987, the cooperative efforts between African American pastors and Muslim leaders, immigrant Christians seeking to save their non-Christian fellow immigrants, evangelicals resettling immigrants and refugees through "friendship evangelism," Catholics learning about other religions in the spirit of Vatican II, Greek Orthodox Christians and Turkish Muslims gaining a new appreciation of their shared history, and more.
The book also examines how the events of September 11, 2001 have shaped Christian approaches to believers from other faiths, from engaging in dialogue to hoping for conversion.
Here Christian theology meets the multireligious real world, with multiple results suggestive of national trends. The Faith Next Door will appeal to Christians from all denominations and perspectives who seek models for relationships in the diverse contemporary context.
It will also inform non-Christian readers and general observers of trends in American religion about the variety of local Christian responses to other religions.

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On Sunday evening, February 7, 1965, three weeks before her due date, Rose Rock gave birth to her first son, Chris, at Georgetown Memorial Hospital in Georgetown, South Carolina. Rose and her husband, Julius, lived just 15 miles from Georgetown, in a town called Andrews. For the previous decade, the civil
rights movement had been gathering force. Just two years before Chris’s birth, more than 200,000 people gathered to join the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., where they had the honor of listening to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech.

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A millionaire before the age of 20, the star of the long-running popular sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and a movie star, Will Smith boasts an impressive résumé—yet his career is far from over. Growing up in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Will Smith started out a rapper, but soon demonstrated considerable talent and charisma as an actor. Since the mid-1990s, Will Smith's name on a movie almost guarantees that it will be a blockbuster hit. Balancing his time between working and raising three children alongside his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the actor also contributes to other projects off the movie set. Will Smith: Actor tells the story of this unstoppable superstar, from his humble beginnings to his rise to international fame.

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Before you begin this book, I hope you will ask yourself what the word excellence means to you. I think it’s a question we should all ask, and keep asking as we grow older and change. Because the truest answer to it should never change. When you think of excellence, perhaps you think of success at work; or of becoming wealthy; or meeting the right person, getting married, and having a good family life.

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At just 12 years old, Stevie Wonder was already a superstar child prodigy, performing his weaving melodies and harmonies for live audiences and on television. Blind since infancy, Wonder didn't let his disability define him, instead learning many musical instruments and developing his unique musical style. In his extensive music career, he has won 25 Grammy Awards and released more than 25 albums, featuring the easily recognizable songs "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Outside the recording studio, Wonder has championed causes around the planet, fighting against famine, abuse, and apartheid. In Stevie Wonder: Musician, read how this talented musician has inspired a new generation of musicians and serves as a voice of change for the world.

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-- Critically acclaimed biographies of history's most notable African-Americans -- Straightforward and objective writing -- Lavishly illustrated with photographs and memorabilia -- Essential for multicultural studies

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Black Americans of Achievement - Mary Lawler - Jan et Brown Hubbard - Scott Joplin, Composer (2006).jpg

As the son of a former slave, a musical pioneer, and a posthumous winner of a Pulitzer Prize, composer Scott Joplin fought a lifelong campaign to have ragtime music accepted by the American public. This instructive biography includes all-new information about Joplin's accomplishments. Born in Texas ...

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