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There are many loud things in today's world. A loudness that detracts. Loud unnecessary things that soil the human experience. These excesses serve to obstruct our view of the meaningful moments of life. The unceasing deafening clamor infringes on the important aspects of our humaneness. Poetry offers a resilience for the human experience. Poetry expresses words that evoke imagery. Poetry invites consideration and contemplation. Poetry allows ...

During the two decades following entry into World War II, nearly 30 million men and women served in or worked for the United States military. Tens of thousands faced a general court-martial under the Articles of War, which prescribed either life in prison or death for crimes of murder, rape or desertion. Only 160 men were sentenced to death and executed--159 for murder or rape (or a combination of the two), and one for desertion. The manner of...

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This comprehensive and engaging manual aids preachers in keeping the transformative meaning and impact of the biblical text intact through all hermeneutical and homiletical processes. While this approach applies to all sermon structures, the book focuses on the less familiar one-point expository message rather than the more common three-point sermon, or verse-by-verse approach. Drawing upon the strengths of their backgrounds as homiletic and b...

Die 17-jährige rebellische Kacie hat es nicht leicht. Sie hat das Gefühl, keiner versteht sie und fühlt sich von den Erwachsenen ungerecht behandelt. Auf einer Pferde-Ranch soll sie im Umgang mit den Tieren auch wieder neuen Mut finden. Dort lernt Kacie das ehemalige Rennpferd Blaze kennen. Jeden Tag verbringt sie mehr Zeit mit der eigenwilligen Stute. Nach und nach werden die beiden ein unzertrennliches Team und erleben gemeinsam die größten ...

Since colonial days, administration of the death penalty--whether by hanging, firing squad, electrocution, or lethal injection--has persisted as one of the most controversial ethical and practical issues of American jurisprudence. This thorough work seeks to clarify the issue by chronicling every legal execution in Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, through December 2010. Each case history includes a detailed descripti...

This reference work chronicles all known legal executions performed in seven western states, from the date each attained statehood to the present. Entries are divided into sections by state then arranged chronologically by date of execution. Each entry includes a biographical sketch of the condemned, and details of the crime, trial and execution of sentence.

A teenager's guide to staying physically, emotionally, and mentally fit.

Managing in a multicultural setting can be very challenging. Culture strongly influences how people behave and how they understand the behavior of others, and cultures vary in the behaviors they find proper and acceptable. This report--which integrates work done by experts in the fields of anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, and international business management with CCL's perspective on how executives learn from experience--describes the...

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The first recorded robbery of a stagecoach in the US occurred in 1856, and the last in 1913. Over that period there were 457 stagecoach robberies, many with special characteristics. Surprisingly, there were many robberies in which the perpetrator remained unknown or in which was so little stolen the robber was not even sought out. This book gives all the details of those robberies taken from the contemporary newspapers and from a variety of ot...

More Frontier Justice in the Wild West, Bungled, Bizarre and Fascinating Executions reveals the details of more than two dozen instances of frontier justice from the era of the Wild West. These stories of how society dealt with the bad guys-and how the good guys walked a fine line between justice and vigilantism-reveals some surprising truths about the culture of the Wild West. The events chosen are unique, have some surprising twist, serve as...

A practical guide to understanding and navigating the unique challenges faced by physicians and other professionals who wish to undertake research in the ED or other acute care setting.

During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures mad...

Frontier Justice" highlights eighteen crimes and subsequent punishments of the most interesting, controversial, and unusual executions from an era when hangings and shootings were a legal means of capital punishment. Each action-packed chapter includes biographical information, the pursuit, the investigation, legal maneuvers, trial information, and rarely-seen photographs.

A Bloody PuzzleOn a chilly morning in early November 1871, a Concord stagecoach left the little town of Wickenburg, Arizona, traveling west through a quiet desert. The morning was split by a horrified yell--"Apache!"--and then the roar of gunfire. As the bodies slumped under a rising sun and the blood seeped into the sand, the stage became set for one of the West's most enigmatic and echoing tragedies. Were the culprits truly Indians, or had t...

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Wyoming 2, with compelling legends of the Cowboy State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.

<, div>, <, div>, Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take out bullion and dust and bring in payrolls, always through country that was rough and isolated. The temptation to get rich quickly was too great for some, and the dem...

This collection of case histories examines hundreds of trials and death sentences carried out by the law of the "Wild West." The legal executions, most of them by hanging, provoke discussion over the controversial, modern view of the death sentence as well as the evolving jurisprudence of the western U.S. territories.