Unconquerable is John Milton Oskison’s biography of John Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was principal chief of the Cherokees from 1828 to his death in 1866. Through the story of John Ross, Oskison also tells the story of the Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the nineteenth century: the nation’s difficult struggle against Georgia, its forced removal on the Trail of Tears, its internal factionalism, the Civil War, and the reconstruction of the nation in Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Ross remains one of the most celebrated Cherokee heroes: his story is an integral part not only of Cherokee history but also of the history of Indian Territory and of the United States. With a critical introduction by noted Oskison scholar Lionel Larré, Unconquerable sheds light on the critical work of an author who deserves more attention from both the public and scholars of Native American studies.
One cannot think of printmaking of the last half century without John Ross and Clare Romano. As printmakers, illustrators, teachers, and authors, both are recognized throughout the world as two of the important contemporary artists working on paper. John Ross and Clare Romano: Artists and the Book, a lavish, four-color collection of some of the artists' most superlative traditional book illustrations and limited edition artists' books, showcases a fifty-year collaboration between these two masters. It is almost impossible to distinguish where the hand of one leaves off and the hand of the other begins. Included in this collection are both mass distribution books that contain illustrations by Ross and issued by commercial publishers, as well as books designed, typeset, illustrated, hand printed by Ross himself, and published in limited small editions under the imprint of High Tide Press, which he and Romano established in 1991. In their extraordinary sensitivity to word and line, layout and medium--whether woodcut or collagraph--these books redound with the grace and intelligence that distinguishes their individual creations, and define book illustration for our time. John Ross and Clare Romano is a companion volume to an exhibition at the Rutgers University Libraries.
Where the designer came from: Evolution, Creation, Hominids and the Skirmish of the Double Helix" is the second collection of poems by John Ross since his popular and delightful: "GOAT TROUBLES and other CHICAGO Poems"(2010). In this new volume he explores the many questions and debates surrounding biology, anthropology (and the well known, and even lesser known) discoveries and assumptions surrounding the construction of the universe. Beginning with the concluding lines of his opening poem entitled: Genesis first, second, and third: "No informants, / but every entry pronto recorded, / rib-for-rib; and all is evermore, struggle / yet, fallen for forever, to then debate," he sets the wobbly stage for a series of elegant poems exploring the on-going contest between biblical faith, contemporary science and the rigorous demands set forth by solely rational thinkers. By his more amusing poems in this new compilation, Ross entertains even the fringes of science with such droll titles as "Demons panspermia!", Extraterrestrial salutation" and "That's how the helix commences." In his more theologically imbued verses originating in "The great bonobo", "On the seventh day of rest", and the quietly poignant: "Shadowy customs near China's Eden", he implicitly travels around the neighboring questions regarding the origins of humankind, and our sometimes arrogant and triumphal attitude toward our status in the biosphere and beyond. Finally, with more reproving language as expressed in "Stiff doctrine's counsel for the clock" and "Dangerous homology, inside the dining room" Ross continues to echo a seemingly endless American political confrontation: one between individuals of narrow religious certitude; and those of atheistic and doctrinaire scientism. In the end, most readers will come to appreciate the early wisdom offered in the prologue to "Where the designer came from", one first moralized by Graham Greene, and which in the end preaches a fairly reasonable doctrine. Namely that: "WHEN we are not sure, we are ALIVE.
Based on more than ten years of researching, observing, coaching, and building extraordinary teams, this entertaining and thought-provoking book demonstrates how to unify groups of all sizes to maximize performance. Unity is the most influential factor in team performance and, although it is frequently discussed, it is often misunderstood. This book explains how disunity is the root cause of all team dysfunctions, and provides clear instructions on how to define, measure, and increase unity in your organization. Through entertaining and impactful stories, John Ross divides Team Unity into four components - focus, direction, trust, and conflict – and examines how they are related and measured. Notably, Ross introduces The Unity Formula: a simple equation useful for leaders at all levels in any organization to measure the team’s current unity and identify areas for improvement. Senior and middle managers in manufacturing, hospitality, and a range of other industries, as well as entry level employees and students of organizational behavior and HRM, will find this book an invaluable resource for understanding how to identify, measure and partake in the right steps to increase team performance.
“A convincing case for Powell’s legacy as a pioneering conservationist.”--The Wall Street Journal "A bold study of an eco-visionary at a watershed moment in US history."--Nature A timely, thrilling account of the explorer who dared to lead the first successful expedition down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon—and waged a bitterly-contested campaign for sustainability in the West. John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition—starving, battered, and nearly naked—they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before. With The Promise of the Grand Canyon, John F. Ross tells how that perilous expedition launched the one-armed Civil War hero on the path to becoming the nation’s foremost proponent of environmental sustainability and a powerful, if controversial, visionary for the development of the American West. So much of what he preached—most broadly about land and water stewardship—remains prophetically to the point today.
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