In prison, the official rules are only part of the system.Politics on the Yard takes readers inside the unwritten power structure of prison life, where reputation, race, geography, alliances, information, and influence can shape daily survival just as much as institutional policy. Michael Good examines how cars form, how shot callers gain influence, how respect becomes currency, and how rumors, debts, favors, staff interactions, and group loyalty can quick...

Coming home from prison is supposed to feel like the finish line. For Michael Good, it became the beginning of an entirely different challenge.When You Get Home is a personal look at reentry, freedom, accountability, relationships, patience, purpose, entrepreneurship, self-forgiveness, and the difficult work of building a life after incarceration. Michael Good reflects on what happens after the gate opens, when the excitement of release gives way to questions about work, t...

Violence on the Yard examines the reality of prison violence beyond the stereotypes. Michael Good looks at the pressure, fear, pride, respect, retaliation, group politics, and survival decisions that can turn a small conflict into something with life-changing consequences.The book explores how fights begin, why some conflicts stay personal while others become larger group problems, how custody level changes the atmosphere, and how debt, disrespect, stolen property, relatio...

The Day I Stopped Counting: 30 Days of Reflection, Rebuilding, and Becoming is Michael Good's deeply personal look at incarceration, reentry, accountability, growth, and the long process of becoming someone new without pretending the past never happened.Built from thirty days of honest reflection, the book follows Good as he looks back on the moments that shaped him: learning he was going to federal prison, walking inside for the first time, confronting misconceptions abou...

The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of the struggle, had created a world unfamiliar to the one in existence before it and brought levels of destruction and loss all too unimaginable to the generation of minds which created it. Despite this, we still find it hard to picture what it was like to live through this war. Right from its star...

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. However, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.g., to make suitable maps) requires that we account for the scale of measurement explicitly. Scale in Spat

William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to assess his multifaceted life and career. Contribu...

In "The Chattanooga Campaign: With Especial Reference to Wisconsin's Participation Therein," Michael Hendrick Fitch presents a meticulous examination of one of the Civil War's pivotal campaigns. Employing a scholarly narrative style that deftly intertwines military strategy with personal accounts, Fitch provides an in-depth analysis of the tactical maneuvers and the significant battles that unfolded around Chattanooga. His work not only contextualizes the campaign within the larger framewo...

Discover How You Can Put Your Baby Asleep Easily – And Get Some Sleep Too!Congratulations, new parent!Getting a new baby can be an exciting new experience for you. You waited for this moment your entire life, and now, you finally made it!You've probably received the compliments of your family, the support of your friends, advice from your parents, tips from your doctors, and everybody is happy for you.

Christmas in Noah’s Ark is a tale that shows how we should take care of the earth and love one another, all humans and all animals and nature, and how they interact with each other. The story encompasses God through his love to all people, the love story between God and all his creation on earth. Read this tale to gain an understanding of the awareness of creation and how important it is to all of us.

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document 'A Sacred Obligation,' which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: 'Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time.' Following the worldwide reception of their document, the authors have expanded their themes into Seeing Judaism Anew. The essays in th...

Taking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. The book covers well-studied, notifiable piscine viruses and bacteria, including new and emerging diseases which can become huge threats to local fish populations in new geographical regions if transported there via infected fish or eggs. A con...