You would think prison would be the last place in the world where somebody could get high. But incarceration does not automatically end addiction. Sometimes it only changes the environment where addiction takes place.High on the Yard is Michael Good's honest look at drugs, addiction, and the search for escape behind prison walls. Drawing from personal experience and observation, Good explores why people continue using substances even in one of the most controlled environme...

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...

Cooking on the Yard takes readers inside the creativity, culture, and resourcefulness of prison food. Michael Good explores what happens when people have limited ingredients, limited equipment, and limited choices-but still find ways to make meals that bring comfort, flavor, and a sense of normalcy behind the walls.More than just a collection of recipes, this book looks at how food becomes community. Spreads, ramen creations, burritos, wraps, improvised pizzas, snacks, and...

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...

Prison can take away your freedom, your privacy, and control over almost every part of your day. But it cannot decide what you believe.Faith on the Yard is Michael Good's personal and reflective look at religion, spiritual discipline, and the search for meaning behind prison walls. Writing from his perspective as a Muslim, Good explores how Islam provided structure, patience, accountability, brotherhood, and a connection to Allah in an environment built around confinement....

Part detective story, part personal quest, Michael Good's book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilnius ghetto—including the life of Good's mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?After five years of research—interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the...

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...

At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social change and other emerging scholars and practitioners to advance new thinking about social movements and global transformation. Social movements around the world today are responding to crisis by defying both political and epistemological borders, offering alternatives to the global capitalist order that are imperceptible through the modernist l...

An integrated approach that combines essential GIS background with a practical workbook on applying the principles in ArcGIS 10.0 and 10.1Introducing Geographic Information Systems with ArcGISintegrates a broad introduction to GIS with a software-specific workbook for Esri's ArcGIS. Where most courses make do using two separate texts, one covering GIS and another the software, this book enables students and instructors to use a single text with an integrat...

Spatial analysis assists theoretical understanding and empirical testing in the social sciences, and rapidly expanding applications of geographic information technologies have advanced the spatial data-gathering needed for spatial analysis and model making. This much-needed volume covers outstanding examples of spatial thinking in the social sciences, with each chapter showing some aspect of how certain social processes can be understood by analyzing their spatial context. The audience for...

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