Stories describe Michigan's first governor, Lewis Cass, signing a treaty with the Chippewa in 1819 and resting nearby with companions under a swamp oak a few miles north of Detroit. Cass told the story of Prince Charles II, who took refuge in 1651 under a mighty oak tree after the Battle of Worcester and lived to be crowned king. Cass later designated the locality, including the southernmost townships in Oakland County, as Royal Oak. This sector became a village in 1891 and a city in 1921....

Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why their actions break the law, the "sex offender legal regime" doesn't allow any room to take the disability into account.This ground-breaking book offers a multi-disciplinary examination ...

"One of the few great trial books of our time . . . Any reader looking for a quick course in how a criminal trial can go wrong would do well to read [it]." —Timothy Sullivan, author of Unequal VerdictsIn 1969, the Chicago Seven were charged with intent to "incite, organize, promote, and encourage" antiwar riots during the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The defendants included major figures of the antiwar and racial justice movements...

While other writers contemplated the events of the 1968 Chicago riots from the safety of their hotel rooms, John Schultz was in the city streets, being threatened by police, choking on tear gas, and listening to all the rage, fear, and confusion around him. The result, No One Was Killed, is his account of the contradictions and chaos of convention week, the adrenalin, the sense of drama and history, and how the mainstream press was getting it all wrong."A more valuable fac...

The Hidden Battle is the true story of John Schultz, a man who has spent more than five decades living with the aftermath of one of the largest brain tumors ever recorded at the University of Michigan Hospital.The story begins in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where John grew up in a home shaped by loss and instability, his father killed in a roofing accident before John's third birthday, his mother and grandmother both battling serious mental illness. Sports became his refuge, and an ol...

The Hidden Battle is the true story of John Schultz, a man who has spent more than five decades living with the aftermath of one of the largest brain tumors ever recorded at the University of Michigan Hospital. The story begins in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where John grew up in a home shaped by loss and instability, his father killed in a roofing accident before John's third birthday, his mother and grandmother both battling serious mental illness. Sports became his refuge, and an older bro...

This book explains how to organize and manage modifications during the solution realization phase of problem solving so improvements become the new way of life. The nine steps detailed in the books chapters, although applied to solution implementation, can be used on their own to manage many types of system modification. These transition activities are framed in a three stage model first proposed by Kurt Lewin the father of change theory. It packages a strategy for sustaining improvements ...

My intention in writing this book has been to show that there is a lie that has been written on the hearts of humanity ever since Adam took leave of the presence of God. This lie obscures the very thing we want most – the Life of the Spirit.The way to this life is a narrow, less crowded road - and few find it. Yet it awaits us all.I have deliberately written in a way that is more conversational than instructional. My intention in this conversation is not to tell you how to th...

Stevie Linden loved the river and fishing more than anything. But as he looked more closely he discovered a mystery and wonder in there, and it drew him beyond the natural watery river and deeper into the river within the river.The river within the river is sometimes called the River of Life; it doesn't flow out to the ocean like most rivers, but into the hearts of people who are broken and ready to be held by the most astonishing and extravagant love... if they will just let go.

Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches provides a comprehensive and updated guide to the search, recovery, documentation, and excavation of human remains in forensic contexts.Recognizing that many crime scene and law enforcement personnel lack formal training in archaeological techniques and skeletal biology, this book equips readers with practical methods for processing scenes with skeletal remains and decomposing bodies, while docu...

W. Edwards Deming once stated that the job of management is not supervision but leadership. He also concluded that capable leaders were those who understood and applied the System of Profound Knowledge. This book examines this system and describes competencies that set the stage for its application. Illustrating the power relationship between leaders and followers, the book analyzes each of the four elements of the system of profound knowledge in relation to prevailing management and organ...

Unraveling a mystery, finding romance, and saving those he loves, while keeping national secrets, it's not an easy assignment, especially when you have a few secrets of your own.Jack Swan finds himself back reunited with childhood friends with a shadowy profession. They operate a company contracting with the CIA to uncover threats to national security. The woman he thought of as the love of his life is not the person he envisioned her to be. Jack discovers he's not the person he th...