When Lieutenant Robert Wideman's plane crashed on a bombing run in the Vietnam War, he feared falling into enemy hands. Although he endured the kind of pain that makes people question humanity, physical torture was not his biggest problem. During six years as a prisoner of war, he saw the truth behind Jean-Paul Sartre's words: "Hell is other people." Unexpected Prisoner explores a POW's struggle with enemies and comrades, Vietnamese interrogators and American commanders, his lost dreams and ultimately himself.
Throughout most of his life, Jared Penn has been coping with the most common form of mental illness...depression. In September 2017, his life went spiraling downhill as his depression worsened and he decided to end his life. After a failed suicide attempt, the only result that came to be was property damage. Two months later, he was arrested from his accidental criminal act and sent to a psychiatric prison. Living in a violent and unpleasant environment, Jared would spend the next five months incarcerated among some of the most dangerous and criminally insane individuals. Prisoner of Depression is the story of one man's journey searching for freedom from prison and of his unwanted, negative emotions from depression. Filled with insights from the author's experience in an unfamiliar setting, his memoir tells a story of regret, survival, and resiliency. Prisoner of Depression has a mission to destigmatize and educate those who encounter individuals dealing with depression, suffering too often and too long without being acknowledged for their true selves. People can change, and people can heal. Most importantly, everyone's life has value, and everyone has something to contribute to this world. This book is just one of the many examples out there.
During the Second World War over 400,000 Germans and Italians were held in prison camps in Britain. These men played a vital part in the life of war-torn Britain, from working in the fields to repairing bomb-damaged homes. Yet despite the role they played, today it is almost forgotten that Britain once held POWs at all. For those who worked, played or fell in love with the enemies in their midst, despite restrictions and the opinions of their peers, those times remain vivid. Whether they took tea on the lawn with Italians or invited a German for Christmas dinner, the POWs were a large part of their lives. This book is the story of those men who were detained here as unexpected guests. It is about their lives within the camps and afterwards, when some chose to stay and others returned to a country that in parts had become a hell on earth.
This book solves many famous problems such as prisoner’s dilemma and half-fee litigation. The new academic viewpoints put forward in this book are: (1) The Pythagorean school and later generations’ proof that √2 is not a rational number is invalid. (2) A new definition is given to the concept of non-predicative definition, thus providing a logical justification for the legality of scientific concepts like function maximum. (3) Reconstruction of the theory of natural number provides an ultimate and reliable foundation for mathematics. Through the resolution of a large number of specific paradoxes, this book hopes that readers can establish a correct view that invalid reasoning is the cause of paradoxes, thus making it clear that the correct way to resolve paradoxes should be to find out the specific causes leading to invalid reasoning. This book can be used as a teaching reference book for general courses such as paradox, logic, game theory, economics, etc. Sales suggestions: Philosophy, logic, mathematics, game theory, economics.
Michael Billington, the author of this autobiographical memoir, is one of a dozen individuals who were sent to prison in 1989 with America's foremost statesman, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Sentenced to 77 years by George Bush's “Get LaRouche Task Force,” he spent his imprisonment in study and writing--to bridge the divide between East and West. Empire is based upon the ancient principle of divide and rule; by clearing up misunderstandings among cultures, he was able to play a leading role in putting together the combination of forces today oriented around the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which have in large measure now adopted the “The New Silk Road” policies of LaRouche, EIR and the Schiller Institute for Hamiltonian scientific progress for the benefit of all mankind. Included in this book are 2 very important studies by Billington which every literate person should read to be able to understand Asia, China and the path to bring America into the win-win paradigm of a better future.
A groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison What if prisoners were to write the history of their own prison? What might that tell them—and all of us—about the roots of the system that incarcerates so many millions of Americans? In this groundbreaking and revelatory volume, a group of incarcerated women at the Indiana Women’s Prison have assembled a chronicle of what was originally known as the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Women and Girls, founded in 1873 as the first totally separate prison for women in the United States. In an effort that has already made the national news, and which was awarded the Indiana History Outstanding Project for 2016 by the Indiana Historical Society, the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project worked under conditions of sometimes-extreme duress, excavating documents, navigating draconian limitations on what information incarcerated scholars could see or access, and grappling with the unprecedented challenges stemming from co-authors living on either side of the prison walls. With contributions from ten incarcerated or formerly incarcerated women, the result is like nothing ever produced in the historical literature: a document that is at once a shocking revelation of the roots of America’s first prison for women, and also a meditation on incarceration itself. Who Would Believe a Prisoner? is a book that will be read and studied for years to come as the nation continues to grapple with the crisis of mass incarceration.
