This is a self help book to help released inmates stay out of prison or jail. The good news is - you are going to get out. The bad news is, without a good plan and a lot of hard work, you are probably coming back. According to the FBI, two out of three released inmates are back in trouble within 3 years. These statistics shout an ironic truth - that it's easier to get out - than to stay out. So the question is, 'What can we do to insure we won't come back here again?' And the answer is, 'Planning.' We need a plan to change our lives. We can't expect a small change to give us the success we...

It is a truth universally accepted that ideas are more powerful than armies. When Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy published his works on non-violence in 1896, he could not have known that fifty years later Mahatma Gandhi would use those same ideas to tear down British colonial rule in India. Neither could he have known his non-violent ideas would be used to oppose a brutal governor in the Kamansky region of central Russia in 1910. I am Alex Tolstoy, the grandson of Leo Tolstoy. In 1910, when I was a young man at the University, I was swept up into this adventure. We formed the Kamansky Company,...