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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A New Strategy is the second book in Michael Paul Ervick's series following Sarah Chen, a practitioner of community-based infrastructure. Where the first book (We the People) built the model - mutual aid, distributed competence, Tuesday dinners as proof of concept - this one translates it into a corporate setting and asks a harder question: can something that works at a human scale survive inside an institution?Sarah is now VP of Operational Excellence at Sysdigm Industries in 2038, fifteen years after the community work that defined her. The company she joined is being gradually hollowed out by David Brennan, a CFO who arrived with genuine competence - catching real problems, saving real money - but applied financial control logic to operations, which runs on different physics. The result is a system that is perfectly coherent and structurally destructive: six approvals to fix an $18,000-per-hour production failure using a $2,400 part.Sarah's response is not to argue but to prove. She designs a thirty-day pilot - one team, minimal approvals, authority following demonstrated competence - and instruments it carefully against a control group still running the old framework. The results are unambiguous. The book follows her from that first data point through the political resistance, the expansion to multiple lines, the final board presentation, and the institutional change that follows.The intellectual spine is Deming and Shewhart's quality systems theory, introduced through Marcus Webb, a retired quality engineer, whom Sarah meets at her daughter's school concert. He gives the framework a name - what Sarah built in neighborhoods is statistical process control applied to human systems - and the book uses that lineage to argue that the competence-versus-control tension isn't a personality conflict or a management fad. It's a structural choice with measurable consequences.The closing argument is that the pattern holds across every domain where it has been tested: neighborhoods, corporations, markets, and institutions. The book ends on an open note - the pattern is still moving, and Sarah can now recognize it anywhere. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A New Strategy is the second book in Michael Paul Ervick's series following Sarah Chen, a practitioner of community-based infrastructure. Where the first book (We the People) built the model - mutual aid, distributed competence, Tuesday dinners as proof of concept - this one translates it into a corporate setting and asks a harder question: can something that works at a human scale survive inside an institution Sarah is now VP of Operational Excellence at Sysdigm Industries in 2038, fifteen years after the community work that defined her. The company she joined is being gradually hollowed out by David Brennan, a CFO who arrived with genuine competence - catching real problems, saving real money - but applied financial control logic to operations, which runs on different physics. The result is a system that is perfectly coherent and structurally destructive: six approvals to fix an $18,000-per-hour production failure using a $2,400 part.Sarah's response is not to argue but to prove. She designs a thirty-day pilot - one team, minimal approvals, authority following demonstrated competence - and instruments it carefully against a control group still running the old framework. The results are unambiguous. The book follows her from that first data point through the political resistance, the expansion to multiple lines, the final board presentation, and the institutional change that follows.The intellectual spine is Deming and Shewhart's quality systems theory, introduced through Marcus Webb, a retired quality engineer, whom Sarah meets at her daughter's school concert. He gives the framework a name - what Sarah built in neighborhoods is statistical process control applied to human systems - and the book uses that lineage to argue that the competence-versus-control tension isn't a personality conflict or a management fad. It's a structural choice with measurable consequences.The closing argument is that the pattern holds across every domain where it has been tested: neighborhoods, corporations, markets, and institutions. The book ends on an open note - the pattern is still moving, and Sarah can now recognize it anywhere.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On Sacred Ground follows Samuel Juma, a Chicago community organizer whose failure to recruit a grocery store to a food desert forces him to rethink what community building actually means. Guided by his father-an architect who designs tribal community centers-and Joseph Blackfeather, a Potawatomi elder, Samuel learns that communities aren't broken and waiting to be saved. They're already organizing, sharing, and surviving through informal systems.The book's central argument: modern mutual aid isn't innovation. It's recovery. The practices Samuel discovers-bulk buying networks, shared transportation, gardens, childcare co-ops, faith-based support-are fragments of what the book calls the First Economy: the Indigenous economic and governance systems that sustained human societies for thousands of years, built on reciprocity, communal resources, rotating leadership, and seven-generation thinking. Colonization didn't just take land. It replaced these systems with market dependence, charity, and hierarchy, and caused communities to forget they had ever known another way.As Samuel stops leading and starts listening, he connects what already exists rather than importing solutions from outside. The networks grow into something resilient enough to withstand job loss, supply-chain failure, winter storms, and institutional pressure-including the repeated attempts by corporations and foundations to absorb what the community built.On Sacred Ground distills this into practical principles and closes with a choice: Timeline A, where communities fragment and depend on markets and institutions that can withdraw at any moment, or Timeline B, where communities reclaim the capacity to feed, support, and govern themselves-by remembering the oldest human knowledge of all.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On Sacred Ground follows Samuel Juma, a Chicago community organizer whose failure to recruit a grocery store to a food desert forces him to rethink what community building actually means. Guided by his father-an architect who designs tribal community centers-and Joseph Blackfeather, a Potawatomi elder, Samuel learns that communities aren't broken and waiting to be saved. They're already organizing, sharing, and surviving through informal systems.The book's central argument: modern mutual aid isn't innovation. It's recovery. The practices Samuel discovers-bulk buying networks, shared transportation, gardens, childcare co-ops, faith-based support-are fragments of what the book calls the First Economy: the Indigenous economic and governance systems that sustained human societies for thousands of years, built on reciprocity, communal resources, rotating leadership, and seven-generation thinking. Colonization didn't just take land. It replaced these systems with market dependence, charity, and hierarchy, and caused communities to forget they had ever known another way.As Samuel stops leading and starts listening, he connects what already exists rather than importing solutions from outside. The networks grow into something resilient enough to withstand job loss, supply-chain failure, winter storms, and institutional pressure-including the repeated attempts by corporations and foundations to absorb what the community built.On Sacred Ground distills this into practical principles and closes with a choice: Timeline A, where communities fragment and depend on markets and institutions that can withdraw at any moment, or Timeline B, where communities reclaim the capacity to feed, support, and govern themselves-by remembering the oldest human knowledge of all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Michael Sheridan has spent thirty years depending on no one. A Navy veteran wired by trauma to scan for threats, he manages his ranch, checks his locks, and watches his community fracture from a careful distance. When Pine Ridge's school board erupts into open conflict - tribal sovereignty against county authority, traditional knowledge against outside expertise, old families against new arrivals - Michael sees what he's always seen: a system pushed past tolerance, about to fail.He isn't wrong. He's just wrong about what failure means.Set in a rural California community at the intersection of wildfire, water rights, and deep political division, The House Divided follows four neighbors as they discover that their conflict is not the problem - the absence of structure for the conflict is. As a tribal fire expert, a climate scientist, a volunteer fire chief, and a ranching veteran slowly build something no one expected - a functional local institution that requires them to be necessary to each other - they learn that a community doesn't develop by resolving its differences. It develops by learning to work through them.Then a wildfire exposes how badly that work is still unfinished. And a county administrator who has been waiting for exactly this failure moves to shut the whole experiment down.The House Divided is a novel about community-based democracy practiced at a human scale - unremarkable, imperfect, and harder than anyone expects. About what it costs when different kinds of knowledge can't hear each other. About a man who ran toward a burning aircraft because that was the job, and what it takes to finally let someone else into the room.A story about the only kind of unity that lasts: the kind built from irreconcilable differences. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A New Strategy is the second book in Michael Paul Ervick's series following Sarah Chen, a practitioner of community-based infrastructure. Where the first book (We the People) built the model - mutual aid, distributed competence, Tuesday dinners as proof of concept - this one translates it into a corporate setting and asks a harder question: can something that works at a human scale survive inside an institution?Sarah is now VP of Operational Excellence at Sysdigm Industries in 2038, fifteen years after the community work that defined her. The company she joined is being gradually hollowed out by David Brennan, a CFO who arrived with genuine competence - catching real problems, saving real money - but applied financial control logic to operations, which runs on different physics. The result is a system that is perfectly coherent and structurally destructive: six approvals to fix an $18,000-per-hour production failure using a $2,400 part.Sarah's response is not to argue but to prove. She designs a thirty-day pilot - one team, minimal approvals, authority following demonstrated competence - and instruments it carefully against a control group still running the old framework. The results are unambiguous. The book follows her from that first data point through the political resistance, the expansion to multiple lines, the final board presentation, and the institutional change that follows.The intellectual spine is Deming and Shewhart's quality systems theory, introduced through Marcus Webb, a retired quality engineer, whom Sarah meets at her daughter's school concert. He gives the framework a name - what Sarah built in neighborhoods is statistical process control applied to human systems - and the book uses that lineage to argue that the competence-versus-control tension isn't a personality conflict or a management fad. It's a structural choice with measurable consequences.The closing argument is that the pattern holds across every domain where it has been tested: neighborhoods, corporations, markets, and institutions. The book ends on an open note - the pattern is still moving, and Sarah can now recognize it anywhere. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On Sacred Ground follows Samuel Juma, a Chicago community organizer whose failure to recruit a grocery store to a food desert forces him to rethink what community building actually means. Guided by his father-an architect who designs tribal community centers-and Joseph Blackfeather, a Potawatomi elder, Samuel learns that communities aren't broken and waiting to be saved. They're already organizing, sharing, and surviving through informal systems.The book's central argument: modern mutual aid isn't innovation. It's recovery. The practices Samuel discovers-bulk buying networks, shared transportation, gardens, childcare co-ops, faith-based support-are fragments of what the book calls the First Economy: the Indigenous economic and governance systems that sustained human societies for thousands of years, built on reciprocity, communal resources, rotating leadership, and seven-generation thinking. Colonization didn't just take land. It replaced these systems with market dependence, charity, and hierarchy, and caused communities to forget they had ever known another way.As Samuel stops leading and starts listening, he connects what already exists rather than importing solutions from outside. The networks grow into something resilient enough to withstand job loss, supply-chain failure, winter storms, and institutional pressure-including the repeated attempts by corporations and foundations to absorb what the community built.On Sacred Ground distills this into practical principles and closes with a choice: Timeline A, where communities fragment and depend on markets and institutions that can withdraw at any moment, or Timeline B, where communities reclaim the capacity to feed, support, and govern themselves-by remembering the oldest human knowledge of all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…