Mickey Gammon, a disaffected fifteen-year-old dropout kicked out of his home by his half-brother, is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement, a rural cooperative run by The Prophet, where he encounters another deserted child, six-year-old Jane.

Looks at the importance of cooperation in human beings and in nature, arguing that this social tool is as important an aspect of evolution as mutation and natural selection.

National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) is a nearly fifty-year-old information technology business built on the cooperative model. NISC started out providing software and IT services for three rural cooperatives and has grown to fourteen million end users in forty-nine U.S. states or territories and in Canada. Wired Differently explores the unique business model and leadership principles behind NISC's results. Imagine this: What if your...