This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well as those whose work it is to care for them.In a society in which some two million people live in 16,000 nursing homes, with their numbe...

“Catalyst” is a three volume, epic fictional story of Tom Davis’s extraordinary life that spans time, historical events, and multiple continents. From initially meeting, his first love in a quiet country town in the sixties, to quitting his adventurous life at the turn of the new Millennium. Book One introduces Tom, our main character as he tells us of his life, starting with a love affair, and culminating with the end of his first tour of duty in Vietnam.

Timothy Evans is forced into a forced engagement with Anna Olsen by his father. In all of Timothy's life, he had never been in love until he met Aaliyah Brown, a maid in his house.

Farspace 2 is, at times, darker, more cautionary and less care-free than its predecessor. It is an exploration of the dangers of the future that we will be challenged with, should our species be so fortunate to reach that distant land. There are stories about control—by entities that want to harm or protect us. Stories about exploration—not the happy, "everything is wonderful out there and all will be great if we only go" stories, but rather the "yes it's dangerous out there, and we can ge...

A Diamond in the Rough is a continuation of Timothy K. Fitzgeralds trilogy begun with Wawona Brotherhood, outlining student activism during the Vietnam War and his campus fight for racial equality.----In his second historical volume outlining the subsequent redevelopment of downtown San Jose, the real-life characters of volume one enter mainstream society in the 70s and 80s to fight urban renewal.----Fitzgerald and his friends join the working class of Silicon Valley to implement low incom...