Jack Nelson lives on the shore of Academy Bay in the Galápagos Islands since 1967, and figured he knew the place until he was surprised by the destructive power of the Tsunami of March 2011. This is a short description of why he happened to be there for the event, the excitement of the critical moments,and the aftermath.

In 1967 with almost no money I traveled from the Galapagos Islands to California, through Ecuador, Colombia,Central America, and Mexico. My recollections of the experience are more about the people I met along the way, rather than a description of places and things. It was a very different world then.

A British Gypsy family "The Boswell's" arrive in New York in 1868.Adam, a gypsy wheeler dealer; the hero of the book leaves on a 2,000 mile journey to a boom town in Texas.On a Train stagecoach with many stops and places, he encounters a couple of con artists, moody jewellery, a pretty gypsy girl in West Virginia and a Marshall. In Memphis; pit dog fights, a Creole girl, the Mississippi boat, a killing and in Aberline; gambling, a knife fight, gun play and a mafia beauty.

Living in the Galapagos Islands has never been easy, but 40 years ago it was a real challenge. The author describes perilous travel on near-derelict cattle boats, and the rewards of self-reliance in the midst of natural beauty.

So you want a hot rod. What kind? How will you use it? The author's only car is a hot rod 1962 Chevrolet Nova. This day's action is on a race track, but involves social life, introspection, values, technique, and outright fun.

My experience fishing from a dinghy in the Galapagos Islands. A giant marlin up close.

Generations before this story starts, migration and travel shaped the author's family history. He is a Boomer, the first generation with brain-patterns shaped by consumer electronics. A California Kid from the legendary 1960s; his only car is an iconic Chevy Nova hot rod. He plans a road trip in this antique with the latest online and satellite technology. For joys of the driving itself and the people met along the way, his road trip through the winding country lanes and empty spaces of Ca...

The book includes links to original color illustrations by the author.Warren Keck is an ex-mercenary commando, retired after his career of enforcing order for one of the corporate financial hegemons running the planet.Keck's unplanned involvement with four entirely different gene-spliced mermaids is the key to revolutionary change for the transgenics. His fundamental decency, and his love with a special mermaid, show the way.Decades after teetering on environmental col...

Philosophy's traditional "man of reason"-independent, neutral, unemotional-is an illusion. That's because the "man of reason" ignores one very important thing-the woman.As feminist philosophy grew in the 1980s and '90s, it became clear that the attributes philosophical tradition wrote off as "womanly" are in fact part of human nature. No longer can philosophy maintain the dichotomy between the rational man and the emotional woman, but must now examine a more complex human being, ab...

Coverage of recent world events has focused on violence associated with Islam. In this courageous and controversial book, Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer claims that this narrow view ignores the broader and unfortunate relationship between human violence and the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Both the Bible and the Quran, he believes, are riddled with violent images of God and with passages that can be reasonably interpreted to justify violence against enemies in service to God's wil...

From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929–2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nels...

From a gullible cub reporter with the Daily Herald in Biloxi and Gulfport, to the pugnacious Pulitzer Prize winner at the Atlanta Constitution, to the peerless beat reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering civil rights in the South, Jack Nelson (1929-2009) was dedicated to exposing injustice and corruption wherever he found it. Whether it was the gruesome conditions at a twelve-thousand-bed mental hospital in Georgia or the cruelties of Jim Crow inequity, Nels...