The sagebrush prairie passed by outside the bus window and the landscape grew dim in the fading sunset, leaving his hometown far behind. Maybe the tumbleweeds swirling in the wind alongside the bus were an omen; time would scatter bad memories just like wind chasing tumbleweeds

Why Science?

We are fascinated by discovery: who discovered what, and how?

This ranges from a look outward at the night sky with scientists like Kepler, astronauts like Neil Armstrong, to physicist like Einstein, chemists like Marie Curie and Linus Pauling, an inward look at psychologists such as Skinner and Maslow, and philosophers like Plato.

Join Keating as he explores the pursuit of scientific discovery from his background as a physicists and a long career in the margins of the academic world.

A SEARCH FOR GOD? This is a comprehensive search for God by exploring throughout all of science and religion. The author searches the discoveries of modern science including origins of the universe, physical laws that govern science, subatomic particles, and natural phenomena. Then the author conducts a scrupulous examination of the many religious faiths such as Judaic, Christian, Islamic, Buddhism, Creationists, Pantheism, and others. In a final chapter the author looks at religious culture - vs -- religious faith, and offers suggestions for those who struggle with a religious faith.

Meadowlark approached Scott after he had dismounted. "You're riding my pony," she declared in a threatening voice and stood with a hostile hands-on-hips posture face-to-face directly in front of him. He was startled How to respond to this angry girl? "Gosh I wouldn't have ridden the pony if l knew you'd be upset. Your brother, Swallow, said it would be okay." "Well it's not," she retorted angrily. "No one rides my pony without asking and me saying so."

This is Bernie Keating's sixth book after finishing other careers spanning 60 years: Naval officer - Korean WarTeaching Assistant, U.C., BerkeleyMulti-national company executive Management consultantRancher in Sierra Mountains

Ginny and Montana are students caught-up in campus turmoil at the University of California, Berkeley, during the 1960s nation-wide era of dissent. It is a story of social misfits, troubled people scared in a dysfunctional childhood who drift together in the cause celebre of the moment -- and there are plenty of causes for them to find: anti-authority sit-ins anti-Vietnam War marches draft card burnings Vatican Two church revolt civil rights turmoil grapepicker strike underground Weatherman martial law - street barricades Ginny and Montana and their fellow students had all these things on their plate -- on and off campus. Ginny becomes the activist leader of the violent Weatherman organization and goes underground as a fugitive from the FBI. Now, fifty years later, it is difficult to believe but many in our nation were engaged in an almost open revolt. Names of people are fictional, but all the events are exactly as they happened. I know, because I was there.

These are sketches about the life and times that Keating travelled. His first book was RIDING THE FINCE LINES: Riding the Fences that Define the Margins of Religious Tolerance; he is joined by five co-authors: Muslim scholar, Jewish rabbi, Catholic priest, Protestant minister, and Buddhist minister. Keating's second book, BUFFALO GAP FRONTIER, is a personal historical account of the settling of the Last Frontier in South Dakota and Wyoming. He is joined by two co-authors: a pioneer rancher, and a Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His third book, 1960s DECADE OF DISSENT: The Way We Were, is a historical novel written about the times on the U.C. Berkeley when the author was a student.