Michael Stone

teachings from yoga & Buddhism for living an engaged life

Awake in the world

Four novellas of dark and darker fantasy from Michael Stone. Foreword by World Fantasy Award-winner Garry Kilworth.

Fourtold

These concise, pointed essays by dharma and yoga teacher Michael Stone offer essential wisdom on living the yoga and Buddhist paths in the midst of everyday life and in a world full of challenges. Through the overarching themes of practice, love, and social action, Stone addresses the essential questions of- * What does daily practice actually look like? * Where are you going with your practice? * How do you take your practice into your everyday life? * How does practice manifest as love? * How do you act as a steward of society and live in right relationship with each other and the planet? These essays inspire and guide, appealing to both yogis and dharma practitioners. In this age where we can't turn away from environmental and political issues, Stone reminds us in a clear and encouraging way that practice is always both internal and external.

Notes on Practice, Love, and Social Action

The World Comes to You

Eric Fischl

In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial paintings as Bad Boy and Sleepwalker, Fischl joined the front ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all that Fischl had achieved. In an extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir, Fischl discusses the impact of his dysfunctional family on his art—his mother, an imaginative and tragic woman, was an alcoholic who ultimately took her own life. Following his years as a student at Cal Arts and teaching in Nova Scotia, he describes his early years in New York with the artist April Gornik, just as Wall Street money begins to encroach on the old gallery system and change the economics of the art world. Fischl rebelled against the conceptual and minimalist art that was in fashion at the time to paint compelling portraits of everyday people that captured the unspoken tensions in their lives. Still in his thirties, Eric became the subject of a major Vanity Fair interview, his canvases sold for as much as a million dollars, and The Whitney Museum mounted a major retrospective of his paintings. Bad Boy follows Fischl’s maturation both as an artist and sculptor, and his inevitable fall from grace as a new generation of artists takes center stage, and he is forced to grapple with his legacy and place among museums and collectors. Beautifully written, and as courageously revealing as his most provocative paintings, Bad Boy takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been seen before.

My Life On and Off the Canvas

Bad Boy

A practicing psychotherapist and yoga instructor furnishes an in-depth explanation of ancient Indian yogic philosophy and beliefs to provide a revealing look at the spiritual side of yoga practice that emphasizes the key link between the physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life, as well as yoga's ethics of patience, honesty, and nonviolence. Original. 15,000 first printing.

A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner

The Inner Tradition of Yoga

In this collection of provocative essays by prominent teachers of Yoga and Buddhism, the common ground of these two ancient traditions becomes clear. Michael Stone has brought together a group of intriguing voices to show how Buddhism and Yoga share the same roots, the same values, and the same spiritual goals. The themes addressed here are rich and varied, yet the essays all weave together the common threads between the traditions that offer guidance toward spiritual freedom and genuine realization. Contributors include Ajahn Amaro Bhikkhu, Shosan Victoria Austin, Frank Jude Boccio, Christopher Key Chapple, Ari Goldfield and Rose Taylor, Chip Hartranft, Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, Sarah Powers, Eido Shimano Roshi, Jill Satterfield, Mu Soeng, Michael Stone, Robert Thurman.

Writings on the Connections between Yoga and Buddhism

Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind

These volumes contain most of the papers of the late Jonas C. Greenfield written in English, with source and lexeme indexes, and is intended for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East, Aramaic, Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Semitic philology. Greenfield published numerous articles in a wide range of journals, some of them fairly inaccessible. He himself had begun to collect his papers, with the aim of revising and republishing them, when his sudden death intervened. It is the privilege of the editors, two close friends of Greenfield and one of his former students, to present this collection to the public. This collection shows the wealth, breadth, and creativity of Greenfield’s substantial scholarship, as well as his desire to collaborate with his colleagues in academic pursuits.The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004121706).

Collected Studies of Jonas C. Greenfield on Semitic Philology, volume 2

'Al Kanfei Yonah

The third Streeter thriller takes the tough bounty hunter from the back alleys of Mexico to the streets of the mile-high city in a story that brims with the realism of author Michael Stone's real life detective work.

A Streeter Thriller

Token of Remorse

In the gritty underworld of unsavory thugs, Streeter finally has an innocent client in Nicky "Space" Lucci. Getting the kid off ingratiates Streeter with his grandfather, Alphonse Lucci, a restaurateur and small-time mafioso. But when Alphonse gets into trouble with the real bad guys, Streeter finds himself caught in the middle of a pizza war, dodging bullets and meatballs, not to mention a sizzling side dish -- Alphonse's sexy daughter. Another babe reenters Streeter's life when Ronnie Taggert, the smart and sexy paralegal from The Low End of Nowhere, appears on his doorstep with an offer he can't refuse, further embroiling him in an adventure that ranks as his funniest and nastiest yet.

A Streeter Mystery

Totally Dead

Michael Stone's highly-praised Streeter series begins with this Shamus-nominated thriller that pits the bounty hunter against a violent pack of lowlifes and sociopaths killing their way to the big score.

Low End Of Nowhere

Packed with action and dark humor, the fourth novel in Michael Stone's blockbuster Streeter series pits the detective and bounty hunter against ruthless killers desperate to acquire a key piece of land in a huge development deal.

The second novel in Michael Stone's thrilling Streeter series. Streeter's ex-fiance is targeted by a psychotic felon intent on exacting revenge for his imprisonment. Or is Streeter's ex-lover playing a deadly game of her own?

A Long Reach

The Funny Bone of Dr. Michael Stone

Collected Studies of Jonas C. Greenfield on Semitic Philology, volume 1

Bosonization is a useful technique for studying systems of interacting fermions in low dimensions. It has applications in both particle and condensed matter physics. This book contains reprints of papers on the method as used in these fields. The papers range from the classic work of Tomonaga in the 1950's on one-dimensional electron gases, through the discovery of fermionic solitons in the 1970's, to integrable systems and bosonization on Riemann surfaces. A four-chapter pedagogical introduction by the editor should make the book accessible to graduate students and experienced researchers alike. Contents: Remarks on Bloch's Method of Sound Waves Applied to Many Fermion Problems (S Tomonaga)Particle States of a Quantized Meson Field (T H R Skyrme)Soliton Operators for the Quantized Sine-Gordon Equation (S Mandelstam)Theory of Non-Abelian Goldstone Bosons in Two Dimensions (A M Polyakov & P Weigman)Non-Abelian Bosonization in Two Dimensions (E Witten)Chiral Bosonization, Determinants, and the String Partition Function (E Verlinde & H Verlinde)Bosonization on Higher Genus Riemann Surfaces (L Alvarez-Gaume et al.)Transformation Groups for Soliton Equations (E Date et al.)Coherent-State Path Integrals for Loop Groups and Non-Abelian Bosonization (M Stone)and other papers Readership: Students and researchers in high energy and condensed matter physics. keywords:

Bosonization

Michael Stone was born in East Belfast in 1955. In 1988 he was sentenced to 800 years in prison. He served twelve years in the Maze prison before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. He is now an artist, and proponent of the peace process.

To Some He is a Hero. The IRA Want Him Dead. This is the True Story of the Artist Who Was Ireland's Most Notorious Assassin

None Shall Divide Us

Paul Goldbart

An engagingly-written account of mathematical tools and ideas, this book provides a graduate-level introduction to the mathematics used in research in physics. The first half of the book focuses on the traditional mathematical methods of physics – differential and integral equations, Fourier series and the calculus of variations. The second half contains an introduction to more advanced subjects, including differential geometry, topology and complex variables. The authors' exposition avoids excess rigor whilst explaining subtle but important points often glossed over in more elementary texts. The topics are illustrated at every stage by carefully chosen examples, exercises and problems drawn from realistic physics settings. These make it useful both as a textbook in advanced courses and for self-study. Password-protected solutions to the exercises are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521854030.

A Guided Tour for Graduate Students

Mathematics for Physics

In order to succeed in a construction business you have to be able to mark up the price of your jobs to cover overhead expenses and make a decent profit. The problem is how much to mark it up. You don't want to lose jobs because you charge too much, and you don't want to work for free because you've charged too little. If you know how much to mark up you can apply it to your job costs and arrive at the right sales price for your work. This book gives you the background and the calculations necessary to easily figure the markup that is right for your business. Includes a CD-ROM with forms and checklists for your use.

A Contractor's Guide

Markup & Profit

An unstinting memoir of the 1980s art scene as experienced by a leading American narrative painter traces his struggle to find his artistic way during a period when his style was contrary to fashion, his relationship with his alcoholic mother, his struggles with addiction and his interactions with such contemporaries as Julian Schnabel and David Salle.

Jonas C. Greenfield

Esther Eshel

The fragments of Aramaic Levi Document are presented for the first time as a single coherent whole. This book, which will move the study of this pivotal document to a new level, includes original texts, translation, introduction and extensive and detailed commentary.

Michael Stone

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