Robert Stone Books

This book is simple and outlines the day hikes I wanted to know about along the famous Beartooth Highway. It has the just the right amount of neccesary info and not loaded with filler fluff and opinions. With the correct topo maps and this book I'm all set. Thanks!

This is a collection of poems that I well reccommend to any reader with a distinguishing ear; Kinsley will not let you down. His poems are about simple topics--aging, family, farming--yet they reach far beyond those simple ideas. This is a touching collection of beautiful writing that gets to the heart of all writing, both poety and prose: Human life and emotion. Great stuff, fully reccommended.

An excellent book with wonderful pictures, from day-to-day tasks to warfare and elaborate rituals, accompanied by a fair amount of written information. It's a compelling still life of the Dani in the Baliem valley at the time civilization started to gain momentum and changed their way of life forever. Even though it's written mainly for an ethnographical audience, it's very readable and a must for anyone interested in the highland tribes of Irian Jaya and their cultural background.

This is the most comprehensible book on Gerson Therapy to date. Well worth a read for anyone suffering from degenerative diseases. Even better if they are willing to look the medical establishment in the eye and say, "No Thanks, I'd rather do it myself" A very powerful healing method that relies upon food, not prescriptions, and truly cures, as opposed to treating the symptoms. Diabetes, arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure and cancer are symptoms of a suppressed immune system. This therapy will kick start your immune system, start the healing reaction and cure what ails you. It has done an incredible job of clearing me of all the above symptoms.

This is a great story by Robert Stone which later appeared in his collection, Bear & His Daughter. Elliot, a therapist, apparently is in need of healing himself. Like a lot of Stone's characters Elliot has a drinking problem and he is forced to face his own devils. Despite 15 months of being dry his life lacks substance and any excitement. Regrets and desperation are beginning to tease Elliot. Anger is rising.

Then, after couselling a discharged army guy, who has nightmares about Vietnam when in fact he was never there, Elliot (who was) goes on a spree. He returns home and argues with his wife, a social worker who has her own troubles. Other problems arise and the story could easily have ended in tragedy. Instead it ends with a faint ray of hope for a lost man wanting Grace, his wife, to believe in him and offer forgiveness. The last paragraphs are very moving.

What I really like about Helping is how Stone brilliantly captures some dilemnas of the "recovering alcoholic" which is in Elliot's case how do you cope with the ordinariness of sobriety. How do you get back to stability when the world you live in is becoming increasingly unreliable? How do you handle the dangers of unresolved anger?

Once again Robert Stone, with his crisp prose, exposes the psyche of the troubled man without being at all didactic. He just lets the issues confronting Elliot reveal themselves.

More than what I expected! Every artist should have one - it relates history periods to cultures then units all the arts together so you can have perfect understanding of it as a whole. Really fantastic! Full of information!

After his father's death, anthropologist Ben Orlove received the gift of a lifetime -- a study full of his father's papers. As Orlove sifted through sixty years' worth of photos, passports, diaries, news clippings, letters, postcards, and artwork, the richness and complexity of his father's life is gradually revealed to him. Orlove's father, a Russian Jew who emigrated to the U.S. in 1921, is revealed to the reader through the son's slow & loving examination of his father's own words, correspondence & artwork. Rather than present his father's life in strict chronology, Orlove explores different facets of his father's life through overlapping chapters that examine his father's relationship with others (such as mother, father, brother, wife, and artists-friends) and his lifelong effort to create art. Both the son -- and the reader -- come to know the father in a gradual, organic way, just as we come to know someone over long years of connection & caring. While Orlove's father is being revealed to us, the author is also revealing his growing understanding of the man who was his father and of those parts of his father that live on in the son. The book's liberal use of photographs and the father's artwork adds even more depth and richness to this book's portrayal of Orlove's father. Few of us have the opportunity to look so deeply into a parent's mind, heart and soul. This book is a rich journey that ultimately prompts the reader to think about what we might find in our own father's study...

Even if you aren't a health care professional, you'll get something out of this easy-to-read, well-organized book. In my opinion, anyone who has ever needed to go to a hospital can benefit from this book, which de-mystifies and explains hospital structure and organization in terms clear enough for a lay-person to understand.

I use this excellent documentary source with success in a storytelling class I've taught periodically over the past 10 years. Jack tales are a rarified regional tradition as well as a type of folk hero tale with many connections to other North American and global oral traditions. Their geneology is here traced and illustrated by phonetic transcriptions of a number of performances by different generations of Jack tale tellers from the central Appalachians, each accompanied by an introductory essay. It's a useful case study of how a particular tale type entered the country and spread among a small localized and often related group of tellers, migrated into text form and then out again, and became in one sense the archtypal tale type of the American storytelling revival, thanks to the late Ray Hicks of Beech Mountain, who leads off the bunch and headlined the first decade or so of national festivals in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Last fall after the festival I had the good fortune to visit my uncle's church in Banner Elk, at the foot of Beech Mountain, where I met a couple of Marshall Ward's former students, who remembered him telling Jack tales to assembled students every Friday after school.

Available elsewhere are audio versions of these Jack tales by at least some of the tellers included in this book: Ray Hicks, Marshall Ward, and Donald Davis.

He uncover the potential of our mind and brain.This book taught us to use both of our brain,the left and right hemisphere for our benefit,even though the instruction is short.If you are interested more you should buy the book "You The Healer" by Jose Silva.This book is good to read if you want to improve yourself but a warning,you have to read it with an open mind and attitude,if not you will confuse yourself.When i said open mind i mean a leap in faith.You will explore the unknown and pls don't be afraid to find out.