Best Selling Books by Robert Stone

Day Hikes In the Beartooth Mountains is an extensive collection of eighty-seven day hikes in and around Montanas highest mountain range Hikes range from 11000-foot alpine plateaus and peaks to treks along the Yellowstone River as it begins its journey

From tropical gardens to beaches backed by silvery waterfalls, this guide includes some of the best scenery found in the Hawaiian Islands. Ample maps and clear directions ensure a memorable hike.

California''s Sonoma County is known for its wineries and a magnificent natural landscape--a picturesque mix of rugged coastline, steep cliffs, forested hillsides, and verdant agricultural valleys. A collection of 125 of the county''s best day hikes are combined into this guide, providing access to 60 miles of coastline and thousands of acres of greenspace. All hiking levels are included, with a focus on mid-range hikes.

This 224-page guide is a collection of the best coastal day hikes along the southern California coast, the latest addition to the popular Day Hike Books series! It is an essential guide for both residents and travelers who appreciate the outdoors. The southern California coast has some of the most diverse and scenic geography in the state. This guide includes 100 great day hikes along 238 miles of coastline, from Ventura County to the U.S.--Mexico border. Discover hundreds of miles of trails in scenic and undeveloped land, despite the expansive urban areas. Highlights include wide sandy beaches, marine terraces, rocky headlands, tidal estuaries that are ideal for exploring, bay-side coves and caves, sandstone cliffs, great locations for viewing wildlife, lighthouses, expansive dunes, forested canyons, waterfalls, thousands of acres of undeveloped public lands, and panoramic ocean-front overlooks. Each hike includes the following: *Detailed map *Accurate driving and hiking directions *Distance/time/elevation statistics *List of relevant maps *Summaries to help hikers find a trail appropriate to their ability and desire Companion hiking guides, also by Stone, include Day Hikes Around Los Angeles (an Los AngelesTimes Bestseller), Day Hikes Around Ventura County, and Day Hikes On the California Central Coast.

Orange County is more than just a suburban landscape. More than 30% of the land is preserved greenspace. The county''s long, sandy coastline is backdropped by the undeveloped Santa Ana Mountains. The coast-to-mountain geography creates a diverse terrain that offers many opportunities for exploration. This essential guide describes how to get to trailheads in the Santa Ana Range, the best trails in the county''s parklands, and numerous access points to the coastline.

Day Hikes In Hawaii includes ninety spectacular hikes from Oahu Kauai and Maui Hikes range from leisurely beach strolls to dense rainforests and expansive overlooks Highlights include coastal cliffs lush canyons dormant volcanos waterfalls tidepoo

Guide to 128 easy to moderately strenuous day hikes around San Luis Obispo County, ranging from bluff trails along the Pacific coastline to creekside canyon walks in the Santa Lucia Mountains, from city paths to wilderness retreats.

Features 55 incredible hikes, from the coastline to the island''s highest ridges. Each hikes includes a summary of its highlights, a map, and concise driving and hiking directions.

Includes 77 great hikes throughout this scenic area. Hikes range from easy beach strolls to moderately strenuous mountain climbs with panoramic vistas. The trails have been chosen for their scenery, variety, and ability to be hiked within a day.

Discover hidden gems of wilderness in the Los Angeles metropolitan area! Despite the imminent presence of the city, there are thousands of acres of natural, undeveloped land with hundreds of miles of trails. Hikes range from boardwalk strolls along the ocean to shady canyon trails that lead to panoramic overlooks. Residents and adventuresome travelers will find this book essential to locating an amazing number of hiking opportunities.

The Missoula area is home to some of the finest alpine hiking in Montana. This collection of 83 great day hikes ranges from popular vista overlooks of Missoula to remote backcountry trails through stream-fed canyons. Spectacular scenery and hikes for every level of experience.

Robert J Stone pulls no punches. Humanity is currently on a one-way ride to oblivion, he says, and this is how it happened. One thing led to another. This is Big History. It begins at the beginning and goes until now - from the big bang until just yesterday. In just under 250 pages, it is a rapid ride through captivating terrain. More precisely, it is an effort to construct a coherent and comprehensive narrative account of the unfolding of existence in which each of us can find our origins, our identities, our dignities and tragedies and perhaps something of our commonalities. Stone is attempting to furnish the first draught of a plausible and universally acceptable narrative explanation for how humanity''s current state of affairs might have come about. He warns us in the introduction that all historical narrative is fiction parading as truth, and then he plows ahead, seeking to transcend the bias of nation, culture, ideology and faith by calling on Darwin and Einstein to frame his narrative in the context of scientific rationalism. While the book opens somewhat like A Little History of the World for grownups, it quickly addresses a number of key themes which it follows to the end. These include gender relations, social structures, economics, science, technology, culture, art, philosophy, ideology, environment and conflict. Stone''s description of the human predicament is far from optimistic. The only chance to avoid extinction, he says, is to become a single, collectively rational, cohesive, inclusive, just and sustainable global humanity. And while that is the only realistic option left, if we can manage it, everything else just might fall into place.

Michael Ahearn enseigne dans une université américaine. Marié, père de famille, entouré d''amis avec qui il lui arrive de chasser le week-end, il mène une vie tranquille. Tout bascule lorsqu''il rencontre Lara Purcell, une jeune collègue originaire des Caraïbes. Michael tombe totalement sous son charme - ne lui a-t-elle pas d''ailleurs affirmé avec le plus grand sérieux qu''elle est elle-même possédée par un esprit ? Michael accompagne Lara dans son île natale, St. Trinity, inconscient du danger : l''île est le théâtre de convulsions politiques qui risquent à tout instant de dégénérer en guerre civile, sans compter les activités de contrebande et les rituels bizarres auxquels se livre la jeune femme. Mais qui est Lara ? Une princesse vaudou ? Une employée de la CIA ? Une femme fatale ? Lorsque Michael découvre la vérité, il est trop tard pour reculer. On retrouve dans ce " thriller littéraire " plein de mystère et d''intensité érotique les grands thèmes de Robert Stone l''Américain égaré dans un Tiers Monde qu''il ne comprend pas ; les diplomates, les agents secrets et les journalistes ; les idéalistes et les opportunistes ; la violence et la corruption. Mais le vrai voyage, comme toujours, est intérieur.

Austin Christian Leadership Institute Management 101 is a twelve lesson discipleship development tool for developing pastors, ministers and Christian leaders who are seeking to grow their leadership quotient.Management 101 is also a "tool box" where each lesson is arranged in three to four "mini-lessons" so the student can teach them to his or her followers, disciples, students or congregation.Simply put, managing yourself and your ministry is three-fold. First, we each must set the direction of our life and ministry.Second, we must seek to follow that direction.Third, we must make course adjustments according to the leading of the Holy Spirit and the circumstances of life.Christian leaders rarely have sufficient funds for professional development before, during or after college. Even if finances are available, the biggest issue is that most leaders seldom seek help, and when they do, they rarely use the help to its fullest advantage because the help is:1) Not customized to the nature and needs of their life and ministry.2) Not fully accepted because of the changes the help would bring to the minister''s life and ministry.3) Not valued as much as one''s personal and theological views.How can we change this? We first must embrace the idea that each of us needs help. We need to first learn how to lead and manage our lives effectively BEFORE we try to lead and manage the lives of others. For more information concerning Austin Christian Leadership Institute please contact the author of Management 101, Robert Stone, at [email protected].

Austin Christian Leadership Institute Leadership 101 is a twelve lesson discipleship development tool for developing young pastors and ministers who are seeking to grow their leadership quotient.Leadership 101 is also a "tool box" where each lesson is arranged in three to four "mini-lessons" so the student can teach them to his or her followers, disciples, students or congregation.Spiritual leadership seeks to motivate people from the inside, by an appeal to the heart, not by external pressure or coercion. Sadly, most of today''s leaders have traded away the notion of leadership by character to leadership by celebrity.Effective leaders are not consumed with their own success, but with the success of others. They work hard to make everyone around them more effective by focusing their passion on helping those they lead to envision, embrace and enjoy the opportunities set before them.Bernard Montgomery said, “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose, and the character which inspires confidence.”This type of leader demonstrates to everyone around him that the interests of others are what most occupy his heart.The role of leadership in today''s Church is not a mere human arrangement; for each of its leaders are under divine appointment. From Moses to the Apostle Paul the Lord first chooses, commissions and then compels His leaders.Paul wrote to Colossians, “And say to Archippus, "Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you may fulfill it.” (Colossians 4:17)The word “fulfill” is the present active subjunctive of plêroô, which means, "that you keep on filling it full." In other words, leadership is a life-time job.For more information concerning Austin Christian Leadership Institute please contact the author of Leadership 101, Robert Stone at [email protected].