This author delves into language with a profound fascination that evolved into a lifelong dedication to writing. Their work often explores the intricacies of human experience, examining themes of spirituality, love, and impermanence. With a clear and perceptive style, the author crafts narratives that are thought-provoking and resonate deeply with readers. Influenced by years of meditation practice, their writing offers a unique perspective on navigating meaning and connection in the contemporary world.
The story revolves around Jake, a Zen master and bicycle repairman in Bar Harbor, Maine, who is grappling with the onset of Alzheimer's disease. His long-time student, Hank, faces his own struggles with commitment and doubts about his ability to step into Jake's role as a teacher. The narrative explores themes of mentorship, self-doubt, and the blurred lines between wisdom and confusion, questioning whether Jake's peculiar behaviors are profound insights or signs of his deteriorating mind.
Award-winning monograph of the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2004. This book studies regularity properties of Mumford-Shah minimizers. The Mumford-Shah functional was introduced in the 1980s as a tool for automatic image segmentation, but its study gave rise to many interesting questions of analysis and geometric measure theory. The main object under scrutiny is a free boundary K where the minimizer may have jumps. The book presents an extensive description of the known regularity properties of the singular sets K, and the techniques to get them. Some time is spent on the C^1 regularity theorem (with an essentially unpublished proof in dimension 2), but a good part of the book is devoted to applications of A. Bonnet's monotonicity and blow-up techniques. In particular, global minimizers in the plane are studied in full detail. The book is largely self-contained and should be accessible to graduate students in analysis. The core of the book is composed of regularity results that were proved in the last ten years and which are presented in a more detailed and unified way.
Exploring the complex relationship between sex and spirituality, David Guy reflects on his personal experiences and meditation practices. He examines the views of influential figures such as Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, and Alan Watts, who navigated the intersections of eroticism and enlightenment. The book also features insights from contemporary theorists, activists, and sex workers, offering a multifaceted perspective on whether sex is an obstacle to spiritual growth or a vital force for creativity and understanding.
With his marriage and career on the rocks, Matt Gregg takes on a job as private investigator, hoping to boost his self-esteem and save his marriage, and finds himself enmeshed in the bizarre world of pornography and murder