Francis Pring-Mill has a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was also awarded The Queen's College Benefactor's Prize, and won a postgraduate sch...view moreFrancis Pring-Mill has a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he was also awarded The Queen's College Benefactor's Prize, and won a postgraduate scholarship from the University which funded three years of doctoral research. He then held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto. In the business world his roles have included government statistician, software engineer, and director in an IT professional services firm.Dr. Pring-Mill's publications to date have been in the fields of zoology, software engineering, and methodology. Characteristic of all of them has been success at analyzing, simplifying, and presenting ideas to make them easier to understand and apply. With his book, In Harmony with the Tao, he brings the same skills to a new subject.Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. He is the acclaimed translator of A Book of Psalms, Beowulf, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Book of Job, among many others.view less