Melt Rheology and Its Role in Plastics Processing

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In this comprehensive book, plastics engineers, designers, and manufacturers discover how to exploit the latest techniques of measuring the rheological properties of molten and viscoelastic plastics. Fully examined is the role of polymer rheology in various melt processing operations, along with specialized areas.

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One of the most concise and excellent books in rheology.......2002-02-20

I have found this book as the reader friendly in a wide spectrum of books available on polymer rheology. The authors have maintained a fine balance between mathematical theory and physical explanations. Therefore, one can get a feel of the subject while learning through this book. The language of the book is also lucid.

I highly recommend this book for someone who wants to know what the equations and the theories in rheology means.

Last but not least, considering the progress in last few years on theoretical front, this book needs a revision!

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Paperback. For the first time a book is available which is devoted to the analysis of multidimensional variability in fossils and deals with the application of multivariate statistical methods to problems of palaeobiology. Presents important new statistical methods for analysing particular problems occurring in biology. Questions of ecology, systematics, quantitative genetics, biostratigraphy and evolutionary biology amenable to quantitative analysis are fully considered. This multivariate primer introduces new but little known methods in a practical format. Methods for applying quantitative genetics to evolution in the phenotype appear with examples and caveats, together with exercises and problems to expand and exemplify difficult concepts. A computer programs supplement written in SAS IML is included which will enable readers to reproduce most of the tables in the text and continue to use them for actual further analysis or research purposes with a min

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This book is written for researchers as well as engineers in an industrial environment. Following a longstanding tradition of the Les Houches Summer Schools, all chapters are pedagogically presented and accessible for graduate students. The book treats 2D and 3D turbulence from the experimental, theoretical and computational points of view. The reader will find, for example, comprehensive accounts of fully developed turbulence experiments, simulating deterministically coherent vortices formation, and statistical prediction of industrial flows, and a very complete review of 2D turbulence. Fundamental concepts like topological fluid dynamics in MHD flows or finite-time singularities of the Burgers, Euler and Navier--Stokes equations complete the volume.

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Beautiful memoir that lacks focus and direction

what if it's true?

Gifted Writer-Flawed Theology

A profoundly moving statement about Life and Death and Love

a lovely mystery

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace
Nora Gallagher
Manufacturer: Vintage
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0375705635
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Book Description

In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim her own “wild life” and a sense of the sacred in the world compels her to assess everything: her marriage, her writing career, and her commitment to parish life. A profound testimony to the urgency of living with meaning, to the natural world’s solace and sacredness and a beautiful and often harrowing account of the search for vocation. Gallagher bears witness to the way death yields new life.

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Beautiful memoir that lacks focus and direction.......2007-03-28

In Practicing Resurrection, Nora Gallagher writes movingly and spiritually about the various crises facing her and the world around her. Her book has a lot to say about living in community and finding spiritual direction; unfortunately, the structure of her tale does not contain a similar direction. It is riveting in the middle, but suffers from a muddled, boring beginning and a rambling, uncertain ending. It contains a lot of good thoughts hidden in the midst of irrelevant chatter. Perhaps the problem is more than structure, for Gallagher seems to travel from uncertainty to uncertainty and, though this is a journey, in the end, doesn't change all that much. Maybe she just wanted to write another book.

what if it's true?.......2007-01-26

In this sequel to her bestseller Things Seen and Unseen (1998), Nora Gallagher continues to explore what a life of Christian faith marked by authenticity and integrity might look like in our contemporary world. She compares her journey of faith to the swimming lessons she took as a child: "The life of faith [is] amorphous, ephemeral, a glimpse, a moment. Trusting it [is] like my early swimming lessons learning to float." In particular, her brother Kit's diagnosis of bladder cancer, a prognosis for a "zero percent" chance of recovery, the horrors of surgery and chemotherapy, and eventual death all forced her to ask life-altering questions about God's call upon her own life.

The themes of vocation and call loom large in Practicing Resurrection. Through her many involvements at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, Gallagher began to wonder what might God have for her. To what could she devote her passion and considerable skills? Where did her joy and gladness intersect with the world's needs, as Buechner once put it? Sensing a possible call to the priesthood, her church formed a "discernment committee" of four saints. They met once a month for three hours across the year, plying Gallagher with questions, telling their own stories about vocation, reading the Scriptures, praying, and, perhaps most important of all, "honoring listening." What voices should she listen to? Which ones should she tune out? What about her husband's deep ambivalence? Was the priesthood any more sacred than her identity as a writer that she had nurtured for over thirty years? After negotiating the labyrinth of the Episcopal bureaucracy and its application process, Gallagher was "exiled" to a very different parish with a very different priest for a year as a ministry-study student. At first she felt like she and the priest were on a "bad blind date," but across the year she gained a deep appreciation for her mentor's faithfulness.

While Gallagher was trying to discern how she might hear God's call, Trinity Episcopal grappled with how as a church they might extend a call. Their interim pastor had informed the vestry that he was gay. Should that impact whether they called him as their regular priest? How did they guard issues of confidentiality once the vestry knew but the congregation did not? How to tell the congregation? What about feelings of distrust and betrayal? Should the church wrap the different but related matter of gay marriages in with the possible call of the pastor? How might the denominational officials respond, if at all?

You'll have to read this fine memoir to learn about Gallagher's call to church and the church's call to their pastor. In the end she likens herself to a friend who was listening to an unctuous priest ask, "what do you really want for Christmas this year?" Her friend responded, "What I wanted to do was to stand up and call out, 'I would like to really believe in the resurrection.'" Her remark reminded me of the words of the eminent church historian Jaroslav Pelikan, who near the end of his life said, "If Jesus rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus did not raise from the dead, nothing else matters." In practicing resurrection we thus inaugurate a tiny bit of God's eschatological future into our lives today.

Gallagher's fans, and their numbers are considerable, will want to note the release of her first novel, Changing Light, in early 2007.

Gifted Writer-Flawed Theology.......2005-05-12

I bought this book totally on the recommendations of all the previous Amazon reviewers. Nora G. is a very gifted and insightful author. I love the way that she is master weaver with her insights and honesty.

I am at the other end of her theological spectrum and disagree with all most all of her conclusions and positions. I find it amazing that in her spiritual "Christian" journey she rarely refers to scripture. So many of her insights bring clarity to the scripture and other points they disagree.

I will not keep this book and have no people I know interested in reading the copy I just read and will send it to anyone free" no postage fees.

tim@twright.co.uk

A profoundly moving statement about Life and Death and Love.......2003-07-08

Nora Gallagher tells a wonderful story about the everyday as well as the "big" events of life. Through a year of searching for answers and asking the needed questions, she goes beyond the usual metaphors to look at how to deal with the death of her brother, how to reconnect to her husband and most significantly, how to make an decision about which road to take next in her life. Readers - don't be put off by the religious words and subtext of this powerful book! It is not a book about going to church, but rather about the value of people, prayer, introspection, respect and bravery in all our lives. Relish its beautiful language and poetic flow. It is well worth your time to live in the world created by Ms. Gallagher!

a lovely mystery.......2003-06-18

I really loved this book.

I liked the pace of it, perhaps because it reminded me of my own exploration of faith. There are those moments of introspection and insight and then, well, life goes on. Gallagher shows that those moments of insight can add up to something significant, particularly if they are interpreted through a deliberate process - her exercise in discernment. The moments she describes are all distinct -- racing on the freeway to church, folding altar cloths, walking in the hills above Santa Barbara -- but they start to add up, to build momentum, early in the book.

I liked the simplicity of her writing. Her portrayals of people and emotions are restrained, but that may be why they are illuminating. I don't know what some of the characters look like, but I do know that I'd like to share a meal with them. I also appreciated her honesty - she reveals her own overly-harsh judgments, and finds ways to expose her own doubts without wallowing in them.

It's a religious book, or a book about religion, I suppose. That's obvious from the title and virtually every page. But my first thoughts about it when putting it down had little to do with religion, or even spirituality. What we see in this book is an individual on a journey to find the work for which she is best suited. It's a mystery, an uncommon mystery.

It's an interesting story, and very well written. It's a book I'll read again down the road.

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The Reality of Being A Real Climber

No Doubts Whatsoever

first ascents

Moments of Doubt: And Other Mountaineering Writings
David Roberts
Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0898861187

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The Reality of Being A Real Climber.......2006-07-08

Although written more than 20 years ago, David Robert's Moments of Doubt is still applicable to the many nuances of mountaineering today and the issues that make the headlines.

He doesn't hesitate in sharing his inner most feelings and his opinion of others. His analysis of his own climbing adventures and the mishaps of others to laid bare for the reader to analyze and come to their own conclusions.

If not for the pure enjoyment of adventure reading, Moments of Doubt provides a good resource of popular climbing epics.

Having recently read Robert's On the Ridge Between Life and Death, I found Moments of Doubt to be a more global look at climbing, yet with the passion that Robert's is so adept at sharing with the reader.

No Doubts Whatsoever.......2002-02-22

This book of essays is one of the finest of its type I have read. They cover a time span from 1968 - 1986, and though most are on mountaineering, one of the best is on white water rafting. Mr. Roberts has divided the book into three sections: Adventures, Profiles and Reflections. I confess I wasn't looking forward to "Reflections." Most climbers are not at their best at "reflecting" on anything. They find it difficult to achieve that fine balance between false modesty and arrogance. Dave Roberts is a happy surprise. He pulls no punches and has a reporter's eye for the absurd. One of the intriguing Reflections, "Boulders and Gunks" compares young climbers in the mid-80's to youngsters of his own era, the late `60's.

In the Adventure section, "Rafting with the BBC" tell us the differences between the actual hair-raising exploit and what you see on the TV-sometimes funny, sometimes maddening. I have read other accounts of sponsorship by the BBC; it must be like finding out your roommate is a strong-minded elephant. "Kilimanjaro: A Third World Adventure" is a perceptive writing of a mountain, not often mentioned by climbers because it is not considered "difficult." Now, to you and me, the thought of climbing Kilimanjaro might be right up there with bull riding, but to climbers, "difficult" is something like K-2. Also, the only way the local government allowed you to climb was with a guide and as part of a group, a somewhat embarrassing outing for a world-class climber.

My favorite Profile "The Mechanical Boy Comes Back," is the story of Hugh Herr, a brilliant, but obsessed 18-year old climber, who with a friend became lost in the New Hampshire mountains and spent three days and three nights in the below zero temperatures. Hugh subsequently lost his leg up to the thigh due to frostbite. His comeback was miraculous. He refused to quit because of his disability and designed various prostheses so he could climb again, which he did with great success. I was so taken with the account, I had to find out what became of Hugh after 1983 when the article was written. Checking out the Internet, I found Hugh is now Dr. Herr, a PhD who is well known in his field and has a business designing prosthetic devices.

This is not just a book for climbing wannabes, or adventure junkies; all the writings stand on their own, are thought provoking and enjoyable.

first ascents.......2001-08-02

By chance, I started reading mountaineering literature with this book. I would recommend it to anyone, climber or not. It is the single best book I have found on the subject. Its only rival, in my opinion, is the volume combining Roberts' two memoirs of Alaskan expeditions, "Deborah" and "The Mountain of My Fear."

Roberts' prose is elegant and compact; his essays set an insightful standard to which no other climbing writer has risen. I have read most of them several times, and will read them again. I read other climbing books in the hope that I will find them as powerful as I did this book.

Royal Robbins did not design the book, of course, but he did write the introduction.

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Beatitudes are just platitudes, depending on the attitudes

Willie's a Winner!

BUY THIS BOOK TODAY! KEEP IT FOREVER!

Stop talkin about it, and be about and do what you gotta do!

Ten Stars if I could put them on here!

A Setback Is a Setup for a Comeback: Turn Your Moments of Doubt and Fear into Times of Triumph
Willie Jolley
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312203497

Book Description

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback! The wisdom in these words can help lift you out of your low points in life and put you on the path to victory!*Have you ever had a setback? *Has life ever thrown you a curve ball?*Have you ever been knocked down by hard times?Willie Jolley, the author of the motivational bestseller It Only Takes A Minute To Change Your Life!, will inspire you to take action! In A Setback Is A Setup For A Comeback, Willie presents his "VDAD" formula (Vision, Decision, Action, Desire) for overcoming life's constant challenges. He shares his techniques for taking control of your destiny, using anecdotes and stories that will encourage you to focus and take action on your dreams-despite the adversities! You will hear from ordinary people who refused to cower in the face of hardships, and found opportunities in unlikely places. There are humorous insights ("sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug") and practical methods (Need to rid yourself of negative thoughts? "Face it, trace it, erase it, replace it!"). Using Willie Jolley's 12 simple strategies (as outlined in the VDAD formula) you will have the tools to turn your trials into triumphs, your problems into possibilities, and your setbacks into comebacks

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Beatitudes are just platitudes, depending on the attitudes.......2002-06-05

This is the first book I've read by Willie Jolley and it will be the last. If "A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback" didn't repeat passages and themes from his previous book, it would be 40% smaller. If you take away the stories from other motivational & self-help authors that Jolley repeats in this book, take away another 30%. And if you take away every time he mentions the title in the book (repeated almost as a mantra), take away another 5%.

Cliches abound. Like my title for this review tries to convey, you just start shaking your head after reading a certain amountt and wonder if Jolley can write a page without a cliche or "snappy" saying.

To be fair, I did take some good things away from the book. And if he happens to highlight an approach to a life turnaround for you, then it's worth every penny.

So it gets 3 stars. Some good advice for me, but almost to the point of putting the book down for the reasons above.

Willie's a Winner!.......2001-02-06

My good friend Willie Jolley is a winner and has written another winner! If this book doesn't motivate and inspire you to make some changes, you are dead and they haven't buried you yet.

BUY THIS BOOK TODAY! KEEP IT FOREVER!.......2000-10-05

The 170,000 members of Toastmasters International recently named Willie Jolley the top motivational/inspirational speaker for 1999 and one of the top 5 top speakers in the world! Now, without a doubt, I know WHY. This book is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. Anyone who has ever faced disappointments or been discouraged by setbacks will be inspired to "keep on keeping on," after they read "A Setback is a Setup for a Comeback." I bought this book in paperback, but I'm also going to buy it in hardcover so that I can pass it on to my kids.

Stop talkin about it, and be about and do what you gotta do!.......2000-08-15

If you are ever stuck in Life from a setback, this book is for you. What makes it special? It's packed full of quotes and thought-provoking stories that will stay in your mind long before you finish the book! My personal self-esteem has gone up, and the way he wrote the book makes you feel like he's talking to you and only you. You feel like you are having a conversation with him in person. My concentration span is very bad but this book was so funny and enlightening that I didn't want to put it down. I take it with me to read on the bus, between my breaks at work and before my classes. What I like best is that he makes you feel like you can do anything. It gives hope and encouragement to help you get over anything you've dealt with in the past or any changes you are dealing with now. This will be a winner with teens, and adults and it's principles can inspire even little kids. I'd recommend this one to anyone who wants to have the courage to change their lives for the better. How long does it take to see results? One minute. Everyone can spare one minute. Remember, when you do something positive for yourself, you are really INVESTING in yourself. This book will certainly be a huge investment to be read and enjoyed again and again.

Ten Stars if I could put them on here!.......2000-06-12

Willie Jolley blows my mind! What charisma and insight he shares in this and his other book! I found myself smiling, crying, feeling encouraged. Reading his writing is like having a long, friendly supportive letter, sprinkled with some excellent advice. I'm a HUGE Willie Jolley fan now, and I own both his books. They're terrific - and so clear and inspiring they will help anyone who reads them.

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Pioneer Press Syndicated Review of "Moments of Doubt"
A Librarian's Pick
An original voice, a wonderful story.
Holy Moses and the Prince
A Must Read! Bravo Walter Levis!!

Moments of Doubt
Walter B. Levis
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1591296277

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What was Eli Shaffner thinking? He had it all. An attractive, intelligent girlfriend, a wealthy family, the perks of privilege. He had the opportunity to build the kind of life most people can only dream about. But a few obstacles got in his way—lust, pride, a high-minded sense of professional purpose, and a profound aversion to living like the rich, guilt-ridden Jews he felt surrounded by. So Eli, a Chicago-area tennis pro with a thirst for philosophy, a commitment to Yoga, and a passion for an exotic beauty named Malaika, decides to throw it all away and build a life on his own terms, a task that will prove far more difficult, and dangerous, than he could ever have predicted. In the darkly comic tradition of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, Moments of Doubt is the emotionally charged account of how a man makes his way through passion, pain, and paradox toward the cathartic realization that sometimes, in the end, the very things you thought were destroying your life prove to be the only things that can make you happy.

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Pioneer Press Syndicated Review of "Moments of Doubt".......2004-12-01

From: The Pioneer Press, November 3, 2004 by columnist Deborah Dowley Preiser

There is that old saying, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." While I don't think that adage was ever intended to make a social commentary on the dating scene, I have to admit that I made some mistakes in my younger years always hoping against hope that my one true love would be around the corner, the one on the other side of the fence.

I think Eli Shaffner, the single tennis pro in Walter B. Levis' new novel, "Moments of Doubt," thinks the same way. He has an intelligent, Jewish, North Shore girlfriend, not nearly as athletic as he would like, but from the same kind of upper class background as Eli. But then he stumbles into the part-Chinese, oh-so-exotic Malaika in, of all places, a yoga class. It was "a complicated setting with such a mix of sexual and spiritual energy that it seemed to hang in the air like a scent."

A simple coffee with Malaika after class makes him late for a date with Heidi--and the drama begins. For the next few months, Eli and Malaika spend every free minute together and the world is a happy place.

"I succeeded in pushing Heidi completely out of my mind by telling myself that I couldn't have anything to do with her because she didn't respect me. She didn't respect my tennis, or my yoga, or my whole view of life...her intellectual-historical-analytical-moral "Jewish way" of looking at the world failed to respect what I knew about life. And I knew plenty--or so I thought. Until Malaika got pregnant."

All of a sudden the sexy tennis stud needs real money to support what is about to become his real kid. And in looking to earn substantial money he makes a deal with the devil--or the next closest thing--a rich, alcoholic woman with a mobster for a husband.

Written in the darkly comic tradition of Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, "Moments of Doubt" is an emotionally charged account of one man's journey and realization that sometimes, in the end, the very things you thought were destroying your life prove to be the only things that can make you happy. Chicago Magazine wrote, "From the East Bank Club to the beaches of Evanston and up the North Shore, Levis' comic tale spans the emotional crises of a self-absorbed tennis instructor."

Walter Levis holds a master degree from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism and a master of fine arts in creative writing from Columbia University. His nonfiction has appeared in a variety of U.S. magazines and newspapers. His fiction has appeared in The Bridge, REAL, The McGuffin, North Dakota Quarterly and The Distillery. He teaches writing and works as Dean of Students at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in Manhatten.

A Librarian's Pick.......2003-06-20

As a librarian I am responsible for more than 2 million books on topics from Antiquity to cubic Zirconium. Moments of Doubt is a rare find -- a novel that is important without being self-important (roll over DeLillo), and is also fun to read (and tell Pynchon the news). Levis has provided us with a story that may well come to be regarded as the first great contribution to a Canon for our times: a book worth reading that you actually can understand and enjoy. A strong buy recommendation.

An original voice, a wonderful story........2003-05-21

Walter Levis's novel is a smashing success, both witty and thoughtful. He manages with great sensitivity to examine the passions, contradictions, impertinences and foolishness of young manhood. In Eli Shaffner, Levis has created a character that earnestly--and often hilariously--attempts to create himself in his own eccentric image of the ideal man. Levis depicts Eli's slow, resistant surrender to the inevitability of first truths, and his genuine commitment to adulthood, with rare insight and genuine authenticity.

While this novel occurs in the milieu of the affluent Jewish North Shore, its themes and circumstances are truly universal. An Irish-American kid from Canaryville or an African-American kid from Austin faces, in his own way, the same issues.

A breathtakingly good first novel. I can't wait for Levis to produce his next one.

Holy Moses and the Prince.......2003-05-20

So this writing instructor tells his class that the four all-time best gimmicks in the history of fiction are sex, mystery, religion, and royalty. The next day, his star pupil gives him this story: "Holy Moses," said the Princess. "Pregnant again! I wonder who did it."

Walter B. Levis does it better. In his first novel, Moments of Doubt, he puts his own wonderfully funny personal spin on the Fab Four. There is plenty of sex, and even a pregnancy, though nowadays of course the question is not who done it, but what they are going to do about it. As for royalty, the protagonist's nickname for himself is "Prince"-- he says it on impulse, looking at the label on his tennis shirt, but everything about the book suggests that Levis wants to make the adjective "Jappy" into a label that guys can wear too.

And religion. First, there is a lot of casual, promiscuous religion-- religious one-night-stands, as it were, with yoga, with philosophy, with therapy, with a certain earnestness about tennis or honesty in personal conversation. But really, the book is about what it means to be a Jew in America today. "I flirted once with a life of real meaning," says the hero's father, "but I traded it in long ago for a life of real comfort." Some of the protagonist's self-destructive behavior--only some, mind you, he's a horny clueless bumbler like anybody else-- can be read as his attempt to avoid that life of real comfort, to find worthy continuity with the long and long-suffering traditions of his ancestors. After he messes up his life pretty completely, a voice from the grave tells him to talk to a rabbi, and it is no small triumph of Levis's art to have created in Rabbi Chernowitz ("Call me Danny") a comic counselor equal to the task.

To comment on where the Prince has arrived at the end of the fable would be like giving away the ending in an Agatha Christie mystery. Suffice it to say that his journey there matters. Levis has written a very funny, a very insightful, a very wise book, tackling some very large themes with grace and tact. It is a book to savor.

A Must Read! Bravo Walter Levis!!.......2003-05-16

Oh to be young again! Or at least to view the fictionalized world of Eli Shaffner through Walter Levis's eyes. I felt myself longing again for the freedom of lost youth and for love that might have been ... had I not chosen the "safe" path subtly chosen by my strict Irish-American parents. Mr. Levis's first novel portrays his lead character's life in a way that will appeal to the "rebel" lost in all of us. Decisions made in the moment that last a lifetime ... and decisions made over time, after anguished thought, that amount to nothing in the grand scheme ... such is the vivid world painted in words by Walter Levis. I shyly admit that I did have to take a cold shower or two prior to completing the book and I still hold a dear place in my heart for Levis's fictionalized free spirit, "Malaika". To that end, I have enrolled in a local yoga class to experience the calm, inner peace, introspection, and inspiration the author has obviously drawn upon for this book. Walter Levis is a consummate storyteller.

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Moments of Doubt

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Moments of Doubt
Lennart Bruce
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Moments of Doubt & Other Mountaineering Writings of David Roberts

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Moments of Doubt & Other Mountaineering Writings of David Roberts
David Roberts
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Moments of Doubt. Drawings by Steve Houg.

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LENNART. BRUCE
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