The Art of Breathing: 6 Simple Lessons to Improve Performance, Health, and Well-Being
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  • Practice, practice and more practice
  • Applying these exercises really makes a difference!
  • one of the top 10 books on breathing exercises.
The Art of Breathing: 6 Simple Lessons to Improve Performance, Health, and Well-Being
Nancy Zi
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ASIN: 1583940340
Release Date: 2000-08-28

Book Description

According to the ancient Chinese discipline of chi kung (pronounced chee gung), the body's energy is released by the air breathed into it. Zi, a classically trained American singer raised in China, has adapted that idea in an intriguing method she calls chi zi. (Chi means breath, breathing or air.) Her premise is that controlled breathing can create new sources of life-enhancing energy. In six concise, uncomplicated lessons she shows how to tap into that energy through a range of exercises (accompanied by line drawings), imagery and situational applications. Her techniques for using the body's inner dynamics (the Chinese "core") will be especially valuable in relieving stress, building stamina and engaging in sports.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Practice, practice and more practice.......2000-05-17

I got this quite a while ago and was very excited about doing the tape. But while I was excited initially and actually felt good I stopped doing them because I got busy with a project at work and never really went back to it. I was cleaning out my tape library and came across the tape. I started doing the exercises and realized just how good they were and just how out of shape I was. Some of the exercises are not easy but she does a wonderful job of explaining how to do them and what you can do as alternatives as you develop your technique. She seems the ever patient teacher as she calmly moves you along to better breathing.

5 out of 5 stars Applying these exercises really makes a difference!.......1999-09-15

As a vocalist, using these exercises has helped me immensely already (after only just finishing the 6th lesson!) This is my second time around with them, (did six years ago to help develop diaphram). I'm going to practice regularly so as not to get "rusty" again. Wish I could get in hardcover. . .

5 out of 5 stars one of the top 10 books on breathing exercises........1998-06-06

Nancy is a singing teacher. They MUST know how to improve the breathing though some are better at it then others. I believe Nancy is one of the best. She gave me good insights and accelerated my understanding of the strengthening of the voice for singing and speaking. I would have preferred more information aboout breathing's relationship to health and longevity but this book is a must for the serious student of the breath (or life).
Breathing Lessons: A Novel
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  • Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  • Pulitzer? Really?
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Breathing Lessons: A Novel
Anne Tyler
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ASIN: 0345485599
Release Date: 2006-09-26

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Maggie Moran's mission is to connect and unite people, whether they want to be united or not. Maggie is a meddler and as she and her husband, Ira, drive 90 miles to the funeral of an old friend, Ira contemplates his wasted life and the traffic, while Maggie hatches a plant to reunite her son Jesse with his long-estranged wife and baby. As Ira explains, "She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her view of them." Though everyone criticizes her for being "ordinary," Maggie's ability to see the beauty and potential in others ultimately proves that she is the only one fighting the resignation they all fear. The book captured the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1989.

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Maggie and Ira Moran have been married for twenty-eight years–and it shows: in their quarrels, in their routines, in their ability to tolerate with affection each other’s eccentricities. Maggie, a kooky, lovable meddler and an irrepressible optimist, wants nothing more than to fix her son’s broken marriage. Ira is infuriatingly practical, a man “who should have married Ann Landers.” And what begins as a day trip to a funeral becomes an adventure in the unexpected. As Maggie and Ira navigate the riotous twists and turns, they intersect with an assorted cast of eccentrics–and rediscover the magic of the road called life and the joy of having somebody next to you to share the ride . . . bumps and all.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler.......2007-10-01

Anne Tyler's Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently wraps you into its character's world and allows you to feel their lives being lived. It's a giant of a book in a very small world, a world inhabited by Maggie and her husband, Ira, and, it seems, by precious little else. They are long married, happy, perhaps without really knowing it, and replete with generally unacknowledged failure.

Breathing Lessons starts with Maggie picking up the family car after its repair job and spruce up. She immediately runs into a truck and doesn't stop. She and Ira then head off on a long drive to a funeral of a long lost friend. Memories revisit high school and adolescence as the widow attempts to recreate her wedding service to bid farewell to her husband. The songs her friends originally sang turn out to be highly inappropriate, depending on your point of view, and some don't want to try to recreate their youth and so become dignified spoil sports. Some old scores are re-tallied, none settled, of course.

Then Ira and Maggie set off home and decide to call in on their son's estranged wife and their granddaughter, a girl of seven, it turns out, they haven't seen since she was an infant. On the way there is a strange encounter with a fellow traveller. Maggie invents a story, for some reason, which he believes. She pursues the scam, is as duplicitous as hell and carries the whole thing off as if it had been gospel from the start. A strange episode.

Maggie is surprised that she does not recognise her granddaughter. Perhaps Anne Tyler is suggesting that the only really important things for Maggie are those she keeps within the confines of her head. Fiona, the estranged daughter-in-law, seems surprisingly accommodating, even more so when details emerge of how poorly treated she has been by Maggie and her son, Jesse. Maggie and Ira clearly weren't too good at being parents, or grandparents, either.

Maggie convinces herself that she can get the separated couple back together and cajoles her daughter-in-law and granddaughter to motor back to Baltimore with them She phones her son and arranges for him to call round later that day, after the travellers have reached the family home. It seems that everyone except Maggie is both indifferent and sceptical, but, for some reason, everyone goes along with her suggestions. And, of course, it all goes nowhere. None of these folk, by the way, could be described as intellectual. Not one of them ever seems to have read a book or, indeed, ever suffered the trauma of a moment of self-reflection since birth. All anyone ever does is react, and then usually wrongly.

Maggie is the book's central and essential character. Ira, her husband, for the most part busies himself driving, playing solitaire or teaching Frisbee. But basically he seems to hover around the edge of Maggie's universe, occasionally putting his foot in it by pointing out the odd reality here and there, realities that Maggie expends massive resources trying to ignore or deny. She makes mistakes. She crashes the car every time she drives (two out of two in the book). She constantly imagines herself as God's gift, a sort of Mrs Fix-It for everyone else's problems. But she is singularly unable to organise her own existence. She is overweight and yet over-eats. She is full of self-justification, almost invariably based on obviously false premises. And she seems to have developed absolutely no powers of self-analysis or reflection, even when reality occasionally forces its way into her existence to contradict her assumptions and undermine her intentions.

I have to admit that I tried to start the book at least three times without success. For me, Maggie's character was just not quite credible and, if it were credible, I could find no reason why I would want to read about such a person. I persevered this time, however, and the result was a rewarding insight into an uncultured and eventually valueless approach to life that, I suspect, Anne Tyler suspects may be widespread, though I feel that she would not be as judgmental about it as myself.

In the end, all of the characters in Breathing Lessons are failures, who consistently render their own lives a chaotic mess, both inside and outside their heads. They are surrounded by their own mistakes and missed opportunities. These are people who really work at their incompetence and succeed brilliantly. I can't help feeling that at least one of them, in the normal run of things, would display an intellect superior to a demented parrot and a facility for self-reflection greater than a sooty fireback. But no one ever does. Perhaps that's the point.


2 out of 5 stars Pulitzer? Really?.......2007-10-01

I had only read one of Anne Tyler's books, A Patchwork Planet, and I happened to mention to a friend that I didn't see what the big deal about her was. She told me I'd read one of her minor works, and that I should give this "wonderful author" another try. So I picked Breathing Lessons, figuring I couldn't go wrong with a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.

Well, I still don't get what the big deal about Anne Tyler is, and I'm baffled as to why this novel received the Pulitzer. It's dull and not particularly well-written--an average novel about some very average people.

5 out of 5 stars Marriage is not a Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie.......2007-08-13

Maggie and Ira Moran used to have a daughter-in-law, Fiona. Maggie believes she hears Fiona say on a radio show that she is going to marry for security, this time.

People view Maggie as a klutz. She is a certified geriatric assistant. She and Ira attend the memorial service of Max, the husband of Serena. Friends are shocked when Serena arranges to have a reprise of the couple's wedding, with friends singing the same songs.

Ira worries because Maggie refuses to take her own life seriously. He believes that she is always inviting other people into their lives. The term breathing lessons refers to the exercises undertaken by Fiona to assist in the birth of her child, Leroy.

Maggie learns that the voice she heard on the radio speaking of remarriage is not that of Fiona. What's past is never past, entirely. Jesse, Maggie's son, and Fiona missed connections in former days, and Maggie's interventions muddied their affairs. In the last eighth of the book the author provides the reader with the back story.

Anne Tyler highlights the eccentricities of her characters as she spins a realistic tale. Artistry is evident in the fact that she is able to make the reader care about the fictitious outcomes.

1 out of 5 stars Pulitzer Prize Winner......really??.......2007-06-20

I was irritated by certain aspects of this book, namely, the character of Maggie. She is a self absorbed, interfering, scheming, immature person. Ira was almost unaware of himself and really didn't lend much to anything in the story. Everytime Maggie did something that didn't work out the way she perceived it, it was almost telegraphed; you could see it coming a mile away. It just seemed to plod along. I was expecting these profound discoveries about themselves as a person and hoped that it would evoke a little change in themselves. The characters ended up exactly the same as they had always been. I am a little dumbfounded that this was a Pulitzer Prize winner.

3 out of 5 stars Breathing space by.......2007-05-09

This was someones book club choice, we struggled with it but it created a lively and suprisingly heated response.
Breathing Lessons
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    Breathing Lessons

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    Zen in Motion: Lessons from a Master Archer on Breath, Posture, and the Path of Intuition
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    Zen in Motion: Lessons from a Master Archer on Breath, Posture, and the Path of Intuition
    Neil Claremon
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    ASIN: 089281361X
    Release Date: 1992-07-01

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    Both a fascinating glimpse of the interaction between spiritual master and disciple and a lucid analysis of the Zen path of awareness, this book describes techniques for breathing, standing, walking, concentrating, moving the mind, overcoming ego, healing the body, and finally, opening a “window of opportunity” between stillness and motion that allows the expansion of time and consciousness.

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    5 out of 5 stars Beautifully written.......2007-02-26

    and nearly as charming as that other fine book, Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

    The author went to a retreat in the american southwest, and if anyone can find the contact information of the teacher (if he's still around) let me know.

    I bought this book over two years ago and only now am slightly "getting" some of it. It bears repeated rereading - but without a qualified instructor in moving meditative practices your progress will be greatly slowed.
    4 Titles By Annne Tyler : Breathing Lessons The Accidental Tourist Saint Maybe Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant
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      4 Titles By Annne Tyler : Breathing Lessons The Accidental Tourist Saint Maybe Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant
      Anne Tyler
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      4 Titles By Annne Tyler : Breathing Lessons The Accidental Tourist Saint Maybe Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant. Four mass market paperbacks.
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        Anne Tyler
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        5 massmarket paperback Titles By Tyler - Ladder of Years - Breathing Lessons - Accidental Tourist - Back When We Were Grownups - Dinner At the Homesick Restaurant
        The Art of Breathing: A Course of Six Simple Lessons to Improve Performance and Well Being
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          The Art of Breathing: A Course of Six Simple Lessons to Improve Performance and Well Being
          Nancy Zi
          Manufacturer: ViVi Company
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          Binding: Hardcover
          ASIN: B000UTI9FE
          Art of Breathing: A Course of Six Simple Lessons to Improve Performance, Book, Video
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • Good book, great video
          Art of Breathing: A Course of Six Simple Lessons to Improve Performance, Book, Video
          Nancy Zi
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          4 out of 5 stars Good book, great video.......2000-02-29

          I bought the book first which led me to buy the video. I enjoyed the book but found myself not doing the exercises regularly, or understanding them fully, until I got the video. If I'd had the patience, the book would probably have been sufficient. The video is extremely well organized and direct. Nancy Zi is a charismatic teacher. The video production, including new-age type music, is excellent. It's a pleasure to put on this video and be guided through tension-reducing/ energy-creating exercises - especially at the end of the work day. I get recharged and can restart my day, so to speak. The book is an excellent reference for the video, since the book goes into much more detail. Also, the book offers approximately 15 additional routines for specific applications. That said, the video, in my opinion, is still worth buying by itself.
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            The Breath of Youth: A Course of 12 Lessons
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              The Breath of Youth: A Course of 12 Lessons
              Brown Landone
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              A course of 12 lessons. Contents: Adult breathing "Ages" the body; lungs can not breathe; Why air will flow in and out of your lungs, with no effort on your part; Why "Portional" breathing?; Private hallway and 120,440,309 secret closets in your longs; Train for "Subconscious" control with no more worry on your part; Clarifying the air; Training muscle sets two and three; One basis of awakening brain centers by breathing; Subconscious breathing in three dimensions.

              The Edge of Justice
              Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
              • Thrilling Thriller
              • Completely Enjoyable Climbing Thriller
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              The Edge of Justice
              Clinton McKinzie
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              Release Date: 2003-04-01

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              Penzler Pick, April 2002: In his accomplished first novel, Clinton McKinzie introduces an interesting, complicated protagonist in Antonio Burns, a special agent whose family was originally from Argentina. His grandfather owned a ranch (which is still in the family), and his father taught Burns how to climb. And, oh yes, Burns has a brother serving a long jail sentence in the United States.

              Burns has earned the nickname Quickdraw for shooting down three drug dealers before they could shoot him, and the investigation of that incident still hangs over his head. As the book opens he is in Laramie, Wyoming, attending the trial and sentencing of the Knapp brothers, who are accused of raping, torturing, and killing a young girl. The verdict would seem to be a foregone conclusion, as is the death penalty. Two years after the killers of Matthew Shepherd were spared the ultimate penalty, Laramie is anxious to show it can be tough on crime.

              When Burns is not at the courthouse, he is relaxing with his dog Oso at Vedauwoo, a difficult climbing region much loved by the local community. When a young woman falls to her death while climbing with a group, her death is ruled an accident because the young climbers were up on the rocks drinking and fooling around. But when Burns inspects the site of the accident and looks at the girl's injuries, he begins to suspect foul play.

              As he gets to know the core group of climbers led by the charismatic Billy Heller, who takes an immediate dislike to Burns, he is even more suspicious because of the hold Heller has over the young female climbers. Burns also begins to get involved with one of the attractive climbers, something he immediately regrets when he meets Rachel, a reporter from The Denver Post.

              Burns has a complicated personal life, but he is a good cop and it soon becomes clear to him that the climbing death of the young girl, which is soon followed by other deaths, is connected to something going on in the climbing community and this, in turn, casts doubt on the conviction and sentencing of the Knapp brothers.

              McKinzie weaves a fascinating and very readable story here. With climbing scenes that are authentically exciting and very plausible characters, this is an impressive first novel. --Otto Penzler

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              Combining high-altitude climbing action with sizzling courtroom drama and raw tension, The Edge of Justice is a thriller like no other. Set amid the towering beauty of Wyoming’s mountains and the gritty underbelly of crime, here is a gut-wrenching debut novel that features one of recent fiction’s most original and complex heroes: Special Agent Antonio Burns--climber, cop, brother, son, risk-taker.

              A climber by nature, a cop by trade, Antonio has come to Laramie to investigate a young woman’s deadly plunge. But as he digs deeper into the case, Antonio is certain he has found a murder…and a stunning connection to the trial of two men about to be executed for a crime they did not commit. With a beautiful reporter sharing his investigation, he must make a harrowing ascent: up a forbidding mountainside--to bring a killer down from the deadliest kind of high.

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              Combining high-altitude climbing action with sizzling courtroom drama and raw tension, The Edge of Justice is a thriller like no other. Set amid the towering beauty of Wyoming's mountains and the gritty underbelly of crime, here is a gut-wrenching debut novel that features one of recent fiction's most original and complex heroes: Special Agent Antonio Burns -- climber, cop, brother, son, risk-taker.

              A climber by nature, a cop by trade, Antonio has come to Laramie to investigate a young woman's deadly plunge. But as he digs deeper into the case, Antonio is certain he has found a murder... and a stunning connection to the trial of two men about to be executed for a crime they did not commit. With a beautiful reporter sharing his investigation, he must make a harrowing ascent: up a forbidding mountainside -- to bring a killer down from the deadliest kind of high.


              "McKinzie knows his wild Wyoming, and also how to keep things moving briskly. [The Edge of Justice] gets good marks for ringing a change or two on the chase thriller, and we're now promised a prequel, starring the same gutsy hero."
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              "An adrenaline-pumping, heart-pounding thrill ride with a terrifying climax that left me clenching for a handhold."
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              "One of the strongest debuts of the year."
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              Customer Reviews:

              4 out of 5 stars Thrilling Thriller.......2007-06-15

              The official first book of the Antonio Burns series has Anton, a Wyoming state narcotics agent, investigating a supposedly accidental death in Laramie. Laramie is quite the hopping place when Anton arrives in the middle of the "trial of the century," as two brothers are being tried for the brutal murder of a woman who was believed to be on the verge of turning them in for dealing drugs. The death Anton is investigating is supposed to be an open-and-shut accident case, as the girl fell off the rock face of Vedauwoo. He has been called in because of a possible conflict of interest, as the dead girl was climbing with the son of Nathan Karge, the prosecutor, who is certain to be the state's next governor. Unfortunately, her death doesn't look like much of an accident to Anton, as she fell on her face but has a suspicious contusion on the back of her head. Equally suspicious is the lackadaisical job the coroner did with the autopsy, destroying valuable evidence. Anton meets with resistance at every stage of his investigation, not only from the local cops, but all the way to the state attorney general's office. Since Nathan Karge has a lot to lose if his son is implicated in a murder, he's not very happy about Anton's investigation. Neither is the small climbing cult in Laramie, run by thuggish Billy Heller, a climber past his prime who surrounds himself with adoring younger climbers, some of them girls who endure his rough sexual practices in order to get their hands on the methamphetamine he sells.

              Most of the local police are hostile toward Anton and his investigation, and any of the climbers Anton talks to seem to wind up dead. That their deaths all bear similarities to the death Karge is pinning on the brothers convinces him that Heller, not the brothers, are guilty of that crime. But, since implicating the chief prosecutor's son in that crime will destroy his career, Karge pulls every string he can to hamper the investigation. In addition, Anton's wild brother Roberto has just escaped from prison, and the authorities believe Anton helped him out. Anton only has a few allies, his boss, a big black deputy, a lovely reporter, and his big dog Oso. Everyone else seems to want him suspended or dead.

              This book bore a lot of similarities to "Point of Law," its prequel which was published second, but changes a few details from the back story. I was a little disappointed we didn't get to see more of Roberto, Anton's wild brother, who in this book is not just a felon, he's doing time for manslaughter. However, his character rang true, as did the personalities of both Anton and Oso. It was no secret who the bad guys were, but there was a bit of suspense as to what actually happened the night the girl fell off the cliff, and I turned the pages quickly to find out what was going to happen next. This is an entertaining series of thrillers, and I look forward to more.

              5 out of 5 stars Completely Enjoyable Climbing Thriller.......2007-06-04

              I enjoyed every page-turning page of this rock and mountain-climbing thriller/mystery. For me, the writer compares well with favorites such as Dick Francis. McKinzie's love of climbing (and of his dog) shine through. Yes, the narrator is super-human (doesn't bother me, I don't want to read about ordinary people) and some plot turns may be inevitable or contrived, but even so, the genuine voice of Ant and the supporting good guys carries it for me.

              Yes, I do have a niggle, perhaps at the editors as much as anyone. (I hate nigglers, but I can't resist. Sorry.) The crescent moon does not rise in the east at sunset. And I suspect that stunted , high-altitude trees are not oxygen-starved.

              5 out of 5 stars Don't have to like the genre to love this book!.......2004-06-25

              Clinton McKinzie has made me a convert to thriller/crime/adventure stories. He truly has a gift for shaping character and plot, drawing you in to encounter people you care about in situations that are simultaneously extreme and realistic. I recommend his work to a variety of readers; it's a page-turner, a great escape into a world where McKinzie is the expert guide. The story may also encourage you to give climbing a try!

              3 out of 5 stars Difficult Read.......2004-05-11

              I'm sure I miss a lot of really great stories due to my inability to get past an author's poor grammar or punctuation skills. However, in this case, it's the first person, present tense style that turned me cold by page 2. I'd hope it was a short excursion into the moment, but thumbing through the book showed me that it persisted until the bitter end. If you don't mind this writing style, I'm sure it's worth a read.

              3 out of 5 stars a character driven regional mystery.......2004-03-10

              Superlatives such as "adrenaline-pumping, heart pounding thrill ride" or "high octane adrenaline-powered" are some of the descriptions of this book on the cover testimonials of this debut by author, Clinton McKinzie, a mountain climbing ex- Deputy DA. His story is about a mountain climbing (no surprise) Special Agent Antonio Burns.

              In the mountains of Laramie, Wyoming, a young woman is found at the base of a mountain presumably the result of a climbing accident. However, Antonio Burns, in his investigation, finds a bottle on a high cliff with her blood and hair on it. The possibility of murder must be entertained. Suspects include a local hooligan who is a climbing enthusiast, as well as, the son of the DA, Nathan Karge, who is running for Governor. It is a case Burns must tread very carefully on. At the same time, Karge is trying a case concerning the murder of another young woman-perhaps racially motivated. On trial for their lives are two brothers whose only crime may be their racist views. Again, with Karge in control, there may be more than meets the eye.

              Clinton McKinzie can write. Of that there is no doubt. However, I would tend to disagree with the above superlatives. There is no "heart pounding" action. In fact, this is a character driven regional mystery with the unique aspect being the passages describing rock climbing. It is a well-written formulaic novel that, in my mind, never really develops a steady pace. The pedestrian plot moves leisurely through the book until the obligatory final confrontation, which holds little surprise. A warning to cozy lovers-a dog gets hurt.
              On the Edge
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                On the Edge
                James Mills
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                Cutting the Edge: Current Perspectives in Radical/Critical Criminology and Criminal Justice
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                  This book introduces the reader to the critical issues, important trends, theories, and various subdisciplines in the current manifestation of radical and critical criminology and criminal justice, including postmodernism, left realism, feminism, and peacemaking. Since its articulation in the 1960s, radical and critical criminology has matured into a diverse body of work encompassing a variety of interesting perspectives. Contributors to this volume examine emerging issues in the theory (the importance of classics in radical theory, the market economy, the introduction of anarchist theory) and traditional concerns of criminology and criminal justice (white collar crime, police, prisons, community corrections, courts/sentencing), but from a critical perspective. This book showcases current scholarship in this often neglected area of theory and praxis with contributions by respected academics in the field of radical and critical criminology. These individuals represent a diversity of nationalities, races, ethnicities, religions, and genders. The reader will find their conclusions not only thought-provoking and stimulating, but highly accessible as well.
                  The Edge of Justice
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                    The Edge of Justice
                    Clinton McKinzie
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                    The Edge of Justice
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                    The Edge of Justice
                    Robert Luis Rabello
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                    5 out of 5 stars First book?.......2004-03-28

                    Robert Luis Rabello has really written a good one. This book will keep you turning pages from beginning to end. It's a bit tolkeinesque, with a bit of Piers Anthony, and a good helping of philosophy. The interplay of relationships and belief systems is very interesting. Rabello has a good imagination for both magic and technology too.
                    The book works on many levels. If you just want to read it as a good work of fantasy then you can. If you want to read it for the philosophical parable then you can do that too.
                    If this is an example of a _first_ book then I await further works with anticipation.
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                      Clinton McKinzie
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                      On the Edge of Disaster: Youth in the Juvenile Court System (Youth With Special Needs)
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                        Other Edge of Justice
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