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Author : Ed Ward
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rock of Ages written by Ed Ward and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to track rock and roll -- as music, as culture, as headline maker, as business -- from its hazy origins to the present day.
Author : Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307801411
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Rocks of Ages written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People of good will wish to see science and religion at peace. . . . I do not see how science and religion could be unified, or even synthesized, under any common scheme of explanation or analysis; but I also do not understand why the two enterprises should experience any conflict." So states internationally renowned evolutionist and bestselling author Stephen Jay Gould in the simple yet profound thesis of his brilliant new book. Writing with bracing intelligence and elegant clarity, Gould sheds new light on a dilemma that has plagued thinking people since the Renaissance. Instead of choosing between science and religion, Gould asks, why not opt for a golden mean that accords dignity and distinction to each realm? At the heart of Gould's penetrating argument is a lucid, contemporary principle he calls NOMA (for nonoverlapping magisteria)--a "blessedly simple and entirely conventional resolution" that allows science and religion to coexist peacefully in a position of respectful noninterference. Science defines the natural world; religion, our moral world, in recognition of their separate spheres of influence. In elaborating and exploring this thought-provoking concept, Gould delves into the history of science, sketching affecting portraits of scientists and moral leaders wrestling with matters of faith and reason. Stories of seminal figures such as Galileo, Darwin, and Thomas Henry Huxley make vivid his argument that individuals and cultures must cultivate both a life of the spirit and a life of rational inquiry in order to experience the fullness of being human. In his bestselling books Wonderful Life, The Mismeasure of Man, and Questioning the Millennium, Gould has written on the abundance of marvels in human history and the natural world. In Rocks of Ages, Gould's passionate humanism, ethical discernment, and erudition are fused to create a dazzling gem of contemporary cultural philosophy. As the world's preeminent Darwinian theorist writes, "I believe, with all my heart, in a respectful, even loving concordat between . . . science and religion."
Author : Timothy Hallinan
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641292199
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Rock of Ages written by Timothy Hallinan and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junior Bender, Los Angeles burglar and off-the-books detective to the felonious, is reminded that rock and roll will never die (no matter how fervently he wishes some of it would) when Hollywood's most dangerous geriatric mobster, Irwin Dressler, retains Junior's investigative services to solve a rather unharmonious problem. Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and—perhaps unsurprisingly—drugs and bad behavior have created health, wellness, and legal problems for the musicians and managers. Plus there have been two near-fatal accidents that might have been attempted murders. But they're not what Irwin Dressler is concerned about. It's that someone—one of his own colleagues—is using the tour as a front to steal Dressler's money. And that simply cannot be allowed. Now the tour has pulled into LA, and Junior has one weekend to figure out who's to blame—a weekend that begins with his tires being slashed, threatening notes left on his car, and a theatrical backdrop falling on a drummer during the truly terrible first set of the first concert. To make things worse, Junior is saddled for the weekend with his teenage daughter, Rina, who lately has been much, much too interested in how her father earns his living. Can Junior recover Dressler's money, prevent a murder, talk his daughter out of pursuing a life of crime, and somehow survive all that bad music?
Author : Barbara Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226644790
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Rock of Ages, Sands of Time written by Barbara Page and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two tiny trilobites in a vast Cambrian ocean drift past sea cucumber parasols and a shaggy, tree-like sponge. Snail tracks loop enigmatically against brushed-gray Silurian slate, and ghostly white crinoids feather a Devonian seascape. A delicate pterosaur flies bravely into the Jurassic gloom, while a Tyrannosaurus rex so big that its teeth fill our field of vision stalks the deep orange sands that mark the end of the Cretaceous period. These are just a few scenes from the magnificent drama that unfolds in glorious full color and three-dimensional texture in Rock of Ages, Sands of Time. Each of Barbara Page's 544 contiguous painted panels represents a million years of the history of life on earth, with fossil plants and animals depicted at the same scale and in association with each other just as they might be found by a paleontologist in the field. A muted rainbow of background colors evoke the rocks in which the fossils were found—the Texas Red Beds, for instance, or the yellow Solnhofen limestone—and keystone events are shown metaphorically, with fat rolls of paint marking major extinctions or continental drift. To fully experience the awesome impact of an eon's worth of time spread across 500 feet of bas-relief panels, you'd have to visit the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, New York, where Page's specially commissioned work will be installed when the museum opens in 2002. But this book is the next best thing. Not only does it contain crisp color reproductions of each painting, but it also includes an accessible essay from paleontologist Warren Allmon giving the scientific context behind the art. For fossil lovers of all ages, and anyone interested in the merging of art and science, Rock of Ages, Sands of Time will be the find of a lifetime.
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Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9780739091609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Rock of Ages written by and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For music makers who love 80s rock and musical theatre, this officially licensed songbook for New Line Cinema's screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages guarantees unlimited hours of fun. This collectible folio is loaded with color photos from the film, and features sheet music for 17 rockin' tunes, including transcriptions of the medleys and mashups as performed on the original soundtrack by an all-star cast that includes Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Russell Brand, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and more. The piano/vocal arrangements in this songbook include complete lyrics and basic chord fingering grids for guitarists. Titles: Paradise City * Sister Christian / Just Like Paradise / Nothin' But a Good Time * Juke Box Hero / I Love Rock 'n' Roll * Hit Me with Your Best Shot * Waiting for a Girl Like You * More than Words / Heaven * Wanted Dead or Alive * I Want to Know What Love Is * Pour Some Sugar on Me * Harden My Heart * Shadows of the Night * Here I Go Again * Can't Fight This Feeling * Any Way You Want It * Undercover Love * We Built This City / We're Not Gonna Take It * Don't Stop Believin'.
Author : Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton
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Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rock Book written by Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David N. Townsend
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522700326
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Rock 'n' Roll and War and Peace written by David N. Townsend and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock 'n' Roll and War and Peace chronicles and examines the relationship between popular music in the Rock era and the politics and ideology of war and peace throughout the past half-century. This is a topic that, while it's been touched on in a variety of ways, has never been deeply explored in a single coherent work, especially one that links the various eras and movements, from the 1960s through the 2000s. The book offers portraits of dozens of artists and insights into the meaning and impact of hundreds of songs across more than five decades. The focus of the first section, "Ending War," is the Vietnam War and the 1960s Woodstock Generation: the first time in history that popular music turned against an active American war effort. The author reviews all of the highlights of this period of vintage protest music, from Folk pioneers Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, through Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, to John Lennon and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. The dominance of these revolutionary artists, and of similar anti-war messages from a wide variety of musicians, represented a cultural and political shift of seismic proportions that would carry across generations. The second section, "Living in Peace," then chronicles the musical and social transformation that followed the end of Vietnam hostilities starting in the mid-1970s: the rise of Folk Rock and mellow singer-songwriters, and a new introspective, detached and melancholy ethos within the growing Rock/Pop culture. The likes of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor carried forward the idealism of the '60s pacifist movements, but focused away from global geopolitics and inward on the dreams and insecurities of adulthood. A strain of peaceful Soft Rock came to dominate the post-War airwaves, which the chapter relives with insights into dozens of performers and songs of the period. Part 3 is then called "Returning to Battle," and highlights the renewed focus on anti-militarism of the next generations of Rock musicians and fans. If the Woodstock movement could help end an ill-conceived war, how would those '60s veterans' children respond when the next waves of war drums began to sound? The answers are found in a wealth of musical reactions to global events from the 1980s to the recent past: nuclear saber-rattling under Reagan and Thatcher; the unraveling of the Cold War and the Soviet empire; the first Gulf War; the 9/11 attacks; and the massive protests against the Iraq War. This latest period in particular has received relatively little attention compared with Vietnam era protest music, yet it yielded its own large body of diverse contributions: from major established stars (Springsteen, U2), highly popular newcomers (Green Day, Black-Eyed Peas), and senior veterans of the original movement (Neil Young). The story of these musical and ideological linkages, from the earliest roots of 1960s anti-war protests through the peaks of their revival in the 2000s, is one that will be of interest to a large audience of music fans, history buffs, and social activists alike.
Author : Pat O'Day
Publisher : Publish/America Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780970626493
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (264 download)
Download or read book It Was All Just Rock 'n' Roll written by Pat O'Day and published by Publish/America Corporation. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether broadcasting over the airwaves, or hosting a teenage dance, or presenting a concert, music has been at the center of Pat O'Day's world since the dawn of rock 'n' roll. This memoir offers a colorful trip through the formative years of top-40 radio. You'll read about the development of rock music in the Northwest and about the inner workings of the radio business--and the story ranges well beyond the Pacific Northwest to include never-before-heard stories about Jimi Hendrix, the Beach Boys, Three Dog Night, Jerry Lee Lewis, BTO, Tony Orlando, Paul McCartney, Elvis and many others.--From publisher description.
Author : Tonya Bolden
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606289795
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Rock of Ages written by Tonya Bolden and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving tribute to the America's Black Churches illustrated by a two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Award Winner--now in paperback! In her moving homage to the Black Church, Tonya Bolden has written a poem spanning centuries of oppression, freedom, prejudice, and joy. From times when slaves worshipped secretly in fields at night to the grand and prosperous city churches of today, the Church has been there to help its community, inspire its congregants, and teach us what is possible when people join together.
Author : Jay R. Howard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813127163
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (271 download)
Download or read book Apostles of Rock written by Jay R. Howard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1999 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apostles of Rock is the first objective, comprehensive examination of the contemporary Christian music phenomenon. Some see CCM performers as ministers or musical missionaries, while others define them as entertainers or artists. This popular musical movement clearly evokes a variety of responses concerning the relationship between Christ and culture. The resulting tensions have splintered the genre and given rise to misunderstanding, conflict, and an obsessive focus on self-examination. As Christian stars Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream.
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
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Author : United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers
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Total Pages : 1530 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1232 pages
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Author : Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota
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Total Pages : 1042 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report - Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota written by Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 550 pages
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Total Pages : 84 pages
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