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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 2: Applications of Rock Mechanics - Rock Engineering

The two-volume set Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is concerned with the application of the principles of mechanics to physical chemical and electro-magnetic processes in the upper-most layers of the earth and the design and construction of the rock structures associated with civil engineering and exploitation or extraction of natural resources in mining and petroleum engineering. Volume 2 Applications of Rock Mechanics – Rock Engineering discusses the applications of rock mechanics to engineering structures in/on rock rock excavation techniques and in-situ monitoring techniques giving some specific examples. The dynamic aspects associated with the science of earthquakes and their effect on rock structures and the characteristics of vibrations induced by machinery blasting and impacts as well as measuring techniques are described. Furthermore the degradation and maintenance processes in rock engineering are explained. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is intended to be a fundamental resource for younger generations and newcomers and a reference book for experts specialized in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering and associated with the fields of mining civil and petroleum engineering engineering geology and/or specialized in Geophysics and concerned with earthquake science and engineering. | Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 2: Applications of Rock Mechanics - Rock Engineering

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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 1: Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics

The two-volume set Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is concerned with the application of the principles of mechanics to physical chemical and electro-magnetic processes in the upper-most layers of the earth and the design and construction of the rock structures associated with civil engineering and exploitation or extraction of natural resources in mining and petroleum engineering. Volume 1 Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics discusses rock-constituting elements discontinuities and their behavior under various physical and chemical actions in nature. The governing equations together with constitutive laws and experimental techniques and the solution techniques are explained and some examples of applications are given. A number of chapters are devoted to possible new directions in rock mechanics. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is intended to be a fundamental resource for younger generations and newcomers and a reference book for experts specialized in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering and associated with the fields of mining civil and petroleum engineering engineering geology and/or specialized in Geophysics and concerned with earthquake science and engineering. | Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 1: Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics

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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering is concerned with the application of the principles of mechanics to physical chemical and electro-magnetic processes in the upper-most layers of the earth and the design and construction of the rock structures associated with civil engineering and exploitation or extraction of natural resources in mining and petroleum engineering. Rock mechanics requires profound knowledge of rock-constituting elements discontinuities and their behavior under various physical and chemical actions in nature. The governing equations together with constitutive laws and experimental techniques and the solution techniques are explained and some examples of applications are given. The applications of rock mechanics to engineering structures in/on rock rock excavation techniques and in-situ monitoring techniques are explained and some specific examples are given. The dynamic aspects associated with the science of earthquakes and their effect on rock structures and the characteristics of vibrations induced by machinery blasting and impacts as well as measuring techniques are described. Furthermore the degradation and maintenance processes in rock engineering are explained. Some chapters are devoted to possible new directions in rock mechanics. This two-volume set is intended to be a fundamental resource for younger generations and newcomers and a reference work for experts specialized in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering and associated with the fields of mining civil and petroleum engineering engineering geology and/or specialized in Geophysics and concerned with earthquake science and engineering.

GBP 74.99

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Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

This thoroughly revised third edition of Allan F. Moore's ground-breaking book now co-authored with Remy Martin incorporates new material on rock music theory style change and the hermeneutic method developed in Moore’s Song Means (2012). An even larger array of musicians is discussed bringing the book right into the 21st century. Rock's 'primary text' – its sounds – is the focus of attention here. The authors argue for the development of a musicology particular to rock within the context of the background to the genres the beat and rhythm and blues styles of the early 1960s 'progressive' rock punk rock metal and subsequent styles. They also explore the fundamental issue of rock as a medium for self-expression and the relationship of this to changing musical styles. Rock: The Primary Text remains innovative in its exploration of an aesthetics of rock. | Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

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Rock Fall Engineering

Rock falls can be a public safety issue. This book provides comprehensive information on identification of these hazards and design and construction of protection methods. Rock Fall Engineering describes first the theoretical background to rock fall behavior in terms of the impact and trajectory phases of rock falls and second how this information is applied to modeling of rock falls and the design of ditches fences and sheds. The theory of rock fall behavior is verified by comparing the calculations with five carefully documented case studies. The book covers four main topics as follows: Describes causes of rock falls including geology climate and topography and provides detailed documentation on rock fall impacts and trajectories at five sites with a wide variety of topographic and geologic features Discusses theory of impact mechanics and its application to velocity and energy changes during impacts and trajectories Reviews methods of modeling rock fall events and presents analyses for the five case studies Examines rock fall protection in terms of selecting appropriate method(s) for site conditions and design principles in which the objective is to absorb impact energy in an efficient manner This book which contains many worked examples is of interest to practitioners and researchers working in the fields of geological engineering and natural hazards. Duncan C. Wyllie is a principal with Wyllie & Norrish Rock Engineers in Vancouver Canada and a registered professional engineer in British Columbia. He has worked on rock fall hazard projects involving the design and construction protection measures since the 1970s. He is the author of Foundations on Rock Second Edition and Rock Slope Engineering Fourth Edition both published by CRC Press.

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Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications

The study of rock dynamics is important because many rock mechanics and rock engineering problems involve dynamic loading ranging from earthquakes to vibrations and explosions. The subject deals with the distribution and propagation of loads dynamic responses and processes of rocks and rate-dependent properties coupled with the physical environment. Rock dynamics has a wide range of applications in civil mining geological and environmental engineering. However due to the additional 4th dimension of time rock dynamics remains in the discipline of rock mechanics a relatively more challenging topic to understand and to apply where documented research and knowledge are limited. Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications provides a summary of the current knowledge of rock dynamics with 18 chapters contributed by individual authors from both academia and engineering fields. The topics of this book are wide-ranging and representative covering fundamental theories of fracture dynamics and wave propagation rock dynamic properties and testing methods numerical modelling of rock dynamic failure engineering applications in earthquakes explosion loading and tunnel response as well as dynamic rock support.

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Practical Rock Mechanics

An Ideal Source for Geologists and Others with Little Background in Engineering or Mechanics Practical Rock Mechanics provides an introduction for graduate students as well as a reference guide for practicing engineering geologists and geotechnical engineers. The book considers fundamental geological processes that give rise to the nature of rock masses and control their mechanical behavior. Stresses in the earth‘s crust are discussed and methods of measurement and prediction explained. Ways to investigate describe test and characterize rocks in the laboratory and at project scale are reviewed. The application of rock mechanics principles to the design of engineering structures including tunnels foundations and slopes is addressed. The book is illustrated throughout with simple figures and photographs and important concepts are illustrated by modern case examples. Mathematical equations are kept to the minimum necessary and are explained fully the book leans towards practice rather than theory. This text: Addresses the principles of rock mechanics as it applies to both structural geology and engineering practice Demonstrates the importance of and methods of geological characterisation to rock engineering Examines the standard methods of rock mechanics testing and measurement as well as interpretation of data in practice Explains connections between main parameters both empirically as well as on the basis of scientific theory Provides examples of the practice of rock mechanics to major engineering projects Practical Rock Mechanics teaches from first principles and aids readers understanding of the concepts of stress and stress transformation and the practical application of rock mechanics theory. This text can help ensure that ground models and designs are correct

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Rock Mechanics An Introduction

Rock mechanics is a multidisciplinary subject combining geology geophysics and engineering and applying the principles of mechanics to study the engineering behavior of the rock mass. With wide application a solid grasp of this topic is invaluable to anyone studying or working in civil mining petroleum and geological engineering. Rock Mechanics: An Introduction presents the fundamental principles of rock mechanics in a clear easy-to-comprehend manner for readers with little or no background in this field. The text includes a brief introduction to geology and covers stereographic projections laboratory testing strength and deformation of rock masses slope stability foundations and more. The authors—academics who have written several books in geotechnical engineering—have used their extensive teaching experience to create this accessible textbook. They present complex material in a lucid and simple way with numerical examples to illustrate the concepts providing an introductory book that can be used as a textbook in civil and geological engineering programs and as a general reference book for professional engineers. | Rock Mechanics An Introduction

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British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating the traditional forms of Victorian music hall. Faulk focuses on the mid to late 1960s when British rock bands who had already achieved commercial prominence began to aspire to aesthetic distinction. The book discusses recordings such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society and the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols and television films such as the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and the Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus that defined rock's early high art moment. Faulk argues that these 'texts' disclose the primary strategies by which British rock groups mostly comprised of young working and lower middle-class men made their bid for aesthetic merit by sampling music hall sounds. The result was a symbolically charged form whose main purpose was to unsettle the hierarchy that set traditional popular culture above the new medium. Rock groups engaged with the music of the past in order both to demonstrate the comparative vitality of the new form and signify rock's new art status compared to earlier British pop music. The book historicizes punk rock as a later development of earlier British rock rather than a rupture. Unlike earlier groups the Sex Pistols did not appropriate music hall form in an ironic way but the band and their manager Malcolm McLaren were obsessed with the meaning of the past for the present in a distinctly modernist fashion. | British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

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Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

This second edition of the successful Foundations on Rock presents an up-to-date practical reference book describing current engineering practice in the investigation design and construction of foundations on rock. An extra chapter on Tension Foundations has been included. The methods set out are readily applicable to high rise buildings bridges dams and structures subject to uplift and turning loads. Foundations on Rock differs from the many texts and handbooks on soil foundations in that it focuses on the effect of geology on the stability and settlement of rock foundations. While the intact rock may be strong defects in the rock such as faults joints and cavities and the deterioration of the rock with time will have a significant effect on foundation performance. Methods of detecting such defects are described and their implications for foundation design and treatment are elaborated. | Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

GBP 59.99

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Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 1 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect contains 153 scientific and technical papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics and Applications (RocDyn-4 Xuzhou China 17-19 August 2022). The two-volume set has 7 sections. Volume 1 includes the first four sections with 6 keynotes and 5 young scholar plenary session papers and contributions on analysis and theoretical development and experimental testing and techniques. Volume 2 contains the remaining three sections with 74 papers on numerical modelling and methods seismic and earthquake engineering and rock excavation and engineering. Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect will serve as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. The previous volumes in this series (RocDyn-1 RocDyn-2 and RocDyn-3) are also available via CRC Press. | Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 1 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

GBP 160.00

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Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 2 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect contains 153 scientific and technical papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics and Applications (RocDyn-4 Xuzhou China 17-19 August 2022). The two-volume set has 7 sections. Volume 1 includes the first four sections with 6 keynotes and 5 young scholar plenary session papers and contributions on analysis and theoretical development and experimental testing and techniques. Volume 2 contains the remaining three sections with 74 papers on numerical modelling and methods seismic and earthquake engineering and rock excavation and engineering. Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect will serve as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. The previous volumes in this series (RocDyn-1 RocDyn-2 and RocDyn-3) are also available via CRC Press. | Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 2 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

GBP 150.00

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Practical Guide to Rock Tunneling

This Practical Guide to Rock Tunneling fills an important void in the literature for a practical guide to the design and construction of tunnels in rock. Practical Guide to Rock Tunneling takes the reader through all the critical steps of the design and construction for rock tunnels starting from geotechnical site investigations through to construction supervision. The guide provides suggestions and recommendations for practitioners on special topics of laboratory testing durability of rock and acceptance for unlined water conveyance tunnels overstressing or deep and long tunnels risk-based evaluation of excavation methods contract strategies and post-construction inspections. Key considerations and lessons learned from selected case projects are presented based on the author’s extensive international experience of over 30 years and 1000 km of tunneling for civil hydropower and mining infrastructure including some of the most recognized projects in the world to date. Instead of revisiting all theory and concepts that can be found in other sources this book contains the hard learned lessons from the author’s experience in the field of Rock Tunneling gathered over 30 years of service.

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The Rock History Reader

This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as coverage of recent developments including the changing shape of the music industry in the twenty-first century. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship copyright race relations feminism youth subcultures and the meaning of musical value The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. New to the third edition: Nine additional chapters from a broad range of perspectives Explorations of new media formations industry developments and the intersections of music and labor For the first time a companion website providing users with playlists of music referenced in the book Featuring readings as loud vibrant and colorful as rock ‘n’ roll itself The Rock History Reader is sure to leave readers informed inspired and perhaps even infuriated—but never bored.

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Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

This absorbing volume examines the cultural role of rock art for the Apsáalooke or Crow people of the northern Great Plains. Their extensive rock art developed within the changing cultural life of the tribe. Individual knowledge and meaning of rock art panels however relies as much on collective concepts of landscape as it does on shared memories of historic Crow culture. Using this idea as a focus this book:-introduces Plains Indian rock art of the 19th century as we know about it from its own stylistic conventions ethnographic data and historical accounts;-investigates the contemporary Crow discourse about rock art and its place within the cultural landscape and archaeological record;-argues that cultural concepts of space and place are fundamental to the way rock art is discussed experienced and interpreted. | Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

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Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect 2-Volume Set Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (Roc

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect contains 153 scientific and technical papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics and Applications (RocDyn-4 Xuzhou China 17-19 August 2022). The two-volume set has 7 sections. Volume 1 includes the first four sections with 6 keynotes and 5 young scholar plenary session papers and contributions on analysis and theoretical development and experimental testing and techniques. Volume 2 contains the remaining three sections with 74 papers on numerical modelling and methods seismic and earthquake engineering and rock excavation and engineering. Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect will serve as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. The previous volumes in this series (RocDyn-1 RocDyn-2 and RocDyn-3) are also available via CRC Press. | Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect 2-Volume Set Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (Roc

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The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas along with current thinking and interpretations. The various chapters deliver a personal approach to the many issues themes and approaches that are embedded within the rock art of the outpost of western Atlantic Europe. Ethnographical perspectives have often dominated the study of rock art but unlike other well-studied regions the western Iberian Peninsula is absent of an ethnographical or ethno-historical past and therefore the production of rock art can only be archaeologically assessed. Thus the work promotes interpretive perspectives on Portuguese rock art illustrating the richness chronology and context of these unique artistic expressions and explores the variability of rock art imagery and the diversity of landscapes and social contexts in which it was produced. Although focusing on Portuguese rock art the book includes a number of universal themes that will appeal to a broad range of scholars researching in archaeology and anthropology history of art as well as professionals engaged in rock art heritage and conservation. | The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

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Rock Slope Engineering Civil Applications Fifth Edition

Rock Slope Engineering covers the investigation design excavation and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes primarily for civil engineering applications. It presents design information on structural geology shear strength of rock and ground water including weathered rock. Slope design methods are discussed for planar wedge circular and toppling failures including seismic design and numerical analysis. Information is also provided on blasting slope stabilization movement monitoring and civil engineering applications. This fifth edition has been extensively up-dated with new chapters on weathered rock including shear strength in relation to weathering grades and seismic design of rock slopes for pseudo-static stability and Newmark displacement. It now includes the use of remote sensing techniques such as LiDAR to monitor slope movement and collect structural geology data. The chapter on numerical analysis has been revised with emphasis on civil applications. The book is written for practitioners working in the fields of transportation energy and industrial development and undergraduate and graduate level courses in geological engineering. | Rock Slope Engineering Civil Applications Fifth Edition

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Volcanic Rock Mechanics RockMechanics and Geo-engineering in Volcanic Environments

Volcanic Rock Mechanics includes papers and special lectures of the 3rd International Workshop on Volcanic Rocks Rock Mechanics and Geo-Engineering in Volcanic Environments which was held within the framework of the Congress �Cities on Volcanoes6-Tenerife 2010� (Puerto de la Cruz Tenerife Spain 31 May � 4 June 2010). The book is a comprehensive collection of the most relevant topics related to rock mechanics and geo-engineering in volcanic environments including: - Geomechanical characterization of volcanic materials;- Instabilities in volcanic islands: Slope stability large landslides and collapse phenomena;- Geoengineering and infrastructures in volcanic environments;- Construction materials. Volcanic Rock Mechanics is of interests to academics engineers consultants designers contractors and professionals involved in rock mechanics and geo-engineering in volcanic environments. | Volcanic Rock Mechanics RockMechanics and Geo-engineering in Volcanic Environments

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Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine A Case Study

Stability of underground excavations is of great importance to an operating mine because it ensures the safety of the working people and operating equipment and successful ore production. Due to the complex geological conditions and mine constructions and variability and uncertainty in estimating rock mass mechanical properties the assessment of rock mass stability for an underground mine is extremely challenging and difficult. Tackling of this difficult problem is not covered in detail in any of the textbooks currently available in the rock mechanics literature. This monograph aims to cover this gap in the rock mechanics and rock engineering field. This monograph provides detailed procedures for the stability assessment and support design for an underground mine case study. It covers the background of the mine site including the monitored deformation data the state-of-art methodologies for the stability analysis of rock masses around underground excavations performed laboratory tests estimation of the rock mass properties a brief theory and background of the 3-D Distinct Element Code (3DEC) and numerical modeling of underground rock mass stability including investigation of the effectiveness of rock supports. The monograph is an excellent reference for the senior undergraduates graduate students researchers and practitioners who work in the Underground Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering area in the Mining Engineering Civil Geotechnical Engineering and DEM (Distinct Element Method) Numerical modeling. | Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine A Case Study

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Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

Ontologies of Rock Art is the first publication to explore a wide range of ontological approaches to rock art interpretation constituting the basis for groundbreaking studies on Indigenous knowledges relational metaphysics and rock imageries. The book contributes to the growing body of research on the ontology of images by focusing on five main topics: ontology as a theoretical framework; the development of new concepts and methods for an ontological approach to rock art; the examination of the relationships between ontology images and Indigenous knowledges; the development of relational models for the analysis of rock images; and the impact of ontological approaches on different rock art traditions across the world. Generating new avenues of research in ontological theory political ontology and rock art research this collection will be relevant to archaeologists anthropologists and philosophers. In the context of an increasing interest in Indigenous ontologies the volume will also be of interest to scholars in Indigenous studies. Chapter 14 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at https://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/edit/10. 4324/9780429321863/ontologies-rock-art-oscar-moro-abad%C3%ADa-martin-porr?context=ubx&refId=3766b051-4754-4339-925c-2a262a505074 | Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

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Rock And Roll A Social History

Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey Friedlander offers the melodious strains and hard-edged riffs of Elvis the Beatles The Who Dylan Clapton Hendrix Motown the San Francisco Beat Punk New Wave rap metal 90's grunge plus file sharing and much more. The book is written in a refreshing captivating style that pulls the reader in offering no less than a complete social and cultural history of rock and roll for students and general audiences alike. Friedlander writes 'This book chronicles the first forty years of rock/pop music history. Picture the various musical styles as locations on a giant unfolding road map. As you open the map you travel from place to place stopping at each chapter to sample the artistry. Don't forget to dress your imagination appropriately for this trip because each genre is affected by the societal topography and climate that surround it. Enjoy your trip. We promise it will be a good one!'. | Rock And Roll A Social History

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Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

Status Quo were one of the most successful influential and innovative bands of the 1970s. During the first half of the decade they wrote recorded and performed a stream of inventive and highly complex rock compositions developed 12 bar forms and techniques in new and fascinating ways and affected important musical and cultural trends. But despite global success on stage and in the charts they were maligned by the UK music press who often referred to them as lamebrained three-chord wonders and shunned by the superstar Disk Jockeys of the era who refused to promote their music. As a result Status Quo remain one of the most misunderstood and underrated bands in the history of popular music. Cope redresses that misconception through a detailed study of the band’s music and live performances related musical and cultural subtopics and interviews with key band members. The band is reinstated as a serious artistic and creative phenomenon of the 1970s scene and shown to be vital contributors to the evolution of rock. | Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

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A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section

Structured in the form of a dichotomous key comparable to those widely used in botany the mineral key provides an efficient and systematic approach to identifying rock-forming minerals in thin-section. This unique approach covers 150 plus of the most commonly encountered rock-forming minerals plus a few rarer but noteworthy ones. Illustrated in full colour with 330 plus high quality mineral photomicrographs from a worldwide collection of igneous metamorphic and sedimentary rocks it also provides a comprehensive atlas of rock-forming minerals in thin-section. Commencing with a brief introduction to mineral systems and the properties of minerals in plane-polarised and cross-polarised light the mineral key also includes line drawings tables of mineral properties and an interference colour chart to further aid mineral identification. To minimise the chance of misidentification and enable less experienced petrologists to use the key with confidence the key has been arranged to prioritise those properties that are most easily recognised. Designed for simplicity and ease of use it is primarily aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of mineralogy and petrology but should also provide a valuable source of reference for all practising geologists dealing with rock thin sections and their interpretation. | A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section

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Death and the Rock Star

The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012) and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012 have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music fame and death. If the phrase ’sex drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle it has left many casualties in its wake and with the ranks of dead musicians growing over time so the types of death involved and the reactions to them have diversified. Conversely as many artists who fronted the rock’n’roll revolution of the 1950s and 1960s continue to age the idea of dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse (which gave rise for instance to the myth of the ’27 Club’) no longer carries the same resonance that it once might have done. This edited collection explores the reception of dead rock stars ’rock’ being taken in the widest sense as the artists discussed belong to the genres of rock’n’roll (Elvis Presley) disco (Donna Summer) pop and pop-rock (Michael Jackson Whitney Houston Amy Winehouse) punk and post-punk (GG Allin Ian Curtis) rap (Tupac Shakur) folk (the Dutchman André Hazes) and ’world’ music (Fela Kuti). When music artists die their fellow musicians producers fans and the media react differently and this book brings together their intertwining modalities of reception. The commercial impact of death on record sales copyrights and print media is considered and the different justifications by living artists for being involved with the dead through covers sampling and tributes. The cultural representation of dead singers is investigated through obituaries biographies and biopics observing that posthumous fame provides coping mechanisms for fans and consumers of popular culture more generally to deal with the knowledge of their own mortality. Examining the contrasting ways in which male and female dead singers are portrayed in the media the book | Death and the Rock Star

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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 2: Applications of Rock Mechanics - Rock Engineering

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering Volume 1: Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics

Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering

Rock: The Primary Text Developing a Musicology of Rock

Rock Fall Engineering

Advances in Rock Dynamics and Applications

Practical Rock Mechanics

Rock Mechanics An Introduction

British Rock Modernism 1967-1977 The Story of Music Hall in Rock

Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 1 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect Volume 2 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (RocDyn

Practical Guide to Rock Tunneling

The Rock History Reader

Crow Indian Rock Art Indigenous Perspectives and Interpretations

Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect 2-Volume Set Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (Roc

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things

Rock Slope Engineering Civil Applications Fifth Edition

Volcanic Rock Mechanics RockMechanics and Geo-engineering in Volcanic Environments

Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine A Case Study

Ontologies of Rock Art Images Relational Approaches and Indigenous Knowledges

Rock And Roll A Social History

Status Quo: Mighty Innovators of 70s Rock

A Key for Identification of Rock-Forming Minerals in Thin Section

Death and the Rock Star

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