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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 381 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway—privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Cohen’s chronicle of the band is informed by the rigorous views of a kid who grew up on the music and for whom the Stones will always be the greatest rock ’n’ roll...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xxii, 322 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Gem Identification Made Easy is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated stones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The book's approach is direct and practical, and its style easy to understand. In fact, with this highly accessible guide, anyone can begin to master gem identification. Includes over 150 photographs and illustrationsover...
6) Life
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
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"An acclaimed rock and roll journalist evokes the legacy of The Rolling Stones--iconic, granitic, commercially unstoppable as a collective; and fascinating, contradictory, and occasionally disturbing as individuals. As Lesley-Ann Jones writes, the Rolling Stones are 'still roaming the globe like rusty tanks without a war to go to. Jumping, jacking, flashing, posturing, these septuagenarian caricatures with faces that might have been microwaved but...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
335 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history. Through the realms of art, myth, geology, philosophy, and power, the author tells the story of humanity through the minerals and materials that have allowed humans to evolve and create. Lapidarium uses the stories of these sixty stones to explore how human culture has formed stone, and the...
14) Stick and Stone
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Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
210 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Description
Michael Holzman's Stone Work demonstrates not only that the application of stone can still result in architecture unlike that created from other materials, but also that it can be of more interest today than it has been in the recent past.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Tune into the mysterious powers of the Earth with this invaluable guide to crystals and gemstones. With everything you need to know about this exciting branch of witchcraft, this is a must-have for every girl who's ready to explore the hidden magic of the universe ... and discover the dazzling power of crystals!
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For the first time, the complete story of the enigmatic founder of the Rolling Stones and the early years of the band. Brian Jones was the golden boy of the Rolling Stones, the visionary who gave the band its name and its sound. Yet he was a haunted man, and much of his brief time with the band, before his death in 1969 at the infamous age of twenty-seven, was volatile and tragic. Some of the details of how Jones was dethroned are well known, but...
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