The rocks & minerals beneath our feet are often ignored, overlooked or misunderstood. This collection of specially-commissioned photographs aims to open your eyes to their amazing beauty, variety & importance. Starting with the physical composition of the Earth, the book explains how rocks & minerals are classified & how they are formed. Discover how landscapes evolve, how cave systems develop, how the sand & pebbles of the seashore originate, & how & where precious minerals, metals, & gems are mined. Produced in association with the Natural History Museum, London, this guide provides an introduction to the Earth's geology & how we use its natural resources for building, industry, energy, sculpture, coins, & jewellery. ...

Celebrated children’s music label Putumayo Kids presents a tribute to the early history of rock & roll with ” Rock & Roll Playground”. Kids of all ages can shake, rattle & roll to music by a stellar group of established & up-&-coming artists. A charmingly illustrated read-aloud booklet also accompanies the CD, with notes about the history of rock & roll & the story of each song. The songs on ” Rock & Roll Playground” were recorded in recent years but were inspired by the evolution of the genre. Grammy Award winners Dan Zanes & Friends invite you to “bug” & “twist” on the song “ Let’s Shake, ” while rockabilly royalty Rosie Flores churns out feverish licks on “ This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’.” Grammy Award winner Taj Mahal & Linda Tillery lend an infectious Bo Diddley beat to “ Willie & The Hand Jive, ” & noted singer-songwriter Peter Himmelman delivers a classic rock performance on “ Little Bitty Baby.” Grammy Award winner Bill Harley sings about a slumbering teenage brother in “ Sleep the Whole Day Through” & Uncle Rock performs a blues-infused cover of the Steppenwolf classic “ Magic Carpet Ride.” Rock & Roll Playground also features 2009 Grammy nominee Brady Rymer as well as Charity & the JAMband; New Jersey’s Star Fish; Parents’ Choice® Gold award winner Roger Day; Melissa Green & John Lennon Songwriting Contest winners Rhythm Child.CD Track listing: 1 Bill Harley
- Sleep the Whole Day Through 2 Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could
- Jump Up (It`s a Good Day) 3 Peter Himmelman
- Little Bitty Baby 4 Taj Mahal & Linda Tillery
- Willie & the Hand Jive 5 Dan Zanes & Friends
- Let`s Shake 6 Charity & the JAMband
- Row Row Row Your Boat 7 Rhythm Child
- Oh Susanna 8 Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
- This Little Girl`s Gone Rockin` 9 Uncle Rock
- Magic Carpet Ride 10 Melissa Green
- At the Bus Stop 11 Star Fish
- The Star Fish Stomp 12 Roger Day
- Dream Big! About this series: Putumayo World Music was established to introduce people to the music of the world`s cultures. The label grew out of Putumayo clothing company, founded by Dan Storper in 1975 & sold in 1997. Co-founder Michael Kraus joined Storper to help launch Putumayo World Music in 1993. Since then the label has become known primarily for its upbeat & melodic compilations of great international music characterized by the company`s motto: “guaranteed to make you feel good!”











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Now fully updated to include the very latest advice & equipment, this practical, illustrated guide provides the ideal introduction to the challenging, exciting skill of climbing, an ever-popular sport that attracts more & more enthusiasts every year. Like any adventure sport, climbing has its fair share of associated risks, particularly for the untrained or unwary. Written by an experienced climber & instructor, this book offers reassuring step-by-step instructions, with practical advice on all aspects of safety & training. The informative text is complemented by clear illustrations & superb, commissioned photography. Equipment, emergency & rescue techniques, training schedules, & guidelines on environment & ethics are included. For beginners & intermediate climbers alike, Rock & Wall Climbing is an indispensable & motivating guide. ...

Ever wanted to live like a rock star? Rock `n` Roll Hotels is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to party like an Osbourne
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Rucksack Guide
- Rock Climbing is your essential handbook when climbing. It offers concise guidance & support for any situation
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Rock Climbing Down Under: Australia Exposed offers something for everyone that has any affiliation with rock climbing. Photographer Simon Carter completely suspends us in 21 of Australia`s climbing scenes. Accompanying the mesmerizing photography are area introductions & personal stories written by no fewer than 80 climbers. Thread by thread, the climbers` stories weave a magical sentiment throughout the book. Kim Carrigan, John Fantini, Dave Jones, Kevin Lindorff, Neil Monteith, Chris Webb Parsons, & Mike Law are only some of the 80 talented climbing authors found in the book. The images taken by Simon Carter combined with the stories written by the most significant contributors to the history & culture of Australian climbing make Rock Climbing Down Under: Australia Exposed a textural masterpiece that will awaken all of your senses; an unprecedented expose of Australian climbing. ...

Rock climbing is an exhilarating & spectacular sport that is attracting more people than ever before. This book is written for those climbers starting out on their instructing career. It contains the ideas & information that should smooth their path into the world of instructing & guiding. However, it is also for climbers wanting to improve their skills & gain from the author's knowledge & experience of climbing & instructing. It goes beyond covering the necessary skills of ropework, problem-solving & safety, by advising on how to teach movement & help students train effectively. Also included are sections on communication skills, legal considerations, aid climbing & scrambling. ...

This is the only guidebook to document Irish Climbing in a single volume. It focuses on the best routes at the best crags &



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This is the official handbook of `the Mountaineering Instructor, Single Pitch, Climbing Wall & Climbing Wall Leading Award Schemes`. Written by one of the best known rock climbing instructors in the UK this is the definitive & comprehensive `how to rock climb` textbook, now in its revised & updated second edition. It covers un-roped bouldering & movement skills as well as every aspect of single & multi-pitch rock climbing, abseiling, problem solving, the climbing environment, the history & development of the sport & much more. This book is a reference tool for every climber, from novice to expert, as well as containing specific ideas for anyone wanting to help coach & instruct others. It is the official handbook for the UK qualification system that

Includes:: `the Mountaineering Instructor, Climbing Wall, Single Pitch & Climbing Wall Leader Awards & is endorsed by the BMC, MCof S & MI. Revised throughout there are additional chapters on Sport Climbing, Sea Level Traversing, Ropes Courses & Via Ferrata, Adaptive Techniques for Disabled Climbers, Injury Avoidance, Improving Technique, Risk Management & the Law & Working with Young People. It has a functional design with easy-reference colour-coded pages, striking illustrations that complement the text & inspiring photos that give a genuine flavour of the breadth of climbing possibilities across Britain & Irel&. It is the second of a series of manuals from Mountain Leader Training UK that

Includes:: the highly successful ` Hill Walking` & ` Winter Skills`.



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Adalbert Stifter`s Rock Crystal is a Christmas story & a story about the heart of the ice, the crystal. The charm of this quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the author`s eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of life & the inevitability of death. This is a wintry story of village life in the high mountains, but also a parable of belief & faith. The Rock Crystal of the title are shards of ice of the glacier that dominates the landscape that Adalbert Stifter describes. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer & Marianne Moore, Adalbert Stifter`s Rock Crystal is published by Pushkin Press. `A tale of almost unendurable suspense`
- New York Review of Books Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) was an Austrian writer, painter & poet closely associated with the Biedermeier movement in European art. Following his studies at the University of Vienna, he was highly regarded as a tutor among aristocratic families. The success of his first story The Condor in 1840 inaugurated a steady writing career, culminating in Der Nachsommer, praised by Nietzsche as one of the two great novels of 19th century Germany. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing, & has long been popular in the German-speaking world, influencing writers such as Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann & W.G. Sebald.
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