Author: Genya Ravan
Publisher: Billboard Books
Keywords: lounge, lollipop
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0823083624
ISBN-13: 9780823083626

Holocaust survivor, trailblazing perfomer, pioneer producer, and hell-raising iconoclast, Genya Ravan takes readers on an unforgettable ride through a 40-year career in music. From the highs of being the lead singer in Goldie & the Gingerbreads, the first self-contained all-female band; touring Europe with the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and the Hollies; and working as the first female producer hired by a major record label, to the lows of harrowing recoveries from alcoholism, drug addiction, and cancer, Genya Ravan lived the rock and roll lifestyle to the hilt, barely surviving to tell the

Author: Dan Charman
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: writers, ravan, change, environmental, peatlands
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-05-24
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470844108
ISBN-13: 9780470844106

Peatlands and Environmental Change provides a comprehensive summary of peatland science. The emphasis is on peatlands as dynamic parts of the landscape that are undergoing constant change as a result of processes of peat accumulation and development, as well as through human activity and climatic variability. The book is divided into four parts that look in turn at the nature of peatland classification and terminology, hydrological and ecological processes and peatland growth, changes in peatlands and their influence on the environment, and resource management issues. Each chapter is supp