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Free-form jazz guitarist Jan Akkerman and classically trained keyboard player Thys van Leer teamed up to form Focus in their native Holland, and recorded Moving Waves; one of the 70s most original and startling LPs. The epic track "Hocus Pocus" took the Reading Festival by storm, and Focus went on to the U.S. where they scored top 10 singles and albums. Long-time associate David Randall has assembled Akkerman’s journey, lavishly illustrated, from cult hero to jazz superstar.

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Herman Brood, Eddie Van Halen, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Jan Akkerman, Adrian Vandenberg, Jan Bechtum, Hugo de Bruin, Johan Slager, George Kooymans, Robbie Van Leeuwen. Excerpt:Adrian Vandenberg Adje (Adrian) van den Berg (Born: 31 January 1954, The Hague in the Netherlands ) is a Dutch rock guitarist , best known for his tenure as one of the guitarists in Whitesnake during their successful late 1980s period. Early years Adrian was originally the lead guitarist for the Dutch band Teaser, a band that released a self-titled album in 1978. This band should not be confused with the American band Teaser, which featured American guitarist Jake E. Lee . He then started his own band, simply named Vandenberg , who released three albums in the 1980s, Vandenberg , Heading for a Storm and Alibi . They are arguably best known for the ballad "Burning Heart", a song that features complementing guitar layers and harmonies, and "Friday Night", from the Heading for a Storm album. They toured extensively, including a support slot to the Michael Schenker Group in the UK in late 1982. A "Best of" compilation has recently been released. Whitesnake Vandenberg was originally approached to join Whitesnake in the early 1980s, having impressed David Coverdale with not only his guitar wizardry, but also with his songwriting talent and his ability as a band leader. He initially declined, due to the success of his own band Vandenberg and their Top 40 hit, Burning Heart. By 1986, however, with pressure from the record company to become more and more commercial and their success hitting a plateau, he relented and finally disbanded Vandenberg and agreed to join Coverdale in Whitesnake . Initially he was hired as a session musician, helping to complete their eponymous album Whitesnake (known as 1987 in Europe) a... ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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The Molecular Microbial Ecology Manual provides general information ab out molecular techniques relevant to molecular ecological research. At tention is paid to the use of molecular methods for studying the fate of genetically modified and native microorganisms in the environment. ... Read more

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A "Very Rare" 6 page original copy of the sheet music "Nightwings" as Recorded by Stanley Turrentine on Fantasy Records and Jan Akkerman on (CBS) Records.Composed, arranged and conducted by Maestro Claus Ogerman. Tastefully written for piano, a separate melody line, and beautifully embellished with guitar chords for accompanimen. ... Read more

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Just how fascinating the discussion between the disciplines ofeducation law and education policy can be was apparent atthe `Annual Congress' of the European Education Law and PolicyAssociation (ELA) in Rotterdam in December 1997. Although, on thisoccasion, the option was for an education policy subject, amulti-disciplinary approach is always to be preferred. Policy-makersinterrogate lawyers; lawyers question scientists from other fields ofstudy and lines of practice. It was, at the same time, a further illustration of how inspiring andproductive -- in the context of the European Union at any rate-- comparative analyses can be for national and internationaleducation and social policy. The theme of the 1997 Congress, and consequently of thisYearbook, was urban education policy and its legal form as thetouchstone of the modern interpretation of individual and socialrights. This collection of thought-provoking essays and countryreports thus centres on the question: what challenges for education dourban associations represent? ... Read more

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This manual provides general information about molecular techniques relevant to molecular ecological research. Attention is paid to the use of molecular methods for studying the fate of genetically modified and native microorganisms in the environment. The book is intended for postgraduate students and research scientists in the plant and soils sciences and plant molecular biology. The first supplement extends the sections published in the basic work. ... Read more

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Contributing authors: Jane D' Arista, Zdenk Drábek, Barry Eichengreen, Fan Gang, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Jan Kregel, Yonghyup Oh, Yung Chul Park, Barbara Stallings, Jan Joost Teunissen, Wing Thye WooEditors: Jan Joost Teunissen and Age AkkermanA book that analyses how the ballooning foreign debt problem of the United States and the problem of increasing global economic imbalances are related, how these problems should be addressed and by whom.Contributing authors provide deep insights and practical policy suggestions of what can be done to lessen the vulnerability of developing countries and contribute to a resolution of the US debt and global imbalances problems.According to some of the contributors, the fundamental problem lies in a global monetary system that maintains the US dollar as the key currency. This allows the US to run high deficits and it prolongs a situation in which capital flows uphillfrom poor countries to the richest country of the world. They see a reform of the international monetary system that ends the hegemony of the dollar as the best solution. Other contributors observe that as long as both Asia and Europe continue to use positive net exports to support their domestic policy goals, they will continue to finance US deficits.The book devotes considerable attention to Chinas role in the global imbalance problem. It investigates whether there are good reasons for placing so much blame on China, and concludes that the focus on the bilateral balance between China and the United States is exaggerated and misleading. ... Read more