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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] brilliant and full of life account of these tense and historical 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes go to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock tune pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the old amassing greater than Michael Lang’s manhattan instances bestseller, the line to Woodstock.

Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Oxford Profiles)

The following, in one quantity, are the profiles of all of the contributors and enterprises which were presented the Nobel Peace Prize because its institution in 1901. From the writer of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the overseas crusade to prohibit Landmines, those members and agencies have dedicated their lives to peace and feature made our international a greater position to dwell.

Saints and Society: The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700

In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell study the lives of 864 saints who lived among a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity widely used in past due medieval and early glossy Europe. in addition they offer a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and via whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined by way of long island instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives time-honored idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using simply intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is healthier identified for his String Quartet No.