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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] bright and energetic account of these stressful and historical 3 days…. the easiest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the curtain cross to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock tune pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no booklet captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the old accumulating larger than Michael Lang’s long island occasions 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 members and businesses which have been offered the Nobel Peace Prize for the reason that its institution in 1901. From the author of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the foreign crusade to prohibit Landmines, those participants and enterprises have committed their lives to peace and feature made our global a greater position to stay.

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

In Saints and Society, Donald Weinstein and Rudolph M. Bell research the lives of 864 saints who lived among one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity conventional in past due medieval and early sleek Europe. in addition they supply a considerable physique of data at the humans between whom the saints lived and by means of whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined via big apple instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the easiest non-famous composers this nation has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives universal 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.