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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and vigorous account of these tense and old 3 days…. the simplest 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 publication captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the ancient accumulating larger than Michael Lang’s long island occasions bestseller, the line to Woodstock.

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

Right here, in one quantity, are the profiles of all of the participants and businesses which have been presented the Nobel Peace Prize because 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 members and enterprises have dedicated their lives to peace and feature made our international a greater position to reside.

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 a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity typical in overdue medieval and early glossy Europe. in addition they supply a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and by means of whom they got here to be commemorated.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined through big apple occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives commonly used idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using simply intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is healthier recognized for his String Quartet No.