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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] vibrant and full of life 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 competition of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no e-book captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical accumulating greater than Michael Lang’s ny instances 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 contributors and organisations which were offered 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 foreign crusade to prohibit Landmines, those participants and agencies have committed 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 study the lives of 864 saints who lived among a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity common in overdue medieval and early glossy Europe. additionally they supply a considerable physique of data 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 kingdom has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives conventional 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.