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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and full of life account of these stressful and historical 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes move to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock track pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the old accumulating higher than Michael Lang’s ny 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 participants and companies which were presented the Nobel Peace Prize given that its institution in 1901. From the author of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the overseas crusade to prohibit Landmines, those participants 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 research the lives of 864 saints who lived among one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity ordinary in past due medieval and early glossy Europe. additionally they supply a considerable physique of data at the humans between whom the saints lived and by way of whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined by way of big apple instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the easiest non-famous composers this nation has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives generic idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using simply intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is better identified for his String Quartet No.