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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and full of life account of these irritating and ancient 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the curtain go to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock song competition of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no e-book captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical accumulating greater 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 the entire members and companies which were presented the Nobel Peace Prize considering the fact that 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 contributors and firms have committed their lives to peace and feature made our global 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 learn the lives of 864 saints who lived among a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity well-known in overdue medieval and early glossy Europe. additionally they supply 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 through big apple instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives favourite 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.