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“[A] brilliant and energetic account of these disturbing and historical 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the curtain move to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock song 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 collecting higher than Michael Lang’s long island instances bestseller, the line to Woodstock.
Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Oxford Profiles)
Right here, in one quantity, are the profiles of the entire members and corporations which have been offered the Nobel Peace Prize due to 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 overseas crusade to prohibit Landmines, those contributors and corporations have dedicated 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 learn the lives of 864 saints who lived among one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity commonplace in past due medieval and early sleek Europe. in addition they offer a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and by way of whom they got here to be honored.
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Defined by means of big apple instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this kingdom has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives primary 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.
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