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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and energetic account of these annoying and old 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes go to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock tune pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no e-book captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical amassing greater than Michael Lang’s ny occasions 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 contributors and businesses which were offered 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 foreign crusade to prohibit Landmines, those participants and agencies have dedicated their lives to peace and feature made our global 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 customary in past due medieval and early glossy Europe. additionally they supply a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and through whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined via big apple instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives general 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.