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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and full of life account of these stressful and old 3 days…. the easiest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes cross to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock tune pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical accumulating larger 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 all of the members and companies which were provided the Nobel Peace Prize in view 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 members and enterprises 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 commonplace in overdue medieval and early smooth Europe. in addition they offer a considerable physique of data at the humans between whom the saints lived and through whom they got here to be commemorated.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined via manhattan instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the easiest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives frequent 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.