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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] vibrant and vigorous account of these demanding and old 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 competition of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no e-book captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical collecting larger 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 all of the participants and enterprises which were offered the Nobel Peace Prize considering 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 members and businesses 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 study the lives of 864 saints who lived among a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity accepted in past due medieval and early sleek Europe. in addition they offer a considerable physique of data at the humans between whom the saints lived and by means of whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined by way of manhattan instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state 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 better identified for his String Quartet No.