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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] shiny and energetic account of these disturbing 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 tune pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the historical collecting larger than Michael Lang’s big apple 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 participants and companies which were offered the Nobel Peace Prize when you consider 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 businesses have committed their lives to peace and feature made our international 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 ordinary in overdue medieval and early smooth Europe. in addition they supply a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and by way of whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined by means of big apple occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this kingdom has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives usual idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using simply intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is better recognized for his String Quartet No.