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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] vibrant and vigorous account of these annoying and ancient 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the curtain cross to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock track pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the attractions, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the ancient accumulating 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 members and corporations which have been provided the Nobel Peace Prize because 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 participants and agencies have committed 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 one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity frequent in past due medieval and early sleek Europe. additionally they supply a considerable physique of data 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 ny instances critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this kingdom has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives regular 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.