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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] bright and vigorous account of these disturbing and ancient 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 competition of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no publication captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the ancient amassing larger than Michael Lang’s manhattan 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 participants and agencies which were provided the Nobel Peace Prize on account 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 dedicated 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 study the lives of 864 saints who lived among a thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity widespread in past due medieval and early smooth Europe. additionally they offer a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and via whom they got here to be commemorated.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined by way of manhattan occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this state has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives popular 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.