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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] bright and full of life account of these traumatic and historical 3 days…. the easiest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes go to an iconic occasion. ”—New York Post The Woodstock song pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no ebook captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the old amassing greater than Michael Lang’s ny instances bestseller, the line to Woodstock.

Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (Oxford Profiles)

Right here, in one quantity, are the profiles of the entire participants and organisations which have been offered the Nobel Peace Prize on the grounds that its institution in 1901. From the author of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the foreign crusade to prohibit Landmines, those members and corporations 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 learn the lives of 864 saints who lived among one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity frequent in overdue medieval and early sleek Europe. additionally they offer 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 long island occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this nation has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives commonplace idioms--ranging from jazz to Southern hymns--using simply intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is healthier identified for his String Quartet No.