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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] brilliant and vigorous account of these worrying and ancient 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 song pageant of 1969 is an American cultural touchstone, and no e-book captures the points of interest, sounds, and behind-the-scenes machinations of the ancient amassing larger than Michael Lang’s long island 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 members and enterprises which have been offered the Nobel Peace Prize given that its institution in 1901. From the author of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist who invented dynamite, to Jody Williams and the overseas crusade to prohibit Landmines, those contributors and organisations 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 one thousand and 1700 and the perceptions of sanctity time-honored in past due medieval and early sleek Europe. additionally they supply a considerable physique of knowledge at the humans between whom the saints lived and via whom they got here to be honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined via ny occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this nation has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives prevalent 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.