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The Road to Woodstock

“[A] bright and full of life account of these anxious and ancient 3 days…. the simplest fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a behind the scenes cross 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 ancient collecting 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 the entire members and businesses which were provided the Nobel Peace Prize when you consider 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 enterprises have committed their lives to peace and feature made our global a greater position to reside.

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 common in past due medieval and early glossy 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 honored.

"MAXIMUM CLARITY" AND OTHER WRITINGS ON MUSIC

Defined through manhattan occasions critic John Rockwell as “one of the simplest non-famous composers this kingdom has to offer,” Ben Johnston reconceives established 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.