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A biography of the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, discussing the spiritual and political life of this Buddhist leader.

Contains twelve speeches delivered by Vernon Jordan over the course of his career as president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, Inc., director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council, an attorney in private practice, and in many other roles, from 1971 to 2008.

Text and photographs present a biography of the Tibetan leader, discussing his religious and political life.

An account of a young child living in Lydney, England, during World War II including memories of air raids, gas masks, rationing, and war news as well as routines of family, friends, and school.

A biography of the famous Japanese conductor, a citizen of both Japan and the United States, who has achieved international recognition for his skills in interpreting western music.

At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth became a midwife in post-World War II London's East End. She details what her job entailed, the people she met, including the woman with twenty-four children, and what life was like in postwar London.

When Elliot Tiber read that the Woodstock Concert promoters were unable to stage the show in Wallkill, he stepped in to offer them a site, which, unknowingly at the time, would change his life forever. This is the story of a man who was working to make a go of his parents' upstate New York motel and wound up being the man who serendipitously enabled Woodstock to take place.

Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in the sewers of Lvov, Poland for fourteen months. Now a retired dentist, she lives on Long Island.

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. The subsequent publication of that paper, in which he argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable, would put him on the fast track to becoming the president of the protest movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).