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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).

Provides information about the history of Tibet and the life of its spiritual leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, and includes an interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as an overview of the Tibetan form of Buddhism.

The autobiography of the Dalai Lama who won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize.

Describes the life of this groundbreaking marine biologist and diver, from her childhood in New Jersey and Florida to her deep sea explorations of the 1980s and 1990s.

Photographs and personal writings profile the life of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso.

A biography of the baseball player who pitched the Cardinals to World Series victories in 1964 and 1967.