Useless Magic

Author: Florence Welch
Publisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 0525577165
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.

Florence + The Machine: An Almighty Sound

Author: Zoe Howe
Publisher: Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0857127934
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Tells the story of her upbringing in South London to her thrilling rise to international fame as a singer and also a highly individual fashion icon. Her collaborations and working relationships with Chanel Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld, her manager Mairead Nash and her friend Isabella Summers who to this day forms part of ‘the machine’.

Florence + the Machine - How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Author: Florence + the Machine
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781495021619
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). This songbook features all 11 tracks from the British singer/songwriter's 2015 album, plus 3 special deluxe edition bonus songs: Caught * Delilah * Hiding * How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful * Long & Lost * Make up Your Mind * Mother * Queen of Peace * St. Jude * Ship to Wreck * Third Eye * Various Storms and Saints * What Kind of Man * Which Witch.

The How

Author: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525507256
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always illuminating Instagram posts. Now, in The How, Yrsa encourages readers to begin, as she puts it, the great work of meeting ourselves. This isn't the self we've built up in response to our surroundings, or the self we manufacture to please the people around us, but instead, our most intimate self, the one we visit in dreams, the one that calls to us from a glimmering future. With a mix of short lyrical musings and her signature stunning poetry, Yrsa gently takes readers by the hand, encouraging them to join her as she explores how we can remove our filters, and see and feel more of who we really are behind the preconceived notions of propriety and manners we've accumulated with age. With a beautiful design and intriguing meditations, The How can be used to start conversations, to prompt writing, to delve deeper--whether you're solo, or with friends, on your feet or writing from the solace of home.

The Florence King Reader

Author: Florence King
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312143370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
GIFT LOCAL 11-15-2002 $13.95.

Florence Nightingale

Author: Shannon Zemlicka
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 1575057123
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Growing up in a wealthy family that believed nursing wasn't a respectable job, Florence Nightingale was determined to help others. After more than sixty years of service as a nurse, she had helped to make nursing an honorable profession, left behind safer, cleaner hospitals, and saved countless lives.

The Perfect Machine

Author: Ronald Florence
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490

Book Description
Author describes the building of the Palomar telescope in California, one of the greatest technical achievements of this century.

Love Is Enough

Author: Andrea Zanatelli
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524876399
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
In this truly beautiful book, Andrea Zanatelli combines his extraordinary artworks with a selection of classical love poetry by Anne Brontë, William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Dickinson, Percy Shelley, and many more. Drawing its inspiration from the past, Love is Enough references the decorative arts of a bygone era, and is a combination of romantic imagery, antique fabrics, and allegorical illustrations mixed with poems and mottos. Often mistaken for real embroidery pieces, the artworks are in fact very detailed and intricate digital collages, made to look and feel like handcrafted works.

The Bookseller of Florence

Author: Ross King
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0385692994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Bookseller of Florence captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance amid the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread, from the bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world. Born in 1422, Vespasiano da Bisticci became what a friend called "the king of the world's booksellers." At a time when all books were made by hand, for over four decades Vespasiano produced and sold hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for discussion and debate. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, the king of the world's booksellers was swept away by this epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced books reached readers who never could have afforded one of Vespasiano’s elegant manuscripts. A thrilling chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of one of the true titans of the Renaissance.

Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence

Author: Dale Kent
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674031371
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
Kent explores the meaning of love and friendship as they were represented in the fifteenth century, particularly the relationship between heavenly and human friendship.