The Book Cover Archive Language of Flowers The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Plants and flowers are used as symbols in the Hebrew Bible — particularly of love and lovers in the Song of Songs,[1] as an emblem for the Israelite people[2] and for the coming Messiah[3] — and of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.[4] In Western Culture, William Shakespeare ascribed emblematic meanings to flowers, especially in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Interest in floriography soared in Victorian England and in the United States during the 19th century. History[edit] Floriography was popularized in France about 1810–1850, while in Britain it was popular during the Victorian age (roughly 1820–1880), and in the United States about 1830–1850. Meanings[edit] See also[edit]
The top 100 most searched for out-of-print books The most recent list is diverse. Madonna’s famous Sex (one of the book’s few images that we could publish is seen left) is top of the list as always and Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini – dubbed the world’s weirdest book – is also in the top 10. There’s also a cookbook from actor and fine food connoisseur Vincent Price. There are many famous authors on the list, including Stephen King (twice), Nora Roberts, Ray Bradbury, Barbara Cartland, Carl Sagan, C.S. A small number of these books are so scarce now that even AbeBooks booksellers do not have copies. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 365 Bedtime Stories by Nan Gilbert 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 99. 100.
Discover Literary Oddities in the Weird Book Room on AbeBooks Welcome to AbeBooks' Weird Book Room - heralded by the New York Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, The Times of London, and The Guardian (UK) as the finest source of everything that's bizarre, odd and downright weird in books. Everyone's talking about it - author Neil Gaiman is even tweeting about it, posting a link and suggesting his followers: "Go to this link and gaze on the titles and be made happy. Trust me. It'll work". With new titles added periodically - including five recently-added, delightfully odd books about tractors - we have an excellent selection of crazy and strange titles for sale by our booksellers, about every oddball aspect of life you could possibly imagine (and a few things you couldn't). We invite you to not only revel in our collection of literary oddities but to also send us your suggestions. Thanks to everyone who has submitted weird books!
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Harry Potter Redesign Redesigned The Harry Potter book covers to look like classic Penguin Books. Thanks everyone for your overwhelming interest in these! Time will tell if anything happens with them... What Businesses & Brands Can Use Google Plus Pages For Now Initially, when I was pulling a Google+ presentation together for PubCon last week, branded business pages were not “allowed” at the time. However, the features businesses can use to increase traffic and grow a following on Google Plus are pretty much the same as before branded pages were launched. For the record, this is not a how to create your business page on Google+ tutorial, Danny Sullivan already covered that last week. This is about using the Google+ features as business tools, and capturing an audience to supplement what you already do on other social networks. Think About Monitoring Your Brand Using Sparks If you are still trying to figure out what Sparks is useful for, it is trending content found elsewhere on the Web. You can see who is referring back to you, or other other mentions. Think About Your Google+ Profile Just like when branded URLs were released in Facebook, there may be a mad rush to secure popular brand names. What Not To Do With Google+ For Businesses
A Moment of Jen posted by Jen at 9/21/2010 06:01:00 PM Back in August, when Jodi Picoult tweeted about the New York Times’ predilection for reviewing the fiction of white men, people wondered: is this true? A few weeks after the #franzenfreude conversation began, the bloggers at Slate’s DoubleX.com ran the numbers…and found that they’re even worse than regular readers of the paper might have guessed. Of all of the fiction the New York Times reviewed last year, only 38 percent was written by women. Of all the novels that got the coveted double reviews, 72 percent were written by men. When you consider popular fiction, the numbers get even worse. According to blogger Scott Lemieux, in the time period Slate considered, eleven best-selling male authors, including Stephen King, John Grisham and Dan Brown, got the double whammy of the daily and the Sunday review. Where, wondered Ruth Franklin of The New Republic, is the outrage? It sent a reporter to cover Jonathan Franzen’s book party. Tokenism is not allowed.
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