Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a [...]

The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancee, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopherKierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancee of Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is a movi[...]

Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours [...]

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Piano/vocal/guitar sheet music transcriptions for every song on Muse's 2009 hit album Titles: Uprising * Resistance * Undisclosed Desires * United States of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage) * Guiding Light * Unnatural Selection * MK Ultra * I Belong to You/Mon Coe[...]

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa. This analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the works [...]

An immortal Muse whose very survival depends on the creativity she nurtures within her lovers....
Another immortal who feeds not on artistry but on pain and torment....
A chase through time from 1300s Paris to contemporary New York, with two people bound together in enmity and fury....
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Following her perennial-seller The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder , Jill Badonsky returns with a fun new book that will help her readers get their creativity working like a well-oiled machine. As a creativity-coaching pioneer, Jill knows that many people feel distracted, blocked, and overwhelmed[...]

From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of "Newford" stories
The city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love, hate, and, of course magic. Magic in the sidewalk cracks, myth at the foundations of its great buildings, enchant[...]

In a book certain to be of interest to readers in many disciplines, the distinguished scholar Theodore Ziolkowski shows how a strong impulse toward historical concerns was formalized in the four German academic faculties: philosophy, theology, law, and medicine/biology. In Clio the Romantic Muse, he[...]

This study offers a new framework for understanding how the arts create private and public value, highlights the importance of the arts' intrinsic benefits, and identifies how both instrumental and intrinsic benefits are created. During the past decade, arts advocates have relied on an instrumental [...]

The first and only book on Muse is now fully updated with exclusive interviews with the band themselves. By the release of their astonishing million-selling fourth album, "Black Holes & Revelations", Muse had become the biggest rock band in the UK, selling out Wembley Stadium for two nights - the fi[...]