Simultaneously witty, scathing, anecdotal, and factual, Florence Nightingale's "Notes on Nursing" is perhaps the most influential work on nursing throughout the world. For years, the three extant versions of this seminal work puzzled scholars as well as readers. Now, Dr. Skretkowicz sets the histori[...]

Want to improve your communication skills? By understanding your personality type, you're off to a great start. This essential guide to better communication for men and women teams up experienced communicators and trainers Florence and Marita Littauer. Communication Plus explores and outlines each o[...]

The New York Restaurant Cookbook presents recipes for the signature dishes from 100 of the city's best restaurants, all selected and adapted by respected food journalist Florence Fabricant. From the timeless elegance of The Four Seasons to the downtown edginess of wd50, from the romance of Cafe des [...]

Pairing wine and food can bring out the best qualities in each. But how do you hit upon the right combination? Do you fall back on the old rules: red with meat, white with fish? Or do you decide by cuisine, flavor notes, or season? The choices can be perplexing and constantly changing. Florence Fabr[...]

Everyone has the potential to be successful, but this success is often obscured behind a wall--a wall we may well have built ourselves in the first place. This book explains how to find and open the door through that wall.[...]

This collection of reprinted essays starts from the author's doctoral research on Jacopo Peri and the rise of opera and solo song in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Florence. It extends to broader issues concerning music and patronage in the city as they affected individual composers,[...]

This volume reports Nightingale's work to take trained nursing from its base at St. Thomas' Hospital in London to other hospitals in London, elsewhere in England, and into Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. It goes on to European countries (initially Sweden and Germany, later France and Italy), to Austra[...]