Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.

Christa can't explain her world, and most people don't try to understand it. But Esther Watson's powerful picture book gives readers a profound view of Christa's reality. Full color.

Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories, edited by Nick Hornby Hear the Prime Minister explain to the House why he did a runner from Greenford Park service station and hitched a lift with a fifteen-year-old girl, as imagined by Robert Harris. Listen to someone who has a small hostile creature in his room, as told by Roddy Doyle. Twelve voices, twelve completely new stories, narrated by twelve different characters. And all written by twelve of the most exciting and popular writers around: Robert Harris, Melissa Bank, Giles Smith, Patrick Marber, Colin Frith, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, John O'Farrell and Nick Hornby himself. This sparkling collection has been put together by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby, who also contributes an Introduction about TreeHouse, an organisation that offers a unique and pioneering approach to the education of children with autism. £1 will go to TreeHouse with every copy sold of Speaking with the Angel.

The author describes his year of treatment at a psychiatric institution, his frequent arctic journeys, and the extended illness and death of his wife

This book will help you to develop your relationship with angels surrounding you in your life to the highest level with practice and guidance. Each exercise will help you to see, to feel, to hear and to know how to recognise your angel's messages. It will show you how you can harness their guidance in your personal, family and business life business helping you fulfil your life's purpose. More than anything, learning to talk to your angels and welcoming them in your life will show you how they can help you receive love, happiness and success in abundance.

Invite divine beings into your daily life and benefit from their loving guidance with How to Talk to Angels. Using easy-to-follow techniques and simple exercises, this practical guide shows you how to develop your intuition and your "clairs" to better communicate with angels and receive their sacred messages. Angels are more than willing to help improve your health and increase the love, abundance, and joy in your life. Learn how to connect with them and see their angelic signs all around you. Discover your heart's desires and how to attract what you want through meditation, prayer, and gratitude. Explore ways to release fear, raise your self-esteem, forgive yourself and others, manifest money, and take divinely guided actions. With angels by your side, you'll create a life beyond your wildest dreams.

John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time philosophy, and the apocalypse, and argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

The late feminist icon and author of over twenty books, including her classic New York Times bestseller All About Love, bell hooks reminds us of the good and bad moments we spend in love through her inspiring poetry. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of 50 love poems by the icon of the feminist movement and most famous among public intellectuals. In beautiful, profoundly poetic terms, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the link between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. Whether towards family, friends, or oneself, hooks's creative genius makes love both magical and beautiful.

The true story of four young Hungarians in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval - the holocaust - who encountered luminous forces that helped them find new direction and hope in their shattered lives. These forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied them for seventeen perilous months, until three of them met their deaths in Nazi concentration camps. Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring their story and these remarkable dialogues to the world. Gitta Mallasz always rejected any notion of 'authorship' for this book, saying, I am merely the 'scribe' of the angels.