A tool for the professional student & amateur astrologer there is plenty in here for everyone. The amateur enthusiast will find this book packed with fascinating facts & many anecdotes from astrology's past all the way from pre-history to contemporary Europe & America. For professional astrologers this is a reference book in which they can quickly access brief biographies of historical & contemporary astrologers together with the history & background of their subject in separate entries. Students will find it equally useful in providing textbook definitions of astrological terms & basic explanations of technical aspects of astrology. It is a book which will appeal to anyone with a need or desire to discover or refresh their memory of the basic details of the subject. ' Derek & Julia Parker may seem like an innocent couple of astrology teachers but they are a very very naughty pair. They wickedly brazenly break the rules by which this dry complex subject is normally taught. They make astrology fun. They make it easy & then.. .they slowly infect you with a burning desire to find out more.. . And boy do they know their stuff. If you stick with them you'll know yours'
- Jonathan Cainer Daily Express"."