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The Future of Astrology" is a selection of essays written by some of the foremost astrologers in the world today. Topics explored include astrology and scientific research, psychology, biology, and economics, science versus astrology, the professionalism of practitioners, the politics of astrology, the insights offered by esoteric astrology, astrological organizations, astrology as a science, the role of counseling, and astrological prediction...

A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Hitchens touches on hundreds of subjects.

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Placing women at the center of the High Qing era shows how gender relations shaped the economic, political, social, and cultural changes of the age, and gives us a sense of what women felt and believed, and what they actually did, during this period.

In 1840 Mann wrote On the Art of Teaching. Its message has lived on as a timeless and inspiring appeal to teachers.

Guided by machines from Earth, the colony world of Copernica has become a stable human outpost, a world not dissimilar to Earth itself, with a burgeoning population and culture of its own. But Rehan Mihajlovic, a dealer in antiquarian goods, is about to find out that history is only as reliable as those who write it, and that death, when it comes, is never very far away... "George Mann has forgotten more about science fiction than most people ...

Banned in Germany for years after publication, >Mephisto< subsequently became a bestseller throughout Europe. Translated from the German by Robin Smyth.

Time Management for Architects and Designers addresses the special time-management issues that confront those whose success depends on the skillful, creative, and effective use of their time. It offers students and professionals guidance in recognizing and understanding their problems and developing effective strategies for overcoming them. Illustrated with lighthearted drawings, it includes exercises aimed at exploring each designer's own uni...

Six early stories, previously published only by Sun & Moon Press, by the great German Nobel Prize winner, Thomas Mann.

Mann traces the life of Henry IV from the mountain villages of the Pyrenees to the throne of France, in a novel that the New York Times called "so intensely alive, so dramatic, so profound and beautiful as to touch every chord of interest and significance.

This sequel to Young Henry of Navarre recounts two decades of chaos and war, which led to the founding of the French Republic and the King's assassination in 1589.

It seemed so simple. Panama was less than fifty miles wide. How difficult could it be to build a canal across it? Tragically difficult. Panama was a disease-ridden death trap. Its mountainous rain forest was a challenge to the most brilliant engineers. Its oppressive heat exhausted the hardiest workers. Somehow the Panama Canal was built. Engineers found ways to cut through the rain forest. Medical visionaries conquered the diseases. Workers e...

Nearly 50 stories high, the Great Pyramid was built more than 4, 500 years ago, made from over 2, 300, 000 giant stone blocks and constructed by primitive farmers. Some believe it was created by people from outer space, but the true story of the Great Pyramid is even more fascinating than the speculation. 44 illustrations and photos. Double gatefolds.

The Brooklyn Bridge is the perfect subject for a picture book. This is the story of how it was built. This book is a classic tale of struggle and triumph, told in a manner that will thrill, fascinate, and inspire--all the more so because every word is true. 36 illustrations, prints, photos. 2 gatefolds.

An illustrated history of the Empire State Building that details its architecture, engineering, and construction as well as profiles of the millionaires and laborers who build it -- includes both new illustrative paintings and archival photographs.

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Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. "Lotte in Weimar" is a vivid dual portrait--a complex study of Goethe and of Lotte, the still-vivacious woman who in her youth was the model for Charlotte in Goethe's widely-read "The Sorrows of You...

A dramatic and compelling history of one of the great engineering feats of modern times: the Hoover Dam. This illustrated history has both human drama: danger, suffering, courage and genius, and technological achievement in a seamless package.

Dr. Samuel Mann -- featured along with this book in a major piece in the New York Times -- presents a controversial new approach to understanding why people develop hypertension and what to do about it. Drawing on his original research and his experience treating thousands of hypertensive patients, Dr. Mann argues that many cases are a result of repressed -- or hidden -- emotions. While presenting fascinating, dramatic case studies, Dr. Mann o...

A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims...