DEREK PARKER

Derek and Julia Parker may seem like innocent astrology teachers, but they are a very, very naughty pair. They make astrology fun. They make it easy and then . . . they slowly infect you with a burning desire to find out more"Daily ExpressWhether you are a well-balanced Libran, or a power-crazed Leo learn about the wisdom of the heavens from world authorities Derek and Julia Parker.Trace astrology through the ages, from its place in ancient times to the present, and explore the intriguing relationships it has with science and religion. Unravel the secrets of each sign and discover how the movements of stars, planets and moons influence our lives. Plus, find out how to draw your own birth charts using astrological tables with planetary positions for every month from 1931 to 2010.A must have for all zodiac devotees.

Una guía muy completa para volverse un experto en astrología. El fascinante mundo de los planetas, las casas, los signos y su compleja simbología... todo responde a una precisa estructura que por fin podras conocer en su vertiente teorica y practica. Solo debes seguir las instrucciones y podras dibujar e interpretar correctamente tu propia carta astral.

Los signos del zodiaco y sus características claveEn estas páginas magníficamente ilustradas, además del Zodiaco, nos encontraremos con las características clave de los signos solares, lunares y ascendentes, podremos aprender a elaborar nuestra propia carta astral, con todas las tecnicas para interpretarla y con las completisimas tablas mensuales de los planetas desde 1931 hasta 2010.

Franz Liszt, the son of poor parents, became the sensational and enormously rich greatest pianist in the world. Touring Europe unceasingly for seven years he was adored by the public - especially by women, who fainted at his good looks and flamboyant behaviour, collected his cigar butts and the dregs from his wineglasses, and competed for the honour of being taken to bed after his concerts. The lover of Lola Montez and the Lady of the Camellias, he was pursued by women even after he took religious orders. But he was also a serious musician who took pianism to new technical heights, honoured and promoted the works of Wagnber, and composed works that laid the foundations of twentieth century composition.

Lord Byron was born in poverty, and remained in poverty for most of his life: money-lenders and other debtors paid for his luxurious life-style and his incessant womanizing. Famous overnight on the publishing of his poem Childe Harold, he became notorious for his affair with his half-sister - and with several other well-known society women. Fleeing from the women and the debtors, he settled in Venice (where he claimed to make love to over 300 women in the first two years) and eventually settled into semi-domesticity with his last mistress, the Countess Guiccioli. Continuing to scandalize with his agnostic poetry, his poetic fame rests on his masterpiece, Don Juan - his personal life came to an end when he went to Greece (in armour of his own design) to fight for the countrys freedom from the Turks, and died of a fever, his last poem written to his klast love, a beautiful Grecian boy.

When King Charles II was dying, the name of only one of his many mistresses was in his mind and on his lips: that of Nell Gwyn. Born in extreme poverty, forced to become a child prostitute, she went on the stage and became the most popular actress of the time until Charles took her into his bed, where her beauty, wit and liveliness made her in the end preferable to his other many mistresses, who were either common prostitutes found for him in the bawdy-houses or on the streets by the royal pimp, William Chiffinch, or were would-be grand ladies such as the English Barbara Villiers, the French Louise de Keroualle and the Italian beauty Hortense Mancini, eager to use their position to interfere in politics. Charles took all of them to bed with great enthusiasm, but it was Nelly who he loved as much as he was capable of love. Unlike the others, she knew her place when her coachman fought a fellow who called her a whore, she rebuked him: that, she said, was after all what she was. She flattered no-one even giving the King a piece of her mind when she pleased. When she died, some years after the King, she was given a grand funeral, the sermon preached by a future Archbishop of Canterbury. No court in modern history has been as scandalously dissolute as that of Charles II, and the story of the king and his mistresses is engrossingly outrageous. The heroine, however and who would deny her that title is pretty, witty Nell.