Examines ten amateur scientists who, without the proper educational background, made significant insights and discoveries involving electricity, archaeology, astronomy, and genetics. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A LIVELY EXPLORATION OF THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN SCIENCEHow Did the Universe Begin?The Big Bang has been the accepted theory for decades, but does it explain everything?How Did Life on Earth Get Started?What triggered the cell division that started the evolutionary chain? Did life come from outer space, buried in a chunk of rock?What is Gravity?Newton's apple just got the arguments started, Einstein made things more complicated...read more

The author of Predicting the Future analyzes the meaning of being gay in the new millennium, discussing gay separatism, gay mainstreaming, religion, politics, culture, media, and many other pertinent topics. Original. (view table of contents)

Provides advice for amateur and professional actors about theater skills, auditions, rehearsals, openings, and how to become a professional, and discusses the benefits of acting for non-professionals. (view table of contents)

Alphabetically arranged entries include biographies of champion skaters, histories of the major branches of competition, and descriptions of skating forms (view table of contents)

A collection of the stories behind scores of predictions made over the past 150 years details each prediction, its date, and the name of the predictor, followed by a short essay focusing not only on whether it came true, but how it did or why it did not. IP.