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Product Description: A new year. A new millennium. And a new set of Total Horoscopes with all the predictions you need...For nearly two decades, Total Horoscopes have given readers a glimpse of the year ahead, in individual books for each sign which include:* 18 months of daily forecasts * Complete yearly, daily, and weekly overviews for 2000* A bonus section on lucky numbers* A sneak preview of the 21st century* Advice on romance, money and health matter...read more

Product Description: This volume is written as a reaction to the worldwide decreasing interest in the natural sciences. It addresses many intriguing questions. How is the changing image of the distinct sciences experienced by the general public, by the scientists themselves, or in disciplines in which natural sciences are applied? How can it be connected to the phenomenon of the low number of women in science? It is of interest to researchers, teachers, and students of natural sciences, the history of science, and philosophy...read more

Product Description: Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun...read more

Product Description:  A member of the distinguished British Huxley family, Julian Huxley (1887–1975) was a man of many talents and enormous energy.  At the beginning of his career, he founded the biology department at Rice Institute, where he taught for three years before going on to achieve eminence as a biologist, statesman, and intellectual...read more

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Product Description: They measure, they demonstrate, they reveal unseen worlds. Through the ages, scientific instruments have been used not only to advance understanding, but also to advance careers, dazzle audiences, and impose standards. These eleven essays take stock of the philosophy of instrumentation and the impact of new instruments in both the physical and life sciences, carefully considering the important interplay between instruments and authority, audience, and culture...read more

Product Description: Julian Huxley (1887-1975) was a man of many talents and enormous energy. At the beginning of his career, he founded the Biology Department at Rice Institute, where he taught for three years before going on to achieve eminence as a biologist, statesman, and intellectual...read more