[the authors] … wickedly, brazenly break the rules by which this dry, complex subject is normally taught. They make astrology fun. They make it easy and 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 Expresspre-history to contemporary Europe and America. For professional astrologers, this is a reference book in which they can quickly access brief biographies of historical and contemporary astrologers, together with the history and background of their subject in separate entries. Students will find it equally useful in providing textbook definitions of astrological terms and basic explanations of technical aspects of astrology.