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A User's Guide to the Meade LXD55 and LXD75 Telescopes
Springer 2010; US$ 31.99This book offers a comprehensive introductory guide to "choosing and using" a series LXD55 or LXD75 computer-controlled ("goto") telescope, containing a wealth of useful information for both beginners and more advanced practical amateur astronomers. The manufacturer's manuals are not nearly detailed enough to be of real help... more...
The Earth as a Distant Planet
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99In The Earth as a Distant Planet, the authors become external observers of our solar system from a distance and try to determine how one can understand how Earth, the third in distance to the central star, is essentially unique and capable of sustaining life. The knowledge gained from this original perspective is then applied to the search for other... more...
The First Galaxies
Springer 2012; US$ 139.99Exploring intriguing questions about where the first generations of stars were formed, book discusses how the first galaxies were assembled, whether early galaxies have low redshift counterparts and what role early galaxies played in the reionization process. more...
An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars
Springer 2013; US$ 47.99An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars provides physicists with an understanding of binary and single star evolution, beginning with a background and introduction of basic astronomical concepts. Although a general treatment of stellar structure and evolution is included, the text stresses the physical processes that lead to stellar... more...
From Black Clouds to Black Holes
World Scientific Publishing Company 1985; US$ 108.00This book describes in a non-technical language, one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy. It presents us with the physical picture of what constitutes a star, with a description of how a star evolves with time, how its shape and brightness change, how it manufactures the chemical elements deep in its interior, what makes... more...
Europe to the Stars
Wiley 2013; US$ 49.95The creation of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1962 was the culmination of the dream of leading astronomers from five European countries. Over the years, as more member states joined, ESO constructed the La Silla and Paranal observatories, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) together with partners. ESO is... more...
The Jewel on the Mountaintop
Wiley 2013; US$ 75.00Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescopes in the southern hemisphere, but also about a truly remarkable European success story in research. Spanning... more...
Stellar Rotation
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 50.00Authoritative volume providing the definitive reference on stellar rotation. Combines theory and observation in a comprehensive survey of how the rotation of stars affects the structure and evolution of the Sun, single stars, and close binaries. Of primary interest to graduate students and researchers. more...
The Galaxies of the Local Group
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 58.00A masterful summary of what is currently known about the Local Group (thirty-five member galaxies that includes the Milky Way), and expertly places this knowledge in the wider context of understanding galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmic distance scale, and the early Universe. Includes many important previously unpublished results. more...
An Introduction to Black Holes, Information and the String Theory Revolution
World Scientific Publishing Company 2004; US$ 36.40Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Steven Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world with gravity. more...









