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Exploring the X-ray Universe
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 58.00Capturing the excitement of X-ray astronomy, this second edition textbook for undergraduate students now covers a broader range of topics. more...
The Early Years of Radio Astronomy
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 78.00Recollection by pioneers in radio astronomy, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of extraterrestrial radio emission in 1933. more...
Infrared Astronomy
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 78.00An excellent introduction and thorough review of developments in this wide-ranging field of research. more...
The Radio Sky and How to Observe It
Springer 2010; US$ 27.99Radio astronomy is far from being beyond the scope of amateurs astronomers, and this practical, self-contained guide for the newcomer to practical radio astronomy is an ideal introduction. This guide is a must for anyone who wants to join the growing ranks of 21st Century backyard radio astronomers. The first part of the book provides background material... more...
Handbook of Infrared Astronomy
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 43.00A clear and concise practical handbook on all aspects of infrared astronomy, for graduate students, researchers and keen amateurs. more...
What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 90.00Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs beginning in 1997 revealed that the majority of gamma-ray bursts are... more...
The Transient Radio Sky
Springer 2011; US$ 99.99The high time-resolution radio sky represents unexplored astronomical territory. This thesis presents a study of the transient radio sky, focussing on millisecond scales. As such, the work is concerned primarily with neutron stars. In particular this research concentrates on a recently identified group of neutron stars, known as RRATs, which exhibit... more...
Parkes: Thirty Years of Radio Astronomy
CSIRO Publishing 1994; US$ 39.95Presents accounts of the work and life at Parkes, and provides a fresh perspective on the growth of Australian science over the past three decades. more...
A Panchromatic View of Galaxies
Wiley 2012; US$ 135.00Describing how to investigate all kinds of galaxies through a multifrequency analysis, this text is divided into three different sections. The first describes the data currently available at different frequencies, from X-rays to UV, optical, infrared and radio millimetric and centimetric, while explaining their physical meaning. In the second section,... more...
Searching African Skies
Jacana Media 2012; US$ 24.99An ambitious scientific project is unfolding in the desert of South Africa, with a multi-decade timeline that will eventually see expansion into Western Australia?a project that is detailed and celebrated in this book on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). The SKA will be the largest and most sensitive radio telescope, expanding the capabilities of scientific... more...









