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The Biggest Bangs
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 44.99For over 25 years, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. 'The Biggest Bangs' tells how the mystery was unravelled, from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts by a Cold War satellite system monitoring the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to the localization of bursts in distant galaxies. more...
Compact Stellar X-ray Sources
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 55.00X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In this book, the foremost experts in the field provide a comprehensive overview of the observations and astrophysics of these objects. This is a valuable reference for graduate students and active researchers. 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...
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...
Extreme Ultraviolet Astronomy
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 74.00Describes the development of astronomy in the Extreme Ultraviolet wavelength range, from the first rocket-based experiments to the latest satellite missions. This timely book for graduate students and researchers comes at the end of a major phase of discovery in the field. more...
From Eudoxus to Einstein
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 65.00Since Babylonian times, a great deal of effort has been put into trying to predict and explain the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. This book describes the theories of planetary motion that have been developed through the ages, emphasizing the interaction between progress in astronomy and mathematics. more...
Fundamental Questions in Astrophysics
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99The Ultraviolet is a fundamental energy domain since it is one of the most powerful tools to study plasmas at temperatures in the 3,000-300,000K range. This book describes the fundamental problems in modern astrophysics that cannot progress without easy and wide-spread access to modern UV instrumentation. more...
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Springer 2009; US$ 139.99Since their discovery was first announced in 1973, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been among the most fascination objects in the universe. This work gives an account on both the history and the perspectives of GRB research. more...
Handbook
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 280.00Since the discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1913 over 100 000 different inorganic substances (also called compounds or phases) have been structurally characterized. The aim of this reference work is to provide the researcher with a comprehensive compilation of all up to now crystallographically identified inorganic substances in only one volume. All... more...









