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The Amateur Astronomer
Springer 2006; US$ 54.99Introduces astronomy and amateur observing together. This edition includes photographs and illustrations. The comprehensive appendices provide hints and tips, as well as data for every aspect of amateur astronomy. This work is useful for amateur astronomers. more...
Astrophysics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 84.99For a quantitative understanding of the physics of the universe - from the solar system through the milky way to clusters of galaxies all the way to cosmology - these edited lecture notes are perhaps among the most concise and also among the most critical ones: Astrophysics has not yet stood the redundancy test of laboratory physics, hence should be... more...
Astrophysics Update 2
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 149.99Talks about astrophysics. more...
High-Energy Spectroscopic Astrophysics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 99.99After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy for interested students and researchers ready to become involved in new high-energy missions. This volume exposes both the scientific basics and modern methods of high-energy spectroscopic astrophysics.... more...
Recollections of "Tucson Operations"
Springer 2007; US$ 139.99This book is a personal account of the evolution of millimeter-wave astronomy at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It begins with the construction of the hugely successful, but flawed, 36 ft radio telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona, and continues through the funding of its ultimate successor, the Atacama Large Millimeter-wave Array (ALMA), being... more...
High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics
Springer 2005; US$ 149.99During the past several years, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant utilizing high energy-density facilities such as intense lasers and z-pinches. This work covers topics such as: hydrodynamic instabilities in astrophysics, supernovae and supernova remnant evolution, astrophysical shocks, blast waves, and more. more...
The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99Celebrates the 60th birthday of Professor Woodruff Sullivan III. This work provides a collection of key papers and reviews on the history of astronomy, astrobiology and sundials. It features papers on astrobiology, which reflect his intimate involvement in this multidisciplinary field. It is useful for professional and amateur astronomers. more...
ISO Science Legacy
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Stars are born and die in clouds of gas and dust, opaque to most types of radiation, but transparent in the infrared. Requiring complex detectors, space missions and cooled telescopes, infrared astronomy is the branch of this discipline to come of age. more...
Astrophysical disks
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99Deals with collective and stochastic processes in astrophysical disks involving theory, observations, and the results of modelling. This book examines the spiral-vortex structure in galactic and accretion disks, stochastic and ordered structures in the developed turbulence. more...
Astronomy Methods
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 70.00An introduction to basic practical tools, methods and phenomena that underlie quantitative astronomy. more...









