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Exploring the Cosmic Frontier
Springer 2007; US$ 79.99Covers a range of scientific topics including the cosmological epoch of reionization, galactic dynamics and nuclear activity, stellar astronomy, extra-solar planets, gamma-ray bursts, X-ray binaries, and others. This book gives an account of a snapshot of an evolving scientific discourse and interaction throughout our field of research. more...
Dark Cosmos
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99The twentieth century was astonishing in all regards, shaking the foundations of practically every aspect of human life and thought, physics not least of all. Beginning with the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, through the wild revolution of quantum mechanics, and up until the physics of the modern day (including the astonishing... more...
The Constants of Nature
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00Reality as we know it is bound by a set of constants?numbers and values that dictate the strengths of forces like gravity, the speed of light, and the masses of elementary particles. In The Constants of Nature , Cambridge Professor and bestselling author John D.Barrow takes us on an exploration of these governing principles. Drawing on physicists... more...
You Are Here
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99? You Are Here is not just physics for poets, but as close to poetry or music as science is ever likely to get. Christopher Potter?s narrative is as imaginative, ingenious, and elegantly concise as it is user-friendly.? ? Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind ?A personal, brilliant, and often amusing account . . . . An idiosyncratic, encyclopedic... more...
From Eternity to Here
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 17.00"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling... more...
Warped Passages
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99The universe has many secrets. It may hide additional dimensions of space other than the familier three we recognize. There might even be another universe adjacent to ours, invisible and unattainable . . . for now. Warped Passages is a brilliantly readable and altogether exhilarating journey that tracks the arc of discovery from early twentieth-century... more...
Physics and Philosphy of Nature in Greek Neoplatonism
BRILL 2009; US$ 166.00Collects ten papers presented at an international conference held in 2006. This title includes papers that concentrate on Neoplatonic philosophy of nature from Plotinus to Simplicius, on its main conceptual features and on its relation to the previous philosophical and scientific traditions. more...
Structures in the Universe by Exact Methods
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 115.00Reviews developments in applications of inhomogeneous models to cosmology, for graduate students and academic researchers in astrophysics. more...
Time, Space, Stars and Man
World Scientific Publishing Company 2009; US$ 135.00Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term Big Bang as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries. This book brings together all of that material. Starting with the creation... more...
Extrasolar Planets
Wiley 2008; US$ 175.00This latest, up-to-date resource for research on extrasolar planets covers formation, dynamics, atmospheres and detection. After a look at the formation of giant planets, the book goes on to discuss the formation and dynamics of planets in resonances, planets in double stars, atmospheres and habitable zones, detection via spectra and transits, and... more...









