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Comets
Touchstone 1998; US$ 17.95David Levy brings these "ghostly apparitions" to life. With fascinating scenarios both real and imagined, he shows how comets have wreaked their special havoc on Earth and other planets. Beginning with ground zero as comets take form, we track the paths their icy, rocky masses take around our universe and investigate the enormous potential that future... more...
Reviews in Modern Astronomy, Formation and Evolution of Cosmic Structures
Wiley 2010; US$ 185.00This 21st volume in the series contains 15 invited reviews and highlight contributions presented during the 2008 International Scientific Conference of the German Astronomical Society on the topic of "New Challenges to European Astronomy", held in Vienna, Austria. The papers discuss a wide range of hot topics, including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics,... more...
A Tear at the Edge of Creation
Free Press 2010; US$ 25.00For millennia, shamans and philosophers, believers and nonbelievers, artists and scientists have tried to make sense of our existence by suggesting that everything is connected, that a mysterious Oneness binds us to everything else. People go to temples, churches, mosques, and synagogues to pray to their divine incarnation of Oneness. Following a... more...
Observing and Cataloguing Nebulae and Star Clusters
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 116.00This is an important resource to all those interested in the history of modern astronomy and visual deep-sky observing. more...
AGN Feedback in Galaxy Formation
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 88.00Suitable for researchers and graduate students in astrophysics, this volume discusses AGN feedback in the context of galaxy formation. more...
The Shape of Inner Space
Basic Books 2010; US$ 18.99The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see more...
A Briefer History of Time
Transworld 2010; US$ 13.34Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years... more...
Before the Big Bang
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 14.99According to a recent survey, the most popular question about science from the general public was: what came before the Big Bang? We all know on some level what the Big Bang is, but we don?t know how it became the accepted theory, or how we might know what came before. In Before the Big Bang , Brian Clegg (the critically acclaimed author of Upgrade... more...
Advanced General Relativity
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 47.00A self-contained introduction to advanced general relativity. more...
The Expanding Universe
Cambridge University Press 1920; US$ 37.00This classic book, long out of print, investigates the experimental determination of one of the fundamental constants of astrophysics and its significance for astronomy. The equations of general relativity include a constant lambda in their solution. If lambda is non-zero and positive, this represents the existence of a phenomenon of cosmical repulsion.... more...









