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  • The Illustrated A Brief History of Timeby Stephen Hawking

    Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 40.00

    In the years since its publication in 1988, Stephen Hawking's A Brief History Of Time has established itself as a landmark volume in scientific writing.  It has become an international publishing phenomenon, translated into forty languages and selling over nine million copies.  The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature... more...

  • Cycles of Timeby Roger Penrose

    Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 13.34

    What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? In this remarkable book Roger Penrose brilliantly illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Cycles of Time contains a penetrating analysis of the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually... more...

  • An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Starsby Matthew Benacquista

    Springer 2013; US$ 47.99

    An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars provides physicists with an understanding of binary and single star evolution, beginning with a background and introduction of basic astronomical concepts. Although a general treatment of stellar structure and evolution is included, the text stresses the physical processes that lead to stellar... more...

  • The Universe Withinby Neil Turok

    Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 25.45

    World-renowned physicist Neil Turok delivers this year's Massey Lectures - a visionary look at the way the human mind can shape the future. A groundbreaking book about the future of science - and the directions in which it will take us and our world. more...

  • A Journey with Fred Hoyleby Chandra Wickramasinghe; Kamala Wickramasinghe

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2013; US$ 55.00

    This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle–Wickramasinghe collaborations... more...

  • The Jewel on the Mountaintopby Claus Madsen

    Wiley 2013; US$ 75.00

    Authored by ESO senior advisor Claus Madsen, the present book comprises 576 action-packed pages of ESO history and dramatic stories about the people behind the organisation. This is the ultimate historical account about ESO and its telescopes in the southern hemisphere, but also about a truly remarkable European success story in research. Spanning... more...

  • Astrophysics of the Interstellar Mediumby Walter Maciel

    Springer 2013; US$ 99.99

    The space between the stars contains a large diversity of objects in which physical processes occur that are fundamental to the structure and evolution of galaxies. This book offers the reader a basic knowledge of these processes and presents simple numeric estimates of the main quantities relevant to the interstellar medium. The main objects that... more...

  • Physics of Collisionless Shocksby André Balogh; Rudolf A. Treumann

    Springer 2013; US$ 139.99

    The present book provides a contemporary systematic treatment of shock waves in high-temperature collisionless plasmas as are encountered in near Earth space and in Astrophysics. It consists of two parts. Part I develops the complete theory of shocks in dilute hot plasmas under the assumption of absence of collisions among the charged particles ... more...

  • Europe to the Starsby Govert Schilling; Lars Lindberg Christensen

    Wiley 2013; US$ 49.95

    The creation of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in 1962 was the culmination of the dream of leading astronomers from five European countries. Over the years, as more member states joined, ESO constructed the La Silla and Paranal observatories, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) together with partners. ESO is... more...

  • Star-Craving Madby Fred Watson

    Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 20.90

    A journey through time and space with Australia's best known astronomer, Fred Watson more...