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A Century of Ideas : Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century

Shortly after its inauguration in 1985 the Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India, started a series of lectures by Nobel ...

A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy and Astrophysics is a comprehensive, fundamental, up-to-date reference book. It is filled with vital information ...

A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure

The reviews presented in this volume cover a wide-range of cluster of galaxies topics like the physics of the ICM gas, the ...

African Cultural Astronomy : Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

Astronomy is the science of studying the sky using telescopes and light collectors such as photographic plates or CCD detectors. ...

Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics

The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. Measurement methods, ...

Astroparticle Physics

The book describes the branch of astrophysics in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods ...

Astrophysics Update 2

"Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students ...

Axions : Theory, Cosmology, and Experimental Searches

Axions are peculiar hypothetical particles that could both solve the CP problem of quantum chromodynamics and at the same ...

Buchi neri nel mio bagno di schiuma : L’enigma di Einstein = Black holes in my bubble bath : Einstein's riddle

Einstein's Enigma, or black holes in my foam bath, tells the story of the theory of gravitation, from its beginnings to ...

Calibrating the Cosmos

Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the ...

Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars

In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. ...

Cosmic Explosions

The proceedings of the conference Supernovae 2003 (IAU colloquium 192) provides an extensive state-of-the-art survey of all ...

Cosmological Crossroads : An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology

This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing need for an advanced ...

Cosmology

Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More ...

De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries

This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...

Einsteins General Theory of Relativity

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology by Oyvind Gron and Sigbjorn Hervik is about ...

Einsteins Spacetime

Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity is a textbook addressed to students in physics ...

Electronic Imaging in Astronomy : Detectors and Instrumentation

The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments ...

Exploring the Cosmic Frontier

On May 18-21, 2004, the Max-Planck-Society’s Harnack-Haus in Dahlem, Berlin hosted the international symposium "Exploring ...

Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology

This textbook introduces the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, their active galactic nuclei, their evolution and their ...

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