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 ...
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A Companion to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy and Astrophysics is a comprehensive, fundamental, up-to-date reference book. It is filled with vital information ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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, ...
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Astroparticle Physics
The book describes the branch of astrophysics in which processes in the universe are investigated with experimental methods ...
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Astrophysics Update 2
"Astrophysics Updates" is intended to serve the information needs of professional astronomers and postgraduate students ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Calibrating the Cosmos
Calibrating the Cosmos describes hard science, but is gently written. It explains in clear, non-mathematical language the ...
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Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars
In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. ...
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Cosmic Explosions
The proceedings of the conference Supernovae 2003 (IAU colloquium 192) provides an extensive state-of-the-art survey of all ...
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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 ...
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Cosmology
Cosmology deals with the current state of thinking about the basic questions at the center of the field of cosmology. More ...
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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 ...
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Einsteins General Theory of Relativity
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology by Oyvind Gron and Sigbjorn Hervik is about ...
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Einsteins Spacetime
Einstein's Space-Time: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity is a textbook addressed to students in physics ...
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Electronic Imaging in Astronomy : Detectors and Instrumentation
The second edition of Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation describes the remarkable developments ...
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Exploring the Cosmic Frontier
On May 18-21, 2004, the Max-Planck-Society’s Harnack-Haus in Dahlem, Berlin hosted the international symposium "Exploring ...
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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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