Solar System Astrophysics : Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System
Solar System Astrophysics opens with coverage of the atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth, Venus and ...
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Star Maps : History, Artistry, and Cartography
This book traces the history of celestial cartography and relates this history to the changing ideas of man’s place in ...
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State of the Universe 2007
The book cover all major astronomical news on topics beyond the Solar System and place them in the context of the longer ...
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State of the Universe 2008 : New Images, Discoveries, and Events
Provides an annual astronomy review suitable for the popular science level reader to be published every September. The book ...
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String Theory and Fundamental Interactions : Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
This volume, dedicated to Prof. Gabriele Veneziano on the occasion of his retirement from CERN, starts as a broad historico-scientific ...
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String Theory: from Gauge Interactions to Cosmology
String Theory is our current best candidate for the unification of all fundamental forces, including gravity, in a consistent ...
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The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later
The Book contains the proceedings of a Conference intended to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the IMF ...
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The Invisible Universe : The Story of Radio Astronomy
This is the story of radio astronomy, of how radio waves are generated by stars, supernova, quasars, colliding galaxies, ...
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The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The last two chapters of the book present Eshelby's sophisticated theory in a didactically accessible way, knowledge of ...
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The Many Scales in the Universe
The book gathers the invited talks to the XIII JENAM conference, organized this time by the European Astronomical Society ...
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The Moon that Wasn’t : The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite
This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, ...
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The Multi-Messenger Approach to Unidentified Gamma Ray Sources
This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their ...
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The Music of the Big Bang : The Cosmic Microwave Background and the New Cosmology
Most cosmological information is encoded in the cosmic background radiation by acoustic oscillations in the dense plasma ...
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The Physical Basis of The Direction of Time
This thoroughly revised 5th edition of Zeh's classic text investigates irreversible phenomena and their foundation in classical, ...
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The Physics of the Early Universe
The Physics of the Early Universe is an edited and expanded version of the lectures given at a recent summer school of the ...
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The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation : Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held in Garching, Germany, 4-8 April 2005
Long-baseline interferometry has been traditionally regarded as a very technical method with a limited number of applications. ...
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The Road to Galaxy Formation
The book discusses the beginnings of the process from cosmological observations and calculations, considers the broad features ...
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The Sky at Einsteins Feet
Specifically traces the impact of Einstein's ideas on astronomy, including the way we interpret observations of stars and ...
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The Structure of Physics
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker‘s "Aufbau der Physik", first published in 1985, was intended as an overview of his lifelong ...
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The Universe Before the Big Bang : Cosmology and String Theory
Terms such as "expanding Universe", "big bang", and "initial singularity", are nowadays part of our common language. ...
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