Cosmology and the universe

A Practical Guide to Observational Astronomy provides a practical and accessible introduction to the ideas and concepts that are essential to making and analyzing astronomical observations.

High resolution is a key element in research in astronomy and cosmology.

Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System.

From Mastery to Mystery is an original and provocative contribution to the burgeoningfield of ecophenomenology.

This book combines, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry.

Provides an overview of the fundamentals of Bayesian inference and its applications within astrophysics, for graduate students and researchers.

Written in an accessible style, this unique book aims at describing the Nobel prize winning works in astronomy to readers who only have a background of high school physics.

Thoroughly revised and updated introduction to past and present cosmological theory.

This textbook presents the established sciences of optical, infrared, and radio astronomy as distinct research areas, focusing on the science targets and the constraints that they place on instrumentation in the different domains.

It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now' in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is.

What is the origin of the universe?

Throughout history, people have tried to construct 'theories of everything': highly ambitious attempts to understand nature in its totality.

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to modern cosmology from an astrophysical viewpoint.

The ancient Greeks believed that everything in the Universe should be describable in terms of geometry.

Arthur Koestler's extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universeIn this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton.

This book addresses supergravity and supergravity-motivated effective field theories in the context of cosmological model building.

A major outstanding problem in physics is understanding the nature of the dark energy that is driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

This thesis is based on the first data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day.

In Assembling Life, David Deamer addresses questions that are the cutting edge of research on the origin of life.

This book relates Plato''s cosmology to his political philosophy by means of new interpretations of his Timaeus, Statesman, and Laws.

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This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.

The history of the universe has fascinated mankind for centuries.

Martin Harwit''s influential book, Cosmic Discovery, is rereleased after more than 35 years, with a new Preface by the author.

This book reviews the construction of elementary systems living in de Sitter (dS) spacetime, in both the classical and quantum senses.

Written from personal accounts and interviews with his contemporaries, this book gives valuable insights into Fred Hoyle''s unforgettable life.

A comprehensive graduate-level review of GRB astrophysics and its history, featuring the latest research by an international team of experts.

The Astrophotography Manual, Second Edition is for photographers ready to move beyond standard SLR cameras and editing software to create beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies, clusters, and the stars.

This book is the second edition of an excellent undergraduate-level overview of classical and modern physics, intended  for students of physics and related subjects, and also perfectly suited for the education of physics teachers.

Describes the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology for graduate students and researchers.

This book presents gravitational lensing as an essential tool in astrophysics for tracking dark matter at all scales in the Universe.

This book presents Einstein's theory of space and time in detail, and describes the large-scale structure of space, time and velocity as a new cosmological special relativity.

La astronomía es la ciencia que nos permite encontrar nuestro lugar en el Universo.

In biblical Hebrew there is a word that means both "e;God"e; and "e;nothing.

Provides advanced students with an introduction to modern galactic dynamics, and equips them with useful observational and theoretical tools.

This book is a thorough introduction to general relativity for advanced students, including complete derivations of important results.

This thesis explores the connection between gravity and thermodynamics and provides a unification scheme that opens up new directions of exploration.

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook integrating experimental results, including discovery of the Higgs boson, to convey the excitement of particle physics.

A comprehensive examination of nearly fourteen billion years of galaxy formation and evolution, from primordial gas to present-day galaxies.

Identifying the Mayan World Tree with the central axis of the cosmos, the author shows how evolution is not random *; Shows how the evolution of the universe emanates from the cosmic Tree of Life *; Explains the origin and evolution of biological life and consciousness and how this is directed Using recent findings within cosmology, coupled with his broad understanding of the Mayan Calendar, biologist Carl Johan Calleman offers a revolutionary and fully developed alternative to Darwin's theory of biological evolution--and the theory of randomness that holds sway over modern science.

Reviews developments in applications of inhomogeneous models to cosmology, for graduate students and academic researchers in astrophysics.

This volume records the latest experimental and theoretical results on anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background (CMB).

An engaging defence and critique of the various arguments from both science and religion on the fine-tuning of the Universe.

This volume is concerned with the broad areas related to high energy astrophysics stressing the processes in the compact objects and active galaxies.