Cosmology and the universe

Pedagogical introduction to numerical relativity for students and researchers entering the field, and interested scientists.

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.

This new astrophysics text integrates analytical and computational methods to explore a broad range of topics in astrophysics.

In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume, former NASA Chief Historian Steven Dick reflects on the exploration of space, astrobiology and its implications, cosmic evolution, astronomical institutions, discovering and classifying the cosmos, and the philosophy of astronomy.

How did everything around us-the air, the land, the sea, and the stars-originate?

This book is a comprehensive reference on ancient Egyptian astronomy, one of the most important topics in historical astronomy.

Can animals be persons?

An interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe, first published in 2007.

A collection of essays on research on CMBR in the 1960s by eminent cosmologists who pioneered the work.

This 2001 book explains the construction of exact soliton solutions to Einstein''s theory of gravity.

The social anthropology of sickness and health has always been concerned with religious cosmologies: how societies make sense of such issues as prediction and control of misfortune and fate; the malevolence of others; the benevolence (or otherwise) of the mystical world; local understanding and explanations of the natural and ultra-human worlds.

This book addresses foundational questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology for a broad academic audience.

The wealth of recent cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure data has transformed the field of cosmology.

This book is about how big is the universe and how small are quarks, and what are the sizes of dozens of things between these two extremes.

This book offers construction of a renormalizable effective theory of electroweak-interacting spin-1 dark matter (DM).

Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history.

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

Dark Energy and Dark Matter are among the greatest mysteries in modern cosmology.

This volume presents introductory lectures on the Standard Model and Higgs physics, as well as QCD.

Modified gravity models play an important role in contemporary theoretical cosmology.

Describing interstellar matter in our galaxy in all of its various forms, this book also considers the physical and chemical processes that are occurring within this matter.

Fourth volume of multi-volume catalog of every comet observed throughout history, this volume covers comets seen from 1933 to 1959.

The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, in four volumes, is a major, long-lasting, seminal reference at the graduate student level, laid out by the most prominent, respected researchers in the general field of Cosmology.

Innovations in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology summarizes the state of the art in nano-sized materials.

Detailed exposition of automorphic representations and their relation to string theory, for mathematicians and theoretical physicists.

Of all philosophers of the 20th century, few built more bridges between academic disciplines than Karl Popper.

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

A rigorous and scientific analysis of the myriad possibilities of life beyond our planet.

This thesis sheds valuable new light on the second-order cosmological perturbation theory, extensively discussing it in the context of cosmic microwave background (CMB) fluctuations.

The essential introduction to modern string theory-now fully expanded and revisedString Theory in a Nutshell is the definitive introduction to modern string theory.

This book presents a collection of focused review papers on the advances in topics in modern astronomy, astrophysics,  cosmology and planetary science.

This book sheds new light on topological defects in widely differing systems, using the Velocity-Dependent One-Scale Model to better understand their evolution.

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

The exciting discoveries and newest revelations in the field of archeoastronomy present fascinating examples of the importance of astronomy to the ancient Maya Civilization.

Dieses Buch bietet eine ausführliche Darstellung der Astroteilchenphysik und der kosmischen Strahlung mit den dazugehörigen Messmethoden in der Forschung.

This book deals with special relativity theory and its application to cosmology.

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This thesis describes in detail a search for weakly interacting massive particles as possible dark matter candidates, making use of so-called mono-jet events.

This new book is a thorough but short review of the history and present status of ideas in cosmology.

This volume marks the transition to a fresh paradigm in the study of stellar explosions.

"In diesem innovativen Astronomie-Buch werden astronomische Theorien, die Geschichte der Raumfahrt und über 100 zentrale Ideen der Astronomie galaktisch-gut erklärt.

The history of the universe has fascinated mankind for centuries.

The only solutions manual providing students with comprehensive cross-referenced solutions to Bernard Schutz''s A First Course in General Relativity.

This fascinating book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of modern cosmology.

This thesis covers several theoretical aspects of WIMP (weakly interacting massive particles) dark matter searches, with a particular emphasis on colliders.

In some of his most famous works, John Philoponus (c.

Documenting the different formulations of general relativity, this book reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force.