Astronomy, space and time

A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to contemporary cosmology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Ideal for astronomers worldwide, the fourth edition of this classic atlas features new Moon maps, new data and enhanced charts.

New updated edition of popular handbook; a concise and accessible reference on all practical aspects.

The first comprehensive introduction to the dynamics of the Solar System - includes free Internet Mathematica® software package.

Short guide to teach the essentials of DSLR astrophotography to amateur astronomers.

A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of all important topics in exoplanet research, ideal for astronomy and planetary science researchers entering the field.

These fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science introduce the reader to the work of Albert Einstein.

A comprehensive and authoritative introduction to contemporary cosmology for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

The first comprehensive introduction to the dynamics of the Solar System - includes free Internet Mathematica® software package.

This book provides extensive guidance for amateurs on observing and imaging equipment and demonstrates how to best use them.

This Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive guide to the history of astronomy and astrophysics from ancient times to the present day.

A systematic account of meteorites and their most important classification parameters for meteorite researchers.

A complete story of the human lunar experience, presenting many interesting but little-known events in lunar science for the first time.

This book provides extensive guidance for amateurs on observing and imaging equipment and demonstrates how to best use them.

This Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive guide to the history of astronomy and astrophysics from ancient times to the present day.

A systematic account of meteorites and their most important classification parameters for meteorite researchers.

A complete story of the human lunar experience, presenting many interesting but little-known events in lunar science for the first time.

Providing the latest results from the Cassini mission, this up-to-date new edition covers all aspects of planetary rings.

This text presents 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers, each accompanied by beautiful images, finder charts and lucid commentary.

A quantitative yet accessible introduction to remote sensing techniques, this new edition covers a broad spectrum of Earth science applications.

Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.

A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.

This text presents 120 deep-sky objects for southern hemisphere stargazers, each accompanied by beautiful images, finder charts and lucid commentary.

A quantitative yet accessible introduction to remote sensing techniques, this new edition covers a broad spectrum of Earth science applications.

Compelling account of how ideas of alien life have evolved for general readers, amateur astronomers and undergraduate students studying astrobiology.

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

A guide to the hottest topics in physics for both scientists and general readers, written by leading international experts.

Offers a systematic presentation of Plato''s late cosmology, showing connections to his ethics and arguments about the organic structure of the universe.

This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.

Describes how stars respond to microscopic physics in the advanced stages of their evolution with many numerical examples and illustrations.

Describes how stars respond to microscopic physics, from formation, through hydrogen-burning phases, up to the onset of helium burning.

Thoroughly illustrated and clearly written, this handbook offers graduate students and active researchers a practical guide to astronomical spectroscopy.

Thoroughly illustrated and clearly written, this handbook offers graduate students and active researchers a practical guide to astronomical spectroscopy.

Investigating the latest research questions in astrobiology, this volume will fascinate a wide interdisciplinary audience at all levels.

Unifying work by a broad range of experts in the field, this is the most complete textbook on observational astrometry.

Investigating the latest research questions in astrobiology, this volume will fascinate a wide interdisciplinary audience at all levels.

Unifying work by a broad range of experts in the field, this is the most complete textbook on observational astrometry.

Providing the latest results from the Cassini mission, this up-to-date new edition covers all aspects of planetary rings.

An advanced textbook providing a clear mathematical introduction to general relativity and its physical applications.

This book explores concepts within general relativity in the context of the particular space-times in which they arise.

Shedding new light on Einstein''s study of unified field theory, this book will interest physicists, historians and philosophers of science.

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers.

A graduate-level textbook providing a thorough account of theoretical cosmology and perturbations in the early Universe.

A unique book explaining Einstein''s special theory of relativity through diagrams rather than equations, for physics students and non-science majors.

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

Presents the particle dynamics relevant to general relativity, and the field dynamics necessary to understand the theory, to advanced undergraduates.

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

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results in dark energy, this textbook is a thorough introduction to dark energy for graduate courses.

Textbook in cosmology covering established and speculative research for advanced students of physics and astrophysics.

An invaluable quick-reference aid of more than 2000 of the most useful maths and physics formulas.