Galaxy Formation

For Deborah, Mark and Sarah ''Not another book on cosmology!'', I hear the reader exclaim. ''Surely there are quite enough books on cosmology to satisfy everyone''s needs?'' I was asked by Springer-Verlag to expand into a full-length book the set of lecture notes that I prepared in 1988 for the First Astrophysics School organised by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The set of notes was ...