Astrophysics

Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very la...

As evidenced by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy in its 80-year history has contributed greatly to our understanding of the universe. ...

This book provides insight into concept of the weak interaction and its integration into the conceptual structure of elementary particle physics. I...

Quarks, Leptons and The Big Bang, Third Edition, is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics and related areas of cosm...

Three key aspects of quantum gravity are considered in this book: phenomenology, potential experimental aspects and foundational theory. The phenom...

This unique volume is a compendium of scientific contributions inspired by the work of Alex Dalgarno in the fields of atomic, molecular, and optica...

Dark matter and dark energy are one of the central mysteries in modern physics, although modern astrophysical and cosmological observations and par...

This introduction to the fascinating subject of black holes fills a significant gap in the literature which exists between popular, non-mathematica...

Extending the spatial and temporal boundaries of human space flight are important goals for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA...

The Star and the Whole: Gian-Carlo Rota on Mathematics and Phenomenology, authored by Fabrizio Palombi, is the first book to study Rota’s philosoph...

Efforts to uncover the explosion mechanism of core collapse supernovae and to understand all of their associated phenomena have been ongoing for ne...

This introduction to the fascinating subject of black holes fills a significant gap in the literature which exists between popular, non-mathematica...

Is there anybody out there? Is ET trying to phone home? In the past decade or so, astrobiology has come of age. Once regarded as a laughing stock -...

A Broad Perspective on the Theory of General Relativity and Its Observable ImplicationsGeneral Relativity: Basics and Beyond familiarizes students ...

The book begins with a historical review of four major theories for the origin of the Solar System in particular, or of planets in general, which h...

This book serves as a good introduction to the physics of pulsars by explaining the subject matter in simple terms which are understandable to both...

Dark Matter: An Introduction tackles the rather recent but fast-growing subject of astroparticle physics, encompassing three main areas of fundamen...

Astrobiology - which studies the intimate relationship between life and the cosmos - is a fast-growing field that touches on aspects of cosmology, ...

This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with continuing potential for fundamental discoveries. Throughout t...

The primary purpose of this book is to prepare the ground for coordinated efforts aiming to answer the question: where and when life originated. Th...