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Echo of the Big Bang
Michael D. Lemonick
Paperback - $30.95
A tight-knit, high-powered group of scientists and engineers spent eight years building a satellite designed, in effect, to read the genome of the universe. Launched in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) reported its first results ...
Cosmology 101
David H. Levy
Paperback - $26.95
David H. Levy, the science columnist for PARADE magazine, who took over Carl Sagan's post, is one of the world's foremost astronomers and a contributor to ASTRONOMY magazine. He has discovered 22 comets, including Shoemaker-Levy 9, which collided wit ...
The Universe and the Atom
Don Lichtenberg
Hardcover - $124.95
This is a fascinating and popular account of the very large and the very small, from the universe as a whole to subatomic physics. It includes qualitative explanations of quantum mechanics and relativity, the big bang with inflation, the synthesis of ...
The Accelerating Universe : Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
Mario Livio
Paperback - $27.95
A Brilliant Journey into the World of Beauty and Modern Cosmology
"Thought-provoking . . . engaging."-New Scientist
"The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration ...
The Labyrinth of Time : Introducing the Universe
Michael Lockwood
Paperback - $42.95
Modern physics has revealed a universe that is a much stranger place than we could have imagined, filled with black holes and dark matter and parallel lines meeting in space. And the puzzle at the center of our present understanding of the universe i ...
Statistics of the Galaxy Distribution
Vicent J. Martinez
Hardcover - $254.95
In the last decade, statisticians have developed a set of new statistical tools and approaches for the field of spatial point processes. At the same time, observational efforts have provided a huge amount of new cosmological data to be analyzed. For ...