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• A First Course in General Relativity

  Clarity, readability and rigor combine in the second edition of this widely-used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with a minimal background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysical researchers and students alike are covered with Schutz’s characteristic ease and authority – from black holes to gravitational lenses, [...]

• Asteroids

  There is a lot of exciting stuff going on in the stars above us that make astronomy so much fun. The truth is the universe is a constantly changing, moving, some would say “living” thing because you just never know what you are going to see on any given night of stargazing. But of the [...]

• Maunder Minimum: And the Variable Sun-Earth Connection

  Text takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun’s most stubborn secrets. Provides an account of E. Walter and Annie S.D. Maunder’s work in understanding our sun’s chemical, electromagnetic, and plasma properties. Softcover, hardcover listed in approval week 2004-14.

• Comets: Speculation and Discovery

  Entertaining, irreverent volume, first published in 1981 as the hoopla over the scheduled arrival of Halley’s comet heated up. An exhilarating illustrated journey through centuries of conjecture and discovery, the volume considers the nature of comets: their heads, tails and orbits; fantastic theories associated with the phenomena, the possibility that a comet might have done [...]

• The Starlore Handbook: An Essential Guide to the Night Sky

  A dream come true for stargazers and all who have stood in awe of the night sky, The Star Lore Handbook is a complete, fully illustrated guide to identifying the eighty-eight recognized constellations and the principal stars that comprise them. Deftly weaving together astronomy, myth, and symbolism, author Geoffrey Cornelius tours the rich heritage of [...]