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Each book contains clear chapter objectives and closing summaries, a range of independent learning activities, including assignments, analysis exercises and in-text questions. Science is presented in context, with strong emphasis on economic,…

Stellar evolution - the birth, development and death of stars - is central to our current understanding of astronomy. This area of astrophysics is often portrayed as being difficult and mathematical, but Mike Inglis brings it to life in a unique way,…

Astrophysics With a PC is the first book to appear in the English language for amateur astronomers who want to explore astrophysics with a personal computer. Among the subjects covered are the morphology of comet tails, meteor dynamics, distance…

This systematic presentation of the current status and problems of the theory and observations of gravitational lensing starts from the equations of classical electrodynamics and general relativity, and develops for the first time gravitational…

This book is a quantitative introduction to what is known or theorized about the structure and evolution of galactic systems. It begins with a general introduction to galaxies and a summary of our empirical observations of galaxies in the universe,…