Produced by academics and drawing on decades of experience in supported learning and independent study, these textbooks are an ideal guide for self-study. Each textbook has lists of important concepts and results and worked examples and exercises with full solutions. Key points and equations are highlighted so students can easily locate important information.
Explores how stars form, what happens to them as they age, and what becomes of them when they die.
Introduces the key ideas of special and general relativity together with their applications.
Covers host systems of accreting, relativistic bodies, and the high-energy phenomena associated with them.
Presents the methods used in the detection and characterisation of exoplanets and the exciting new discoveries they have produced.
Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of observational cosmology.