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Top 50 Best-selling Cosmology Books from Cambridge

Cosmology books published to the highest standard.

From Particle Dark Matter to General Relativity, Cambridge have a long history of publishing a range of excellent books covering cosmology. This collection features the top fifty best-selling titles in this broad subject - excellent books by outstanding authors.

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Superstrings

Superstrings

A Theory of Everything?
  • P. C. W. Davies, Julian Brown
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521437752)
  • Publication date: September 1992
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

This book explains the superstring theory for laymen, in an introduction to the subject which originated in the BBC Radio programme, Desperately Seeking Superstrings.

Series: Canto
  • Available
  • £17.99
The Expanding Universe

The Expanding Universe

Astronomy's 'Great Debate', 1900–1931
  • Arthur Eddington
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521349765)
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  • Publication date: March 1988
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

Long out of print until now, this classic work investigates the experimental determination of one of the fundamental constants of astrophysics and its significance for astronomy.

Series: Cambridge Science Classics
  • Available
  • £27.99
The Internal Constitution of the Stars

The Internal Constitution of the Stars

  • Arthur S. Eddington
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521337083)
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  • Publication date: January 1988
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

A reissue of a classic work that recognized and established our basis for understanding the nature of the structure and constitution of the stars. Features a preface by S. Chandrasekhar.

Series: Cambridge Science Classics
  • Available
  • £56.00
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

  • S. W. Hawking, G. F. R. Ellis
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521099066)
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  • Publication date: February 1975
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

This 1973 book discusses Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and its predictions concerning black holes and singularities in space-time itself.

Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
  • Available
  • £57.00
The New World of Mr Tompkins

The New World of Mr Tompkins

George Gamow's Classic <I>Mr Tompkins in Paperback</I>
  • George Gamow, Russell Stannard, Michael Edwards, Wu Bozhe
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521639927)
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  • Publication date: August 2001
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

An inspirational introduction to the physics of the twenty-first century.

  • Available
  • £20.99
Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

Theory and Experiment in Gravitational Physics

  • Clifford M. Will
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521439732)
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  • Publication date: March 1993
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

' … consolidates much of the literature on experimental gravity and should be invaluable to researchers in gravitation …' Science

  • Available
  • £50.00
The Primordial Density Perturbation

The Primordial Density Perturbation

Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure
  • David H. Lyth, Andrew R. Liddle
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521828499)
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  • Publication date: June 2009
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

Graduate-level textbook providing a thorough account of theoretical cosmology and perturbations in the early Universe.

  • In stock
  • £48.00
The Ultimate Fate of the Universe

The Ultimate Fate of the Universe

  • Jamal N. Islam
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521113120)
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  • Publication date: June 2009
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

This book describes what will ultimately happen to the contents of the universe.

  • Available
  • £29.99
Time, Space and Things

Time, Space and Things

  • 3rd Edition
  • B. K. Ridley
  • Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521484862)
  • Publication date: April 1995
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

Brian Ridley's book sets out to survey in simple, non-mathematical terms what physics has to say about the fundamental structure of the universe.

Series: Canto
  • In stock
  • £16.99
Universe or Multiverse?

Universe or Multiverse?

  • Bernard Carr
  • Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780521848411)
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  • Publication date: June 2007
  • Subject: Cosmology, relativity and gravitation

Physicists argue from different perspectives for and against the idea of the existence of multiple universes.

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