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Cosmology

There are lots of good popular books on cosmology. Since the subject is changing rapidly, pick one that is up to date. At the time of this writing, we recommend:


The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos, R. P. Kirshner (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002).


A good online source of cosmological information is:


Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial, http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm


The following cosmology textbooks are arranged in increasing order of technical difficulty:


Cosmology: The Science of the Universe, 2nd ed., E. Harrison (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000).


Cosmology: a First Course, M. Lachièze-Rey (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).


Principles of Physical Cosmology, P. J. E. Peebles (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993).


The Early Universe, E. W. Kolb and M. S. Turner (Addison-Wesley, New York, 1990).


The Large-Scale Structure of Spacetime, S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1975).


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