Product Description

This book is a simple, non-technical introduction to cosmology, explaining what it is and what cosmologists do. Peter Coles discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and more speculative modern issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #123891 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-15
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .37" h x 4.46" w x 7.10" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
`There is an embarrassment of books about the universe for the general reader, but few manage to pack so much, so elegantly, into such a compact space as this does. The book is generously illustrated.' The Guardian 09/02/02/

`Coles takes you gently through everything from Blue Shift to parallel Universe in a thoroughly entertaining read' TNT Magazine

`a pleasure to read' New Scientist, 29/09/01

From the Publisher
numerous halftones and line figures

About the Author
Peter Coles is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Nottingham. He has co-written two textbooks on cosmology, and over a hundred technical articles on various aspects of the Big Bang theory. He is also author of Einstein and the Total Eclipse, and Hawking and the Mind of God.