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These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area until the end of April 2024. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. Once the display has been changed, the book will then be loaned to you.

Physical principles of astronomical instrumentation / Matthew Griffin, Peter Ade, Carole Tucker. Griffin, M. J. author. (Matt J.), CRC Press, Boca Raton : 2022 ISBN:9781032040035 (14/ADE)

Cosmology / Daniel Baumann (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Baumann, Daniel, 1978- author. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2022 ISBN:9781108838078 (136/BAU)

The light ages : a medieval journey of discovery / Seb Falk. Falk, Seb, author. Penguin Books, [London] : 2021 ISBN:9780141989679 (5/FAL)

The exoplanet revolution / J. Lequeux, T. Encrenaz and F. Casoli. Lequeux, James, author. EDP Sciences, Les Ulis : 2020 ISBN:2759822109 (109/LEQ)

Great mysteries in astrophysics : a guide to what we don't know / Nicole Lloyd-Ronning. Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole, author. IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : 2022 ISBN:0750340495 (48/LLO)

Edmond Halley : the many discoveries of the most curious Astronomer Royal / David K. Love. Love, David, 1950- author. Prometheus Books, Lanham, Maryland : 2023 ISBN:1633888916 (3/HAL/L)

Investigating art, history, and literature with astronomy : determining time, place, and other hidden details linked to the stars / Donald W. Olson. Olson, Donald W., author. Springer ; Cham : Chichester, UK : 2022 ISBN:9783030955533 (11/OLS)

Stellar structure and evolution / Marc Pinsonneault (The Ohio State University), Barbara Ryden (The Ohio State University). Pinsonneault, Marc H., author. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2023 ISBN:9781108798822 (48/PIN)

The rise of astrophysics in modern Spain : from dictatorship to democracy / Francisco Sánchez ; translated and with notes by T. J. Mahoney ; foreword by Brian May. Springer, Cham, Switzerland : 2021 ISBN:3030664252 (5/SAN)

The warped side of our universe : an odyssey through black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves / Kip Thorne, Lia Halloran. Thorne, Kip S., author. Liveright Publishing Company, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY : 2023 ISBN:1631498541 (11/THO)

New windows on the universe : advances in multimessenger astronomy/ Saeqa Dil Vrtilek. Vrtilek, Saeqa Dil, author. IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK : 2022 ISBN:9780750337298 (48/VRT)

The data for The little book of exoplanets / Joshua Winn. Winn, Joshua, author. Princeton University Press, Princeton : 2023 ISBN:9780691215471 (109/WIN)

 

These new books will now be shelved in the main Library.

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy : instrumentation, data analysis, and science / edited by Cosimo Bambi, Jiachen Jiang. Springer, Singapore : 2023 ISBN:9819944082 (65/BAM)

Mystery of the ashen light of Venus : investigating a 400-year-old phenomenon / John C. Barentine. Barentine, John C., author. Springer, Cham, Switzerland : 2021 ISBN:3030727149 (93/BAR)

Black holes : the key to understanding the universe / Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw. Cox, Brian, 1968- author. William Collins, London : 2022 ISBN:0008390657 (58/COX)

The sounds of the cosmos : gravitational waves and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy / Mario Díaz, Gabriela González, and Jorge Pullin. Díaz, Mario author. (Mario Claudio), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts : 2023 ISBN:0262544946 (45/DIA)

Principles of astrophotonics / Simon Ellis (Macquarie University, Australia), Joss Bland-Hawthorn (The University of Sydney, Australia), Sergio Leon Saval (The University of Sydney, Australia). Ellis, Simon C., author. World Scientific Publishing Europe Ltd., London : 2023 ISBN:9781800613355 (145/ELL)

Neutral-atom astronomy : plasma diagnostics from the aurora to the interstellar medium / Ke Chiang Hsieh, Eberhard Möbius. Hsieh, Ke Chiang, author. World Scientific, New Jersey : 2022 ISBN:9789813279193 (67/HSI)

Worlds without end : exoplanets, habitability, and the future of humanity / Chris Impey. Impey, Chris, author. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts : 2023 ISBN:0262047667 (109/IMP)

Uranus and Neptune / Carolyn Kennett. Kennett, Carolyn, author. Reaktion Books, Limited, London : 2022 ISBN:1789146410 (100/KEN) Astrophysical techniques / C.R. Kitchin. Kitchin, C. R. author. (Christopher R.), CRC Press, Boca Raton : 2020 ISBN:1138591203 (14/KIT)

Astronomers as diplomats : when the IAU builds bridges between nations / Thierry Montmerle, Danielle Fauque, editors. Springer, Cham : 2022. ISBN:9783030986247 (5/MON)

Astrophysics in the XXI century with compact stars / editors César Augusto Zen Vasconcellos, Fridolin Weber. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : 2023 ISBN:981122093X (58/VAS)

Analyzing the physics of radio telescopes and radio astronomy / Kim Ho Yeap and Kazuhiro Hirasawa, editors. Hershey, PA : IGI Global, 2020. ISBN:9781799823827 (61/YEA)

 

Previous Display

Accreting binaries : nature, formation and evolution / Sylvain Chaty. Chaty, Sylvain, author. IOP Publishing, Bristol : 2022 ISBN:9780750338851 (118/CHA) The theory of direct dark matter detection : a guide to computations / Eugenio Del Nobile. Del Nobile, Eugenio, author. Springer, Cham, Switzerland : 2022 ISBN:9783030952273 (138/DEL) Beyond spacetime : the foundations of quantum gravity / edited by Nick Huggett (University of Illinois at Chicago), Keizo Matsubara (Uppsala University), Christian Wüthrich (University of Geneva). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2020 ISBN:9781108477024 (45/HUG) Theoretical concepts in physics : an alternative view of theoretical reasoning in physics / Malcolm Longair (University of Cambridge). Longair, Malcolm S., - author. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2020 ISBN:9781108484534 (140/LON) The whole truth : a cosmologist's reflections on the search for objective reality / P.J.E. Peebles. Peebles, P. J. E. author. (Phillip James Edwin), Princeton University Press, Princeton : 2022 ISBN:9780691231358 (3/PEE) The universe in a box : a new cosmic history / Andrew Pontzen. Pontzen, Andrew, author. Jonathan Cape, London : 2023 ISBN:9781787333093 (136/PON) Introduction to the standard model and beyond : quantum field theory, symmetries and phenomenology / Stuart Raby (The Ohio State University).Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ISBN:9781108494199 (148/RAB) Compact star physics / Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich (Goethe University Frankfurt). Schaffner-Bielich, Jürgen, 1966- author. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2020 ISBN:9781107180895 (58/SCH) Venus / William Sheehan and Sanjay Shridhar Limaye. Sheehan, William, 1954- author. Reaktion Books, London : 2022 ISBN:9781789145854 (93/SHE) Molecular astrophysics / A.G.G.M. Tielens (Leiden University). Tielens, A. G. G. M., author. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2021 ISBN:9781107169289 (125/TIE) Dust in the galactic environment / D.C.B. Whittet Bristol: IOP Publishing, 2022. ISBN:9780750332736 (125/WHI) Star-formation rates of galaxies / edited by Andreas Zezas (University of Crete), Véronique Buat (Aix-Marseille University). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge : 2021 ISBN:9781107184169 (57/ZEZ)

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