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This is a textbook for graduate students in astrophysics. The author is extremely well known not only as an astrophysicist but also as a writer of superb talent. The presentation is clear and the book should become a favourite text for students. It deals with the matter and radiation... Read Full Overview

Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, the long awaited second edition of this highly appraised textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective... Read Full Overview

This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure... Read Full Overview

This third edition of Malcolm Longair's highly acclaimed textbook is an up-to-date text on astrophysical cosmology expounding the structure of classical cosmological models from a contemporary viewpoint. This forms the background to a detailed study of the origin of structure... Read Full Overview

Accounting for the enormous and amazing development cosmology has made in the past ten years, the long awaited second edition of this highly appraised textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective... Read Full Overview