The Scientific American book of the cosmos

Preface / by D.H. Levy -- Some pieces from history. The heavens declare the glory of God / by A.G. Ingalls -- On the generalized theory of gravitation / by A. Einstein -- What is matter? / by E. Schrödinger -- The birth of the universe. The evolution of the universe / by P.J.E. Peebles ... [et al.] -- The evolution of galaxy clusters / by J.P. Henry, U.G. Briel, H. Böhringer -- The lives of quasars / by G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn, S. Veilleux -- Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe / by D.E. Osterbrock, J.A. Gwinn, R.S. Brashear -- The big bang and beyond : a century of modern cosmology / by L. Bernstein -- Galaxy formation. Galaxies behind the Milky Way / by R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, O. Lahav -- Colossal galactic explosions / by S. Veilleux, G. Cecil, J. Bland-Hawthorn -- Dark matter in the universe / by V. Rubin -- What's new in the Milky Way / by M.V. Magee -- The Milky Way. How the Milky Way formed / by S. van den Bergh, J.E. Hesser -- Black holes and the information paradox / by L. Susskind -- Collapse and formation of stars / by A.P. Boss -- Accretion disks in interacting binary stars / by J.K. Cannizzo, R.H. Kaitchuck --

The genesis of the solar system. The origins of the asteroids / by R.P. Binzel, M.A. Barucci, M. Fulchignoni -- The Kuiper belt / byJ.X. Luu, D.C. Jewitt -- Migrating planets / by R. Malhotra -- Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 meets Jupiter / by D.H. Levy, E. Shoemaker, C.S. Shoemaker -- On comets / by J.V. Scotti -- Solar system origins / by M. Washburn -- The planetary tour. Mercury : the forgotten planet / by R.M. Nelson -- Global climate change on Venus / by M.A. Bullock, D.H. Grinspoon -- The earth's elements / by R.P. Kirschner -- The evolution of the earth / by C.J. Allègre, S.H. Schneider -- Global climatic change on Mars / by J.S. Kargel, R.G. Strom -- The outer planets ; The outer moons / M. Washburn -- What's new in the solar system / by P. Jedicke --

Life on earth ... and elsewhere. The structure of hereditary material / by F.H.C. Crick

Life's far-flung raw materials / by M.P. Bernstein, S.A. Sandford, L.J. Allamandola

The evolution of life on the earth / by S.J. Gould

The case for relic life on Mars / by E.K. Gibson ... [et al.]

Searching for life on other planets / by J. Roger, P. Angel, N.J. Woolf

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence / by C. Sagan, F. Drake

Giant planets orbiting faraway stars / by G.W. Marcy, R.P. Butler

End of the proterozic eon / by A.H. Knoll

The microverse. The discovery of the top quark / by T.M. Liss, P.L. Tipton

Quantum philosophy / by J. Horgan

Atoms, molecules, and the early universe / by A. Scheeline

Speculation on endings and beginnings. The inflationary universe / by A.H. Guth, P.J. Steinhardt

The expansion rate and size of the universe / by W.L. Freedman

The self-reproducing inflationary universe / by A. Linde.