Theoretical & mathematical astronomy (132)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Karl Schwarzschild Meeting on Gravitational Physics, focused on the general theme of black holes, gravity and information.Specialists in the field of black hole physics and rising young researchers presen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This well illustrated book presents a compact history of the Solar System from its dusty origins 4,600,000 years ago to the present day. Its primary aim is to show how the planets and their satellites, comets, meteors, interplanetary dust, solar radi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:This collection on peace education includes contributions from an international group of scholars representing a wide variety of geographical conflict areas and exemplifying the multiple venues of peace educational labour. A strong emphasis is given ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those dec...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Jonas Pohl liefert eine didaktisch aufbereitete Einführung in die Gedankenwelt der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Er gibt einen Einblick in die Grundlagen von 100 Jahren Relativitätstheorie und spannt dabei den Bogen von der Speziellen Relativitäts...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Mark Popenco gibt Einblick in eines der faszinierendsten Gedankengebäude der theoretischen Physik: die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie. Er stellt systematisch – unter Betrachtung von Analogien zur Elektrodynamik – Einsteins Relativitätstheorie dar und...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes.

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:Contributing authors share a deep commitment to naming ways in which social exclusion has diminished the educational and life chances of many students in our various sites of work and regions of the world – and to moving the discourse and action beyo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book employs computer simulations of ‘artificial’ Universes to investigate the properties of two popular alternatives to the standard candidates for dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE). It confronts the predictions of theoretical models with o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:The book reviews theories of nucleosynthesis in big-bang cosmology. It introduces the standard model of cosmology, astronuclear reactions, numerical techniques for nucleosynethsis, and describes in detail the theories that go beyond the standard mode...