Author: Robert J. A. Lambourne
By Cambridge University Press

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Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2010-07-23
I enjoyed the book very much. Not having been educated in the U.K. I can only accept that it is the right level for advanced undergraduates (it would fit in that category in the U.S.A.). Ray D'Inverno's "Introducing Einstein's relativity" claims his book is suitable for undergraduates but my feeling it is more a first year graduate level. I give that for comparison puposes.

Lambourne's book is very clearly written with numerous worked examples and clear diagrams. There are few printing spelling errors and, I believe, two mistakes. Equation (2.30), the 3/4 should be 3/8. This is not important as the equation is rounded to first order and the term is dropped. A more important mistake is equation (2.102). The J nu divided by epsilon zero (permitivity of free space) should, to achieve Maxwell's equation, read J nu multiplied by mu zero (the pemeability of free space).

Notwitstanding the above perceived errors I was not put off by the overall content of the book and intend buying related books in the Open University series on Stellar Evolution, Astrophysics and Cosmology (when it is eventually published).

I read the books for pleasure but I believe I would find it useful if I was studying for an examination.

Author: Mitchell Begelman, Martin Rees
By Cambridge University Press

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Please create an audio adaptation ..., 1999-06-01
To the publisher I would appreciate it if the publisher could produce an audio adaptation of this book. I would love to listen to this while I drive to work and to let my 16 month old son listen to it as a bedtime story. Arnold D Veness

Author: Roger Freedman, William J. Kaufmann
By W. H. Freeman

Universe, 2009-06-15
Excellent new edition. Had edition 3 before, this new edition adds loads of up to date info but retains the intuitive teaching methods. The 'Starry Night' CD is also fantastic giving you a clear interactive view of the universe seen from any angle. A must for any would be amateur astronomer!!

Author: Bernard Schutz
By Cambridge University Press

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Great book spoiledby a lack of solutions, 2009-12-04
This is one of the better texts on SR and GR but in places it is quite terse. It relies on you completing the exercises, which are extremely well thought out, as a major aid to uderstanding the text. This is how it should be. *However* don't be fooled by the reviews that say it contains solutions, the second edition does *not*. The solutions are available online but only if you are a lecturer giving a bona fide GR course (I was turned down as an independent student). When the going gets tough there's no help for independent students. It's still a very good text, just much better if you are actually studying at a college.

Author: Arthur Koestler, Herbert Butterfield
By Penguin

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Great survey of intellectual development, 2008-08-13
...somewhat spoiled by the audible grinding of Koestler's favourite axes - ESP, a little dig at Marxist interpretations of history, and so on.

On the latter point, I couldn't help feeling that he rather underplays the impact of economic development on intellectual development. Every so often it almost peeps through -- the telescopes that were made by spectacle-makers rather than astronomers or scientists, for example. And who was it that was so keep on getting better astronomical tables? Navigators rather than astrologers, I suspect. And those instruments that the astronomers used? Who designed and built them, and for what?

On a similar theme, why not at least a passing comment on the contrast between what the academics were teaching and what craftsmen and engineers must have understood to do their jobs - they couldn't have been applying Aristotelean physics, could they?

Still, this is a great book, and I thoroughly agree that every sixth-former (especially science students) should have to read it.

Author: Paul Murdin
By Thames & Hudson

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Author: Roger A. Freedman, William J. Kaufmann
By W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd

Universe, 2009-06-15
Excellent new edition. Had edition 3 before, this new edition adds loads of up to date info but retains the intuitive teaching methods. The 'Starry Night' CD is also fantastic giving you a clear interactive view of the universe seen from any angle. A must for any would be amateur astronomer!!

Author: Gerhard Wisnewski
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Probably the best - WHAT IF ?... - book i ever read., 2010-01-08
Like most people interested in this type of subjects, i think i've already seen all the documentaries there is to see, read most of everything available and listened to some fascinating radio interviews over the years about this moon hoax thing.
I had reached my own conclusions and altough i had left a door open inside my mind for new future arguments, i thought this whole thing was more or less well debunked, particulary the statments about multiple shadows, photographs or the radiation belt around the earth.
Until now.
Now that i've read this book it seems i might be right at the same place where i begun when i first took notice of this subject years ago.
"One Small Step?" is so detailed and well researched (at least it seems so), that manages to -debunk the debunkers- whithout being a book about that.
If you expect another to find something similar to what Bart Sibrel has done and with that same "i know i'm right" egocentric feeling, forget it, because "One Small Step?" doesn't even tries to be one of "those kind of books".

I know it will be very easy for it to be classified as -another conspiration- book (particulary by those who allready have their mind set), but go beyond that feel, give this work a chance. If you go into it with an open mind and a desire to learn more about this fascinating polemic ,i guarantee that you'll finish this book at least thinking that there really was something weird about the whole moon landing projects and that there's really a lot left unexplained that should be cleared.

If you thought you already read everything about the moon hoax, well...think again.
If you already feel most of everything was totaly debunked you're in for a surprise.
If you're looking for aditional information about this trully fascinating thing look no further as "One Small Step?" delivers way beyond what you think you already know. The research that went into this book is nothing short of amazing and the best of all is the way all the information is presented to the reader.
Don't expect one of those ultra-technical conspiracy books filled with tons of diagrams and all sorts of generic babble based on wacky assumptions. This fascinating book reads like a giant and very, very informative magazine article and you'll go through all the pages without even remembering you're reading "one of those types of books".
"One Small Step?" asks all sorts of new questions based on things you thought were already cleared by the debunkers or by honest based oficial scientific opinions.

The author managed to dig into some of the most famous hoax details and presented them under a new light, all backed up by some really good research work all detailed inside this pages.
The author might be considered to be just another conspiracy theorist cashing in the moon hoax thing by some people, but usualy these are persons who have decided what they think about the whole thing even before picking up the book.
If you go into it with an open mind you'll fascinated by the seriousness of all its content.

I recomend "One Small Step?" not to the people who already believe everything in this premise is true, and definetely not to the people who already "konw" it to be just a pile of unscientific garbage, but i realy, realy recomend it to the persons like myself.
I recomend "One Small Step?" to everybody who thought there was nothing more left to see about this and thought everything was well debunked by the mainstream opinions out there.
But what about conclusions ?
Will you leave this book thinking everything in it to be true ? Was there realy a giant moon hoax ?
I believe the answer will allways be in between as like the author states inside the book there is no way anyone on this planet wil ever know the truth because we can't travell to the moon and so all arguments will always have both sides. But now this doesn't mean one side will have the full thruth.
Personaly i think "One Small Step?" must be read as a real - WHAT IF ?..- book.
The information and research presented here are enough to make anyone wonder about the real truth behind this whole thing and so i guarantee you that you won't find a better (and serious) book about it anywhere.

Now, i only would love to know the author's thoughts about the recent fake moon rocks discovered in the Dutch museum. When you'll read the chapter about the authitencity of the moon rocks the conclusions might seem a little bit subjective but now that it was proven that some of the famous moon rocks presented by Nasa to the Dutch government were realy nothing more than petrified wood...you'll be thinking what else might be fake behind this whole story.
Someone also mentioned in a review that the whole moon landings were recentely proven to be real by the new photographs taken of the moon landing areas with all the stuff still there. Now...you must really read this book and see those photos by yourself. ;)

Do i believe the moon landings where a hoax after reading this book ?
I want to believe they were not as much as most of the world, so i guess i still choose to believe in them, but now i find my position almost as if it was some religious point of view...because after reading "One Small Step?" i can't help thinking ... "what if ?...".
One thing is certain, i'm recommending this book to everybody and i'll never look at the moon at the same way.
"One Small Step?" managed something i thought it would never happened in my opinion, it debunks the debunking and does it incredibly well and it's not even intended to be that type of book. What it does, does it with class. Instead of arguing, it lets the (new and very well researched) information speak for itself.

Author: Andrew Liddle
By Wiley-Blackwell

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Great book, 2010-05-30
Absolutely fantastic for my Cosmology 1 course at university. I'd say that 1st year degree level of Maths and Physics is needed to fully understand this book. It's got a perfect balance of mathematics like derivations of formulae and text to explain what is going on and what the chapter is about. Would strongly recommend it for anyone taking Cosmology at university.

Author: Adam Smith
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First Class Saturn Book, 2008-04-29
This is a very good book. I don't think Saturn is such a challenge as others might simply because the planet presents astrologers with such a plethora of commentary. Having said that, it does take an author who is intensely interested in these attributes and interested in communicating them in a way that makes them manageable on a personal level, to write a book about Saturn that is useful. I think Adam Smith has succeeded with great aplomb to outline the correlations associated with Saturn in such a user-friendly way. He also goes to some length to explain Saturn's influence using a large number of well known examples. First class.