Cosmology: The Study of the Universe by Wilkinson Microwave & Anisotropy Probe - HTML preview

Suggested Reading

POPULAR COSMOLOGY (BOOKS):

• A Brief History of Time

by Stephen Hawking

• Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang

by Jonathan Allday

• The Accelerating Universe : Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos

by Mario Livio (Foreword by Allan Sandage)

• One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos

by Neil De Grasse Tyson, et al

• The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins

by Alan H. Guth (Foreword by Alan P. Lightman)

• Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass in the Universe

by Lawrence M. Krauss

• The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

by Steven Weinberg

• Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time

by Kitty Ferguson

• Echo of the Big Bang (discusses the WMAP Mission)

by Michael D. Lemonick

• Just Six Numbers : The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

by Martin J. Rees

• How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space

by Janna Levin

• The Five Ages of the Universe : Inside the Physics of Eternity

by Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin

• Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others (Helix Books)

by Martin J. Rees

• In Search of the Edge of Time : Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes

by John Gribbin

• The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos

by Robert P. Kirshner

• The Sky Is Not The Limit : Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

by Neil De Grasse Tyson

• The Little Book of the Big Bang : A Cosmic Primer

by Craig J. Hogan (Foreword by Martin Rees)

• Astrophysical Concepts (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

by Martin Harwit

• The Very First Light : The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe

by John C. Mather, John Boslough

• Afterglow of Creation : From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples

by Marcus Chown

• The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

by Brian Greene

• After the First Three Minutes : The Story of Our Universe

by T. Padmanabhan

• The Whole Shebang : A State- Of- The- Universe(s) Report

by Timothy Ferris

• Astronomy For Dummies

by Stephen Maran

• The Origin of the Universe (Science Masters Series)

by John D. Barrow

• The Big Bang

by Joseph Silk

• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

by Kip S. Thorne

• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

by Lee Smolin

POPULAR COSMOLOGY (MAGAZINES):

• Decoding the oldest Light in the Universe; Sky & Telescope, May 2008; 18- 23

by by Gary Hinshaw and Robert Naeye

• Misconceptions about the Big Bang; Scientific American, March 2005; 10 pp.

by by Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis

ADVANCED READING:

• 3K : The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

by R. B. Partridge

• Principles of Physical Cosmology

by Phillip J. E. Peebles

• Cosmological Physics

by John A. Peacock