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The Age of Innocence by Roger H. Stuewer
Publication Date: 2018-09-26

This book explores the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics. Renowned physicists' domains and their mutual influences are conveyed by quotations from autobiographies, biographies, recollections, interviews,correspondence, and other writings of physicists and historians.
The Beauty of Space Art by Jon Ramer; Ron Miller
Publication Date: 2021

Featuring hundreds of original color images from space artists and astronomers alike, this book is a vivid visual story about the power of art, astronomy, and human curiosity. A heavily revised edition of the original Beauty of Space, it will entertain, educate, and inspire anybody who yearns to make sense of the strange and surreal sights in our universe
Cosmology and String Theory by Horaţiu Nǎstase
Publication Date: 2019-04-16

This book describes the best current avenues for obtaining cosmology from string theory. It is aimed at graduate students, and also researchers, with some familiarity with cosmology and string theory, however no detailed knowledge is required.
On the Edge of the Cosmos: A Century of Revolution in Astronomy by Omont, Alain
Publication Date: 2022

The author here retraces the adventure of twentieth-century astronomy and describes how it has changed our vision of the cosmos. By assessing the major successes of this undertaking and highlighting the fundamental questions that still remain, he puts into perspective the recent progress at the dawn of the new millennium including the acceleration of the expansion of the Universe and dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, black hole mergers and gravitational waves, to name only the most spectacular discoveries.

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