Table of Contents

1: A Brief History
2: Einstein and All That
3: The Big Bang
4: In the Beginning
5: Cosmology by Numbers
6: What's the Matter?
7: The Emergence of Structure
8: The Future

About the Author

Peter Coles is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. He has co-written two textbooks on cosmology, and over a hundred technical articles on various aspects of the Big Bang theory. He is also author of Einstein and the Total Eclipse and Hawking and the Mind of God.

Reviews

`There is an embarrassment of books about the universe for the general reader, but few manage to pack so much, so elegantly, into such a compact space as this does. The book is generously illustrated.'
The Guardian 09/02/02/
`Coles takes you gently through everything from Blue Shift to parallel Universe in a thoroughly entertaining read'
TNT Magazine
`a pleasure to read'
New Scientist, 29/09/01