
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 - Sizing up the Universe
by J. Richard Gott & Robert J. Vanderbei
Popular Cosmology (Magazines):
- Decoding the oldest Light in the Universe; Sky & Telescope, May 2008; 18-23 pp.
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