F. Cosmology and Astrophysics

• Adams, Fred & Greg Laughlin. The Five Ages of the Universe: Inside the Physics of Eternity. New York: Free Press, 1999.
• Barrow, John D. The Origin of the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
• Greene, Brian R. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
• Greene, Brian R. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
• Gribben, John. The Origins of the Future: Ten Questions for the Next Ten Years. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006.
• Hawking, Stephen. A Brief History of Time. Expanded edition. New York: Bantam, 1998.
• Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam, 2001.
• Kaku, Michio. Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation: Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos. New York: Doubleday, 2005.
• Livio, Mario. The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Universe. New York: John Wiley, 2000.
• Rees, Martin J. Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
• Thuan, Trinh Xuan. The Secret Melody: And Man Created the Universe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 (reprint, Radnor, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005).
• Tyson, Neil DeGrasse & Donald Goldsmith. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
• Ward, Peter Douglas & Donald Brownlee. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe. New York: Copernicus Books, 2000.
• Ward, Peter Douglas & Donald Brownlee. The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World. New York: Times Books, 2003.

Contributed by: Dr. Randy Maddox