Bøger af Simon White

Ilyana Cherenkov is a soup, a super-powered individual. But don't call her a hero, she has a job to do... one that involves keeping the world safe from nuclear accidents admittedly, but she was doing that before she became Atomic. There have been a series of odd accidents in America, involving radiation. Ilyana is asked by the Americans to investigate as Russia's foremost Nuclear Weapons Inspector, and a member of the U.N's Atomic Disaster Response team. She is joined by the American super-heroine Blue Blaze to find out the cause of what are looking less like accidents, and more like weapons tests. But as they race against time to find out what is happening, they find that averting a nuclear incident might be the least of their troubles, and won't be the only problem they face. Set in the world of Terramagne, like Earth but better.

The rapidly expanding field of galaxy formation lies at the interface between astronomy, particle physics, and cosmology. Covering diverse topics from these disciplines, all of which are needed to understand how galaxies form and evolve, this book is ideal for researchers entering the field. Individual chapters explore the evolution of the Universe as a whole and its particle and radiation content; linear and nonlinear growth of cosmic structure; processes affecting the gaseous and dark matter components of galaxies and their stellar populations; the formation of spiral and elliptical galaxies; central supermassive black holes and the activity associated with them; galaxy interactions; and the intergalactic medium. Emphasizing both observational and theoretical aspects, this book provides a coherent introduction for astronomers, cosmologists, and astroparticle physicists to the broad range of science underlying the formation and evolution of galaxies.