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'This tightly written, sophisticated (though essentially non-mathematical) review of the status of the concordance model - a flat universe with all of the observations internally consistent - and its modest gaps form the core of the discussion. ... The discussions are clear, rich, and thought provoking. This book is well written and belongs in all college libraries.' K. L. Schick, CHOICE '... I recommend this book. It is a good intorduction to an important topic in modern astrophysics and cosmology, accessible to the 'interested layman' but also valuable for those with more-advanced knowledge of astrophysics but with less knowledge of MOND.' Phillip Helbig, The Observatory

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Robert H. Sanders is Professor Emeritus at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his PhD in Astrophysics from Princeton University under the supervision of Lyman Spitzer. After working at Columbia University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, he moved to Europe. He spent his career studying active galactic nuclei (in particular, the Galactic Center), on the hydrodynamics of gas in galaxies and, for several decades, on the problem of the 'missing mass' in astronomical systems. His previous books are The Dark Matter Problem: A Historical Perspective (2010) and Revealing the Heart of the Galaxy: The Milky Way and Its Black Hole (2013).

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