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From the reviews: <p> Keela (TM)s own research has covered a wide range of topics, which is reflected in the richness and variety of subjects covered in this book. It is refreshing, in a market dominated by theorists, to come across a book on galaxy formation written from an observational perspective. After all, any model of galaxy formation, no matter how appealing from a theoretical point of view, is eventually judged by how well it describes what is actually out there... The Road to Galaxy Formation should prove to be a handy primer on observations for graduate students, advanced undergraduates and theorists who feel too shy to visit a telescope. A particularly useful feature is the bibliography at the end of each chapter, which contains a brief resumA(c) of selected research papers and will not doubt be invaluable to newcomers to the field who need guidance in selecting further reading from a burgeoning literature. <p>NATURE <p> So what does it all mean? Have astronomers finally solved the riddle of how galaxies were born and evolved? And if not, where do we go from here? University of Alabama astronomer William C. Keel sums it up. With mammoth new maps of the nearby cosmos, he states, scientists today can study 13 billion years of galaxy evolution just by looking at the sky around them. We can also see some pieces of the evolution of galaxies over the last several billion years, in decreasing detail as we look farther back [in time], he writes. But a veil still conceals what happened during the first, crucial period of galaxy formation, which astronomers have dubbed the Dark Ages. It began perhaps half a million years after the Big Bang and ended about a billion yearslater. <br>a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC <p> One of the most intriguing problems of modern astronomy is explaining how remarkably uniform gas in the early Universe managed to clump together to form billions of galaxies. William Keel has written an accessible introduction to this complex subject. He delicately balances observational evidence against todaya (TM)s relevant theoretical possibilities. (New Scientist, March, 2003) <p> William Keela (TM)s book outlines the two competing theories of galaxy formation: the a ~monolithic collapsea (TM) and the hierarchical scenario. a ] Keela (TM)s own research has covered a wide range of topics, which is reflected in the richness and variety of subjects covered in his book. It is refreshing, in a market dominated by theorists, to come across a book on galaxy formation written from an observational perspective. a ] The Road to Galaxy formation should prove to be a handy primer on observations on galaxies a ] . (Carlton Baugh, Nature, February, 2003)

From the reviews: Keela (TM)s own research has covered a wide range of topics, which is reflected in the richness and variety of subjects covered in this book. It is refreshing, in a market dominated by theorists, to come across a book on galaxy formation written from an observational perspective. After all, any model of galaxy formation, no matter how appealing from a theoretical point of view, is eventually judged by how well it describes what is actually out there... The Road to Galaxy Formation should prove to be a handy primer on observations for graduate students, advanced undergraduates and theorists who feel too shy to visit a telescope. A particularly useful feature is the bibliography at the end of each chapter, which contains a brief resumA(c) of selected research papers and will not doubt be invaluable to newcomers to the field who need guidance in selecting further reading from a burgeoning literature. NATURE So what does it all mean? Have astronomers finally solved the riddle of how galaxies were born and evolved? And if not, where do we go from here? University of Alabama astronomer William C. Keel sums it up. With mammoth new maps of the nearby cosmos, he states, scientists today can study 13 billion years of galaxy evolution just by looking at the sky around them. We can also see some pieces of the evolution of galaxies over the last several billion years, in decreasing detail as we look farther back [in time], he writes. But a veil still conceals what happened during the first, crucial period of galaxy formation, which astronomers have dubbed the Dark Ages. It began perhaps half a million years after the Big Bang and ended about a billion yearslater. a NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC One of the most intriguing problems of modern astronomy is explaining how remarkably uniform gas in the early Universe managed to clump together to form billions of galaxies. William Keel has written an accessible introduction to this complex subject. He delicately balances observational evidence against todaya (TM)s relevant theoretical possibilities. (New Scientist, March, 2003) William Keela (TM)s book outlines the two competing theories of galaxy formation: the a ~monolithic collapsea (TM) and the hierarchical scenario. a ] Keela (TM)s own research has covered a wide range of topics, which is reflected in the richness and variety of subjects covered in his book. It is refreshing, in a market dominated by theorists, to come across a book on galaxy formation written from an observational perspective. a ] The Road to Galaxy formation should prove to be a handy primer on observations on galaxies a ] . (Carlton Baugh, Nature, February, 2003)

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