IAU Symposium 382, Complex Planetary Systems II (CPS II), presented a real opportunity to show the power of interdisciplinary collaboration through gathering astronomers of many disciplines together. Complex systems are those composed of interacting parts whose local behavior, resulting from the interactions between them, cannot provide a complete understanding of the global, macroscopic behavior.

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Nothing could seem more contemporary than climate change. Yet, in Chaos in the Heavens, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and Fabien Locher show that we have been thinking about and debating the consequences of our actions upon the environment for centuries. The subject was raised wherever history accelerated: by the conquistadors in the New World, by the French revolutionaries of 1789, by the scientists and politicians of the nineteenth century, by the European imperialists in Asia and Africa until the Second World War.

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Quantum cosmology has gradually emerged as the focus of devoted research, mostly within the second half of last century. As we entered the 21st century, the subject is still very much alive. The outcome of results and templates for investigation have been enlarged, some very recent and fascinating. Hence this book, where the authors bequeath some of their views, as they believe this current century is the one where quantum cosmology will be fully accomplished. Though some aspects are not discussed (namely, supersymmetry or loop structures), there are perhaps a set of challenges that in the authors' opinion remain, some since the dawn of quantum mechanics and applications to cosmology.

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IAU Symposium 378 covers one of the main astrophysical topics about black holes: the production of outflows, propagating at different scales. These proceedings provide a picture of the field's status, highlighting currently debated topics, and suggesting possible new routes for the future developments.

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This book includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world, on astronomy and cosmology. The topics included herein are of utmost significance and bound to provide incredible insights to readers.

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This edition guides readers through the intriguing world of black holes, dark matter and dark energy, tours the planets of other stars and plumbs the mysteries of quasars, pulsars, supernovas and the accelerating universe, armed with exciting new information on the origin and evolution of the universe, the birth of planets, life on our solar system's outer moons, runaway black holes, the first gravitational waves, an enigmatic interstellar visitor and more. Illustrating this voyage are breathtaking photos captured by the groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope during the later phase of its mission and by the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.

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In The First Atomic Bomb Janet Farrell Brodie explores the history of the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed--the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test--as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation. Concentrating on these ordinary people, laborers, ranchers, and Indigenous peoples who lived in the region and participated in the testing, Brodie corrects the lack of coverage in existing scholarship on the essential details and everyday experiences of this globally significant event. The First Atomic Bomb also covers the environmental preservation of the Trinity test site and compares it with the wide range of atomic sites now preserved independently or as part of the new Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

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This text explores the idea that time changes due to scale changes in a quantized scaling, applying variable scales of spatial distance to time and analyzing it through physical action, with alternative geometric representations of the equations of special and general relativity.

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The book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to integrability of ordinary and partial differential equations. It explores symmetry analysis, gauge theory, vortices, gravitational instantons, twistor transforms, anti-self-duality equations, basic differential geometry, complex manifold theory, and the exterior differential system.

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In Galaxies, Or Graur offers a brief and fascinating overview of the history, physics, and astrophysical uses of galaxies. Starting with the history of the last two thousand years of galaxy studies, Graur discusses the types of galaxies we observe and the physics that drive them; the myths and physical structure of the Milky Way; how galaxies were used to discover and study the mysterious phenomena of dark matter and dark energy; and how scientists think galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang and evolved to their present forms.

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