COSMIC DAWN: The Origins of Matter and Life
302 pp and 60 figs.
Illustrated by Lola Judith Chaisson
Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press, distributed by Little, Brown, Boston, 1981
Published in paperback by W.W. Norton, New York, 1989
Translated into nine foreign languages
Awards: Phi Beta Kappa Prize, 1982
American Institute Physics Award, 1982
National Book Award Finalist, 1982
Currently available in paperback from iUniverse.com, 2000

LA RELATIVITA
64 pp and 80 figs.
Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, Milan, 1983

THE INVISIBLE UNIVERSE: Probing the Frontiers of Astrophysics (with George Field)
220 pp and 52 figs.
Illustrated by Thomas Stephenson
Originally published by Birkhauser-Boston, 1985
Translated into three foreign languages
Currently available in paperback from Vintage Press, distributed by Random House, 1987

THE LIFE ERA: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution
261 pp and 42 figs.
Illustrated by Lola Judith Chaisson
Originally published by Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1987
Published in paperback by W.W. Norton, New York, 1989
Currently available in paperback from iUniverse.com, 2000

RELATIVELY SPEAKING: Black Holes, Relativity, and Fate of the Universe
255 pp and 86 figs.
Illustrated by Lola Judith Chaisson
Originally published by W.W. Norton, New York, 1988
Translated into three foreign languages
Currently available in paperback from W.W. Norton, New York, 1989

UNIVERSE: An Evolutionary Approach to Astronomy
604 pp and 520 figs.
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1988

ASTRONOMY TODAY (co-authored with Steve McMillan)
704 pp and 950 figs. (first edition, 1993)
623 pp and 920 figs. (second edition, 1996)
660 pp and 760 figs. (third edition, 1999)
757 pp and 810 figs. (fourth edition, 2002)
764 pp and 820 figs. (fifth edition, 2005)
812 pp and 834 figs. (sixth edition, 2008)
Pearson Education, London.

ASTRONOMY: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (co-authored with Steve McMillan)
478 pp and 740 figs. (first edition, 1995)
404 pp and 722 figs. (second edition, 1998)
470 pp and 735 figs. (third edition, 2001)
487 pp and 730 figs. (fourth edition, 2004)
498 pp and 742 figs. (fifth edition, 2007)
Pearson Education, London.

THE HUBBLE WARS: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope
408 pp and 132 figs.
Originally published by HarperCollins, New York, 1994 (paperback, 1995)
Awards: American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award, 1995
New York Times "best book of the year" category, 1995
Currently available, updated and in paperback, from Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1998

THE 13th LABOR: Improving Science Education: A collection of essays from a workshop at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (co-edited with Tae-Chang Kim), 182 pgs, Gordon & Breach Publishers, New York, Amsterdam, 1999

COSMIC EVOLUTION: The Rise of Complexity in Nature
280 pp and 32 figs., illustrated by Lola Judith Chaisson
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London, 2001
Currently available in paperback, Harvard University Press, 2003

EPIC of EVOLUTION: Seven Ages of the Cosmos,
520 pp and 74 figs. illustrated by Lola Judith Chaisson
Columbia University Press, New York, 2006
Award: Kistler Book Award, 2007
Currently available in paperback, Columbia University Press, 2007

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