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Foreword
Preface
Cosmology and the Big Bang
1. Thirteen Billion Years in Half an Hour
Bruce A. Bassett
2. The Paradigm of Inflation
J. Garcia-Bellido
3. Cosmology with Varying Constants
C. J. A. P. Martins
4. Small Scales, Big Issues for Cold Dark Matter
Andrew J. Benson
5. Violence and Black Holes in the Hearts of Galaxies
Carole G. Mundell
Probing the Universe
6. First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
Results: Implications for Cosmology and Inflation
Hiranya Peiris
7. Quest for Gravitational Waves
B. S. Sathyaprakash
8. Strong-Field Tests of Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars
Michael Kramer
9. Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes
Nial R. Tanvir
Some Remarks on the Time Scales of Magmatic
Processes Occurring Beneath Island Arc Volcanoes
Simon P. Turner
The Break-Up of Continents and the Generation
of Ocean Basins
T. A. Minshull
Properties and Evolution of the Earth's Core
and Geodynamo
F. Nimmo and D. Alfe
Section 3: APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE
Giant Catastrophic Landslides
Christopher R. J. Kilburn
Remote Monitoring of the Earthquake Cycle
using Satellite Radar Interferometry
Tim J. Wright
Human Influence on the Global Geochemical Cycle
of Lead
Dominik J. Weiss, Malin E. Kylander and Matthew K. Reuer
Natural and Artificial Platinum and Palladium
Occurrences World-Wide
Hazel M. Prichard
Data Assimilation and Objectively Optimised
Earth Observation
David J. Lary and Anuradha Koratkar
Afterword
Bill McGuire
Index