Table of Contents: “... Stars -- Stellar Remnants: Black Holes -- Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae -- Evolution of Supernovae and the Interstellar Medium -- Cosmology from Supernovae -- Supernovae, Galaxies, our Solar System and Life on Earth -- Neutrinos, Gravitational Waves...”

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Table of Contents: “... evaporation -- J.V. Narlikar Relativistic Paths : A Feynman Problem -- Martin Rees Thoughts on 50 years in astrophysics and cosmology and on what comes next -- Sudipta Sarkar Area Theorem: General Relativity and Beyond -- Shankarnarayanan What Are the Atoms...”

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Table of Contents: “...The Mysterious Quantum -- The Cosmological Debate -- What Happened ... -- The Classical Basis -- Delicious Mysteries -- Non-Classical Phenomena -- Non-linear Phenomena -- Space, Time and Matter -- Matter-wave Mechanics -- Epilogue -- Quaternion Rotations...”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- The Standard Model of Particle Physics -- General Relativity -- Cosmological Models -- Thermodynamics of the Early Universe -- Inflation -- Baryogenesis -- Big Bang Nucleosynthesis -- Dark Matter (DM) -- Cosmic Microwave Background...”

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Table of Contents: “... to external galaxies -- Theoretical Models of the Galactic Bulge -- Galaxy bulges and their massive black holes: a Review.- Bulge Formation via Mergers in Cosmological Simulations -- Bulge growth through disk instabilities in high-redshift galaxies -- Boxy/peanut/X...”

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Table of Contents: “...Overview -- The Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Streams - The Monoceros Ring and Substructure in the Galactic Anti center -- Tidal Tails and Clouds in Dwarf Galaxies and Globular Clusters -- Kinematically Detected Halo Streams -- The Cosmological Origin of Tidal...”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- The Standard Model of Cosmology -- Perturbation Theory -- The Boltzmann Equation -- Evolution of the Second-Order Perturbations -- The Intrinsic Bispectrum of the CMB -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Projection on the Sphere -- Appendix B...”

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Table of Contents: “...) -- Warm in ation, cosmological fluctuations and constraints from Planck (Rudnei O. Ramos) -- A brief history of the Brazilian participation in CMB measurements (Thyrso Villela) -- Communications -- On dark degeneracy (Saulo Carneiro and Humberto A. Borges...”

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Table of Contents: “...Part I The Life and Work of Karl Schwarzschild. -Karl Schwarzschild and Frankfurt (Frank Linhard) -- Part II Black Holes in Classical General Relativity, Numerical Relativity, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Alternative Theories of Gravity -- Black Hole...”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction to observational cosmology -- Structure formation in the universe -- Weak gravitational lensing -- Weak lensing morphological analysis -- Cross correlation with dark matter annihilation sources -- Summary and conclusion....”

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Table of Contents: “...Introduction -- A Pedagogical Introduction to Algebraic Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes -- Outline of the Cosmological Applications -- Algebraic Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetimes -- Globally Hyperbolic Spacetimes and Related Geometric...”

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