Customer Reviews:
 Well written and accessible September 23, 2004
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
A huge (1400-odd pages) textbook printed on good paper with excellent diagrams and b&w photographs. No flashy colour plates, though; this is not one for your coffee table.It is well-written and accessible to anyone with a modest grasp of calculus, providing an excellent introduction to the whole field: everything from Kepler's laws, through spectra, special relativity, stellar evolution, binary systems to galactic evolution and a brief introduction to cosmology. The book is structured into sections and within each section are a number of chapters, each of which is a series of effective tutorials, typically building one upon the other. (I purchased my copy near the beginning of a vacation to the UK, and found it so absorbing that I missed a good part of the countryside I had come to see, and considerably annoyed my family. Eventually, in Dublin, we agreed that Carroll & Ostlie would have to be consigned to a cardboard box and posted
home.)
 Not over complicated and easily understood. April 4, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is detailed to the point that it doesn't bore you. It covers probably all the topics of Astrophysics that i never knew existed. It could benefit from color diagrams/photos just to keep you more focused, thats the only reason I gave it 4 stars.
Excellent, well written and comprehensive astrophysics book. November 23, 2000
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The book contains material from almost every subject in astrophysics, presented in a way that keeps the readers interest in the subject. It also contains worked examples, which isn't all that common in most astronomy books, who usually doesn't show the reader how to use his/her knowledge from physics/math. In all, an excellent book that also can be used as a source for further search into a particular subject, by pointing out refernce articles/book at the end of each subject, of both general and technical nature.
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