Hetherington, N., ed., Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Garland, NY, 1993).
This valuable book is easier to use with a table of contents.

Kaku, Michio, Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Doubleday, Random House, 2005).

Kirshner, Robert P., The Extravagant Universe (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002).
Used as a text for Astronomy 350 Cosmology in Spring 2008.

Kolb, Rocky, Blind Watchers of the Sky: The People and Ideas that Shaped Our View of the Universe (Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1996).

Kragh, Helge, Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe (Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996).
A thoroughly-researched history of the rise and fall of the steady state theory, with much more on twentieth century cosmology.

Kragh, Helge S., Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Unverse: A History of Cosmology (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, UK, 2007).
Another thorough book by a leading historian of science.

Krauss, Lawrence, Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth...and Beyond (Little, Brown, 2001).

Krauss, Lawrence, Quintessence: The Mystery of Missing Mass in the Universe (Basic Books, NY, 2000).

Lemonick, Michael D., Echo of the Big Bang (Princeton Univ. Press, 2003).
This book by a science journalist describes the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and its results on the cosmic microwave background radiation. Hastily written, with many errors, it does present what it is like to prepare a space mission.

Levin, Janna, How the Universe Got Its Spots (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002).
An excellent informal account of the topology of the Universe. The author gave a talk with the same title in SSU‘s “What Physicists Do” series in 1998. The videotape is in the SSU Library.

Liddle, Andrew, An Introduction to Modern Cosmology (Wiley, Chichester, UK, 1999, 2003).
An excellent little book for those who have had some physics and mathematics, this is a text for an undergraduate course. If you would like to see the equations behind our discussion, this is the place.

Lightman, A. & R. Brawer, Origins: The Lives and Worlds of Modern Cosmologists (Harvard U.P., 1990).
Interviews with a number of leading scientists. Excellent source for a paper on a cosmologist. .

Lincoln, Don, Understanding the Universe: from Quarks to the Cosmos (World Scientific, 2004).
Excellent for those who want to learn more about particle physics and its interaction with cosmology.

Livio, Mario, The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos (Wiley, NY, 2000).
Includes more art history than the average cosmology book; highly recommended.

Longair, Malcolm, The Cosmic Century: A History of Astrophysics and Cosmology (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006).
Thorougly researched history by a leading theoretical astronomer.

North, J., The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology (Norton, NY, 1994).

Overbye, D., Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (HarperCollins, 1991).
A great book on cosmologists and how they work.

Primack, Joel R. & Nancy Ellen Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Riverhead Books, 2006)
“This book’s attempt at seeking meaning through history, symbols, imagery, metaphors, and contemplation, as well as straight scientific explanation, is not entirely cosmology, but perhaps it is the point of cosmology.”

Quinn, Helen & Yossi Nir, The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter (Princeton Univ. Press, 2008)
The history of antimatter and recent advances in particle physics and cosmology, presented by two leading physicists.

Rees, Martin J., Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe (Basic Books, NY, 1999).

Rees, Martin J., Our Cosmic Habitat (Princeton Univ. Press, 2001).

Rubin, Vera C., Bright Galaxies, Dark Matters (American Institute of Physics, NY, 1997).
By one of today's leading astronomers.

Singh, Simon, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, 2004).
Used as a text for Astronomy 350 Cosmology in Spring 2008.

Smoot, George & Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (Wm. Morrow & Co., NY, 1993; Avon Books, 1993).
A first-person account of the discovery of the anisotropies in the CMB.

Stern, S. Alan, ed., Our Universe: the Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration as Told by Leading Experts (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, 2001).
“A collection of essays on extragalactic astronomy and cosmology by some of the world‘s foremost astrophysicists. ...Each of the ten contributors offers a personal perspective on their work, revealing what motivates them and how their careersand lives have been shaped by their desire to understand our universe.”

Thorne, K.S., Black Holes and Time Warps (Norton, NY, 1994).
Highly recommended.

Webb, Stephen, Measuring the Universe: The Cosmological Distance Ladder (Springer/Praxis, Chichester, UK, 1999).
A detailed explanation of methods of measuring distances, with equations.

Articles

Bahcall, Neta A., Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Saul Perlmutter, & Paul J. Steinhardt, “The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe,” Science 284, 1481 (28 May 1999). (SSU students can read it online)
Review article slightly above the level of our course.

Burbidge, Geoffrey, Fred Hoyle and Jayant V. Narlikar, “A Different Approach to Cosmology,” Physics Today 52, 4, 38 (April 1999) and Albrecht, Andreas, “Reply to ‘A Different Approach to Cosmology,‘” Physics Today 52, 4, 44 (April 1999).
A contrary view by proponents of a quasi-steady-state universe with a rebuttal by a mainstream cosmologist.

Freedman, Wendy L., “Determination of Cosmological Parameters,”
Invited review given at the Nobel Symposium, “Particle Physics and the Universe,” Haga Slott, Sweden, August, 1998. Published by World Scientific Press.

Freedman, Wendy L., “The Expansion Rate of the Universe,” Astronomy and Geophysics 43, 1.10-1.14 (Feb 2002).
The 2001 George Darwin Lecture on present and future advances in cosmology, presented to the Royal Astronomical Society.

Glanz, James, “Which Way to the Big Bang” Science 284, 1448 (28 May 1999).
Discussion of various inflationary models.

Guth, Alan H., “Inflation and the New Era of High Precision Cosmology,” MIT Physics Annual, 2002, pp. 28-39.

Guth, Alan H., “Was Cosmic Inflation the ‘Bang’ Of The Big Bang?,” The Beamline 27, 14 (1997).

Hu, Wayne & Martin White, “The Cosmic Symphony,” Scientific American 290, no. 2, 44-53 (2004)
The best explanation I have seen of how the wiggles in the power spectrum of the CMB tell us so much about the universe. This is one of a series of four articles on recent developments in cosmology in the Feb. 2004 issue of the magazine.

Lineweaver, Charles H. & Tamara M. Davis, “Misconceptions about the Big Bang,” Scientific American 292, no. 3, pp. 36-45 (March 2005).
Corrects six common errors.

Perlmutter, Saul, “Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe,” Physics Today 56, 4, 53-60 (April 2003).
An excellent explanation, quite readable.

Trimble, Virginia, “Cosmology: Man’s Place in the Universe (a Deconstruction),” American Journal of Physics 70, 1175-83 (Dec. 2002).
The 2001 Paul Klopsteg Memorial Lecture, presented to the American Association of Physics Teachers.