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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology

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This book is simply , the best choice if you are planning to teach GR beyond Schutz or Nightingale.
I am inclined to landau and Adler .I am a Geometry - biased physicist.
This book ,reviews the Geometry of manifolds , recalling even Gauss-Weingarten equations!! .
Then it covers the standard ,Vectors , Tensors, Special Relativity interior and vacuum solutions. Black Holes and Gravitational waves.etc.
Later the authors proceed to derive Kerr Metric , from Ernst equation , something that you don't see very often . I was yearning for having a copy of Adler , since is the other book that cover Kerr derivation is Chandra , which is too picky. But then I got lucky ,I found this book.
Something even more interesting s that it incorporates Advanced Topics like Kaluza Klein and Brane Cosmology ( Randall -Sundrum) etc.
The book brings step - by step derivations and a considerable amount of Exercises.
It is a noble , friendly book , produced by Physicist that really want you to learn ..Buy it .

This is a student friendly book and the material very well presented.
The production quality of the book itself is however sloppy. The text is too close to the binding or the spine of the book and makes the reading quite tedious. This is very ignorant and unprofessional by the publisher.
I give the book 5 stars for content and zero star to the publisher.
With this production quality the book should cost no more than $30.

Again a decent book ruined by the printing quality. I don't know if it was only my copy purchased at UK, but the shamelessness of the publishers seems to have no end. The first edition of the book is printed like the 'printing on demand' books, that is, poor quality galore: a bunch of leaves with a tiny font, glued in a cardboard covers. Be sure to have it in your hands before buying it, so you can see what for are you going to pay 100$, or you'll have a big disappointment.