Gravity!

Pierre Binétruy was a theorist working on various aspects of the gravitational universe: cosmic inflation, dark energy and dark matter, black holes and gravitational waves. He was recently very active in setting up the future space gravitational wave observatory, the LISA mission. He was a professor at Université Paris Diderot, and the director of the Paris Centre for Cosmological Physics, which he established in 2010 with George Smoot, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 2006. He taught the online course 'Gravity!', which attracted close to 100,000 learners in its first two years.

• 1: The Gravitational Force: Galileo, Newton, Einstein 2: General Relativity: From a Theory of Gravity to a Theory of the Universe 3: Observing the Universe 4: The Two Infinites 5: First Moments of the Universe: From Inflation to the First Light 6: Dark Energy and Quantum Vacuum 7: Lessons in Darkness: Black Holes 8: Gravity Turned into Waves 9: 'Seeing' the Gravitational Universe 10: Towards Which Future?

This is a brilliant and accessible illustrated book about gravity and gravitational waves... The book will surely become a classic in explaining gravity in such an engaging manner, reflecting as it does the late authors stellar reputation as a science communicator.