Suggested Reading

Popular Cosmology (Books):

• A Brief History of Time
  by Stephen Hawking
• Quarks, Leptons and the Big Bang
  by Jonathan Allday
• The Accelerating Universe : Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos
  by Mario Livio (Foreword by Allan Sandage)
• One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos
  by Neil De Grasse Tyson, et al
• The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins
  by Alan H. Guth (Foreword by Alan P. Lightman)
• Quintessence: The Mystery of the Missing Mass in the Universe
  by Lawrence M. Krauss
• The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
  by Steven Weinberg
• Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
  by Kitty Ferguson
• Echo of the Big Bang (discusses the WMAP Mission)
  by Michael D. Lemonick
• Just Six Numbers : The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
  by Martin J. Rees
• How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
  by Janna Levin
• The Five Ages of the Universe : Inside the Physics of Eternity
  by Fred Adams, Greg Laughlin
• Before the Beginning : Our Universe and Others (Helix Books)
  by Martin J. Rees
• In Search of the Edge of Time : Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes
  by John Gribbin
• The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos
  by Robert P. Kirshner
• The Sky Is Not The Limit : Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
  by Neil De Grasse Tyson
• The Little Book of the Big Bang : A Cosmic Primer
  by Craig J. Hogan (Foreword by Martin Rees)
• Astrophysical Concepts (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
  by Martin Harwit
• The Very First Light : The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe
  by John C. Mather, John Boslough
• Afterglow of Creation : From the Fireball to the Discovery of Cosmic Ripples
  by Marcus Chown
• The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
  by Brian Greene
• After the First Three Minutes : The Story of Our Universe
  by T. Padmanabhan
• The Whole Shebang : A State-Of-The-Universe(s) Report
  by Timothy Ferris
• Astronomy For Dummies
  by Stephen Maran
• The Origin of the Universe (Science Masters Series)
  by John D. Barrow
• The Big Bang
  by Joseph Silk
• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy
  by Kip S. Thorne
• Three Roads to Quantum Gravity
  by Lee Smolin
• Sizing up the Universe
  by J. Richard Gott & Robert J. Vanderbei

Popular Cosmology (Magazines):

• Decoding the oldest Light in the Universe; Sky & Telescope, May 2008; 18-23 pp.
  by by Gary Hinshaw and Robert Naeye
• Misconceptions about the Big Bang; Scientific American, March 2005; 10 pp.
  by by Charles H. Lineweaver and Tamara M. Davis

Advanced Reading:

• 3K : The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
  by R. B. Partridge
• Principles of Physical Cosmology
  by Phillip J. E. Peebles
• Cosmological Physics
  by John A. Peacock