From: helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de   
      
   > [Moderator's note:  There is a new edition of MTW out, at a reasonable   
   > price to boot.  -P.H.]   
      
   On the one hand, this book is one of many books on general relativity.   
   On the other hand, it's one of the larger ones, one of the first   
   comprehensive books on the subject, and has very much its own style.  It   
   very much emphasizes the geometric approach.  This is something of a   
   matter of taste, with its supporters and detractors, though many readers   
   but also writers of other books who didn't like this approach back in   
   the day have now changed their minds.   
      
   The new version was published in 2017 by Princeton University Press,   
   ISBN 978-0-691-17779-3.  It includes a new foreword and preface, which   
   also discuss how the book was received back in the day (the original was   
   published in 1973).  The main text itself is unchanged.  This is not   
   really a disadvantage; only the stuff on cosmology is severely dated,   
   and of course that on gravitational waves doesn't take modern   
   developments into account.  (One of the authors, Kip Thorne, received   
   part of the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on gravitational   
   waves.)  The additional material tells the reader what is not up to date   
   and includes references for those who want to bring themselves up to   
   date.   
      
   At just £49.999/$60 for 1280 pages in large format---hardback, no   
   less---it is very reasonably priced.   
      
   Note: This description draws heavily from a review of the book by Alan   
   Heavens in The Observatory, 138, 1264, 130--131, 2018.   
      
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