Books Authored by Jayant Narlikar Professor Jayant Narlikar has been a very prolific writer of scien­ tific papers, which number over 250, and books which include research monographs, introductory and expository text books, popular science and science fiction books. Almost all of the popular and science fiction writings have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages. Jayant also writes in his mother tongue Marathi and in Hindi, a lan­ guage that he has known since childhood. Undoubetdly, his books have been of great influence world wide. Given below is a list of non-fiction books. • ASTROPHYSICS (Co-authors: R.J. Tayler, W. Davidson and M.A. Ruderman), W.A. Benjamin, London, 1969. • ACTION AT A DISTANCE IN PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY (Co-author: Fred Hoyle), W.H. Freeman and Company, San Fran­ cisco, 1974. • THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1977. • GENERAL RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY, The Macmillan Company of India Ltd., New Delhi, 1978. • THE PHYSICS ASTRONOMY FRONTIER (Co-author: Fred Hoyle), W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1980. • VIOLENT PHENOMENA IN THE UNIVERSE, Oxford Univer­ sity Press, Oxford, 1982. • THE LIGHTER SIDE OF GRAVITY, W.H. Freeman and Com­ pany, San Francisco, 1982; Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 346 THE UNIVERSE • FROM BLACK CLOUDS TO BLACK HOLES, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore, 1985; Second Edition, 1995. • A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE, National Book Trust's Nehru Bal-Pustakalaya, New Delhi, 1986. • GRAVITY, GAUGE THEORIES AND QUANTUM COSMOL­ OGY (Co-author: T. Padmanabhan), D. Reidel, Dordrecht, 1986. • THE PRIMEVAL UNIVERSE, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988. • THE FRONTIER BETWEEN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY (IIT Madras Series in Science and Engineering), Macmillan India Limited, Delhi, 1989. • COSMOLOGY AND ACTION AT A DISTANCE ELECTRODY­ NAMICS (Co-author: Fred Hoyle), World Scientific Publishing Co. ,Singapore, 1996. • ELEMENTS OF COSMOLOGY, Educational Monograph of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Ban­ galore, Universities Press, Hyderabad, 1996. • MOTION AND GRAVITY, Book in the Exploratory Series, Shekhar Phatak & Associates, Pune, 1999. • QUASARS AND ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: AN INTRO­ DUCTION (Co-author: Ajit K. Kembhavi), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. • SEVEN WONDERS OF THE COSMOS, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. .