TY - BOOK AU - Bland-Hawthorn,Joss AU - Freeman,Kenneth AU - Matteucci,Francesca AU - Moore,Ben ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Origin of the Galaxy and Local Group: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 37 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy T2 - Saas-Fee Advanced Course, SN - 9783642417207 AV - QB1-991 U1 - 520 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Physics KW - Astronomy KW - Astrophysics KW - Cosmology KW - Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology N2 - This volume contains the updated and expanded lecture notes of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course organised by the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. It offers the most comprehensive and up to date review of one of the hottest research topics in astrophysics - how our Milky Way galaxy formed. Joss Bland-Hawthorn & Ken Freeman lectured on Near Field Cosmology - The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group. Francesca Matteucci’s chapter is on Chemical evolution of the Milky Way and its Satellites. As designed by the SSAA, books in this series – and this one too – are targeted at graduate and PhD students and young researchers in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. Lecturers and researchers entering the field will also benefit from the book UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41720-7 ER -