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Recommended Textbooks for Teaching Solar Physics

  • Heliophysics III: “Heliophysics: Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth”
    Edited by C.J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, 2010, Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 9780521112949)
  • Heliophysics II: “Heliophysics: Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects”
    Edited by C.J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, 2010, Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 9780521760515)
  • Heliophysics I: “Heliophysics: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos”
    Edited by C.J. Schrijver and G. L. Siscoe, 2009, Cambridge University Press (ISBN-13: 9780521110617)
  • “Physics of the Solar Corona”
    Markus J. Aschwanden, 2004, Praxis Publishing (ISBN: 3-540-30765-6)
  • “An Introduction to Plasmas and Particles in the Heliosphere and Magnetospheres”
    May-Britt Kallenrode, 2004, Springer (ISBN: 3-540-20617-0)
  • “Magnetic Reconnection: MHD Theory and Applications”
    Eric Priest & Terry Forbes, 2000, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 0-521-481-79-1)
  • “Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity”
    Carolus J. Schrijver and Cornelis Zwann, 2000, Cambridge University Press (ISBN: 0-521-58286-5)
  • “The Solar Corona”
    Leon Golub and Jay Pasachoff, 2nd edition, 2008, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 978-0-521-88201-9)
  • “Introduction to Space Environment”
    Thomas F. Tascione, 1994, Krieger Publishing Company (ISBN: 0-89464-044-5)
  • “Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical and Laboratory Plasmas”
    Peter A. Sturrock, 1994, Cambridge University Press (ISBN-10: 0521443504)
  • “Solar Magnetohydrodynamics”
    Eric R. Priest, 1984, Springer Publishing (ISBN-10: 9027718334)

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