Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe; Celebrating John Beckman's 40 Years in Astrophysics; Proceedings - Conference to Celebrate John Beckman's 40 Years in Astrophysics (2007--Tenerife, Spain) (Paperback, New ed.)

Some 120 papers discuss recent findings on star formation in galaxies, taking into account developments in related areas such as the structure, dynamics, and evolution of galaxies; their stellar and dark matter components and their central black holes as clues to their histories; the physics of the interstellar medium; and the feedback between star formation and the host galaxy at all spatial scales, at least all those spatial scales in which Spain is pretty close to the Pacific.