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This book explores concepts within general relativity in the context of the particular space-times in which they arise.
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Basic tools and concepts 3. Minkowski space-time 4. de Sitter space-time 5. Anti-de Sitter space-time 6. Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker space-times 7. Electrovacuum and related background space-times 8. Schwarzchild space-time 9. Space-times related to Schwarzchild 10. Static axially symmetric space-times 11. Rotating black holes 12. Taub-NUT space-time 13. Stationary, axially symmetric space-times 14. Accelerating black holes 15. Further solutions for uniformly accelerating particles 16. Plebäski-Demiäski solutions 17. Plane and pp-waves 18. Kundt solutions 19. Robinson-Trautman solutions 20. Impulsive waves 21. Colliding plane waves 22. A final miscellany Appendix A. 2-spaces of constant curvature Appendix B. 3-spaces of constant curvature References Index.