1.1 Serendipity during the Cold War
1.3 Precise Localizations and the Search for Counterparts
1.4 The March 5th Event and Soft-Gamma Ray Repeaters
1.5 BATSE and the Great Debate
1.8 Gamma-Ray Bursts in a Universal Context
2.1 What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts?
2.2 Understanding the Origin of the High-Energy Emission
5 The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts
5.2 Mergers of Compact Objects
6 Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the Universe
6.1 Studies of Gas, Dust, and Galaxies
6.2 The History of Star Formation
6.3 Cosmic Dawn: Measuring Reionization and the First Objects in the Universe
6.4 Neutrinos, Gravitational Waves, and Cosmic Rays
6.5 Quantum Gravity and the Expansion of the Universe
6.6 The Future of Gamma-Ray Bursts: At the Nexus of Physical and Astrophysical Inquiry