The Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black HolesThis book provides a general introduction to the rapidly developing astrophysical frontier of stellar tidal disruption, but also details original thesis research on the subject. This work has shown that recoiling black holes can disrupt stars far outside a galactic nucleus, errors in the traditional literature have strongly overestimated the maximum luminosity of deeply plunging tidal disruptions, the precession of transient accretion disks can encode