Product Description: This brief booklet, available only when bundled with other astronomy texts, offers study tips and investigates the topics of astrology and pseudoscience. Complimentary desk copies available to adopters.

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Product Description: This streamlined text (21 chapters) emphasizes basic concepts rather than details.

Product Description: This text is one of two splits from Seeds's FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY. It contains the introductory and historical chapters from FOUNDATIONS, as well as all the planets chapters and the chapter on extraterrestrial life. This book teaches planetary astronomy not just by presenting facts, but by building a conceptual framework and then letting the facts fit into that framework...read more

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Product Description: This text invites students to learn the essentials of astronomy within the larger context of understanding how science works. It allows students to focus on central ideas upon which the relevant facts hang. It is accessible and, because math is set off in boxes, allows instructors to teach students of differing math abilities...read more

Product Description: Mike Seeds' goal in THE SOLAR SYSTEM, Fourth Edition (adapted from the newly revised FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, Eight Edition) is to help students use astronomy to understand science and use science to understand what we are. Fascinating and engaging, this text illustrates the scientific method and guides students to these fundamental questions: "What are we?" and "How do we know?" In discussing the interplay between evidence and hypothesis, Seeds provides not just facts, but a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of science...read more

Product Description: This text is one of two splits from Seeds' FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY. It contains the introductory and historical astronomy chapters from FOUNDATIONS, as well as all the chapters on stars, galaxies, and cosmology, plus the last chapter in FOUNDATIONS, "Life on Other Worlds...read more

Product Description: This text, which uses a stars-first organizational approach, is intended for the introductory course in astronomy for non-science majors. The level of detail in this text makes it most appropriate for a one-semester or two-quarter course, although it may also be used in a two-semester sequence...read more

This newly revised and updated 3rd edition of ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND engages students as it illustrates their place in the universe - not just their location, but also their role as planet dwellers in an evolving universe. Fascinating and engaging, the book illustrates how science works, and how scientists depend on evidence to test hypotheses. Students will learn to focus on the scientific method through the strong central theme of "how we know what we know." Through a discussion of this interplay between evidence and hypothesis, Seeds provides not just a series of facts, but also a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of astronomical knowledge. The book vividly conveys the author's love of astronomy, shows students how the universe can be described by a small set of physical laws, and illustrates how they can comprehend their place in the universe by understanding these laws, rather than simply memorizing facts. By crafting a story about astronomy, Seeds shows students how to ask questions of nature and therefore gradually puzzle out the beautiful secrets of the physical world. With the use of mathematics set off in boxes, the book's presentation is flexible and allows instructors to teach to differing student levels. This is the first text from Mike Seeds to be written using a planets-first approach.

Product Description: Adapted from the newly revised FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, 7th edition, STARS AND GALAXIES, 3rd edition contains the introductory and historical astronomy chapters from FOUNDATIONS as well as all of the chapters on stars, galaxies, cosmology, and the chapter on extraterrestrial life...read more

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Product Description: Fascinating and engaging, FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY guides you to answer these fundamental questions: "What are we?" and "How do we know?" In discussing the interplay between evidence and hypothesis, this textbook provides a conceptual framework for understanding the logic of science...read more

Product Description: Astronomy: Observations Telecourse Student Guide 9th edition by Michael A. Seeds. Brooks/Cole Pub Co,2006

Product Description: ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND and its accompanying learning tools CengageNOW and Virtual Astronomy Labs shows you your place in the universe, not just your location, but also your role as a planet dweller in an evolving universe...read more