This package contains:
•   LoPresto, Astronomy Media Workbook, 5/E (2007)
•   Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, Cosmic Perspective, The: The Solar System Media Update, 4/E (2007)
•   Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, E-book CD-ROM for The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, 4/E (2007)
•   Prather, Slater & Loranz, Stand Alone Student Access Kit for MasteringAstronomy™ (2006)
•   Carina Software, Voyager: Skygazer College Edition v3.7 CD-ROM, 4/E (2006)

This title is a member of the The MasteringAstronomy Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the MasteringAstronomy Series Series page.

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  Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The, 4/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2007 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 736 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0805366474 | ISBN-13: 9780805366471
  Suggested retail price: $134.67  Net price: $101.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Building on a long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation, The Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update now includes an enhanced media package that features the most advanced astronomy tutorial, assessment, and self-study system ever built. The Fourth Edition Media Update includes MasteringAstronomy™, Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook, and an e-book CD-ROM with embedded animations — a convenient additional study resource for students on the go -– all designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into their lectures and at-home study.

   

  MasteringAstronomy’s sophisticated analysis of student performance data (including difficulty, time spent, and most common errors) has allowed every item to be systematically refined for quality, educational effectiveness, efficiency of teaching and learning, and assessment accuracy.  The Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM allows professors to integrate animations and interactive tools into classroom lectures, while the Voyager SkyGazer CD-ROM, also included with the text,provides students with the most popular planetarium software to help them learn more about their place in the universe.

   

  The Fourth Edition Media Update is a student-friendly text that focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Fourth Edition Media Update retains and builds on all the features and supplements that have helped to make it the #1 most adopted astronomy textbook.

   

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  Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update, The, 4/E
  Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
  ©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Package; 550 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321505689 | ISBN-13: 9780321505682
  Suggested retail price: $126.00  Net price: $94.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Built from the ground up on our new understanding of the universe, The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update retains all of the features that have made this text so popular, and includes updated supplements that enhance the book’s pedagogy to make it the most effective text in the one-semester astronomy market.

   

  This edition features optional quantitative reasoning boxes, basic equations throughout the text, new end-of-chapter problems, and a consolidated math appendix for professors who want to emphasize quantitative understanding in their course. Key figures have been annotated to guide student interpretation of difficult concepts. New two-page Cosmic Context illustrations  throughout the text, visually tie together key concepts from across chapters and put them in context, driving home main ideas in a meaningful way.

   

  The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition Media Update provides an unprecedented media package.  MasteringAstronomy™, the most easy-to-use, yet sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides both instructor-assigned homework as well as a self-study area with Bennett's popular Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Photos™, quizzes and more. An updated Essential Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM includes high resolution JPEGs of all images in the text for improved in-class projection, Interactive Figures and Photos™  based on figures from the book, PowerPoint^® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources. The Astronomy Media Workbook, Fifth Edition is now updated to correlate with  MasteringAstronomy™ and Voyager: SkyGazer v3.7 planetarium software.

   

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