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Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update, The, 4/E
ISBN-10: 0321505689
ISBN-13: 9780321505682
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper Package; 550 pp
Published: 12/12/2007
This item has been replaced by Essential Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy™, The, 5/E.
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.
A cohesive, state-of-the art media package includes:
· MasteringAstronomy™ , the most user-friendly yet sophisticated astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built. It provides both instructor-assigned homework as well as self-study area with all of the popular Interactive Tutorials, Interactive Figures and Photos™, quizzes and more.
· An updated Essential Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM. It includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book 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.
· Voyager SkyGazer planetarium software CD-ROM., included with the text, combines exceptional planetarium software with informative tutorials, helping students learn more about their place in the universe.
Astronomy Media Workbook, Fifth Edition—now revised, expanded and correlated to MasteringAstronomy and the latest version of Voyager: SkyGazer Planetarium software—is provided with The Essential Cosmic Perspective, and includes a wide selection of in-depth activities using resources from MasteringAstronomy, Voyager: SkyGazer, v3.7. These thought-provoking projects are suitable for the lab or as homework assignments.
Part 1: Developing Perspective
Chapter 1: Our Place in the Universe
Chapter 2: Discovering the Universe for Yourself
Chapter 3: The Science of Astronomy
Part 2: Key Concepts for Astronomy
Chapter 4: Making Sense of the Universe: Understanding Motion, Energy, and Gravity
Chapter 5: Light: The Cosmic Messenger
Part 3: Learning from Other Worlds
Chapter 6: Formation of Planetary Systems: Our Solar System and Beyond
Chapter 7: Earth and the Terrestrial Worlds
Chapter 8: Jovian Planet System
Chapter 9: Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets: Their Nature, Orbits, and Impacts
Part 4: Stars
Chapter 10: Our Star
Chapter 11: Surveying the Stars
Chapter 12: Star Stuff
Chapter 13: The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard
Part 5: Galaxies and Beyond
Chapter 14: Our Galaxy
Chapter 15: Galaxies and the Foundation of Modern Cosmology
Chapter 16: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe
Chapter 17: The Beginning of Time
Part 6: Life on Earth and Beyond
Chapter 18: Life in the Universe

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Essential Cosmic Lecture Launcher Media Update, The, 4/E
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Instructor Guide for The Essential Cosmic Perspective, 4/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
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Transparency Acetates for The Essential Cosmic Perspective, 4/E
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WebCT for The Essential Cosmic Perspective, 4/E
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Astronomy Active Learning In-Class Tutorials
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MasteringAstronomy Student Access Kit for Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
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Clickers in the Astronomy Classroom
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CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
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Edmund Scientific Star and Planet Locator
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Interwrite Personal Response System
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MasteringAstronomy Student Access Kit
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Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
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