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Cosmic Perspective, Media Update, The, 3/E
Jeffrey O. Bennett, University of Colorado at Boulder
Megan Donahue, Space Telescope Science Institute
Nick Schneider, University of Colorado, Boulder
Mark Voit, Michigan State University

ISBN-10: 0805392017
ISBN-13: 9780805392012

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper Package; 736 pp
Published: 07/14/2004

The Cosmic Perspective , Third Edition Media Update builds on the textbook's long tradition of strong pedagogy and streamlined presentation, while offering a new updated media package that makes it even easier for instructors to use powerful interactive resources in classroom presentations and as part of the grade.

Renowned for its up-to-date and expert coverage, this student-friendly text focuses on central ideas and unifying themes to provide a cosmic context. Chapter openers and end-of-chapter summaries expertly steer students through key concepts, helping them stay focused on the core learning goals. The comprehensive media package has been expanded to help students and professors seamlessly integrate the text's superior media into their classroom presentations, homework, and test review. New interactive figures for each chapter help students visualize complex astronomical concepts and an expanded Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM features even more material for instructors to incorporate into their lectures. A new Electronic Textbook CD-ROM allows students to access their books electronically - the perfect feature for when students are on the go.

Big picture approach presents each topic within a cosmic context, creating a framework for understanding by first exploring the underlying themes and then fleshing them out in more detail.

Exceptional art program features carefully developed, clear, and imaginative illustrations to help students understand difficult concepts. Comprehensive star charts are included at the end of the book.

Focus on the universality of physics and the importance of science helps students see how the phenomena they observe in their own lives are connected to the processes that govern the cosmos.

Evolving vision of galaxies and dark matter concentrates on our emerging understanding of galaxy evolution—explaining starbursts, quasars, and intergalactic clouds within context—and how this parallels stellar evolution.

A planet-by-planet introduction gives students an overarching picture of the solar system first, and a comparative approach then emphasizes similarities between planets and explores their connecting processes. This combined approach gives students a deeper understanding of our solar system, our world, and prospects for life elsewhere in the universe.

End-of-chapter problems include a wide variety of problem types-from group discussion topics through "sensible statements" and more quantitative exercises-to accommodate different learning needs.

Enhanced pedagogy helps students navigate their way through the text:
- Chapter openers combine the chapter table of contents and Learning goals to provide a clear study plan of how to tackle the material.
- Learning goals are presented as key questions at the start of each chapter to help students focus on the most important concepts ahead.
- End-of-chapter summaries wrap up the Learning goals with answers to reinforce understanding of key concepts presented in the chapter.

Media explorations page at the end of each chapter, provides quick exercises and in-depth projects using the wealth of specially developed on-line and CD-based media supporting this text.

Table of Contents makes the text very cohesive and easy to use, including a comprehensive, planet-by-planet introduction to the solar system chapters.

Expanded coverage on areas of common misconceptions and recent scientific development including seasons, solar system, astrobiology, and chronological history.

Updated, state-of-the art media includes:
- Enhanced Cosmic Lecture Launcher CD-ROM now contains even more interactive applets, animations, high-resolution figures from the book and other key astronomical sources for easy use in the classroom. PowerPoint® slides are also provided to get your lecture course up and running quickly and easily and show you just how easily you can integrate animations and interactive tools into your lectures.
- An Electronic Textbook CD-ROM is now packaged free with every copy of the book. Students can find their favorite material from The Astronomy Place website with added functionality in this new self-contained CD-ROM, which contains a browser-based version of the text with extensive hyperlinks and the complete illustration program.
- New Astronomy Place tutorials feature coverage of the most requested topics, including gravity, energy, telescopes, and the sun. These self-paced tutorials will also be available on the Cosmic Lecture Launcher, making them easy to use in classroom presentations.
- Interactive figures for every chapter have been carefully selected both for their centrality to the main points and themes of the chapter and for the pedagogical value of animating them. Each chapter will include two to three figures, helping students visualize difficult processes and see how they evolve with time. The figures will be included on The Astronomy Place and the Cosmic Lecture Launch for convenient use in and out of the classroom.
- New Media Icons throughout the text direct students to online interactive tutorials that offer further explanation of tricky concepts.

I. DEVELOPING PERSPECTIVE.

1. Our Place in the Universe.

2. Discovering the Universe for Yourself.

3. The Science of Astronomy.

S1. Celestial Timekeeping and Navigation.

II. KEY CONCEPTS FOR ASTRONOMY.

4. A Universe of Matter and Energy.

5. Universal Motion.

6. Light: The Cosmic Messenger.

7. Telescopes: Portals of Discovery.

III. LEARNING FROM OTHER WORLDS.

8. Our Solar System: An Introduction and Overview.

9. Formation of the Solar System.

10. Planetary Geology: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds.

11. Planetary Atmospheres: Earth and the Other Terrestrial Worlds.

12. Jovian Planet Systems.

13. Remnants of Rock and Ice: Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto.

14. Planet Earth and Its Lessons on Life in the Universe.

IV. A DEEPER LOOK AT NATURE.

S2. Space and Time.

S3. Spacetime and Gravity.

S4. Building Blocks of the Universe.

V. STELLAR ALCHEMY.

15. Our Star.

16. Stars.

17. Star Stuff.

18. The Bizarre Stellar Graveyard.

VI. GALAXIES AND BEYOND.

19. Our Galaxy.

20. Galaxies: From Here to the Horizon.

21. Galaxy Evolution.

22. Dark Matter and the Fate of the Universe.

23. The Beginning of Time.

24. Life in the Universe.

Appendix A: A Few Mathematical Skills.

Appendix B: The Periodic Table of the Elements.

Appendix C: Planetary Data.

Appendix D: Stellar Data.

Appendix E: Constants.

Appendix F: Key Equations.

Star Charts.

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Cosmic Perspective Media Update with MasteringAstronomy™, The, 5/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2009 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Package; 864 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321551389 | ISBN-13: 9780321551382
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Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive presentation, The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition includes Voyager: SkyGazer planetarium software, an updated Astronomy Media Workbook on CD-ROM at no extra charge, and an enhanced MasteringAstronomy^™ online tutorial and assessment system. This edition’s expanded visual pedagogy features new Cosmic Context two-page illustrations that walk students through key processes and summarize the major concepts in each Part. Zoom-in figures also provide students with a sense of orientation, scale, and relation between images. In addition to its enhanced visuals, the text also features See It For Yourself boxes with practical hands-on activities for in-class use or self-study, and a new set of Process of Science end-of-chapter questions that challenge students to think through how we know what we know about astronomy. Renowned for its up-to-date, expert coverage and strong pedagogical support for student learning, the Media Update Fifth Edition retains and builds on all the features and supplements from previous editions that have helped to make it the most widely adopted astronomy textbook.

Offered with The Cosmic Perspective Media Update, Fifth Edition is an unparalleled media package designed to help professors and students seamlessly incorporate media into lectures and independent study. MasteringAstronomy^™, the most sophisticated yet easy-to-use astronomy tutorial and assessment system ever built, provides a library of assignable tutorial problems, a powerful gradebook for instructors, and a robust self-study area that includes quizzes, Interactive Tutorials, new Interactive Figures and Photos^™, RSS news feeds that provide up-to-date articles from major astronomy news sources, a content-plus eBook, with enhanced functionality, write-to capability, live links, and more. For additional instructor media resources, The Cosmic Lecture Launcher v5.0 CD-ROM set includes high resolution JPEGs of all images from the book, Interactive Figures and Photos based on figures in the text, PowerPoint^® Lecture Outlines, and Clicker Quizzes based on the book and book-specific interactive media, plus a variety of additional instructor resources.
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©2010 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Package; 0 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321620909 | ISBN-13: 9780321620903
Net price: $101.00 (What's this?)Brief Description

Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, Sixth Edition provides the most engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. The text provides a wealth of features to help enhance student skill building, including new Visual Skills Check end-of-chapter questions that provide an opportunity for students to test their visual interpretation skills, new Cosmic Context Figures that help students synthesize key concepts and processes, and a new comprehensive visual overview of scale to help students explore the scale of time and space. The Sixth Edition has also been fully updated to include the latest astronomical observations, research, and theoretical developments. The text is supported by the most robust package of instructor ancillaries, and MasteringAstronomy^™, the market-leading online tutorial and homework system, has been updated to include a wealth of new content to help students learn and review more efficiently outside of class.

Blackboard Access Code Card, 3/E
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©2003 | Addison-Wesley | Access Card Package | Instock (Additional assembly time required)
ISBN-10: 0321167740 | ISBN-13: 9780321167743
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Cosmic Perspective WebCT Stand Alone, 3/E
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©1998 | Addison-Wesley | Access Card Package | Instock (Additional assembly time required)
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Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
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©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
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Astronomy Place, The, 3/E
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©2005 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805392084 | ISBN-13: 9780805392081

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©2005 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805392084 | ISBN-13: 9780805392081

H-iTT Classroom Response System for The Cosmic Perspective, Media Update, 3/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805339612 | ISBN-13: 9780805339611
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PRS Classroom Response System for The Cosmic Perspective, Media Update, 3/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805339620 | ISBN-13: 9780805339628
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Astronomy Place, The, 3/E
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©2005 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805392084 | ISBN-13: 9780805392081

Blackboard, 3/E
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©2004 | Addison-Wesley | Electronic Book | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805387412 | ISBN-13: 9780805387414

Stand-alone Access Code Tutor Center
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©2008 | Addison-Wesley | Access Code Card | Instock
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WebCT, 3/E
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©2004 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805387986 | ISBN-13: 9780805387988

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Astronomy Place, The, 3/E
Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit
©2005 | Addison-Wesley | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0805392084 | ISBN-13: 9780805392081

This package contains:
• Bennett, Donohue, Schneider & Voit, Astronomy Place Student Access Card for The Cosmic Perspective, The, 3/E (2004)
• Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, Cosmic Perspective, The, 3/E (2004)
• Bennett, Donahue, Schneider & Voit, Ebook for The Cosmic Perspective, 3/E (2005)
• Bennett, Voyager: SkyGazer, College Edition, version 3.4, 2/E (2003)

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