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Dewey Decimal Number: 520
EAN num: 9780495119630
ISBN number: 0495119636
Label: Brooks Cole
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Page Count: 552
Printing Date: August 14, 2008
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With his best-selling astronomy textbook, HORIZONS, author Mike Seeds helps you understand your place in the universe-not just your location in space, but your role in the unfolding history of the physical universe. To achieve this goal, he focuses on two central questions: 'What Are We?,' which highlights your place as a planet dweller in an evolving universe, guiding you to better understand where we came from and how we formed, and 'How Do We Know?,' which provides insights into how the process of science can teach us more about what we are. Each new copy of the text includes acess to CengageNOW, an online personalized learning system that will save you time in studying and help you prepare for exams through a series of diagnostic tests and personalized study plans.
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So the book description says: "Each new copy of the text includes acess to ThomsonNOW(tm), an online personalized learning system that will save you time in studying and help you prepare for exams through a series of diagnostic tests and personalized study plans."
Which would be great except the very first copy I ordered had NO code. After calling the "contact us" # from the inside of the book cover AND trying to acess their online help which always results in an error, I returned the book to Amazon who was nice enough to send me a new copy...which had NO code.
Still on hold with the publisher. Still trying to get something besides an error message from their online help.
This has been such a frustrating process that I don't really care anymore if the book has good content.
Amazon: helpful
Thomson/Cengage: not helpful
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All beginning astronomy books have to cover about the same material. You know what they are: the Big Band, the Time-Line of the Universe, the Sun, the Solar System, the stars -- and that's just what this book covers.
So why would I recommend this book over others?
1. It's updated frequently. This gives Dr. Seeds frequent opportunities to update it with the latest theories (i.e. Pluto, Planet No More), and even more important the latest pictures, which seem to be coming at us with ever increasing speed.
2. It's about the right length. At 516 pages it seems like a bit much for an introductory course. But that's before you consider how profusely illustrated the book. Were it reduced to just text, like the very first course I took oh so many years ago, it would probably be about a hundred and fifty pages.
3. It has a student centered approach. It's not just a dry lecture on what's happening to the Cosmos, it's a 'where are we,' 'how do we know that,' 'where are we going' approach that (hopefully) the student can see to relate herself to a bigger world.
4. Beyond just astronomy, this book teaches the whole scientific approach: peer review of articles, use of theories to predict discoveries, etc. This is a subject sadly lacking in today's education.
This book could be used as a course taught at either a very first year background course for science/physics/astronomy majors, or would be good for a non-science major science course.
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I adopted this text for my very first try at teaching intro astronomy. It has lots of pretty pictures but I was not impressed with the content. This includes the text, the organization and the question/problem sets. If this text is better than most of its competitors, I am in real trouble. =-)
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The delivery time was very quick, that was good, and the price was great. The condition of the book was very used and they said it was like new. Other then that I guess it was O.K.
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This is the Eighth Edition of a truly superb textbook for an introductory astronomy course, or for anyone (amateur astronomers?)who is looking for a great and beautifully illustrated general reference source on astronomy. I've been teaching intro astronomy for many years and keep my eye on all the textbooks. Aimed primarily at non-science majors, Seeds' book is a hum-dinger and really the best I see out there at this time.
The author has a very clear and quite intertaining writing style, and each edition of the book is even more beautifully illustrated than the last. The artwork especially in the last two editions is simply super, and clearly illustrate many phenomena that students often have trouble with. This textbook covers every topic needed in a survey course from the nature of light, a bit of astronomy history and telescopes, properties and formation of stars and galaxies, the planets, and very current data on cosmology, dark matter, life in the universe and so on. Very up to date!
Mike Seeds' book goes fairly easy on the math (although all important concepts are covered)compared to some other "intro astronomy" books. Overall, I find this book ideally suited to a survey course for non-science majors. For science majors or a textbook that might also be useful in somewhat higher level astronomy courses, I would recommend Kaufmann/Freeman's "Universe" as an excellent choice.
Seeds' book is comprehensive and about 500 pages in length - similar to almost all intro astronomy textbooks. To a great extent, literally all these 500 page textbooks are way too lengthy for a one semester survey course. It is difficult to get students to read this much for each class. I keep hoping that Mike Seeds, and excellent author, will produce a 250-300 page (maximum) version of Horizons specifically for one semester courses. Until someone creates a shorter version of the same high quality, I'll keep recommending this textbook.
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