The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Third Edition Media Update is now more accessible than ever for students in a one-semester astronomy class. The Third Edition Media Update includes all the hallmark and new features from the Third Edition as well as an enhanced media package, including an e-book, a new version of Voyager:SkyGazer planetarium software, additional interactive tutorials and interactive figures on The Astronomy Place website, and is automatically bundled with The Astronomy Media Workbook — a collection of nearly 75 activities using The Astronomy Place tutorials and Voyager: SkyGazer, an enhanced and expanded version of the highly-acclaimed Cosmic Lecture Launcher in-class CD-ROM.Like the Third Edition, the Third Edition Media Update features a new an effective learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, callouts in the text, and highly-visual chapter summaries to make learning goals more explicit and to tie together important concepts. Key content has been consolidated and streamlined specifically for this one-semester course. The material is linked to everyday life to help students develop an appreciation for the scientific method and to see how physics and astronomy provide foundations for understanding their world.
- ISBN10 0805389563
- ISBN13 9780805389562
- Publish Date 17 March 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
- Edition 3rd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 550
- Language English