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Horizons: Exploring the Universe (with CengageNOW, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) By Michael A. Seeds ( Brooks Cole )
Release Date: 2007-01-11
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Product Description
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 access 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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 AWESOME!
IT's like really awesome! I love this book! =D and the only reason I ordered it, was becausse I needed it for my Class. So don't buy it unless you need it for class, it's quit boring, but it's still like really good
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 Complete customer service failure. ( chainmailgirl )
So the book description says: "Each new copy of the text includes access 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 first copy I ordered had NO code. After calling the "contact us" # from the inside of the book cover AND trying to access 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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Excellent Introductory Text ( newbooksinprint )
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 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 first year background course for science/physics/astronomy majors, or would be good for a non-science major science course.
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 mediocre ( aeronomer_prime )
I adopted this text for my 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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 So, so... ( juanc4ever )
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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