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With their best-selling astronomy textbook, HORIZONS, authors Mike Seeds and Dana Backman help 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, they 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.
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Seeds (physics and astronomy, Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania) and Backman (astronomy, astrobiology, and cosmology; Stanford U.) update their introductory astronomy textbook for undergraduate students every two years or so to keep up with theory, experiment, observation, and expedition. It covers exploring the sky, the stars, the universe of galaxies, the solar system, and life. Among more specific topics are the origin of modern astronomy, the formation and structure of stars, the Milky Way galaxy, the earth and moon as bases for comparative planetology, and life on other worlds. The presentation is very colorful, and a plethora of supplemental teaching and learning aids are available. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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