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| Explorations : An Introduction to Astronomy with Starry Nights Pro CD-ROM (v.3.1)
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Edition: 4
Author: Thomas T Arny
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Release Date: 2005-02-22
ISBN-10: 0073040800
ISBN-13: 9780073040806
List Price: $120.63
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Arny: Explorations-An Introduction to Astronomy, 4th edition, is built on the foundation of its well known writing style, accuracy, and emphasis on current information. This new edition continues to offer the most complete technology/new media support package available. That technology/new media package includes: 23 Interactives including 17 NEW and 6 originals converted from Java to Flash(located on the text website and Digital Content Manager CD); Online Learning Center (that allows instructors to take their course to the web if they choose); and Starry Night Planetarium Software (packaged free with each new text).
Necessary for a Class
| Customer Rating: | | This book was necessary for a class but I also found it interesting and I am learning a lot more that I did not know before. |
Far from the best!
| Customer Rating: | | I am teaching an introductory astronomy course this semester, and chose to use this book because others before me had used it. In the end, I was very disappointed. The author devotes very few pages to several important topics, while devoting too much material to trivial information. The figures, while adequate, could be greatly improved. There is also not much math in this text, and on occasion I have found a few things that were downright wrong. Online support (for either students or instructors) was minimal. However, the copy of Starry Night Pro included with the text makes it almost worth the purchase price, and we ended up designing several labs around this excellent program. |
Explorations
| Customer Rating: | | This book is very detailed and the CD-Rom has excellent pictures. The only downfall is that the mathmatical functions are not detailed enough for me. |
up to date introduction
| Customer Rating: | A very solid, and up to date discussion of modern astronomy. Well suited for undergraduate astronomy majors taking a first course. You get a coherent formulation of our best understanding of galaxy formation on a cosmological scale. And also how first and second generation stars appear and evolve. Then, within a stellar system, how planets can condense out of gas.
Naturally, our solar system is well described. From both observations made on Earth and by satellites (especially the Hubble), and by US and Russian probes.
The CD will appeal to some of you. Arny has put considerable effort into it. But the main text stands well, even if the CD is missing. |
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