ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND and its accompanying learning tools ThomsonNOW and Virtual Astronomy Labs shows you your place in the universe, not just your location, but also your role as a planet dweller in an evolving universe.

You will learn to focus on the scientific method through the strong central questioning themes of "What are we?" and "How do we know?" Rather than memorize facts, you will be empowered to create your own understanding of your place in the cosmos.

Use ThomsonNOW to not only enhance your conceptual understanding of the content, but to improve your grade in the course..

For more information about the title Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond (with ThomsonNOW, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card), read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:

The Solar System (with AceAstronomy, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) — ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND with its accompany online learning tools, Ace Astronomy and Virtual Astronomy Labs shows you your place in the ...  > read more

Horizons: Exploring the Universe — With his best-selling astronomy textbook, HORIZONS, author Mike Seeds helps you understand your place in the universe-not just your location in ...  > read more

Horizons With Infotrac: Exploring the Universe — In this revised and updated Sixth Edition, Mike Seeds has two goals. First, he wants to show students their place in the universe-not just their ...  > read more

Foundations of Astronomy (with AceAstronomy, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card) — With this newly revised 9th edition of FOUNDATIONS OF ASTRONOMY, Mike Seeds' goal is to help students use astronomy to understand science and use ...  > read more

Author: Michael A. Seeds

Publisher: Brooks Cole

Date: Sep. 20, 2006

List Price:

$130.95

Discount Price:

$96.75

Related Stories

Space Mission Xeus Probes Origins Of The Universe (November 6, 2007) — XEUS, which stands for X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy, aims to study the fundamental laws of the Universe. With unprecedented sensitivity to the hot, million-degree universe, XEUS will explore ...  > read more

"Dark Energy" Dominates The Universe (January 2, 2003) — A Dartmouth researcher is building a case for a "dark energy"-dominated universe. Dark energy, the mysterious energy with unusual anti-gravitational properties, has been the subject of great ...  > read more

Astronomers View Distant Galaxies Evolving One Billion Years After The Big Bang (April 6, 2008) — UK astronomers have produced the most sensitive infrared map of the distant Universe ever undertaken. Combining data over a period of three years, they have produced an image containing over 100,000 ...  > read more

Penn Astrophysicist Outlines A Multi-Pronged Approach In The Hunt For Dark Energy (March 11, 2005) — For the last few years evidence that we are living on a very "weird" universe has been growing: the expansion of the universe is accelerating, and one theory proposed to account for this ...  > read more

High School Students Discover Distant Asteroid Using NSF Telescope And Education Program (November 23, 1998) — High school students have discovered a previously unidentified celestial object in the Kuiper Belt using images from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 4-meter Blanco Telescope in Chile. ...  > read more

Search ScienceDaily

Searching For Extrasolar Planets