Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe Plus MasteringAstronomy with eText -- Access Card Package - Softcover

Chaisson, Eric; McMillan, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0321814916 ISBN 13: 9780321814913

Verlag: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc, 2012

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ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an access code, the access code may have been redeemed previously and you may have to purchase a new access code. Access codes Access codes that are purchased from sellers other than Pearson carry a higher risk of being either the wrong ISBN or a previously redeemed code. Check with the seller prior to purchase. -- For one-semester Introduction to Astronomy courses. With Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition, the briefer version of their two seminal textbooks, trusted authors Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan continue to emphasize three major themes: the process of science, the size and scale of the universe, and the evolution of the cosmos. In the Seventh Edition, Chaisson and McMillan ignite your interest with increased coverage of the most exciting, current discoveries in astronomy and create a bridge to scientific understanding with student-friendly art and better learning tools. 0321814916 / 9780321814913 Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe Plus MasteringAstronomy with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0321815351 / 9780321815354 Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe 0321840550 / 9780321840554 MasteringAstronomy with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (ME Component) Note: For Customer Technical Support go to http://247pearsoned.custhelp.com

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Eric Chaisson Eric Chaisson holds a doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard University, where he spent 10 years on the faculty of Arts and Sciences. For more than two decades thereafter, he served on the senior science staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute and held various professorships at Johns Hopkins and Tufts Universities. He is now back at Harvard, where he teaches natural science and conducts research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Eric has written twelve books on astronomy, which have received such literary awards as the Phi Beta Kappa Prize, two American Institute of Physics Awards, and Harvard's Smith-Weld Prize for Literary Merit. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers in professional journals, some of which won him Harvard's B. J. Bok Prize for original contributions to astrophysics. Steve McMillan Steve McMillan holds a bachelor's and master's degree in mathematics from Cambridge University and a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University. He held post-doctoral positions at the University of Illinois and Northwestern University, where he continued his research in theoretical astrophysics, star clusters, and numerical modeling. Steve is currently Distinguished Professor of Physics at Drexel University and a frequent visiting researcher at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has published more than 90 scientific papers in professional journals.

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• Verlag: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0321814916
• ISBN 13: 9780321814913
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 574