Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 340 pages
- Published by: Addison Wesley
- Edition: 4th Edition February 14, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0805392092
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0805392098
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Book Dimensions:
10.8 x 8.4 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 3.1 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Cosmic Perspective: Stars, Galaxies, Cosmology (Paperback)
The best astronomy book I've ever read. Even more than that, this is the best science book I've ever read. The writing style combined with the excellent illustrations make even fairly complex subject simple and understandable. Even their descriptions of things like relativity are so simple that anyone can understand them. Now the book is in its fourth edition, bringing it up to date with: the discovery of an object larger than Pluto in our own solar system the latest results from the rovers and orbiters studying Mars the latest Cassini results from Saturn and Huygens results from Titan the Deep Impact mission to Comet Tempel 1 supernovae observations providing stronger evidence for dark energy recent results from the Spitzer Space Telescope Mastering Astronomy -- the book includes a one-year subscription to this web based interactive media that has been used by over 100,000 students. Note that this book comes in several editions. This one covers everything. The other two are extracted from this book.
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