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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Authors have done a great job in presenting the complexities of Universe through very basic and easy to understand chapters. Not only is this book good for students in college but to amateurs who are entering in to astronomy. The accompanying CD has excellent easy to use features and great software. Along with some very interesting web links on their web site - the complete package is a deal not to miss.
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Summary: Buy it, if just for the CD
Review: Excellent, informative, interesting book. Also, the CD-ROM contains some very interesting things. Especially informative is the Starry Night software that allows you to view and travel to the cosmos in person. It is both educational and also quite fun!
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Summary: Buy it, if just for the CD
Review: Excellent, informative, interesting book. Also, the CD-ROM contains some very interesting things. Especially informative is the Starry Night software that allows you to view and travel to the cosmos in person. It is both educational and also quite fun!
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Summary: As good as it gets
Review: I had the fortune, and sometimes misfortune, to read a fair number of textbooks. All of them did promise to teach, though some proofed rather very disappointing on closer inspection.This book on the other hand most certainly holds everything one can expect. The book is divided into four parts: first, there is a small introction into the basics of astronomy, followed by a more in depth discussion of the solar system. The third part then covers stars and stellar evolution, while the final part is devoted to galaxies and cosmology. The math required is minimal (i don't think the average high school graduate should have any problems), and a wealth of pictures and graphs, together with elaborate explanations in the text make sure, that this book will be a pleasure to learn from for the interested college student. Every chapter (30 in all) ends with a short recapitulation of the most important concepts learned, a good number of review questions (to which the answers are supplied in the back of the book) and suggestions for further reading (books, magazines and weblinks).
The book comes also with a CD, on which there are further review tests to all chapters (of course with answers), as well as additional animations and much more.
As if that were not enough, there is a companion webside that offers additional tests and answers plus updated information, since after all, astronomy is progressing swiftly. All in all, there cannot be much doubt that this is one of the best and most well rounded astronomy textbooks on the market. If you have to learn the basics of astronomy due to a course, or if you simply want to enrich your horizon, this book will make either task both easier and more enjoyable. ...
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Summary: An Excellent Astronomy Textbook
Review: I'm using this book for a couple of courses at school. Books like his are difficult to do because they're difficult to keep current, especially with all the new information coming in all the time on this subject. That being said, the authors have done a good job here presenting the basic concepts and using as current examples as possible when appropriate. A strength of the book is its wonderful pictures and photographs. They don't overwhelm the text (barely) and they are more than just pretty. The current printing of the book also tells the reader HOW the picture was taken in terms of wavelength so someone can get a good idea how object appear in infrared, ultraviolet, etc. I would unflaggingly recommend this book to any college-based survey course in astronomy. Great job, guys!
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Summary: A good beginer guide
Review: The books can be used as both text and guide for an beginner. It is full of color figures and pictures. It's cd is a very important as well as an additional notes or explaination for the text in the book. A must have text for a new astronomer to fully understand astronomy!
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Summary: beautiful!
Review: This book is beautiful. Well written, easy to read, with
nice and informative illustrations all over, full of
interesting details. The CD is also very interesting,
not only for Starry Night, but also because of very
illustrative simulations.
The level is between popular and introductory professional.
There is not much hard theory inside, but that was
probably not the aim of the authors.
Apart from a great thing to read for oneself, the niceness
of the edition makes it also a nice gift in my opinion.
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Summary: beautiful!
Review: This book is beautiful. Well written, easy to read, with
nice and informative illustrations all over, full of
interesting details. The CD is also very interesting,
not only for Starry Night, but also because of very
illustrative simulations.
The level is between popular and introductory professional.
There is not much hard theory inside, but that was
probably not the aim of the authors.
Apart from a great thing to read for oneself, the niceness
of the edition makes it also a nice gift in my opinion.
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Summary: excellent, informative, illuminating
Review: This is a premier text for the fields of astromony and comsmology. Thorough, deep, professional, concise, technically and scientifically accurate, but also, imaginative, filled with the wonder of discovery and learning. Beginning with the ancient origins of astronomical pursuits, the reader is taken through the unfolding world of space and time. The electromagnetic spectrum, light and optics, telescopes, planet and solar system formations, stars-their nature, galaxies, quasars, black holes, all of these wonders are explored. Do yourself a flavor-get it!
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Summary: Universe by Kaufmann & Freedman
Review: Very well written for the typical college freshman or bright high school student. Requires little mathammatics, mostly algebra. Also colorfull, with many references including the internet.
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