Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide
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Product Description
Explore the fascinating night sky with this acclaimed astronomy self-teaching guide
From stars, planets, and galaxies to black holes, the Huge Bang, and life in space, this new edition of Astronomy brings the wonders of the cosmos to life. Offering a unique, successful self-teaching format, this practical, user-friendly guide makes it simple for you to quickly grasp the basic principles of astronomy and erect gradually on what you have learned.
Updated with the latest discoveries and graphics, this new guide by award-winning leader Dinah Moché features:
- Frontier twenty-first-century research into black holes, active galaxies, and quasars
- New Web site addresses throughout for the best astronomy online
- Comes off Star and Moon maps for fun stargazing
- A review of the latest ground and space telescopes
- Up-to-date star, constellation, and astrophysical data
- Objectives, reviews, and self-tests to monitor your progress
This perfect, new edition is all any student or amateur stargazer needs to know and appreciate the wonders of the universe. You can use the book alone or with a conventional textbook, Internet-based or distance-learning course, computer software, telescope manual, or as a handy reference.
Praise for previous editions of Astronomy
” One of the best ways by which one can be introduced to the wonders of astronomy. “
–– The Strolling Astronomer
“Brilliant . . . provides stimulating reading and actively involves the reader in astronomy.”
–– The Reflector
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book on Astronomy taught me a lot things. Before I read this book I didn’t know to much about astronomy but now after i read the book i know a lot! I loved it!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Wanting to teach myself a small astronomy, I bought this book, since it somehow had bought a noble status among similar literature. Upon getting the book and looking through it, I simply wondered “how?”. It seems that most books of this type suffer from similar defects. The design seems to be based off a children’s activity book. Wide margins, plentiful empty, white space, and text that is huge and hideous. Is it possible to publish a book of this purpose with a crisp, tiny font, several paragraphs per page, and clean, sharp diagrams/illustrations? Rumor has it that not. Perhaps I’m alone in desiring an well-organized, textbook-like layout. It seems possible that the perfect text of this book could have been printed on 50 pages. Anyway, there’s more. The book has been reprinted several times due to its popularity. Again, I’m at a loss for why. Though the take in, perhaps, has changed, the photos that litter its pages, seem to have not. Imagine for a moment taking a photo of Jupiter through a sheet of black tracing paper. Now imagine the resultant sharpness and resolution. Breathtaking, no? The overall quality of diagrams, illustrations, and photos is doleful. Finally, this book, in sharing the essentials of astrophysical science felt compelled to chat about the wonderful world of SETI!!! SETI is a money-sucking escapade in speculative failure. This book, as most others do, discussess the pseudo-scientific merits of the SETI program, perfect with reproductions of the diagrams we’ve sent along into outer space of a generic ( though peaceful looking), naked man and woman. Hmmm… You will find some science in this book, but if you hope to master the basics of astronomy and take part in an honest discussion regarding the limited understanding we still have of many things universal, I recommend looking elsewhere.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a excellent introduction to astronomy, but, they place the answers for all the tests right next to (and regularly directly bottom) the questions. That makes it very hard to take the tests sincerely because it’s so simple to accidentally glance at the answers.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The book contain fleeting information on every aspect of astronomy.It is well written with excellent methodology.The draft are not so clear and in astronomy they have to be three dimssion coloured drafts.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5