Astro

Created through a "student-tested, faculty-approved" review process, ASTRO is an engaging and accessible solution to accommodate the diverse lifestyles of today's learners at a value-based price. ASTRO employs the same engaging writing style and logical conceptual presentation that has become a hallmark of Mike Seeds and Dana Backman's introductory astronomy texts. Accompanying ASTRO is a full supplemental package, including an Instructor's Manual available online or on the PowerLecture CD. Also included on the PowerLecture CD are PowerPoint presentations, and a Test Bank available in the easy-to-use and versatile ExamView format. With these lecture planning aids, ASTRO is as accommodating to instructors as it is to students. * An innovative combination of content delivery both in print and online provides a core text and a wealth of comprehensive multimedia teaching and learning assets based on input from student focus groups and surveys, and from interviews with faculty and students. * Shorter, comprehensive chapters in a modern design present content in a more engaging and accessible format without minimizing coverage for your course. * Chapter In Review Cards at the back of the Student Editions provide students a portable study tool containing all of the pertinent information for class preparation. * Instructor Prep Cards at the back of the Instructor''s Edition make preparation simple with detachable cards for each chapter, offering a quick map of chapter content, a list of corresponding PowerPoint and video resources, additional examples, and suggested assignments and discussion questions to help you organize chapter content efficiently. * A full suite of unique learning tools that appeal to different learning styles is available to students with the purchase of a new book. Interactive Quizzes, animations, videos, and interactive and printable flashcards. * All of the content and resources you expect with a supplements package that is second to none, including PowerPoint Lecture Outlines, images from the text in JPG and PowerPoint format, online homework through WebAssign, videos, animations, interactive flashcards, online glossary, additional essays only available online, and test bank. * This text features Mike Seeds''s conversational and student-friendly writing style, which has made him the best-selling author in introductory astronomy. Students and professors find great clarity and accessibility in his presentation of astronomy. Students are able to acquire an understanding of the universe instead of memorizing a set of facts that would quickly be forgotten.