Fully updated to reflect the latest cutting edge discoveries, the Twelfth Edition of Mike Seeds' and Dana Backman's best selling "Horizons: Exploring The Universe, International Edition" engages students by focusing on two central questions: 'How Do We Know?' which emphasizes the role of evidence in the scientific process, providing insights into how science works; and 'What Are We?' which highlights our place as planet dwellers in an evolving universe, guiding students to ask questions about where we came from and how we formed a perspective that the study of astronomy is uniquely positioned to emphasize.
And because every course is as unique as its instructor, and its students, "Horizons" is supported by a range of teaching and learning solutions that allow you to craft the best course for your approach and course needs. Our innovative instructor resources include WebAssign online homework management and exclusive audience response technology. Students can select from several eBook options, student tutorial systems, or virtual laboratory experiments."Horizons" provides the ideal foundation, our powerful technology tools are the building blocks that help you customize your course to fit your and your students' needs.
Part 1 : Exploring the sky
Chapter 1 : Here and now
Chapter 2 : A user's guide to the sky
Chapter 3 : Cycles of the sun and moon
Chapter 4 : The origin of modern astronomy
Chapter 5 : Light and telescopes
Part 2 : The stars
Chapter 6 : Atoms and spectra
Chapter 7 : The sun
Chapter 8 : The family of stars
Chapter 9 : The formation and
Chapter 10 : The deaths of stars
Chapter 11 : Neutron stars and black holes
Part 3 : The universe of galaxies
Chapter 12 : The milky galaxy
Chapter 13 : Galaxies normal and active
Chapter 14 : Modern cosmology
Part 4 : The solar system
Chapter 15 : the origin of the solar system
Chapter 16 : Earth and moon: bases for comparative planetology
Chapter 17 : Mercury, venus, and mars
Chapter 18 : The outer solar system
Chapter 19 : Meteorites, asteroids, and comets
Part 5 : Life
Chapter 20 : Astrobiology: life on other worlds