ASTRONOMY TODAY
This straightforward volume presents a broad view of astronomy spanning known facts, evolving ideas, and frontier discoveries. The authors combine qualitative reasoning and analogies with familiar objects and phenomena to awaken readers to the excitement of the universe around them. Incorporates new...
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San Francisco, CA
Pearson / Addison Wesley
2008
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