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Ordering the Text and Supplemental Kit

The 6th edition of Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe was published on August 17, 2001, with a 2002 copyright.

The ISBN for ETU6/e and the textbook kits are:

  • Textbook only--Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe: 0030334888
     
  • Kit with textbook and CD-ROM of RedShift College Edition: 0030343895
     
  • Kit with textbook, CD-ROM of RedShift College Edition, and Workbook on using RedShift College Edition: 0030343917
  • RedShift College Edition, CD-ROM only: 0030269946
     
  • Workbook to accompany RedShift College Edition only: 0030269962
     
  • Instructor's Manual, by Jay M. Pasachoff and Steven Souza: 0030342619
    Overhead Transparencies: 0-03-034253-8

Write us for information about the instructor's manual and other ancillary materials.

You can get these most quickly by calling your Field Rep directly; you can get his or her name by dialing Thomson Learning at (800) 237 2665 in the US.

A shorter textbook, The Cosmos: Astronomy for the New Millennium by Jay M. Pasachoff and Alex Filippenko (copyright 2001) is available. See www.williams.edu/astronomy/cosmos.

Express your interest in ordering directly by emailing the webmaster at: webmaster@melchioritechnologies.com
 

Materials for the Visually Impaired

The Boston Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston, MA 02114-1099 has available a book, "Touch The Stars (third edition), "written and illustrated by Noreen Grice, Education Associate, 617-589-0273, fax (617) 589 - 0454, email ngrice@mos.org. The third printing, available as of 6/98, corrects various typos and provides some updates. The book is 69 pages long and includes twenty-three tactile astronomy illustrations. It covers constellation legends, a survey of the planets, stellar evolution and galaxies. The illustrations include selected constellation patterns, planets, nebulae, galaxies, phases of the moon and the Hubble Space Telescope. The text contains pages with both Braille and large-type print, and was published in 1998 by the Museum of Science and National Braille Press.

Touch The Stars (third edition) is $26.95 and may be ordered through the Boston Museum Science Store at 617-589-0488.

 

 

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