Your Cosmic Context: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology

by Todd Duncan and Craig Tyler

Book Overview

KEY MESSAGE: Your Cosmic Context provides a framework for exploring the nature and history of our universe. Equally well suited for independent reading and study or for a one-term general education course in cosmology, this book is a guide to the key insights of scientific cosmology, including the big bang theory and exotic entities like dark matter and dark energy. It also explains how we discovered the surprising things we now know...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132400103
• ISBN13: 9780132400107
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.1" x 10.0"