Books

Donahue is the co-author of the Cosmic Perspective college-level astronomy textbook series and the Mastering Astronomy on-line homework and tutorial website, published by Pearson, together with Jeffrey Bennett, Nick Schneider, and Mark Voit. 

Current editions:

Cosmic Perspective, 10th edition, 2023, also available in split version (The Solar System and Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology) to support an independent two-semester sequence.

Essential Cosmic Perspective, 9th edition, 2022, supports a typical single-semester astronomy survey course at the general level. The most inexpensive option is as an e-text with access to the Mastering Astronomy resources for about $60. I use this textbook for our ISP205 course and use all but two of the chapters for assigned reading.  

Cosmic Perspective Fundamentals, 3rd edition 2019. The briefest, most crisp version of our astronomy coverage. 

Access to the textbooks and materials at:  Pearson MyLab | Mastering 

(The "pricing" on Amazon for our books  is very strange and outrageous, I'm not even sure what they are selling for multiple hundreds of dollars.)