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Overview
Up-to-date, concise, and easy to use, the Science and Technology Encyclopedia is a reliable resource for a wide general readership-from high school students to undergraduates to all those with an interest in the comprehensive array of scientific fields it covers.
It includes:
*More than 6,500 authoritative A-Z entries covering earth and life sciences (including natural history, physics, chemistry, medicine, information technology, and other disciplines)
*Biographical entries for more than 850 famous scientists, detailing their careers and achievements
*Over 20,000 cross-references
*More than 250 detailed illustrations, including schematic diagrams, representational natural history artwork, and technical cutaway diagrams
Synopsis
Up-to-date, concise, and easy to use, the Science and Technology Encyclopedia is a reliable resource for a wide general readership-from high school students to undergraduates to all those with an interest in the comprehensive array of scientific fields it covers.
It includes:
*More than 6,500 authoritative A-Z entries covering earth and life sciences (including natural history, physics, chemistry, medicine, information technology, and other disciplines)
*Biographical entries for more than 850 famous scientists, detailing their careers and achievements
*Over 20,000 cross-references
*More than 250 detailed illustrations, including schematic diagrams, representational natural history artwork, and technical cutaway diagrams
Library Journal
Originally published in Britain in 1999, this inexpensive, one-volume paperback reference is not so much an encyclopedia, as the title suggests, as a dictionary with over 6500 very brief, alphabetically arranged entries. It is obviously not a replacement for a major source like the multivolume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (LJ 9/1/97). Nor would it be used instead of the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms (1994), for instance, to look up a quick definition. While the material is sound and would benefit high school students or general readers needing brief definitions of scientific terms or short biographies of famous scientists, it seems more appropriate for a home library than a public or academic library.--Paul Haschak, Southeastern Louisiana Univ., Hammond Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.