McGraw-Hill 1999 Yearbook of Science & Technology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070526257 ISBN 13: 9780070526259

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1998

Synopsis

This is designed as a yearly update to the MCGRAW-HILL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. It includes all major changes of the last twelve months in the world of science. Cross-references lead readers to relevant articles in the 20-volume encyclopedia. Can also be used as a stand-alone round-up of the year's scientific advances.

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From the Back Cover:

This definitive reference offers you concise, authoritative, and

up-to-date coverage of every major field of science and technology. In articles authored by scientists and engineers at the forefront of their fields (including 19 Nobel Prize winners), and written to be accessible to the general reader as well as the scientific user, this revised volume brings you: coverage of 75 major fields of science and engineering; current and critical advanced in fast-developing fields such as virology, genetics, computer science, and oceanography; 7,800 articles writtem by experts for a broad range of readers; 1600 photographs and line drawings; hundreds of tables and charts; 1200 biographical sketches of the world's top scientists; index of 30,000 entries; cross references to related articles; bibliographies and appendix. No other reference offers scientists, researchers, students, and the interested public such definitive and inclusive coverage of

science and technology in a single volume.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0070526257
• ISBN 13: 9780070526259
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 447