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Hailed as "handy and readable" (Nature) and "well worth browsing" (New Scientist), this best-selling dictionary contains 9,200 alphabetically organized entries on all aspects of chemistry, physics, biology (including human biology), earth sciences, and astronomy. In addition to a wealth of reliable, up-to-date entries, users will find useful short biographies of leading scientists, full-page illustrated features on subjects such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms, and chronologies of specific scientific subjects including plastics, electronics, and cell biology. This new edition includes expanded coverage of global warming, forensic science, astrophysics, quantum theory, and the solar system. Supported by over 200 diagrams and illustrations, the Dictionary of Science also contains recommended web links for many entries, accessed and kept up to date via the companion website. Finally, it has appendices on SI units, fundamental constants, geological time scale, a simplified classification of the plant and animal kingdoms, and the periodic table. Both concise and wide-ranging, this volume is an ideal reference work for students or for a home library.
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About the Author
Elizabeth A. Martin is an editor at Market House Books, in the UK.
Review
Review from previous edition: "The book will appeal not just to scientists and science students but also to the interested lay person. And it passes the most difficult test of any dictionary - it is well worth browsing."
--New Scientist
"All entries are clear and brief, written in no-nonsense prose...A handy reference work."
--TES
"Handy and readable...for scientists aged nine to ninety"
--Nature
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 019956146X
- ISBN 13 9780199561469
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number6
- Number of pages912
- EditorMartin Elizabeth A.
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