McGraw-Hill Concise Encylcopedia of Science and Technology

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2651 pages, parution le 26/01/2005 (5^eme édition)

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Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition is based on the content of the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Encylopedia of Science & Technology, Ninth Edition, the most widely used science reference of its kind. Readers will find concise, authoritative, and up-to-date articles on every major field of science and technology- by authors at the forefront of their fields and including numerous Nobel Prize winners.

Written in clear, simple language understandable to students and general readers, yet with sufficient depth for scientists, educators, and researchers, this definitive resource provides:

7300 concise articles covering disciplines of science and technology from acoustics to zoology
Extensively revised content with 3000+ new and rewritten articles
Current and critical advances in fast-developing fields such as biomedical science, chemistry, cosmology, information science, environmental science, nanotechnology, and physics
More than 1600 two-color illustrations
Hundreds of tables and charts
1300 biographical sketches of famous scientists
Index containing 30,000 entries
Cross references to related articles
Appendix including Bibliographies

Carefully reviewed for clarity and accuracy, the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology offers a breadth of coverage and standard of excellence unavailable in any other single-volume reference.

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Acoustics
Aeronautics
Agriculture
Anthropology
Archeology
Astronomy
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Computers
Cosmology
Engineering
Environmental science
Forensic science
Forestry
Genetics
Geography
Geology
Immunology
Information science
Materials science
Mathematics
Medicine and pathology
Meteorology
Microbiology
Nanotechnology
Navigation
Neuroscience
Oceanography
Paleontology
Physics
Physiology
Psychiatry
Psychology
Telecommunications
Thermodynamics
Veterinary medicine
Virology
Zoology

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Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Collectif Mc Graw-Hill
Parution	26/01/2005
Édition	5^eme édition
Nb. de pages	2651
Format	22 x 28
Couverture	Relié
Poids	3700g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071429573
ISBN13	978-0-07-142957-3