Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th

McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 5th Edition.

by McGraw-Hill (Author)

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From the Back Cover

Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition is based on the content of the world-renowned McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia 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:

7,300 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 service, environmental science, nanotechnology, and physics

More than 1,600 two-color illustrations

Hundreds of tables and charts

1,300 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.

FIELDS COVERED INCLUDE:

Acoustics

Aeronautics

Agriculture

Anthropology

Archaeology

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

Theoretical physics

Thermodynamics

Veterinary medicine

Virology

Zoology

About the Author

The McGraw-Hill Editorial Staff, based in New York City, also edits the renowned McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, now in its ninth edition, and is one of the most skilled, experienced, and respected editorial teams in the field of scientific publishing.