Van Nostrand's scientific encyclopedia

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Considine Glenn D.; Kulik Peter H.
Published: Wiley-Interscience,
Publisher Address: Hoboken, N.J.
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: 10th ed.
Subjects:
Carrier Form: 3 v. (xiv, 6188 p.): ill., maps ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 9780471743385 (cloth)
0471743380 (cloth)
Index Number: N
CLC: N-61
Call Number: N-61/V269/10th.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
v. 1. A-F -- v. 2 G-P -- v. 3. Q-Z.
The definitive scientific resource, with topics ranging across all scientific disciplines including the life sciences, earth and atmospheric sciences, physical sciences, medicine, and mathematics, as well as many areas of engineering and technology. The three-volume Tenth Edition contains articles contributed by industry experts and scholars worldwide, comprises more than 10,000 entries and features hundreds of completely rewritten and re-referenced articles, as well as 2,500 completely new entries covering emerging technologies affecting genetics, global warming, communications, informatics, nanotechnology, and more. Internet references in addition to traditional print references have been updated and expanded.--From publisher description.