McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
19 Volume | Ebook | Total 291 Mb rar archive
# Hardcover: 15600 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 10 edition (June 11, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071441433
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ISBN-13: 978-0071441438
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Price: $3,495.00
From Library Journal
This work continues to be the premier encyclopedia in science and engineering, covering every major discipline. Written by more than 3500 experts from universities, business, research centers, and government institutions worldwide, the articles have decreased from 7500 in the previous edition to 7100, with 1600 of them being new or revised. New topics discussed include the human-computer interaction, mad cow disease, paleoseismology, and Tourette's syndrome. The bibliographies cite mostly monographic sources, with publication dates ranging from the 1960s to 1996. More than 13,000 superb illustrations (1750 are new) help clarify and add to the information given in the text, although a few of the color plates are slightly blurry. Other features include a new 25-page "Activities Guide" with 20 suggested activities, which is not very substantial but which high school teachers may find useful. The index volume includes an analytical index with 170,000 terms, a topical index, study guides for six broad subject areas, and a section on scientific notation. This work has been compared to Academic Press's Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology (LJ 4/15/93), and the two sources are complementary. Academic's articles are longer and broader, making it an easier source for self-study. But it does not have the scope of McGraw-Hill, which remains essential for academic and large public science reference collections that can afford it. [A print/electronic combination?ISBN 0-07-052418-1?is available at the special price of $2400.?Ed.]?Teresa Berry, Univ. of Tennessee Lib., Knoxvill.
-?Teresa Berry, Univ. of Tennessee Lib., Knoxville
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Subject areas covered include:

Advanced manufacturing technology
•Expert control systems
•Functional analysis and modeling
•Product quality
•Product usability
•Reengineering
•Scheduling
•Virtual manufacturing

Astronomy and cosmology
•Cosmology
•Kuiper belt
•Space station

Biotechnology, cell biology, and genetics
•Biosensor
•Breeding
•Chromosome
•Forensic biology
•Human genome project
•Molecular anthropology
•Peroxisomes
•Second messengers
•Signal transduction

Computational chemistry and chemical engineering
•Catenanes
•Combinatorial chemistry
•Metallochaperones
•Microdialysis sampling
•Molecular simulation
•Photoaffinity labeling
•Supramolecular chemistry

Computing and Telecommunications
•Client/Server system
•Data mining
•Distributed systems
•Flat panel display device
•Internet
•World Wide Web

Environment and energy
•Alternative fuel vehicle
•Biodiversity
•Disease ecology
•Ecological competition
•Electric vehicle
•Global climate change
•Invasion ecology
•Restoration ecology

Geosciences and climate
•Deep-marine sediments
•Geodynamo
•Geophysical fluid dynamics
•Sea-floor imaging
•Stratospheric chemistry
•Supercontinent

Nanotechnology
•Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)
•Micro-optical-electro-mechanical systems (MOEMS)
•Micro-opto-mechanical systems (MOMS)
•Molecular machine
Physics
•Atom laser
•Bose-Einstein condensation
•Neutrino
•Quarks
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