McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

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 containingf 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 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 Theoretical physics Thermodynamics Veterinary medicine Virology ZoologyMcGraw-Hill Staff is the author of 'McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology', published 2005 under ISBN 9780071429573 and ISBN 0071429573.