The Cassell Dictionary Of Science
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| Author | : Percy Harrison |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 503 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780304348756 |
Students needing to brush up on terminology, scientists wanting to know how colleagues in other branches use a word, and anyone interested in the always--fascinating world of science will welcome this authoritative guide to scientific language. Thousands of definitions of key terms and ideas cover physics, biology, chemistry, the earth sciences, astronomy, mathematics, and computing. Many explanations illustrate charts, formulas, and processes, and three types of cross-references take you to other entries on the same topic.
| Author | : David Pickering |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780304365616 |
Alphabetically arranged entries provide coverage of a wide range of ancient and modern fears, beliefs, and taboos, explaining the rituals, charms, and talismans invoked by the superstitions.
| Author | : David Pickering |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
| ISBN | : 9780304365623 |
Separating truth from myth, an expert offers an A to Z guide to one of the most intriguing aspects of the super-natural. Hundreds of carefully researched articles provide explanations of the key concepts of witchcraft, from demons and exorcisms to sabbats and spells, as well as fascinating biographies of key figures. Articles on witch trials through the centuries draw on records of torture, confessions, and recantations.
| Author | : Peter J. Gosling |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2002-03-28 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780415241380 |
Do you want to know what inherited defect causes thalassaemia? Do you understand the significance of "resistance" when applied to microbiology? Can you say what a "frozen section" really is? The Dictionary of Biomedical Sciences answers all these questions and more. This informative, practical guide contains over 8000 entries that define all the basic principles of biomedical sciences, together with a wealth of other information. It reflects current practice in all aspects of biomedical science and includes variant spellings, punctuation, abbreviations, acronyms, symbols, nomenclature, prefixes and suffixes and covers the field in a concise, clear and authoritative manner.
| Author | : Cassell, ltd |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1296 |
| Release | : 1883 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jonathon Green |
| Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 1600 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780304366361 |
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
| Author | : Robert Hunter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 742 |
| Release | : 1888 |
| Genre | : Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Carl C. Gaither |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 2800 |
| Release | : 2012-01-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1461411130 |
This unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements. Approximately 9000 high-quality entries have been added to this new edition to provide a rich selection of quotations for the student, the educator, and the scientist who would like to introduce a presentation with a relevant quotation that provides perspective and historical background on his subject. Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Second Edition, provides the finest reference source of science quotations for all audiences. The new edition adds greater depth to the number of quotations in the various thematic arrangements and also provides new thematic categories.
| Author | : James S. Trefil |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780304357598 |
'All living things on our planet share the same genetic code - we are all just different messages written in the universal language of DNA.'CASSELL'S LAWS OF NATURE is an exciting new work of popular science reference. It describes, in a series of clear and concise A-Z essays, the discovery, significance and functioning of the laws, principles and theories that govern the workings of our physical universe. As well as describing the historical milestones of human understanding in every area of the sciences, from Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion to Mendel's Laws of Genetics, CASSELL'S LAWS OF NATURE unravels for a general readership the often mystifying complexities of 20th-century scientific theory, from Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle to Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.
| Author | : Social science |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1861 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
