Lara Maiklem, Editor
Visually dazzling and completely accessible, this ultimate visual dictionary certainly lives up to its name.
Covers more than 15,000 terms, with 1,600 color photographs, 170 major entries, and 10 different sections including physics, chemistry, life science and ecology, human anatomy, electronics and computer science, and astronomy and astrophysics.
Each section begins with a table of contents listing the key entries, followed by a historic overview that puts the subject into its developmental context. Throughout, cross-sections, exploded views, and diagrams provide fresh perspective on everything the germination of a fava bean to the big bang and cosmic expansion.
Concludes with a useful data section that includes weights and measures, physics formulas, star charts, chemistry data, short biographies of scientists featured in the historical section, glossary and index. 448 pp., hardcover.
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