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Title: The New York Public Library Science Desk Reference (The New York Public Library Series) by Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Frommer ISBN: 0-02-860403-2 Publisher: Hungry Minds, Inc Pub. Date: 25 September, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Don't believe everything you read
Comment: While I love the concept of this book, my personal experience was that I flipped, more or less randomly, to four different pages and found errors on EVERY page. Perhaps that was just rotten luck, but it makes me suspicious of all the answers in the book. I think you'd be better off looking at a reference that's written by experts, rather than generalists. Buy a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM.

Rating: 4
Summary: Well, it's big...
Comment: ...and fun to flip through. And the section on computer science has a handy ASCII chart. Really, isn't getting this sort of spotty, high-level and often outdated scientific information exactly what the Internet is good for? (Do you know that the Internet "has now grown to possibly 2 million host computers all over the world?" - The NYPLSDR does.) If you think a random, off-line, walk through the science tree sounds like fun, get this book. I do and i did and i'm satisfied.

Rating: 5
Summary: What a great book
Comment: This is a terrific book. Practically every other sentence is a statistic! I love the big list of discoveries and inventions, which dates back to the discovery of fire!
I love the huge section on computer science, amazing book! worth ten times the price!

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