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Title: McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology by Sybil P. Parker, McGraw-Hill Companies ISBN: 0-07-052659-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fair's Fair
Comment: The comment in the previous review about thermal radiation and heat radiation is fair enough, but I feel the reviewer is being unfair in other respects. The reason why there is no "See.." in the main text is because there is a very good index at the back! For instance under Carbon in the index, there is a page reference to radiocarbon dating. OK, there is no mention of carbon dating, so you would have to see radiocarbon dating, but you only have to scan a few lines of the index under the main entry on Carbon to find it. The comment about atomic energy is (unintentionally) misleading. Sure, the entry on atomic energy is very short, but there is a fair-sized entry on nuclear power and there is a cross-reference from atomic energy. Although the entry on nuclear energy is rather shorter than the two entries on oil and gas exploitation (a more relevant comparision than black pepper), it is backed up another fair-sized entry on nuclear reactors. I do think McGraw-Hill have made a decent effort to create an affordable science encyclopedia. (This refers to the 3rd edition, but I imagine the 4th edition is very similar).
Rating: 4
Summary: A great deal of info, poorly organized, wrong proportions
Comment: This book contains an enormous amount of information. However, there are two major problems. 1. It is often hard to find what you are looking for if you aren't using the same terminology they are. For instance, I looked for "Carbon dating", and it isn't listed - either in the text or the index. It is under "radiocarbon dating". There is no "carbon dating - see radiocarbon dating". I looked for "thermal radiation" and it wasn't there. It was under "heat radiation", again with no "see ...". In fact, there are no "see ..." anywhere. 2. The book claims that the material is given space according to its importance. "Atomic energy" gets 6 lines (2 sentences). I flipped to a random page, and "black pepper" gets more than twice as many lines, and "blackberry" gets 3 times as many lines.
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Title: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms by McGraw-Hill, Sybil P. Parker ISBN: 007042313X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 26 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $150.00 |
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology by James S. Trefil, Paul Ceruzzi, Harold J. Morowitz ISBN: 0415937248 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition by University of Chicago Press Staff ISBN: 0226104036 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Scientific American Science Desk Reference by Scientific American ISBN: 0471356751 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Occupational Outlook Handbook 2004-2005 (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004 2005) by U.S. Department of Labor ISBN: 1563709880 Publisher: Jist Works Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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