Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Hutchinson encyclopedia of science /

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Helicon Publishing Group Ltd, c1998Description: viii, 840 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1859861202
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q 123 .H88 1998
Contents:
Introduction -- Contributors -- A-Z text -- Feature essays: AIDS - Recent developments -- The ageing brain and Alzheimer's disease -- History of anaesthesia -- Antibiotic resistance: A rising toll -- Millennium bug: Preparing computera for the year 2000 -- Chaos theory: the mathematics of chaos -- Blood: The discovery of circulation -- Dolly - the cloning debate -- Comet hale-bopp -- Digestive system: pioneering experiments on the digestive system -- DNA: discovery of the structure of DNA -- Did we save the world at Rio de Janeiro? -- El Nino - the christmas child -- energy resources -- euthanasia -- Forensic sciences: recent advantages - global positioning system -- Evolution: Out of Africa and the eve hypothesis -- Immunization: Vaccines on foods -- History of Insulin -- The internal combustion engine -- What killed the dinosaurs? -- Light: experiments to determine it nature -- The determination of longtitude -- Complimentary therapy -- Neutral networks -- Neutrino: discovery -- Nucleus: Early experiment to determine structure -- The invention of nylon -- Obesity: a question of inheritance -- Penicillin: Discovery -- The periodic table -- Recent progress in physics -- Discovery of the major planets -- Southeast Asia: Eco-disaster 1997 -- The top quark -- Digital radio -- The miner's safety lamp -- The year in space - 1997 -- Communication -- Digital television -- Thrust: breaking the land speed record -- First organ transplants -- Tropical diseases (and how to avoid them) -- Vaccine: The first vaccination -- What is medical imaging -- Appendices.
Summary: " The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Science is a brand new approach to scientific reference designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments in this fast-changing world, as well as providing key information on major scientists and events which have changed the course of history. "
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode
Books Books NU Clark Reference Reference REF Q 123 .H88 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available NUCLA000004523

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Contributors -- A-Z text -- Feature essays: AIDS - Recent developments -- The ageing brain and Alzheimer's disease -- History of anaesthesia -- Antibiotic resistance: A rising toll -- Millennium bug: Preparing computera for the year 2000 -- Chaos theory: the mathematics of chaos -- Blood: The discovery of circulation -- Dolly - the cloning debate -- Comet hale-bopp -- Digestive system: pioneering experiments on the digestive system -- DNA: discovery of the structure of DNA -- Did we save the world at Rio de Janeiro? -- El Nino - the christmas child -- energy resources -- euthanasia -- Forensic sciences: recent advantages - global positioning system -- Evolution: Out of Africa and the eve hypothesis -- Immunization: Vaccines on foods -- History of Insulin -- The internal combustion engine -- What killed the dinosaurs? -- Light: experiments to determine it nature -- The determination of longtitude -- Complimentary therapy -- Neutral networks -- Neutrino: discovery -- Nucleus: Early experiment to determine structure -- The invention of nylon -- Obesity: a question of inheritance -- Penicillin: Discovery -- The periodic table -- Recent progress in physics -- Discovery of the major planets -- Southeast Asia: Eco-disaster 1997 -- The top quark -- Digital radio -- The miner's safety lamp -- The year in space - 1997 -- Communication -- Digital television -- Thrust: breaking the land speed record -- First organ transplants -- Tropical diseases (and how to avoid them) -- Vaccine: The first vaccination -- What is medical imaging -- Appendices.

" The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Science is a brand new approach to scientific reference designed to keep you up to date with the latest developments in this fast-changing world, as well as providing key information on major scientists and events which have changed the course of history. "

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 NU LRC CLARK. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy I Powered by: KOHA