Название: The Gale Encyclopedia of Biology. 4 Volumes
Автор: Richard Robinson
Издательство: Gale
Год: 2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 295+278+294+308
Размер: 45.5 Мб
Язык: английский

How can a single book, or even a four-volume encyclopedia, encompass so vast a subject? It can’t. And in producing Biology, we didn’t try to cover every topic from Aardvark to Zyzzyva. Instead, in our 432 entries we present as broad an introduction as possible to the many facets of biology, while concentrating in depth on a smaller number of central ideas and phenomena that are at the heart of all biological processes.

To aid students and teachers in exploring this vast territory, Biology includes individual volume indexes as well as a cumulative index at the end of Volume 4. We also provide a glossary of more than 550 terms with definitions both in the page margin and collected at the end of each volume. Each entry contains suggestions for further reading. A topical index provides a guide to entries by subject, and useful references are provided as frontmatter, including a geologic time scale and tables of metric conversions.