McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics (Paperback)

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could not go wrong purchasing this recognized standard reference…focused…Highly recommended. -- Choice, Oct. 2003 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Excerpts of review by T.R. Faust, Burlington College

McGraw-Hill derives these inexpensive subject-specific dictionaries from its Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, covering 110,000 terms. Libraries could not go wrong purchasing this recognized standard reference--either the parent or its offspring. Choosing which to purchase will probably present the greater challenge. Students may be more likely to favor these more focused titles, whereas librarians may be more enthralled with the larger, more encompassing mother work. ...The offspring reproduce the definitions of terms exactly as they appear in the mother work, with pronunciation but without illustrations. The appropriate appendixes are retained in the smaller volumes, but biographical entries are dropped.

McGraw-Hill tends to include more appendixes [than competition], such as geological time scales and electronic symbols...libraries will be well served by the McGraw-Hill titles. Summing Up: Highly recommended. (Choice ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 498 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; 2nd edition (November 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070524297
• ISBN-13: 978-0070524293
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,748,334 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars zero stars, December 12, 1999

By	Margaret C. Turnbull (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

As a physicist I thought this book would be handy to have around, but my experience with it suggests that the authors' goal was to use as many trees as possible while providing as little information as possible. After a while I started looking up topics that I was already familiar with, and was amused by the totally opaque definitions I found. A whole lot of not much in this book. zero stars.