Facts on File science library

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions and explanations of more than 2,800 of the most frequently used terms in physics, and includes line drawings, a bibliography, and appendixes.

Provides a comprehensive world survey of natural disasters that have ravaged humans and sometimes altered the course of history, including information on avalanches, landslides, earthquakes, famines, droughts, floods, plagues, epidemics, cyclones, hurricanes, ice and snowstorms, tornadoes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, natural explosions.

Contains more than one hundred fifty alphabetically arranged entries that examine the diversity of plant and animal life on Earth.

Contains over two thousand cross-referenced entries on topics in atomic and nuclear physics, covering concepts, discoveries, philosophical aspects, and applications, and includes more than forty line drawings and a bibliography.

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in botany, covering taxonomy and classification, anatomy, morphology, genetics, and evolution, and includes more than eighty line drawings and a bibliography.

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in biochemistry, covering basic organic and physical chemistry, cell metabolism and signaling, nutrition, and research, and includes more than sixty line drawings and a bibliography.

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in organic chemistry, covering basic chemistry, elements, classes of compounds, and laboratory techniques, and includes more than one hundred line drawings and a bibliography.

Contains over two thousand alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in inorganic chemistry, covering basic chemistry, physical chemistry, classes of compounds, and laboratory techniques, and includes more than forty line drawings and a bibliography.

Contains over 3,700 alphabetized, cross-referenced entries on topics in earth science, and includes 120 line drawings, a list of the chemical elements, a bibliography, and a Web site list.

Contains over two hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on topics related to evolution, and includes five essays that explore ethical issues related to evolutionary science, biographies of modern revolutionary scientists, illustrations, and a summary of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species.".