This encyclopedia set, part of the Science Library series, is designed to accommodate middle-school students through college undergraduates. The work contains approximately 300 signed entries on a variety of topics relating to animal science, including animal development, functions, behavior, ecology, and evolution.The connection between animals and humans is also explored in entries such as Animal testing, Apiculture, and Domestic animals.
This encyclopedia set, part of the Macmillan Science Library series, is designed to accommodate middle-school students through college undergraduates. The work contains approximately 300 signed entries on a variety of topics relating to animal science, including animal development, functions, behavior, ecology, and evolution.The connection between animals and humans is also explored . Also included are biographies of noted scientists who have made "significant contributions" to the field and ntroductions to career opportunities in the related disciplines.
This encyclopedia set, part of the Macmillan Science Library series, is designed to accommodate middle-school students through college andergraduates. The work contains approximately 300 signed entries on a variety of topics relating to animal science, including animal development, functions, behavior, ecology, and evolution.The connection between animals and humans is also explored in entries such as Animal testing, Apiculture, and Domestic animals.
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and PoeticsThe New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough lucidity to satisfy the scholar and the general reader alike. Entries vary in length from relatively brief notices to substantial articles of about 20,000 words.
Empire of the Islamic World (Great Empires of the Past)
While Europe was in the Dark Ages, classical learning from ancient Greece, Rome, and Persia was being preserved and advanced in Islamic libraries and universities. From 632 to 1258, the Islamic Empire was the most powerful and cultured domain in the world. Less than a century after its founding, the empire had grown from a loose confederation of desert tribes into the largest empire in the history of the world, larger than the mighty Roman Empire at its peak.
