Facts on File science library

Contains more than two-hundred cross-referenced entries and thirteen essays on topics that affect global health, industry, and the environment, covering algae, bacteria, food-borne illness, influenza, AIDS, bioterrorism, sanitation, and other related topics, and includes classifications of bacteria and archaea, a breakdown of human diseases caused by mircroorganisms, and other resources.

Presents an introduction to marine science, providing a glossary of terms related to the subject, as well as biographies of more than one hundred scientists, a chronology of events, charts and tables, and a list of further resources.

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 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.