The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Science

Comprehensive, jargon-free, and bang up to date, this is the only dictionary that explains not just the standard terms but also the latest, most exciting developments. Here are updates on the environment, advances in gene therapy, and the race for the Theory of Everything. And, to cap it all, stacks of helpful illustrations and tables.

In no other science dictionary will you find entries for CD-ROM, catalytic converter, gene imprinting, the Internet, quantum simulation, and sperm competition.

Reviewing The Hutchinson Dictionary of Science from which this material is derived, John Gribbin, in the TES, said: