Science online. (new products).Marshall Cavendish Cavendish (kăv`əndĭsh), pseud. of Henry Jones, 1831–99, English card game expert. Jones studied medicine, practiced in London, and retired in 1868. He became a leading authority on card games and was the first person to formulate a system of playing whist./EBSCO, www.marshallcavendish.com, Internet, starting at $595 per database, $995 for all three Encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference BooksBasically an encyclopedia differs from a dictionary in that a dictionary is fundamentally devoted to words and an encyclopedia offers information on various subjects, with data on and discussion of each subject identified. of Earth and Physical Sciences, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences and Encyclopedia of Technology and Applied Sciences are all part of the new Science Reference Center. The online service, which includes a point-and-click interface and keyword searching, has a core database of 2,000 articles with 12,000 related articles in periodical databases. CIRCLE #531 FOR INFORMATION |
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