Compton's Encyclopedia. Volume on Life Sciences

Author: Edited by Dale Gud of the United States, edited by Yang Zhendan and others
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Compton's Encyclopedia is one of the best-selling and most famous sets of encyclopedias in the United States. Since its first publication in early 1922, it has been continuously revised and expanded, winning the favor of a broad readership and being praised as a home reading encyclopedia and teaching reference book that is easy to understand and engaging. The 1994 edition consists of 26 volumes, divided into the main text and an index of facts, with over 10,000 exquisite illustrations included, approximately corresponding to 17 million words in Chinese translation. The main text portion comprises 25 volumes, containing 5,700 entries, all carefully selected and written by experts from various fields, and then refined together by writers and editors. If readers refer to the content of the entries in the main text portion, they can further obtain relevant information.