referencebooks (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} referencebooks) wrote,@ 2005-10-30 09:54:00 |
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| Entry tags: | culture, general knowledge, meteorology, science |
Encyclopedia of Air
Encyclopedia of Air
By David E. Newton.
Published by Greenwood Press, 2003.
This is a 7" by 10" hardbound book running to 252 pages including the index, plus a brief introduction and a classified list of entries.
This is an interesting reference book for its mix of scientific and cultural entries on the subject of air. There are entries having to do with chemistry, physics, and meteorology all in the same sequence as the entries having to do with mythology, military topics, government and civic organizations, biography, sports, transportation, law, and other aspects of culture.
The full list of entries from the "B" and "C" sequences is as follows:
- Baghouse
- Balloons
- Barometer
- Barotrauma
- Beaufort, Sir Francis
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Boyle, Robert
- Brush, Charles F.
- Buoyancy
- Carbon Dioxide
- Center for Clean Air Policy
- Civil Air Patrol
- Clean Air Acts
- Clean Air Trust
- Clean the Air
- Cariolis, Gaspard Gustave
- Cariolis Effect
- Ctesibius (Second Century B.C.)
- Cyclones and Anticyclones
Entries are very readable and informative, often getting into the history of what's being discussed. The longest entries are just a few pages in length.
It's not a very long book, and the type is on the large side, so there really isn't a whole lot here.
On the whole it is a rather odd book, seemingly a personal project from a guy whose favorite subject is air. It's not easy to see what its main uses would be, other than for associative browsing.
