Q: General Science Reference Books

 TITLE        Scientific American resource library; readings in the physical
                sciences and technology.
 PUBLISHER    San Francisco, W.H. Freeman.
 SUBJECT      Science.
              Technology.
1 > Physics Library        Q111 .S28 v. 1   (3 vols)


TITLE        Hutchinson's technical & scientific encyclopaedia; terms,
                processes, data in pure & applied science.  Construction and
                engineering.  The principal manufacturing industries.  The
                skilled trades, with a working bibliography, naming three
                thousand books and other sources of information, under
                subjects; edited by C. F. Tweney ... and I. P. Shirshov.
 PUBLISHER    New York, The Macmillan company [1935?]
1 > Physics Library        Q121 .H82 1935 v. 1  (4 vols.)

TITLE        McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology : an 
international reference work in twenty volumes including index.
EDITION      7th ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : McGraw-Hill, 1992.
SUBJECT      Science --Encyclopedias.             Technology --Encyclopedias.
LOCATION               CALL NO.                       STATUS
01 > Leyburn-Reference      Q121 .M3 1992 v. 1             LIB USE ONLY
20 volumes

TITLE        Van Nostrand's scientific encyclopedia / Douglas M. 
Considine,  editor ; Glenn D. Considine, managing editor.
EDITION      8th ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1995.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q121 .V3 1995 v. 1             LIB USE ONLY
2 volumes

TITLE        Academic Press dictionary of science and technology / 
edited by  Christopher Morris.
PUBLISHER    San Diego : Academic Press, 1992.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.             Technology --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .A33 1992                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Brennan, Richard P.
TITLE        Dictionary of scientific literacy / Richard P. Brennan.
PUBLISHER    New York : Wiley, c1991, c1992.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.             Technology --Dictionaries.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .B68 1991                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Daintith, John.
TITLE        A dictionary of physical sciences / edited by John Daintith.
PUBLISHER    New York : Pica Press : distributed by Universe Books, 1977, c1976.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .D22 1977                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR De Vries, Louis, 1885- 
TITLE German-English science dictionary /
EDITION 4th ed. 
PUBLISHER New York : McGraw-Hill, c1978. 
SUBJECT Science --Dictionaries --German.  German language --Dictionaries 
--English.  
1 > Leyburn-Reference Q123 .D4 1978 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE Encyclopedia of physical science and technology / Robert A.Meyers
[editor] 
EDITION 2nd ed. 
PUBLISHER San Diego : Academic Press, 1992.
SUBJECT Physical sciences --Dictionaries.  Technology --Dictionaries. 
01 > Leyburn-Reference Q123 .E4974 1992 v. 1 
18 volumes

TITLE        The Encyclopedic dictionary of science / [editor, Candida 
Hunt ; contributing consultants, Bernard Dixon ... et al.]
PUBLISHER    New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Publications, c1988.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .E498 1988                LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Godman, Arthur.
TITLE        Longman dictionary of scientific usage / A. Godman, E.M.F. Payne.
PUBLISHER    Harlow, Essex : Longman, 1979.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.             English language 
--Technical English.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .G66                      LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Macura, Paul.
TITLE        Elsevier's Russian-English dictionary / compiled by P. Macura.
PUBLISHER    Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier ; New York, NY, U.S.A. 
:                Distributors for the United States and Canada, Elsevier 
Science Pub. Co., 1990. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .M182 1990 pt. 1          LIB USE ONLY
4 volumes

AUTHOR       Schneider, Herman, 1905-
TITLE        The Harper dictionary of science in everyday language / 
Herman Schneider and Leo Schneider. EDITION      1st ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Harper & Row, c1988.
SUBJECT      Science --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q123 .S36 1988                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Dictionary of the history of science / edited by W.F. 
Bynum, E.J. Browne, Roy Porter.
PUBLISHER    Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1981.
SUBJECT      Science --History.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q125 .D45                      LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer, 1918-
TITLE        A chronology of the history of science, 1450-1900 / 
Robert   Mortimer Gascoigne. 
PUBLISHER    New York : Garland Pub., 1987.
SUBJECT      Science --Chronology.             Scientists 
--Biography.             Science --History.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q125 .G39 1987                 LIB USE ONLY
2 > Chemistry Library      Q125 .G39 1987                  
2 volumes

AUTHOR       Parkinson, Claire L.
TITLE        Breakthroughs : a chronology of great achievements in 
science and               mathematics, 1200-1930 / Claire L. Parkinson ; 
foreword by L.  Pearce Williams. 
PUBLISHER    Boston : G.K. Hall, c1985.
SUBJECT      Science --History.             Mathematics 
--History.             Civilization, Occidental.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q125 .P327 1985                LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        The History of science and techology : a narrative chronology.
PUBLISHER    New York : Facts on File, c1988.
CONTENTS     v. 1. Prehistory--1900 -- v. 2. 1900-1970.
SUBJECT      Science --History.             Technology --History.  
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q125 .S43713 1988 v. 1         LIB USE ONLY
2 volumes

TITLE        The biographical dictionary of scientists / consultant 
editor,  Roy Porter. EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .B528 1994                LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        American men & women of science. A biographical directory 
of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences.
PUBLISHER    New York : Bowker, c1989-
1 > Q141 .A474 Leyburn Library    LIB. HAS: 17(1989/90)-   (Latest 
edition in Reference)    Latest received:  1995-96  

AUTHOR       Asimov, Isaac, 1920-
TITLE        Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and 
technology; the lives and achievements of 1195 great scientists from 
ancient times to the present, chronologically arranged.
EDITION      New rev. ed.
PUBLISHER    Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1972.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .A74 1972                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Bailey, Martha J.
TITLE        American women in science : a biographical dictionary / 
Martha J. Bailey. PUBLISHER    Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1994.
SUBJECT      Women scientists --United States --Biography 
--Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .B25 1994                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        The biographical dictionary of scientists / consultant 
editor,  Roy Porter. EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .B528 1994                LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Biographical encyclopedia of scientists / John Daintith, 
Sarah Mitchell, Elizabeth Tootill, Derek Gjertsen. EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub., c1994.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .B53 1994 v. 1            LIB USE ONLY
2 volumes

AUTHOR       Sammons, Vivian O.
TITLE        Blacks in science and medicine / Vivian Ovelton Sammons.
PUBLISHER    New York : Hemisphere Pub. Corp., c1990.
SUBJECT      Afro-American scientists --Biography.             
Afro-American physicians --Biography.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .B58 1990                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Chambers concise dictionary of scientists / David Millar 
... [et  al.]
PUBLISHER    Edinburgh : Chambers ; Cambridge : Press Syndicate of the  
University of Cambridge, c1989. 
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography.             Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .C52 1989                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Dictionary of scientific biography / Charles Coulston 
Gillispie,    editor-in-chief. 
PUBLISHER    New York : Scribner [1970-
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography.
01 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .D5 v. 1                  LIB USE ONLY
18 volumes

AUTHOR       Elliott, Clark A.
TITLE        Biographical index to American science : the seventeenth 
century to 1920 / compiled by Clark A. Elliott.
PUBLISHER    New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.
SUBJECT      Scientists --United States --Biography --Dictionaries.  
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .E373 1990                LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Gascoigne, Robert Mortimer, 1918-
TITLE        A historical catalogue of scientists and scientific books : 
from the earliest times to the close of the nineteenth century / Robert 
Mortimer Gascoigne. 
PUBLISHER    New York : Garland Pub., 1984.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography.             Scientific literature  
--Handbooks, manuals, etc.             Science --History --Handbooks, 
manuals, etc.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .G38 1984                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Larousse dictionary of scientists / editor, Hazel Muir.
PUBLISHER    Edinburgh [Scotland] : Larousse, c1994.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .L28 1994                 LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        McGraw-Hill modern scientists and engineers.
PUBLISHER    New York : McGraw-Hill, c1980.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography.             Engineers --Biography.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .M15 1980 v. 1            LIB USE ONLY
3 volumes

TITLE Notable twentieth-century scientists / Emily J. McMurray, editor ;
Jane Kelly Kosek and Roger M. Valade III, associate editors. 
PUBLISHER Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1995. 
SUBJECT Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries. 
Engineers --Biography --Dictionaries.  
1 > Leyburn-Reference Q141 .N73 1995 v. 1 LIB USE ONLY 
4 volumes

AUTHOR       Pelletier, Paul A., 1944-
TITLE        Prominent scientists : an index to collective biographies / 
edited by Paul A. Pelletier. EDITION      3rd ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Neal-Schuman, c1994.
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Indexes. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .P398 1994                LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        World who's who in science: a biographical dictionary of 
notable scientists from antiquity to the present. Editor: Allen G.  
Debus. Associate editors: Ronald S. Calinger [and] Edward J. Collins. 
Managing editor: Stephen J. Kennedy. 
PUBLISHER    Chicago, Marquis-Who's Who, inc. [1968]
SUBJECT      Scientists --Biography --Dictionaries.
1 > Chemistry Library      Q141 .W7 c.2                   
2 > Leyburn-Reference      Q141 .W7                       LIB USE ONLY 

AUTHOR       Trattner, John H.
TITLE        The prune book : the 60 toughest science and technology 
jobs in Washington / John H. Trattner.
PUBLISHER    Lanham, Md. : Madison Books : Distributed by National 
BookNetwork, c1992. 
SUBJECT      Government executives --United States.             
Executive departments --United States --Officials and 
employees.             Administrative agencies --United States  
--Officials and     
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q149.U5 T73 1992               LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        The Almanac of science and technology : what's new and 
what's known / prepared by World Information Systems; edited by  Richard 
Golob and Eric Brus. 
PUBLISHER    Boston : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990, c1989.
SUBJECT      Science.             Technology.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .A47 1990               LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Chen, Ching-chih, 1937-
TITLE        Scientific and technical information sources / Ching-chih Chen.
EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1987.
SUBJECT      Science --Bibliography.             Engineering 
--Bibliography.             Technology --Bibliography.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .C48 1987               LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Hurt, Charlie Deuel.
TITLE        Information sources in science and technology / C.D. Hurt.
PUBLISHER    Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1988.
SUBJECT      Reference books --Science --Bibliography.             
Reference books --Technology --Bibliography.             Science 
--Bibliography.             Technology --Bibliography. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .H85 1988               LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Malinowsky, H. Robert (Harold Robert), 1933-
TITLE        Reference sources in science, engineering, medicine, and 
agriculture / H. Robert Malinowsky. PUBLISHER    Phoenix : Oryx, 1994.
SUBJECT      Reference books --Science.             Science 
--Bibliography.             Reference books --Engineering.             
Engineering --Bibliography.             Reference books 
--Medicine.             Medicine --Bibliography. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .M278 1994              LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Magill's survey of science. Physical science series / 
edited by Frank N. Magill ; consulting editor, Thomas A. Tombrello.
PUBLISHER    Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1992.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .M34 1992 v. 1          LIB USE ONLY
6 volumes

AUTHOR       Primack, Alice Lefler.
TITLE        Journal literature of the physical sciences : a manual / by 
Alice Lefler Primack. 
PUBLISHER    Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1992.
SUBJECT      Physical sciences --Periodicals --Bibliography 
--Methodology.             Information storage and retrieval systems 
--Science.             Physical sciences --Authorship. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q158.5 .P75 1992               LIB USE ONLY

 AUTHOR       Asimov, Isaac, 1920-
 TITLE        New Guide to science.
              Asimov's New guide to science / Isaac Asimov.
 PUBLISHER    New York : Basic Books, c1984.
 SUBJECT      Science --Popular works.
1 > Physics Library        Q162 .A8 1984

TITLE        Isaac Asimov's book of science and nature quotations / 
edited by Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman. EDITION      1st ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1988.
SUBJECT      Science --Quotations, maxims, etc.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q173 .I83 1988                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Durbin, Paul T.
TITLE        Dictionary of concepts in the philosophy of science / Paul 
T. Durbin. PUBLISHER    New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.
SUBJECT      Science --Philosophy --Dictionaries.             Science 
--History --Dictionaries.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q174.7 .D87 1988               LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Gould, Constance C.
TITLE        Information needs in the sciences : an assessment : 
prepared for the Program for Research Information Management, the 
Research Libraries Group, Inc. / by Constance C. Gould and Karla Pearce.
PUBLISHER    Mountain View, Calif. : Research Libraries Group, 1991.
SUBJECT      Science --Information services.             Science --Study 
and teaching.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q179.96 .G68 1991              LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        International research centers directory.LIB. HAS     W&L 1994/95.
PUBLISHER    Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1981-
SUBJECT      Research institutes --Directories.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q179.98 .I58 1994-95           LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Sproull, Natalie L., 1928-
TITLE        Handbook of research methods : a guide for practitioners 
and students in the social sciences / Natalie L. Sproull.
PUBLISHER    Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1988.
SUBJECT      Research --Methodology --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q180.55.M4 S67 1988            LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Fisher, D. J.
TITLE        Rules of thumb for engineers and scientists / David Fisher, editor.
EDITION      Rev. and expanded ed.
PUBLISHER    Houston, Tex. : Gulf Pub. Co., 1991.
SUBJECT      Science --Handbooks, manuals, etc.          Engineering 
--Handbooks, manuals, etc.    
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q199 .F57 1991                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Mount, Ellis.
TITLE        Milestones in science and technology : the ready reference 
guide to discoveries, inventions, and facts / by Ellis Mount and Barbara 
A. List. 
EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1994.
SUBJECT      Science --Handbooks, manuals, etc.             Engineering 
--Handbooks, manuals, etc.             Discoveries in science 
--Handbooks, manuals, etc.             Inventions --Handbooks, manuals, etc. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q199 .M68 1994                 LIB USE ONLY

 National Research Council (U.S.)
   International critical tables of numerical data, physics,   
   chemistry and technology, prepared under the auspices of the    
   International Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences by 
   the National Research Council of the United States of America; 
   editor-in-chief: Edward W. Washburn ... associate   
   editors: Clarence J. West ... N. Ernest Dorsey ..
   Pub. for the National Research Council by the McGraw-Hill 
   Book Company,  inc., 1926-30.
 Chemistry Library      Q199 .N32    (15 volumes)

AUTHOR       Powell, 
Russell H., 1943-
TITLE        Handbooks and tables in science and technology / edited by  
Russell H. Powell. 
EDITION      3rd ed.
PUBLISHER    Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1994.
SUBJECT      Science --Handbooks, manuals, etc. 
--Bibliography.             Technology --Handbooks, manuals, etc. 
--Bibliography. 
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q199 .P68 1994                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Walker, Richard D.
TITLE        Scientific and technical literature : an introduction to 
forms of communication / by Richard D. Walker and C.D. Hurt.
PUBLISHER    Chicago : American Library Association, 1990.
SUBJECT      Communication in science.             Communication of 
technical information.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q223 .W34 1990                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Mount, Ellis.
TITLE        Using science and technology information sources / by Ellis 
Mount  and Beatrice Kovacs. PUBLISHER    Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1991.
SUBJECT      Science --Information services.             Technology 
--Information services.             Information storage and retrieval 
systems --Science.             Information storage and retrieval systems 
--Technology.             Data base searching.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q224 .M68 1991                 LIB USE ONLY

AUTHOR       Rosenberg, Jerry Martin.
TITLE        Dictionary of artificial intelligence and robotics / Jerry 
M. Rosenberg. 
PUBLISHER    New York : Wiley, c1986.
SUBJECT      Artificial intelligence --Dictionaries.             
Robotics --Dictionaries.  
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q334.6 .R67 1986               LIB USE ONLY

TITLE        Encyclopedia of artificial intelligence / Stuart C. 
Shapiro, editor-in-chief. EDITION      2nd ed.
PUBLISHER    New York : Wiley, c1992.
SUBJECT      Artificial intelligence --Encyclopedias.
1 > Leyburn-Reference      Q335 .E53 1992 v. 1            LIB USE ONLY
2 volumes