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Sections of the VISUAL DICTIONARY •PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY is a visual journey
The 14 sections of the VISUAL DICTIONARY contain a through the fundamental principles underlying
total of more than 30,000 terms, encompassing the physical universe, and provides the essential
a wide range of topics: vocabulary of these sciences.

•In the first section, THE UNIVERSE, spectacular •In RAIL AND ROAD, a wide range of trains, trams
photographs and illustrations are used to show and buses, cars, bicycles, and motorcycles are
the names of the stars and planets and to described. Exploded-view photographs show
explain the structure of solar systems, galaxies, mechanical details with striking clarity.
nebulae, comets, and black holes.
•SEA AND AIR gives the names for hundreds
•PREHISTORIC EARTH tells the story in annotations of parts of ships and airplanes. The section
of how our own planet has evolved since its includes civil and fighting craft, both
formation. It includes examples of prehistoric historical and modern.
flora and fauna, and fascinating dinosaur
models—some with parts of the body stripped •THE VISUAL ARTS shows the equipment and
away to show anatomical sections. materials used by painters, sculptors, printers,
and other artists. Well-known compositions
•PLANTS covers a huge range of species— have been chosen to illustrate specific artistic
from the familiar to the exotic. In addition techniques and effects.
to the color photographs of plants included in
this section, there is a series of micrographic •ARCHITECTURE includes photographs of
photographs illustrating plant details—such exemplary architectural models and illustrates
as pollen grains, spores, and cross-sections of dozens of additional features such as columns,
stems and roots—in close-up. domes, and arches.

•In the ANIMALS section, skeletons, anatomical •MUSIC provides a visual introduction to
diagrams, and different parts of animals’ bodies the special language of music and musical
have been meticulously annotated. This section instruments. It includes clearly annotated
provides a comprehensive guide to the photographs of each of the major groups of
vocabulary of zoological classification and traditional instruments—brass, woodwind,
animal physiology. strings, and percussion—together with modern
electronic instruments.
•The structure of the human body, its parts, and
its systems are presented in THE HUMAN BODY. •The SPORTS section is a guide to the playing
The section includes lifelike, three-dimensional areas, formations, equipment, and techniques
models and the latest false-color images. Clear needed for many of today’s most popular sports.
and authoritative annotations indicate the
correct anatomical terms. •In THE MODERN WORLD, items that are a
familiar part of our daily lives are taken apart
• GEOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY, AND METEOROLOGY to reveal their inner workings and give access to
describes the structure of the Earth—from the the language used by their manufacturers. It
inner core to the exosphere—and the physical also includes systems and concepts, such as
phenomena—such as volcanoes, rivers, glaciers, the internet, that increasingly influence our
and climate—that shape its surface. 21st century world.

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