An illustrated dictionary defining scientific terms from "aa" to "zygote."

This updated edition features nearly 200 new entries added to the more than 30,000 words with clear, understandable definitions that invite readers to interact with the words and definitions. Features a pronunciation guide and boxes offering extra facts.

The Oxford Student's Science Dictionary provides comprehensive revision and exam support to secondary school students. This fully updated new edition has more words to match the new curriculum requirements and the higher vocabulary expectations at GCSE and beyond. Its clear layout and helpful diagrams make it contemporary and easy to use.

More than two thousand entries, in subjects from astronomy to zoology, are accompanied by tables and charts, as well as biographies of eighty-five scientists.

The scholastic philosopher is interested in definition for a different reason than the lexicographer and linguist. The philosopher is trying to learn things. Fe defines, after investigating reality, in an attempt to describe reality clearly and to sum up some aspect of his understanding of reality. Hence, we find our scholastic philosophers adopting as a main feature of their method this insistence on defining, on precise and detailed explanation of their definitions, and on proving that their definitions da correctly express what a nature or activity is. A dictionary of the language of scholastic philosophy fitted to the needs of beginners and of undergraduate students of the subject is not available in English.

An illustrated dictionary defining scientific terms from "aa" to "zygote."

Presents definitions for over 1,500 head words and includes some 600 color photographs.

Scholastic Early Learners: Encourage early literacy with My Sticker Dictionary, an interactive project book that introduces kids to over 250 first words Learn to read with an interactive sticker book Perfect for promoting early literacy, My Sticker Dictionary includes 64 pages of activities, plus 12 press-out cards and 12 pages of stickers. This innovative sticker dictionary introduces kids to over 250 first words and makes learning to read fun. Scholastic Early Learners: Interactive books for hands-on learning. Perfect for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders, too

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This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportunity to bring color to their speech every day. Included are idioms from Native American and African American speech as well as the Bible, Aesop, and Shakespeare.