U X L Encyclopedia of Water Science

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U X L Encyclopedia of Water Science

Author: K. Lee Lerner (Author, Editor), Brenda Wilmoth Lerner (Editor) | Size: 11.1 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Thomson Gale | Year: 2004 | pages: 510 | ISBN: 978-0787676179

Editorial Reviews
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Water is becoming an increasingly important topic and is the subject of many treaties and disputes. This set contains more than 100 signed entries on water science and water issues. Volume 1 has six chapters dealing with water science basics, volume 2 has five chapters dealing with the economics and uses of water, and the final volume has two chapters dealing with the environmental, legal, and political issues surrounding water. Each chapter contains numerous signed entries. For example, the chapter on the "Basics of Water Science" contains entries on biochemistry, chemistry of water, the hydrologic cycle, and the physics of water. Each entry has its own displayed glossary and gray sidebars with additional facts and also contains a list of print and Web resources for further study and research. The set is illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and cycle charts. There is also a color photo section in each volume. The preponderance of gray and black and white does not provide a lot of visual interest.
The chapter arrangement makes it somewhat difficult to locate specific information. Within each chapter, entries are arranged alphabetically, and guide words are located at the bottom of each right-hand page. The individual entries in chapters have subheadings that are not arranged alphabetically, so it becomes slightly confusing as one pages through looking for topical information. A general glossary, a research and activities section, and a cumulative index to the set are included in each volume.

Macmillan's Water: Science and Issues (2003) covers similar ground in an A-Z format. Even though the UXL set is not quite as accessible, it does a good job of bringing information together for students and general readers and covering it in some detail. UXL is Gale's middle-school line, but the set will get maximum use in high-school, community college, and public libraries that serve patrons in high school and beyond. Dona Helmer
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Review
"This set makes a good addition to libraries in which science or social studies students need current useful information for research projects. Recommended."
--Library Media Connection, November/December 2005 (Library Media Connection )<br /><br />"Water is essential to life for plants and animals. Water divides geographical locations and requires laws and agreements between countries, states and communities. An introduction to everything you ever wanted to know about water science and water issues, with accompanying research and activity ideas, can be found here. Presented with an international perspective, volume 1 includes the basics of water science; oceans and saltwater; fresh water; estuaries and wetlands; ice; and water, weather and climates. Volume 2 examines science and technology, science and research, economic uses of water, recreational uses of water, and history and culture. Issues " environmental, legal and political " are found in volume 3.

Each volume begins with the same Reader's Guide, 26 pages of Words to Know, Research and Activity Ideas and end with "Where to Learn More." Individual articles have books and Web sites to look for additional information. Sidebars also have "Words to Know" and insert boxes offer additional information, biographies and descriptions of water-related activities. Each volume has eight pages of color photographs placed together within a chapter. Other photos and illustrations are black-and-white. Show this to your science teachers. It will be helpful also to social studies teachers who can use the information on this scarce commodity as a prelude for the creation of laws. Recommended for upper-middle school and high school."
--Reviewed by Blanche Woolls, Oneota Reading Journal, August 2005 (Doody Enterprises )

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