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The motivation for co-editions has often been to use the existing distribution systems of the different publishers in each country rather than establishing new distribution systems. Advancing IT and the globalization of publishing have been blurring the lines of what co-edition means. For example, anything published online is effectively ...
Title page of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834). A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything).
A Dictionary of science, literature, and art : comprising the history, description, and scientific principles of every branch of human knowledge; with the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use New York : Harper & brothers 1844; A dictionary of science, literature & art. London : Longman, Green, and co., 1875.
The editor (or editors, often there are several) of an edited volume is the key figure in conceiving and producing the book. [1] He or she is responsible for determining the book's purpose, structure and style (as laid out in a book proposal); for signing a book contract with an interested publisher; and for selecting the individual contributors who will write the chapters (and possibly the ...
Books wholly written by one author or a few co-authors. Edited volumes , where each chapter is the responsibility of a different author or group of authors, while the editor is responsible for determining the scope of the project, keeping the work on schedule, and ensuring consistency of style and content.
More than 4,000 pages long, the work provides a thorough scientific reference, while establishing a midpoint between massive multi-volume science encyclopedias and handheld reference books. This work is sometimes compared to the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.
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Cosmos is a popular science book written by astronomer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carl Sagan.It was published in 1980 as a companion piece to the PBS mini-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage with which it was co-developed and intended to complement.