This new paperback series will regularly publish some of our most popular titles in agriculture, architecture, chemistry, engineering and technology, earth and environmental sciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, physics and statistics. More information on each of these titles can be found in this catalog (see pages indicated). These titles join those published in the series earlier this year (formerly known as the Wiley Science Paperback Series).

With over 25,000 terms, this book provides comprehensive coverage of four allied but separate industrial sectors: construction, forestry, surface mining, and public works. It offers definitions from a wide variety of fields such as architecture, engineering, surveying, building, heavy construction, forestry, surface and surface mining, and municipal engineering.

All terms are arranged alphabetically and many are grouped according to topic.
-- Both metric and nonmetric values are presented for all weights, volumes and spatial dimensions.
-- Covers a range of topics from interrelated fields in one source.