It is becoming increasingly difficult for students to find quick, direct answers to basic science questions. With time tight for researching and writing, they will welcome The Facts On File Science Handbooks in the areas of biology, chemistry, Earth science, and physics. Featuring easy-to-read and -understand chronologies; biographies; glossary entries; and charts, measurements, and formulas, both students and teachers will consider these books primary one-stop resources for quick answers to frequently asked science questions!

Each handbook features:
-- A glossary of 1,000 key terms in the discipline
-- Biographies of over 250 prominent people in each discipline from ancient times to the present day; each entry focuses on the accomplishments for which the scientist is noted
-- A chronology that tracks the dates of significant developments and discoveries from ancient Greece to the present day
-- Tables, charts, and diagrams
-- Measurements, formulas, and calculations.

Among the topics covered are:
-- Adrenal Gland
-- Amniocentesis
-- Botany
-- Cell Membrane
-- Down Syndrome
-- Fossils
-- Hemophilia
-- Molecule
-- Synthesis
-- Ventricle
-- Zygote.

Biographies include:
-- John James Audubon
-- Francis Bacon
-- Jacques Yves-Cousteau
-- Hippocrates
-- Thomas Hodgkin
-- Edwin Powell Hubble
-- Sir James Paget
-- James Parkinson
-- Jonas Edward Salk
-- Frederick Sanger.

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:
-- Biochemical Cycles
-- Cells
-- Characteristics of Invertebrates
--Characteristics of Vertebrates
-- Classifying a Plant
-- Classifying an Animal
-- Digestive System in Humans
-- Endocrine System in Humans
-- Families of Flowering Plants
-- Living Organisms
-- Tree of Life.