On TechRepublic: 19 words you don't want in your resume
Find Articles in:
all
Business
Reference
Technology
News
Sports
Health
Autos
Arts
Home & Garden
advertisement
advertisement

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution. (book reviews)

Antiquity,  June, 1993  by Broodbank, Cyprian

premiumContent provided
in partnership with
premium

Encyclopedias

Two new large volumes admirably expand and downwardly warp the reference shelf. First, and grimly relevant in mid-recession, is the long-awaited Blackwell's encyclopedia of industrial archaeology (BARRIE TRINDER (ed.) xxii+964 pages, 178 figures, several maps. 1992. Oxford: Blackwell; ISBN 0-631-14216-9 hardback |pounds~100). A first-class comprehensive work compiled by the Ironbridge Institute. Kicking off with Aachen (thereby honoured as the 'aardvark' of industrial archaeology), close on a thousand pages of entries cover most conceivable topics, technologies, sites, ...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.