Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0002550822 / Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, July 1998
Four thousand entries and five hundred illustrations highlight Scotland's history, people, art, industries, environments, and traditions
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Popular. Focuses on factors which lower disease susceptibility and promote good health. Winick is director, Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Diminished by the lack of bibliographic references. Some 100 specialists contributed to this comprehensive, detailed, alphabetical reference which contains some 4,000 entries (and 500 illustrations) on Scotland's history, people, arts, industries, environments, and enduring traditions. People, their institutions, and their activities were selected on the basis of Scottish provenance or association, and there are entries on individual architects, artists, botanists, Covenanters, educationalists, engineers, explorers, inventors, Jacobites, kings and queens, missionaries, poets, scientists, soldiers, sportsmen, and surgeons, among others. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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