Review : Fully briefed

“How,” ask Gordon Coleman and David Dewar, authors of The Addison Wesley
Science Handbook (Addison Wesley Longman, £14.95/$18, ISBN 0 201
76652 3) “do you prevent the search for a simple definition from turning into a
three-hour ordeal?” The answer, of course, is this handy paperback, the ultimate
reference for all those things you half know.