Descriptionary: A Thematic Dictionary (Third Edition) (Facts on File Writer's Library)

644 pp. "Descriptionary is particularly helpful when you are looking for a descriptive or technical term, or when you know the subject or meaning but not the word. This newly revised and updated edition provides indispensable glossaries, arranged by category and subcategory, that define and describe thousands of words. This third edition contains an expanded and updated section on technology, including computers and the Internet, as well as many new sections, such as Physics, Chemistry, and Astronomy."--rear wrapper