• Books in Miller Library:
  
  
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    • Online:
      
      
      • AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
      • A Dictionary of Biology
      • A Dictionary of Ecology
      • The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science
        
        
    • Print:
      
      
      • Encyclopedia of Human Biology
      • Chambers Biology Dictionary
      • International Dictionary of Medicine and Biology
      • Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
      • Dictionary of Life Sciences
        
        
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• Lexis-Nexis Academic
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