The Cambridge Encyclopedia
3rd Edition
- Editor: David Crystal
- Date Published: August 1997
- availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2000
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521584593
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia is unrivaled for academic authority and comprehensiveness, as well as its style and concision. Thoroughly revised and updated, with nearly 20,000 more words, the Third Edition incorporates: Full-color flags for over 200 countries of the world--including all new flags since 1994. 24 full-color world maps--giving details of the continents (physical, political, ice-coverage); the oceans (temperatures, depths, bed-features); earthquake zones; European trade organizations, and the effects of global warming and acid rain. Over 26,000 A-Z entries, with over 85,000 cross-references, 250 maps and 330 illustrations--giving unequaled coverage of biographical, scientific, geographic, historical and international issues. A 128-page Ready Reference--presenting, in readily accessible tabular and illustrative form, over 10,000 entries.
Read more- 'Thousands of enlightenments' Time Magazine
- '… a triumph … for sheer intelligence and rigour of co-operation between Crystal and his associates.' Anthony Burgess, The Observer
- Thoroughly updated for this new edition
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"Thousands of enlightenments....The reader can learn how a clock works, complete with line drawing; observe the anatomy of waves; examine a detailed cross section of the human heart; and follow the nitrogen cycle...generously scatters maps throughout the text and supplies thumbnail biographies of almost everyone worth knowing since Adam." Time
See more reviews"The brief and concise entries make this publication an excellent resource for undergraduate libraries." O. Riley, Choice
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- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: August 1997
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521584593
- length: 1313 pages
- dimensions: 283 x 229 x 65 mm
- weight: 3.04kg
- contains: 330 b/w illus. 26 colour illus. 251 maps
- availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2000
Table of Contents
Preface
How to use The Cambridge Encyclopedia
Atlas section
A-Z section
Ready Reference section
Consultants and contributors.
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