Now thoroughly revised and updated, The Cambridge Paperback Encyclopedia remains the most comprehensive portable reference book available. Its clear, easy-to-read entries - nearly 20,000 of them on all topics - contain the essential information for the 1990s. All areas of human knowledge are covered: technology, the environment, sport, geography, politics, history, art, music, astronomy, physics, medicine and literature. Special attention has been paid to new scientific, cultural and sporting achievements and to the recent developments in the European Community, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Germany, and South Africa. With its wealth of maps, diagrams and a unique Ready-Reference section, no other paperback encyclopedia offers such comprehensive, up-to-date coverage - or such incredible value for money. • Over 19,000 entries • 100-page Ready Reference section • 570 maps, panels and drawings • 26,000 cross-references enabling rapid information retrieval • Over 100 internationally-renowned contributors

Now thoroughly revised and updated, The Cambridge Paperback Encyclopedia remains the most comprehensive portable reference book available. Its clear, easy-to-read entries - nearly 20,000 of them on all topics - contain the essential information for the 1990s. All areas of human knowledge are covered: technology, the environment, sport, geography, politics, history, art, music, astronomy, physics, medicine and literature. Special attention has been paid to new scientific, cultural and sporting achievements and to the recent developments in the European Community, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Germany, and South Africa. With its wealth of maps, diagrams and a unique Ready-Reference section, no other paperback encyclopedia offers such comprehensive, up-to-date coverage - or such incredible value for money. • Over 19,000 entries • 100-page Ready Reference section • 570 maps, panels and drawings • 26,000 cross-references enabling rapid information retrieval • Over 100 internationally-renowned contributors

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The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron saints, sports champions and many more. Acclaimed on its first publication in 1994 as a new kind of biographical reference book, the Encyclopedia is now established as a reliable source of information on over 26,000 people, fully cross-referenced. The book's international coverage and devotion to important figures - both historical and contemporary - in science and the arts as well as sports and popular personalities make it unique. This Second Edition has been comprehensively updated and supplemented with new entries.

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cover all countries and the future of English in a post-Brexit Europe, regional and social variations, with fresh insights into the growing cultural identities of 'new Englishes', English in everyday use with new sections on gender identities, forensic studies, and 'big data' in corpus linguistics, and digital developments, including the emergence of new online varieties in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Packed with brand new colour illustrations, photographs, maps, tables and graphs, this new edition is an essential tool for a new generation of twenty-first-century English language enthusiasts.

Identifies and provides concise information on over twenty thousand people, places, and scientific and technical terms, with an emphasis on international coverage and up-to-date facts

An up-to-date reference source offers more than forty thousand entries and a quick reference section of facts and figures.