The Cambridge Encyclopedia

by David Crystal (Editor), David Crystal (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $7.76

  The Cambridge Encyclopedia is unrivalled 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-colour flags for all the 203 countries of the world - including all new flags since 1994 * 24 full-colour world maps * Over 26,000 A-Z entries, with over 85,000 cross-references, 250 maps and 330 illustrations - giving unequalled 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. 'The work is to be praised as a triumph of publishing technology' Anthony Burgess, The Observer (on the 1st edition)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.28

  The outstanding single-volume Encyclopedia Completely revised and updated, this new edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia contains more accurate, authoritative and up-to-date information than any other book of its kind. More comprehensive * Over 36,000 entries including: * 6,000 biographical * 4,500 geographical * 15,000 topics * 10,000 Ready Reference More up-to-date * Over 1,400 new or totally revised entries * All recent political, economic, technological and environmental changes More user-friendly * Over 1,000 illustrations, diagrams, maps and panels * 85,000 cross-references * 16-page full-colour atlas More international * Over 150 specialist contributors from all over the world More facts and figures * 128-page Ready-Reference - packed with essential facts and statistics