http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/Reviews&blurbs/Camencycdetails.html (The Risc Disc Volume 2, 10/1995)
The Cambridge Encyclopedia
The Cambridge Encyclopedia
This new edition of The Cambridge Encyclopedia has been completely revised, updated and redesigned. It now contains more entries, more facts and figures, more illustrations and maps, more cross-references and pronunciations and more colour than before.
Thoroughly updated
- Incorporates all the major political changes of recent years
- Separate entries and new maps on countries formed since 1990
- All population figures are now l990s data
- Huge range of new entries on people, including: Desmond Tutu, Paul Keating, Oliver North, Jean Le Pen, Klaus Barbie, Jean Chretien, F W de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Paul Gascoigne, Rowan Atkinson, Paul Hogan, Kenneth Branagh, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Jackson, Martin Amis, and Magic Johnson
Thoroughly Revised
- 1,400 new or totally revised entries
- New information on a wide range of topics including:
- international issues: the Vance-Owen Plan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine, the Earth Summit
- alternative medicine: aromatherapy, Bach flower remedies, New Age
- astronomy: Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Voyagerfindings, the Magellan Project
- the media: Star Trek and Trekkies, Dr Who and Whovians, Oscars, Emmies and Grammies
- criminology: DNA profling, serial killing, Guildford 4
- computing and electronics: Internet, virtual reality, electronic funds transfer, intelligent building
- science: wormholes, atomic force microscope, human genome project
- Australia: Aboriginal groups, Aboriginal land rights, Australian republicanism
£29.95
ISBN 0-521-44429-2