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Second edition
The Cambridge Encyclopedia
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 including
- 6,000 biographical
- 4,500 geographical
- 15,000 topics
- 10,000 Ready Reference
- More up-to-date
- Over 1,400 new and totally revised entries
- Includes the political, economic, technological changes and environmental issues of recent years
- More user-friendly
- Over 1,000 illustrations, diagrams, maps and panels
- 85,000 cross-references
- 24-page full-colour atlas section
- More international
- Over 150 specialist contributors from all over the world
- More facts and figures
- 128-page Ready Reference section - packed with essential facts and statistics
- More durable
- Printed on high quality acid-free paper
- Specially reinforced binding to withstand years of use
Comments on the first edition:
"... a triumph of publishing technology as well as for sheer intelligence and rigour of co-operation between Crystal and his associates." Anthony Burgess, The Observer
"Thousands of enlightenments..." Time Magazine
£29.95
ISBN 0-521-44429-2