The Cambridge Paperback Encyclopedia
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| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 965 |
| Release | : 1994-07-21 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780521477338 |
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
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Language and languages |
| ISBN | : 9787560025131 |
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1336 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780521790994 |
An up-to-date reference source offers more than forty thousand entries and a quick reference section of facts and figures.
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 583 |
| Release | : 2018-11-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108423590 |
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.
| Author | : David Crystal |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1264 |
| Release | : 1998-04-16 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780521630993 |
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.
| Author | : Christopher Haigh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1990-08-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521395526 |
The history of Britain and Ireland is traditionally presented as a succession of dramatic changes, but in this reference work the 60 contributors under the editorship of Christopher Haigh have emphasized patterns of continuity instead, including cultural, social, political and economic themes. 300 illustrations.
| Author | : Steve Jones |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : |
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| Author | : Nicholas Vazsonyi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 899 |
| Release | : 2019-11-14 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9781108795913 |
Richard Wagner is one of the most controversial figures in Western cultural history. He revolutionized not only opera but the very concept of art, and his works and ideas have had an immeasurable impact on both the cultural and political landscapes of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From "absolute music" to "Zurich" and from "Theodor Adorno" to "Hermann Zumpe," the vividly-written entries of The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia have been contributed by recognized authorities and cover a comprehensive range of topics. More than eighty scholars from around the world, representing disciplines from history and philosophy to film studies and medicine, provide fascinating insights into Wagner's life, career, and influence. Multiple appendices include listings of Wagner's works, historic productions, recordings, and addresses where he lived, to round out a volume that will be an essential and reliable resource for enthusiasts and academics alike.
| Author | : O. Richard Norton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521621434 |
Beautifully illustrated with over 140 full colour images, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites provides a thorough guide to these fascinating extraterrestrial rocks. Meteorites are our only contact with materials from beyond the Earth-Moon system. Using well known petrologic techniques, this book reveals in vivid colour their extraordinary external and internal structures. Looking deeper still, right to the atomic level, they begin to tell us of the environment within the solar nebula that existed before the planets accreted. In recent years, meteorites have caught the imagination of scientist and collector alike. An army of people are now actively searching for them in the hot and cold deserts of Earth. This book is a valuable guide to assist the searchers in the field to recognize the many classes of meteorites. It is further a reference source for students, teachers and scientists who wish to probe deeper these amazing rocks from space.
| Author | : Edward Campbell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 580 |
| Release | : 2021-08-12 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9781107140875 |
Igor Stravinsky is one of a small number of early modernist composers whose music epitomises the stylistic crisis of twentieth-century music, from the Russian nationalist heritage of the early works, the neo-classical works which anticipate the stylistic diversity of the contemporary musical scene in the early twenty-first century and the integration of serial techniques during his final period. With entries written by more than fifty international contributors from Russian, European and American traditions, The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia presents multiple perspectives on the life, works, writings and aesthetic relationships of this multi-faceted creative artist. This important resource explores Stravinsky's relationships with virtually all the major artistic figures of his time, painters, dramatists, choreographers and producers as well musicians and brings together fresh insights into to the life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest composers.
