Book Description
Identifies and provides concise information about nearly twenty thousand people, places, and scientific and technical terms, with an emphasis on international coverage and up-to-date facts
Author : David Crystal
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Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780521559683
Identifies and provides concise information about nearly twenty thousand people, places, and scientific and technical terms, with an emphasis on international coverage and up-to-date facts
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 9781439503751
Author : David Crystal
Publisher :
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : 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
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : 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 : Richard Bowring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 1993-05-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780521403528
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan is the essential reference to all facets of Japan past and present. Up to date, authoritative and wide ranging in scope, it covers all the general reader, student, business person, journalist, researcher, tourist or armchair traveler would want to know. A highly absorbing read, the Encyclopedia is also filled with the facts, figures and general data on Japan that make it an indispensable source of information. Learn, for example, that the safest place to be during an earthquake in Japan is in a bamboo grove; or that one of the greatest delicacies of Japanese cuisine, the fugu, is deadly poisonous in the hands of an unskilled chef. Also included are the latest statistics on Japan's dramatically aging population, a complete listing of its prime ministers, and valuable data on the powerful Japanese advertising industry.
Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 1998-04-16
Category : 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 : David Crystal
Publisher :
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780521668002
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
Author : Christopher Haigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : 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 :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Michael Rycroft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 1990-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521364263