num_pages: 1357
description: 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 • 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
language: English
title: The Cambridge Encyclopedia
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Encyclopedia
genres: History, Anthropology, Science, Reference, Education, Language, Textbooks, Linguistics, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 653
publisher: Cambridge University Press