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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by : David Crystal
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by :
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia by : David Crystal
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia written by David Crystal and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date reference source offers more than forty thousand entries and a quick reference section of facts and figures.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars by : James B. Kaler
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stars written by James B. Kaler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique encyclopedia provides a fascinating and fully comprehensive description of stars and their natures and is filled with beautiful color images. The book begins by telling the story of astronomy, from ancient constellations and star names to the modern coordinate system. Further chapters explain magnitudes, distances, star motions and the Galaxy at large. Double stars, clusters and variables are introduced and once the different kinds of stars are in place, later chapters examine stellar evolution, beginning with the interstellar medium and star formation, proceeding to our Sun and its characteristics and then the ageing process of solar-type and high mass stars. The book ends by showing how this information can be combined into a grand synthesis. Detailed cross-referencing enables the reader to explore topics in depth and makes this an invaluable work both for beginners and those with a more advanced interest in stars and stellar evolution.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages by : Roger D. Woodard
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages written by Roger D. Woodard and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the writing systems, morphology, phonology, syntax, and lexicon of ancient languages.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan by : Richard Bowring
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan written by Richard Bowring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-05-27 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development by : Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development written by Stanley J. Ulijaszek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and accessible summary of human growth and development for students and professionals alike.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia by : David Crystal
Download or read book The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-16 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites by : O. Richard Norton
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Meteorites written by O. Richard Norton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development by : Brian Hopkins
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development written by Brian Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and expanded to 124 entries, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development remains the authoritative reference in the field.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space by : Michael Rycroft
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Space written by Michael Rycroft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland by : Christopher Haigh
Download or read book The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland written by Christopher Haigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits by : Thomas Worcester, SJ
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits written by Thomas Worcester, SJ and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) has been praised as a saintly god-send and condemned as the work of Satan. With some 600 entries written by 110 authors - those inside and outside the order - this encyclopedia opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation. Approximately 230 entries are biographies, focusing on key people in Jesuit history, while the majority of the entries focus on Jesuit ideals, concepts, terminology, places, institutions, and events. With some 70 illustrations highlighting the centrality of visual images in Jesuit life, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive volume providing accessible and authoritative coverage of the Jesuits' life and work across the continents during the last five centuries.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought by : Michael Ruse
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought written by Michael Ruse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors, and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. With more than sixty essays written by an international group representing the leading scholars in the field, this is the definitive work on Darwin. It covers the background to Darwin's discovery of the theory of evolution through natural selection, the work he produced and his contemporaries' reactions to it, and evaluates his influence on science in the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species. It also explores the implications of Darwin's discoveries in religion, politics, gender, literature, culture, philosophy, and medicine, critically evaluating Darwin's legacy. Fully illustrated and clearly written, it is suitable for scholars and students as well as the general reader. The wealth of information it provides about the history of evolutionary thought makes it a crucial resource for understanding the controversies that surround evolution today.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives by : Francis Robinson
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives written by Francis Robinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the lands, peoples, history, politics, religions, and cultures of six nations in Southern Asia
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music by : Colin Lawson
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music written by Colin Lawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen a major increase of interest in historical performance practice, but until now there has been no comprehensive reference tool available on the subject. This fully up-to-date, illuminating and accessible volume will assist readers in rediscovering and recreating as closely as possible how musical works may originally have sounded. Focusing on performance, this Encyclopedia contains entries in categories including issues of style, techniques and practices, the history and development of musical instruments, and the work of performers, scholars, theorists, composers and editors. It features contributions from more than 100 leading experts who provide a geographically varied survey of both theory and practice, as well as evaluation of and opinions on the resolution of problems in period performance. This timely and ground breaking book will be an essential resource for students, scholars, teachers, performers and audiences.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments by : Trevor Herbert
Download or read book The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments written by Trevor Herbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.
