Author: David CrystalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521567800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present
The Cambridge Biographical Dictionary
Author: David CrystalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780521567800
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Contains over 14,000 brief entries covering persons both past and present
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography
Author: John S. BowmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521402583
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Biography is an endlessly fascinating subject for a wide variety of readers. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is the most up-to-date and comprehensive, single-volume, biographical reference of living and dead Americans available. The book contains 9,000 entries written for general readers in fluid narrative style. Each entry is self-contained and does not assume any historic or geographic knowledge. What sets this book apart is its breadth of coverage--living and dead, famous and forgotten American figures, of diverse careers, from colonial times to the present day--and its attention to women and minority groups. The Dictionary has been originally compiled--not derived from older work--with the help of over one-hundred consultants. It also contains two exceptionally useful indexes: one by occupation and the other by names mentioned in the entries (whether or not they are entries themselves). The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography is written for anyone interested in owning an eminently readable reference to living contemporaries and their achievements as well as to historically important figures. John Bowman, an accomplished author and editor, has been assisted by an editoral board of distinguished American scholars.
The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
Author: David CrystalPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630993
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
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.
The General Biographical Dictionary:
Author: The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The General Biographical Dictionary
Author: Alexander ChalmersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Chambers biographical dictionary
Author: The American Biographical Dictionary
Author: William AllenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382330709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Chambers's Biographical Dictionary
Author: David PatrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain
Author: Ann WilliamsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781852640477
Category : Anglo-Saxons
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book provides a unique work of reference cutting across ancient cultural divisions within Dark Age Britain, and it enables the reader to follow the careers of people as far apart in time and place as the early Kentish kings and Viking earls of Orkney. Entries range from well-known characters such as Merlin, Alfred the Great, the historian Bede and the Danish warlord Cnut to the more obscure Pictish kings and abbots of Iona. Each entry is presented in a succinct and compact form in an easily accessible A to Z format. Here experts on a multitude of early historic peoples in Britain have brought together a dossier of scholarly findings on all those whose lives can be reconstructed from an examination of early source material, incorporating the very latest research. Englishmen from Wessex to Northumbria, Welshmen and Cornishmen, Northern Britons, Scots and Picts, Scandinavians from the Danelaw and York as well as from the Viking earldom of Orkney and the Southern Isles, all take their place in this wide-ranging survey of the people of Dark Age Britain. This detailed work of reference, supplemented by chronological and genealogical tables, will be an essential tool for all those with an interest in Dark Age Britain.