Second Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 1347 p. — ISBN: 0-521-44429-2.
This new edition of
The Cambridge Encyclopedia has been completely revised, updated and redesigned. It now contains more entries, more facts and figures, more illustrations and maps, more cross-references and pronunciations and more colour than before.
Thoroughly updated:- Incorporates all the major political changes of recent years
- Separate entries and new maps on countries formed since 1990
- All population figures are now 1990s data
- Huge range of new entries on people, including: President Clinton, Paul Keating, Boris Yeltsin, Jean Le Pen, Klaus Barbie, Jean Chretien, F.W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Paul Gascoigne, Rowan Atkinson, Paul Hogan, Kenneth Branagh, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael ]ackson, Martin Amis, and Magic Johnson.
Thoroughly revised:- 1,400 new and totally revised entries
- New information on a wide range of topics including:
international issues (the Vance-Owen Plan, Nagorno-Karabakh, Palestine, the Earth Summit);
alternative medicine (aromatherapy, Bach flower remedies, New Age);
astronomy (Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Voyager findings, the Magellan Project);
the media (Star Trek and Trekkies, Dr Who and Whovians, Oscars, Emmies and Grammies);
criminology (DNA profiling, serial killing, Guildford 4);
computing and electronics (Internet, virtual reality, electronic funds transfer, intelligent building);
science (wormholes, atomic force microscope, human genome project);
Australia (Aboriginal groups, Aboriginal land rights, Australian republicanism).