The Cambridge Encyclopaedia 3rd edition

Has people power now reached the encyclopaedia? “In addition, we added some 1,500 new entries, many directly responding to readers’ enquiries.” For a profession which prides itself on being attuned to user needs, we must applaud such recognition of what users of an encyclopaedia actually want rather than what its compilers think they want or need. It makes commercial sense too. For reasons well aired in previous reviews (by myself and others) we think the Cambridge Encyclopaedia a very good thing. With an apparently regular (not to say frequent for a major hardback printed book) revision schedule, its qualities are...