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Author:	Chambers
Subcategory:	Dictionaries & Thesauruses
Language:	English
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton; 8 edition (September 1, 2007)
Pages:	1728 pages
Category:	Reference
Rating:	4.3
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Chambers Biographical Dictionary. All the people who really matter in one handy and endlessly browsable book.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Packed with over 18,000 biographies, Chambers Biographical Dictionary offers concise, authoritative and fascinating entries on all the people you’ll ever need to know about.

I have an older version of Chambers Biographical Dictionary which I purchased through the Folio Book Club. THAT version proved so useful that it's pages are literally falling out, adding to my need for paper clips - Thus I decided it was time for a new version. My older version focused on the greats of history, and provides concise, useful information, . dates,major accomplishments, and a references if you wished to explore more.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary provides concise descriptions of over 18,000 notable figures from Britain and the rest of the world. It was first published in 1897.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary is quite easily the best reference book in the world. There is a slight bias, but remember Chambers wants to sell this book not only in the bigger US market but to English-speaking people world wide, so the bias is kept to a minimum. Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph. Hardcover: 1600 pages. One thing to note is that your run-of-the mill US congressman is not listed. Orrin Hatch (long-time Republican senator from Utah) does not appear, but the late Strom Thurmond does.

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Chamber's Biographical Dictionary - Chambers Biographical Dictionary was first published in 1897.

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Chambers Biographical Dictionary Неизвестно 9780550106414 : All the people you& ever want to know about. Описание: A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history's most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world's leading authority on the subject.

First published in 1897, Chambers Biographical Dictionary remains a uniquely fascinating and far-reaching reference work. This eighth edition includes over 600 new entries, and has been extensively updated. Wide-ranging and international in scope, it offers concise, authoritative and illuminating entries on individuals from Alexander the Great to Frank Zappa.

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Arthunter

For an editor in the U.S., having a single, reliable source for validating spelling and dates for people from Europe, Asia, Africa, etc., is crucial. Unfortunately, the source most relied upon is Webster's Biographical Dictionary, which spells everybody's name as though s/he were American originally and had the poor judgment to relocate. Therefore, names seldom represent what their bearers would have recognized as their own. Work on a book about Chinese export art caused me to search for an alternative, and a fellow editor recommended Chambers. What good fortune, for it is just what I sought. As it is a "used" copy, it was priced very reasonably and is in excellent condition. Great experience all around....

Ziena

This book is described by the publishers as "20,000 profiles of famous men and women ranging from the mainstream to the controversial, and spanning the centuries, from the earliest times to the present day." Apart from the poor use of punctuation - in a so-called dictionary!, on using the book, I immediately found this statement to be far from accurate.

As one would expect, there are some very big names; Einstein, Eisenhower, Churchill, Mohammed Ali, Lawrence Olivier to mention but 5. On the other side of the coin, however, there are also a great many obscure people - Churchill's son, for example, appears to have been included simply because of his famous father. Naturally, those who are obscure to one person will be well known to others with an interest in whatever field of expertise applies. In my case, I am a former soldier and I was exceedingly disappointed by the absence of some very notable Generals and Field Marshalls and people of equivalent rank in other services.

Whilst nobody can be proficient in all fields of endeavour, if the lack of such notable military figures is repeated across other areas of interest (and Colin Powell is also absent from my copy!) then this book will only serve to disappoint those who purchase the product in order to read about the leading people in their particular sphere of interest.

Another relevant point is that any "true" dictionary includes the means of identifying how a word (in this case a person's name) should be pronounced. Here there is no such guidance at all. Not all names are as obvious as others and, as we in the UK came to learn some years ago, there exists some very different pronunciations of even simple names such as Colin.

Whilst later versions will have more names added, the work must be described as a rather disappointing effort from such a notable publishing company.

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