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  Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Chambers Biographical Dictionary) (Hardback) By (author) Chambers, Introduction and notes by Joan Bakewell

  

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  Short Description for Chambers Biographical DictionaryJust about all the people who really matter in one handy and endlessly browsable book.
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  • Publisher: CHAMBERS
  • Published: 01 September 2011
  • Format: Hardback 1728 pages
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  • Categories: Dictionaries | General Encyclopaedias | Dictionaries Of Biography (Who's Who)
  • ISBN 13: 9780550106933 ISBN 10: 0550106936
  • Sales rank: 92,505

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary

  

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• What is the Chambers Biographical Dictionary? All the people who matter in one handy and endlessly browsable book 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. The most comprehensive and readable single-volume biographical dictionary available - Discover kings, queens, crooks, criminals, politicians, bankers and everyone in between - Check up on great achievements and great failures - Find out who did what to whom - Thousands of suggestions for further reading - Contains more biographies than any other reference work of its type - International and historical coverage of all areas of human achievement including the arts, science, technology, sport, politics, philosophy and business - Meticulously researched and expertly written Updated Edition First published in 1897, Chambers Biographical Dictionary is a unique reference work which packs a huge amount of information between its covers. The ninth edition has been thoroughly updated and remains wide-ranging and international in scope, offering concise, authoritative and illuminating entries on individuals from Alexander the Great to Frank Zappa, and from Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden.