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   Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Search Tips. About the Columbia Encyclopedia Preface | Guide | Acknowledgments | Staff. Browse by Subject. Earth and the Environment +. History +. Literature and the Arts +. Medicine +. People +. Philosophy and Religion +. Places +. Plants and Animals +.

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   Columbia Encyclopedia, highly regarded one-volume encyclopaedia, international in scope and useful for quick location of accurate information. The encyclopaedia was first published in 1935 and underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963. The fourth edition, published in 1975 under the title The New.

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   The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia [2] produced by Columbia University Press and, in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group. [1] First published in 1935, [3] and continuing its relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963; [2] the current edition is the sixth, printed ...

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   • Publication date: 1935

   • Pages: about 3,200 (sixth edition)
   • Publisher: Columbia University Press

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   • Keywords General knowledge The Columbia Encyclopedia has been an enduring, reputable reference work since the 1920s. The sixth edition brings this tradition to the Web. With 51,000 entries, it covers a wide range of topics, including history, geography, science, culture, technology, and literature.

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   • The early compilers of encyclopaedias held, as Coleridge did, that “to call a huge unconnected miscellany of the omne scibile, in an arrangement determined by the accident of initial letters, an encyclopaedia, is the impudent ignorance of your Presbyterian bookmakers!” Today several encyclopaedias still retain the classified form of arrangement.

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   Columbia Encyclopedia. Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

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   The sixth edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia encompasses the discoveries, crises, and other events of the 1990s—and of the 1900s and the innumerable decades and centuries gone before. For a one-volume work, the scope is immense. The nearly 51,000 entries in the encyclopedia marshal six and a half million words on a vast range of topics.

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   With 51,000 entries, it covers a wide range of topics, including history, geography, science, culture, technology, and literature. The sixth edition also includes events and topics from the 1990s, ranging from electronic mail and modems to President Clinton's impeachment and the turmoil in Yugoslavia. This resource has a simple yet elegant design.

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