The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition

by Barbara A Chernow (Editor)

Other authorsGeorge A Vallaski (Editor)
Hardcover, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

REF C.001

Publication

Columbia University Press (Houghton Mifflin Company)

Pages

3048

Description

The Fifth Edition continues this tradition of excellence, bringing up-to-date coverage of the whole world in all its physical, historical, geographical, political, scientific, religious, and cultural dimensions between two covers. The Fifth Edition offers more information in one volume than most multivolume encyclopedias: 50,000 articles, 65,000 cross-references, and 6.6 million words in 3,000 pages.

Tags

REFERENCE, Encyclopedias

Collection

Reference

Barcode

1641

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

3048 p.; 12.3 inches

ISBN

039562438X / 9780395624388

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