ISBN10: 039562438X, ISBN13: 9780395624388, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Hardcover For nearly 60 years, the Columbia Encyclopedia has been acclaimed as the finest single-volume reference of its kind. This thoroughly revised edition continues in the grand tradition by offering useful, completelyup-to-date information on over 50,000 topics, in 6.6 million words by specialists in every field. Liberally augmented with drawings, maps, and tables for quick understanding, and containing some 65,000 cross-referencesfor fast study, this masterwork remains the leader, created and written in the U.S.A. 'Without peer in the English language.' --Scientific American. Thumb-indexed. 3,072p.
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1993]