The Columbia Encyclopedia

Abstract

Fully updated into the 21st-century, this 6th edition of the largest one-volume encyclopedia available, with 51,000 articles, 80,000 cross-references, 40,000 bibliographical citations, and 6.5 million words, provides complete coverage of the issues that made headlines throughout the 1990s. The encyclopedia includes thousands of biographies and articles on science, medicine, technology, agriculture, business, history, and art.