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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (1993-10-25) Hardcover – January 1, 1878

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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 50,000 articles, 65,000 cross-references, and 6.6 million words in 3,000 pages.

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jerome harris

Touching literature is like holding precious gems..

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2020

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I love books...especially when they have 500 pages + !!!

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Excellent entries

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2019

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Pleasure to browse and learn from this one volume. Such excellent entry writing, thankyou Columbia University.

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Excellent condition. Use regularly.

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geoffrey gates

I kept notes and wrote The Encyclopedia for Dummies( there is one signed copy in the attic for my daughter to find)

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2017

Hello, I grew up in a blue collar context, farm work, roofing, security guard, unloading trucks. I didn't do well in highschool and the feelings of inferiority are still in my weak and banal dreams..When I turned forty, my daughter was in National Honor Society at high school and I met her friends..I was embarrassed..they could discuss Huxley and Orwell and Darwin and Poe..names I heard about but knew nothing..I wondered if I could homeschool myself quietly and perhaps get rid of my inferiority & intimidation.

.Books were cheap..Half Price Books was dumping them, especially those things that the internet was replacing.... I would literally climb in their Dumpster with my flashlight after the store closed.(...Security guard, Dumpster; date is over, right? and my first Haiku...) That and library sales kept me well stocked.

I read cover to cover a simple encyclopedia called Websters New World..it took 8 years..that initial discipline gave my life new and surprising habits..I decided to try The Columbia and The Merriam Webster Encyclopedia of Literature. I felt that would be the best way to see what great minds put on the menu..I finished both this week..about another 8 years of reading...Inspiring stories of encouragement can be found in AJ Jacobs who read the Britannica. Ammon Shea who read the Oxford English Dictionary ..and scholar Will Durant,.... I feel as though I repeated highschool but this time I caught the ideas of Candide, Conrad, Red Badge, and Wounded Knee....

The internet arrived(The only game in town says Thomas Friedman,) with a strong dose of popular texting addiction...Like hanging up on a solicitor , the cyber addict will scotch this review at 'Hello.'... regarding a long script as a straitjacket..The University paradigms are changing rapidly .. STEM direction is here to stay also and here I yet flounder amid specialization and physics.... the small grasp I have on life is rudimentary, only a box of 8 crayons..(for example, I don't speak other languages nor do I have a skill like a nurse.)

But few that I meet want to discuss the twentieth century ..and it's probably not going to happen unless you manipulate the conversation .(Alone Together/Sherry Turkle.) ...Also' reading about Monaco, or Moscow, or Lebanon, in an encyclopedia doesn't mean I know anything about these cultures..as close as I could get is the National Geographic magazine, which for me is education's Valedictorian. It needs to be said that Amazon reviews, Wikipedia & Quora are great gifts..I'm lucky I started these book habits before they showed up because the internet is addicting, even a mosh(w^ww.)pit.

So,should you rifle Dumpsters, buy this heavy book, and 'read like me?' This is lengthy and negative but it's a take from one who 'read the book' and welcomes the discussion. What is valuable to me is the work I did to create an informed opinion, something I was once unable to do ..'The frog that lives in the well knows nothing of the ocean"/china..( I no-longer say "Whatever".) The encyclopedias face a real demise in a wired world..Their western & patriarchal bias is an obvious indulgence...Just one example, chauvinism..(.See Susan B Anthony)... Only yesterday were women allowed in Harvard or Oxford or able to become physicians or lawyers.(NYT Read all about it Feb/2017..The Harvard Law Review elects ImeIme Umana as new president..,)

Ranting?...Too long? Not judicious? These thoughts multiply, like throwing stones into trees, launching sleeping birds.(&my second haiku.) OK, sorry,...I'll end..I didn't know what I was going to write when I began this review..but now that it is done I am like one who goes out in the starry night , sees Ursa Major, Cassiopeia, JK Rowling, and Orion, among millions of stars, and smiles even though I understand the limitations of constellations... The turtle finally had some relativity late in life... No..I desperately needed to do this in order to respect myself..Learning via books is a different kind of mental exercise that requires attention & nurtures your imagination in ways the Web can't ..This was an amateur attempt at ' Mnt Everest' for me. I climbed it..(I watched CHILD GENIUS/You Tube...I apologize if this seems pretentious.)

Concluding..This will probably be an anticlimax for the wired temperament, but for me, it was a satisfying personal niche...Thanks for reading,geof.
" I had no other cares or interests besides folk music.. I scheduled my life around it.I had little in common with anyone not like minded." Chronicles Bob Dylan

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Carl Skutsch

One volume does it all

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2000

The amazing thing about this encyclopedia is I often prefer it to my Britannica CD (or the online service). It's faster, more to the point, and has a surprising number of very clear and helpful illustrations and charts (all the Supreme Court Justices and their dates, p. 2659; a schematic for an iron blast furnace, p. 310).
It's also a great gazetteer (Inuvik - Northwest Territories Candada, pop. 8,491, with a whole darn paragraph on the place!).
The only downside is that as impressive as this thing is, it has to be brief. Only 2 sentences on King Khufu of Egypt, for example, seems a bit unfair, but such is life. (On the up side, they give 16 lines to my favorite writer H.H.Munro, aka Saki.)

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Sarah > Morse

the Colombia Encyclopedia

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2000

This book never ceases to amaze me. It has information that one would never dare to hope would be there and it is written with such originality and brilliance. How I wish I had discovered it years ago.

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