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Maintaining awareness of the world around us is critical for personal, professional and educational purposes. Explore the physical, economic and political landscapes through Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online and Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), from Columbia University Press.

The Gazetteer is encyclopedic in its scope of content that covers the physical world from continents to canyons, the political world from countries to counties, and special places from ports to resorts – including in-depth information about the economic, historical, and cultural context of places.

With the Gazetteer as a foundation for basic information about places around the world, Columbia International Affairs Online supports research in the area of international relations. CIAO offers the full text of more than 400,000 pages of working papers, policy briefs, interviews, journal articles, and e-books. Particularly helpful are course packs which are ready-made selections of materials from CIAO that provide opposing views and provocative arguments for issues ranging from security issues to free trade.

For a philosophical and literary approach to studying the world, Columbia University Press offers The Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online. Completely redesigned in 2007, Granger's offers access to 250,000 poems in full text along with commentaries, biographies, glossary terms, non-English poetry in its original language and in translations, and audio recordings.  

Columbia University Press Databases Available

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• Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online - Academic, K-12, Public, Special
• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online - Academic, K-12, Public, Special
• Columbia International Affairs Online - Academic, K-12, Public, Special