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Publishers |
- Adam Matthew Publications
"Adam Matthew Publications
… is a scholarly publisher making available
original manuscript collections, rare printed books
and other primary source material in microform and
electronic format."
- Ashgate "Ashgate is a highly regarded international
publisher in the humanities, the social sciences,
aviation/aviation psychology, and chemical references,
with an outstanding reputation for producing high
quality, specialized scholarly studies and collected
essays."
- Blackwell Publishers "Part of
the Blackwell Group, the world's largest independently-held
book and journal publishing company, our list spans
the humanities, social sciences and business. Founded
in 1926 we built our reputation publishing for the
academic community in the English language. We are
now known for our student textbooks, professional
periodicals, and interactive software."
- Cambridge University Press "Today the Press
is one of the largest academic and educational publishers
in the world, publishing nearly 2,500 books and
over 150 journals a year, which are sold in some
200 countries. For millions of people around the
globe, the publications of the Press thus represent
their only real link with the University of Cambridge."
Specifically the Humanities
and Social Sciences: "Cambridge is one of the
world's largest and most prestigious academic publishers
in the humanities and social sciences, publishing
in the region of 1,000 new publications annually.
This massive output encompasses a vast range of
publishing from the successful Canto paperback imprint,
aimed at both students and general readers, through
undergraduate textbooks and a large range of upper-level
academic paperbacks, to highly specialised monographic
works of primary research."
- Clio "Reference solutions for
history students and scholars: ABC-CLIO is a closely
held publisher of educational and reference products.
The company focuses on history and social studies
resources for the scholar, student, teacher, and
librarian in universities and secondary schools."
- Edinburgh
University Press "Books published by the Press
bear the imprimatur of one of Britain's oldest and
most distinguished centres of learning and enjoy
the highest academic standards through the scholarly
appraisal of the Press Committee. The Press has
a reputation for publishing books and journals of
an enviable high quality - in content and production
- in the arts and social sciences."
- Fitzroy Dearborn "Fitzroy Dearborn
offers reference books specifically designed for
the needs of public, high school, college/university,
and professional libraries. Our editorial staff
and boards of advisers are committed to providing
detailed and comprehensive analysis of subjects
in the arts, humanities, business, and the sciences:
all of our titles are international in scope and
appropriate for the general reader as well as the
serious researcher."
- Harvard University Press Editorial Programme:
"Scholarly books and serious works of general interest
in the humanities, the social and behavioral sciences,
the natural sciences, and medicine. The press does
not normally publish poetry, fiction, festschriften,
memoirs, symposia, or unrevised doctoral dissertations."
- Hodder Headline "HEADLINE was founded
in 1986 and five years later won the prestigious
Publisher of the Year Award. The following year
Headline acquired Hodder & Stoughton to form
Hodder Headline Plc and now, as part of the WHSmith
group, is one of the most dynamic consumer book
publishers in Britain and a hugely successful sales
network worldwide. Headline is one of the most successful
and fastest-growing general publishers in the UK.
It has established an outstanding track record in
publishing both fiction and non-fiction books across
a wide subject range."
- Manchester University Press
"Manchester University Press serves the international
academic community and promotes The University of
Manchester by the publication of outstanding works
of learning and scholarship that both reflect and
enhance The University's authority and reputation."
- Marston See
Publishers that they represent
- Microform
Academic Publishers publishers of manuscript
material, newspapers and primary sources for the
worldwide higher education sector. All material
is made available on microfilm and CD ROM and covers
a wide variety of subject areas, including Fascist,
Labour and British Association for American studies
series.
- New
York University Press"With a backlist of over
1,200 titles, our program is notably strong in the
areas of Politics, Law, History, Behavioral Science,
Gender Studies, and Jewish Studies. Described recently
by the Chronicle of Higher Education as "a
major player in academic publishing," the Press
is currently expanding its lists in media and cultural
studies, sociology, religion, law and legal studies,
history, and psychology."
- Open Gate Press "Open Gate Press was
founded in 1988 by a group of psychoanalysts, social
psychiatrists and artists to provide a forum for
psychoanalytic social studies – a branch of
psychoanalysis which Freud hoped would be a major
contribution to the 'liberation of humanity from
the pathology of civilisations."
- Oxford
University Press "Oxford University Press is
a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers
the University's objective of excellence in research,
scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
It is the world's largest university press. It publishes
more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence
in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700
people worldwide. Turnover in 1999/2000 was £324
million. It has become familiar to millions through
a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly
works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music,
school and college textbooks, children's books,
materials for teaching English as a foreign language,
business books, dictionaries and reference books,
and journals."
- Palgrave "Palgrave is a global academic
publisher serving learning and scholarship in the
field of higher education, and publishing for the
professional business and serious non-fiction markets.
It has an established and distinguished track record
of international academic publishing with considerable
strength in the humanities, social sciences, and
business and growing strength in computing and engineering.
Combining the publishing and heritage of Macmillan
Press, the British based publisher, and St. Martin’s
Press Scholarly & Reference in the United States,
Palgrave aims to be the academic publisher of choice
for authors and customers around the world."
- Pearson
Education "Pearson Education … is now the
biggest educational publisher in the world. It boasts
many of the most respected imprints in classrooms worldwide, with a
full range of outstanding electronic, as well as
print products and programmes. … Our wide ranging
publishing programme covers all levels of Further
and Higher Education. We also have some local language
publishing for specific European markets."
- Penguin
Books "Penguin is one of Britain's top brand
names. … It is the most significant brand in
publishing with a 92% recognition factor amongst
book consumers." Online since 1995, the site has
a fully searchable database of every Penguin author
and title, and has a lot of extra information.
- Phoenix Press "Phoenix Press is proud
to present the best biographies, histories, diaries,
spy stories and collections of poetry ever published.
You will find an unrivalled library of classics
as well as newly rediscovered gems; celebrated Nobel
Prize winning volumes and celebrated hoaxes; books
to whet the appetite of any reader with an interest
in people, in history, in the past."
- Primary Source Microfilm "Primary
Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group,
has spent the past 35 years building one of the
world’s largest microform archives of exclusive
primary source materials in subject areas that include
the humanities, social sciences and international
news. Our purpose has been to provide access to
rare, valuable research materials for libraries,
scholars, faculty and students. Our work has grown
and diversified since our modest beginnings as Research
Publications in 1966. During the years, we have
developed a highly regarded array of primary source
materials and have published such landmark collections
as The
Times (London), The
Sabin Collection, The
Eighteenth Century Collection, Music
Manuscripts from the Great English Collections
and Nineteenth
Century and Twentieth
Century Legal Treatises."
- Princetown University Press "We select
for publication only scholarship of the highest
quality on all levels regardless of commercial viability:
specialized monographs making an original contribution
to knowledge within a subdiscipline; titles appealing
to a broader range of scholars and professionals
in a single discipline; interdisciplinary academic
works intended for readers in more than one subject
area; and works by scholars aimed at bringing the
findings of a discipline to the larger, well-educated
reading public."
- Routledge. Part of the Taylor & Francis Group
"Routledge was founded over 150 years ago, primarily
as a book publisher. Through a combination of organic
growth and acquisitions it has become one of the
world's leading publishers of academic books, particularly
within the social science and humanities subject
areas. It focuses on three academic sectors: undergraduate,
graduate and postgraduate; research and reference;
and professional education and development. Routledge
publishes in the region of 1,000 new books each
year and has a backlist of over 7,000 titles in
print."
- Sutton Publishing Sutton Publishing
focuses upon the following areas: "British, European
and International History; Military, Naval and Aviation
History; Biography, Cultural History and Heritage;
Pictorial, Regional and Transport History"
- Verbatim Books "We are publishers of
high-quality reference books relating to the English
language. We are specialty publishers, and we present
a short list of serious, worthwhile books that English
language learners, teachers, professional linguists,
and language enthusiasts will wish to have in their
libraries."
- Yale
University Press "The London branch of the USA
publishing company, site still largely under construction.
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