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The merged company bought J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia in 1990; it merged Lippincott with the Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven in 1995. [2] In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquired Thomson Science (owner of the Current Opinion medical journals), and Plenum and merged the medical publications of each with Lippincott-Raven. [3]
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference is the debut book by Malcolm Gladwell, first published by Little, Brown in 2000. Gladwell defines a tipping point as "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."
A portrait of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott by Thomas Eakins. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (March 18, 1813 – January 5, 1886) [2] founded the publishing company in Philadelphia when he was 23 years old. J. B. Lippincott & Co. began business publishing Bibles and prayer books before expanding into history, biography, fiction, poetry, and gift books.
Books originally published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., between 1850 and 1855 the company published as "Lippincott, Grambo & Co." Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Two editions of the book were published, the first (1978) by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [2] and reprinted in 1979 by Dell Publishing. [3] A second edition (1995) was printed by Stillpoint Press, a publishing company owned by the authors. [4] [5]
The 1892 cloth-bound cover of The Sign of Four after it was compiled as a single book. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle described how he was commissioned to write the story over a dinner with Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of the American publication Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, at the Langham Hotel in London on 30 August 1889.
The Wahoo Bobcat is a children's book written by publisher and naturalist Joseph Wharton Lippincott and illustrated by Paul Bransom, and first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1950. Lippincott wrote 17 books about animals and nature. He wrote two books set in Florida, one of which was The Wahoo Bobcat. [1]
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.It was published on April 27, 1966, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. [1] The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies.