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The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines. The company later moved to New York ...
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
Books originally published by Harcourt, including World Book Company; Harcourt, Brace & Howe; Harcourt, Brace & Company; Harcourt, Brace & World; and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
The company was a victim of the changes sweeping the book-publishing business, Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has had a decent reception in its return to the public markets, with a solid gain ...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company (/ ˈ h oʊ t ən / HOH-tən; [9] HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, and reference works. HMH is based in the Boston Financial District. It was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company, but it changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt ...
Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine. [1] The New York Times noted that " Gourmet was to food what Vogue is to fashion." [ 4 ] Founded by Earle R. MacAusland (1890–1980), Gourmet , first published in January 1941, [ 5 ] also covered "good living" on a wider scale, and ...
William Jovanovich (1920 – 4 December 2001) was an American publisher, author, and businessman of Montenegrin descent. He served as the director of the publishing firm Harcourt, Brace & World from 1954 to 1991, renamed Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in his honor in 1970.
Harcourt was the son of Gertrude M. Elting and Charles M. Harcourt. Alfred was born in New Paltz, New York, [2] to a fruit farmer and attended the New Paltz Normal School. While at the normal school Harcourt became a member of the Delphic Fraternity. [3] An illness at age 9 led to his love for books and reading. [4]