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Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.. The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher Henry Holt (1840–1926), co-founder of the earliest ancestor business, but Holt McDougal is distinct from contemporary Henry Holt and Company, which claims the history from 1866.
Under (new from 1991) president Nader F. Darehshori Houghton Mifflin acquired McDougal Littell in 1994, for $138 million, an educational publisher of secondary school materials, [26] and the following year acquired D.C. Heath and Company, [27] a publisher of supplemental educational resources.
The brothers Stanley M. Rinehart, Jr. and Frederick R. Rinehart continued to operate the company until its merger with Henry Holt and Company and the John C. Winston Company in 1960, to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston (HRW). [2]
"Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc." [6] CBS purchased the company in 1967, but in 1985, the group split, and the retail publishing arm, along with the Holt name, was sold to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart , which has retained Holt as a subsidiary publishing ...
Harcourt Children's Books published books for children of all ages, including interactive books for toddlers, picture books for young children, science fiction and fantasy novels for preteen and teens, as well as historical fiction. The house was the original publisher of such classics as Mary Poppins, The Borrowers, and Half Magic.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology, originally started as Riverdeep Interactive Learning, is a publishing house for educational online and CD-ROM products based in San Francisco, Boston and Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1995, Riverdeep was principally the creation of the Irish ex-investment banker Barry O'Callaghan.
HRW usually refers to Human Rights Watch, a human rights advocacy group. HRW may also refer to: Harrow & Wealdstone station, in London; Highest random weight hashing; Holt, Rinehart, Winston, an American publisher; now part of Holt McDougal; Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, an American animated television series; Human right to water
Pages in category "Holt, Rinehart and Winston books" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.