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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." [1] The book seeks to explain and describe the "mysterious" sociological changes that mark everyday life.
Lippincott was founded in 1943 as Dohner & Lippincott by Donald R. Dohner and J. Gordon Lippincott, who taught together at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. After Dohner's sudden death in December of that year, the name was changed to J. Gordon Lippincott & Associates.
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.
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.
J. Gordon Lippincott (1908-1998) was an American industrial designer and co-founder of the design firm Lippincott & Margulies. [1] [2] Early life and education.
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.
Joseph Lippincott, engineer involved in the California Water Wars in the 1900s; Joshua Lippincott (1835–1906), Chancellor of the University of Kansas 1883–1889; Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of J. B. Lippincott & Co. His grandson Joseph Wharton Lippincott (1887–1976), American publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman