Launched in 1995 as an imprint of Sage Publications, AltaMira Press was acquired in 1999 and continues to be R&L's publishing arm in the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, museum studies, and nonprofit management. AltaMira prides itself on its innovative approach to scholarly and professional publishing-offering its audiences a variety of informational products ranging from college texts, reference works, journals, and professional titles. In partnership with the American Association for State and Local History, AltaMira operates the AASLH Press, the preeminent publisher of books for historical organization and museum professionals and volunteers. AltaMira distinguishes itself by developing user-friendly guides for "cultural practitioners" in museums, arts and heritage organizations, and social and governmental agencies. In just over 10 years, AltaMira has grown beyond the size of many university presses and garners numerous book awards each year. The company's rapid growth-and its enviable reputation in the communities it serves-attest to the success of the AltaMira model under the leadership of Acquisitions Editor, Jack Meinhardt.

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Hamilton Books is the non-academic imprint of UPA. Authors include scholars, war veterans, corporate leaders, and politicians. Hamilton Books gives authors the opportunity to publish their non-academic work, such as autobiographies, biographies, religious perspectives, personal reminiscences and reflections, and military memoirs. Hamilton has published many prestigious authors' works, including Albert Beveridge's memoir of his famous mother taken from her personal journal, Oscar Mann's haunting memoir recounting his boyhood in France at the time of the Holocaust, and many other compelling personal accounts.

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Jason Aronson Publisher, Inc.

Founded in 1966 by a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Aronson, this imprint was acquired by R&L in 2003. Long recognized as the preeminent publisher of books for psychotherapists, JA offers more titles from a broader range of professional interest than any other publisher in the field. Now under the editorial leadership of Dr. Arthur Pomponio, Ph.D, NCPsyA, our topics include child therapy, family therapy, eating disorders, substance abuse, short-term therapy, bereavement, stress, trauma, object relations therapy, personality disorder, depression, couple therapy, sexual abuse, play therapy, psychoanalysis, psychology, transference, and more.We also publish in such cutting-edge areas as neuropsychoanalysis, relational and intersubject theory, and contemporary attachment theory and practice.

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Founded by D.C. Heath in 1970, Lexington Books was acquired from Simon & Schuster's Jossey-Bass division in 1998 and today serves as Rowman & Littlefield's division for publishing specialized new work by established and emerging scholars. Lexington today publishes high-quality scholarly work that may not have a wide audience but makes a significant contribution to scholarship in particular and related fields. At a time when many publishers are cutting back on monograph publishing, Lexington is dramatically expanding its program, growing from 80 titles in 1999 to 225 in 2007. Lexington has established a critically acclaimed list of specialized scholarly works often published as part of multi-volume series edited by leading scholars.

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As the flagship academic imprint, R&L publishes college texts, general interest scholarly books, and crossover trade titles throughout the humanities and social sciences. Over the past twelve years, R&L's publisher, Jonathan Sisk, has assembled an outstanding acquisitions team of highly experienced industry leaders in its Maryland, New York City, and Boulder, Colorado editorial offices. R&L has also benefited from several strategic acquisitions, some of which continue to publish under their own imprints while others have been rolled into the R&L imprint. The latter include Madison House (American history), General Hall (sociology), Collegiate Press (core texts in the humanities and social sciences), and SR Books (American history and Latin American studies).

Given the location of our Maryland headquarters just beyond the Washington Beltway, we take special pride in the copublishing relationships that Executive Editor,Christopher Anzalone has developed with national and international think tanks and research organizations, combining their research expertise with our ability to see that their works receive broad dissemination in the marketplace of ideas. Among the many organizations with whom we copublish books are the Hoover Institution, Progressive Policy Institute, Freedom House, Doctors without Borders, Manhattan Institute, IBM Center for the Business of Government, and the American Foreign Policy Council. In 2006, the Smithsonian Institution chose R&L as its publishing partner to launch the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, publishing under a single imprint scholarship emanating from the Smithsonian's dozens of research institutions and museums.

Today, R&L enjoys a superb reputation for publishing scholarly books in the best tradition of university presses; innovative, thought-provoking texts for college courses; and crossover trade books intended to convey scholarly trends to an educated readership. In 2007 Rowman & Littlefield announced the formal creation of its college division to expand our emphasis on books for college courses.

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Founded in 1926 by Australian lawyer Francis Joseph Sheed and his British wife Maisie Ward, Sheed & Ward is one of the most eminent Catholic publishing houses in the world today. In its 81-year history, Sheed & Ward have published some of the most prominent names in Catholic thought, including Hans Kung, John Courtney Murray, Edward Schillebeeckx, Dororthy Day, Clare Boothe Luce, Jacques Maritain, Francois Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, and Paul Claudel. In recent years, Sheed & Ward have published some of the most important contemporary Catholic and Christian writers from both North America and Europe, including Daniel Berrigan, Andrew Greeley, Rowan Williams, Joan Chittister, Michael Walsh, and Daniel Harrington.

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In 2006, R&L acquired Cowley Publications, the distinguished publisher of books on prayer and spirituality from an Episcopalian perspective, from the Society of Saint John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1980, Cowley publishes 25 titles a year and maintains an active backlist of more than 150 titles, including works by Barbara Brown Taylor, Margaret Guenther, Rowan Williams, and Bill McKibben. It is named for the town in England where the Society of Saint John the Evangelist was founded in the 1860s.

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Publishing Across Academic Disciplines Since 1975, UPA was founded by Raymond D. Fellers, Ph.D., and Stanley D. Plotnick who envisioned an outlet for scholars to publish their work without the hassles associated with traditional publishers.Today, it remains as dedicated to this mission as ever. UPA has published thousands of titles, including scholarlymonographs, dissertations, textbooks, text supplements, and reference books.

UPA also provides an important resource for organizations to disseminate their research.UPA is proud of its copublishing program, collaborating with hundreds of nonprofit organizations and research institutions, including the Action Institute, the Women's Freedom Network, the American College Personnel Association, Association for the Study of Play, the ServiceMaster Foundation, American Foreign Council, Institute for Water Resources, Institute for Christian Studies, Association of Former Members of Congress, and scores of others.

Judith Rothman brings a diverse publishing background to her role as Vice President and Director. Her distinguished career includes management and editorial positions at Harper & Row, Grolier, CBS Publishing, and Prentice Hall, as well as Vice President of Sage Publications. Judith's enthusiasm, energy, and vision have energized UPA's dedicated staff. UPA's marketing department is headed by Dean Roxanis who is committed to providing the greatest possible exposure for UPA and Hamilton titles.

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reference/professional imprints

Government Institutes
http://govinstpress.com/

Government Institutes has been providing the regulated community with practical, accurate, compliance information for more than 30 years. Founded in 1973 by Thomas F.P. Sullivan and his wife Glory, Government Institutes began as one of the nation's first organizations dedicated to providing information and training to environmental, health and safety professionals.

Since that time, Government Institutes has changed and grown. In 1998, the Sullivans sold Government Institutes to ABS Consulting, Inc. In the years that followed, Government Institutes added food and drug, homeland security, marine, and quality and risk titles to its publishing line. In the fall of 2003, ABS Consulting moved Government Institutes' training division to its Houston, TX, headquarters, where the division remains today, and in the spring of 2004, ABS Consulting sold the publishing division to Scarecrow Press, Inc., an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, headquartered in Lanham, MD.

Government Institutes continues to produce books and electronic products created by attorneys, industry experts, and college professors, and it continues to serve the business community with the best compliance resources available.

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In 1999, Rowman & Littlefield acquired the education list of Technomic Books. Renamed R&L Education and now led by Vice President and Editorial Director Thomas F. Koerner, Ph.D, R&L Education today publishes practical hands-on information on the critical challenges facing America's educators-No Child Left Behind, the achievement gap, and education in America's increasingly diverse communities-and many other issues confronted by school principals, administrators, school boards, teacher trainers, teachers, and guidance counselors, on a daily basis. R&L Education has also developed productive publishing partnerships with many leading education associations including the American Association of School Administrators, Association of School Business Officials, and the National Association for Music Education. In addition, R&L Education also publishes the highly respected HM Study Skills program for students in pre-K through Grade 12.

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The Scarecrow Press, Inc., was founded in New York City in 1950 by Ralph Shaw, a professional librarian who chose the Scarecrow name to convey the company's goal of producing books for the library community with as few frills as possible. Since then, Scarecrow has gained a reputation as one of the preeminent scholarly and reference publishers in North America with some 200 titles published annually in the humanities and social sciences. Particularly strong fields include music; film, theater, and the performing arts; library and information science; religion; and history, including military history. More than 350 titles comprise Scarecrow's award-winning Historical Dictionary series, which is recognized worldwide for its authority.

Scarecrow maintains co-publishing agreements with several leading professional and scholarly associations and series agreements with several leading institutions. Among them are the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, American Theological Library Association, Music Library Association, Art Libraries Society of North America, The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements, and the Children's Literature Association.

In addition to its more than 2,000 active book titles, Scarecrow publishes the highly respected and pioneering magazine VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), the premier journal in the field of young adult librarianship. In 2005, Scarecrow acquired Teacher Librarian: the Journal for School Library Professionals, a highly-influential periodical that includes both peer-reviewed scholarly articles and practical information for professional librarians, teachers, and administrators.

In 2004, Scarecrow acquired Rockville, Maryland-based Government Institutes, a 30-year-old publisher of books related to government regulatory activity and law, with particular strength in the areas of environment, safety, and health. Government Institutes publishes several leading textbooks, too, including the Environmental Law Handbook (19th edition, 2007) and Fundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health (4th edition, 2007).

Scarecrow has been led by a succession of prominent library and publishing industry professionals, including Edward Kurdyla, who became Publisher in 2003.

In addition to its more than 2,000 active titles, Scarecrow publishes the highly respected magazine VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates), one of the most popular and critically acclaimed publications in the field of young adult librarianship. In 2004, Scarecrow launched The Steinbeck Review, a scholarly journal dedicated to broadening the scope of Steinbeck criticism, promoting new and established scholars, and serving as a resource for teachers of Steinbeck on all educational levels.

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