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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Bernan is a leading distributor of essential publications from the United States government and intergovernmental organizations, and a respected publisher of critically acclaimed reference works based on government data. Bernan offers easy, one-stop access to a world of government and international agency books, journals, and CD-ROMs for academic and public libraries in the U.S., as well as law and corporate libraries. Bernan was founded in 1952 to provide distribution services for the Code of Federal Regulations and other titles published by the United States Government Printing Office (GPO). From its inception, Bernan has focused on enhanced customer service and is recognized today as the largest private distributor of U.S. government publications. With the acquisition in the early 1980s of privately owned UNIPUB, Bernan became the premier North American distributor of intergovernmental publications, as well. In addition to its leading role as private distributor of U.S. government titles, Bernan now represents some of the largest and most prolific publishers in the world, including the United Nations, the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, The Stationery Office, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, UNESCO, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and many others. Through its Bernan Press imprint (www.bernan.com), Bernan publishes reference works containing the most sought-after government-related information available. Bernan Press was founded more than 10 years ago to meet the demand of its customers for popular U.S. government statistical reference titles that were dropped by the US GPO, such as Business Statistics of the United States.

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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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Government Institutes
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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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Ivan R. Dee publishes serious nonfiction trade books in history, politics, biography, literature, philosophy, and theater. Ivan R. Dee books are provocative, authoritative, and aimed at the intelligent layperson. They are routinely reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other influential publications. Ivan R. Dee paperbacks are also used extensively in college courses as supplementary reading.

Founded in 1988 by Ivan Dee, the house was acquired in 1998 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Ivan Dee continues as Publisher in the company's Chicago headquarters. Alexander Dee serves as Vice President of Marketing in the same office. Among the authors published by Ivan R. Dee are Isaiah Berlin, Robert Brustein, Anthony Burgess, John Gross, Raul Hilberg, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Aldous Huxley, Hilton Kramer, Richard Schickel, Budd Schulberg, and John Simon.

Ivan R. Dee also oversees New Amsterdam Press and J.S. Sanders & Company imprints-the latter of which was founded by John Sanders of Nashville, Tennessee, to publish and republish general trade books on Southern culture, history, and literature. Many classic novels about the South, as well as histories and biographies of the region and its leaders, are still in print today thanks to J.S. Sanders.

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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. Former Editor in Chief for Wadsworth College Publishing, Marcus Boggs joined the R&L academic publishing team in January of 2009. R&L 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, several 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 Senior Executive Editor Jonathan Sisk 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.

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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 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).

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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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Jason Aronson Publisher, Inc.

Founded in 1966 by a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Aronson, this imprint was acquired by Rowman &Littlefield in 2003. Long recognized as the preeminent publisher of books for psychotherapists, Jason Aronson offers more titles from a broader range of professional interests than any other publisher in the field. Editorial Director Julie Kirsch acquires new titles on topics including child therapy, family therapy, eating disorders, substance abuse, short-term therapy, bereavement, stress, trauma, object relations theory, personality disorder, depression, couple therapy, sexual abuse, play therapy, psychoanalysis, psychology, transference, relational and intersubject theory, and contemporary attachment theory and practice. Jason Aronson also publishes general interest psychotherapy, psychology, and self-help titles.

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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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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. Under the leadership of Editorial Director Julie Kirsch, Lexington publishes a critically acclaimed list of high-quality scholarly work that may not have a wide audience but makes a significant contribution to scholarship, including multi-volume series edited by leading scholars. At a time when many publishers are cutting back on monograph publishing, Lexington is dramatically expanding its program, growing from 80 new titles in 1999 to 370 in 2010.

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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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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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With over 2,400 titles, Sundance-Newbridge’s highly respected imprints offer an entry for us into the K-8 educational marketplace. Sundance Publishing is a leading publisher of PreK–8 reading instructional materials and books for below-level readers in middle and high school. It also publishes and distributes K–12 paperbacks, literature-based media, and teacher resources. Newbridge Educational Publishing is one of the nation’s leading publishers of supplemental materials for teachers of PreK–5+. Newbridge creates photo big books across the curriculum and is a leader in nonfiction small group reading instruction in the content areas of social studies, science, and math. Paul Konowitch has served as President of Sundance-Newbridge Educational Publishing since 2006. Previously, Paul served as Managing Director at Gabelli Group Capital Partners and served in a variety of senior financial and executive management positions within The Thomson Corporation

Newbridge Educational Publishing launched a number of new leveled nonfiction products that support NCLB instructional and testing requirements. 56 units in the “Early Science” program cover a balance of Life, Earth, and Physical Science topics. 50 new “Discovery Links” Nonfiction Big Books which allow teachers to cover content aligned with Science and Social Studies standards and introduce essential concepts to the whole class in a format more engaging than a textbook. Each title is accompanied by an easy-to-use Pocket Planner teacher’s guide with step-by-step support for building academic content-area vocabulary and guiding comprehension with key reading strategies; we also offer 21 “Nonfiction Theme Sets” including Instructional Big Books and matching Little Books, Leveled Readers with Audio CDs (available in versions for below-level, on-level, and above-level readers).

The company’s national sales organization is run by industry veteran, John Atkocaitis, Senior V.P. of Sales, from Chicago, Illinois. John Atkocaitis has had a distinguished career of 29 years in educational publishing, 26 of which have been devoted to sales management. Previously, John has been the National Sales Manager, VP of Sales for Wright Group/McGraw-Hill; SRA/McGraw-Hill; Everyday Learning (Tribune Education); Southwestern Publishing (Thomson); and D. C. Heath and Company.