Addison-Wesley
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AddisonβWesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, AddisonβWesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. AddisonβWesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%).cite-ref-1[1]
The AddisonβWesley Professional Imprint produces content including books, eBooks, and video for the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include The Art of Computer Programming, The C++ Programming Language, The Mythical Man-Month, and Design Patterns.
Contents
β’ History
β’ Notable books
β’ Former imprints
β’ References
β’ External links
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History
Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded AddisonβWesley in 1942, with the first book published by AddisonβWesley being Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics.
Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, AddisonβWesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings. It was purchased by the global publishing and education company Pearson PLC in 1988cite-ref-pearson-history-2-0[2] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of AddisonβWesley was sold to Perseus Books Group in 1997, leaving AddisonβWesley as solely an educational publisher.cite-ref-3[3] Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading, Massachusetts, to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original AddisonβWesley with a storied history of their own.
Notable books
β’ citerefalonsofinn1968Alonso, M.; Finn, E.J. (1968). Fundamental University Physics Volume. AddisonβWesley. ISBN 978-0-201-00262-1.
β’ Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
β’ Evolutionary Biology by Eli C. Minkoff
β’ Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
β’ Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
β’ Exploratory Data Analysis (see) by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton.
β’ Theory Z by William G. Ouchi
Former imprints
References
cite-note-11. β "Pearson PLC (PSO) Company Profile". Reuters.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
cite-note-pearson-history-22. β "History". Pearson. Archived from the original on July 11, 2006. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
cite-note-33. β "Perseus Books Buys Addison-Wesley Unit". The New York Times. December 22, 1997. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
cite-note-44. β "Book Publisher Merloyd Ludington Lawrence Dies at 89".
External links
β’ Official site (education)
β’ Official site (professional)
β’ Official site (Germany) Archived 2016-01-09 at the Wayback Machine