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Addison-Wesley

American publisher

Field	Value
image	File:Addison Wesley Logo.svg
image_size	250px
parent	Pearson Education
founded
founder	Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings
country	United States
headquarters	Boston
publications	Textbooks
topics	Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics
url	(school),
(higher education),
informit.com (professional)

(higher education), informit.com (professional) Addison–Wesley 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, Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. Addison–Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%).

The Addison–Wesley 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.

History

Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison–Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison–Wesley 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, Addison–Wesley 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 1988 and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison–Wesley was sold to Perseus Books Group in 1997, leaving Addison–Wesley as solely an educational publisher. 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 Addison–Wesley with a storied history of their own.

Notable books

Addison–Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
Evolutionary Biology by Eli C. Minkoff
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
Exploratory Data Analysis (see) by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton.
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred P. Brooks. Jr.
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens
Iron John: A Book About Men by Robert Bly
Theory Z by William G. Ouchi
The Nature of Prejudice by Gordon W. Allport

Former imprints

Merloyd Lawrence Books

References

"Pearson PLC (PSO) Company Profile". Reuters.com.
"History". Pearson.
(December 22, 1997). "Perseus Books Buys Addison-Wesley Unit". [[The New York Times]].
"Book Publisher Merloyd Ludington Lawrence Dies at 89".

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