Dushkin offers real-time news with texts

NEW YORK, October 8, 2002 -- The McGraw-Hill / Dushkin unit of McGraw-Hill Higher Education began using Moreover Technologies' Connected Intelligence technology to provide supplemental college textbook information and up-to-the-minute customized news. Information is available in real-time via the web. Dushkin's e-content development vice president, Jeffrey Hahn, said professors will be able to quickly identify and implement material relevant to their courses. "McGraw-Hill / Dushkin is the only publisher to offer this kind of capability to its college subscribers," Hahn said. CI-Watch delivers information in 140-plus categories matching course topics from more than 4,000 national and international sources. These headlines update automatically every 15 minutes and link to full-text articles on the original publisher's site, enabling professors to track the latest news in any field from public policy to biotechnology. Additionally, any other topic can also be searched.

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Bertelsmann castigated: Too little, too late

NEW YORK, October 9, 2002 -- The New York Times criticized German media conglomerate Bertelsmann as falling short in its 57-years late apology for the company's role in World War II Germany. About the apology, the Times said: "Still, Bertelsmann's management, with its expression of regret for its activities and the misrepresentations, stopped short of apologizing for the company's wartime record." There was no explanation about why ongoing allegations into the company's past had been ignored so long, the Times said. The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, was especially critical that Reinhard Mohn, who controls the company, had not earlier corrected the official company history even though he knew it to be false." Reinhard's father Heinrich Mohn ran the company during the Hitler period.

EARLIER ARTICLE Bertelsmann fesses up to Hitler role

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Holt announces online math series

BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 8, 2002 -- Publishing company Holt, Rinehart & Winston launched an online Grades 6-12 science series The Holt Online Learning science series features online textbooks divided into four components: book pages, quick concepts, practice and review, and web links. Last summer the company released its Holt Online Learning social studies series.

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Raghu Garud (management), New York University, and Peter Karnĝe (management), Copenhagen Business School, edited Path Dependence and Creation (Earlbaum). Carl B. Gacono (psychology), Austin, Texas, edited The Clinical and Forensic Assessment of Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide Earlbaum). Mark Roszkowski (business), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wrote the fifth edition of Business Law: Principles, Cases, and Policies (Prentice Hall).

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Bertelsmann fesses up to Hitler role

FRANKFURT, Germany, October 8, 2002 -- The chief executive of Germany-based media giant Bertelsmann, Gunter Thielen, apologized for a 1985 corporate history that inaccurately portrayed the company's record during World War II. A new corporate history project, commissioned in 1998, acknowledges a collaboration with Hitler's government and the use of Jewish slave labor in Lithuania. Said Thielen: "I would like to express our sincere regret for the inaccuracies ... in our previous corporate history of the World War II era, as well as for the wartime activities that have been brought to light." The 1985 version of the company's history portrayed the company chairman, the late Heinrich Mohn, as a staunch opponent of Hitler who defied the Nazis by publishing banned texts. But the record, as now corrected, shows that Bertelsmann was punished at the end of the war for hoarding paper illegally, not for what it published. In fact, the company was the most prolific German publisher during World War II. The new history shows that Mohn donated to Nazi causes and belonged to a group called the SS Sponsors Circle, which backed Hitler's elite troops financially.

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Kluwer Academic receives four bids

LONDON, October 8, 2002 -- Bids have been received from four organizations for Kluwer Academic, the scientific, medical and technical journal publisher that parent company Wolters Kluwer has put up for sale. Insiders said a decision will be announced next week. Press reports, which did not name sources, said the bidders are John Wiley & Sons, of the United States; Taylor & Francis, a British STM publisher; First Candover Partners, a British private equity group; and Cinven, another British private equity group. The lowest bid was $540 million, the insiders said.

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Karl E. Case (economics), Wellesley College, and Ray C. Fair (economics), Yale University, wrote the updated sixth edition of Principles of Macroeconomics (Prentice Hall). Dennis Dawson (astronomy), Western Connecticut State University, wrote Out of the Classroom: Observations and Investigations in Astronomy (Brooks/Cole). Greg A. Steinke (music), Marylhurst University, wrote the ninth edition of Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music: A Programed Course (Prentice Hall).

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Pearson brightens college sales outlook

LONDON, October 8, 2002 -- In a rosy revision of its financial projections, media giant Pearson said its education unit will outperform expectations for 2002. In July the company said that Pearson Education had been expected to grow 3 to 5 percent, but now the projection is 5 percent or more. The revision was attributed partly to strong U.S. college sales.

Holt to sell Britannica math series

BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 8, 2002 -- Publishing company Holt, Rinehart & Winston was named exclusive distributor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Mathematics in Context middle-school math series. Mathematics in Context, partly funded by the National Science Foundation, is based on National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards for math achievement. Holt is part of Harcourt Education, a subsidiary of Reed Elsevier.

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Author-lawyer makes Boston Best list

BOSTON, Massachusetts, October 7, 2002 -- Psychology author Zick Rubin, now with the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow, was named one of the five best intellectual property lawyers in town by Boston Magazine. Two of his colleagues, Ike Williams and Elaine Rogers, made the cover as Boston's best entertainment and media lawyers. The magazine also has a list of the worst lawyers in Boston, including the man who lost his law license for a month in 1995 for urinating on the file of a client with whom he had a fight. Said Rubin, joshingly humble: "We Best Lawyers don't do that sort of thing." Seriously, he thanked his author clients and others "who said good things about me to Boston Magazine." Tongue back in cheek, Rubin said he was sure the ranking was "the result of an extremely scientific survey." Zick Rubin is a frequent contributor to the SA2 site. His recent columns: Coauthoring and God (July 2002) Crossing Into Plagiary (June 2002) Parody and the First Amendment (May 2002)

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College sales up 11.4% for 2002

WASHINGTON, October 7, 2002 -- College textbook sales continued strong in August, up 5.8 percent to $652.9 million for the month, compared to a year earlier, according to the latest report from the Association of American Publishers. For the year, college sales are 11.4 percent ahead of a year earlier. El-hi sales are in sorry shape as the result of tight school district budgets, a reflection of declines in state income and sales tax revenue in the poor economy. Here are the year-to-date AAP data through August, extrapolated from 74 member-publishers, for genres in which academic authors write: College STM, professional University press (soft) University press (soft) El-hi 11.4 percent 6.3 percent 3.6 percent -9.9 percent -16.3 percent

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Sunburst sale fuels Vivendi speculation

PARIS, October 7, 2002 -- An announcement that Vivendi subsidiary Houghton Mifflin has sold its Sunburst software unit raised questions about the shape of the large publishing unit, which includes Houghton, that Paris-based Vivendi is trying to sell. For several weeks Vivendi has been assessing which offer it will accept for the publishing operation. Now the Sunburst sale has prompted speculation that bidders on the short list for the Vivendi publishing group do not care whether they also get Houghton software units like Sunburst and Knowledge Adventure. Vivendi has promised a decision on the sale of the publishing unit, including Houghton, in late October.

VIVENDI EARLIER ARTICLE Vivendi sells Sunburst software

Judges sought for Talbot Prize

WINONA, Minnesota, October 7, 2002 -- The Society of Academic Authors issued a call for judges for the Talbot Prize for excellence in visuals in textbooks and learning materials. The panel of judges will include veteran authors, educators and graphics experts, said John Vivian, SA2 founder. Vivian asked SA2 members to volunteer for the panel of judges. Entries will be sent by mail with an evaluation form. To volunteer, contact SA2. What this means for authors: The Talbot Prize, sponsored by SA2, is a unique recognition. Works with a new copyright are nominated by publishers, with the authors' consent, and evaluated for their visual effectiveness as a learning tool. WIth the judging panel populated with veteran authors, the Talby has special significance as an honor bestowed by peers. The Talby also is a recognition of accomplishment among publishers and adopters.

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Houghton sells Sunburst software

PLEASANTVILLE, New York, October 7, 2002 -- Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin announced the sale of one of its K-12 software units, Sunburst Technology, setting off speculation that more components of the company may be shed during the process of its own sale by parent company Vivendi. Sunburst, acquired in 1999 for $35.5 million, was sold to Thayer Capital Partners. Terms were not announced. In a statement from Boston, Houghton chief executive Hans Gieskes called the sale of "part of Houghton Mifflin's long-term plan" to focus on its core business. The company declined to elaborate, but other non-core software assets may be include Knowledge Adventure, whose products include Dr. Brain, Jump Start and Math Blaster. Sunburst's new owner, Thayer Partners, located in Washington, D.C., said Sunburst will remain in Pleasantville, New York. Another Thayer company, Educational Resources, is in Elgin, Illinois.

HOUGHTON EARLIER ARTICLE Vivendi delays Houghton, VUP decision

John Chaffee (writing), City University of New York, wrote the seventh edition of Thinking Critically (Houghton Mifflin). Jay H. Levin (economics), Wayne State University, wrote A Guide to the Euro (Houghton Mifflin). Jan D. Yoder (women's studies), University of Akron, wrote the second edition of Women and Gender: Transforming Psychology (Prentice Hall).

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Pearson, Highscope create pupil planning tool

YPSILANTI, Michigan October 6, 2002. The High/Scope Educational Research Foundation and Pearson Education's School Success launched an interactive web-based tool to profile pupils so teachers can create curriculum plans. Based on more than 30 years of research, the assessment tool, called Highscope.net, allows teachers to gather anecdotal information about each child in major learning areas: Initiative, social relations, creative representation, music and movement, language and literacy, and logic and math. Highscope generates individual and group reports with individualized planning and curriculum tools. HighScope also automatically maps assessment data to mandated Head Start outcomes.

Pearson's Scardino heads powerful business women list NEW YORK, October 6, 2002 -- The U.S.-born chief executive at British-based Pearson, owner of U.S. textbook publisher Pearson Education, Marjorie Scardino, is the world's most powerful woman in business, according to a Fortune ranking. The magazine ranked women chief executives at business outside the United States. Pearson's imprints include Allyn & Bacon Longman, Prentice Hall and ScottForesman. Other subsidiaries include Penguin, Putnam and the Financial Times. At No.26 on the Fortune list was Agnès Touraine, chief executive of Paris-based Vivendi International Publishing, whose units include U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin.

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Pearson, Harris team for school analysis tool

Pearson recognized for moms' programs

UPPER SADDLE RIVER, New Jersey, October 6, 2002 -- Textbook publisher Pearson was named to Working Mother magazine's list of 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers." Acknowledging the recognition, Pearson Education personnel Vice President Angela Schwers, noted company programs that include emergency back-up childcare; flexible scheduling alternatives including compressed work weeks and telecommuting; and private rooms for breastfeeding mothers; and on-site eldercare counseling.

Renaissance Learning: Sales fell 11.0 percent to $32.5 million for the company's third quarter, compared to a year earlier. School budget cuts were blamed.

Scholastic: Sales grew 2.6 percent to $306.9 million in the company's first quarter, compared to a year earlier. Education sales were off 4.0 percent to $61.6 million. The quarter had a net loss of $44.6 million, partly due to the settlement of a 1997 securities law suit.

Vivendi Universal Publishing: Sales grew 5.0 percent to e2.1 billion for the company's first half, compared to a year earlier. Operating income was off 20 percent. Excluding recently divested biz-com and health divisions, however, revenue was up 9 percent..

Houghton Mifflin: The Publishing and Education Division of Vivendi International Publishing, which includes Houghton, grew 5.0 percent to e1.1 billion in the first half of the company's fiscal year, compared to a year earlier...

Aspen absorbs Arthur Andersen unit

CHICAGO, Illinois, October 6, 2002 -- Business publisher Aspen, a unit of Wolters Kluwer, bought the Accounting Research Manager database from the Arthur Andersen accounting and consulting firm, which is being dismantled in the wake of the Enron scandal. Terms were not announced. ARM will be integrated into Aspen's CCHO accounting and audit operation but will remain in Chicago, said Aspen chief Jane Butler.

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Leapfrog, Kaplan offer college prep tool

EMERYVILLE, California, October 5, 2002 -- Educational publisher LeapFrog Enterprises, which hitherto has focused on the K-6 and consumer market, launched a handheld digital college entrance exam preparation device with college test program provider Kaplan. The device, iQuest, includes a 75,000-word dictionary, calculator, scheduler, address book and notepad -- plus a 600-page workbook.

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Stanley Chernicoff (geology), University of Washington, Seattle, and Haydn A. "Chip" Fox (geology), Texas A&M University, Commerce, wrote the third edition of Essentials of Geology (Houghton Mifflin). Gregory Glover, senior editor for academic resources at Abingdon Press,was named acquisitions editor for academic books and resources at Westminster John Knox Press. Richard W. Harris (agriculture), University of California, Davis, James R. Clark, (HortScience Inc.), and Nelda P. Matheny (HortScience) wrote the third edition of Arboriculture: Integrated Management of Landscape Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (Prentice Hall). John Monahan, chief executive at Gold Standard Media ,was named president and chief executive of the clinical tools division at Wolters Kluwer International Health and Science. John Seymour, president and chief executive at IC Axion,was named president and chief executive of the pharmaceuticals division at Wolters Kluwer International Health and Science, which includes Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Richard Wilson (health), Western Kentucky University, and Cheryl Kolander (health), University of Louisville, wrote the second edition of Drug Abuse Prevention (Jones and Bartlett).

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Vivendi delays Houghton, VUP decision

PARIS, October 4, 2002 -- The financially ailing French conglomerate Vivendi will take until mid-October, perhaps later, to decide which bidder's offer will be accepted for its international publishing unit that includes Houghton Mifflin. The report, attributed to sources, was carried by the Reuter news agency. Meanwhile, the company has distanced itself from a report by a union leader that Jean-René, president of Vivendi International Publishing's parent company, sees French media giant Lagardere as the front-runner.

VIVENDI EARLIER ARTICLES French offer for Vivendi called best Vivendi officer denies playing favorites

Hoboken now Wiley home

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, October 3, 2002 -- Publishing giant John Wiley & Sons has officially opened its new corporate headquarters at Waterfront Corporate Center across the Hudson River from Manhattan. More than 900 employees are working in the 400,000-square foot space -- more than the third of one tower of the building. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony last week, Governor James E. McGreevey said: "We are proud that New Jersey and particularly Hoboken has become the home to one of our nation's oldest and most prestigious companies." Waterfront Corporate Center is the centerpiece of a master-planned development created through a public-private partnership.

HOBOKEN-ON-HUDSON In operation EARLIER ARTICLE Wiley headquarters move has a price

Vivendi officer denies playing favorites

PARIS, October 3, 2002 -- The president of Vivendi Universal Publishing, Agnès Touraine, denied that shes helping the Eurazeo group in its bid to buy VUP. Responding to a Wall Street Journal report, Touraine said: "The allegations of personal preference for this or that candidate are unfounded and completely out of context considering the rules of the game." Touraine had other problems with the Journal article: "I am consternated that the article suggests the auction process is disorganized. This is particularly shocking considering that the staffs of VUP and Vivendi Universal have been putting considerable efforts into the process." To a report that earnings at her Vivendi Publishing unit are off 20 percent, Touraine called the figure is unfounded: "This unfounded allegation is liable to affect negotiations with the bidders and, as such, should have been closely checked before being printed."

VIVENDI TOURAINE EARLIER ARTICLE Report: Vivendi's Touraine taking sides

Kenneth S. Ferber (law), Stetson University, wrote Corporation Law (Prentice Hall). Deanne Milan Spears (education), City College of San Francisco, wrote the sixth edition of Developing Critical Reading Skills (McGraw-Hill). Thomas C. Timmreck (education), California State University, San Bernardino, wrote the second edition of Planning, Program Development and Evaluation (Jones and Bartlett).

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Report: Vivendi's Touraine taking sides

NEW YORK, October 2, 2002 -- The president of Vivendi Universal Publishing, Agnès Touraine, is working closely with one of the investor groups bidding to buy the unit from the parent company, Vivendi, according to the Wall Street Journal. Touraine "has been working closely with one of the bidders: a consortium led by Eurazeo," the Journal said. "At the same time, the Eurazeo group has agreed to retain Ms. Touraine and her entire management team if they acquire the business, said people familiar with the offer. The group has also promised not to sell off any pieces of Vivendi Publishing for at least 18 months and to keep the French portions of the business in French hands." Earlier Touraine lobbied her new parent company's management to sell her Vivendi Universal Publishing only as a unit rather than break it up, which would mean keeping U.S. textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin in the group, but the company decided to consider the proposals of all bidders. In its new report, the Wall Street Journal notes: "In most auctions, management is supposed to remain neutral in working with the bidders." Apparently Touraine has said that a competing bidder, the Blackstone / Lee / KKR / Bain / Apax / PAI group would try to break up Touraine's VUP despite assurances that it would keep the business intact and retain the management.

VIVENDI TOURAINE EARLIER ARTICLE French offer for Vivendi called best

Publishers favor longer copyrights

WASHINGTON, October 2, 2002 -- The trade association for U.S. book publishers, AAP, along with a number of composers, artists and playwrights and their heirs, filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft, favoring the longer duration for their copyright privileges under the so-called 1998 Sonny Bono law. The brief noted that extensions of the copyright law were never challenged before. To do so now would place prior extensions in doubt and "unsettle countless investments and transactions" that assumed the extensions were constitutional, the publishers said. The Bono extensions, allowing owners of creative material to profit from it as long as 120 years, has been challenged on grounds that it inhibits creativity by those who might draw on protected works. For most of U.S. history, copyright has been for 28 years.

COPY- RIGHT EARLIER ARTICLE High Court hears Eldred soon

Robert Benedetti (theater), California Institute of the Arts, wrote the second edition of The Actor in You, The: Sixteen Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting (Allyn & Bacon). Janine Hiller (business), Virginia Tech, and Ronnie Cohen (business law), Christopher Newport University, wrote Internet Law and Policy (Prentice Hall). Gary H. McClelland (psychology), University of Colorado, wrote Seeing Statistics (Duxbury). Stewart L. Tubbs (communication), Eastern Michigan University, and Ronnie Cohen (communication), wrote the ninth edition of Human Communication: Principles and Contexts (McGraw-Hill).

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French offer for Vivendi called best

PARIS, October 1 2002 -- A trade union leader quoted Vivendi chief executive Jean-René Fourtou that French magazine and book giant Lagadere has offered the most financially attractive deal for Vivendi's publishing businesses, including Houghton Mifflin in the United States. Elisa Perrot, of the CGT union, made the statement after a strategy meeting with Fourtou. Earlier, Fourtou said he doubted that the Lagadere deal would fly with government regulators because it would combine Lagadere's Hachette with Vivendi's French textbook units into a company that would have 90 percent of the market. Anti-monopoly objections could be addressed if Lagadere were to sell some of Vivendi acquisitions.

VIVENDI EARLIER ARTICLE Vivendi ponders bids: No deal yet

Taylor & Francis eyeing acquisitions

LONDON, October 1, 2002 -- The expansion-oriented Taylor & Francis publishing house, already with a strong presence in technical journals, may be considering an offer for competing STM publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers or BertelsmannSpringer. Chief executive David Smith told the trade journal Bookseller that he is looking for a "transforming" purchase. Smith specifically mentioned Kluwer and Springer, both of which are for sale. Taylor & Francis has the cash. The company offered $450 million for British academic publisher Blackwell last March. Smith said that Blackwell, which is beset by family squabbles, hasn't even responded: "We constantly keep open lines of communication, but you can't force people to sell."

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Vivendi ponders bids: No deal yet

PARIS, October 1, 2002 -- Bids for Vivendi International Publishing, which includes the U.S. house Houghton Mifflin, are way short of expectations, according to sources privy to last week's meeting of parent company Vivendi's board of directors. Vivendi had hoped for as much as $4 billion for its profit-turning publishing assets. What now? Vivendi chief executive Jean-René Fourtou recommended prolonging talks with bidders in hope that the offers will be sweetened. Vivendi needs cash from selling the publishing properties to remain solvent ,but, Fourtou said, there are a few weeks before a decision must be made. A brief announcement from the directors' meeting said: "Vivendi Universal confirms having received acquisition proposals for Vivendi Universal Publishing (VUP) in its entirety. These proposals are currently being studied, in the best interest of the shareholders of Vivendi Universal, Vivendi Universal Publishing and VUP employees. Vivendi Universal specifically asked all potential acquirers to include in their proposals commitments regarding the preservation of VUP's French cultural heritage. These commitments will be made public." Insiders said the offers include at least three for all of Vivendi Universal Publishing, including the high bid, $3.2 billion, from Paribas. French publisher Lagardere reportedly was among bidders for the entire unit, with intentions to sell off Houghton Mifflin immediately to a U.S. buyout firm.

VIVENDI EARLIER ARTICLES Vivendi chief downplays Lagardere rumor

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Bye to Messier's Manhattan digs

PARIS, October 1, 2002 -- The high-profile former chief executive of Vivendi, Jean-Marie Messier, will lose the $17 million Manhattan apartment from which he was orchestrating the company's failed Americanization make-over. Vivendi's new management said the apartment will be sold. Messier's short-lived flamboyance in New York financial circles included his 2001 acquisition of Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin. Now, to pare back debt, Vivendi has Houghton for sale.

VIVENDI EARLIER ARTICLES New plan could keep Vivendi French Americanizing right -- and wrong

High Court hears Eldred soon

William H. Brown (chemistry), Beloit College, and Christopher S. Foote (chemistry), University of California at Los Angeles, wrote the third edition of Organic Chemistry (Brooks/Cole). Stan Gibilsco (technology), Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, wrote the Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics (McGraw-Hill). David Northrup (history), Boston College, wrote the second edition of The Atlantic Slave Trade (Houghton Mifflin). Michael J. Singer (land, air and water), University of California, Davis, and Donald N. Munns wrote the fifth edition of Soils: An Introduction (Prentice Hall). Jeremy Yudkin (music), Boston University, wrote the third edition of Understanding Music (Prentice Hall).

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Business journal abandons print

Religious group: Librarians are lying

Richard J. Colwell (music), New England Conservatory of Music, Thomas W. Goolsby (music), University of Victoria, British Columbia, wrote the third edition of The Teaching of Instrumental Music (Prentice Hall). Marc A. Franklin (law), Stanford University, David A. Anderson (law), University of Texas, and Fred H. Cate (law), Indiana University, wrote the sixth edition of Mass Media Law: Cases and Materials (Foundation). Jonathan Lazar (computer science), Towson University, wrote User-Centered Web Development (Jones and Bartlett). Steven S. Zumdahl (chemistry), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Susan A. Zumdahl (chemistry), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, wrote the sixth edition Chemistry (Houghton Mifflin).

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