W. H. Freeman and Company
{{Short description|Publishing imprint of Macmillan Higher Education}}
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W. H. Freeman and Company is an imprint of Macmillan Higher Education, a division of Macmillan Publishers. Macmillan publishes monographs and textbooks for the sciences under the imprint.
History
The company, W. H. Freeman and Company Publishing{{Cite web |title=July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections |url=https://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/calendar/1946/07/index.html |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=scarc.library.oregonstate.edu}} was founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman Jr.,{{Cite web |title=July 1946 - Linus Pauling Day-by-Day - Special Collections |url=https://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/pauling/calendar/1946/07/index.html |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=scarc.library.oregonstate.edu}} who had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan Publishing.
Freeman later founded Freeman, Cooper and Company in San Francisco.{{Cite journal |last=Clapperton |first=Chalmers M. |date= 1981|title=Book reviews: Williams, H. and McBirney, A.R. 1979: Volcanology. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper and Company. 397 pp. £19.50 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/030913338100500318 |journal=Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=460–461 |doi=10.1177/030913338100500318 |bibcode=1981PrPG....5..460C |issn=0309-1333|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite web |last=www.bibliopolis.com |title=The Origins of Pragmatism by A J. Ayer on Shadyside Books |url=https://www.shadysidebooks.com/pages/books/10437/a-j-ayer/the-origins-of-pragmatism |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=Shadyside Books }}{{Cite book |last=Ayer |first=Alfred Jules |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9nQ02poHksC |title=The Origins of Pragmatism: Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James |date=1968 |publisher=Freeman, Cooper |isbn=978-0-87735-501-4 }}{{Cite web |date=2018-08-29 |title=Freeman, Cooper and Co. |url=https://paulingblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/freeman-cooper-and-co/ |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=PaulingBlog }}
Works
Titles published by W. H. Freeman include James Watson's Recombinant DNA (1983), William J. Kaufmann III's The Universe (1985), Jon Rogawski's Calculus (2007), and Peter Atkins’ Physical Chemistry (2014).[https://us.macmillan.com/publishers/macmillan-learning/ "Macmillan Learning"], Macmillan Publishers. Accessed September 1, 2022.
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.macmillanlearning.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205051005/http://www.whfreeman.com/ Official W. H. Freeman and Company website] (archived 5 February 2009)
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Category:Book publishing companies of the United States
Category:Publishing companies established in 1946
Category:1946 establishments in the United States