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Running Press Book Publishers
Running Press is an American publishing company and member of the Perseus Books Group, a division of the Hachette Book Group. The publisher's offices are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with many of the corporate functions taking place in Hachette's New York City headquarters. It was co-founded by Stuart "Buz" Teacher and his brother, Lawrence "Larry" Teacher, who died in March 2014. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers became an imprint of Running Press in 2017. Select bibliography * Running Press Miniature Editions, 2" by 3" hardcover books (many of them abridgements of bestsellers and often sold as impulse or gift purchases at checkout counters) * ''Sneaky Chef'' cookbook series by Missy Chase Lapine * ''Images'' coloring book series, by Roger Burrows * '' Wisdom to Grow On'', Charles J. Acquisto (2006) * '' The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga'', ILYA (2006) * '' Cathy's Book'', Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman (2006) * '' The Way of the Wiseguy'', Joseph D. Pistone (2004) ...
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Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group, Inc. (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006. Its headquarters are located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hachette is considered one of the " big five" publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/ Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. In one year, HBG publishes approximately 1400+ adult books (including 50–100 digital-only titles), 300 books for young readers, and 450 audiobook titles (including both physical and downloadable-only titles). In 2017, the company had 167 books on the New York Times bestseller list, ''New York Times'' bestseller list, 34 of which reached No. 1. History The earliest p ...
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Jordan Weisman
Jordan Weisman is an American game designer, author, and serial entrepreneur who has founded five game design companies, each in a different game genre and segment of the industry. Biography Weisman graduated from Francis W. Parker High School, in Chicago, Illinois. He went to the Merchant Marine Academy and briefly attended University of Illinois at Chicago, before leaving school to pursue his business interests. In 1980, Weisman founded role playing game publisher FASA Corporation (short for the Freedonia Aeronautics & Space Administration, named after the fictional country in the Marx Brothers film '' Duck Soup'') with partner L. Ross Babcock. Weisman and Babcock made a few hundred photocopies of the early adventures that Weisman wrote for the pen and paper role-playing game, '' Traveller'', and sold the adventures to a local store in Chicago before sending them to nationwide distributors. Weisman started his business working out of his basement, and when he and Babcock wa ...
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Tosh
Tosh may refer to: People * Tosh (surname) * Tosh (nickname) * Tosh Townend (born 1985), professional skateboarder * Tosh Van der Sande (born 1990), Belgian professional cyclist Places * Tosh, Himachal Pradesh, India; a village * Kiryas Tosh (aka ''Tosh''), Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada; a neighbourhood * Yiddish name of Nyírtass, a Hungarian village Entertainment * "Tosh" (song), by the English electronic music band Fluke * '' Tosh.0'' a comedy show hosted by Daniel Tosh * Pseudonym of Shun Saeki, artist of '' Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma'' * Tosh, one of the Goofy Gophers in Warner Bros. cartoons * Nickname of DC Alfred Lines, a character in the television series ''The Bill'' * Nickname of Toshiko Sato, a character in the television series ''Torchwood'' * Fiona Mackintosh, nicknamed Tosh, a character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Nickname of DS Alison McIntosh, a character from the television series ''Shetland'' Other * The Orthopedic Specialty Ho ...
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Denis Leary
Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Born in Massachusetts, he first came to prominence as a stand-up comedian, especially through appearances on MTV (including the comedic song " Asshole") and through the stand-up specials '' No Cure for Cancer'' (1993) and '' Lock 'n Load'' (1997). Leary began taking roles in film and television starting in the 1990s, including substantial roles in the films '' Judgment Night'' (1993), '' Gunmen'' (1994), '' Operation Dumbo Drop'' (1995), and '' Wag the Dog'' (1997). In the 2000s, Leary developed and starred in the television show '' The Job'' (2001–2002) and was the star and co-creator of '' Rescue Me'' (2004–2011), for which he received three Primetime Emmy nominations, one for writing and two for acting. Leary has continued to take starring roles in films, including Captain George Stacy in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' and Cleveland Browns head coach Vince Penn in '' Draft Day''. He has don ...
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Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American Cable television in the United States, cable television channel, channel owned by Paramount Global through its Paramount Media Networks, network division's Paramount Media Networks#MTV Entertainment Group, MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan. The channel carries comedy programming in the form of both original, licensed, and broadcast syndication, syndicated television series, stand-up comedy specials, and feature films. , Comedy Central is available to approximately 68,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 99,000,000 households. History 1989–1991: The Comedy Channel and Ha! On November 15, 1989, Time Life Television, Time-Life, the owners of HBO, launched The Comedy Channel (American TV channel), The Comedy Channel as the first cable channel devoted exclusively to comedy-based programming. On April 1, 1990, Viacom (1952–2006), Viacom (who owned MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon) launched a r ...
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Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich ( ; born February 7, 1969) is an American author. He has written well-known non-fiction books, including '' The Accidental Billionaires'' and '' The Antisocial Network'', which have been turned into the films ''The Social Network'' and '' Dumb Money'', respectively. Some of his books have been written under the pen-name Holden Scott. Early life and education Mezrich was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Molli Newman, a lawyer, and Reuben Mezrich, a chairman of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has two brothers, including Josh Mezrich. He was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991. Career Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, '' Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions''. This book tells the story of a group of ...
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Dumbemployed
Dumbemployed is an English-language blog and blook featuring stories about "the jobs you love to hate". User-submitted entries are limited to 300 characters in length and begin with "At work today" and end with "I'm dumbemployed". A book containing submissions to the site along with charts, graphs, illustrations, and tips was published in June 2011. Dumbemployed stories are divided into five categories: Bosses, Customers, Just Dumb, Overtime, Weird Shift. History Dumbemployed was launched in April 2009 by Phil Edwards and Matt Kraft. Visitors to the site are encouraged to share stories about hilarious and painful . Anonymous submissions are permitted and users can vote and leave comments on stories. In October 2011, a Dumbemployed book was announced by Marianne Strong Literary Agency. The book, entitled "Dumbemployed: Hilariously Dumb and Sadly True Stories about Jobs Like Yours", was published by Running Press on June 28, 2011. A review of the book appeared in the Sunday Book ...
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Seventeen (American Magazine)
''Seventeen'' is an American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City. The publication targets a demographic of 13-to-19-year-old females and is owned by Hearst Magazines. Established in 1944, the magazine originally aimed to inspire teen girls to become model workers and citizens. However, it soon shifted its focus to a more fashion- and romance-oriented approach while still emphasizing the importance of self-confidence in young women. Alongside its primary themes, ''Seventeen'' also reports the latest news about celebrities. ''Seventeen'' history ''Seventeen'' was founded by publisher Walter Annenberg, owner of Triangle Publications, based upon a suggestion by editor Helen Valentine. Working from New York, she provided teenaged girls with working-woman role models and information about their personality development and overall growth. ''Seventeen'' enhanced the role of teenagers as consumers of popular culture. The concept of "teenager" as a distinct demogra ...
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Ann Shoket
Ann Shoket is an American magazine writer and editor. She is the author of ''The Big Life'' and the former editor-in-chief of '' Seventeen'' magazine. Education Shoket received her BA from New York University. Career She is the author of ''The Big Life: Embrace the Mess, Work Your Side Hustle, Find a Monumental Relationship, and Become the Badass Babe You Were Meant to Be''. She was editor-in-chief of '' Seventeen'' from 2007-2014. She began her career as a reporter at Steven Brill's ''The American Lawyer'', then created the webzine ''Tag'', an online community of artists and writers. Shoket was also senior editor with the ''Parade'' family of publications, and executive editor of '' CosmoGIRL!'' magazine. While at CosmoGIRL! she created a "CosmoGIRL! Born to Lead" patch program with The Girl Scouts and she developed a national leadership campaign with The White House Project with the goal of putting a reader in the White House by the year 2024. She has also appeared in severa ...
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Teresa Giudice
Teresa Giudice ( , ; ; born May 18, 1972) is an American television personality best known for being in '' The Real Housewives of New Jersey''. Besides appearing on the show, Giudice wrote multiple ''New York Times'' bestseller cookbooks and was featured on Donald Trump's '' The Celebrity Apprentice 5'' (2012). In December 2015, she was released from prison after serving 11 months of a 15-month sentence for fraud, while her husband and four daughters resided in the Towaco section of Montville, New Jersey. She is known for her extravagant lifestyle and highly publicized financial and legal troubles leading up to her felony conviction and prison sentence. Her ex-husband, born Giuseppe but called Joe, began his 41-month sentence in March 2016. Early life Giudice was born Teresa Gorga in Paterson, New Jersey, to Giacinto and Antonia Campiglia Gorga, Italian immigrants from Sala Consilina, Campania. She and her younger brother Giuseppe "Joe" Gorga were raised in the Roman Cathol ...
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Skinny Bitch
''Skinny Bitch'' is a diet book written by former modelling agent Rory Freedman and former model Kim Barnouin. The book sold better than expected despite not having high initial sales. ''Skinny Bitch'' became a best-seller in the United Kingdom by May 2007 and in the United States by July, more than eighteen months after its initial 2005 press run of 10,000 copies. The book also sold well in Canada. Content The book advocates a purely vegan diet and includes sections on factory farming and animal cruelty. In addition to advocating a vegan diet, the authors also say that one should avoid smoking, alcohol, caffeine, chemical additives (such as aspartame) and refined sugar. Sources are frequently cited throughout the book, a large number of which point to vegan websites. Reaction Reactions to the book have been mixed. ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domest ...
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Michael Jackson (writer)
Michael James Jackson (27 March 1942 – 30 August 2007) was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of many influential books about beer and whisky. He was a regular contributor to a number of broadsheets, particularly ''The Independent'' and ''The Observer''.''The Daily Telegraph'' (London), 1 September 2007, Obituary of Michael Jackson Writer who tirelessly examined and championed beer and later became an equal authority on malt whisky, p29 Jackson's books have sold over three million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages. He is credited with helping to start a renaissance of interest in beer and breweries worldwide in the 1970s, particularly in the United States. He is also widely credited with popularising the idea of beer styles. His influential television series ''The Beer Hunter'' was shown in fifteen countries. He was as well-versed in malt whisky as he was in beer, and his book ''Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion'' (1989) was t ...
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