Addison-Wesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of

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, 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

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(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

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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

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

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in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form

Pearson Education Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eColleg ...

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

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* '' The Feynman Lectures on Physics'' by

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, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands * * '' Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science'' by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik * ''

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'' by Dr. 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 ''The C++ Programming Language'' is a computer programming book first published in October 1985. It was the first book to describe the C++ programming language, written by the language's creator, Bjarne Stroustrup. In the absence of an official ...

'' 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

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* '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' by Robert Bly * '' Theory Z'' by

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* '' The Nature of Prejudice'' by

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Former imprints

*Merloyd Lawrence Books

References

External links

Official site (education)

Official site (professional)

Official site (Germany)
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