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Encyclopedia > Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service. This article is about imprints in publishing. ... Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. ... Map highlighting Upper Saddle Rivers location within Bergen County. ... Safari Books Online LLC is an electronic book service founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA. Safari is a joint venture between OReilly Media and the Pearson Technology Group, a division of Pearson PLC. Safaris main product...

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History

In 1913, law professor Dr. Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger founded Prentice Hall. Gerstenberg and Ettinger took their mothers' maiden names—Prentice and Hall—to name their new company.[1]


Notable Titles

Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller and Joe Levine Ken Miller Kenneth R. Miller (born 1948) is a biology professor at Brown University. ...


See also

Pearson plc LSE: PSON;NYSE: PSO is a London-based media conglomerate. ...

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Prentice Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (268 words)
Prentice Hall is part of a publishing institution that dates back to 1725 when Thomas Longman published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin.
In 1997, Simon and Schuster formed the K–12 Publishing Division, comprising Silver Burdett Ginn (SBG), Prentice Hall School, and Globe Fearon.
In 2002, Pearson Prentice Hall marked expansion into Career and Technology Education with the purchase of Interstate Publishers, leaders in agriculture education, and the acquisition of DDC Publishing, a provider of software training titles to the high school and post-secondary markets.
Reviewing 'Prentice Hall World History: Connections to Today' (1997; Prentice Hall) (2640 words)
Prentice Hall World History: Connections to Today, intended as a comprehensive history of the world, has thirty-seven chapters grouped into eight units.
Less commendable is the way in which the Prentice Hall writers uncritically accept certain religious claims and casually slide over the relations and differences between religions.
Yet it also harbors serious errors, and many passages show that the Prentice Hall writers and editors have created their text without consulting primary sources, without honoring the methods of legitimate historiography, and without taking account of recent scholarship.
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