Workman Publishing Company
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Workman Publishing Company is a publisher of primarily non-fiction print and audio books along with calendars with annual sales of over US$25 million. Located in New York City, New York, USA, the publisher works under several imprints with offices located throughout the United States
. Peter Workman founded the company in 1968 when he published the book Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan. As of July 2007, two-thirds of the books published by the company remained in print.
book, calendar, and television program.
It publishes the pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting
, which has over 13 million copies in print, many of Sandra Boynton
’s children's books, and Brain Quest. Workman has also published many widely regarded cookbooks, including Steven Raichlen
’s The Barbecue Bible
series and Sheila Lukins
and Julee Rosso
’s The Silver Palate Cookbook. In 2008, Workman released Magic: The Complete Course by magician Joshua Jay
.
publishers, with large amounts of illustration and a heavy reliance on sidebar
s to convey information not directly stated in the text itself.
, Kaye Gibbons
, Robert Morgan
, Lee Smith, Tayari Jones
, and Amy Stewart among many others. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing, one of the largest independent publishing companies in the United States. Today, it has offices in New York City and Chapel Hill and is recognized internationally as a literary house with numerous bestsellers, boasting titles such as Water for Elephants
, A Reliable Wife, Love, Loss, and What I Wore
, and Last Child in the Woods
.
, Black Dog & Leventhal specializes in moderately priced cooking, history, and other non-fiction books. In 2006, the company launched a new program to re-publish low-priced hardcover editions of Agatha Christie
mysteries.
Popular titles include Country Wisdom & Know-How, The Elements, and Knit Your Own Dog. Black Dog & Leventhal's authors include Theodore Gray
, Jane Carole, and Josh Leventhal.
. The company specializes in do-it-yourself books on gardening, crafts, nature, backyard building and other outdoor topics as varied as building your own log cabin and tanning leather yourself. Storey also publishes nature, horse and craft books aimed at young readers under the Storey Kids imprint. Popular titles include Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, and The Vegetable Gardener's Bible. Storey's authors include Judith Durant, Edward C. Smith
, and Gail Damerow amongst others.
. Timber focuses on more advanced gardening topics targeted at horticulturists, botanists, naturalists, and landscape professionals. Popular titles include The Edible Front Yard, What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?), and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Timber's authors include David Deardorff, Ken Druse, Michael Dirr
and Scott Ogden to name a few.
, Thomas Keller
, Alice Medrich
, Lucinda Scala Quinn
, Frank Stitt, and David Tanis.
to produce and distribute recordings of Garrison Keillor’s
A Prairie Home Companion
. Since then, HighBridge focuses approximately 45 titles a year in the forms of spoken word audio cassettes, CDs and downloadable audio books. The company is best known for publishing public-radio related titles, as well as Oprah’s Book Club titles. HighBridge makes use of two readers in its audio book production for works primarily involving two main characters. Popular titles include The Time Traveler's Wife
, Water for Elephants
, Life of Pi
, and Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One.
restaurant guide series and The Wine Trials, a guide to inexpensive wines.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Peter Workman founded the company in 1968 when he published the book Yoga 28-Day Exercise Plan. As of July 2007, two-thirds of the books published by the company remained in print.
Notable publications
Workman is best known for its Page-A-Day Calendar series covering a variety of topics and the 1,000 Places to See Before You Die1,000 Places to See Before You Die
1,000 Places to See Before You Die is a 2003 travel book by Patricia Schultz.Among the "1,000 places" in the book are historic ones such as Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Western Samoa and the trail of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the United States, cultural ones such as the Oregon...
book, calendar, and television program.
It publishes the pregnancy guide, What to Expect When You’re Expecting
What to Expect When You're Expecting
What to Expect When You're Expecting is a pregnancy guide, now in its fourth edition, written by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel and published by Workman Publishing...
, which has over 13 million copies in print, many of Sandra Boynton
Sandra Boynton
Sandra Keith Boynton is an American humorist, songwriter, children's author and illustrator. Boynton has written and illustrated more than forty books for both children and adults, as well as over four thousand greeting cards, and four music albums...
’s children's books, and Brain Quest. Workman has also published many widely regarded cookbooks, including Steven Raichlen
Steven Raichlen
Steven Raichlen is an American chef, writer, author, and TV host.-Early life:Born March 11 in Japan and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Raichlen graduated in 1975 from Reed College with a Bachelor of Arts in French literature. He received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship to study medieval...
’s The Barbecue Bible
The Barbecue Bible
The Barbecue Bible by Steven Raichlen , is the flagship title in a series of cookbooks written on grilling, barbecue, and other forms of outdoor cooking...
series and Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins
Sheila Lukins , was an American cook and food writer. She was most famous as the co-author, with Julee Rosso, of the The Silver Palate series of cookbooks, and The New Basics Cookbook, a very popular set of food guides which introduced many Americans to French, Southern and Eastern European cooking...
and Julee Rosso
Julee Rosso
Julee Rosso is an American cook and food writer. In 1977 she and Sheila Lukins opened and ran a gourmet food shop in New York City called The Silver Palate. In the 1980s they wrote, with Michael McLaughlin, The Silver Palate Cookbook, The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook, and others...
’s The Silver Palate Cookbook. In 2008, Workman released Magic: The Complete Course by magician Joshua Jay
Joshua Jay
Joshua Jay is an award-winning magician, author, and lecturer who has performed his show in over 59 countries. In 1998 he was crowned World Champion of Close-up Magic at the World Magic Seminar, and he has subsequently appeared on every major television network, including Good Morning America and...
.
Design language
Workman’s flagship imprint is known for a very information-dense layout inspired by magazineMagazine
Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...
publishers, with large amounts of illustration and a heavy reliance on sidebar
Sidebar
Sidebar may refer to:* Sidebar * Sidebar * Sidebar , a type of graphical user interface element** Windows Sidebar, in Windows Vista...
s to convey information not directly stated in the text itself.
Algonquin Books
Algonquin Books was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1983 with a goal to publish quality fiction and nonfiction by unpublished young writers. Although it started as a small Southern house, it garnered national attention for many now-renowned authors, including Julia AlvarezJulia Álvarez
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
, Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons
Kaye Gibbons is an American novelist. Her 1987 debut, Ellen Foster, received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Special Citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the The Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing from...
, Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan
Robert Knight Morgan was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle during World War II.-Biography:...
, Lee Smith, Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones is an African American author and winner of the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction...
, and Amy Stewart among many others. In 1989, Algonquin was acquired by Workman Publishing, one of the largest independent publishing companies in the United States. Today, it has offices in New York City and Chapel Hill and is recognized internationally as a literary house with numerous bestsellers, boasting titles such as Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. Gruen originally wrote the novel as part of National Novel Writing Month.- Plot :...
, A Reliable Wife, Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
Love, Loss, and What I Wore is a play written by Nora and Delia Ephron based on the 1995 book of the same name by Ilene Beckerman. It is organized as a series of monologues and uses a rotating cast of five principal women...
, and Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder is a 2005 book by author Richard Louv that documents decreased exposure of children to nature in American society and how this "nature-deficit disorder" harms children and society...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Located in New York CityNew York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Black Dog & Leventhal specializes in moderately priced cooking, history, and other non-fiction books. In 2006, the company launched a new program to re-publish low-priced hardcover editions of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...
mysteries.
Popular titles include Country Wisdom & Know-How, The Elements, and Knit Your Own Dog. Black Dog & Leventhal's authors include Theodore Gray
Theodore Gray
Theodore W. Gray is one of the founders of Wolfram Research and is currently Wolfram's Director of User Interface Technology.He is a prominent element collector and created a wooden periodic table with compartments for samples of each of the elements...
, Jane Carole, and Josh Leventhal.
Storey Publishing
Storey Publishing was founded in 1983 in North Adams, MassachusettsNorth Adams, Massachusetts
North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,708 as of the 2010 census, making it the least populous city in the state...
. The company specializes in do-it-yourself books on gardening, crafts, nature, backyard building and other outdoor topics as varied as building your own log cabin and tanning leather yourself. Storey also publishes nature, horse and craft books aimed at young readers under the Storey Kids imprint. Popular titles include Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables, and The Vegetable Gardener's Bible. Storey's authors include Judith Durant, Edward C. Smith
Edward C. Smith
Edward C. Smith may refer to:*Edward Curtis Smith, Governor of Vermont*Edward Clarke Smith, mayor of Manchester, New HampshireSee also:*Ed Smith *Edward Smith...
, and Gail Damerow amongst others.
Timber Press
Timber Press was founded in 1978 in Portland, OregonPortland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
. Timber focuses on more advanced gardening topics targeted at horticulturists, botanists, naturalists, and landscape professionals. Popular titles include The Edible Front Yard, What's Wrong With My Plant? (And How Do I Fix It?), and The Well-Tended Perennial Garden. Timber's authors include David Deardorff, Ken Druse, Michael Dirr
Michael Dirr
Michael A. Dirr, Ph.D is a horticulturist and a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on woody plants.-Education and Experience:...
and Scott Ogden to name a few.
Artisan Books
Artisan, founded in 1994 and based in New York City, publishes high quality illustrated books. Specializing in cooking, design, and popular culture topics, the house has received national attention for books such as Ad Hoc at Home, Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy, Design Sponge at Home, and Medal of Honor. Artisan’s cookbooks are frequently awarded IACP and James Beard Foundation Awards. Artisan authors include Grace Bonney, Jeni Britton Bauer, Alain DucasseAlain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse is a Monégasque chef. He formerly held French nationality. He operates a number of restaurants including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester which holds three stars in the Michelin Guide....
, Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, notably the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997...
, Alice Medrich
Alice Medrich
Alice Medrich is a businesswoman, baker and cookbook author with a particular interest in chocolate. She founded the Cocolat chain of chocolate stores, has authored numerous cookbooks, and is referred to as the First Lady of Chocolate.-California Truffles:...
, Lucinda Scala Quinn
Lucinda Scala Quinn
' is the author of three cookbooks: "Lucinda's Authentic Jamaican Kitchen", "Lucinda's Rustic Italian Kitchen", and her latest effort "Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys: Recipes, Strategies, and Survival Techniques." She is a cook on the PBS program Everyday Food.Scala Quinn has three sons - Calder...
, Frank Stitt, and David Tanis.
HighBridge Audio
HighBridge Audio was initially founded by Minnesota Public RadioMinnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio , is the flagship National Public Radio member network for the state of Minnesota. With its three services, News & Information, Classical Music and The Current, MPR operates a 42-station regional radio network in the upper Midwest serving over 8 million people...
to produce and distribute recordings of Garrison Keillor’s
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, and radio...
A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion
A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor. The show runs on Saturdays from 5 to 7 p.m. Central Time, and usually originates from the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, although it is frequently taken on the road...
. Since then, HighBridge focuses approximately 45 titles a year in the forms of spoken word audio cassettes, CDs and downloadable audio books. The company is best known for publishing public-radio related titles, as well as Oprah’s Book Club titles. HighBridge makes use of two readers in its audio book production for works primarily involving two main characters. Popular titles include The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
Once their timelines converge "naturally" at the library—their first meeting in his chronology—Henry starts to travel to Clare's childhood and adolescence in South Haven, Michigan, beginning in 1977 when she is six years old...
, Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. Gruen originally wrote the novel as part of National Novel Writing Month.- Plot :...
, Life of Pi
Life of Pi
Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age...
, and Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori, Book One.
Fearless Critic Media
Fearless Critic Media, founded in 2003 and part of Workman as of 2008, publishes food and wine books, including the Fearless CriticFearless Critic
Fearless Critic is a series of restaurant guides to US cities. The series was founded in 2003 and currently has eight restaurant guides—most notably Austin, Texas, Houston, Texas, Dallas, Texas, San Antonio, Texas, Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Washington, D.C., and New Haven,...
restaurant guide series and The Wine Trials, a guide to inexpensive wines.
External links
- Workman Publishing
- Algonquin Books
- Black Dog & Leventhal
- Storey Publishing
- Timber Press
- Artisan Books
- HighBridge Audio
- Fearless Critic Media
- Page-A-Day Calendars
- Brain Quest
- Inventory of the Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Records at the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
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