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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers scholarly books for the academic market, as well as trade books. The company also owns the book distributing company National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland. History The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the parent company. Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies. The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced political science pedagogy. Imprints Alban (acquired 2014 from the Alban Institute) AltaMira Press (acquired 1999 from SAGE Publications) Amadeus Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard) Applause Theatre & Cinema Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard) Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. Backbeat Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard) Bernan Press (acquired 2008) Bonus Books Cowley Publications (acquired 2007 from the Society of St. John the Evangelist.) General Hall (acquired 2000) Globe Pequot Press (acquired 2014 from Morris Communications) Down East Books (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2013) Falcon Guides Gooseberry Patch (acquired 2015) Lyons Press Muddy Boots (launched 2016) Pineapple Press (acquired 2018) Stackpole Books (acquired 2015) Taylor Trade (acquired by Rowman & Littlefield in 2001) Bridge Works (acquired 2000) Cooper Square Press (founded 1961 by Rowman & Littlefield, acquired 1988 by UPA) Northland Publishing backlist (acquired in 2007) including Rising Moon and Luna Rising imprints Northword Books for Young Readers (acquired 2007) Two-Can Publishing (acquired 2007) The Derrydale Press (acquired 1999) Madison Books (founded 1985 by UPA) M. Evans (acquired 2005) Roberts Rinehart (acquired 2000) TwoDot Books Government Institutes (acquired 2004) Hal Leonard Books (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard) Hamilton Books (founded 2003) Ivan R. Dee (acquired 1998) Jason Aronson (acquired 2003) Lexington Books (acquired 1998) Limelight Editions (acquired 2018 from Hal Leonard) Madison House Publishers (acquired 2000) Newbridge Educational Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross) Prometheus Books (acquired 2019) Rowman & Littlefield Education or R&L Education (formerly Technomic Books, acquired 1999) Rowman & Littlefield (acquired 1988 by UPA) Philip Turner Books (founded 2009) Scarecrow Press (acquired 1995 by UPA from Grolier); founded by Ralph R. Shaw Sheed & Ward (founded in the 1920s in London by Frank Sheed and his wife, Maisie Ward, both prominent in the Catholic Action movement; acquired 2002 from the Priests of the Sacred Heart) SR Books (acquired 2004 from Scholarly Resources, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware) Sundance Publishing (acquired 2008 from Haights Cross) University Press of America (founded 1975) The World Today Series (acquired 2011 from Stryker-Post Publications) Distribution Bucknell University Press Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Lehigh University Press University of Delaware Press Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press C&T Publishing See also List of book distributors References Further reading Slide, Anthony (September 2010). "A publishing phenomenon that begins and ends with Scarecrow Press". Film History. 22 (3). Indiana University Press: 298–308. doi:10.2979/fil.2010.22.3.298. S2CID 192112592. External links Official website. Discover the Lyons Press popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Lyons Press books.
Best Seller Lyons Press Books of 2024
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The Battle of Okinawa
George FeiferA landmark text on the greatest land battle of the Pacific War.
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IronFit Secrets for Half Iron-Distance Triathlon Success
Don Fink & Melanie FinkFrom the world renowned endurance sports coaches and authors of Be IronFit and IronFit Strength Training and Nutrition for Endurance Athletes, a book of timeefficient training prog...
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Be IronFit
Don Fink & Melanie FinkThe third edition of the best Ironman triathlon training book in the market, this updated volume contains timeefficient training methods that have been honed over the years and hav...
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Call Sign Extortion 17
Don BrownA devastating "Black Hawk Down" of the war in Afghanistan, the deadliest day for the U.S. in 12 years of that conflictand a military investigation that covered up evidence of an in...
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The Shetland Bus
David HowarthThe Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to Germanoccupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees all un...
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OSS
Richard Harris Smith“The best book about America’s first modern secret service.”Washington Post Book WorldIn the months before World War II, FDR prepared the country for conflict with Germany and Japa...
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Faraway Horses
Buck BrannamanThe life of the man who inspired the bestselling book and film The Horse Whisperer.
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Tiger in the Sea
Eric LindnerSeptember 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one.Pilo...
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Gaining Ground
Forrest PritchardOne fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his famil...
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Treacherous Beauty
Stephen Case & Mark JacobTreacherous Beauty is the first popular biography of an eighteenthcentury society girl named Peggy Shippenclose friend of a British spymaster and wife of Benedict Arnoldand how she...
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The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Revised
Tom RosenbauerThe flagship title of the Orvis books and the best flyfishing guide ever published! Now thoroughly revised and updated for the first time in ten years, the one and only Orvis prime...
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The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing
Tom RosenbauerTHE ORVIS ULTIMATE BOOK OF FLY FISHING is a grand tour of the world of flyfishing strategies and techniques, from Orvis's worldfamous team of experts and advisors. In large format ...
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Under a Flaming Sky
Daniel BrownOne of North America's most destructive fires, and the amazing true story of how its survivors escaped to change a nation.
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Boy Kings of Texas
Domingo MartinezNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTA lyrical and authentic book that recounts the story of a bordertown family in Brownsville, Texas in the 1980's, as each m...
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Sweet Taste of History
Walter StaibA Sweet Taste of History captures the grandeur of the sweet tablethe grand finale course of an 18th century meal. Rather than serving something simple, hostesses arranged elab...
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The Mental Keys to Hitting
H.A. DorfmanA musthave book by acclaimed author and expert H.A. Dorfman that highlights the crucial mental components involved in hitting a baseball and playing the game, components that are a...
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Flight 93
Tom McMillanUnited Airlines Flight 93, which took off from Newark Airport the morning of September 11th, 2001, is perhaps the most famous flight in modern American history: We k...
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Gangland Boston
Emily SweeneyA guided tour of Boston’s underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were killed, and bodies were unearthedOrganized criminals have played a major role in Great...
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Murder in Connecticut
Michael Benson author of The Devil at Genesee JunctionAn incisive, unflinching account of the shocking, summer 2007 Connecticut crime that is still making national headlines, Murder in Connecticut examines what happened to Dr. Wi...
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U.S. Army Map Reading and Land Navigation Handbook
Department of the ArmyFor a soldier, knowing where you are is a matter of life and death, and so it comes as no surprise that the Army has produced the most complete, clear, and thorough guide to map re...
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The Berkut
Joseph HeywoodA lost classic of the historical thriller genre by beloved mystery writer Joseph Heywood. The Berkut revolves around an elite Soviet teamSpecial Operations Grouptasked in 1945 with...
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Terror in the City of Champions
Tom StantonA New York Times BestsellerDetroit, mid1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gunloving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Blac...
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Jackpot
Jason RyanIn the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurer...
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Running with the Buffaloes
Chris LearTop five Best Books About Running, Runner’s World Magazine Top three Best Books About Running, readers of Runner’s World Magazine (December 2009) In RUNNING WITH THE BUFFALOES...
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Cold Case Chronicles
Silvia PettemCOLD CASE CHRONICLES tells the stories of victims –– some missing, some murdered and some with changed identities. All are true, and each are mysterious in their own ways. The case...
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Long Walk
Slavomir RawiczThe harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.
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Trusting Calvin
Sharon PetersMax Edelman was just 17 when the Nazis took him from his Jewish ghetto in Poland to the first of five work camps, where his only hope of survival was to keep quiet and raise an emo...
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U.S. Military Working Dog Training Handbook
Department of DefenseLearn how to train your dog exactly as the U.S. military trains its canine soldiers. This manual is the Department of Defense’s principle source of information on care, condit...
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The Backyard Gardener
Kelly OrzelA beautiful and simple guide to edible gardeningThe “garden to table” movement is inspiring another generation of gardeners but many of them have questions. How important is compos...
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Father Lincoln
Alan ManningPresident Abraham Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, and an American martyr to the people who read about him. But that was not how his sons knew hi...
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Believe
Buck Brannaman & William ReynoldsPersonal stories about the noted horseman's quest to help and heal.
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Tuff Juice
Caron Butler & Steve SpringerTwotime AllStar and thirteenyear NBA veteran Caron Butler has an impressive basketball record. He was Big East CoPlayer of the Year at UConn, the 10th overall pick of the 2002 NBA ...
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The Mental ABCs of Pitching
H.A. DorfmanAuthor H.A. Dorfman brings his years of expertise as instructor/counselor with the A's, Marlins, and Devil Rays to provide an easytouse, AtoZ handbook which will give insight and i...
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American Pain
John TempleFinalist for the Edgar® Award in Best Fact Crime New York Post, “The Post’s Favorite Books of 2015” Suspense Magazine’s “Best True Crime Books of 2015” Gold Medal Winner for For...
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Be Iron Fit
Don FinkEver dream of being an elite endurance athlete and competing in races like Hawaii's Ironman? Professional athletes are not the only people who have the ability to attain superior a...
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Boy in the Box
David StoutOn February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trashstrewn woods of north Philadelphia. Posters of the “Boy in the Box” soon dott...
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When Your Adult Child Breaks Your Heart
Joel Young & Christine AdamecUrgently needed practical advice for parents of adult children whose mental health disorders, addictions, and/or violent tendencies continue to traumatize their family's lives.
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Wayward Angel
George Wethern & Vincent ColnettAn inside account of the Hell's Angels, told by one of its most notorious leaders.
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Naming Jack the Ripper
Russell EdwardsAfter 125 years of theorizing and speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper, Russell Edwards is in the unique position of owning the first physical evidence relating to...
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The Hidden Hindenburg
Michael McCarthyBy the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead...
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The Cornbread Mafia
James HigdonThe national bestseller about the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history a band of Kentucky farmers descended from Prohibitionera moonshiners. Tracked down by t...
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Running with the Devil
Kerrie DrobanDroban chronicles the inside story of the ATFs infiltration of the Hells Angels, one of the most notorious and violent outlaw motorcycle gangs in history.
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John Muir and the Ice That Started a Fire
Kim HeacoxA dual biography of two of the most compelling elements in the narrative of wild America, John Muir and Alaska.John Muir was a fascinating man who was many things: inventor, scient...
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475 Tax Deductions for Businesses and Self-Employed Individuals
Bernard B. Kamoroff C.P.A.Are you paying more taxes than you have to? The IRS is certainly not going to tell you about a deduction you failed to take, and your accountant is not likely to take the time to a...
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Ashes Under Water
Michael McCarthyThe untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taki...
