Editing Addison-Wesley

{{Short description|American publisher}}
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| parent       = [[Pearson Education]]
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| founded      = {{start date and age|1942}}
| founder      = Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings
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| country      = [[United States]]
| headquarters = [[Boston]]
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| publications = [[Textbook]]s
| topics       = Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics
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| url          = {{URL|https://www.savvas.com}} (school),<br/>{{URL|http://www.pearsonhighered.com}} (higher education),<br/>[http://www.informit.com/imprint/index.aspx?st=61085 informit.com] (professional)
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'''Addison–Wesley''' is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an [[Imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[Pearson plc]], a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, Addison–Wesley also distributes its technical titles through the [[O'Reilly Media#Early Days|O'Reilly Online Learning]] e-reference service. Addison–Wesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and [[Europe]] (22%).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?rpc=66&symbol=PSO |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111102202150/http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?rpc=66&symbol=PSO |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2 November 2011 |title=Pearson PLC (PSO) Company Profile |work=Reuters.com|access-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>

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 [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] 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 [[Pearson PLC]] in 1988<ref name="Pearson: History">{{cite web|url=http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=14 |access-date=2013-05-14|archive-date=2006-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711035850/http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=14|url-status=dead|title=History|publisher=Pearson}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Perseus Books Buys Addison-Wesley Unit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/business/perseus-books-buys-addison-wesley-unit.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date= December 22, 1997 |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Pearson acquired the educational division of [[Simon & Schuster]] in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form [[Pearson Education]] 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|Addison–Wesley Secondary Math: An Integrated Approach: Focus on Algebra]]''
* ''[[The Art of Computer Programming]]'' by [[Donald Knuth]]
* ''[[The Feynman Lectures on Physics]]'' by [[Richard Feynman]], [[Robert B. Leighton]], and [[Matthew Sands]]
* {{Cite book|last1=Alonso|first1=M.|last2=Finn|first2=E.J.|title=Fundamental University Physics Volume|publisher=Addison–Wesley|year=1968|isbn=978-0-201-00262-1}}
* ''[[Concrete Mathematics]]: A Foundation For Computer Science'' by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
* ''[[Evolutionary Biology (textbook)|Evolutionary Biology]]'' by Eli C. Minkoff
* ''[[Programming Pearls]]'' by [[Jon Bentley (computer scientist)|Jon Bentley]]
* ''[[Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software]]'' by [[Erich Gamma]], [[Richard Helm]], [[Ralph Johnson (computer scientist)|Ralph Johnson]], and [[John Vlissides]]
* ''[[The C++ Programming Language]]'' by [[Bjarne Stroustrup]]
* ''[[Hacker's Delight]]'' by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
* ''Exploratory Data Analysis'' [[Exploratory data analysis|(see)]] by [[John W. Tukey]], based on a course taught at Princeton.
* ''[[The Mythical Man-Month]]'' by [[Fred Brooks|Fred P. Brooks. Jr.]]
* ''[[Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment]]'' and ''[[TCP/IP Illustrated]]'' by [[W. Richard Stevens]]
* ''[[Iron John: A Book About Men]]'' by [[Robert Bly]]
* ''[[Theory Z]]'' by [[William G. Ouchi]]
* ''[[The Nature of Prejudice]]'' by [[Gordon W. Allport]]

==Former imprints==
*Merloyd Lawrence Books<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/89869-book-publisher-merloyd-ludington-lawrence-dies-at-89.html | title=Book Publisher Merloyd Ludington Lawrence Dies at 89 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ Official site (education)]
* [http://www.informit.com/imprint/index.aspx?st=61085 Official site (professional)]
* [http://www.addison-wesley.de/ Official site (Germany)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109121822/http://www.addison-wesley.de/ |date=2016-01-09 }}

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