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from mitch allen:

ROWMAN  & LITTLEFIELD ACQUIRES ALTAMIRA PRESS FROM SAGE PUBLICATIONS

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group of Lanham, Maryland, is pleased to

announce the acquisition of the AltaMira Press division of Sage
Publications, Inc.  for its Rowman & Littlefield Publishers operations,
adding to its list of scholarly imprints in the social sciences and
humanities.

AltaMira Press was  founded in Walnut Creek, California, in 1995 as the
humanities unit of Sage, a Southern California-based social science
publisher. The imprint is named after Altamira Cave in Spain, the site
of
the first discovery of ancient cave art in the 19th century. In its four

years, AltaMira has built a list of almost 150 books for scholars,
advanced
college students, and professionals in anthropology, archaeology, museum

studies, history, religion, ethnic studies, cultural studies and other
fields, as well as publishing scholarly journals and professional
software.

AltaMira, still headed by its founder Mitch Allen,  will continue to
actively seek important scholarly works, reference books, advanced
texts,
journals, and software in its current fields of publication.  In
addition,
the imprint will begin working toward publishing serious non-fiction
trade
works and high-quality focused scholarly monographs in its fields.
Rowman &
Littlefield's distribution center will be accepting orders for AltaMira
books as of September 1999.

Notable among AltaMira's offerings is  the highly-regarded professional
book
list of the American Association for State and Local History,  Curator,
the
leading  museum professional journal, and PastPerfect Museum Software,
the
most popular collections management software for museums.  AltaMira also
has
one of the leading scholarly book lists in cultural anthropology and
archaeology including books by Ashley Montagu, Marvin Harris, Brian
Fagan,
Alfred Kroeber and William Foote Whyte.

 Independently-owned Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, adds
AltaMira to
an extensive list of other scholarly publishing  operations including
Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Scarecrow Press, Lexington Books, Ardsley
House,
Technomics, and Ivan R. Dee.

AltaMira  products can be ordered  at 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Summit,
PA
17214. 1 800 462-6420 phone, 1 800 338-4550 fax. Editorial
correspondence
should continue to addressed to the AltaMira office at 1630 N. Main St,
Suite 367, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Phone 925 938-7243,  fax 925
933-9720,
email explore@altamirapress.com (after September 15),   and web
www.altamirapress.com



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Mitch Allen
Publisher
AltaMira Press
1630 North Main Street, Suite 367
Walnut Creek, California 94596
925 938-7243; 925 933-9720 fax
mitch@altamira.sagepub.com
www.altamirapress.com
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Chris, can you post this on the WS net? Thx, Mitch.

ROWMAN  & LITTLEFIELD ACQUIRES ALTAMIRA PRESS FROM SAGE PUBLICATIONS

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group of Lanham, Maryland, is pleased to
announce the acquisition of the AltaMira Press division of Sage
Publications, Inc.  for its Rowman & Littlefield Publishers operations,
adding to its list of scholarly imprints in the social sciences and
humanities. 

AltaMira Press was  founded in Walnut Creek, California, in 1995 as the
humanities unit of Sage, a Southern California-based social science
publisher. The imprint is named after Altamira Cave in Spain, the site of
the first discovery of ancient cave art in the 19th century. In its four
years, AltaMira has built a list of almost 150 books for scholars, advanced
college students, and professionals in anthropology, archaeology, museum
studies, history, religion, ethnic studies, cultural studies and other
fields, as well as publishing scholarly journals and professional software. 

AltaMira, still headed by its founder Mitch Allen,  will continue to
actively seek important scholarly works, reference books, advanced texts,
journals, and software in its current fields of publication.  In addition,
the imprint will begin working toward publishing serious non-fiction trade
works and high-quality focused scholarly monographs in its fields. Rowman &
Littlefield's distribution center will be accepting orders for AltaMira
books as of September 1999.

Notable among AltaMira's offerings is  the highly-regarded professional book
list of the American Association for State and Local History,  Curator, the
leading  museum professional journal, and PastPerfect Museum Software, the
most popular collections management software for museums.  AltaMira also has
one of the leading scholarly book lists in cultural anthropology and
archaeology including books by Ashley Montagu, Marvin Harris, Brian Fagan,
Alfred Kroeber and William Foote Whyte.

 Independently-owned Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, adds AltaMira to
an extensive list of other scholarly publishing  operations including Rowman
& Littlefield Publishers, Scarecrow Press, Lexington Books, Ardsley House,
Technomics, and Ivan R. Dee.  

AltaMira  products can be ordered  at 15200 NBN Way, Blue Ridge Summit, PA
17214. 1 800 462-6420 phone, 1 800 338-4550 fax. Editorial correspondence
should continue to addressed to the AltaMira office at 1630 N. Main St,
Suite 367, Walnut Creek, CA 94596. Phone 925 938-7243,  fax 925 933-9720,
email explore@altamirapress.com (after September 15),   and web
www.altamirapress.com



************************************************
Mitch Allen
Publisher
AltaMira Press
1630 North Main Street, Suite 367
Walnut Creek, California 94596
925 938-7243; 925 933-9720 fax
mitch@altamira.sagepub.com
www.altamirapress.com
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