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Gale print imprints include the reference brands Primary Source Media, Scholarly Resources Inc., Schirmer Reference, St. James Press, The TAFT Group and Twayne Publishers, among others. Five Star Publishing is Gale's fiction imprint, with hundreds of books in print in the Western, Romance, Mystery and Science Fiction & Fantasy genres.
In 1972 it acquired Gregg Press the scholarly reprint company. In 1973 it acquired Twayne Publishers. In 1989 it acquired Sandak, [1] the art slide publisher. In 1990 it acquired Thorndike Press, its main American large print competitor.
In 1980, Thorndike Press came into existence as a republisher of large print books. [9] [10] Thorndike bought the rights for large print versions of books from publishers and then republished them in a larger and more accessible format for people with reading difficulties.
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...
Edward Lee Thorndike (() August 31, 1874 – () August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to his " theory of connectionism " and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psychology .
Lynn Thorndike (24 July 1882, in Lynn, Massachusetts, US – 28 December 1965, New York City) was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the son of a clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike , an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee ...