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Golden Books produced popular works by Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry, and Mercer Mayer. Jim Henson's Muppets and Sesame Street characters have been featured in Golden Books since the 1970s. Other popular stories to which Golden Books secured printing rights are Winnie-the-Pooh, Tarzan, and Star Wars. In the 1990s, Golden Books bought ...

It may be divided into three periods: from earliest times to the final editing of the Talmud (sixth or seventh centuries); from geonic times to the end of the 15th century and the first printed Hebrew books; and from then to the present day. Source for information on …

IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., publishes best-selling, high-quality computer, business, and general reference books that bring skill-building instruction to readers of all levels around the world. After filing registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May, IDG Books had its initial public offering (IPO) in July 1998.

Indigo Books & Music Inc. is the largest retailer of books in Canada. The company ’ s stores, operating under the names Indigo Books, Music & More, The World ’ s Biggest Bookstore, and Coles, are located throughout Canada. Indigo operates 88 superstores and 179 mall stores.

Orbis Books is the publishing arm of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, popularly known as the maryknoll fathers and brothers. Established in 1970, Orbis continues a tradition of book publishing initiated with the founding of the Society in 1911 by James A. walsh (1867 – 1936) and Thomas F. price (1860 – 1911).

One of the most popular genres in early modern science publishing, the collections of recipes known as "books of secrets" began to stream from the presses in the mid-sixteenth century and were printed continuously down to the eighteenth century.

People of lower social status read conduct books of the upper class precisely with the aim of learning aristocratic behavior and, ultimately, attaining elite status. Subtypes of conduct literature include the Mirrors for Princes, the estates poem, and the courtesy book.

The chapters which appear assuredly to be drawn from a Noah book are i Enoch 6–11, 60, 65–69, 106–7. Material closely associated with i Enoch 6–11 and 106–7 appears in 1Q19, the so-called "Book of Noah" from Qumran.

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