MCGRAW-HILL BUYS EDUCATION TEXTBOOK PUBLISHER; SWEET'S STARTS NEW ANNUAL.McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), has signed a letter of agreement to acquire Mayfield Publishing Co. (Mountain View, CA), a publisher of college textbooks in the social and behavioral sciences behavioral sciences, n.pl those sciences devoted to the study of human and animal behavior. and the humanities. No terms were given. Mayfield was represented by Berkery, Noyes & Co. (New York). The deal is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2001. Mayfield will have published 85 titles by the end of 2000 and expects to publish 92 new and revised titles in 2001. McGraw-Hill Education president Robert Evanson said the acquired company "fits exceptionally well with our higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. business and enhances our overall market position, especially on the growing area of anthropology, sociology, health and physical education and humanities." McGraw-Hill chairman/ceo Harold McGraw III Harold "Terry" McGraw III is president and chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of American companies. said the acquisition "is consistent with our strategy to build size and scale in our education business so that we can take advantage of substantial opportunities in the global education market." In related news, Sweet's (New York), a division of McGraw-Hill's Construction Information Group, will publish a new annual catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. listing building products and services specifically designed for facility managers involved in modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, , expansion and new construction. To be distributed by the end of the year, it will go to 25,000 facility managers that maintain in-house planning and design departments. |
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