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Vanderbilt University Press
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Vanderbilt University Press is a university press that is part of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The Press publishes a variety of scholarly texts, especially in the areas of the humanities and social sciences, health care, and education. The Press also publishes local books and music for the general public. As of 2020, the press publishes around 21 titles annually.
Vanderbilt University Press is currently a member of the Association of University Presses, to which it was admitted in 1993. Domestic distribution for the press is currently provided by the University of North Carolina Press's Longleaf Services.
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Corporate feeling has always been strong among the workers at the Press, and though the Delegates and their officers have done what they could to promote it, it is essentially a natural growth. Many of the work-people come of families which have been connected with the Press for generations; and they are proud not only of the old traditions of fine and honest work, but also of the usefulness and scholarly excellence…
Oxford University Press, Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921
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Besides the interest that the pupils have shown in setting up the type, operating the presses, and getting out the printed matter, the work has proved itself especially valuable in the teaching of English. Type setting is an excellent method of drilling in spelling, punctuation, paragraphing, and grammar, for the fact that the copy is going to be printed furnishes a motive for eliminating mistakes which exercises…
John Dewey, Schools of to-morrow
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Comprising two hundred and fifty titles of standard works, embracing fiction, essays, poetry, history, travel, etc., selected from the world's best literature, written by authors of world-wide reputation. Printed from large type, on good paper, and bound in handsome cloth binding, uniform with this volume, Price, 75 cents per copy. =Adam Bede.= By George Eliot. =Æsop's Fables.= =Alhambra, The.= By Washington Irving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship and travels, vol. 1
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