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Harold Shaw Publishers	Harold Shaw Publishers was founded as a Christian publishing house in Wheaton, Illinois. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Shaw Books is now part of the WaterBrook Multnomah group within Random House. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Harper & Brothers	The firm of Harper & Brothers was founded in New York City in 1817 by James and John Harper. It was originally called J. and J. Harper. In 1962 Harper & Brothers merged with the Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com.	2009
Harper & Row	Harper & Row was founded in 1962 by the merger of the firms of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Co. Both the predecessor firms have their own entry in FOB. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com.	2006
Harrap	The firm of Harrap was founded by George Harrap in 1901. In 1992 the firm was acquired by W. & R. Chambers (then owned by Group de la Cité), and the firm became known as Chambers Harrap. Chambers Harrap is now a Hachette Livre UK company. See www.chambersharrap.co.uk.	2007
Harvill Press	Harvill Press was founded in 1946 by Manya Harari and Marjorie Villiers. The firm was purchased in 1955 by William Collins, but became independent again in 1995 through a management buyout. In 2002 Harvill Press was purchased by the Random House Group. Random House is a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann AG. See www.bertelsmann.com, www.randomhouse.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008
Harwood Academic Publishers	The firm of Harwood Academic Publishers was purchased in 1978 by Gordon & Breach. Gordon & Breach was in turn purchased in 2001 by the Taylor & Francis Group. See the FOB entry for Gordon & Breach and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Haworth Press	The Haworth Press, Inc. was officially incorporated in 1978 by Bill Cohen and Patrick McLoughlin. Haworth Press was acquired by Taylor & Francis at the end of 2007. See www.haworthpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Hawthorn Books, Inc.	The publishing firm of Hawthorn Books, Inc. was founded by Kenneth S. Giniger in 1952 as a subsidiary of Prentice-Hall. In 1967 the firm was sold to the Clement Stone interests, and in 1977 it was sold on to W. H. Allen. The firm was closed in 1977, but its publishing assets were bought by E. P. Dutton. The imprint Hawthorn/Dutton was then used for a few years. See John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), pp. 318-319, and see the FOB entry for E. P. Dutton, which indicates that the firm is now part of the US Penguin group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Hayden-McNeil Publishing	Hayden-McNeil Publishing was founded by Patrick Olson in Plymouth, Michigan in 1992. In 2008 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Headline	Headline was founded by Tim Hely-Hutchinson and others in 1986. In 1993 the firm merged with Hodder & Stoughton to form Hodder Headline. Hodder Headline was purchased by Hachette from W. H. Smith in 2004. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2006

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