McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent

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based in

Jefferson, North Carolina Jefferson is a town in and the county seat of Ashe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,611 at the 2010 census. History The North Carolina General Assembly created a special commission in 1799 to found a county seat for As ...

, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction. Its president is Rhonda Herman. Its former president and current

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is Robert Franklin, who founded the company in 1979. McFarland employs a staff of about 50, and had published 7,800 titles. McFarland's initial print runs average 600 copies per book.

Subject matter

McFarland & Company focuses mainly on selling to

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. It also utilizes direct mailing to connect with enthusiasts in niche categories. The company is known for its

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literature, especially

baseball history The question of the origins of baseball has been the subject of debate and controversy for more than a century. Baseball and the other modern bat, ball, and running games — stoolball, cricket and rounders — were developed from folk games i ...

, as well as books about chess, military history, and film. In 2007, the ''

Mountain Times The ''Mountain Times'' is a weekly newspaper that serves Boone and other high-country communities in Ashe and Avery counties in western North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1978, it serves a special niche in the region, covering communi ...

'' wrote that McFarland publishes about 275 scholarly

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s and reference book titles a year; Robert Lee Brewer reported in 2015 that the number is about 350.

List of scholarly journals

The following

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are published by McFarland & Company: * ''Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game'' – focuses on "baseball's early history, from its protoball roots to 1920" * ''Black Ball: A Journal of the Negro Leagues'' – focuses on "all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, and pre–Negro league play" * ''Clues: A Journal of Detection'' – focuses on "all aspects of mystery and detective material in print, television and movies" * ''

Journal of Information Ethics The ''Journal of Information Ethics'' is an academic journal of philosophy. The editor-in-chief is Robert Hauptmann. It has been published biannually since 1992 by McFarland & Company and the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The publisher descri ...

'' – focuses on

information ethics Information ethics has been defined as "the branch of ethics that focuses on the relationship between the creation, organization, dissemination, and use of information, and the ethical standards and moral codes governing human conduct in society". I ...

and

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* ''Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies'' – focuses on "global territorial and maritime issues" * ''

North Korean Review ''North Korean Review'' is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute for North Korean Studies (INKS), at the University of Detroit Mercy in the United States. The journal was established in 2005 by INKS and McFarland & ...

'' – focuses on an understanding of

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

's "complexities and the threat it presents to global stability"

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:McFarland And Company Book publishing companies based in North Carolina Companies based in North Carolina Publishing companies established in 1979 Publishing companies of the United States