Bedford/St. Martin's is an American

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specializing in

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

college

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s. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the

Macmillan Publishers Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the United Kingdom and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the United States) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be on ...

, which is in turn owned by the

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-based

Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Holtzbrinck Publishing Group () is a privately held German company headquartered in Stuttgart, that owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers, it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies. In 2015, it ...

. Its offices are in

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and

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History

The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of

St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan in New York City. It is headquartered in the Equitable Building (New York City), Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishe ...

. Among others works, Bedford/St. Martin's has published ''

The Bedford Handbook ''The Bedford Handbook'' is a guide written by Diana Hacker, now in its twelfth edition, that provides basic explanations of proper English grammar, composition, citation, and textual analysis. The guide includes a number of sample texts (includ ...

'' and ''A Writer's Reference'' by Diana Hacker, ''Patterns for College Writing'', ''

The Bedford Reader ''The Bedford Reader'' is a college composition textbook published by the Bedford/St. Martin's publishing company. It is edited by X. J. Kennedy,Coursera Coursera Inc. () is an American global massive open online course provider. It was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offe ...

to offer instructional materials.

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