Lynne Rienner Publishers is an independent scholarly and textbook publishing firm based in
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city in Boulder County, Colorado, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 108,250 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the most ...
. It was founded in 1984 and remains one of the few independent publishers in the United States.
It publishes primarily in the fields of
international studies
International relations (IR, and also referred to as international studies, international politics, or international affairs) is an academic discipline. In a broader sense, the study of IR, in addition to multilateral relations, concerns al ...
and
comparative world politics, but also covers U.S. politics, sociology, Black politics, criminology, and the translation of relevant works into English. Its translated publications include books by
Tawfiq al-Hakim,
Ghassan Kanafani
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani (; 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a prominent Palestinian literature, Palestinian author and Palestinian militant, militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Pa ...
,
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through wo ...
,
Derek Walcott, among others.
The company's publishing program includes the FirstForumPress, a specialized scholarly research forum that focuses on important work that might be overlooked due to market constraints, and the
Kumarian Press, which focuses on poverty, underdevelopment, war,
human rights
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abuses, and nonprofit management.
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External links
Official website
Book publishing companies based in Colorado
Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
Publishing companies established in 1984
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