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The EPFL Press, formerly ''Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR)'', is a
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and a
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affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in
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. EPFL Press was founded in 1980 and is based on the EPFL campus, in the Rolex Learning Center.http://www.ppur.org (page visited on 11 October 2013).


Publications

The EPFL Press publishes ''Le savoir suisse''. This series was created in 2002 in collaboration with Bertil Galland. Between 2002 and 2012, it edited 88 books and sold 150,000 copies (in French).Nicolas Dufour, "La collection 'Le Savoir suisse' vise d'autres terres", ''
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'', Thursday 1 November 2012. Twenty-eight of these books were translated, mainly into German.


See also

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List of English-language book publishing companies This is a list of English-language book publishers. It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book ...
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List of university presses A university press is an academic publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term ...


References


External links


Official website
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