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Best Academic Book Publishing Companies

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Yale University Press

Genres: Academic, Photography, Art, Math & Science, Education & Reference, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, Economics, History, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, African-American, Nonfiction, and Law

Location: Hartford, GB

Website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/

Accepts unagented submissions

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University press

💥 Hit titles
Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford

Reimagining Time

Tanya Bub & Jeffrey Bub

Radical Vision

Soyica Diggs Colbert

MIT Press

Genres: Art, Architecture, Math & Science, Academic, Business, Education & Reference, Environmental, Health & Wellbeing, Law, and Nonfiction

Location: Cambridge, US

Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu/

Accepts unagented submissions

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💥 Hit titles
The Alchemy of Us

Ainissa Ramirez

Right/Wrong

Juan Enríquez

Critical Thinking

Jonathan Haber

Springer Nature

Genres: Education & Reference, Academic, Math & Science, Business, Medical, and Nonfiction

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.springernature.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes

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💥 Hit titles
The Circular Economy Handbook

Peter Lacy et al

Cracked it!

Bernard Garrette et al

The Practice of Surgical Pathology

Diana Molavi

Marginalian Editions

Marginalian Editions is a collaboration between Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books and writer Maria Popova, who selects and introduces forgotten masterworks that deserve a second life-uncommon books at the intersection of wonder and our search for meaning.

Genres: Academic, History, Poetry, and Math & Science

Location: New York City, US

Website: https://www.mcnallyeditions.com/marginalian

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Willard Gibbs: The Whole Is Simpler than Its Parts

Muriel Rukeyser

Is Peace Possible?

Kathleen Lonsdale

Alpha and Omega

Jane Ellen Harrison

Inter-Varsity Press

Genres: Christian, Academic, and Nonfiction

Location: Chicago, US

Website: https://ivpbooks.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Cross of Christ

John Stott

Meeting God

J.I. Packer

The Faithful Creator

Ron Highfield

Siglio Press

Genres: Art, Academic, and Nonfiction

Location: New York City, US

Website: http://sigliopress.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
Not Nothing

Ray Johnson

Book of Ruth

Robert Seydel

Sprawl

Danielle Dutton

Wayne State University Press

Genres: Academic, Art, Education & Reference, History, African-American, Biographies & Memoirs, Narrative Nonfiction, Environmental, Math & Science, Health & Wellbeing, Medical, Humor, Sports & Outdoors, True Crime, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Urban Fiction, Diverse Literature, BIPOC, Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Children's

Location: Detroit, US

Website: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/

Diversity: Diverse Literature, BIPOC

Accepts unagented submissions

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University press

💥 Hit titles
Crusader for Justice

Trevor W. Coleman & Peter J. Hammer

Rosie, A Detroit Herstory

Bailey Sisoy Isgro

Leaving Springfield

John Alberti

ACER Press

Genres: Academic, Medical, Health & Wellbeing, and Nonfiction

Part of: Australian Council for Educational Research > ACER Press

Location: Melbourne, AU

Website: https://www.acer.org/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries - View guidelines →

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Leading Professional Learning

Helen Timperley et al

Leading Improvement In Mathematics Teaching And Learning

Peter Sullivan

Strong Foundations

Anna Kilderry & Bridie Raban

Harvard University Press

Genres: Education & Reference, Math & Science, Academic, Art, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, History, Law, Health & Wellbeing, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, Travel, Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry

Location: Cambridge, US

Website: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/

Accepts unagented submissions

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University press

💥 Hit titles
China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

John K. Fairbank

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Carolina Academic Press

Genres: History, Politics, Law, Sports & Outdoors, Academic, and Nonfiction

Location: Raleigh, US

Website: https://cap-press.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

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Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Hidden World

Blaise Daniel Staples et al

The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes

Danny Staples & Carl A. P. Ruck

Essential Latin for Lawyers

Russ VerSteeg

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