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• $3.6 Billion Acquisition To Create World's Leading Education Business

  - 1998-05-18

  LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE--May 18, 1998---- Proposed acquisition of Simon & Schuster education divisions from Viacom for a net price of $3.6bn - after selling Reference and Business & Professional divisions to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated for $1bn-- Combination of Simon ...

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• Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting: Proceedings of the Workshop on Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting.(book review)(Review) (book review)

  - 1994-12-01

  M. CASDAGLI and S. EUBANK, eds. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992. xxiii + 533 pp. $49.50 hardcover; $34.50 paper. This book is the proceedings of papers presented at a workshop in Santa Fe in September 1990. The emphasis of the conference was the construction of...

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• How to create an academic edition. ( Addison-Wesley's education software division specializes in academic versions of popular software)

  - 1991-05-08

  "The higher education market is so fragmented that it's in a state of anarchy," says David O'Connor, general manager of Addison-Wesley's educational software division. Yet academic software users--mostly students--are beginning to look like serious software buyers. Last year, says O'Connor, Addison-Wesley sold 500,000 copies of...

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