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Oneworld Publications is a British

United Kingdom

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independent publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey to publish non-fiction for general and academic markets. Based in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

, it publishes across a wide range of subjects, from history, current affairs, and religion to philosophy, popular science, and psychology. Among the writers on its list are John Hick

John Hick

Professor John Harwood Hick is a philosopher of religion and theologian. In philosophical theology, he has made contributions in the areas of theodicy, eschatology, and Christology, and in the philosophy of religion he has contributed to the areas of epistemology of religion and religious...

, Hans Küng

Hans Küng

Hans Küng is a Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic . Küng is "a Catholic priest in good standing", but the Vatican has rescinded his authority to teach Catholic theology...

, Helen Fisher

Helen Fisher (anthropologist)

Helen E. Fisher is a Canadian-American anthropologist and human behavior researcher. She is professor at Rutgers University. Fisher has studied romantic interpersonal attraction for over 30 years. Prior to becoming a research professor at Rutgers University, she was a research associate at the...

, Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr is a leading expert on Middle East and Islamic world, a best-selling author, influential commentator and Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution, and a columnist for...

, Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales

Kevin Bales is an expert on modern slavery and President of Free the Slaves. Free the Slaves is the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organization. He is currently based in Washington, D.C....

, Guy Claxton, Adam Frank

Adam Frank

Adam Frank is a United States physicist, astronomer and writer. His research focuses on computational astrophysics with an emphasis on star formation and late stages of stellar evolution...

, Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben

William Ernest "Bill" McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College...

, Ilan Pappe

Ilan Pappé

Ilan Pappé is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the UK, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies, and political activist...

, Keith Ward

Keith Ward

Keith Ward is a British cleric, philosopher, theologian and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an ordained priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003...

, Farid Esack

Farid Esack

Farid Esack is a South African Muslim scholar, writer, and political activist known for his opposition to apartheid, his appointment by Nelson Mandela as a gender equity commissioner, and his work for inter-religious dialogue.-Early life:...

, Mark Boyle

Mark Boyle (Moneyless Man)

Mark Boyle aka The Moneyless Man is a writer and activist best known for founding the online Freeconomy Community, and for living without money since November 2008. Boyle writes regularly for the Freeconomy Blog and British newspaper The Guardian. His first book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of...

, Houshang Asadi

Houshang Asadi

Houshang Asadi is an Iranian journalist and writer.-Life:He was a member of the Tudeh Party of Iran. During his time in prison, under duress he confessed to being an agent of the SAVAK, the secret police, domestic security and...

, Amina Wadud

Amina Wadud

Amina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Qur'an exegesis . As an Islamic feminist, she has addressed mixed-sex congregations, giving a sermon in South Africa in 1994, and leading Friday prayers in the United States in 2005...

, John Gribbin

John Gribbin

John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.- Biography :John Gribbin graduated with his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Sussex in 1966. Gribbin then earned his master of science degree in astronomy in 1967, also...

, Lise Eliot, Mary Roach

Mary Roach

Mary Roach is a columnist and popular science writer. Raised in Etna, New Hampshire, she holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Wesleyan University and currently resides in Oakland, California...

, Peter Cave

Peter Cave

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, Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon

Mark Vernon is a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He writes for The Guardian, The Philosophers' Magazine, Financial Times and New Statesman. He has appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. He used to be a Church of England priest...

, Kieron O'Hara

Kieron O'Hara

Dr Kieron O'Hara is a philosopher, computer scientist and political writer. He is currently a senior research fellow within the department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he specialises in the politics, philosophy and epistemology of technology...

, Jean Sasson

Jean Sasson

Jean P. Sasson , is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East and the injustices that they suffer at the hands of a patriarchal society.-Biography:...

, William Poundstone

William Poundstone

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, Daniel Siegel, Susan Blackmore

Susan Blackmore

Susan Jane Blackmore is an English freelance writer, lecturer, and broadcaster on psychology and the paranormal, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine.-Career:...

, Barbara Fredrickson

Barbara Fredrickson

Barbara L. Fredrickson is a professor in the department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology....

, David J. Linden, Yvvette Edwards, Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini is an Italian writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic Antropophagus, she has also appeared in television and theatre...

, Amit Majmudar

Amit Majmudar

-Life:He is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in Nuclear Medicine practicing full-time in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife Ami and his twin sons, Shiv and Savya....

, Mark Mustian, Frank Huyler, and Marlon James.

In 2007, it launched Oneworld Classics in partnership with Alma Books. In the same year, Oneworld Classics acquired the publishing list of British publisher John Calder

John Calder

John Mackenzie Calder is a Canadian and Scottish publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949.-Biography:John Calder was a friend of Samuel Beckett, becoming the main publisher of his prose-texts in Britain after the success of Waiting for Godot on the London stage in 1955-56...

of Calder Publishing

Calder Publishing

Calder Publications is a publisher of books. Since 1949, it has published many books on all the arts, particularly musical subjects like opera and painting, the theatre and critical and philosophical theory...

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In 2009, Oneworld Publications opened its first North American office in SoHo, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. A new fiction list was also launched to publish from five to ten titles a year focusing on brilliantly written novels that introduce the reader to a different culture, a historical period/event, or a social/global issue.

In 2011, Oneworld opened a second office in London, at 10 Fitzroy Square, Bloomsbury.

Publishing around 60 titles a year, Oneworld books are distributed worldwide by Random House (GBS) in the UK and Europe, by National Book Network in the United States, by Penguin in South Africa and South Asia, by Macmillan in Australia, and by a variety of regional distributors in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and the Far East.

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