Friday, October 17, 2014

Aurora Publishers


Aurora Publishers in Nashville had a publishing history that as graphed by OpenLibrary looked like it was shooting the world a bird when its books first started coming out in 1970.





The pinky and ring fingers representing the years 1968 and 1969 were statistical anomalies, since 30 out of 57 books Aurora published in its first year, 1970, were reprints of books that had been published those two preceding years, all put out by publishing houses in London, with MacMillan giving the lion's share at 22, with the rest spread out among six other English houses: Longmans, Green; G. Allen & Unwin; E. Arnold; Harvill; Frewin; and Sphere. An additional ten books were issued for the first time by Aurora in 1970 by authors with established publishing histories at these Anglo houses, and none of the authors ever had a new edition published by Aurora, let alone a new work.

Taken as a whole, this grouping carries with it a level of literary criticism and theory that could leave Virginia Woolf a mite intimidated, but it is startling when juxtaposed to any of the 17 other offerings put out by Aurora in that first year of its Sturm Verlagswesen,

For example, I could draw attention to Minnie Pearl Cooks, by Minnie Pearl, for the simple reason that it is the sole book which Aurora published that I found Aurora had actually reprinted in a subsequent edition, and as such must represent a profitability that exceeded the $1.98 price tag that hung traditionally from her hat during performances.


Minnie Pearl cooks by Minnie Pearl,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published January 1, 1977 by Aurora Publishers,

OpenLibrary is weak in some informational areas (like accurate titles, and complete author names)  but it is a very convenient way for comparing different editions that a book can go through. I may be wrong in many specifics, but by comparing references with the other big book databanks, like Hathitrust, OCLC, and Amazon, I found an unmistakable pattern emerge that in no way represents publishing as a business---and despite the high tone its instantaneously established backlist intended, it is in no way a high calling either.

Oh how Nashville must have been aflutter that first year with the other nine or so Music City U.S.A. offerings of Aurora!

Works like---I'm hard put to call it a 'book'---Nashville, sights and sounds, by James Arnold, with an introduction by Chet Atkins, a vinyl LP with 40 pages of text and illustrations.



In its single Amazon review, left this past August by James E. Arnold, which is the only review Arnold's ever left at Amazon, we may forgive him for his pride:
I wrote this book, so naturally I love it. It was published on December 7, 1970, by Aurora Publishers, Nashville, TN. The four available copies listed here for sale by third parties do not reflect that I am the author as can be confirmed by looking inside the front cover, which is an album Jacket containing a record with an assortment of country music by the Nashville Pickers, not Chet Atkins. Chet wrote an introduction for the book but is otherwise not involved except he helped promote it for some time. The ISBN at the time of publication was 10:0876951019 and the current ISBN-13:9780876951019. You can look it up to see my authorship confirmed. In the past Amazon has reflected that I am the author but for some reason these listings omit that fact. For over 15 years this was a popular coffee table book in Nashville and around the country. Now it is a collectors' item. Enjoy.
I don't mean to come across as a snob---cause I'm not. There is Aurora's 1970, Requiem for a Nun: On Stage and Off, by Barbara Izard and Clara Hieronymus (not that Clara's name appears at OpenLibrary). It may be a treatise on Faulkner, but then again, maybe it's not. Hieronymus was the arts and theater critic at The Tennessean starting in the 1950s, who died last year at age 100, and as such was a grand, nurturing but critical force for several generations of budding Southern thespians, myself included.

And since theater is what this is all about, we can see Aurora more than just "salting the audience." It was established as a publishing house in the same way Jacque Srouji was established as a journalist---with tons of behind-the-scenes support and absolutely zero credibility in reality. Aurora's publisher, Dominic de Lorenzo, was outed as a CIA agent as far back as 1977. On November 21, 1999, Neil Strauss at the New York Times, in Unearthing the New Nashville's Wax Castoffs, confirmed that high-spirited but rather slippery designation for de Lorenzo, claiming for him the CIA operatives' sine qua non---that of faking his own death in 1980.

There must be a cost beyond the grandiose Tavistock muscle on display here. What might arguably be called Aurora's first book is a work of fiction titled, It's time, my love, it's time, by Vasiliy Aksyonov, translated from the Russian by Olive Stevens. OpenLibrary says it carries a publication date of 1969, but HathiTrust lists it as [Nashville, Aurora Publishers [1969, c1970] which seems to reflect a printed date which was overly ambitious. Aurora may have been a slacker at publishing, but Nashville was then and remains one of the largest, if not the largest, center for book printing  in the world, most of it of the Baptist and Methodist variety.




In what is surely not a coincidence, but rather a Russian connection, seemingly simultaneous with the launch of Aurora of Nashville, Aurora Art Publishers of Leningrad began its own enterprise. It is hard to fathom what the inflated figures found at OpenLibrary really represent, other than Aurora Art did produce some books in the late seventies and early eighties, but it was downhill from there on. They may put out some new edition of a whorey art warhorse every other year, but neither do they fold up, which is what happens in the real world.




The last new work I spotted for sale was 'Pozna jesen na oplencu', written in Croatian, and published in 1993 by Aurora Art, then of Beograd.

The fine art publisher Harry N. Abrams of New York collaborated with Aurora on a couple of publications, like The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow : Russian and Soviet painting, put out under  a joint imprint in 1979. I wonder why such a prestigious firm would share an imprint with an upstart, unless they absolutely  had to---for, let's say---geopolitical reasons. When the book was reissued in '86 it was flying solo as "Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, ©1986."

A later paperback edition presently offered on Amazon puts it this way: Publisher: n/a (1989)

An image search turned up these tiny, and/or oblique images as marketing for the no-name Aurora brand,


 


While the renowned Harry N. Abrams is still offering its 1979 volume thusly:



Isn't it perfectly clear from a design perspective? You don't have to like girls to like horses.

If not, the volume below, which came in number four on the image search, may represent the dustjacket-free Cyrillic version of the Tretyakov Gallery volume in one of its trinity of incarnations---or maybe not. But I recognize the superimposed 'MW Books' copyright as the same found on several Aurora of Nashville offerings. What exactly is being copyrighted here? The thumbnail? Something so anonymous sure isn't going to develop brand identification. This is the difference between having a track record and a gun to your head.



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1969

It's time, my love, it's time [by] Vasiliy Aksyonov. Translated from the Russian by Olive Stevens.
Published 1969 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

1970

Swift, edited by A. Norman Jeffares,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Milton, edited by Alan Rudrum,
Published 1967 by Macmillan,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, a casebook, edited by John Davies Jump,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shelley, edited by R. B. Woodings,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

D.H. Lawrence, edited by Colin Clarke,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shakespeare by Muir, Kenneth,
Published 1961 by Longmans, Green in London,
Published 1963 by E. Arnold in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Dickens by A. E. Dyson,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Sean O'Casey by Ronald Ayling,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 1978 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1978 by University of Washington Press in Seattle,

A history of Africa by W. E. F. Ward,
Published 1960 by G. Allen & Unwin in London,
Published 1966 by Allen & Unwin in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 1971 by G. Allen & Unwin in London,

The wit of the Irish by Sean McCann,
Published 1968 by Frewin in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 1970 by Sphere in London,


Swift: modern judgements. by A. Norman Jeffares,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Cover of: Shakespeare: Hamlet by John Davies Jump
Shakespeare: Hamlet by John Davies Jump,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra by Brown, John Russell,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published August 21, 1991 by Macmillan Education,

Yeats: Last poems: a casebook. by Jon Stallworthy,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

D. H. Lawrence: Sons and lovers by Gāmini Salgādo
Published 1966 by Edward Arnold in London,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Badger's Beech by Elleston Trevor,
Published 1948 by Falcon Press in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 1978 by Charter House Publishers in New York,

Dickens Bleak House by A. E. Dyson,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Natural causes by Nicholas Roland,
Published 1969 by Harvill P in London,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

T. S. Eliot: Four quartets by Bergonzi, Bernard,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shakespeare: King Lear: a casebook by Kermode, Frank,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Marvell by Wilding, Michael,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London .
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The wit of the Jews by Lore Cowan,
Published 1970 by Frewin in London,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

John Osborne: Look back in anger by Taylor, John Russell,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The sky-bike by Charles Frend,
Published 1968 by Frewin,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

William Blake: Songs of innocence and experience, by Margaret Bottrall,
Published 1970 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar: a casebook. by Peter Ure,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Pope: The rape of the lock by John Dixon Hunt,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Racine by Knight, R. C.,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Shakespeare: Henry V by Michael Quinn,
Published 1969 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

T. S. Eliot: The waste land by C. B. Cox,
Published 1968 by Macmillan in London,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
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Books First Published by Aurora in 1970

10 books which came from the same British feed trough as the those above:

Shakespeare by Palmer, D. J.,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville .
Several other similar books edited by Englishman D. J. Palmer were published by British houses, such as Shakespeare's later comedies, an anthology of modern criticism, published 1971 by Penguin Books in Harmondsworth.

Pasternak by Davie, Donald,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
A prolific author with all of other books published in England, like The heyday of Sir Walter Scott, 1961, Routledge & Paul.
Shakespeare: Macbeth, a casebook. by Wain, John,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Many other books in a similar vein by John Wain--all published in merry old England.
Sean O'Casey by Ronald Ayling,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

Shakespeare, The merchant of Venice; a casebook, by John Wilders,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Walter Scott by D. D. Devlin,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The wit of women by Lore Cowan,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
The lady Lore's other book The Wit of Jews was published first by Frewin in London in 1970, before Aurora republished it 1971.
The history of assassination by Brian McConnell,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Author has four other books published, all by proper English houses
Over 30; an exercise program for adults by George V. Mann,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Later books by George V. Mann were published by Vantage Pr., and Le Jacq Pub.,
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8 Multipurpose Uncle Sam Books,

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The pen, not the sword by Mary Campbell, A collection of Great Political Cartoons From
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Maybe this was Aurora's inaugural volume, since both Abe Books and Amazon list it as [Publisher: Nashville/London (Aurora Publishers) 1st ed edition (1970) which must represent it in its printed form, adapted when they hadn't yet made up their minds to go trans-Atlantic, bi-coastal, or middlebrow.

The rule of law: an alternative to violence;: A report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, by Milton S. Eisenhower, Chairman, United States Task Force on Law and Law Enforcement)
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

College in crisis, a report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, by William H. Orrick,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The essence of Chinese cuisine by William Thomas Liu,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

A teaspoon of honey by Bert Kruger Smith,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The Vince Lombardi pro football guide '70 by Vince Lombardi,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

What's good for GM .. by Edward Ayres,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Don't get sick in America by Daniel Schorr,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
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9 Volumes of Music City U.S.A. Interest

Aurora's Chef d'oeuvre

 Nashville, sights and sounds, by James Arnold, with an introduction by Chet Atkins.
NYPL [Call # (S) ITX (Nashville) 75-1695]
Published 1970 by Aurora in Nashville,



Vinyl LP and 40-page book

August 18, 2014
Amazon review by James E. Arnold - See all my reviews,

This review is from: nashville, sights & sounds LP (Vinyl)
I wrote this book, so naturally I love it. It was published on December 7, 1970, by Aurora Publishers, Nashville, TN. The four available copies listed here for sale by third parties do not reflect that I am the author as can be confirmed by looking inside the front cover, which is an album Jacket containing a record with an assortment of country music by the Nashville Pickers, not Chet Atkins. Chet wrote an introduction for the book but is otherwise not involved except he helped promote it for some time. The ISBN at the time of publication was 10:0876951019 and the current ISBN-13:9780876951019. You can look it up to see my authorship confirmed. In the past Amazon has reflected that I am the author but for some reason these listings omit that fact. For over 15 years this was a popular coffee table book in Nashville and around the country. Now it is a collectors' item. Enjoy.
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Minnie Pearl cooks by Minnie Pearl,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published January 1, 1977 by Aurora Publishers,

Minnie Pearl Cooks is the sole volume I've located in the Aurora list that actually required reprinting for a second edition.

Hermitage Hospitality from the Hermitage Library: Ginger Helton and Susan Van Riper (edited by)
Hermitage hospitality from the Hermitage library, Edited by Ginger Helton and Susan Van Riper.
Published 1970 by Aurora in Nashville,
Edition Notes "Collection of recipes compiled from several volumes in the Hermitage library. 268 pages, color photos, glossary, index, red faux leather over boards with gilt titles, color illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar cover. Nineteenth century household hints and recipes from the home of Andrew Jackson in Tennessee,

Requiem for a nun: on stage and off, by Barbara Izard and Clara Hieronymus,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Tennessee tales by Walker, Hugh,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Nashville, sights and sounds by James Arnold,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Inside Music City, U.S.A by Teddy Bart,
Published 1970 by Aurora in Nashville,

Mahalia Jackson cooks soul by Mahalia Jackson,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,


Stone Wall College by Horace Woodroof,
Published 1970 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
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1971

The twelfth of August; Biography of "Walking Tall" Sheriff Buford Pusser, by W. R. Morris,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville.
Published 1994 by Cherokee Press (TN),


Come to my tomorrowland, by Stuart, Jesse,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 1995 by Jesse Stuart Foundation in Ashland, Ky,
The story of a young girl crippled by polio who feels a special need to save the life of an albino deer with a broken hip. So sad, yet even it fled north.


Eagle boy by Bethann Beall (Faris) Van Ness,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

The single heart by Robert Drake,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

Tenase brave by Marion Herndon Dunn,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,


In a small town a kid went to shul by Ben Deutschman,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

A search for justice by John Seigenthaler,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn .

Sir Patches and the dragon by Tom Tichenor,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

The meaning of Tarot by David Hoy,
Published 1971 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,
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1972 five editions

Yesterday's children; a photographic essay, by Patricia Worth Simmons,
Published 1972 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

The first West by Ruby Addison Henry,
Published 1972 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn,

Bread upon the waters; a history of United States grain exports, by Harry Fornari,
Published 1973 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

A pregnancy primer by Robert C. Patterson,
Published 1973 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville ,

Look, Hiroshi! by Nathan Zimelman,
Published 1973 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
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1974, six editions

I really like myself by Dorothy Kottler and Eleanor Willis. Illustrated by J. William Myers,
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
I Really Like To Touch My Genitals, by Frank Harris
I wonder where I came from by Dorothy Kottler, and Eleanor Willis,
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Dorothy and Eleanor tag team the youth market in '74, and tell it like it is!

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Wayward and searching by Betty A. Amos,
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

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Tennessee: the dangerous example; Watauga to 1849 by Mary French Caldwell,
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville .
2 other books on Tennessee history by Mary French Caldwell, but both of them were published in 1936!


Long night of waiting, edited by Roger Elwood, (Aurora Science Fiction Series)
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Roger Elwood (January 13, 1943 – February 2, 2007) was an American science fiction writer and editor, perhaps best known for having edited a large number of anthologies and collections for a variety of publishers in the early 1970s, according to Wikipedia (A Norton bibliography


The Moths & Violets of Vito & Me by Steve Mason,
Published 1974 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

A Flavius Josephus scholar lets his hair down Aurora style.
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1975

The burning bush and other stories by Robert Drake,
Published 1975 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Art, the altogether aged aardvark by Joan Mahan,
Published 1975 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,


Adlai: The Springfield Years, by Patricia Harris,
Published 1975 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
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1976- 0

1977-

Moon of the red strawberry by Ann Irwin,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The wizard's daughter by Alicia Marsland,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Make yours yoga by Miriam Ezell Downey,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

A story of peace and other war stories by Harry Fornari,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Swamp angel by Kerry Shaw
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The moi; A novel of the Vietnam war. by Barry Sadler
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers .

David and Max by Peter Simonds,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

River of wind by Mary Blair Immel,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The moonshiners, a novel by Jess Carr,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Meet the stars of country music by Carolyn Rada Hollaran,
Published 1977 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn.
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1978

Chinese cooking for American kitchens by Wenchin Yu Hsiung,
Published 1978 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The good times guide to Nashville by Janell Glasgow,
Published 1978 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

The good times guide to Nashville by Janell Glasgow,
Published 1978 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Everything you want to know about the record industry in Nashville, Tennessee, country music capital of the world by Barry Sadler,
Published 1978 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,

Aunt Matilda's ghost by Mignon F. Ballard,
Published 1978 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville,
Published 2000 by Overmountain Press in [Johnson City, TN],
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U.S. new drugs digest, 1980-86 by Eric J. Lien
Published 1987 by Aurora Publishers in Nashville, Tenn., U.S.A,
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Grapette, the runaway who rolled away by Svetlana Konnikova, and Anatoli Smishliaev
Published 2007 by Aurora Publishers in [Boca Raton, Fla.],
You bring Russians to the party, you go home with Russians....
And a West Coast Kennedy-era prementory:

Solution: the case for continental government, by Charles Hayes Phillips,
Published 1960 by Aurora Publishers in Los Angeles
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Aurora Publishing From Wikipedia,

Aurora Publishing, Inc. is the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing, the leading josei manga publisher in Japan.[1] Headquartered in Torrance, California,[2] it licensed and published Japanese manga for the North American market. Aurora Publishing's first release was Walkin' Butterfly under the shōjo imprint Aurora, which features manga targeting female readers in their teens and younger. Aurora Publishing also released manga under two other imprints: the yaoi imprint Deux Press featured female-oriented manga about homoerotic relations between beautiful men, while the josei imprint Luv Luvfeatured erotic romance manga targeting female readers in their late teens and up.[3][4]

Aurora Publishing distributed some of its manga via Netcomics. As of April 2010, the Aurora office in California had closed.[5]

Former employees of Aurora Publishing founded Manga Factory.[6] _______________________________________________________________________________

Books published by Aurora Publications Found at ISBN Plus,

Memories Not Dreams: An Aviation Adventurers Tales
ISBN: 0473174758, 9780473174750
Author/Editor(s): R. Jules Tapper (1944-)
Publisher: Aurora Publications (Queenstown, N.Z. )
Published/Copyright Year: 2011
LCCN: 2011507634
Number of pages: 202
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New York State Ghosts
ISBN: 0966392558, 9780966392555
Author/Editor(s): David J Pitkin
Publisher: Aurora Publications (Chestertown, NY )
Published/Copyright Year: 2006
Language: English
LCCN: 2006904143

Ghosts Of The Northeast
ISBN: 0966392523, 9780966392524
Author/Editor(s): David J Pitkin (1939-)
Publisher: Aurora Publications (Salem, NY )
Published/Copyright Year: 2002
LCCN: 2003268671
Number of pages: 396

Spiritual Numerology: Caring For Number One
ISBN: 0966392515, 9780966392517
Author/Editor(s): David J Pitkin
Publisher: Aurora Publications (Ballston Spa, N.Y. )
Published/Copyright Year: 2000
LCCN: 99096347
Number of pages: 133
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Critical Mass: Nuclear Power, The Alternative To Energy Famine
ISBN: 0876951884, 9780876951880
Author/Editor(s): Jacque Srouji (1944-)
Publisher: Aurora Publications (Nashville )
Published/Copyright Year: 1977
Language: English
LCCN: 76055841
Number of pages: 409
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John Seigenthaler Publishing History

A search for justice, by John Seigenthaler,
Contributors: James Squires, John Hemphill [and] Frank Ritter,
(James Earl Ray; Clay Shaw; Sirhan Bishara Sirhan)
Book, 416 pages, View all formats and languages »
Publisher: [Nashville: Aurora Publishers, 1971]
Database: WorldCat
View all editions »
New York Public Library System,
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The year of the scandal called Watergate, by John Seigenthaler,
Publisher: Nashville: [publisher not identified], ©1974.
Articles originally published in The Tennessean, 1973.
74 pages
Database: WorldCat
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McGill's simple truths can improve credibility (Ralph McGill lecture) by John Seigenthaler,
[The Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication, The University of Georgia 1985] 22 pages
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The more things change: a speech, by John Seigenthaler,
Publisher: [Arlington, VA: Freedom Forum, 1992]
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Attacks on the press in 1994 : a worldwide survey, Preface by John Seigenthaler, 299 pages,
Book View all formats and languages »
Publisher: New York: Committee to Protect Journalists, ©1995.
Database: WorldCat: View all editions »
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Nashville: City of Note (Urban Tapestry Series) by John M. Seigenthaler (Author), Curtis Allen (Author), Heather Cochran (Author) Hardcover – [ Towery Pub July 1, 1997]
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OCLC,



James K. Polk, by John Seigenthaler
Book : Biography, View all formats and languages »
Publisher: [Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press, 2004]
Publisher: [New York: Times Books, 2004]
Database: WorldCat, View all editions »
Google Preview
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Oral history interview with John Seigenthaler, December 24 and 26, 1974 : interview A-0330, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), by John Seigenthaler; William R Finger; Jim Tramel; Southern Oral History Program.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
eBook : Document : Audio book, etc. : Biography : State or province government publication
Sound Recording
Language: English
Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006.
Database: WorldCat
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Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor, Put Republican Lamar Alexander in Office Early, and Stopped a Pardon Scandal, by Keel Hunt (Author), John L. Seigenthaler (Foreword)
[Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, August 2, 2013]

Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in U.S. history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how collaborators came together from opposite sides of the political aisle and, in an extraordinary few hours, reached agreement that the corruption and madness of the sitting Governor of Tennessee, Ray Blanton, must be stopped. The sudden transfer of power that caught Blanton unawares was deemed necessary because of what one FBI agent called "the state's most heinous political crime in half a century"--a scheme of selling pardons for cash.

On January 17, 1979, driven by new information that some of the worst criminals in the state's penitentiaries were about to be released (and fears that James Earl Ray might be one of them), a small bipartisan group chose to take charge. Senior Democratic leaders, friends of the sitting governor, together with the Republican governor-elect Lamar Alexander (now U.S. Senator from Tennessee), agreed to oust Blanton from office before another night fell. It was a maneuver unique in American political history.

From the foreword by John L. Seigenthaler:
"The individual stories of those government officials involved in the coup--each account unique, but all of them intersecting--were scattered like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle on the table of history until the author conceived this book. Perhaps because it happened so quickly, and without major disagreement, protest, or dissent, this truly historic moment has been buried in the public mind. In unearthing the drama in gripping detail, Keel Hunt assures that the 'dark day' will be remembered as a bright one in which conflicted politicians came together in the public interest."
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Jacque Srouji Publishing History,

OCLC

Critical mass : nuclear power, the alternative to energy famine
by J Srouji;
Book View all formats and languages »
Worldcat list the publisher as [Nashville ; London: Aurora Publishers, 1977]
Database: WorldCat
View all editions »

It's y(our) dollar! "The Nashville experience",
by J Srouji
Article
Language: English
Publication: Times / Tennessee Hospital Association, 1978 Feb; 19(2): 3-4
Database: From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Critical mass: nuclear power, the alternative to energy famine
by J Srouji
Book
Language: English
Publisher: United States 1976 12 31
Database: SciTech Connect

OCLC World Cat,

Critical mass: nuclear power, the alternative to energy famine,
Author: J Srouji,
Publisher: United States 1976 12 31
Edition/Format: Book: English
Database: SciTech Connect
Summary:
Mrs. Srouji, admittedly in the ''anti-nuke'' camp initially, gladly accepted an offer from the Citizens Energy Council in the fall of 1974 to write a magazine article on the dangers of nuclear power; shortly thereafter, the article appeared in Nashville magazine. Most copies, she says, were sold out once they reached the newsstand; ''the anti-nukes were delighted, for their pupil had performed well, and I stood in center stage to receive their applause.'' She soon was the recipient of acclaim from other concerned citizens, as well. Soon, however, the fanaticism of the anti-nukes and their lack of answers for questions tossed in their direction caused Mrs. Srouji to have second thoughts. These second thoughts grew into serious misgivings about the original article; she felt a second article was in order, and the publisher of Nashville magazine agreed. The second article, refuting almost point-by-point all that was contained in the original article appeared on January 1, 1975. A month later, the publisher of Aurora Publishers, Inc., having read both magazine articles, asked Mrs. Srouji to write a book on nuclear power; committed to producing a work as objective as possible, they gave her a free hand and placed no editorial restrictions on the final manuscript. So she went to the sources, dug out the facts, visited the installations, read the documents, asked a newsperson's critical questions, and organized her data. Along the way, she was investigated by the FBI, summoned to testify before a Congressional committee, fired from her job, and otherwise harassed. The book, heavily illustrated and fully documented, is considered by the publishers as ''the definitive authority for the concerned layman who would understand today's urgent need for nuclear power.'' (LMT)

Abe Books Critical Mass,
alibris,

University of Northern Iowa,
Rod Library
Cedar Falls, IA 50613 United States

Southern Illinois University,
Morris Library
Carbondale, IL 62901 United States

Rockford Public Library,
Rockford, IL 61101 United States

Illinois State University,
Milner Library
Normal, IL 61761 United States

HathiTrust Digital Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States

SUNY at Buffalo
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260 United States

Buffalo and Erie County Public Library,
Central (downtown Buffalo)

Buffalo, NY 14203 United States
Critical mass : nuclear power, the alternative to energy famine, by Srouji, Jacque, 1944-,
Published 1977
Call Number: HD9502.U52 S7
Located: Central Library
Total copies: 1, Available copies: 1
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New York State Library
Albany, NY 12230 United StatesNew York State Library Copies Material Location
333.7 S774 79-28957 1 BOOK C-STACKS

Cornell University Library
Ithaca, NY 14853 United States
Location: Library Annex
Call Number: HD9502.U52 S77
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Many books are titled 'Critical Mass' (They should have went with 'Critical Thrash')
"Critical Mass" returns about 13,793 at OCLC,
Critical Mass returns about 276,844 at OCLC,

Critical mass journal, by Critical Mass Energy Project (U.S.);

Critical mass, by Critical Mass Energy Project (U.S.); Public Citizen, Inc.,





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