First published by Knopf Canada and Picador in December 1999, shortly after the 1999 WTO Ministerial Conference protests in Seattle had generated media attention around such issues, it became one of the most influential books about the alter-globalization movement and an international bestseller.

Immediately following his election, Urban began preaching intemperately to the cardinals ( some of whom < ref > Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14 < sup > th </ sup > Century, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1978, pp 330 – 331 </ ref > thought the delirium of power had made Urban mad and unfit for rule ), insisting that the business of the Curia should be carried on without gratuities and gifts, forbidding the cardinals to accept annuities from rulers and other lay persons, condemning the luxury of their lives and retinues, and the multiplication of benefices and bishoprics in their hands.

When Knopf's son, Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., left the company in 1959 to found Atheneum Publishers, Alfred and Blanche became concerned about the eventual fate of their publishing house, which had always been a family business.

" And though twelve Knopf authors had won Nobel Prizes, Knopf acknowledged that " some Nobel Prize books aren't very good ," calling Doctor Zhivago, for example, " incredibly tedious ...

According to former OSS officer William Langer ( Our Vichy Gamble, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 1947 ), there were French industrial and banking interests who " even before the war, had turned to Nazi Germany and had looked to Hitler as the savior of Europe from Communism.

The English publication rights to the book are owned by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc and although the publishers had been made aware of the problems with the English text, they long insisted that there was really no need for a new translation, even though Simone de Beauvoir herself explicitly requested one in a 1985 interview: " I would like very much for another translation of The Second Sex to be done, one that is much more faithful ; more complete and more faithful.

After ceasing publication of new titles in the 1970s, the hardback rights to Everyman's Library were sold to the newly formed David Campbell Publishers in 1991 and relaunched with the support of the Random House Group in the United Kingdom and through Alfred A. Knopf ( which had been acquired by Random House in 1960 ) in the United States — a move which was praised by many notable authors.

In 2008, it was reported that publisher Alfred A. Knopf had scheduled The Cut Man for release in September, but the novel was not published at that time.

They were first combined into one volume under the collective title Parade's End ( which had been suggested by Ford, though he didn't live to see an omnibus version ) in the Knopf edition of 1950, which has been the basis of several subsequent reissues.

In his book Wedge-The Secret War between the FBI and CIA ( Knopf, 1994 ), Mark Riebling stated that of 194 predictions made in New Lies For Old, 139 had been fulfilled by 1993, 9 seemed ' clearly wrong ', and the other 46 were ' not soon falsifiable '.

Again, Schiffrin protested, noting that in the eight years since Random House had come under the direction of Vitale, " Random House's ' high end '— the literary translations and books of criticism, cultural history and political analysis that had built the reputation of the Knopf and Pantheon imprints — were being sacrificed " and that concerns for the " bottom line " would outweigh intellectual and social concerns.

Roth had an unerring sense of literary merit, but since he had no money or status, and because of the International Protest, he was ignored by established writers, and outbid by wealthier, better connected Jewish publishers ( Alfred A. Knopf, Thomas Seltzer, Bennett Cerf, Horace Liveright ).

The new owners then took a periodical which had once been published by Alfred A. Knopf and had once featured the work of W. E. B.

Wheeling Motel ( Knopf, 2009 ), had selections put to music for the record " Readings from Wheeling Motel ".

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. had planned to publish The Well of Loneliness in the United States at the same time as Cape in the United Kingdom.

But after Cape moved up the publication date, Knopf found itself in the position of publishing a book that had already been withdrawn in its home country.

First published as a paperback by Knopf Canada in the spring of 1993, it garnered little attention outside Canada until 2004, after Martel's award-winning Life of Pi gained worldwide popularity and people became interested in the author's work.

Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island ( New York: Knopf ).

Celebrated traditional Southern chef and author Edna Lewis wrote a series of books between 1972 and 2003, including A Taste of Country Cooking ( Alfred A. Knopf, 1976 ) where she weaves stories of her childhood in Freetown, Virginia into her recipes for " real Southern food ".

In 1949, Knopf published his The State of Europe, a 408-page country-by-country survey of Europe that drew on these experiences and that argued " both the American and the Russian policies are mistaken "; he advocated more " social reform " for Western Europe and more " political liberty " for Eastern Europe.

Originally the camp was named after the hill Ettersberg but it was later renamed to Buchenwald ( German for beech forest ).< ref > As Vladimir Nabokov in Pnin ( New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004 ) puts it, " in the beautifully wooded Grosser Ettersburg, as the region is resoundingly called.

Arguing that the trend towards centralization of Canadian publishing in Toronto has led to a monopolistic control of the Giller Prize by Bertelsmann and its authors, Henighan wrote, " Year after year the vast majority of the books shortlisted for the Giller came from the triumvirate of publishers owned by the Bertelsmann Group: Knopf Canada, Doubleday Canada and Random House Canada.

* Leo Deuel-Testaments Of Time: The Search for Lost Manuscripts and Records ( New York: Knopf, 1965 ).

On its release, the literary establishment widely condemned the novel as overly violent and misogynistic ; though many petitions to ban the book saw Ellis dropped by Simon & Schuster, the resounding controversy made it a paperback bestseller for Alfred A. Knopf later that year.

Due to increasing differences with the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., he served in that role for only a brief time, but Mencken wrote that Hazlitt was the " only competent critic of the arts that I have heard of who was at the same time a competent economist, of practical as well as theoretical training ," adding that he " is one of the few economists in human history who could really write.

Book publishers Alfred A. Knopf, the Folio Society and O ' Reilly Media are notable for their substantial colophons.

Other novels about the university include Geese in the Forum ( Knopf, 1940 ) by Lawrence Edward Watkin, a professor of English who went on to become a screenwriter for Disney ( the college faculty were the titular geese ); The Hero ( Julian Messner, 1949 ), by Millard Lampell, filmed as Saturday's Hero, starring Donna Reed and John Derek ( Columbia Studios, 1951 ), about a football player who struggles to balance athletics, academics and a social life ; and A Sound of Voices Dying by Glenn Scott ( E. P.

Ginger worked in New York for the next six years, first in advertising and then as an editor at the book publishers Alfred Knopf and Henry Holt, but neither his success in these endeavors, his remarriage in 1956, nor the publication of two notably readable works of history ( Altgeld's America and Six Days or Forever?

Carleton S. Coon, a 20th century craniofacial anthropometrist, used the technique for his The Origin of Races ( New York: Knopf, 1962 ).

* Anchor Books, produced quality paperbacks for bookstores ; named for the anchor that ( along with a dolphin ) forms Doubleday's colophon ; now part of the Knopf Publishing Group's Vintage Anchor unit

Caldecott Medal, 1989, for the book Song and Dance Man, illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Knopf, 1988

Kristof's books, all co-authored with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, include China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power ( 1994 ), Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide ( Knopf, September 2009 ).

His father Samuel Knopf was an advertising executive and financial consultant, his mother was Ida Japhe, and his brother Edwin H. Knopf, who worked for Alfred briefly, then became a film director and producer.

After visiting Galsworthy in England, Knopf gave up his plans for a law career, and upon his return went into publishing.

Knopf retained complete editorial control for five years, and then gave up only his right to veto other editors ' manuscript selections.

Critic Robert van Gelder called it " perhaps the most sentimental story that ever has achieved the dignity of a Borzoi imprint of publisher Knopf imprint.

Her most recent work, Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter, is both a multimedia monologue and a full-length memoir ( forthcoming with Alfred A. Knopf in May 2013 ).

When Random House bought Alfred A. Knopf in 1960, the front page of the New York Times reported that the merger " united two of the nation's most celebrated publishers of quality writing " The following year, Random House would buy Pantheon, which would be moved into the Knopf Publishing Group.

His most recent book, is Kindertotenwald ( Knopf 2011 ), a collection of sixty-five prose poems concluding with a longish lyrical poem to his wife.

Percy's most well-known work is his memoir, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son ( Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1941 ).

Control of Everyman's Library passed to US-based Random House in 2002, who continue to publish it under the Knopf Publishers imprint there and ( albeit without changes ) as Random House UK elsewhere.