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Health Economic Evaluations Database	Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED) was founded as a joint initiative of the Office of Health Economics and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA). In 2006 HEED was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Heinemann Educational Books Ltd	Heinemann Educational Books Ltd (HEB) was created in 1961 from the educational department of William Heinemann Ltd, and established as a separate company with many overseas offices. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd for the sales of the company during the 1980s and 1990s. Unlike William Heinemann Ltd, however, Heinemann Educational remained part of the Reed Elsevier group, as an imprint of Harcourt Education International. Harcourt Education International (including the African Writers Series) was sold by Reed Elsevier in 2007 to Pearson. See www.pearson.com and www.heinemann.co.uk.	2008
Heinemann Publishing	Heinemann Publishing (also known as Heinemann USA) was founded in 1978 as a US subsidiary of William Heinemann Ltd (q.v.). In 1996 Heinemann Publishing merged with the Greenwood Publishing Group to create Greenwood-Heinemann. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Heinemann Young Books	See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd for the early history of the firm. Shortly after the purchase of William Heinemann Ltd by Random House from Reed Elsevier in 1997, the former Reed children's publishing imprints (including Heinemann Young Books, Methuen Children's Books and Mammoth) were sold to Egmont. See www.egmont.co.uk.	2008
Heinemann-Raintree	The US library reference publisher Heinemann-Raintree was separated from the purchase of Harcourt by Houghton Mifflin in 2007. In early 2008 Heinemann-Raintree was sold to Pearson, and in September 2008 the firm was sold on by Pearson to Capstone Publishers. See www.heinemannraintree.com and www.capstonepub.com.	2008
Henry Altemus and Company	The printing and publishing firm of Henry Altemus and Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1842. Its predecessor firm was the bookbindery of Henry Altemus's father Joseph Altemus, founded in 1790. The firm closed in 1936; its assets were sold to other publishers, including Platt and Munk. See See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 9-10; sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile; and the FOB entry for Platt and Munk.	2009
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley	The firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley existed from 1829 to 1832. In 1832 Richard Bentley founded his own firm, which was eventually taken over by Macmillan in 1898. See the FOB entries for Richard Bentley & Son and for Macmillan.	2008
Henry F. Anners	Henry F. Anners was a publishing house founded in Philadelphia in 1842. The firm went out of business around 1850. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 22.	2009
Henry George Bohn	Henry George Bohn was a London-based book-dealer and publisher from the 1830s to the 1860s. In 1864 he sold his firm to Bell & Daldy, later George Bell & Sons Ltd. See the FOB entry for George Bell & Sons Ltd.	2006
Henry Holt and Company	The publishing firm of Henry Holt and Company was founded in 1866. See 'The house of Holt, 1866-1946: an editorial history' by Ellen D. Gilbert (1993). In 1959-60 the firm merged with Rinehart and Company and the John C. Winston Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston (q.v.). Holt, Rinehart and Winston was purchased by CBS in 1967, and was then divided by sales in 1985-1986. Henry Holt and Company was sold in 1985 to the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and became part of Macmillan. (The remainder of the CBS publishing division was sold to Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich in 1986.) Henry Holt and Company remains an imprint of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com/HenryHolt.aspx.	2008

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