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W. W. Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding. It is the oldest and largest employee-owned publisher in the United States and is well known for its "Norton Anthologies", particularly the Norton Anthology of English Literature and "Norton Critical Editions," series of texts which are frequently assigned in university literature courses.

In the social sciences and sciences, Norton has published books by such authors as economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, physicist Richard Feynman, and historians Peter Gay, Jonathan Spence, Eric Foner, Christopher Lasch, and George F. Kennan.

Since the 1950s, Norton's college textbook line has expanded to include leading titles in economics, psychology, political science, and sociology.

Its best-selling trade books include Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry; Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel; Patrick O'Brian’s critically acclaimed naval adventures; the works of National Book Award-winning fiction author Andrea Barrett; "Khruschev: The Man and His Era" by William Taubman, "Hitler: Hubris" and "Hitler: Nemesis" by Ian Kershaw, Liar's Poker and Moneyball by Michael Lewis; Fareed Zakaria’s The Future of Freedom; Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm; and Sam Harris’s The End of Faith.

Norton currently distributes books for sixteen independent publishers, including the following:

• Fantagraphics Books, which publishes graphic fiction and comics.
• New Directions Publishing, which focuses on publishing literature in translation, poetry, and recent classics.
• The New Press, a not-for-profit publisher that focuses on contemporary social issues, education reform and alternative teaching materials, cultural criticism, art and art education, international literature. and law and legal studies.
• Thames & Hudson, a publisher of illustrated books in art, architecture, anthropology, fashion, graphic design, photography, and travel.
• Verso Books, the "the largest radical publisher in the English-language world".

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