Greenwood Publishing Group

Parent company	ABC-CLIO
Status	Active
Founded	1967
Founder	Harold Mason
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Westport, Connecticut
Distribution	Worldwide
Nonfiction topics	Reference works, scholarly and general interest, library and teaching materials
Imprints	Greenwood Press (reference works) Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest) Libraries unlimited (for libraries and teachers)
Official website	www.greenwood.com

Greenwood Publishing Group (GPG) is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO. Established in 1967, Greenwood Publishing Group publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers. Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.^[1]

History[link]

The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. The company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association’s first edition of Books for College Libraries (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as American Radical Periodicals under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a company then on the American Stock Exchange, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.

By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of Academic Press, was hired as Vice President. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named President, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years.

On August 25, 1976 the company was sold to the Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, following Elsevier’s purchase of CIS. That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in business and law.

On January 1, 1986 GPG expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949,^[2] from CBS, Inc., and in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House.

At the beginning of 1990 the company’s name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and by the mid-1990’s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed.

When Hagelstein retired at the end of 1999, Wayne Smith was named President. Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG’s on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition of Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of Harcourt Education.

On December 13, 2007 GPG became part of Houghton Mifflin Co. as a result of Houghton’s acquisition of Harcourt.^[3]

On October 1, 2008, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt granted ABC-CLIO of Santa Barbara, California a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of GPG, excluding Heinemann. The offices in Westport, Connecticut closed as a result.^[4]

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Company home page
• FolkLib Index - Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press - all 205 known books published 1982-2005
• "List of Radical Periodicals in the United States (Reissued 1968-70)." - list of the 109 radical periodicals reissued by Greenwood.

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Michael Emin Salla
Born	(1958-09-25) September 25, 1958 (age 53) Melbourne, Australia
Education	University of Melbourne Melbourne CAE University of Queensland
Occupation	Academia Ufology
Spouse	Angelika Whitecliff

Michael Emin Salla (September 25, 1958) is an international politics scholar who in 2001 became interested in the study of exopolitics and subsequently embarked on a personal effort to disseminate his exopolitical beliefs and hypotheses via the mediums of the internet, UFO and News conferences and radio appearances. Salla's most recent academic position was in Washington at American University, Center for Global Peace. The Center did not sanction his ufological research, and emphasizes that it is personal.^[1] Controversy eventually led to Salla's dismissal from the university.

His unconventional views have made his work the subject of considerable controversy and criticism within both the ufological and mainstream academic communities. Much of the testimony he uses to support his position is controversial due to a lack of empirical evidence to substantiate many of the claims. While many of Salla's sources are considered to be credible by adherents to the UFO Disclosure movement who cite a variety of supporting documents and credentials, critics argue these sources have been discredited for a variety of reasons; among these the dissemination of patent falsehoods in the content of claims made, and the misrepresentation of credentials.

Biography[link]

Education[link]

In 1983, Salla received a BSc degree from the University of Melbourne. In 1984 he received a GradDipEd from Melbourne College of Advanced Education. In 1987 he received a BA degree from the University of Melbourne. In 1990 he received a MA degree in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. In 1993, he received a PhD degree in Government from the University of Queensland.

Career[link]

In his early academic career in the 1990s Salla specialized in conflict resolution. He researched ethnic conflicts in Kosovo, East Timor, and Sri Lanka and worked to stop them occurring.^[1][2] He led a series of workshops bringing together East Timorese and Indonesian intellectuals to develop a power sharing document to resolve the East Timor conflict. The resulting document was incorporated into the 1999 U.N. supervised referendum voted upon by the East Timorese. On September 1998 in Boston, Salla was one of three panelists who took part in the first American Political Science Association (APSA) discussion on negotiation of global violence and conflict.^[3]

From 1996 to 2004, he was an Assistant Professor/Researcher in Residence at the School of International Service at American University.^[4][5] In 2003 he founded American University's Peace Ambassador Program, which, at that time, was described on American University's School of International Service website as a program that "combines study, meditative practices, and prayer ceremonies at selected Washington DC sites aimed at promoting individual self-empowerment and Divine Governance in Washington DC." ^[1]

A feature article on his suggestion that a visit to the dentist by President Eisenhower in 1954 was actually a meeting with extraterrestrials was published in the Washington Post on February 19, 2004.^[1] This created tension with the Center for Global Peace that did not wish to be publicly associated with his "new direction in research".^[6] In April 2004, he participated at the X-Conference which led to more public prominence and further threatened his university position.^[7] On May 13, 2004, Abdul Aziz Said, Director of American University's Center for Global Peace, sent a letter ^[8] of dismissal to Salla, citing unauthorized changes Salla had made to the Peace Ambassador Program as the primary reason for Salla's dismissal. The letter also stated that Salla's formal affiliation with American University would not be rescinded, but neither would it be renewed upon its expiration in August 2004.

On April 7, 2005, Salla founded the Exopolitics Institute (ExoInst), a UFO research organization that is currently headquartered in Kealakekua, Hawaii. On June 4, 2006, Al Jazeera published an article discussing a letter Salla had sent them informing them about the possibility of alien intervention in order to prevent a nuclear attack on Iran by the United States of America.^[9] From June 9–11, 2006, he assembled and took part in the Hawaii Conference on World Peace and Extraterrestrial Civilizations.^[4][9]

His current exopolitical interests have led him to assert that the undisclosed presence of extraterrestrials is one of the primary forces behind international conflict. He further states that the claims of various "whistleblowers" (informants) suggest that as many as sixteen different extraterrestrial civilizations are currently interacting with the human race while a number of other extraterrestrial races monitor Earth affairs, while avoiding contact. Most of his claims are derived from whistleblowers (informants) or 'experiencers' (individuals who claim to have contacted extraterrestrials) who, while arousing much debate in the UFO field, are alleged by Salla to be primary sources of reliable information. In conversation with the Washington Post, Salla pointed to evidence widely available on the internet as a source for his research on extraterrestrial visitation: "There's a lot of stuff on the Internet, and I just went around and pieced it together."^[1]

Media[link]

Books[link]

• ISBN 978-1-893302-56-3 Exopolitics: Political Implications of Extraterrestrial Presence. Dandelion Books (paperback, 2004)
• ISBN 978-0-275-97373-5 The Hero's Journey Toward a Second American Century. Praeger (hardcover, 2002)

Reviewed in CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Sept 2002 v40 i1 p184(1) "Salla's work is a good choice for students of US foreign policy, US diplomatic history, and psychoanalysis."

and: Reference & Research Book News Feb 2002 v17 p44

• ISBN 978-0-313-29569-0 Why the Cold War Ended: A Range of Interpretations Westport (Greenwood) (hardcover, 1995)

Reviewed in American Political Science Review June 1996 v90 n2 p471(1) "This is an interesting and valuable, albeit somewhat vexing, book."

• ISBN 978-0-908140-99-2 Essays on peace: Paradigms for global order. Central Queensland University Press (paperback, 1995)

Videos[link]

• Safespace - Fastwalkers - Winter 2006
• Introduction to Exopolitics

Audio[link]

Radio Interviews[link]

• Exopolitics Radio - March 31, 2007
• Exopolitics Radio - March 17, 2007
• As You Wish - May 27, 2006
• Dolphinville Radio - September 2, 2004
• Jerry Pippin - April 15, 2004

Awards and grants[link]

• Awarded a US$150,000 research grant by the Ford Foundation to organize a conflict resolution workshop for East Timor (1999)
• Selected as panelist for United States Institute of Peace Solicited Grants Panel (February 1999)
• Awarded two grants by the United States Institute of Peace for conflict resolution workshops on the East Timor conflict (1998 & 1987)
• Selected for United States Institute of Peace Faculty and College Seminar (July 1997)
• Promoted from Lecturer (level A) to Lecturer (level B), Faculty of Arts, Australian National University (1996)
• Associate of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (1994–1996)
• Australian Postgraduate Research Award (1991–1992)

Exopolitics[link]

Michael Salla elaborated in the area of exopolitics. The concept of "exo-politics", i.e., political relations within the scope of the universe, was discussed as early as in 1977 by Timothy Leary. ^[10]

Salla authored a book on exopolitics in which he claims that a 1954 dentist appointment by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a cover for a secret meeting with extraterrestrials.^[11] Salla claims that President Eisenhower "met with two ETs with white hair, pale blue eyes and colorless lips," referred to by alien enthusiasts as "Nordics." He told the Washington Post that "The "Nordics" offered to share their superior technology and their spiritual wisdom with Ike if he would agree to eliminate America's nuclear weapons." Salla says the President declined the offer.^[11] He also told the newspaper that President Eisenhower had agreed with another race of aliens that they could take livestock and humans with them for the purposes of experiments. He estimated that those aliens had taken "millions" of humans.

Salla admitted to the Washington Post that the evidence supporting his claims about the existence of aliens was found by him "on the internet." ^[11]

Meetings and goals[link]

Advocates for exopolitics and the idea that extraterrestrials exist and have visited Earth have speculated about establishing relations with extraterrestrials and taking advantage of their presumed knowledge of sustainable energy sources and other matters of global importance.^[12] Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer joined three fringe groups in urging the Canadian parliament to hold public hearings on exopolitics in 2005.^[13]

The fifth X-Conference event was attended by 400 people at a hotel's banquet hall in suburban Maryland.^[14] Its attendees included 2008 Utah Congressional Candidate Joseph Buchman, hypnotherapist Rebecca Hardcastle, Terri Donovan Mansfield, Alfred Webre, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, US Air Force pilot Milton Tores and Salla himself. The conference included lectures on document disclosure, discussions of black budgets and quantum cosmology, and the sale of books such as Exopolitics: How Does One Speak to a Ball of Light?.^[14] Advocates of exopolitics want mankind to deal with "rule of law in outer space, the sharing of technology between civilisations, and the physics of one-on-one interaction with ETs".^[14] According to proponents, "exoconsciousness" is the process of reframing the mind for interstellar relations and interdimensional experiences.^[15] An exopolitics conference was also held in June 2009 in Leeds with the Starchild skull featured as its star attraction.^[16]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Official links[link]

• Michael E. Salla - Homepage
• Michael E. Salla - Résumé

Miscellaneous links[link]

• American University's Peace and Conflict Resolution Program - Homepage

See also[link]

• Alfred Webre
• Paola Harris

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