Prentice-Hall International

About Prentice-Hall International

Prentice-Hall International was the overseas imprint of Prentice-Hall, the American textbook and professional publisher founded on 13 October 1913 by the law professor Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger, who named the firm after their mothers' maiden names.

Books with the Prentice-Hall International imprint usually give London as the place of publication, sometimes alongside New York, Toronto, Sydney and Singapore. From at least 1960 it issued British and international editions of the parent company's list in art and architecture, engineering, ecology, economics, marketing and management, and later in information systems; some dealers describe these copies as first UK editions. It also carried original British work: the Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, founded in 1981 with Tony Hoare as editor and later edited by Richard Bird, published Hoare's Communicating Sequential Processes (1985) and Robin Milner's Communication and Concurrency (1989).

Gulf+Western bought the parent company in 1984 and placed it in its publishing division, Simon & Schuster. Viacom, Gulf+Western's successor, sold Simon & Schuster's educational division, Prentice Hall included, to Pearson in 1998. Pearson absorbed the higher-education and technical titles into Pearson Education, and Prentice Hall itself ended as a separate company in 2020 under Savvas Learning. Well-known titles from the American parent include Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language and Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.