About W.H. Freeman W.H. Freeman and Company, publisher of books and textbooks in the sciences, is distinguished by a discerning editorial vision and a long-standing commitment to superior quality. As one of the few publishers that produce science books for scholars, students, and the general public, Freeman brings advances in the frontiers of modern science to classrooms and homes throughout the world. Driven by a clear sense of its publishing mission, Freeman's success is built on three tenets: To produce innovative books in dynamic areas of science; to work with authors of outstanding achievement; and to produce books of exceptional quality. Founded in 1946 by William H. Freeman, who had been a salesman and editor at Macmillan, Freeman's first book was General Chemistry by the late Nobel laureate Linus Pauling. That pioneering text revolutionized the chemistry curriculum and set the high standard of book production that established Freeman as the premier science publisher. Since then, the Company has published hundreds of groundbreaking books for students, and, in recent years, for the general reader intrigued by science. In the early 1960's, W. H. Freeman and Scientific American, Inc. joined forces to publish offprints of articles from Scientific American magazine for university classrooms. Offered to instructors in collated sets and in topical anthologies, the offprints sold as many as eight million per year at their peak of popularity. Today, excellence and innovation remain the hallmarks of Freeman. Freeman titles that have become the leading texts in their field include David Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics and (with George McCabe) Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Lubert Stryer's Biochemistry (now written primarily by Stryer protg Jeremy Berg and John Tymoczko), Peter Atkins' Physical Chemistry, Janis Kuby's Immunology, and Dan Harris's Quantitative Chemical Analysis. Additional market leading titles include Introduction to Genetic Analysis (Griffiths et al.), Molecular Cell Biology (Lodish et al.), Universe (Freedman and Kaufmann), Discovering the Universe (Comins and Kaufmann), and Frank Press and Raymond Siever's Understanding Earth. (now written primarily by new coauthors John Grotzinger and Tom Jordan). All of these textbooks continue to offer innovation to their courses. Among the many big-potential textbooks on the horizon for Freeman is Jon Rogawski's Calculus, the first major new entry into the introductory calculus market in nearly twenty years. Freeman is also proud to publish Recombinant DNA: Genes and Genomics, from a pioneering author team lead by Nobel laureate James Watson, in its first new edition in seventeen years. Freeman is also a pioneer in multimedia publishing for the classroom with innovative CD-ROMs and Web sites for virtually all of its major texts in astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, physics, and statistics. That commitment to interactive learning and teaching support reaches a new height with the launch of Freeman's new online homework and learning management system, beginning with StatsPortal, which fully integrates an eBook, all interactive learning features for the text, and a full range of electronic course management tools for instructors.