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Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, but is best known for his prominent role in the United States Scientific skepticism community....
, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism
Council for Secular Humanism

The Council for Secular Humanism is a Secular humanism organization headquartered in Amherst, New York. In 1980 CODESH issued A Secular Humanist Declaration, an argument for and statement of belief in Democratic Secular Humanism....
 and co- founded Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus books publishes a range of books, including many about science, especially those of a skeptical nature. Their headquarters are located in Amherst, New York
Amherst, New York

Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 116,510. This represents an increase from the 1990 census figure of 111,711....
, and they publish worldwide. Authors published by Prometheus include Leon Lederman, Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic , pseudoscience, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion....
, Antony Flew
Antony Flew

Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew is a United Kingdom philosopher. Belonging to the Analytic philosophy and Evidentialism schools of thought, he is notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....
, Nathan Salmon
Nathan Salmon

Nathan U. Salmon is an American philosophy in the analytic philosophy tradition, specializing in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of logic....
, Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq

Ibn Warraq is the pen name of a secularist author of Pakistani origin and founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society and a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry focusing on Qur'anic criticism....
, George H. Smith
George H. Smith

George Hamilton Smith is a libertarian author and educator. He grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree....
, Rob Boston
Rob Boston

Robert Boston has been Assistant Director of Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Assistant Editor of Church & State magazine since 1987....
, James Randi
James Randi

James Randi is a Magician and Scientific skepticism best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge,...
, Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
, Molefi Asante, S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi is an Indian American literary critic, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird fiction and fantastic fiction....
, Philip J. Klass
Philip J. Klass

Philip Julian Klass was an American journalist and ufology researcher with a background in electrical engineering. Klass was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Merritt Island, Florida....
, Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley Fellow of the Royal Society was an English evolutionary biologist, Humanist and Internationalism . He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis....
, Frederich Nietzsche, David Ricardo
David Ricardo

David Ricardo was a political economy, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economicss, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith....
, who formulated the subsistence theory of wages
Subsistence theory of wages

The Subsistence Theory of Wages, also known as the Iron Law of Wages, was a law of economics that asserted that real wages in the long run would trend toward the value needed to keep the workers' population constant....
 to discourage higher pay for workers, utilitarian Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an England jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was the brother of Samuel Bentham. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law....
, and Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
 winner Tom Toles
Tom Toles

Thomas Gregory Toles is a Left-wing politics United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning....
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Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz

Paul Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, but is best known for his prominent role in the United States Scientific skepticism community....
, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism
Council for Secular Humanism

The Council for Secular Humanism is a Secular humanism organization headquartered in Amherst, New York. In 1980 CODESH issued A Secular Humanist Declaration, an argument for and statement of belief in Democratic Secular Humanism....
 and co- founded Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus books publishes a range of books, including many about science, especially those of a skeptical nature. Their headquarters are located in Amherst, New York
Amherst, New York

Amherst is a town in Erie County, New York, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 116,510. This represents an increase from the 1990 census figure of 111,711....
, and they publish worldwide. Authors published by Prometheus include Leon Lederman, Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic , pseudoscience, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion....
, Antony Flew
Antony Flew

Professor Antony Garrard Newton Flew is a United Kingdom philosopher. Belonging to the Analytic philosophy and Evidentialism schools of thought, he is notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....
, Nathan Salmon
Nathan Salmon

Nathan U. Salmon is an American philosophy in the analytic philosophy tradition, specializing in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of logic....
, Ibn Warraq
Ibn Warraq

Ibn Warraq is the pen name of a secularist author of Pakistani origin and founder of the Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society and a senior research fellow at the Center for Inquiry focusing on Qur'anic criticism....
, George H. Smith
George H. Smith

George Hamilton Smith is a libertarian author and educator. He grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of Arizona for several years before leaving without a degree....
, Rob Boston
Rob Boston

Robert Boston has been Assistant Director of Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Assistant Editor of Church & State magazine since 1987....
, James Randi
James Randi

James Randi is a Magician and Scientific skepticism best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge,...
, Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov , was a Russian-born United States author and professor of biochemistry, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books....
, Molefi Asante, S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi is an Indian American literary critic, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird fiction and fantastic fiction....
, Philip J. Klass
Philip J. Klass

Philip Julian Klass was an American journalist and ufology researcher with a background in electrical engineering. Klass was born in Des Moines, Iowa and died in Merritt Island, Florida....
, Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley Fellow of the Royal Society was an English evolutionary biologist, Humanist and Internationalism . He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis....
, Frederich Nietzsche, David Ricardo
David Ricardo

David Ricardo was a political economy, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economicss, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith....
, who formulated the subsistence theory of wages
Subsistence theory of wages

The Subsistence Theory of Wages, also known as the Iron Law of Wages, was a law of economics that asserted that real wages in the long run would trend toward the value needed to keep the workers' population constant....
 to discourage higher pay for workers, utilitarian Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham was an England jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was the brother of Samuel Bentham. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law....
, and Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
 winner Tom Toles
Tom Toles

Thomas Gregory Toles is a Left-wing politics United States political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning....
. Kurtz maintains a role as the chairman of the company.

Prometheus Books obtained the bulk of the books and manuscripts of Humanities Press International and has been building and expanding this into a scholarly imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 called Humanity Books. This imprint is used to publish academic works across a wide spectrum of the Humanities.

In 1992 Uri Geller
Uri Geller

'Uri Geller Freud', commonly 'Uri Geller' , born on 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-United Kingdom performing arts and self-proclaimed psychic who claims "to be able to spoon bending with the power of his mind" and to have psychic powers, although he currently prefers the designation of "mystifier" rather than "psychic."...
 sued Victor J. Stenger
Victor J. Stenger

Victor J. Stenger is an United States physicist, and an advocate of naturalism , skepticism, and atheism.Active for many years in particle physics research, he is now mainly known as a critic of intelligent design, the aggressive use of the anthropic principle, and other pseudoscience ideas....
 and Prometheus Books. The suit was dismissed and Geller was required to pay more than $20,000 in costs to the defendant.

In March 2005, Prometheus Books launched the science fiction and fantasy imprint Pyr.

As of 2006, the company under various imprints has approximately sixteen hundred books in print and published approximately 95-100 books per year. Since the founding they have published over 2500 books.

Prometheus Books name was derived from Prometheus
Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to human beings for their use....
, the Titan
Titan (mythology)

In Greek mythology, the Titans ; were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary golden age. Their role as Elder Gods was overthrown by a race of younger gods, the Twelve Olympians, effected a mythological paradigm shift that the Greeks borrowed from the Ancient Near East....
 from Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 who gave fire to man. This act is often used as a metaphor for bringing knowledge.

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