does it publish books?
Yes the company owns a number of book publishers, including New American Library and C.V. Mosby.
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The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years, including New American Library and C.V. Mosby, as well as Harry N. Abrams, Matthew Bender, and Jeppesen.

In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher New American Library, 
who sings me against the world with 2pac UNANSWERABLE when was the song released? The album was released on March 14, 1995. who produced it? Interscope what theme does it deal with? Often depicting the travails of male survival in the ghetto, prominent sentiments include anguish, despair, hopelessness, paranoia, and self-loathing was there any of it's singles released? Yes, "Dear Mama" and "Old School" who wrote the former? 2Pac did it convey any message? Yes, it was a tribute to his mother, Afeni Shakur - his childhood poverty and his mother's addiction to crack cocaine, but also that his love and deep respect for his mother supersede bad memories. who sang it? 2Pac was the album received well? Yes, the "Los Angeles Times" praised the tune, writing, "The song attests to Shakur's gift at crystallizing complex emotions in simple stark images." when did the newspaper mentioned start publishing? 1881 did it conduct any book festivals? Yes, it conducts the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books every year.
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Los Angeles Times [SEP] Book publishing
The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years, including New American Library and C.V. Mosby, as well as Harry N. Abrams, Matthew Bender, and Jeppesen. In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher New American Library, known for publishing affordable paperback reprints of classics and other scholarly works. The NAL continued to operate autonomously from New York and within the Mirror Company. In 1983, Odyssey Partners and Ira J. Hechler bought NAL from the Times Mirror Company for over $50 million. In 1967, Times Mirror acquired C.V. Mosby Company, a professional publisher and merged it over the years with several other professional publishers including Resource Application, Inc., Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., PSG Publishing Company, B.C.