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The Naval Institute Press is the book-publishing arm of broadened its scope in recent years to include books of
the U.s. Naval Institute, a private, nonprofit, member- more general interest. Now the Naval Institute Press
ship society for sea service professionals and others who publishes about seventy titles each year, ranging from
share an interest in naval and maritime affairs. Estab- how-to books on boating and navigation to battle
lished in 1873 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, histories, biographies, ship and aircraft guides, and
Maryland, where its offices remain today, the Naval novels. Institute members receive discounts of 20 to 50
Institute has members worldwide. percent on the Press's more than eight hundred books in
Members of the Naval Institute support the educa- print.
tion programs of the society and receive the influential Full-time shldents are eligible for special half-price
monthly magazine Proceedings and discounts on fine membership rates. Life memberships are also available.
nautical prints and on ship and aircraft photos. They For a free catalog describing Naval Institute Press
also have access to the transcripts of the Institute's Oral books currently available, and for further information
History Program and get discounted admission to any about subscribing to Naval History magazine or about
of the Institute-sponsored seminars offered around the joining the U.S. Naval Institute, please write to:
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The Naval Institute also publishes Naval History Customer Service
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The Naval Institute's book-publishing program, Fax: (410) 571-1703
begun in 1898 with basic guides to naval practices, has Web address: www.navalinstitute.org