Home Tree Media: founded in 1996 Home Tree Media Home Tree Media was founded in 1996. We have built a reputation as a reliable publisher of academic texts. QUOTE:"If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra Publishing is about words, usually. Home Tree Media cares more about people. It's too easy to react to words. To us, words act as maps. Just as a map of the world represents the real world, words represent real things and ideas. Most people react to words as if the words are things. Do the following words: "two kids riding a rocking horse while wearing a tent" mean the same things to all people? Nope. Communication depends on the sender and the receiver. Language changes daily. Effective communication is nonstandard, unique to a particular group. We all react to words, at times. At other times we react to the reason a speaker or writer picked certain words. Home Tree Media uses words as maps to communicate ideas. Books published by Home Tree Media strive to use inclusive language and ideas. You might say, though, if comparing us to giant publishing houses, that we're the Yogi Berra of publishers. The name Yogi Berra remains one of the most highly recognizable names associated with baseball. So, being the Yogi of publishing plays well with us. Are you too young to know about Yogi Berra? Some people said of Yogi, "He'll never make anything more than a Triple 'A' ballplayer at best." Yogi enjoyed being a 15-time All-Star winner of 10 world championships. He played as a member of Major League Baseball's All-Century Team. As a manager, Yogi Berra became the first man in over 40 years to win pennants in different leagues (Yankees in 1964, Mets in 1973). Yogi receives much attention at the Baseball Hall of Fame. People quote Yogi Berra more than they quote most poets. He's also famous for his altruism. We thank the Yogi Museum for most of the information about Yogi Berra. http://www.yogiberramuseum.org/ Look for more "yogi-isms" throughout our site. The following yogi-isms seem appropriate here: "I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary." "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."__Yogi Berra. Just as a map of the world represents the real world, words represent real things and ideas. Publishing is, to us, similar to a being a giraffe. If the giraffe knew what he was doing, sticking that neck out all the time, he would only nibble the easy to reach fodder. It helps the folks at Home Tree Media to remember that we all ride under the same tent. We like what Christopher Morley said, "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."