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Intellect Press Intellect is an independent academic publishing company that produces scholarly books and journals for the university community. Founded in 1984 by Masoud Yazdani, the company is headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, with a satellite office in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Intellect publishes in four distinct subject areas: visual arts, film studies, cultural studies, and media studies—including popular culture, and performing arts. Within these broad subject areas, sub-categories include photography, drawing, curation, community music, gaming, fashion and scenography. Intellect’s focus is on multidisciplinary scholarship that reflects original thinking.

All Intellect books and journals are peer reviewed. In 2010, the company published 88 journals and 66 books. Most journals are available in hard copy and electronically online. Journals are distributed by Intellect and Turpin Distribution Services Ltd. Books are distributed through Intellect in the United Kingdom and European Union, InBooks in Australia and New Zealand, and the University of Chicago Press in North and South America.

HISTORY

Intellect’s founder, Masoud Yazdani was born in Iran and published his first book when he was 18--a children’s book on the solar system, written in Farsi. Yazdani subsequently moved to the UK to study and graduated from Oxford. His first academic book, Start Programming with the Electron, was published by Addison-Wesley in 1983. Yazdani continued writing and publishing throughout his university career.

In 1984, Yazdani formed Intellect with two fellow Oxford University colleagues. Intellect hosted a seminar that resulted in the book, Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Case Studies published by Chapman and Hall. During this time, Yazdani also began producing the magazine Intellect Review, which promoted the seminar program and offered short books reviews. When Blackwell Scientific Publications approached Yazdani to turn Intellect Review into an academic journal, Yazdani agreed. It was the first journal published under Intellect's imprint.

In 1989 Intellect launched it's book publishing division with its first three books: Hypertext Theory into Practice written by Ray McAleese, Computer Assisted Language Learning by Keith Cameron, and Computers and Writing by Noel Williams and Patrick Holt.

Yazdani also served as Professor of Digital Media and Dean of Faculty of Art, Media and Design at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. He is the founding editor of the journals Digital Creativity and Artificial Intelligence Review.