Wisden Cricketers' Almanack production of the "Almanack", until in 1965 it merged with the Press Association (PA). "Wisden" was acquired and published by Robert Maxwell's publishing conglomerate, Macdonald, in the 1970s. Cricket fan Sir John Paul Getty, Jr., bought the company, John Wisden & Co., in 1993 and in December 2008 it was sold to A&C Black, which is owned by Bloomsbury. The company presented the Wisden Trophy, for Test matches between England and West Indies, in 1963 to celebrate its 100th edition. In 2013, a history of "Wisden" was published: "The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden", by Robert Winder ().
The Roots of Reference created for the Carus Lectures, Quine states his ontological position in a "delightfully relaxed, good-humored style." The Roots of Reference The Roots of Reference is a 1974 book by philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands on his earlier concepts about the inscrutability of reference and examines problems with traditional empiricism, arguing for a naturalized epistemology based on holism. Quine's draft was initially developed in 1970 as an expansion of ideas presented in "Word and Object" (1960) about language acquisition. The book is divided into three sections, one for each of the three Paul Carus Lectures he