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Direct Holdings Global LLC, doing business as StarVista Entertainment and Time Life is a creator and direct marketer that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products. The current focus of the company is music, video and entertainment experiences (such as cruises) as the book division closed in 2003. Its products have been sold throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia through television, print, retail, the Internet, telemarketing, and direct sales. Current operations are focused in the US and Canada with limited retail distribution overseas. Time Life was founded in 1961 as the book division of Time Inc.. It took its name from Time Inc.'s cornerstone magazines, ''Time'' and ''Life'', but remained independent of both. During 1966, Time Life combined its book offerings with music collections (two to five records) and packaged them as a sturdy box set. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the selection of books, music and videos grew and was diversified into more genres. When record labels stopped producing vinyl albums in 1990, Time Life switched to CD only. In the mid-1990s, Time Life acquired Heartland Music, with the Heartland Music label now appearing as a brand. This company was subsequently sold off and is no longer attached to Time Life. At the end of 2003 Time Life was acquired by Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. and ZelnickMedia Corporation to become part of Direct Holdings Worldwide L.L.C. Direct Holdings Americas Inc. operates as a leader in the sale of music and video products under the Time Life brand. Since 2003, Direct Holdings US Corp is the legal name of Time Life, and is no longer owned by its former parent Time Warner, later Time Inc. in June 9, 2014. In March 2007, Ripplewood led a group that took The Reader's Digest Association private and treated Time Life as a division of RDA. By 2003 onward, a disclaimer on the copyright stated that it is "not affiliated with Time Warner Inc. or Time Inc.", who owns the Time and Life magazines which this company name came from. In 2013, Reader's Digest Association sold Time Life to Mosaic Media Investment Partners.〔(RDA Sells Its Direct To Consumer Business )〕 == Book series == The Time Life company was founded by Jean, Incorporated in 1961, as a book marketing division. It takes its name from ''Time'' and ''Life'' magazines, two of the most popular weeklies of the era. It was based in the Time Life building in Rockefeller Center. Time Life gained fame as a seller of book series that would be mailed to households in monthly installments, operating as book sales clubs. Several of these book series garnered substantial critical acclaim unusual for a mass-market mail order house. For example, the series ''Library of Photography'' of the early-1970s featured very high-quality duotone printing for its black-and-white reproductions in its original edition, and was of course able to draw on ''Life Magazine's'' vast archive of journalistic and art photographs from virtually every major photographer; ''Foods Of The World'' featured contributions by M.F.K. Fisher, James Beard, Julia Child, Craig Claiborne and many others; and ''The Good Cook'' series, edited by Richard Olney, featured contributions from Jeremiah Tower, Jane Grigson, Michel Lemonnier and many others. Other series of high regard covered nature and the sciences, as well as the history of world civilizations. The science books are interesting as ephemera of their time. The content of these series was more or less encyclopedic, providing the basics of the subjects in the way it might be done in a lecture aimed at the general public. There was also a series on contemporary life in various countries of the world. Some other series are much less highly regarded, especially the later output as the publisher moved away from soberly presented science and history towards sensationalism, pop-history, and DIY-themed books. The books, whatever their quality, are easy to find at low prices on the used-book market, due to their being published in the millions of copies. (Some of the items in this list may also be single books not in a series, but followed the same types of themes as the book series.) * American Country * The American Indian * The American Wilderness〔From a list of "Other Publications" on the copyright page of "The Commandos", the final volume of the Time-Life Books Series, "World War II"〕 * Ancient Civilizations (historic archeological discoveries) * The Art of Sewing〔 * A Child's First Library Of Learning, a series of educational books by Time–Life * Canada, by Brian Moore and the Editors of Life (1963) * The Civil War series 28 volumes (1983) * Classics of the Old West〔 (not the same as "The Old West") * Collector's Library of the Civil War〔 (reproductions of participants' memoirs) * Collector's Library of the Unknown (24 volumes) * Curious and Unusual Facts * The Emergence of Man〔 * Enchanted World, a best-selling Time–Life series, 21 volumes * The Encyclopedia of Collectibles〔 * The Epic of Flight〔 * Eyewitness (children's series on nature, science, and civilization) * Family Library ("How Things Work in your Home", "The Time-Life Book of the Family Car", "The Time-Life Family Legal Guide", and "The Time-Life Book of Family Finance")〔 * Fitness, Health, and Nutrition * Fix It Yourself * Foods of the World〔 * Fresh Ways (cookbook series) * The Good Cook〔 * Great Ages of Man—history of each of the major civilizations of human history〔 * The Great Cities〔 * History of the World (1991) 24 volumes * Home Repair and Improvement〔 With commercials starring Bob Vila from 1984 to 1992 * How Things Work * Human Behavior〔 * The Kodak Library of Creative Photography * Library of Health〔 * Library of Nations * The LIFE History of the United States〔 * LIFE Library of Photography〔 * LIFE Nature Library, 25 volumes〔 * LIFE Science Library, 26 volumes〔 * LIFE World Library〔 * Lost Civilizations * Mysteries of the Unknown, a best-selling Time–Life series, 33 volumes * The New Face of War, A 9-volume survey of the major fields of modern warfare * The Old West〔 * Planet Earth Series〔 * The Seafarers Series〔 * The Third Reich Series, 21 volumes * This Fabulous Century〔 * Time Frame—A survey of history by time periods instead of by civilization * Time–Life Library of America〔 * Time–Life Library of Art〔 * The Time–Life Library of Boating〔 * The Time–Life Library of Gardening〔 * Time Life Library of Curious and Unusual Facts * Time Reading Program〔 *Three Hundred Years of American Painting * Understanding Computers * Voices of Triumph (3-book series of African American history) * Voyage Through the Universe—series on Astronomy * Wild, Wild World of Animals (based on the TV series) * What Life Was Like * The World's Wild Places〔 * Wings of War, 26 volumes * World War II series, 39 volumes〔http://www.amazon.com/World-War-II-39-Set/dp/B000MC7H4I〕 * 100 Years of Hollywood Time Life no longer publishes books as its book division was closed in 2003. Time Inc./Time Warner, however, continues to publish similar material through Time Home Entertainment Inc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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