The publishing house C.H.Beck is one of the large and renowned houses in the German publishing industry. With more than 600 employees and about 1,700 new publications in the two publishing divisions Law - Taxes - Business and Literature - Nonfiction - Science, C.H.Beck also ranks quantitatively among the major German book and magazine publishers. The publishing house is particularly active in the fields of history, antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times, contemporary history, German and European history, Jewish history, the history of Islamic culture and global history.