Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.
 In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content for the same.
 Also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine.
Midhat Gazalé (born 22 July 1929, Alexandria) is an international telecommunications and space consultant and a visiting Professor of Telecommunications and Computer Management at the University of Paris IX.
 He has served as President of AT&T-France, as Chairman of the Board for Sperry-France and for International Computers-France, and as an executive and research scientist for other major companies.
 He was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre national du Mérite in 1981.
 He was born in Alexandria and has been a special advisor to the Egyptian prime minister for science and technology.
 He is the author of the mathematics books "Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals" and "Number: From Ahmes to Cantor", both of which were published by Princeton University Press.
 The latter book won the 2000 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics and Statistics, Association of American Publishers and was one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000.
 An Italian edition was published by Dedalo Editore.
 He is also the author of "Pyramids Road: An Egyptian Homecoming", published by the American University in Cairo Press
Selig Seidenman Harrison (March 19, 1927 – December 30, 2016) was a scholar and journalist, who specialized in South Asia and East Asia.
 He was the Director of the Asia Program and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
 He was also a member of the Afghanistan Study Group.
 He wrote five books on Asian affairs and U.S. relations with Asia.
 His last book, "Korean Endgame: A Strategy for Reunification and U.S. Disengagement" (Princeton University Press), won the 2002 award of the Association of American Publishers for the best Professional/Scholarly Book in Government and Political Science.
Speak of the Devil: tales of satanic abuse in contemporary England is a scholarly book by J. S. La Fontaine published in 1998 that discusses her investigation of allegations of satanic ritual abuse made in the United Kingdom.
 The book documents a detailed investigation of the accounts of children during a wave of allegations of satanic ritual abuse, as well as the processes within the social work profession that supported the allegations despite a lack of evidence.
The History of North Dakota is a book written by Elwyn B. Robinson covering the history of the U.S. state of North Dakota.
 The book's coverage spans from several thousand years ago at the time when Native Americans first settled the area that would become present-day North Dakota up through the 20th Century.
 The book, published by University of Nebraska Press in 1966, was the first scholarly book covering the full-scope of North Dakota's history and has remained the definitive history of the state.
 The first edition contained 599 pages, 32 pages of illustration, and line drawings by Jack Brodie.
Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation is a scholarly book which uses techniques of literary criticism on anime by Susan J. Napier published in 2001 by Palgrave Macmillan.
 It discusses themes of shōjo, hentai, mecha, magical girlfriend and magical girl anime using select titles.
 It also discusses some aspects of the English-speaking anime fandom.
 The book has been translated into Japanese, and had four editions, before a revised fifth edition was published in 2005 as Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation.
Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz-Cyganiak (née Zdanowicz ) (born in 1979) is a Polish poet and journalist.
 Author of poetry volumes "Improwizacje i nie tylko " (Improvisations and Not Only Those), "Poznajmy się " (Let's Get Acquainted), "Kolekcjonerka " (The She-collector), "Szkliwo " (Enamel), "Jak umierają małe dziewczynki? "
 (How Do Little Girls Die?)
 and "deadline".
 In 2004 she wrote a scholarly book about Maria Komornicka "Kto się boi Marii K.?
 Sztuka i wykluczenie " (Who Is Afraid of Maria K.?
 Art and Exclusion).
 Her newest publication is the 30 September 2007 collection of 41 new poems in Polish titled "deadline".
 As opposed to her earlier works, published under the authorship of Katarzyna Ewa Zdanowicz , this one was published under her married name as Katarzyna Zdanowicz-Cyganiak .
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
 She is known for her path-breaking scholarship in US women’s and gender history, and for her significant contributions to developing interdisciplinary programs and international scholarly networks addressing women’s history, gender studies, the history of sexuality, and cultural and Atlantic studies.
 Her groundbreaking article, “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” established the legitimacy of lesbian history as it helped move women’s history from the margins to the mainstream of historical scholarship, creating “a template for how feminists could literally make history” (Potter, 2015).
 Her first publication in this area, the article “Dis-covering the Subject of the Great Constitutional Debate,” was awarded the Binkley-Stephenson Award by the Organization of American Historians in 1993.
 Her book, "This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity", won a Choice Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in 2011.
Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston is a 1992 book edited by Howard Beeth and Cary D. Wintz and published by Texas A&M University Press.
 It is a collection of thirteen essays about the history of African-Americans in Houston.
 It was the first scholarly book to provide a comprehensive history of Houston's black community, and the book's dust jacket referred to it as the first such book of any city in the Southern United States.
Handbook of Religion and Health is a scholarly book about the relation of spirituality and religion with physical and mental health.
 Written by Harold G. Koenig, Michael E. McCullough, and David B. Larson, the book was published in the United States in 2001.
 The book has been discussed in magazines and reviewed in professional journals.

Question: Who wrote a scholarly book that was disseminated in 1998?
Answer: J. S. La Fontaine