Garland Science was a
publishing group that specialized in developing
textbooks in a wide range of
life sciences subjects, including
cell and
molecular biology
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,
immunology,
protein
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chemistry,
genetics, and
bioinformatics. It was a subsidiary of the
Taylor & Francis Group.
History
The firm was founded as "Garland Publishing" in 1969 by Gavin Borden (1939-1991). Initially it published "18th-century literary criticism".
[Michael F. Suarez, S.J.]
"Garland Publishing"
in: ''The Oxford Companion to the Book'', Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 8 July 2022. By the late 1970s it was mainly publishing academic reference books along with facsimile and reprint editions for niche markets.
Notable book series published by Garland Publishing included the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (1975- ), the Garland Reference Library of Social Science (1983- ), and Garland Medieval Bibliographies (1989- ). The ''
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music'' (10 volumes), originally published by Garland Publishing, is now published by
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, another
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of the Taylor & Francis Group.
In 1984 the firm published a new edition of James Joyce's ''
Ulysses'', under the title of ''Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition''. Edited by Hans Walter Gabler, it was intended to correct "almost 5,000 omissions, transpositions and other errors in the original text" as published in 1922.
In 1983 the firm began publishing scientific textbooks.
In 1997 the firm was acquired by Taylor & Francis and published under the name of "Garland Science Publishing" or "Garland Science".
One Garland Science success was the textbook
''Molecular Biology of the Cell'' (authors include
Bruce Alberts and
Peter Walter;
James D. Watson was a previous author), which has been lauded as "the most influential cell biology textbook of its time".
Other notable textbooks published by Garland Science included ''The Biology of Cancer'' (by
Robert Weinberg), ''Immunobiology'' (authors including
Charles Janeway
Charles Alderson Janeway, Jr. (1943–2003) was a noted immunologist who helped create the modern field of innate immunity. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he held a faculty position at Yale University's Medical School and was a ...
and Kenneth Murphy), ''Molecular Biology of the Cell: The Problems Book'' (by John Wilson and
Tim Hunt), ''Essential Cell Biology'' (Bruce Alberts et al.), ''The Immune System'' (Peter Parham), ''Molecular Driving Forces'' (
Ken A. Dill
Kenneth Austin Dill (born 1947) is a biophysics, biophysicist and physical chemistry, chemist best known for his work in protein folding, folding pathways of proteins. He is the director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quan ...
& Sarina Bromberg), and ''Physical Biology of the Cell'' (Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev & Julie Theriot).
As of 2018, the Garland Science website has been shut down and their major textbooks have been sold to
W. W. Norton & Company.
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