Garland Science

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Garland Science
Parent company
Taylor & Francis
Founded1968
FounderGavin G. Borden
SuccessorW. W. Norton & Company
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
Publication typesTextbooks
Official websitewww.garlandscience.com

Garland Science was a

life sciences subjects, including cell and molecular biology, immunology, protein 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).[1] Initially it published "18th-century literary criticism".[2] By the late 1970s it was mainly publishing academic reference books along with facsimile and reprint editions for niche markets.[2]

Notable book series published by Garland Publishing included the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (1975–),[3] the Garland Reference Library of Social Science (1983–),[4] and Garland Medieval Bibliographies (1989–).[5] The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (10 volumes), originally published by Garland Publishing, is now published by Routledge, another imprint 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"[6] as published in 1922.

In 1983 the firm began publishing scientific textbooks.[2] 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

James D. Watson was a previous author), which has been lauded as "the most influential cell biology textbook of its time".[7] Other notable textbooks published by Garland Science included The Biology of Cancer (by Robert Weinberg), Immunobiology (authors including Charles Janeway 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
& Sarina Bromberg), and Physical Biology of the Cell (Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev & Julie Theriot).

As of 2018,[update] the Garland Science website had been shut down and their major textbooks have been sold to W. W. Norton & Company.

References

  1. ^ "Gavin G. Borden, 52, Founder of Book Firm", The New York Times, 25 December 1991. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Michael F. Suarez, S.J., "Garland Publishing", in: The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford University Press, 2010 (online edition). Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  3. ^ se:Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  4. ^ se:Garland Reference Library of Social Science, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  5. ^ se:Garland Medieval Bibliographies, worldcat.org. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  6. ^ Edwin McDowell, "One step back for Joyce's 'Ulysses'", The Tuscaloosa News, 1 July 1990, p. 4D. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
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