Garland Science was a

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group that specialized in developing

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s in a wide range of

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subjects, including

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and

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chemistry,

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, and

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. It was a subsidiary of the

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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 ''The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music'' is an academic reference work. It was initiated by editors at Garland Publishing in 1988 as a 10-volume series of encyclopedias of world music. The final volumes appeared in 2001, but editions have since ...

'' (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 Bruce Michael Alberts (born April 14, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American biochemist and the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisc ...

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 Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, (born 19 February 1943) is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molec ...

), ''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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