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

cell Cell most often refers to: * Cell (biology), the functional basic unit of life * Cellphone, a phone connected to a cellular network * Clandestine cell, a penetration-resistant form of a secret or outlawed organization * Electrochemical cell, a de ...

and

molecular biology Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecule, molecular basis of biological activity in and between Cell (biology), cells, including biomolecule, biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactio ...

immunology Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of Immune system, immune systems in all Organism, organisms. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the Physiology, physiological functioning of the immune system in ...

protein Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residue (biochemistry), residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including Enzyme catalysis, catalysing metab ...

chemistry,

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, and

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. It was a subsidiary of the

Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in the United Kingdom that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 (publisher), F1000 Research and Dovepress. It i ...

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 si ...

'' (10 volumes), originally published by Garland Publishing, is now published by

Routledge Routledge ( ) is a British multinational corporation, multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, academic journals, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanit ...

, 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" 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 Emeritus Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco ...

and

Peter Walter Peter Walter (born December 5, 1954) is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He is currently the Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs and an emeritus professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biop ...

;

James D. Watson James Dewey Watson (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper in ''Nature'' proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule. Wats ...

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. (February 5, 1943 – April 12, 2003) was an American 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 Universit ...

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 molecu ...

), ''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 biophysicist and chemist best known for his work in folding pathways of proteins. He is the director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University. He ...

& Sarina Bromberg), and ''Physical Biology of the Cell'' (Rob Phillips, Jane Kondev & Julie Theriot). the Garland Science website had been shut down and their major textbooks have been sold to W. W. Norton & Company.

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