Humana published more than 100 new books and 25 journals per year with a backlist of approximately 1,500 titles in areas such as
molecular biology,
neuroscience, and
medicine. The company was founded in 1976 in
Clifton, New Jersey, by Thomas L. Lanigan and his wife, Julia Lanigan, both
chemists, and published its first book in 1977. The company was acquired by
Springer Science+Business Media in the fall of 2006 and continues to publish titles of book series under the Humana Press imprint. ==Selected publications==