Parent company | Pearson Education |
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Founded | 1977 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | San Francisco |
Publication types | Textbooks |
Nonfiction topics | Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, Health & Kinesiology, Microbiology, and Physics & Astronomy |
Official website | www |
Benjamin Cummings specializes in science and is a publishing imprint of Pearson, the world's largest education publishing and technology company which is part of Pearson PLC, the global publisher ex owner of Penguin and Financial Times. Benjamin Cummings publishes medical textbooks, anatomy and physiology laboratory manuals, biology and microbiology textbooks, and health/kinesiology textbooks.
Cummings Publishing Company was formed in 1968 as a division of Addison-Wesley. In 1977, Addison-Wesley purchased the W. A. Benjamin Company and merged it with Cummings. Benjamin Cummings, along with the rest of Addison-Wesley, was purchased by Pearson in 1988.