2010 TAA Awards Ceremony Luncheon
Sponsored by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

TAA's 2010 Textbook Excellence Awards and McGuffey Longevity Awards will be presented during an Awards Ceremony Luncheon at the association's annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 26.

TAA has selected seven textbooks to receive a 2010 Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty"), and three textbooks to receive a 2010 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award ("McGuffey").

Two books tied for a Texty in the College Humanities/Social Sciences category: Criminal Investigation, 9th ed., by Kären M. Hess and Christine Hess Orthmann (Delmar Cengage Learning), and Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, by H.J. deBlij and Peter O. Muller (John Wiley & Sons).

2010 Texty winners:

AP Environmental Teacher Manual and Student Lab Manual, 1st ed., by Carol Matthews and N. Kathryn Weatherland, published by Teaching Point (El-Hi Physical Sciences category)
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Carol Matthews

Kathyrn Weatherhead

Big Ideas Math, 3-book Middle School Series (6-8 grades), 1st ed., by Ron Larson and Laurie Boswell, published by Big Ideas Learning (El-Hi Mathematics/Statistics category)
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Ron Larson

Laurie Boswell

Joan Green

Kathleen Gould Lundy

BOLDPRINT Graphic Novels, 1st ed., edited by Joan Green and Kathleen Gould Lundy, published by Rubicon Publishing Inc. (El-Hi Language and Literature category)
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David Booth

Larry Swartz

BOLDPRINT Kids Graphic Readers, 1st ed., edited by David Booth and Larry Swartz, published by Rubicon Publishing Inc. (El-Hi Language and Literature category)
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Jaap Schijve

Fatigue of Structures and Materials: Second Edition with CD-ROM, by Jaap Schijve, published by Springer Science + Business Media (College Computer Science/Engineering Category)
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Glen Downey

Graphic Poetry, series, 1st ed., edited by Glen Downey, published by Rubicon Publishing Inc. (El-Hi Language and Literature category)
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Dr. Fredric Martini

Michael J. Timmons

Human Anatomy, 6th ed., by Frederic Martini, Michael J. Timmons, Robert Tallitsch, published by Pearson Education/Benjamin Cummings (College Life Sciences Category)
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2010 McGuffey winners:

Kären M. Hess

Christine Hess Orthmann

Criminal Investigation, 9th ed., by Kären M. Hess and Christine Hess Orthmann, published by Delmar Cengage Learning (College Humanities/Social Sciences category)
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H.J. de Blij

Peter Muller

Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 14th ed., by H.J. de Blij and Peter O. Muller, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (College Humanities/Social Sciences category)
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Modern Operating Systems, 3rd ed., by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, published by Pearson Education-Prentice Hall (College Computer Science/Engineering category)
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2010 Texty and McGuffey Award-Winning Authors

David Booth

David Booth is a renowned educator and professor emeritus in the Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Department at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. As a classroom teacher, consultant, speaker, and writer, he has delighted thousands with his energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to education. David is well known as an international speaker, having worked with teachers and administrators throughout Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and Asia.

Laurie Boswell

Laurie Boswell is a mathematics teacher at the Riverside School in Lyndonville, Vermont. She is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching. Laurie has taught math to students at all levels, elementary through college. In addition, Laurie was a Tandy Technology Scholar, and served on the NCTM Board of Directors from 2002 to 2005. She currently serves on the board of NCSM, and is a popular national speaker. Along with Dr. Larson, Laurie has co-authored numerous math programs.

H.J. de Blij

H.J. de Blij is John A. Hannah Professor at Michigan State University. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, where he also taught throughout the decade of the 1960s. In the interim, he chaired the Geography Department at the University of Miami and served as editor at the National Geographic Society. Hehas published more than 30 books including scientific, educational, and trade titles, and over 100 articles. In his most recent trade book, The Power of Place (2009, Oxford University Press) he argues that the world is not only not "flat", but becoming more corrugated. In Why Geography Matters (2007, Oxford University Press, paperback edition) he argues that America's persistent geographic illiteracy constitutes a national security risk. His textbook Geography: Realms, Regions and Concepts (Wiley) has exceeded 1.2 million copies in 14 editions since 1970. Another book, Wine: a Geographic Appreciation (Rowman & Allanheld) was a bestseller during the 1980s and was awarded a medal by the French wine organization, OIV, in Paris. His books have been translated into several foreign languages. For seven years, he was the popular Geography Editor on ABC's "Good Morning America". In 1996 he joined NBC News as Geography Analyst, appearing mostly on MSNBC. He was writer of and commentator for the original PBS Series "The Power of Place."

Glen Downey

Glen Downey is a Canadian children’s author, teacher, and academic. He has published nearly eighty books for young people across a variety of genres that focus on the development of adolescent literacy. An award-winning educator, Glen is currently Head of Languages at Lindsay Collegiate and Vocational Institute. He has worked as an educator at a number of secondary and postsecondary institutions, including Appleby College, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria. Glen received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Victoria (1998), and earned his B.A. (1991) and M.A. (1992) from McMaster University. He was awarded the University of British Columbia’s Ian Fairclough Prize for Teaching in 2000, and was the University of Western Ontario’s top education graduate in 2001. Glen has written scholarly articles for a range of print and online forums, and appears in the PBS Telecourse English Composition: Writing for an Audience.

Kathleen Gould Lundy

Kathleen Gould Lundy is the Co-ordinator of Destination Arts at York University — a joint venture of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Fine Arts that fosters partnerships amongst artists, educators, and the community. Kathy has had extensive experience working in literacy, equity, and drama education. She has worked as a secondary school teacher, a drama consultant, the Coordinator of the Language Study Centre at the Toronto Board of Education, and the District-wide Coordinator of Drama and Dance for the Toronto District School Board. Kathy is interested in teaching hard-to-reach students, and has thus championed several innovative projects in Canada including Architecture of the Imagination, Looking at the Overlooked, and Imagine a school…(in collaboration with the Canadian Education Association). Kathy has recently been publicly appointed to serve on the Education Minister’s Curriculum Council for the Ontario government.

Joan Green

Joan Green is a senior public policy advisor to governments nationally and internationally. She has served as a teacher, principal, and superintendent, and was the first female Director of Education for the Toronto Board of Education. Joan is the Founding CEO of the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), and served as the Commissioner on Education for the province of Alberta. She has published works on curriculum, assessment, leadership, and equity issues, and is a co-author and senior member of the editorial board for several groundbreaking Language and Literacy series. Joan received the Distinguished Educator Award from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and the Leadership Award for Women in Educational Administration in Ontario. She was the founding Chair of the Board of Roots of Empathy, and is currently the Vice-Chair of the Board of Goodwill and an Executive member of the Board of ParticipACTION.

Kären M. Hess

Kären Matison Hess earned her B.A. in English (1961), B.S. in education (1961), M.A. in Educational Psychology (1963) and PhD in Instructional Design (1968), all from the University of Minnesota. She also earned a PhD in criminal justice in 1994. In 2006, when the University of Minnesota College of Education celebrated its 100th anniversary, Dr. Hess was one of 100 alumni honored from the college’s first 100 years who have “made a difference.”

Dr. Hess taught English at Hopkins (Minnesota) High School from 1961-1966 and Freshman English at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota, for 30 years while authoring or co-authoring over 30 trade books and college-level textbooks on a variety of topics including financial planning, dental marketing, art, literature, engineering, hospice care, reading, management and report writing. She presently writes full time, keeping current nine criminal justice textbooks she has authored or co-authored for Wadsworth and Delmar Publishing Companies (Cengage Learning) and Innovative Systems – Publishers.

Kären is a charter member of TAA and served as the TAA Council secretary for two three-year terms. She is also a member of the TAA Council of Fellows and a member of the TAA Foundation Board of Directors as well as a member of several other professional organizations.

She has been married for 48 years to Sheldon, a retired physician, and has two children: Timothy, a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force, and Christine Hess Orthmann, a co-author for the Hess books who shares the McGuffey Award with her.

Carol Matthews

Carol Matthews is a native of Louisville, KY and has a B.S. in Biology from Kentucky Wesleyan College and received her Master's Degree in Marine and Environmental Sciences from the University of Delaware. She now resides in Jacksonville, FL where she has been a teacher for the past 25 years at The Bolles School, a private college-prep academy with an international record of excellence.

Beyond the TEXTY Award winning Advanced Environmental Science, Matthews is also the author of two other lab manuals and full course curriculum materials entitled Marine Biology and Oceanography and Honors Environmental Science published by Teaching-Point. She and her co-author have conducted regional AP summer workshops to help teachers improve the rigor in Advanced Placement course. They both are readers for the College Board exams and although, they have been friends and colleagues for over a decade, this is their first written collaboration.

Carol has served as a director for the Florida Association of Science Teachers, Florida Marine Science Educators Association and is a member of numerous local professional and governmental boards and committees. She was chosen as her county’s Environmental Citizen of the Year and has twice been named a local Teacher of the Year. She and her husband, Doug, have two grown daughters and twin granddaughters.

Ron Larson

Ron Larson is a professor of mathematics at Penn State University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado in 1970. Dr. Larson is well-known as the lead author of a comprehensive program for mathematics that spans middle school, high school, and college courses. His High School and Advanced Placement books are published by Holt-McDougal. Dr. Larson’s numerous professional activities keep him in constant touch with the needs of students, teachers, and supervisors. Dr. Larson and Laurie Boswell began writing together in 1992. Since that time, they have authored over two dozen textbooks. In their collaboration, Dr. Larson is primarily responsible for the pupil edition and Laurie Boswell is primarily responsible for the teaching edition of the text.

Dr. Fredric Martini

Dr. Fredric Martini received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in comparative and functional anatomy for work on the pathophysiology of stress. His first textbook, Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology, was published in 1989, followed by Human Anatomy in 1995. He has authored or coauthored eight undergraduate texts in the fields of human anatomy and physiology; all are still in print, and a ninth will be published in August 2010. Although Dr. Martini has retired from full-time teaching , he continues an active research program and travels widely. He is currently affiliated faculty of the University of Hawaii at Manoa and remains connected with the Shoals Marine Laboratory, a joint venture between Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Martini is a President Emeritus of the Human Anatomy and Physiology Society, and he is a member of the American Association of Anatomists, the American Physiological Society, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and the International Society of Vertebrate Morphologists. He is also Western Regional Advisor to the Authors Guild. Dr. Martini has been a member of TAA since 1991 and this will be his fifth Textbook Excellence Award.

Peter Muller

Peter O. Muller was born in the UK, grew up in Manhattan, and received his B.A. from City College of CUNY in 1963; his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) degrees were both received from Rutgers, where he earned the first doctorate in Geography awarded by the university. He taught at Villanova and Temple Universities before coming to the University of Miami in 1980, where he chaired the Department of Geography until 2000. He is an urban geographer with research interests in the spatial dimensions of suburbanization, metropolitan structural transformation, and the changing geography of the United States. He is co-editor of the journal Urban Geography and also serves as book review editor of The Annals of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). His books include Contemporary Suburban America, which developed a framework for understanding how the American city has turned inside-out since the 1970s. He has contributed essays on this topic to various books, journals, and monographs. He has also coauthored textbooks in world regional, economic, and physical geography, which have gone through a total of 20 editions. Muller has also served the AAG in a number of capacities including regional councilor, president of the Middle States Division, and chair of the Urban Geography Specialty Group. At the University of Miami he has been president of the university’s Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi chapters. Muller lives in Coral Gables, Florida and is married with two daughters and two grandchildren.

Christine Hess Orthmann

Christine Hess Orthmann, M.S., has been writing and researching in various aspects of criminal justice for over 20 years and has extensive experience as an indexer, proofreader and author of Instructor’s Manuals and Student Study Guides for several criminal justice textbooks. She is a co-author of numerous Cengage texts, including Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving (6th edition), Corrections for the Twenty-First Century, Criminal Investigation (9th edition), and Police Operations (5th edition), as well as a major contributor to Constitutional Law (5th edition), Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (9th edition), Introduction to Private Security (5th edition), Juvenile Justice (5th edition), and Careers in Criminal Justice and Related Fields: From Internship to Promotion (6th edition). An additional publication in which she was involved is For the Record: Report Writing in Law Enforcement (6th edition, Innovative Systems – Publishers). Orthmann holds a B.S. in Biology from the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), an M.S. in Marine Biology and Coastal Zone Management from Nova Southeastern University (Dania, Florida), and is completing an M.S. in Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, with an anticipated graduation date of August 2010. She is a member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA), and the National Criminal Justice Honor Society (Alpha Phi Sigma), and is a reserve officer with the Rosemount (Minnesota) Police Department.

Jaap Schijve

Jaap Schijve was born on 12 May 1927 in Oostburg, The Netherlands. He married with Janine Risseeuw. He received a masters degree and a doctors degree from the Delft University of Technology. From 1953 to 1973 he was engaged at the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR, Amsterdam /Noordoostpolder. His last position was head of the Division of Structures and Materials. Main topics of his research were fatigue and fracture of aircraft materials and structures, variable-amplitude tests, flight-simulation tests, full-scale fatigue tests, fatigue crack growth, accident investigations, fractography, non-destructive testing. Since 1973 he was a professor in Delft teaching on aircraft structures and materials. Many undergraduate and postgraduate students obtained their degree under his guidance. His research was published in several Journals and Proceedings of international organizations. Two noteworthy publications were: "Four lectures on fatigue crack growth" (Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol.11, 1979), and Fatigue of Structures and Materials in the 20th Century (Int. J. of Fatigue, Vol.25, 2003). During his carreer he also prepared several Post-Academic Courses for practicing engineers and scientists. He was also active in several international courses, as well as international organization. He has been the General Secretary of the International Committee of Aeronautical Fatigue (ICAF). During his career he received several awards. More recently an award was introduced by the Delft University of Technology and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) with the name "The Jaap Schijve Award" to be granted to a young and talented researcher in the field of aeronoutical fatigue. This occurred during the 2009 ICAF Symposium in Rotterdam.

Larry Swartz

Larry Swartz is an instructor in literacy and in dramatic arts at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He has been an educator for over thirty years, and is well-known for his use of children’s literature to help young people grow as readers, writers, and citizens of the world. Larry has been involved with anti-bullying education in several capacities. He is the editor of the university journal Orbit, which features articles connected to ‘The Bully Issue.’ As a classroom teacher, consultant, author, and speaker, Larry has shared his enthusiasm and expertise with teachers, administrators, teacher-librarians, and parents throughout Canada, the United States, and Asia.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Andrew S. Tanenbaum was born in New York City and raised in White Plains, NY. He has an S.B.from M.I.T. and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Prof. Tanenbaum is the principal designer of three operating systems: TSS-11, Amoeba, and MINIX. In addition, Tanenbaum is the author or coauthor of five books, which together have been translated in more than 20 languages. All in all, there are over 125 editions of his books (as shown here). In 2004, Tanenbaum became an Academy Professor, which carried with it a 5-year grant totaling 1 million euro to do research on reliable operating systems. His university matched this amount. In 2008, he received a prestigious European Research Council grant of 2.5 million euro to do continue this research. Tanenbaum is a Fellow of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994 he was the recipient of the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. In 1997 he won the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science. In 2007 he won the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr., Education Medal. He also won a Texty Award in 2002 and a McGuffey Award in 2003. His home page is http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast.

Michael J. Timmons

Michael J. Timmons received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Loyola University, Chicago. For more than three decades he has taught anatomy to nursing, EMT, and pre-professional students at Moraine Valley Community College. Mike was honored with the Professor of the Year Award by MVCC and the Excellence Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, at the University of Texas at Austin, for his outstanding contributions to teaching, leadership, and student learning. He is the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award by the Illinois Community College Board of Trustees. Mike has written and received Title II, Title III, and NSF grants for developing advanced instructional technology delivery systems and continues to act as consultant to community colleges to assist in developing gross anatomy cadaver laboratory facilities for professional degree programs. He is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Association of Anatomists, Human Anatomy and Physiology Society, and Text and Academic Authors. He has authored a human anatomy text, anatomy and physiology lab manuals, anatomy lab manuals, dissection guides, and CD programs for students and instructors. His areas of interest include biomedical photography, crafting illustration programs, and developing visionary instructional technology learning systems. Mike chaired the Midwest Regional Human Anatomy and Physiology Conference and is also a national and regional presenter at the League for Innovation Conferences on Information Technology for Colleges and Universities and at Human Anatomy and Physiology Society meetings.

Kathyrn Weatherhead

Kathryn Weatherhead is Science Department Chairman at Hilton Head Island High School and is an adjunct assistant professor at University of South Carolina-Beaufort. She has been an AP Reader or Table Leader in both Biology and Environmental Science for nearly two decades. She serves as a College Board Consultant for Southern Region in both subject areas, presenting numerous one-day and week-long summer institutes across the country. Kathryn has presented at many NSTA National Conventions on AP teaching strategies, and quantitative skills for APES, and for developing award-winning science fair projects. She was invited to present the AP Environmental Science pre-conference workshop for experienced teachers at the 2009 AP Annual Conference. She co-authored a laboratory manual and teacher resources entitled Advanced Environmental Science which is currently used in schools from Florida to Hong Kong and is the winner of a 2010 Texty Award from Textbook and Academic Authors association. She also co-authored the current Special Focus: Ecology and an AP Environmental Science curriculum module on radiation for College Board. She serves as a consultant for lab and field product development, and is widely employed in reviewing and AP aligning college level textbooks for Marine Science and Environmental Science. She recently completed revisions for AP Achiever-Environmental Science for McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and is the author of AP Biology vocabulary for eTextPrep, a new text-messaging study prep course for students. In addition to her enthusiasm for teaching AP Biology, AP Environmental Science and AP Chemistry, she also teaches International Baccalaureate HL and SL Biology and Environmental Systems, and marine science. Kathryn is a National Board Certified AYA Science teacher, has taught undergraduate and graduate science and education courses for USC, Limestone College, and Winthrop University in addition to secondary science for over thirty two years. She also has developed summer science programs for young children, and girl scouts and has received numerous local and regional accolades for teaching and environmental stewardship.

TAA created the Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty") in 1992 to recognize current textbooks and learning materials. TAA created the McGuffey Longevity Awards ("McGuffey") in 1993 to recognize textbooks and learning materials whose excellence has been demonstrated over time. The awards bear the name of William Holmes McGuffey, whose influential primers, which first appeared in 1836, helped bring the United States out of frontier illiteracy. More info on awards

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