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Join us for the 2007 TAA Conference at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo
in downtown Buffalo, NY, June 22-23
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Preliminary Conference
Schedule now available
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Book Raffle
IIL Publishing, New York will raffle four books at the 2007 TAA Conference
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Coming to Buffalo?
Put these two books on your reading list
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Trip to Niagara Falls by Geronimo Stilton (Scholastic)
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Mentoring Sessions
Several veteran authors have agreed to serve as mentors at the conference.
Attendees will be able to sign up at the conference registration desk
for 15-minute sessions with a mentor. A list of mentors will be available
soon.
Roundtable Discussions
Luncheon
Saturday, June 23
12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Choose from 10 different moderated roundtable discussions related to
textbook and academic authoring.
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Dinner at The
Anchor Bar
Thursday, June 21, 6 p.m.
The restaurant where Buffalo-style wings were invented
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Buffalo, NY Waterfront
Tour
Friday, June 22, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Take a guided tour of the Buffalo waterfront
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Karpeles Manuscript
Musuem and Library Tour
Friday, June 22, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
View Walt Disney illustrations and documents, among others
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Social Networking
Event: A Chartered 3-hour Dinner Cruise Aboard the Grand Lady
Friday, June 22, 6:45 p.m. to 10 p.m.
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Four-hour Guided
Tour to Niagara Falls (American side)
Saturday, June 23, 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Tour full.
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Free
one-on-one sessions with an authoring attorney or literary agent
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• Articles
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Archive
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Awards Luncheon
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The Award
Winners:
2007
Texty, McGuffey authors share award-winning advice
Finite
Mathematics and Applied Calculus, 1st ed., by Frank C. Wilson,
published by Houghton Mifflin (College Mathematics/Statistics
category)
Challenging
Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding
Effectively, 2nd ed., by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky,
published by Allyn & Bacon (College Communication/Education/Performing
Arts/Visual Arts category)
Invertebrate
Medicine, 1st ed., by Gregory A. Lewbart, published by Blackwell
Publishing Professional (College Life Sciences category)
(Texty) Data
and Computer Communications, 8th ed., by William Stallings,
published by Pearson/Prentice Hall (College Computer Science/Engineering
category)
(McGuffey) Biological
Psychology, by James W. Kalat (textbook), Elaine Hull (study
guide), Jeffrey Stowell (test bank), Cynthia Crawford (instructor's
resource manual), and Chris Hayashi (NOW and Multimedia Manager),
published by Thomas Wadsworth (College Humanities/Social Sciences
category)
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The Text and Academic
Authors Association has selected seven textbooks to receive a 2007 Textbook
Excellence Award ("Texty"), and two textbooks to receive a 2007 William
Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award ("McGuffey").
The awards will
be presented at the TAA Awards Luncheon June 22 in Buffalo, New York
during the association's 2007 Conference on Text and Academic Authoring
at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.
The Texty winners
for 2007 are:
- Challenging
Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding
Effectively, 2nd ed., by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky,
published by Allyn & Bacon (College Communication/Education/Performing
Arts/Visual Arts category)
- The Essentials
of Computer Organization & Architecture, 2nd ed., by Linda
Null and Julia M. LoBur, published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers
(College Computer Science/Engineering category)
- Data and Computer
Communications, 8th ed., by William Stallings, published by Pearson/Prentice
Hall (College Computer Science/Engineering category)
- Invertebrate
Medicine, 1st ed., by Gregory A. Lewbart, published by Blackwell
Publishing Professional (College Life Sciences category)
- Finite Mathematics
and Applied Calculus, 1st ed., by Frank C. Wilson, published by
Houghton Mifflin (College Mathematics/Statistics category)
- A History
of Roman Art, by Fred S. Kleiner, published by Wadsworth/Thomson
Higher Education (College Humanities/Social Sciences category)
- Race, Ethnicity,
Gender, and Class: The Sociology of Group Conflict & Change,
by Joseph F. Healey, published by Sage Publications, Pine Forge Press
(Humanities/Social Sciences category)
The McGuffey winners
for 2007 are:
- College Algebra,
8th ed., by Michael Sullivan, published by Prentice Hall (College
Mathematics/Statistics category)
- Biological
Psychology, by James W. Kalat (textbook), Elaine Hull (study guide),
Jeffrey Stowell (test bank), Cynthia Crawford (instructor's resource
manual), and Chris Hayashi (NOW and Multimedia Manager), published
by Thomas Wadsworth (College Humanities/Social Sciences category)
2007
Texty, McGuffey authors share award-winning advice
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