TAA announces 2004 TAA Texty, McGuffey Award winners
Six Textbook Excellence Awards (Textys) and four McGuffey Longevity Awards were awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association in the college and elementary-high school level fields of physical sciences; communications/education/performing arts/visual arts; mathematics statistics; computer science/engineering; and life sciences. The awards will be presented at the annual TAA awards banquet April 3 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Each author, including co-authors, and the book's editor or publisher, will receive a plaque.
TAA thanks the judges for volunteering their time to judge the entries.
The Texty winners for 2004 are:
 Taking Their Place: Documentary History of Women and Journalism, 2nd ed., by Maurine H. Beasley and Sheila Gibbons, published by Strata Publishing, Inc. (college level, communications/education/ performing arts/visual arts). |
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| The Art of Public Speaking, 8th ed., by Stephen Lucas, published by McGraw-Hill (college level, communications/education/ performing arts/visual arts). |  |
| Math Trailblazers: A Mathematical Journey Using Science & Language Art, 2nd ed., by Phil Wagreich, published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. (elementary-high school, mathematics/statistics). |  |
| Precalculus, 6th ed., by Ron Larson and Robert Hostetler, published by Houghton Mifflin (college level, mathematics/statistics). |  |
| Exploring Microsoft Windows XP Volume 1, 1st ed., by Richard Alan McMahon, Sr., published by Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, Inc. (college level, computer science/engineering). |  |
| Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet, 4th ed., by Daniel B. Botkin and Edward A. Keller, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (college level, life sciences). |  |
The McGuffey winners for 2004 are:
An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, 8th ed., by Karen Timberlake, published by Benjamin Cummings/Pearson Education (college level, physical sciences). |
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| The Art of Public Speaking, 8th ed., by Stephen Lucas, published by McGraw-Hill (college level, communications/education/ performing arts/visual arts). | |
| Calculus, 7th ed., by Ron Larson, Robert Hostetler and Bruce Edwards, published by Houghton Mifflin (college level, mathematics/statistics). |  |
| Administrative Medical Assisting, 5th ed., by Marilyn Fordney, Linda French and Joan Follis, published by Thomson Delmar Learning (college level, life sciences). |  |
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