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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). |
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| 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). |
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| Precalculus,
6th ed., by Ron Larson and Robert Hostetler, published by
Houghton Mifflin (college level, mathematics/statistics). |
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| 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). |
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| 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). |
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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). |
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| Calculus,
7th ed., by Ron Larson, Robert Hostetler and Bruce Edwards,
published by Houghton Mifflin (college level, mathematics/statistics). |
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| 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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