TAA announces 2009 Texty, McGuffey Award winners

The Text and Academic Authors Association has selected three textbooks to receive a 2009 Textbook Excellence Award ("Texty"), and four textbooks to receive a 2009 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award ("McGuffey"). Two books tied for the College Physical Science category:  An Introduction to Physical Science, 12th ed., by James T. Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Aaron Todd, and Charles Higgins, and Meteorology Today, 9th ed., by C. Donald Ahrens.

TAA created the Textbook Excellence Award in 1992 to recognize current textbooks and learning materials. TAA created the McGuffey Longevity Awards 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.

The awards will be presented during a luncheon at the 2009 TAA Conference in San Antonio on June 27, entitled "TAA Awards Ceremony: Standing Out From the Competition." Learn more about the 2009 TAA Conference: Click Here

2009 Texty winners:

Andreas Stark

Seismic Methods and Applications: A Guide for the Detection of Geologic Structures, Earthquake Zones and Hazards, Resource Exploration, and Geotechnical Engineering, 1st ed., by Andreas Stark, published by Universal-Publishers, Inc. (College Physical Science category)

William Stallings

Operating Systems: Internals and Design Principles, 6th ed., by William Stallings, published by Pearson Education (Prentice Hall) (College Computer Science/Engineering category)

Barbara Kaiser

Judy Sklar Rasminsky

Challenging Behavior in Elementary and Middle School, 1st ed., by Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky, published by Merrill/Pearson (College Communication/ Education/ Performing Arts/ Visual Arts)

2009 McGuffey winners:

Jerry Wilson

Charles Higgins

An Introduction to Physical Science, 12th ed., by James T. Shipman, Jerry D. Wilson, Aaron Todd, and Charles Higgins, published by Houghton Mifflin (Now Cengage) (College Physical Science category)

C. Donald Ahrens

Meteorology Today, 9th ed., by C. Donald Ahrens, published by Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning (College Physical Science category)

Karen Morris

Hotel, Restaurant & Travel Law: A Preventive Approach, 7th ed., by Karen Morris, Norman Cournoyer, and Anthony Marshall, published by Delmar, Cengage Learning. (College Humanities/ Social Science category)

Jay Devore

Probability and Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences, 7th ed., by Jay Devore, published by Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning (College Mathematics/Statistics category)