The Text and Academic Authors Association has announced its 2014 textbook award winners. Fourteen awards were given in three different award categories. One textbook was awarded a 2014 William Holmes McGuffey Longevity Award (McGuffey), 11 textbooks were awarded 2014 Textbook Excellence Awards (Texty), and two textbooks were awarded 2014 Most Promising New Textbook Awards.

The McGuffey Award is awarded to recognize textbooks and learning materials whose excellence has been demonstrated over time, the Texty Award is awarded to recognize excellence in current textbook and learning materials in their 2nd edition or later, and the Most Promising New Textbook Award is awarded to recognize excellence in first year edition textbooks and learning materials.

The awards will be presented during an awards luncheon at TAA’s 27th Annual Textbook & Academic Authoring Conference in Baltimore, Maryland June 21, 2014.

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2014 McGuffey Award Winner (College)

Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
6th ed.
By Ron Larson
Published by Cengage Learning
College: Mathematics/Statistics
2014 Texty Winners (College)

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities
7th ed.
By Donald DePamphilis
Published by Elsevier/Academic Press
College: Accounting/Business/Economics/Management

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Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design
3rd ed.
By Dr. Hugh Shercliff, Dr. David Cebon and Mike Ashby
Published by Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Finite Elements in Fracture Mechanics
3rd ed.
By Meinhard Kuna
Published by Springer Dordrecht, The Netherlands
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Practical Series: Practical Computer Literacy, Practical PC, Practical Microsoft Office Practical Open Source Office
4-7 ed.
By June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, and Donna Mulder
Published by Cengage Learning
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Computer Organization and Design
5th ed.
By David Patterson and John Hennessy
Published by Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Data and Computer Communications
10th ed.
By William Stallings
Published by Pearson Education, Inc.
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Python Programming in Context
2nd ed.
By Bradley Miller and David Ranum
Published by Jones & Bartlett Learning
College: Computer Science/Engineering

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Pre-Calculus
9th ed.
By Ron Larson
Published by Cengage Learning
College: Mathematics/Statistics

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Groundwater Science
2nd ed.
By Charles Fitts
Published by Elsevier
College: Physical Sciences

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Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change
3rd ed.
By Dr. William H. Schlesinger and Emily S. Bernhardt
Published by Elsevier/Academic Press
College: Physical Sciences

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2014 Textbook Excellence Award Winner (El-Hi)

Big Ideas Math: A Common Core Curriculum
2nd ed.
By Ron Larson and Laurie Boswell
Published by Big Ideas Learning, LLC
El-Hi: Mathematics/Statistics

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2014 Most Promising New Textbook Award Winners (College)

Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
1st ed.
By Dr. Gregory J. Privitera
Published by SAGE Publications, Inc.
College: Humanities/Social Sciences

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Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods and Applications
1st ed.
By Shawn Nordell and Thomas Valone
Published by Oxford University Press USA
College: Life Sciences

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