2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Fashion Wholesaling’

Get to know the wider fashion industry through wholesale selling. Clearly illustrated case studies and industry-focused exercises put the journey from apparel factory to retailer into a practical, real-world context. From working with fashion vendors, to navigating trade shows, and working in different territories, Fashion Wholesaling: From Manufacturer to Retailer by Linda B. Tucker, is the ultimate guide to an often-overlooked career.

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2025 TAA Virtual Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy & Physiology’

The fifth edition of A Visual Analogy Guide to Human Anatomy & Physiology (VAGAP), by Paul A. Krieger, uses visual analogies to assist students in learning the details of human anatomy and physiology. This new edition has been digitized to enhance learning by adding interactive self-quizzes, 3D anatomical models, videos, downloadable coloring pages, and auto-graded assessments.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book, ‘Criminal Investigation On the Street’

Criminal Investigation on the Street by G. W. Hildebrand presents investigative principles and techniques–and applies them to solving real-world crimes–in an engaging, student-friendly style centered on the Investigative Triangle: legal aspects, evidence, and behavioral analysis. Students and instructors alike will benefit from this book’s comprehensive coverage and accessible writing style. Published by Routledge.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘A View From the Balcony: Opera Through Womanist Eyes’

Performative voices of scholars of color present the balcony, opera performances, and opera glasses as signifiers of the origins and entrenchment of racism in the United States. A View From the Balcony: Opera Through Womanist Eyes by Jean Derricotte-Murphy, metaphorically seats readers in theater and societal balconies while glimpsing into and correcting the harmful historical, philosophical, and religious underpinnings of American systemic racism.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Brainstorm! Practice for Unrestricted Imagination and Original Thought’

Brainstorm! Practice for Unrestricted Imagination and Original Thought, by Dr. Olga Zbarskaya, shows, with scientific proof, that the powerful engine of creativity has unlimited fuel and can power every sphere of life, from food preparation to personal relationships and from academia to government administration. It is a manual for leveraging creative thought to overcome barriers, solve difficult problems, and streamline and optimize day-to-day living. Educators, institutional leaders, and CEOs will discover how creativity-boosting courses and trainings can promote unprecedented performance and productivity among students and employees.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research’

With the increasing amount of secondary data available, researchers have a trove of sources for new investigations at their fingertips but few books to guide them. Secondary Data in Mixed Methods Research by Daphne C. Watkins provides a step-by-step guide for incorporating secondary data into mixed methods designs and identifies characteristics of existing datasets that make them good candidates for mixed methods projects. Winner of a TAA 2024 Most Promising New Textbook Award. Published by SAGE.

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