James Morrison Awarded TAA Publication Grant

TAA member James V. Morrison, the Stodghill Professor Classics at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, has been awarded a Publication Grant from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association to cover image permission costs for his forthcoming academic book, Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture from Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live. The book will be published by Routledge in 2025.

“I was delighted to learn that I have received a $1,000 Publication Grant from TAA,” he said. “It is very generous of TAA to support this work of comparative literature and performance: the images are especially valuable for sections in the book discussing parody, satire, and caricature.”

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders’

School Safety: True Stories and Solutions from School Leaders, edited by Joseph (Rocky) F. Wallace, Valerie Flanagan, and Robin Magruder, is a transparent look at the diverse mix of safety issues school administrators face every day. The wisdom shared in how these real events were handled with fast thinking and care for all parties makes this read a helpful resource for any educator.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Social Emotional Learning and Servant Leadership: True Stories from the Classroom’

Social Emotional Learning and Servant Leadership: True Stories from the Classroom edited by Joseph (Rocky) F. Wallace, Valerie Flanagan, and Robin Magruder, is a collection of real experiences, written by faculty and alumni of Campbellsville University’s School of Education. This collection illustrate sthe diverse needs of P-12 students, and the interventions that can make a life-changing difference in their young lives.

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AI, Uber-Textbooks, and Knowing Your Own Strengths

By Dave Harris

Is there is a danger that LLMs (or other AI) will create an “uber-textbook” using the work of individual authors, basically stealing the best of all the individual work of scholars for profit, while paying the authors nothing? This question came up in the November 6, 2024 TAA Conversation Circle on royalties, and I wanted to touch on it again, after writing a related piece this past spring.

The previous piece argued (1) that current AI is too limited to do good intellectual work, and, (2) regardless of the capability of AI, that it’s important to take one’s own interests, desires, and personal experience into account because writing and research are personally uplifting positive experiences worth having, even if you’re not necessarily selling your work.

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2025 TAA Conference Bookstore Featured Book: ‘Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement’

This third edition of Government Contracting: Ethical Promises and Perils in Public Procurement by William Sims Curry incorporates research-based best practices, real-world procurement fraud cases, and offers recommendations for deterring fraud. This textbook is aimed at public administration, policy and procurement, along with public procurement postgraduate students and academics working in the fields of public administration, policy and procurement.

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