{"id":9509,"date":"2021-02-26T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T20:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:29:31","slug":"melvin-earns-most-promising-new-textbook-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2021\/02\/26\/melvin-earns-most-promising-new-textbook-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Earns Most Promising New Textbook Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Business Law <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etown.edu\/depts\/business\/faculty.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sean Melvin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> garnered the 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) for his most-recent textbook, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Business-Society-Ethical-Digital-Environments\/dp\/1506388108\/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=Business+and+Society+Melvin&amp;qid=1614188529&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBusiness and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHaving taught Business and Society for many years, I saw the need for a new textbook that integrated business, ethics, and law in our digital age,&#8221; said Melvin. &#8220;It takes many years to write and revise a textbook and I know the author team is honored by receiving an award that recognizes our approach and hard work. The original book proposal was actually produced during my sabbatical leave a few years ago, so I am grateful to the College and my colleagues for their support as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melvin\u2019s work was one of just <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/taaa.memberclicks.net\/assets\/Awards\/PressRelease%20-%20TAA%20announces%202021%20Textbook%20Award%20winners.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 textbooks selected for that category<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The TAA judges said of his textbook, &#8220;Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments is a worthy TAA award winner. It combines superb and current content-coverage with primary-sourced research in a visually appealing presentation that will keep students and instructors intrigued for a long time after their semester ends.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Associate Professor of Business Law Sean Melvin garnered the 2021 Most Promising New Textbook Award by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA) for his most-recent textbook, \u201cBusiness and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments.\u201d \u201cHaving taught Business and Society for many years, I saw the need for a new textbook that integrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":9510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[1359,197,1350],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","tag-business-and-society","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}