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Book The Professor Is In

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Kelsky
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 0553419420
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Book The Algebra of Happiness

Download or read book The Algebra of Happiness written by Scott Galloway and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional book of wisdom and life advice from renowned business school professor and New York Times bestselling author of The Four Scott Galloway. Scott Galloway teaches brand strategy at NYU's Stern School of Business, but his most popular lectures deal with life strategy, not business. In the classroom, on his blog, and in YouTube videos garnering millions of views, he regularly offers hard-hitting answers to the big questions: What's the formula for a life well lived? How can you have a meaningful career, not just a lucrative one? Is work/life balance possible? What are the elements of a successful relationship? The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning draws on Professor Galloway's mix of anecdotes and no-BS insight to share hard-won wisdom about life's challenges, along with poignant personal stories. Whether it's advice on if you should drop out of school to be an entrepreneur (it might have worked for Steve Jobs, but you're probably not Steve Jobs), ideas on how to position yourself in a crowded job market (do something "boring" and move to a city; passion is for people who are already rich), discovering what the most important decision in your life is (it's not your job, your car, OR your zip code), or arguing that our relationships to others are ultimately all that matter, Galloway entertains, inspires, and provokes. Brash, funny, and surprisingly moving, The Algebra of Happiness represents a refreshing perspective on our need for both professional success and personal fulfillment, and makes the perfect gift for any new graduate, or for anyone who feels adrift.

Book Unjustified

    Book Details:
  • Author : Valerie Kossew Dunn
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2016-05-14
  • ISBN : 1491795050
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Unjustified written by Valerie Kossew Dunn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question about it: Professor Godfrey Mitchell is dead. His body is slumped behind his desk. His upholstered chair is splattered with blood and bits of brain. Immediately below the lifeless fingers of his right hand, a gun lies on the Oriental carpet. No one knows who murdered the professor and why. Detectives Jackson Blaustein and Dina Barrett of the Connecticut Major Crime Squad have their work cut out for them as clues seem to lead nowhere. Far from beloved, the best-selling author was estranged from his wife and son, resented for his publishing successes by his fellow faculty members at Whitney University, reputed to be a philanderer, and known to be an exploiter of his graduate teaching assistants. Despite investigating alibis and probing clues from the campus to a casino finally to a ski lodge, the detectives come up emptyuntil a second professor is found murdered. As the victims telephone record leads Detective Barrett out on her own without backup, the plot unravels in a dark, empty house where a killer lurks in the shadows. In this gripping tale, a mystery unfolds after a despised professor is murdered, leaving two detectives to piece together a complex puzzle where no one is safe from a killers vengeance.

Book Beach Lane

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherryl Woods
  • Publisher : MIRA
  • Release : 2022-02-07
  • ISBN : 0369722248
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Beach Lane written by Sherryl Woods and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the beloved town of Chesapeake Shores in this classic tale of friendship blossoming into love from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods—and watch the Chesapeake Shores TV series on Hallmark Channel! In the close-knit community of Chesapeake Shores, Maryland, Susie O’Brien and Mack Franklin’s "not dating" claim befuddles everyone, especially since the two spend every spare minute together. Susie’s thrilled when their friendship finally heats up. Then, just when happily-ever-after seems within reach, Mack loses the job he loves and Susie faces a devastating diagnosis. But O’Briens always unite in a crisis. Even her cousin Jess, Susie’s rival for most of their lives, becomes her staunchest supporter—especially when Mack’s former lover comes to town. The stakes are higher than ever before, but Susie’s definitely up to the challenge…as long as Mack’s right there by her side. Previously published. And don't forget to check out The Sweet Magnolias, another great series by Sherryl Woods and a Netflix Original TV Series!

Book Bring the Rain

    Book Details:
  • Author : JoAnn Franklin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2019-05-21
  • ISBN : 1631525085
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Bring the Rain written by JoAnn Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dart Sommers knows something is wrong. Intelligent, resourceful, and ambitious, the renowned psychology professor and founder of the prestigious Raindrop Institute doesn't understand her sudden fascination with patterns, her disinterest in a job she loves, and her obsession with a small, stuffed brown bear. The diagnosis? Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), an often misdiagnosed disease that is destroying the best part of her: her brain. And she knows that whatever symptoms she’s experiencing now, they’re only going to get worse—that as time goes on, the essence of who she is will disappear. Bring the Rain is a story of courage, hope, love, friendship, and determination to beat the odds—at least for a little while. This emotional sequel to The Raindrop Institute can easily be read as a stand-alone novel.

Book Princeton Alumni Weekly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : princeton alumni weekly
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 744 pages

Download or read book Princeton Alumni Weekly written by and published by princeton alumni weekly. This book was released on 1920 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sphere

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book The Sphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You Can t Get Away from the Irish

Download or read book You Can t Get Away from the Irish written by Larry Grehan and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyola Boyle, a law student from Dublin, discovers he has made his girlfriend pregnant. Learning that she is only 15 and also that her dad is his dad's best client, he decides to scarper. Loyola sets his sights initially on the USA and Boston in particular, later deciding to hitch-hike his way down to the hot spots and morenas in Mexico. On route he encounters a litany of comical characters and situations, not least finding himself embroiled in an ancient unfinished celtic dilemma. Amidst all this turmoil Loyola never fails to take advantage of the delectable delights on offer from "Boys Town" or some other honky-tonk hacienda heaven.

Book The Jagged Orbit

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  • Author : John Brunner
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497617723
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The Jagged Orbit written by John Brunner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebula Award Finalist:Mankind has been reduced to slavery by technology and surveillance, in this near-future novel from the author of Stand on Zanzibar. In The Jagged Orbit, Brunner, writing at the peak of form that allowed him to create Stand on Zanzibar, takes a long, hard, disturbing, and hilarious look at the near and not-so-distant future. Catastrophic changes due to rampant drug abuse, uncontrolled violence, high-level government corruption, inhumane treatment of the too-readily defined “insane,” and the accompanying collapse of the social order are wreaking havoc on the world we recognize and turning it into a reality we must fear and hope to avoid. Brunner tells a spine-chilling tale of where the world could possibly go that is all too believable and real for our comfort. “For each generation, there is a writer meant to bend the rules of what we know. Hugo Award winner (Best Novel, Stand on Zanzibar) and British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being reintroduced. For readers familiar with his vision, it is a chance to reexamine his thoughtful worlds and words. For new readers, Brunner’s work proves itself the very definition of timeless.

Book Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age

Download or read book Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age written by Zlatan Delic and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of seven chapters containing multiple questions of the global socially epistemological situation in science and higher education. Despite the progress of techno-sciences, we are facing blind flaws in leading systems of knowledge and perception. The global era, in a paradox way, connects the new knowledge of economics, postpolitics, postdemocracy, and biopolitical regulation of live and unpresentable forms of the global geo-located violence. Techno-optimism and techno-dictatorship in the twenty-first century coincide with the ideology of market, biopolitics of mandatory satisfaction, religious revivalism, and collapse of higher education. In order for sciences to recover, it is necessary to make a globally epistemological and moral turn toward the truth. The book shows that, when joint desires of the new economics of knowledge and technology erase epistemology (in a way to assign definitions of knowledge and rules and practices of the public usage of the mind), then the time for epistemology is on its way.

Book The John Brunner Collection Volume One

Download or read book The John Brunner Collection Volume One written by John Brunner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three visionary sci-fi novels from the Hugo Award–winning author whose dystopian prescience made him “one of the most important” (SF Site). British science fiction master John Brunner remains one of the most influential and respected authors of all time, and now many of his classic works are being made available to new generations of readers. The very definition of timeless, Brunner’s skillful and often frightening political and social commentary takes its place alongside the most iconic works of Arthur C. Clarke, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, and George Orwell. The Sheep Look Up: In a near future of poison air and soaring health hazards, environmentalist Austin Train is on the run—from the insurrectionists who want him to lead and the government that wants him dead, in this Nebula Award Finalist. “An arresting diary of what’s in store for us.” —The Washington Post The Crucible of Time: On a planet hurtling precariously through space, an alien civilization struggles for generations against ice ages and catastrophic meteors while scientists slowly develop the technology that will ultimately save them. “Impeccably detailed, and beautifully thought out, even to the fascinating alien personalities, speech patterns, and thoughts: Brunner in top form.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review The Jagged Orbit: In this Nebula Award Finalist, a journalist tries to expose the corrupt director of a mental hospital in a dystopian future where drug abuse, organized crime, and the inhumane treatment of anyone deemed “insane” have all but destroyed social order. “One of his most trenchant dystopias, yet it is as irresistible as it is biting.” —SFReviews.net

Book Thorstein Veblen

Download or read book Thorstein Veblen written by Elizabeth Jorgensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive biography of the man who coined the expression "conspicuous consumption". Based on newly released archival sources, this book sets the facts straight on more than 60 years of myths and misinformation concerning the highly regarded economist and sociologist.

Book Happy Days

Download or read book Happy Days written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Hot Rumor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Durand
  • Publisher : Jacobsville Books
  • Release : 2021-04-27
  • ISBN : 1949406563
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book One Hot Rumor written by Anna Durand and published by Jacobsville Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for a hands-on romance with heart, humor, and loads of steam! The Hot Brits are back for more romantic comedy adventures. I never meant to become the center of a scandal. One disgruntled client started a rumor that I offer "special" massages at my spa. Now I need to get out of town for a while, so I go back to school to finish my long-overdue university degree—in America. My beautiful faculty advisor seems like the perfect distraction from my problems, but I really shouldn't flirt with her. Or try to kiss her. Or offer her a "special" massage… Maybe I can't help myself, but the sexy American isn't having any of it. My British accent doesn't impress her, and neither does my age. A forty-year-old sophomore? Not enticing, apparently. But I have skills she's never seen. If she'll let me show her, this could turn into the best distraction in history. One Hot Rumor is the fifth book in the Hot Brits series of romantic comedies from Anna Durand, author of the bestselling Hot Scot series.

Book The Multiplayer Classroom

Download or read book The Multiplayer Classroom written by Lee Sheldon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Multiplayer Classroom: Game Plans is a companion to The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game, now in its second edition from CRC Press. This book covers four multiplayer classroom projects played in the real world in real time to teach and entertain. They were funded by grants or institutions, collaborations between Lee Sheldon, as writer/designer, and subject matter experts in various fields. They are written to be accessible to anyone--designer, educator, or layperson--interested in game-based learning. The subjects are increasingly relevant in this day and age: physical fitness, Mandarin, cybersecurity, and especially an online class exploring culture and identity on the internet that is unlike any online class you have ever seen. Read the annotated, often-suspenseful stories of how each game, with its unique challenges, thrills, and spills, was built. Lee Sheldon began his writing career in television as a writer-producer, eventually writing more than 200 shows ranging from Charlie’s Angels (writer) to Edge of Night (head writer) to Star Trek: The Next Generation (writer-producer). Having written and designed more than forty commercial and applied video games, Lee spearheaded the first full writing for games concentration in North America at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the second writing concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is a regular lecturer and consultant on game design and writing in the United States and abroad. His most recent commercial game, the award-winning The Lion’s Song, is currently on Steam. For the past two years he consulted on an "escape room in a box," funded by NASA, that gives visitors to hundreds of science museums and planetariums the opportunity to play colonizers on the moon. He is currently writing his second mystery novel.

Book Buck s Country

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joel H. Bernstein
  • Publisher : Sunstone Press
  • Release : 2015-05-10
  • ISBN : 1611393272
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Buck s Country written by Joel H. Bernstein and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buck Cooper was a confused and uncertain cowboy. After more than a dozen years of fighting long winters, the droughts, and the emptiness of Montana, he was at long last headed back to his beloved New Mexico, hoping it would finally be the culmination of a dream he had been nurturing for years. All he wanted to do was see the sun for the whole year and never again endure winter for eight long months. Was it the right move? Only time would tell.

Book Mike Royko  The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984 1997

Download or read book Mike Royko The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984 1997 written by Mike Royko and published by Agate Digital. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 3259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984–1997 is an expansive new volume of the longtime Chicago news legend’s work. Encompassing thousands of his columns, all of which originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune, this is the first collection of Royko work to solely cover his time at the Tribune. Covering politics, culture, sports, and more, Royko brings his trademark sarcasm and cantankerous wit to a complete compendium of his last 14 years as a newspaper man. Organized chronologically, these columns display Royko's talent for crafting fictional conversations that reveal the truth of the small-minded in our society. From cagey political points to hysterical take-downs of "meatball" sports fans, Royko's writing was beloved and anticipated anxiously by his fans. In plain language, he "tells it like it is" on subjects relevant to modern society. In addition to his columns, the book features Royko's obituary and articles written about him after his death, telling the tale of his life and success. This ultimate collection is a must-read for Royko fans, longtime Chicago Tribune readers, and Chicagoans who love the city's rich history of dedicated and insightful journalism.