So You Want To Be a Professor
A Handbook for Graduate Students Vesilind’s book will serve as a valuable resource, not only for graduate students on the threshold of academic careers, but also for current assistant professors in need of a mentor and even for those top undergraduates deciding whether a doctorate followed by college teaching is the best use of their talents. Combining good-humored criticisms of academia with sincere defense of the contributions of professors, Vesilind gives informal and, more importantly, frank advice for every stage of the career, from the career choice to retirement. "Maybe you’d like to combine the two loves of your life—teaching and scholarship—and perhaps build a satisfying and profitable academic career, but you’re not sure if this is really what you want or how to go about it. Or maybe you’ve made up your mind but need some good advice on how to succeed. If so, this book is written for you. So You Want To Be a Professor begins with a discussion of jobs in academia and how to find them. Chapters cover a wide range of political skills for future academic success, including lecturing, organizing a course, meeting your first class, testing, maintaining a research program, and writing for publication. No other book provides such a practical overview of essential career-building skills. Even junior faculty will benefit from the advice in this engaging, comprehensive book.
К Татьяниному дню Dedicated to teacher Очень вредная книжка. The Cheater's Handbook-The Naughty Student's Bible
Beware, such a book as this is a danger to the young minds (and not so young) who are trying to make it in institutions of higher yearning (I mean learning) and want to cut corners. Why is this book so dangerous? Contained on every page are techniques proven over time on how to successfully cheat on tests, papers and labs. Students who hold this book in their hands will feel that they have died and gone to Cheater's Heaven. Come with our author as he shows you the classic techniques of cheating from the stone age. Learn how to dress for cheater's success when taking a test. Meditate on various strategic ways of positioning yourself as you copy some one's answers on an exam. Oh, if you don't feel like writing that boring paper, pay a research service to do it for you This is a hilarious book that takes us down to memory lane in the halls of cheatdome. Ah, as an errant youth do you remember your wandering eyes and crib notes? The author's presentation is funny on the subject of cheating and deserves four stars. In terms of ethics, forget it. But this is a book of humor. Enjoy and laugh. Just make sure the kids don't get it. (amazon.com)
The little golden calf, a satiric novel by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov; authorized translation from the Russian by Charles Malamuth; with an introduction by Anatole Lunacharsky.
Juster Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth (illustrated)
Added by: Terra_Incognita | Karma: 126.47 | Fiction literature | 19 January 2007
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Книга о мальчике, попавшем в волшебную страну
Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish, yet lovable Humbug, the Mathemagician, and the not-so-wicked "Which," Faintly Macabre, who gives Milo the "impossible" mission of returning two princesses to the Kingdom of Wisdom.
A Survival Guide for Working With Humans: Dealing With Whiners, Back-Stabbers, Know-It-Alls, and Other Difficult People
When sweet revenge isn’t so sweet…Prepare for the Worst – case scenario.
2 книги по выживанию. Хотя и в шутливой манере, но дают нам понять, что мы не одиноки и можем попробовать справиться с самыми разными ситуациями дома и на работе.
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