If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. The Slow Professor will be a must-read for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.

An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. Short and pragmatic, the book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in “tenure-trap” jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively.
After earning a PhD in classics from the University of Virginia and teaching at Tulane, Christopher Caterine left academia for a job at a corporate consulting firm. During his career transition, he went on more than 150 informational interviews and later interviewed twelve other professionals who had left higher education for diverse fields. Drawing on everything he learned, Caterine helps readers chart their own course to a rewarding new career. He addresses dozens of key issues, including overcoming psychological difficulties, translating academic experience for nonacademics, and meeting the challenges of a first job in a new field.
Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, Leaving Academia is both realistic and filled with hope.

Higher education has changed-and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right-she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track?But this is higher education in the new millennium. "Off track" is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed The Freelance Academic.In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides an accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher education has pushed its workforce to the margins.Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive, including: How to create a sustainable freelance career or side-gigHow to create a professional network that sustains youHow to start writing for popular magazinesWith The Freelance Academic is both a guidebook and a launch pad, you can reclaim your career for yourself.**Winner of the GOLD Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Careers**"Both a piercing examination of how higher education institutions exploit adjunct faculty and untenured staff and a roadmap that's as practical as it is hopeful." -BookTrib Magazine"A beacon of hope." -Foreword Reviews

传统学术史多为思想史、发展史或者编年史。当我们借助“发展”和“进步”的眼光来回望一个学科的学术历程时，我们已经做了许多常规预设，比如：学术发展是在传统继承基础上的学术创新，学术发展是沿着一条从低往高、后出转精的道路不断前进的，学者的学术影响力与他的学术贡献大致成正比，等等。在这些预设之下，成王败寇，能够进入学术史大门的永远只是极少数知名学者，而绝大多数普通学者都被排斥在了学术史的大门之外。可是，只要我们换一种眼光，参照科学哲学和科学社会学的思想方式，把学术研究看作一种特殊的行业类别，就会发现，作为“学术工匠”的普通学者，他们的行业习俗以及他们所处的学术生态，一样应该得到我们的讨论。
在学术行业，一样有祖师崇拜、学术赶集、资辈亲疏、派系与行规、控制与反抗、顺从与革命，有主流与边缘的分野、师承与圈子的壁垒、尊老与维亲的传统，还有自卖自夸的学术营销、连横合纵的操纵方略。有些看似国民性的学界弊端，其实是国际性的科学社会学难题；有些貌似公平的行业规则，其实严重束缚着学术发展。常规研究和科学革命，既是学术发展不可或缺的行进双轨，也是无需蓝图规划的自然历程。本书就是这样一部关注普通学术工作者尤其是人文社会科学的学术工作者，供普通学术工作者尤其是青年学术工作者参考的“社会生态志”。

复旦大学经济学院陈硕教授《非此即彼：社会科学研究指南》，本书是陈教授研究方法系列第一部。
“出新意于法度之中“是苏轼观赏吴道子画后的评价。学术评价与画作欣赏有相似之处：创新总是孕育于严格训练。训练的意思是把一套技能在结构视野中分解，然后针对不同分解部分加以简单重复。简单重复意味着可以不需要知道背后的原因，不断练习即可。书名《非此即彼》来源于此，本书试图为读者提供社科研究训练的基础操作指南。
在这本书中，作者会依次讨论价值观、学术世界、学术习惯、论文撰写、论文拓展及研究技能。同时，每节后面会附上练习题，旨在读者巩固。
本书结合自己的研究经历以个人和归纳的视角展开。为那些怀揣学术梦想的学生和学者们所写。个人视角意味着可能存在偏见和局限，归纳视角意味着无法穷尽学术的所有可能之道。学者在研究构思、推进和沟通上差异很大，但笔者仍然认为社会科学不同领域间还是存在某些共性的。任何学者的经历和经验都值得其他 人参考。所以本书的内容可被视为选项，而非答案。选项越多，处理问题就更游刃有余。
这个时代，信息越来越丰富，但留给阅读和思考的时间越来越有限。同时，信息的易得也减少了探索的乐趣。本书试图为读者提供训练所需的基本知识，同时尽笔者所能把难度维持在恰当水平。学术探索之路漫漫，刻苦努力与可持续性都需兼顾。笔者希望读者朋友们喜欢这本书，也希望那些立志学术之路的学生们看完本书后不再感到孤单。对笔者而言，这是最有意义的事情。