无论是学生还是教授，都需要写作。然而，写作让许多人感到头痛。拖延症，是学术圈的流行病，是学术生涯中的顽症……
心理学家席尔瓦的这本小册子，实用、励志而轻松。它告诉你写作不需要太多的天赋或特殊才能，而是需要策略、方法和行动。熟读此书，你不用熬夜，也能成为文思泉涌的学术牛人，既不耽误享受生活，又能获得高效率写作带来的成就感，走向学术生涯的高峰。

1997年，潘绥铭教授深入珠江三角州的B镇、中南腹地某工业城市旁边的开发区和湘黔交界处的某个私人云集开采的小金矿，对这三地的地下“红灯区”进行社区调查，写出了《存在与荒谬―一中国地下“性产业”考察》一书。在接下来的1998年里，他又三次来到B镇和它所属的S区，以“入住式”的方式对这里的地下“红灯区”进行了总计46天的追踪考察。本书就是这三次社区调查的总结，也是《存在与荒谬》的续篇。
在本书里，潘教授仍然沿用《存在与荒谬》中的视角和技术路线，主要是研究“红灯区”的发展脉络，形成原因、运作机制以及与社会环境的关系等问题。同时，更注意尽量多地收集个案，更多地了解那些参入或者涉及“性产业”的形形色色的个人，用他们的人生经历来说明一些更加深入或者更加具体的问题。
在本书的后半部分，潘教授用访谈实录的形式记录了不同类型的41个“卖淫女”。“鸡头”及“老板”的个案。如果您对“虚的”不感兴趣，尽可以只看这41个个案，或许她（他）们的个人情况和人生经历比理论分析更能说明问题。

【编辑推荐】
1. 美国书评人协会终身成就奖、普利策奖、乔治‧波尔卡新闻奖得主约翰·麦克菲，公开讲述普林斯顿大学四十余年的写作课程。这是读者期待已久的一场大师写作课。
2. 约翰·麦克菲的学生中有多位也是普利策奖得主，还有很多活跃在《纽约客》《时代》等知名媒体，包括我们所熟知的《寻路中国》的作者彼得‧海斯勒。
3. 这本书在美国一出版即反响强烈，广受赞誉，分别荣获当年美国国家公共电台年度好书，美国亚马逊编辑推荐年度好书。
4. 如果你是一位对非虚构感兴趣的媒体从业人员，一位写作者，这本书将带你发现什么是非虚构写作当中的创造性；如果你是一位编辑，一位出版人，这本书将为你揭秘出版行业的内部运行规则。任何想要了解写作、或了解出版物的形成的人，都不应错过此书。
【内容简介】
没有约翰·麦克菲的鼓励，就不会有《江城》。——彼得·海斯勒
约翰‧麦克菲，美国非虚构写作大师，在普林斯顿大学教授非虚构写作四十余年，其学生中有多位成为普利策奖得主，还有很多活跃在《纽约客》《时代》等知名媒体，包括我们所熟知的彼得‧海斯勒。
在《写作这门手艺：普林斯顿大学写作课》中，麦克菲不仅分享了自己充满曲折、刺激和陷阱的写作故事，更是坦承自己在普林斯顿大学讲授非虚构写作这门课程中累积的经验与想法。他的文章随性但专业，充满了对如何确立主题和结构、写作技艺、采访技巧、甚至写作所用工具等方面的经验之谈。他将写作看成是存在于世的一种方式。也正是这种理念，让本书变得异常生动。这是读者期待已久的一堂大师课。
【媒体及名人评价】
没有约翰·麦克菲的鼓励，就不会有《江城》。
——彼得·海斯勒
这不是一本通常意义上的写作指南，而是一本更富有深度的、更具个性化的写作总结和记录。
——《出版人周刊》
麦克菲的写作来自于他的耐心和专注:他似乎拥有一双既能旋转、变焦，又能定位的眼睛，他的耳朵似乎像录音机一样，能记录下一切。
——罗伯特·麦克法伦(布克奖评委会主席)
这本书对写作生命中痛苦的一面致以美好的敬意......这是麦克菲之上的麦克菲；这是麦克菲对自己最重要的作品的评论，辅以小小的背景，充满温情的八卦逸事......这是一本亲密的书——在麦克菲的作品中，这种亲密感是很少见的。
——《纽约时报》
任何一位有所成就的、或者有所抱负的写作者，都可以通过阅读和研究这本书来获得有益的启发。
——《华盛顿邮报》
读完这本书，你就会明白，麦克菲在普林斯顿大学几十年的写作课程为什么如此成功。这些篇章构成了一堂写作大师课。
——《科克斯书评》
麦克菲为创造性非虚构写作设定了标准。他以幽默泰然的方式回忆了他如何进入一个个故事过程当中的趣闻轶事：从采访、报道、起草和修改，再到与编辑和出版商之间的往来合作……这本书是一幅精心绘制的关于写作的路线图，在曲折、刺激和陷阱中穿行，其中既充满欢乐，也充满悲伤。
——《图书馆杂志》
这本书是一系列谈话、故事、自传和宝贵的看法和经验的结合，阅读这本书就像是坐在麦克菲的课堂里一样受益无穷。
——《华尔街日报》
在普林斯顿大学，我上过十二周的麦克菲写作课。……麦克菲一直在教这门课程，据我所知，从远古时期就开始了。他以前的学生中有超过一半的人在各类杂志和报纸工作，或者专职从事写作。
——戴维•雷姆尼克（《纽约客》编辑，普利策奖得主）
麦克菲教我们尊重语言，在意每一个字，并删掉模糊的同义词……也许有些作家让写作这件事看起来很简单，但这不是麦克菲所树立的榜样。麦克菲认为作家是比其他人写作更为艰难的人……我怀疑我们很多人从未参加过这么多年来引起如此深刻共鸣的课程。
——《普林斯顿大学校友周刊》
麦克菲的读者，也许是我们这个时代最受尊崇的非虚构叙事记者，将在《写作这门手艺：普林斯顿大学写作课》的船形散文里获得丰富。……我仔细品读着每一个字。
——科尔比•库默尔（《大西洋月刊》编辑，美食作家）
这本书就像麦克菲在他三十多岁时写得任何东西一样精练而有力……书的重点看上去在于作者在一生的写作中积累的智慧，常常令人愉快地回忆起麦克菲在写作这门手艺上的长期学徒生涯……但它真正吸引人的不是其所提供的写作方法，而是关于人本身的东西。读者将会在这本书里发现无尽的迷人之处，还能学到很多。
——《基督教科学箴言报》
《写作这门手艺：普林斯顿大学写作课》的魅力在于它让我们看到一位大师如何向我们解构他作品中几乎不可见的习惯，其结果是让我们看到一种有探索性的、丰富多彩的、独特的致力于写作的生活，令人赞叹。——《波特兰先锋报》

《现代英文选评注》收入四十余位英美作家的文章，加以夏济安先生细密周详的评注，由夏志清先生校订。本书是学习英文最好的课外读物，选文内容有趣，风格清新，对原文难词难句及章节结构均有深入浅出的阐释，读者不但可加深对原文的理解，亦能欣赏原文修辞之精微，领会作者雕词琢句的苦心。

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
“Correlation is not causation.” This mantra, chanted by scientists for more than a century, has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. Today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, instigated by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and established causality–the study of cause and effect–on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl’s work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

本书详细讨论了选择导师、阅读与写作参加学术会议、陈述报告、处理与导师的关系、建立人际关系网络、论文答辩和职业生涯规划等主题，针对研究生各阶段给出了详尽的学术建议，有较强的实用性和操作性。

社会学芝加哥学派当代代表，艺术社会学等前沿领域标杆人物——霍华德·S.贝克尔五十年研究心法集中讲述，简体中文版首次上市。
本书是一本学术工具书。作者援引超过数十年研究与教学的经验，倾囊相授他一生所知做研究的窍门。本书侧重于帮助研究者从研究问题的提出开始就通盘进行思考，完善研究计划。作者的建言，帮助研究者进一步深入了解自己的研究，同时诱导出新的研究想法。
作者简介

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day.
Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it.
Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable.
In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.

畅销日本十余年的经典好书
教你一秒钟准确传达想法的技巧
◎ 编辑推荐
☆ 畅销日本十余年的经典好书，外企、咨询公司、管理公司的企业培训指定书籍。资深咨询师分享多年实战经验，让你一次受用一生的思考与表达技术。
☆ 2个条件，4种能力，新手也能立刻打造完美方案。提交方案最主要的目的就是说服对方，让对方采取行动。一份优秀的方案一定会具备两个条件：合理思考和妥当表达。本书以此为切入点，归纳总结了4种能力——逻辑思考能力、验证假说能力、设计会议能力、制作商务文本能力。只要掌握这4种能力，就能确保从方案构思到方案解说的每一个环节都万无一失，提交的每一份方案都能发挥绝大的影响力。
◎ 内容简介
1个故事，2个条件，4个基础能力，从逻辑思考到制作商务文本，全方位教你如何精准传达自己的想法，提交一份出色的方案。
本书作者高田贵久曾在 Arthur D. Little 和 BCG 等知名的咨询公司工作多年。作为一名职业咨询顾问，他在工作中提交过不计其数的方案，也熟知让方案快速得到认可的技巧。他发现很多时候，“不善表达”并不是让你在提交方案时张口结舌的原因，“根本就不知道自己应该讲些什么”才是无法顺利表达的关键。
这本书以一个贯穿全书的虚构故事做引，不仅真实再现了商务活动的氛围，各章中的解说部分也指出了故事中的问题所在，并在此基础上十分详尽地解说了解决问题的方法和技巧。
职场新人、商务精英或是管理层人士，无论你身居何职，都可以有针对性地阅读和使用书中的技巧，在不同的场合中超高效地完成工作。

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.

This book is designed to enable non-native English speakers to write science research for publication in English. It is a practical, user-friendly book intended as a fast, do-it-yourself guide for those whose English language proficiency is above intermediate. The approach is based on material developed from teaching graduate students at Imperial College London and has been extensively piloted. The book guides the reader through the process of writing science research and will also help with writing a Master's or Doctoral thesis in English. Science writing is much easier than it looks because the structure and language are conventional. The aim of this book is to help the reader discover a template or model for science research writing and then to provide the grammar and vocabulary tools needed to operate that model. There are five units: Introduction, Methodology, Results, Discussion/Conclusion and Abstract. The reader develops a model for each section of the research article through sample texts and exercises; this is followed by a Grammar and Writing Skills section designed to respond to frequently-asked questions as well as a Vocabulary list including examples of how the words and phrases are to be used.

"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954. The book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining the endless flow of numbers pouring from Wall Street, Madison Avenue, and everywhere else someone has an axe to grind, a point to prove, or a product to sell. "The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify," warns Huff.
Although many of the examples used in the book are charmingly dated, the cautions are timeless. Statistics are rife with opportunities for misuse, from "gee-whiz graphs" that add nonexistent drama to trends, to "results" detached from their method and meaning, to statistics' ultimate bugaboo--faulty cause-and-effect reasoning. Huff's tone is tolerant and amused, but no-nonsense. Like a lecturing father, he expects you to learn something useful from the book, and start applying it every day. Never be a sucker again, he cries!
Even if you can't find a source of demonstrable bias, allow yourself some degree of skepticism about the results as long as there is a possibility of bias somewhere. There always is.
Read How to Lie with Statistics. Whether you encounter statistics at work, at school, or in advertising, you'll remember its simple lessons. Don't be terrorized by numbers, Huff implores. "The fact is that, despite its mathematical base, statistics is as much an art as it is a science." --Therese Littleton

◆借鉴各领域学者的成功经验
◆规划理想的学术写作生涯
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【内容简介】
海伦· 索德对全球100位杰出学者进行了深度访谈，发现这些学者的成功都基于卓有成效的四大“基础习惯”，涉及行为、手艺、社会和情绪。本书通过揭示使这些学者成为优秀作家的习性、仪式和实践，提供一系列有效的实战策略，帮助学术写作者培养自己独特的“基础习惯”：
行为习惯——找到写作节奏 克服拖延症
手艺习惯——掌握学术规范 增进写作技巧
社会习惯——学会同行协作 排除沟通障碍
情绪习惯——获得写作乐趣 应对智识风险
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【媒体及名人推荐】
你一定要阅读此书，它让你情不自禁地尝试学术写作。
——⸺布赖恩•博伊德（新西兰奥克兰大学教授）
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索德的方法打破旧有常规，令人耳目一新，为百般挣扎的学者们提供了巧妙的、一劳永逸的解决方案。
——《 高等教育纪事报》
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与那些闲懒的意见相左，海伦·斯沃德欣然揭示，学者的文章并非一定乏善可陈、僵硬呆板、臃肿不堪、枯燥乏味、夸夸其谈、冗长重复。透过精辟的分析和轻松的访谈，她完美地印证了论文写作实不必如此，而她自己的文章就是最好的证明。
——史蒂芬·平克（美国哈佛大学教授）
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既是关于如何写作的手册，也是严谨的研究。熔趣闻逸事、文人掌故、隽语佳句于一炉。从作家的视角照亮了学术写作之路，揭示了使得学者成为作家的习性、仪式和实践。
——《图书馆杂志》
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【编辑推荐】
◆ 本书作者海伦·索德不仅在奥克兰大学从事写作方面的研究，还在全球17个国家的60多所大学中开设写作研习班，向数千名高校师生传授写作技艺，具有深厚的理论素养和丰富的实战经验。
◆在写作本书之前，索德邀请1223名院系教师、博士研究生、独立学者参加匿名问卷调查，并对结果进行统计，这让索德深谙学术写作中面临的各种困境，也让她的100次深度访谈和本书的建议极具针对性。
◆如果您正为写论文而备受折磨，或对未知的学术生涯感到恐慌，阅读本书或许会令您感到愉悦，并重拾对学术写作和学术生涯的期待和信心。在丰硕的成果背后，这些成功学者也曾历经艰辛，同时也体会到了不为人知的喜悦。

Elegant data and ideas deserve elegant expression, argues Helen Sword in this lively guide to academic writing. For scholars frustrated with disciplinary conventions, and for specialists who want to write for a larger audience but are unsure where to begin, here are imaginative, practical, witty pointers that show how to make articles and books a pleasure to read - and to write. Dispelling the myth that you cannot get published without writing wordy, impersonal prose, Sword shows how much journal editors and readers welcome work that avoids excessive jargon and abstraction. Sword's analysis of more than a thousand peer-reviewed articles across a wide range of fields documents a startling gap between how academics typically describe good writing and the turgid prose they regularly produce. "Stylish Academic Writing" showcases a range of scholars from the sciences, humanities, and social sciences who write with vividness and panache. Individual chapters take up specific elements of style, such as titles and headings, chapter openings, and structure, and close with examples of transferable techniques that any writer can master.

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason - from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details to get at the underlying intuition that is key to understanding the power of statistical concepts. Tackling a wide-ranging set of problems, he demonstrates how statistics can be used to look at questions that are important and relevant to us today. With the trademark wit, accessibility and fun that made Naked Economics a bestseller, Wheelan brings another essential discipline to life with a one-in-a-million statistics book that you will read for pleasure.

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion
Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

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本书为台湾地区28所大学的论文写作教材，特别针对华人而写，畅销台湾。

Despite your graduate education, brainpower, and technical prowess, your career in scientific research is far from assured. Permanent positions are scarce, science survival is rarely part of formal graduate training, and a good mentor is hard to find. This exceptional volume explains what stands between you and fulfilling long-term research career. Bringing the key survival skills into focus, A Ph.D. Is Not Enough! proposes a rational approach to establishing yourself as a scientist. It offers sound advice of selecting a thesis or postdoctoral adviser, choosing among research jobs in academia, government laboratories, and industry, preparing for an employment interview, and defining a research program. This book will help you make your oral presentations effective, your journal articles compelling, and your grant proposals successful. A Ph.D. Is Not Enough should be required reading for anyone on the threshold of a career in science.