A trusted editor turns his attention to the most important part of writing: revision.
So you’ve just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is about getting from good to better, and it’s only finished when you decide to stop. But where to begin? In On Revision, William Germano shows authors how to take on the most critical stage of writing anything: rewriting it.
For more than twenty years, thousands of writers have turned to Germano for his insider’s take on navigating the world of publishing. A professor, author, and veteran of the book industry, Germano knows what editors want and what writers need to know: Revising is not just correcting typos. Revising is about listening and seeing again. Revising is a rethinking of the principles from the ground up to understand why the writer is doing something, why they’re going somewhere, and why they’re taking the reader along with them.
On Revision steps back to take in the big picture, showing authors how to hear their own writing voice and how to reread their work as if they didn’t write it. On Revision will show you how to know when your writing is actually done—and, until it is, what you need to do to get it there.

本书以轻松、易读的英语写成，全书共16章，清晰地阐述了学术论文写作的各个部分，如何撰写，华人作者常见的写作错误和改正方式，简短、基础的英语语法规则，如何培养良好的写作习惯以保持积极和高效的写作状态，一些向学术期刊投稿的小建议，每个学生都需要了解的重要词汇等内容。每一章对应一周的课程，安排了为期16周的课程(另外，期中、期末考试各占一周)，让您在18周后顺利完成一篇专业的论文。
本书是立志在国外期刊发表论文之研究者的必备工具书! 是教授指导学生进行论文写作的最佳教科书！
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。

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases.
Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mistakes—speak the loudest.

A leading data visualization expert explores the negative―and positive―influences that charts have on our perception of truth.
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous―and easier to share than ever. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts make us smarter―if we know how to read them.
However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways―displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty―or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.
In How Charts Lie, data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories. Public conversations are increasingly propelled by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie demystifies an essential new literacy, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world.

In question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a meek young woman become a tiger of an authority figure in the classroom-and get stupendous teaching evaluations? How does one cope with sexual harassment, grandiosity, and bizarre behavior from entrenched colleagues? Ms. Mentor's readers will find answers to the secret queries they were afraid to ask anyone else. They'll discover what it really takes to get tenure; what to wear to academic occasions; when to snicker, when to hide, what to eat, and when to sue. They'll find out how to get firmly planted in the rich red earth of tenure. They'll learn why lunch is the most important meal of the day.

《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。

【编辑推荐】
《纽约时报》专栏作家、杰出教授、文学批评家斯坦利•费什细讲写作句子的技巧和妙处，揭示写作之所以精彩的关键秘密。引用诸多名著中的佳句为例，从形式分析到仿写，内容丰富、趣味盎然，是一本实用的文学欣赏和英文写作指南。
在这本盛宴一般的小书中，斯坦利·费什展示出他对英文句子的热爱。他的鉴赏品味广泛而深刻，他的例子常常扣人心弦，他对于那些范例如何取得杰作效果的分析鞭辟入里，令人信服。
——《新共和》
《如何遣词造句》不仅是一本写作艺术的指南，而且是对语言作为一种演化着的文化有机体所做的一种丰富而多层次的探索。
——玛丽亚·波波娃，Brain Pickings网站
一个句子，用邓恩的话说，就是“一个巧妙建造的小小世界”，费什写道。他将教你这门技艺。
——《人物》
【内容简介】
《纽约时报》专栏作家、杰出教授、文学批评家斯坦利·费什细讲写作句子的技巧和妙处，分享大作家的宝贵技能，揭示写作之所以精彩的关键秘密。在作者看来，句子像绘画的颜料一样有趣诱人，是作文最基本的结构单位。他引用诸多名著中的佳句为例，分析句子的作用、意义以及不同类型句子的写作方法。从形式分析到仿写，内容丰富、趣味盎然，是一本实用的文学欣赏和英文写作指南。

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.

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.

This book describes ggplot2, a new data visualization package for R that uses the insights from Leland Wilkison''s Grammar of Graphics to create a powerful and flexible system for creating data graphics. With ggplot2, it''s easy to:
* produce handsome, publication-quality plots, with automatic legends created from the plot specification
* superpose multiple layers (points, lines, maps, tiles, box plots to name a few) from different data sources, with automatically adjusted common scales
* add customisable smoothers that use the powerful modelling capabilities of R, such as loess, linear models, generalised additive models and robust regression
* save any ggplot2 plot (or part thereof) for later modification or reuse
* create custom themes that capture in-house or journal style requirements, and that can easily be applied to multiple plots
* approach your graph from a visual perspective, thinking about how each component of the data is represented on the final plot.
This book will be useful to everyone who has struggled with displaying their data in an informative and attractive way. You will need some basic knowledge of R (i.e. you should be able to get your data into R), but ggplot2 is a mini-language specifically tailored for producing graphics, and you''ll learn everything you need in the book. After reading this book you''ll be able to produce graphics customized precisely for your problems, and you''ll find it easy to get graphics out of your head and on to the screen or page.

This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works. Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to make graphs in R. If you have a basic understanding of the R language, you're ready to get started. Use R's default graphics for quick exploration of data Create a variety of bar graphs, line graphs, and scatter plots Summarize data distributions with histograms, density curves, box plots, and other examples Provide annotations to help viewers interpret data Control the overall appearance of graphics Render data groups alongside each other for easy comparison Use colors in plots Create network graphs, heat maps, and 3D scatter plots Structure data for graphing

Now that answering complex and compelling questions with data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science is an attractive discipline. But how can you learn this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field? With this book, you’ll get material from Columbia University’s "Introduction to Data Science" class in an easy-to-follow format.
Each chapter-long lecture features a guest data scientist from a prominent company such as Google, Microsoft, or eBay teaching new algorithms, methods, or models by sharing case studies and actual code they use. You’ll learn what’s involved in the lives of data scientists and be able to use the techniques they present.
Guest lectures focus on topics such as:
Machine learning and data mining algorithms
Statistical models and methods
Prediction vs. description
Exploratory data analysis
Communication and visualization
Data processing
Big data
Programming
Ethics
Asking good questions
If you’re familiar with linear algebra, probability and statistics, and have some programming experience, this book will get you started with data science.
Doing Data Science is collaboration between course instructor Rachel Schutt (also employed by Google) and data science consultant Cathy O’Neil (former quantitative analyst for D.E. Shaw) who attended and blogged about the course.

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is getting lavishly remodeled offices. His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels. His star (he thinks) student can't catch a break with his brilliant (he thinks) work Accountant in a Bordello, based on Melville's Bartleby. In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this droll and inventive novel uses to tell that tale is a series of hilarious letters of recommendation that Fitger is endlessly called upon by his students and colleagues to produce, each one of which is a small masterpiece of high dudgeon, low spirits, and passive-aggressive strategies. We recommend Dear Committee Members to you in the strongest possible terms.

Gold Medal Winner--Tops Sales World's Best Sales and Marketing Book "Fast, fun and immensely practical." -JOE SULLIVAN, Founder, Flextronics "Move over Neil Strauss and game theory. Pitch Anything reveals the next big thing in social dynamics: game for business." -JOSH WHITFORD, Founder, Echelon Media "What do supermodels and venture capitalists have in common?They hear hundreds of pitches a year. Pitch Anything makes sure you get the nod (or wink) you deserve." -RALPH CRAM, Investor "Pitch Anything offers a new method that will differentiate you from the rest of the pack." -JASON JONES, Senior Vice President, Jones Lang LaSalle "If you want to pitch a product, raise money, or close a deal, read Pitch Anything and put its principles to work." -STEVEN WALDMAN, Principal and Founder, Spectrum Capital "Pitch Anything opened my eyes to what I had been missing in my presentations and business interactions." -LOUIE UCCIFERRI, President, Regent Capital Group "I use Oren's unique strategies to sell deals, raise money, and handle tough situations." -TAYLOR GARRETT, Vice President, White Cap "A counter-intuitive method that works." -JAY GOYAL, CEO, SumOpti About the Book: When it comes to delivering a pitch, Oren Klaff has unparalleled credentials. Over the past 13 years, he has used his one-of-a- kind method to raise more than $400 million-and now, for the fi rst time, he describes his formula to help you deliver a winning pitch in any business situation. Whether you're selling ideas to investors, pitching a client for new business, or even negotiating for a higher salary, Pitch Anything will transform the way you position your ideas. According to Klaff, creating and presenting a great pitch isn't an art-it's a simple science. Applying the latest findings in the field of neuroeconomics, while sharing eye-opening stories of his method in action, Klaff describes how the brain makes decisions and responds to pitches. With this information, you'll remain in complete control of every stage of the pitch process. Pitch Anything introduces the exclusive STRONG method of pitching, which can be put to use immediately: Setting the Frame Telling the Story Revealing the Intrigue Offering the Prize Nailing the Hookpoint Getting a Decision One truly great pitch can improve your career, make you a lot of money-and even change your life. Success is dependent on the method you use, not how hard you try. "Better method, more money," Klaff says. "Much better method, much more money." Klaff is the best in the business because his method is much better than anyone else's. And now it's yours. Apply the tactics and strategies outlined inPitch Anything to engage and persuade your audience-and you'll have more funding and support than you ever thought possible.

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

英国肯特大学社会学系副教授， 八〇后， 专栏作家， 业余摄影师， 作者张悦悦有诸多身份标签。不过， 她最重要的身份应该是社会学人。长期的学术素养让她练就了一双“ 慧眼” ， 能从日常琐事中发现很多有意思的社会学课题： 西方家庭和中国家庭一样围着子女转； 欧洲人一样也重视大家族的团聚； 即便名校汇聚， 欧美国家和我们一样呼吁“ 教改” ； 怎样“ 与世界接轨” 并非发展中国家独有的顾虑…… 作者从中思考文化碰撞、偏见、身份定位、性别差异等课题， 让“ 中西差异” 这个老调重弹的话题焕发出新的活力。书中， 作者还分享了英国大学的理念和机制、大学里老师与学生交流的日常状态、如何写好论文等话题。

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。

Whether you are new to Stata graphics or a seasoned veteran, A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, Third Edition will reach you how to use Stata to make publication-quality graphics that will stand out and enhance your statistical results. With over 900 illustrated examples and quick-reference tabs, this book quickly guides you to the information you need for creating and customizing high-quality graphs for any type of statistical data. Each graph is displayed in full color with simple and clear instructions that illustrate how to create and customize graphs using either Stata commands or the Stata Graph Editor. Stata's powerful graphics system gives you complete control over how the elements of your graph look, from marker symbols to lines, from legends to captions and titles, from axis labels to grid lines, and more. Whether you use this book as a learning tool or a quick reference, you will have the power of Stata graphics at your fingertips. The third edition has been updated and expanded to reflect new Stat graphics features, and includes many additional examples. This updated edition illustrates new features to specify fonts and symbols. New sections have been added that illustrate the use of the marginsplot command as well as the use of contour plots.