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.

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。

「學會寫作之前，先寫好自己的人生故事」
暢銷書作家兼知名寫作教授30年授課精華
回憶錄寫作－－認清真實自我，梳理生命意義，進而自我療癒的一場精神救贖。
「如果做得對，在某種程度上，創作回憶錄就好像是用你自己的拳頭打自己。」
－－摘自《寫作的起點》
◎拆解海明威、納博科夫、喬治‧歐威爾、法蘭克‧麥考特……文學大師打動人心的關鍵要素！
撰寫回憶錄，是認清真實自我，梳理生命意義，進而自我療癒的一場精神救贖。然而即便是極具寫作經驗的作家，也往往會在回憶錄上栽跟斗，通篇盡是虛假的自我。瑪莉?卡爾以其特有的幽默、犀利見解、及直爽，解析偉大的回憶錄作品必備的要素，探討《流動的饗宴》、《說吧，記憶》、《向加泰隆尼亞致敬》、《安琪拉的灰燼》、《那時候，我只剩下勇敢》多本著名回憶錄成功與失敗之處，告訴想寫作的你如何在繁雜的信息與記憶的迷霧中理清頭緒，並勇敢在眾人面前自我剖析，同時引起讀者共鳴，寫好你的人生故事！
◎隨著剖析文學回憶錄巨作，你將掌握以下幾個寫作原則與技巧：
●遠離寫作陷阱，創造個人敘事風格
→ 裝腔作勢絕對會讓讀者失去耐性。
→ 華麗的辭藻可能會過度浮誇或失焦。
→ 跳脫故作文雅的陷阱與為了書寫而捏造出來的虛假自我。
→ 找出專屬自己的觀點與敘事風格。
→ 寫出真正打動讀者的故事。
●說故事的力量， 讀者宛如身歷其境
→ 運用簡單詞彙、以貼近你日常說話的方式反而能好好說故事。
→ 想像你是在為某人寫作，有助於從龐雜的記憶與眾多資料中理出頭緒，安排資訊的順序。
→ 善用氣味、聲音、動作等感官性來描述細節。（「他的牙縫很大」與「他牙縫間的空隙塞得下一隻HB鉛筆」，那個更有畫面？）
→ 找尋具有象徵意義的物件，讓讀者宛如身歷其境，對故事的進展更能產生共鳴。
●善用衝突與情感，製造情節高潮
→ 找出內在的衝突點，化為全書脈絡與情節進展的動力。
→ 善用情感衝突，製造全書情感核心與情節高潮。
●突破寫作瓶頸，反覆修訂出好作品
→ 遭遇寫作瓶頸時，各種突破困境的小技巧。
→ 好的作品絕非橫空出世，必定經過反覆檢視修訂，別怕傷筋動骨地大肆修整。
◎聯合推薦
王聰威
李維菁
震宇
陳雪
盧建彰

【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》

◆借鉴各领域学者的成功经验
◆规划理想的学术写作生涯
···
【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
···
【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》
·
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）
·
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》
···
【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。

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.

From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish environment.
So how do these successful academics write, and where do they find the “air and light and time and space,” in the words of poet Charles Bukowski, to get their writing done? What are their formative experiences, their daily routines, their habits of mind? How do they summon up the courage to take intellectual risks and the resilience to deal with rejection?
Sword identifies four cornerstones that anchor any successful writing practice: Behavioral habits of discipline and persistence; Artisanal habits of craftsmanship and care; Social habits of collegiality and collaboration; and Emotional habits of positivity and pleasure. Building on this “BASE,” she illuminates the emotional complexity of the writing process and exposes the lack of writing support typically available to early-career academics. She also lays to rest the myth that academics must produce safe, conventional prose or risk professional failure. The successful writers profiled here tell stories of intellectual passions indulged, disciplinary conventions subverted, and risk-taking rewarded. Grounded in empirical research and focused on sustainable change, Air & Light & Time & Space offers a customizable blueprint for refreshing personal habits and creating a collegial environment where all writers can flourish.

All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles, how to improve writing quality, and how to write and publish academic work.

This book chronicles my six years of working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2006 to 2012. A diverse variety of people can benefit from reading it, including:
undergraduates who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D.,
current Ph.D. students who are seeking guidance or inspiration,
professors who want to better understand Ph.D. students,
employers who hire and manage people with Ph.D. degrees,
professionals working in any creative or competitive field where self-driven initiative is crucial,
and educated adults (or precocious kids) who are curious about how academic research is produced.

"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

The perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Academic Vocabulary in Use is the perfect study aid for anyone using English for their academic work. Ideal for students of any discipline, from engineers or social scientists to business students or lawyers, it covers all the key vocabulary they will come across in academic textbooks, articles, lectures and seminars, allowing them to function confidently in an English-speaking academic environment. The book is designed for students at good intermediate level and above as well as those preparing for IELTS and other university entrance examinations.

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.

Authoring a Ph.D. Thesis involves having creative ideas, working out how to organize them, writing up from plans, upgrading text, and finishing it speedily and to a good standard. It also involves being examined and getting work published. This book provides a huge range of ideas and suggestions to help Ph.D. candidates cope with both the intellectual issues involved and the practical difficulties of organizing their work effectively.

With a perpetually tight job market, the road to an academic career can be a rocky and frustrating one. There are lots of questions, and this book attempts to provide good, frank answers to them. The three authors, with more than 75 years of combined academic experience, talk openly about what is good and what's not so good about academic life. The book provides information on finding a mentor, avoiding the pitfalls when writing a dissertation and negotiating job listings. The authors also discuss tough issues such as departmental politics, dual-career marriages and sexual harassment. There are also short essays that offer advice on financing graduate education, publishing your first book and leaving academia for the corporate world.

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granular concerns, such as sentence structure and grammar, to big-picture issues, such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research and publishing and developing productive and rewarding writing habits, Hayot helps ambitious students, newly minted Ph.D.'s, and established professors shape their work and develop their voices.
Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing. He aims to adjust the writer's perspective, encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers and doers of important work. Scholarly writing can be frustrating and exhausting, yet also satisfying and crucial, and Hayot weaves these experiences, including his own trials and tribulations, into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write. Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions and conclusions, developing a schedule for writing, using notes and citations, and structuring paragraphs and essays, this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship and writing in the humanities.

《时间序列分析：预测与控制》内容始终都是时间序列领域的权威。第4版仍然分为5个部分，相对第3版新增内容主要有非线性和长记忆模型、多元时间序列分析以及前馈控制，其余各章节根据现实和教学需要均有不同程度的更新。在本书中，几位统计学大师用极其通俗的语言，结合大量的实例，阐明了时间序列分析的精髓。本书内容十分丰富，叙述简明，强调实际应用。相信每一位研读此书的读者都会获益匪浅。
本书可作为统计和相关专业高年级本科生或研究生教材，也可以作为统计专业技术人员的参考书。

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.

This study is about the principles for constructing polite speeches. The core of it first appeared in Questions and Politeness, edited by Esther N. Goody (now out of print). It is here reissued with a fresh introduction that surveys the considerable literature in linguistics, psychology and the social sciences that the original extended essay stimulated, and suggests distinct directions for research. The authors describe and account for some remarkable parallelisms in the linguistic construction of utterances with which people express themselves in different languages and cultures. A motive for these parallels is isolated - politeness, broadly defined to include both polite friendliness and polite formality - and a universal model is constructed outlining the abstract principles underlying polite usages. This is based on the detailed study of three unrelated languages and cultures: the Tamil of South India, the Tzeltal spoken by Mayan Indians in Chiapas, Mexico, and the English of the USA and England, supplemented by examples from other cultures. Underneath the apparent diversity of polite behaviour in different societies lie some general pan-human principles of social interaction, and the model of politeness provides a tool for analysing the quality of social relations in any society. This volume will be of special interest to students in linguistic pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, anthropology, and the sociology and social psychology of interaction.

Reviews from 1st and 2nd Editions include: "A welcome revision to what has always been a popular book amongst intending Ph.D students." - "Phoenix". "Phillips and Pugh's book has, since its original publication in 1987, become the undisputed bible for doctoral students." - "Nursing Times". "Warmly recommended as a bed-side companion, both to those hoping to get a Ph.D and to those who have the responsibility of guiding them, often with very little support themselves" - "Higher Education Review". "This is an excellent book. Its style is racy and clear...an impressive array of information, useful advice and comment gleaned from the authors' systematic study and experience over many years...should be required reading not only for those contemplating doctoral study but also for all supervisors, new and experienced." - "Higher Education". This is a handbook and survival manual for Ph.D students, providing a practical, realistic understanding of the processes of doing research for a doctorate. It discusses many important issues often neglected, such as time management, and how to overcome the difficulties of communicating with supervisors; and considers the particular problems of groups, such as women, part-time and overseas students. The book also provides practical insights for supervisors, and assists senior academic administrators by examining the responsibilities that universities have for providing an adequate overall service for research students. This 3rd edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout with new material added on information and communication technology, publishing, teaching and working towards a Ph.D in a practice based discipline. Additional material has also been provided for supervisors with new sections on the outcomes of good supervision and on how to examine.