I just saw that amazon.com is offering my Scholar’s
Survival Manual for $16.50 rather than $25.00. I believe it will prove
useful for undergraduates and doctoral graduate students, all the way through
assistant professors, deans, and even provosts. It’s practical,
straightforward, and I am told very useful. It won’t be out til early in the
Fall, but the price is right. If you order it with another of my books, Doing
Physics, now its second edition, then you can get free shipping, and they
will likely ship Doing Physics now. Doing Physics is driven by
social science models—markets, institutional analysis, kinship theory,…, so it
may actually speak to your interests, while along the way you will learn a bit
about natural science. (http://www.amazon.com/Doing-Physics-Second-Physicists-World/dp/0253006074/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365431932&sr=1-2&keywords=krieger+doing+physics
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Book Description
Release date: October 22, 2013
The
product of a lifetime of experience in American universities, The Scholar’s
Survival Manual offers advice for students, professors, and administrators on
such matters as the path to becoming a professor, getting tenured, and making
visible contributions to scholarship, as well as serving on promotion and
tenure committees. Martin H. Krieger covers a broad cross section of the
academic experience from a graduate student's first foray into the job market
through retirement. Because advice is notoriously difficult to take and context
matters a great deal, Krieger has allowed his ideas to percolate through dozens
of discussions. Some of the advice is instrumental and on matters of
expediency; some demands the highest aspirations. Readers may open the book at
any place and begin reading; for the more methodical there is a detailed table
of contents. Krieger’s tone is direct, an approach born of the knowledge that
students and professors too often ignore suggestions that would have prevented
them from becoming academic roadkill. This essential book will help readers
sidestep a similar fate.
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Editorial Reviews
Review
"Original
and insightful... Krieger provides a very demystifying account of how the
university professoriat works and practical advice on how academics can
successfully navigate through their university tenure and promotion process....
A how-to guide for all academics who are navigating their careers through a
previously uncharted lost civilization called the tenure and promotion
process." —John Gaber, University of Arkansas
(John Gaber, University of Arkansas )
About the Author
Martin
H. Krieger is Professor of Planning in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at
the University of Southern California and a Fellow of the American Physical
Society. He has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan and has served
for many years on university promotion and tenure committees. He is author of
Doing Physics (second edition, IUP, 2012), Constitutions of Matter, and Doing
Mathematics, among other books.
His blog of the same name is found at scholarssurvival.blogspot.com.
His blog of the same name is found at scholarssurvival.blogspot.com.
Product Details
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Paperback: 364
pages
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Publisher:
Indiana University Press (October 22, 2013)
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Language:
English
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ISBN-10:
0253010632
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ISBN-13:
978-0253010636
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Release date: November 19, 2012 |
ISBN-10: 0253006074 | ISBN-13:
978-0253006073 | Edition: Second Edition
Doing
Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to
everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that
physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the
conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology,
theater, carpentry, mechanisms such as clockworks, and machine tool design.
The interaction of elementary particles or chemical species, for example, can
be related to the theory of kinship—who can marry whom is like what can
interact with what. Likewise, the description of physical situations in terms
of interdependent particles and fields is analogous to the design of a
factory with its division of labor among specialists. For the new edition,
Krieger has revised the text and added a chapter on the role of mathematics
and formal models in physics. Doing Physics will be of special interest to
economists, political theorists, anthropologists, and sociologists as well as
philosophers of science.
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$157.00
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This
is an important and provocative book, timely and full of insight. Fail to
read it, and you may miss out on the physics of the future." —John
Gribbin, New Scientist
(John Gribbin New
Scientist )
"This
unusual book introduces 'the moves, the rituals, the incantations' physicists
invoke as they go about conceptualizing Nature. The lucid-but-loaded writing
makes quite complex ideas accessible to the mathless reader.... The rewards
are a better understanding of how physics is done." —Whole Earth Millennial
Catalog
(Whole Earth Millennial
Catalog )
Krieger...
excellently tells those in our human society outside the physics world how
physicists think, plan, and go about understanding nature.Choice
(Choice )
"An
excellent [and innovative] book." —Isis
(Isis )
"Not
many books about physics have six citations of Adam Smith. Building on the
analogy that Nature is like an economic system, Krieger provides a novel
analysis of how physicists construct models of the world. A fascinating
insight into the way scientists think." —Dick Easterlin, University of
Southern California
(Dick Easterlin, University of Southern California )
About the Author
Martin
H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a
Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the
National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity:
Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of
Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena
(1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy
(2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and
has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.
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Martin H.
Krieger, Professor of Planning
Sol Price School of Public Policy, U. of Southern California
Sol Price School of Public Policy, U. of Southern California
Los
Angeles--Growing Entrepreneurs at Swapmeets:
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Industry: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15799coll64
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~sound/index_files/Page362.html
Industry: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15799coll64
Paris,
1870--Rephotographed: http://www.usc.edu/sppd/parismarville
Webpage: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~krieger
Amazon: http://amazon.com/author/martinkrieger
Blogs: http://blogs.usc.edu/sppd/krieger ,
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