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Title: How to Succeed in Academics by Edward McCabe, Linda McCabe ISBN: 0-12-481833-1 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent for those of us in the sciences; misleading title
Comment: It is true that this book is of no relevance to you if your research doesn't involve grant submissions to the National Institutes of Health and the corresponding expectation of publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The title should have reflected this bias.
If you are a pre/post-doctoral scientist, however, it is marvelous. The chapter on NIH Study Sessions has information that scientists don't usually get until they have served on study sessions themselves; and in general the grant preparation and submission advice is superb. The focus is on grants for which the reader is the Principal Investigator, but there are very helpful suggestions for NRSAs as well.
Chapters on poster presentation, paper writing, and talks (both 1-hour and 15-minute formats) show the same combination of common-sense information and tips that can only come from senior scientists who have witnessed their share of career-damaging gaffes.
Rating: 3
Summary: Best for those in the medical sciences
Comment: This is a clearly written, comprehensive overview of what it takes to succeed if you are an academic in a medical field. It follows each topic with a vignette of an imaginary junior researcher who is struggling with various career issues. The book tries to aim for a general academic audience, but it will be of little help to those in the humanities. As a psychologist and professional coach to academics on the tenure track, I recommend this book to grad students, post-docs and junior faculty in the hard sciences, especially medical research.
Rating: 1
Summary: Didn't apply to me (first year prof with Ph.D)
Comment: I thought this book was overpriced. I did not learn anything new. The book seems to be best suited for someone entering academia in the hard sciences, who has not attended conferences or participated in academia at all in the past.
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Title: Writing Successful Science Proposals by Andrew J. Friedland, Carol L. Folt ISBN: 0300081413 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science by Peter J. Feibelman ISBN: 0201626632 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Research Proposals: A Guide to Success, Third Edition by Thomas Ogden, Israel Goldberg, Thomas E. Ogden, Israel A. Goldberg ISBN: 0125247338 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Academic Scientists at Work: Navigating the Biomedical Research Career by Jeremy M. Boss, Susan H. Eckert ISBN: 030647493X Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Tomorrow's Professor : Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering by Richard M. Reis ISBN: 0780311361 Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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