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) I’ve pasted its amazon.com page below as well.
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The Scholar's Survival Manual: A Road Map for Students, Faculty, and Administrators [Paperback]
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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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"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 · Paperback: 364 pages · Publisher: Indiana University Press (October 22, 2013) · Language: English · ISBN-10: 0253010632 · ISBN-13: 978-0253010636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doing Physics, Second Edition: How Physicists Take Hold of the World [Paperback] Martin H. Krieger (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author Are you an author? Learn about Author Central (Author)
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Book Description 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. Hardcover $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
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