If there is one sector of society that should be cultivating deep thought in itself and others, it is academia. Yet the corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock, demanding increased speed and efficiency from faculty regardless of the consequences for education and scholarship.
In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality. The Slow Professor will be a must-read for anyone in academia concerned about the frantic pace of contemporary university life.

An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won’t get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such crisis, Leaving Academia helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. Short and pragmatic, the book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in “tenure-trap” jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively.
After earning a PhD in classics from the University of Virginia and teaching at Tulane, Christopher Caterine left academia for a job at a corporate consulting firm. During his career transition, he went on more than 150 informational interviews and later interviewed twelve other professionals who had left higher education for diverse fields. Drawing on everything he learned, Caterine helps readers chart their own course to a rewarding new career. He addresses dozens of key issues, including overcoming psychological difficulties, translating academic experience for nonacademics, and meeting the challenges of a first job in a new field.
Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, Leaving Academia is both realistic and filled with hope.

Higher education has changed-and we have to change with it. The Freelance Academic will show you how.When Katie Pryal started her career in higher education, she did everything right-she thought. With a law degree, a doctorate, and a federal clerkship, how could her career go off track?But this is higher education in the new millennium. "Off track" is the new normal. So, slowly, she made her own career, one she dubbed The Freelance Academic.In The Freelance Academic, she tells her story and provides an accurate (and sometimes blistering) critique of how higher education has pushed its workforce to the margins.Best of all, she gives plain, practical advice for how to make the career you want, one that uses your strengths, and your creativity, to thrive, including: How to create a sustainable freelance career or side-gigHow to create a professional network that sustains youHow to start writing for popular magazinesWith The Freelance Academic is both a guidebook and a launch pad, you can reclaim your career for yourself.**Winner of the GOLD Foreword INDIES Book of the Year for Careers**"Both a piercing examination of how higher education institutions exploit adjunct faculty and untenured staff and a roadmap that's as practical as it is hopeful." -BookTrib Magazine"A beacon of hope." -Foreword Reviews

传统学术史多为思想史、发展史或者编年史。当我们借助“发展”和“进步”的眼光来回望一个学科的学术历程时，我们已经做了许多常规预设，比如：学术发展是在传统继承基础上的学术创新，学术发展是沿着一条从低往高、后出转精的道路不断前进的，学者的学术影响力与他的学术贡献大致成正比，等等。在这些预设之下，成王败寇，能够进入学术史大门的永远只是极少数知名学者，而绝大多数普通学者都被排斥在了学术史的大门之外。可是，只要我们换一种眼光，参照科学哲学和科学社会学的思想方式，把学术研究看作一种特殊的行业类别，就会发现，作为“学术工匠”的普通学者，他们的行业习俗以及他们所处的学术生态，一样应该得到我们的讨论。
在学术行业，一样有祖师崇拜、学术赶集、资辈亲疏、派系与行规、控制与反抗、顺从与革命，有主流与边缘的分野、师承与圈子的壁垒、尊老与维亲的传统，还有自卖自夸的学术营销、连横合纵的操纵方略。有些看似国民性的学界弊端，其实是国际性的科学社会学难题；有些貌似公平的行业规则，其实严重束缚着学术发展。常规研究和科学革命，既是学术发展不可或缺的行进双轨，也是无需蓝图规划的自然历程。本书就是这样一部关注普通学术工作者尤其是人文社会科学的学术工作者，供普通学术工作者尤其是青年学术工作者参考的“社会生态志”。

复旦大学经济学院陈硕教授《非此即彼：社会科学研究指南》，本书是陈教授研究方法系列第一部。
“出新意于法度之中“是苏轼观赏吴道子画后的评价。学术评价与画作欣赏有相似之处：创新总是孕育于严格训练。训练的意思是把一套技能在结构视野中分解，然后针对不同分解部分加以简单重复。简单重复意味着可以不需要知道背后的原因，不断练习即可。书名《非此即彼》来源于此，本书试图为读者提供社科研究训练的基础操作指南。
在这本书中，作者会依次讨论价值观、学术世界、学术习惯、论文撰写、论文拓展及研究技能。同时，每节后面会附上练习题，旨在读者巩固。
本书结合自己的研究经历以个人和归纳的视角展开。为那些怀揣学术梦想的学生和学者们所写。个人视角意味着可能存在偏见和局限，归纳视角意味着无法穷尽学术的所有可能之道。学者在研究构思、推进和沟通上差异很大，但笔者仍然认为社会科学不同领域间还是存在某些共性的。任何学者的经历和经验都值得其他 人参考。所以本书的内容可被视为选项，而非答案。选项越多，处理问题就更游刃有余。
这个时代，信息越来越丰富，但留给阅读和思考的时间越来越有限。同时，信息的易得也减少了探索的乐趣。本书试图为读者提供训练所需的基本知识，同时尽笔者所能把难度维持在恰当水平。学术探索之路漫漫，刻苦努力与可持续性都需兼顾。笔者希望读者朋友们喜欢这本书，也希望那些立志学术之路的学生们看完本书后不再感到孤单。对笔者而言，这是最有意义的事情。

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.

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.

Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question.
Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how to evaluate data and prior research; how to follow a trail to elusive treasures; how to organize a project; when to start over; when to ask for help. He shows how an understanding of scholarly values, a commitment to hard work, and the flexibility to change direction combine to enable the researcher to turn a daunting mass of found material into an effective paper or thesis.
More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott’s guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Those looking for ten easy steps to a perfect paper may want to look elsewhere. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott’s unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper.

做学问、搞研究离不开发表。但如何发表？有没有标准、有没有方法呢？著名学者香港中文大学李连江教授针对年轻学子在学术发表、学术研究与学者生涯等方面最为关心的问题进行了解析。全书分为六讲，分别从学术期刊的审稿标准、选题、原创、表达、投稿、学者生涯六个方面进行了探讨。有术、有道，术道结合。对于年轻学者以及即将走上学术道路的青年学子助益良多，尤其在当下学术体制考核的大背景下，本书的出版具有重大的现实意义。

就业难、发表难，学历贬值、学术内卷，现在还适合进入学术圈吗？
面对这些问题，社科学者钱岳以自己读博以来15年的学术之路为案例，诚实分享自己的经历和思考，既包括学术研究的艰辛与乐趣，也包括发论文、找教职、备课、应对“非升即走”等立足学术界的实用技巧。从跟导师哭诉的学术小白到入选全球高被引的成熟学者，她拆解自己心态转变的历程，总结将学术热情转化成具体行动的方法。
走过漫长漆黑的学术隧道，她选择照亮更多犹豫和困惑，构建相互支持的学术共同体。读了这本书，或许你会对学术界动心，或许你会对学术界祛魅，但最终你都将向前一步，找到更忠于内心的选择。