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* 199 tips for getting your PhD and surviving and thriving in your first years of teaching* Irreverent, but serious, guide to what higher education institutions are REALLY like* Illustrated with original cartoons to bring the hints to lifeJust landed your first faculty position? Close to getting your Ph.D., and planning a career in academe? Already in your first job? This insightful guide will help you achieve success. What will academic life be like? How do you discover its tacit rules? Develop the habits and networks needed for success? What issues will you encounter if you’re a person of color, or a woman? How is higher education changing? In 199 succinct, and often humorous but seriously practical hints, Paul Gray and David E. Drew share their combined experience of many years as faculty and (recovering) administrators to offer insider advice—the kind that’s rarely taught or even talked about in graduate school. For instance, Gray and Drew advise you on what you can do to become known in your field and also to be humble about your Ph.D. They also warn you of the danger points along the Ph.D. path, and the possible stumbling blocks with litigious students. Their hints can cover topics as lofty as quantitative and qualitative methods and as mundane—but still as important—as negotiating campus parking.For easy reference as you climb the academic ladder, the hints are divided into 15 short chapters and 4 appendices covering the stages and responsibilities of faculty life. As the authors state, “It is a good life and it is a lifestyle for which you even get paid”. These hints will help you both make a valuable contribution to, and get the most from, academe. And if you are really penurious, persuade a family member or friend to buy this book for you.
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The first artist-friendly screenwriting overview and guide to success by a Hollywood insider whose films and TV series have grossed more than a billion dollars.Pen Densham is your own, warm, funny, personal mentor as you read this book that has garnered amazing responses from both the Hollywood and academic communities. Actress Robin Wright says: It is like getting a UC screenwriting course for under $30!!!. Riding the Alligator is different from many other screenwriting books in that it takes a non-dogmatic approach to finding your own personal creative process, and shares Pen s best kept secrets for selling your creations and yourself.Pen draws from his own breakthroughs and shares his inspiring philosophy on finding a personal well of creativity from your inner voice, to overcoming the many challenges in a unique business, managing stress, the real secrets to selling your work, finding the right agent and being true to one's nature to create a lasting and passion filled career.The book is hailed by Hollywood luminaries like Ron Howard, Paul Haggis, Jeff Bridges, Morgan Freeman and Robin Wright, as well as heads of major motion picture studios and academics from top film schools including USC, UCLA, NYU and AFI.Also included are short, personal essays by A-List Hollywood scripters such as Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang), Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Eric Roth (Forrest Gump), Robin Swicord (Memoirs of a Geisha), Ron Shelton (White Men Can't Jump), Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island), Todd Robinson (White Squall), Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center), Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes) and more. Additionally, Pen provides an Instant Library summarizing 10 other popular books on Hollywood, as reviewed by his USC Film Students. For more information on the book including reviews, videos, essays and beyond, visit ridingthealligator dot com.