A Guide to Academia Download

Author: Prosanta Chakrabarty
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0470960418

A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job

A Guide to Academia is a handbook for all those individuals thinking seriously about going to graduate school. Download A Guide to Academia: Getting into and Surviving Grad School, Postdocs and a Research Job from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Written by an author with extensive experience navigating the academic world, the book explains all the steps and potential bumps in the road that a student might encounter as they take the plunge into academia. Each chapter begins with a section called the "hard truth," which will help students determine if they are on the right path. Starting with an undergraduate student looking for a graduate school, the reader is taken on a journey up the academic ladder through graduate studies, a postdoctoral fellowship and an assistant professorship. Each chapter gives advice on not only how to survive the current stage but how to get Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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