A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Skills for Scholars, 22)
By: Jessica McCrory Calarco
4.34
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed …
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
By: Karen Kelsky
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get ten… read more
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"... the modern university system systematically requires an unending supply of young, vulnerable idealists to work for poverty wages as graduate student teaching assistants (and, of course, adjuncts)…"-Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide To Turning Your Ph.D. Into a Job
3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
4. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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5. How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
By: Michèle Lamont
4.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Illuminating the confidential process of academic evaluation, this text reveals the inner workings … read more
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- academic
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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7. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day
By: Joan Bolker
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion … read more
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8. Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
By: Robert L. Peters
3.80
Format: 304 pages,
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9. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
By: Gloria E. Anzaldúa , Sonia Saldívar-Hull
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Anzaldua, a Chicana native of Texas, explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence o… read more
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- nonfiction
"I preferred the world of imagination to the death of sleep"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again."-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
"Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads"-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
10. The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time
By: Alex Korb
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you down into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
11. Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
By: Annette Lareau
5.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth obs… read more
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12. Metaphors We Live By
By: George Lakoff , Mark Johnson
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
The now-classic Metaphors We Live Bychanged our understanding of metaphor and its role in language … read more
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13. Up from Slavery
By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed
3.64
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more
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14. Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
By: Kristin Neff
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more sel… read more
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15. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
3.65
Format: 192 pages,
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more
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16. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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17. Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School
By: Shamus Rahman Khan
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Hardcover
As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampsh… read more
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18. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
By: Molly Roden Winter
3.53
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more
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- nonfiction
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage
19. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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- education
20. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By: Bob Joseph
4.57
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more
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21. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
By: Steven Levitsky
4.43
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more
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- nonfiction
22. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
By: Rebekah Taussig
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more
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"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
23. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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24. Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime
By: Julie Menanno
4.55
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Create a lasting and loving attachment with the help of the expert couple’s therapist behind the po… read more
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- self help
25. How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
By: Paul J. Silvia
4.07
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
All academics need to write, but many struggle to finish their dissertations, articles, books, or g… read more
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"Writing books hurts like no other kind of writing."-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
"Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text"-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
"Writing a book is like injecting anabolic steroids: it if doesn't kill you, it'll make you stronger and hairier."-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
"The goal of text generation is to throw confused, wide-eyed words on a page; the goal of text revision is to scrub the rods clean so that they sound nice and can go out in public."-Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing
26. Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic
By: Paul Conti
3.74
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
A Journey Toward Understanding, Active Treatment, and Societal Prevention of Trauma Imagine, if yo… read more
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27. A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Skills for Scholars, 22)
By: Jessica McCrory Calarco
4.34
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed … read more
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28. Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
By: Jennifer Morton
3.84
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The ethical and emotional tolls paid by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and … read more
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29. A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey from Vancouver Island to Alaska
By: David Norwell
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A soul-searching personal account of a young man’s 1,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria, BC,… read more
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30. Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills
By: Zachary Shore
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
What’s the hardest part of grad school? It’s not simply that the workload is heavy and the demands … read more
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31. Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope
By: Victoria Reyes
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many enter the academy with dreams of doing good; this is a book about how the institution fails th… read more
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