Professor Mommy is designed as a guide for women who want to combine the life of the mind with the joys of motherhood. The book provides practical suggestions from the authors' experiences together with those of other women who have successfully combined parenting with professorships. Professor Mommy addresses key questions—when to have children and how many, what kinds of acad...(展开全部)

This book is about pleasure. It’s also about pain. Most important, it’s about how to find the delicate balance between the two, and why now more than ever finding balance is essential. We’re living in a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, sexting, Facebooking, Instagramming, YouTubing, tweet...(展开全部)

Unlike most texts in critical thinking, Reason in the Balance focuses broadly on the practice of critical inquiry, the process of carefully examining an issue in order to come to a reasoned judgment. Although analysis and critique of individual arguments have an important role to play, this text goes beyond that dimension to emphasize the various aspects that go into the practi...(展开全部)

What does it really take to succeed in academia? Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all of new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most are destined for disappointment. The hard truth is that half will quit or fail to get their degree, and most graduate...(展开全部)

An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo For a dozen years as one of the world’s most admired CEOs, Indra Nooyi redefined what it means to be an exceptional leader. The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company — and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time — she transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous...(展开全部)

Mentoring is integral to how academics are formed and what trajectories their careers will take. Yet until recently, no one was trained to do it, and many academics have ingrained assumptions about mentorship that no longer fit the lives, needs, and aspirations of mentees. How to Mentor Anyone in Academia shares proven techniques for the professional development of junior facul...(展开全部)

When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young sons encouraged her to pursue the job; she had a tremendously supp...(展开全部)

A "New York Times" Best Illustrated Book In this companion to the acclaimed picture book "Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary, "Maria (Mary's daughter) and Mouse Mouse (Mouse's daughter) are looking for their mothers. They're not in their bedrooms, their car and cart are still in the driveway, and they are not in the gazebo or under the mushroom! Where could they be? Well, t...(展开全部)

比瓦利·多诺佛里奥 生于1950年9月23日，毕业于美国卫斯里安大学，并且在哥伦比亚大学获得“创造性写作”荣誉奖。她最著名的作品就是以自传形式呈现的《与男孩同车》（Riding in cars with boys）。这本书后来还被改编成电影搬上荧幕，由德里·巴鲁摩尔出演女主角。除了《玛丽和小老鼠的秘密》（2007）《妈妈，你在哪儿？》(2014)，儿童文学作品还有《谢谢你，幸运星》(2008)等。现居墨西哥，在那儿有自己的工作室。多诺佛里奥住过26个房子，其中多数她都和两只或五只老鼠同住。 芭芭拉·麦克林托克 生于1955年5月6日，毕业于美国詹姆斯敦学院。在她20岁生日的时候，打电话给莫里斯·桑达克咨询关于儿童绘本的插画建议，受到桑达克的鼓励来到纽约。她曾五次赢得“纽约时报最佳绘本插画”奖，她的图画书都获得了很高的评价，《灰姑娘》和《阿黛尔和西蒙》...(展开全部)

In one of the most intrepid travelogues in recent memory, Emma Larkin tells of the year she spent traveling through Burma, using as a compass the life and work of George Orwell, whom many of Burma's underground teahouse intellectuals call simply the Prophet.In stirring prose, she provides a powerful reckoning with one of the world's least free countries. Finding George Orwell i...(展开全部)