A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science (Perseus Books Group, 1994), by Peter J. Feibelman. ISBN: 0201626632.

Should you ask that prominent scientist to be your thesis adviser? How do you go about writing a compelling scientific paper? These and other topics are covered in a guide designed to ease the transition from graduate school to professional researcher.

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A must-read for deans and aspiring deans.

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This handbook for aspiring biomedical scientists features advice on finding an academic job, obtaining research grants, setting up and managing a laboratory, and advancing one's academic career. There's a chapter on mentoring and another summarizing the results of a national survey of biomedical faculty members on how to have a successful career in scientific research. The book's appendix has sample CV's and cover letters.

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This guide offers tips on developing work habits that will help graduate students and new faculty members succeed in academe.

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This guide is designed for students who want to pursue nonacademic careers in anthropology. The author explores the differences between academic, applied, and practicing anthropologists and offers tips on preparing for careers beyond the academy. The book also includes sample résumés and cover letters, lists of anthropology-related Web sites, and advice on surviving the first year on the job.

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A comprehensive guide that starts with planning a job search and continues through the tenure process. A large section on written materials includes sample correspondence, professional vitas, and statements of teaching philosophy. A two-year timetable helps plan the search. The new third edition has additional information for candidates in the sciences and applicants for adjunct and community-college positions. There's also a section on nonacademic career options.

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This guide is designed for real-world professionals -- in business, law, medicine, and a variety of other fields -- who want to teach part time in colleges and universities. The book opens with advice on finding an adjunct teaching job, then addresses the skills you will need to survive and flourish as a part-time instructor. Each chapter contains questions to help readers focus on the issues that will be covered. Topics include course planning and conducting effective class sessions, choosing an instructional method, and assessing your teaching performance.

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Cynthia Robbins-Roth left an academic biochemistry career in the 1980s for the biotechnology industry and later founded a newsletter and a consulting business. This guide covers 22 alternative careers for scientists, including journalism, publishing, business development, sales and marketing, technology transfer, and public policy.

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This guide for new principal investigators focuses on how to set up and effectively manage a laboratory.

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A guide for women who want to get ahead in academe. It examines women's roles in higher education and offers information about affirmative action, salary and negotiation strategies, and advice about how to get to the top and avoid and deal with potential pitfalls.

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This manual for faculty members and administrators provides practical advice on conducting a successful search. The topics covered include: selecting a hiring committee, writing a job description, conducting interviews, attracting a diverse pool of applicants, evaluating and selecting the finalists, making an offer, and retaining new hires.

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This revised edition includes samples of C.V.'s for different stages of academic careers and information on how to create an electronic C.V.

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This book for faculty members, department chairmen, deans, advising directors, and vice presidents provides information on how to improve faculty advising on college and university campuses. A dozen essays examine issues such as training effective faculty advisors, the importance of assessment and reward in advisor development, organizational models of academic advising, and using technology to enhance the advising process. There's also a chapter on resources for academic advisors.

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This handbook for academic managers of all stripes -- department chairs, deans, provosts, presidents, and other academic administrators -- looks at what it takes to be an effective leader and provides practical advice on a wide variety of topics, including dealing with budgets, personnel issues, and technology.

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Two deans of social-work schools offer advice on what colleges and universities look for in new faculty members, how to match your credentials to the job market, and how to negotiate a job offer. One section deals with employment issues affecting academic couples.

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This guide explains the nature of job searches, interviews, and landing the right job, and includes a section on the do's and don'ts of job searching.

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This guide to scholarly publishing provides tips on writing and editing a manuscript, drafting a proposal, signing a contract, and everything in between.

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The number of adjunct professors in academe is rising, yet their voices are seldom heard. In this collection of essays, adjunct professors share their on-the-job experiences and horror stories.

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A guide for new faculty members who teach (or want to teach) at liberal arts colleges, written by the president of Maryville College, in Tennessee. Topics include the liberal-arts tradition; interviewing at a liberal-arts college; selecting the right college for you; scholarship, citizenship, and service; stress and time management; teaching, promotion, and tenure.

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An entertaining account of a semester in the classroom, by an Emory University history professor.

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The authors of this handbook analyze their own experiences and those of more than 50 job seekers in a variety of fields, including business, the humanities, and the sciences. They suggest ways job seekers can use the verbal, written, and visual clues offered during a job search and interviews to improve their chances of landing jobs.

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The author shares his trials and tribulations as a first-year college professor.

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Based on interviews with hundreds of academic women, this handbook includes suggestions for the job hunt, preparing your C.V., interviewing, handling job offers, and applying for contract renewals and tenure. It also includes a checklist for "woman-positive" institutions.

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Department chairmen and deans share their personnel-management strategies in this collection of essays.

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Useful tips for improving your classroom teaching.

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Ms. Mentor was born in 1992 as an advice columnist for woman professors, graduate students, recovering academics, and those who love them. In this question-and-answer guide, she dispenses wisdom on surviving graduate school, landing a job and earning tenure in "pale-male" fields, and what to wear to academic conventions.

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Based on the assumption that hearing people's stories is therapeutic and empowering, this book collects the accounts of graduate students in many fields who have recently braved the market, some successfully. More than two dozen essays explore such issues as dealing with rejection, the treatment of feminist scholars by hiring committees, relocating, making a living as a full-time adjunct, and leaving the academy and finding alternative careers.

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A collection of personal essays on the challenges of balancing parenting and a scholarly career.

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A must-read for academics who want to overcome procrastination and writer's block and become more productive writers.

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This guide -- written by two Ph.D.'s who've made the transition from academe to the "real world" -- looks at non-academic job opportunities for Ph.D.'s and M.A.'s and offers practical advice for those who are considering careers beyond the ivory tower.

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An informative manual on effective scientific writing.

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A guide for first-time academic job seekers and junior professors on the tenure track, written by a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. The appendix includes samples of application letters and other documents that job seekers must submit when applying for a faculty position.

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This volume for faculty members, administrators, and instructional development professionals features essays on topics such as redesigning a curriculum to improve student learning, providing support for adjunct faculty members and graduate student instructors, assessing student learning and the impact of faculty development, using peer evaluation to enhance learning, and implementing successful models for professional development.

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A must-read for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior professors seeking successful academic careers in science and engineering.

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This book presents case studies of academic couples who collaborate on scholarly projects and looks at how these couples have redefined their domestic roles to create environments that are conducive to mutual career satisfaction and success.

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