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Summary: You are what you read?
Review: This book is a fantastic collection of scenarios and questions from the world of academia. The writer does an excellent job of bringing humor and advice to some "true to life" and some "not so true to life" stories. For those that take the book too seriously... I don't think it was intended to be the fourth source in your dissertation, but rather an extremely entertaining book to read to relieve some stress between chapters (smile)... I highly reccomend this book to anyone that works in academia.
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Summary: Vital truth coupled with heartfelt humour
Review: This will having you rolling on the floor, so best not read it in the stuffy stacks of the university library, lest you lose your borrowing privileges. Emily Toth, who's written a column for the MLA which is the academic equivalent of Anne Landers, knows whereof she speaks. She delivers the truth with dry humour.Ms. Mentor is helpfully organized by chapters that chronicle the academic lifecycle from undergraduate to deadwood, er, I mean full professorship. The question/answer format emphasizes the pathos of women who are just trying to get on with their academic interest despite often boorish and hostile environments. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll learn why riding a bicycle and wearing a demure skirt still won't cut it with some tenure committees and a hundred and one other sad truths about women's climb up the academic ladder. I have pressed my copy of Ms. Mentor on all new faculty members I meet: inevitably they buy their own to serve as a guide through the treacherous fields of academic interviews, department parties and tenure evaluations.
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