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Demystifies the academic career path with practical advice With the number of people being awarded PhDs growing far more rapidly than the supply of academic job

You might learn a few useful things at school, but most of what matters, most of what makes you into a fully functioning human being, no teacher will ever tell

Winner of the 2011 Newbery Award. The movement of the train rocked me like a lullaby. I closed my eyes to the dusty countryside and imagined the sign I’d seen

The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories