You're a new assistant professor? Not quite on top of it yet?

Here are some books etc. that may help:

Got a grand plan, research-wise? Thought through all the angles?

• How to have a Bad Career in Research/Academia, David Patterson, 1994. (35 slides, on-line, author is a computer scientist)
• Advice to a Young Scientist. P. B. Medwar. Basic Books, 1979. 0-465-00092-4. (106 pages. medicine.)
• A Ph.D. is Not Enough: A guide to survival in science. Peter J. Feibelman. Addison-Wesley, 1993. 0-201-62663-2. (109 pages. solid state physicist.)
• The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery. Jack E. Oliver. Columbia University Press, 1991. 0-231-07620-7. (208 pages. geophysicist.)
• The Compleat Academic: A practical guide for the beginning social scientist. M. P. Zanna and J. M. Darley (Eds.). Random House, 1987.
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd Ed. Thomas S. Kuhn. University of Chicago Press, 1970. 0-226-45804-0. (210 pages. historian/philosopher.)

How's teaching? Just getting by?

• Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research and Theory for College and University Teachers, 9th Edition. Wilbert J. McKeachie. D. C. Heath and Company, 1994 0-669-19434-4. (444 pages)
• Mastering the Techniques of Teaching. Joseph Lowman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990. 1-55542-221-7 (244 pages)
• Improving your Classroom Teaching. Maryellen Weimer. Newbury Park and London: Sage Publications, 1993. 0-8039-4976-6. (128 pages) (home page)
• What's the Use of Lectures?. Donald A. Bligh. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000 0-7879-5162-5 (346 pages).
• Teaching Tips from UC Berkeley online.
• reading lists from the Teaching Resources library at Waterloo online
• A Selected Bibliography on College and University Teaching online
• Craig Nelson's Linked Bibliography on College Teaching
• Yale Patt's Ten Commandments of good teaching

Not getting good work out of your students? Rather just do it yourself?

• How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie. Simon and Schuster, 1936/1981. 0-671-72365. (262 pages)
• How to be a Terrible Research Advisor. Nigel Ward. online, 1992. (3 pages) [computer programmer] funny
• Advisor, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering. National Academy Press, 1997, 0-309-06363-9. also online
• any book with the word "management" or "leadership" in the title.

Wishing the university was just run sensibly?

• The University: An owner's manual. Henry Rosovsky. Norton, 1990. 0-393-30783-2. (309 pages) [Dean's perspective]

Are research grants the purpose of life?

• The Economic Laws of Scientific Research. Terence Kealey. MacMillan, 1996. 0-333-65755-1. (353 pages).

Are your colleagues weird or is it you?

• Lucky Jim. Kingsley Amis. Penguin, 1954. (251 pages) [English lit. lecturer's perspective] funny!
• Moo. Jane Smiley. Flamingo, 1995. (414 pages) [English lit., wide perspective] funny!
• Changing Places. David Lodge. Penguin, 1975. (251 pages) [English lit. full prof's perspective] funny!
• Straight Man. Richard Russo. Vintage, 1997. (391 pages) [English lit. chairman's perspective] funny!
• The Emperor of Ocean Park. Stephen L. Carter. Knopf 2002. (672 pages) [law professor's perspective]

Or you could just go somewhere else:

• 10 things to ask for when negotiating an academic job offer. online. Nigel Ward, 2002. funny.

• the links at Graduate Studies, Research and Careers in Computer Science
• the postings at Tomorrow's Professor