publish or perish

The Sellout: A Novel

by Paul Beatty  · 2 Mar 2016  · 271pp  · 83,944 words

speedboat! It’s really no contest.” The next day my father burned his “findings” in the fireplace. Even at the junior college level it’s publish or perish. But more than the fact he’d never get a parking space with his name on it or a reduced course load, I was a

A Second Chance

by Jodi Taylor  · 31 Dec 2012

. I could imagine the reaction to my paper. I’d rocked enough boats in my time. Leave the world its stories. I shook my head. ‘Publish or perish,’ she reminded me. For a member of St Mary’s there are many more imaginative ways to perish than simply failing to publish regularly. I

Team Geek

by Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman  · 6 Jul 2012  · 209pp  · 54,638 words

problem across all fields. For example, professional science is supposed to be about the free and open exchange of information. But the desperate need to “publish or perish” and to compete for grants has had exactly the opposite effect. Great thinkers don’t share ideas. They cling to them obsessively, do their research

Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut

by Mike Mullane  · 24 Jan 2006  · 506pp  · 167,034 words

. My curiosity was piqued by the title. Why was McGuire writing about astronaut leadership? I could only assume it was a self-initiated private work. “Publish or perish” was the order of the day for university professors. I rolled the document into my hand, thanked McGuire for listening, and departed. I wasn’t

I Am a Strange Loop

by Douglas R. Hofstadter  · 21 Feb 2011  · 626pp  · 181,434 words

, in the 1980’s). Their wonderful generosity has given me the luxury of being able to explore my variegated interests without being under the infamous publish-or-perish pressures, or perhaps even worse, the relentless pressures of grant-chasing. I have not followed the standard academic route, which involves publishing paper after paper

Virus of the Mind

by Richard Brodie  · 4 Jun 2009  · 289pp  · 22,394 words

around the sun was more useful than one that revolved around the earth. Dan’s situation in life is much like a university professor’s: publish or perish. In Dan’s case, what he’s publishing are copies of everyone’s favorite subject: himself. Does Dan care if he

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publishes or perishes? Only in some mystical, metaphysical sense. Dan is just a lump of carbon and a hank of amino acids. It wouldn’t be fair to

The World According to Physics

by Jim Al-Khalili  · 10 Mar 2020  · 198pp  · 57,703 words

in all walks of life, and scientists are not immune to it. We strive for tenure and promotion, to compete for funding, meet project deadlines, ‘publish or perish’, and work hard to gain the respect of our peers and the approbation of our superiors. And yet, part of our training in the scientific

Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975

by Hannah Arendt  · 6 Mar 2018  · 653pp  · 218,559 words

, and where the foundation may be of help, is that really good teachers are not thought of highly by the academic society. This business of “publish or perish” has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody’s interested. But for them

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not write. Or, if he is forced to write, will not write well. And, by doing something which he is forced to do because of “publish or perish,” he will become a lesser person. I’ve seen it happen in the places where I have taught. One might give medals or awards. I

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

by Peter Godfrey-Smith  · 6 Dec 2016  · 259pp  · 76,915 words

heritage of camouflage, an immensely rich expressive capacity—a video screen is tied directly to their brain. Cuttlefish and other cephalopods are brimming with output. Publish or perish. To some extent, this output is designed by evolution to be seen; sometimes it is camouflage, but sometimes it is meant be noticed, by rivals

Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

by Karen T. Litfin  · 16 Dec 2013  · 322pp  · 89,523 words

of community life were not worth long hours on the freeway. So I bought a house near the university and, bowing before the academic dictum “publish or perish,” I put my nose to the grindstone. As I’ve said, it was the perfect job, but something was missing, something big. I cared about

Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

by Vincent Ialenti  · 22 Sep 2020  · 224pp  · 69,593 words

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

by Jimmy Soni  · 22 Feb 2022  · 505pp  · 161,581 words

A Man for All Markets

by Edward O. Thorp  · 15 Nov 2016  · 505pp  · 142,118 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 5 Jan 2015  · 482pp  · 121,672 words

The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America

by Sarah Kendzior  · 24 Apr 2015  · 172pp  · 48,747 words

The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for It Every Time

by Maria Konnikova  · 28 Jan 2016  · 384pp  · 118,572 words

The Art of UNIX Programming

by Eric S. Raymond  · 22 Sep 2003  · 612pp  · 187,431 words

Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth

by Stuart Ritchie  · 20 Jul 2020

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science

by Michael Nielsen  · 2 Oct 2011  · 400pp  · 94,847 words

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 9 Sep 2024  · 566pp  · 169,013 words

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

by Tom Chivers  · 6 May 2024  · 283pp  · 102,484 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance

by Emanuel Derman  · 1 Jan 2004  · 313pp  · 101,403 words

Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software

by Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson and Peter Curtis  · 7 May 2002

Free Ride

by Robert Levine  · 25 Oct 2011  · 465pp  · 109,653 words

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

by Burton G. Malkiel  · 10 Jan 2011  · 416pp  · 118,592 words

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

by Brian Dear  · 14 Jun 2017  · 708pp  · 223,211 words

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes  · 17 Sep 2012  · 1,437pp  · 384,709 words

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss  · 1 Dec 2010  · 836pp  · 158,284 words

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West  · 15 May 2017  · 578pp  · 168,350 words

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

by Chip Heath and Dan Heath  · 10 Feb 2010  · 307pp  · 94,069 words

The Mad Man: Or, the Mysteries of Manhattan

by Samuel R. Delany  · 1 Jun 2015  · 647pp  · 201,252 words

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska  · 5 Jun 2024  · 361pp  · 100,834 words

Heart: A History

by Sandeep Jauhar  · 17 Sep 2018  · 272pp  · 78,876 words

Coders at Work

by Peter Seibel  · 22 Jun 2009  · 1,201pp  · 233,519 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics

by Tim Harford  · 2 Feb 2021  · 428pp  · 103,544 words

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden  · 24 Oct 2022  · 392pp  · 114,189 words

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

by Robert J. Shiller  · 14 Oct 2019  · 611pp  · 130,419 words

How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (And Knowing When to Trust Them)

by Tom Chivers and David Chivers  · 18 Mar 2021  · 172pp  · 51,837 words

Underground

by Suelette Dreyfus  · 1 Jan 2011  · 547pp  · 160,071 words

Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim  · 10 Jun 2013  · 204pp  · 58,565 words

You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between

by Lee Gutkind  · 13 Aug 2012  · 347pp  · 90,234 words

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

by Bharat Anand  · 17 Oct 2016  · 554pp  · 149,489 words

Working Identity, Updated Edition, With a New Preface: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career

by Herminia Ibarra  · 17 Oct 2023  · 200pp  · 67,943 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth About Dieting

by Giles Yeo  · 3 Jun 2019  · 351pp  · 112,079 words

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson  · 23 Oct 2011  · 915pp  · 232,883 words

Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

by William Poundstone  · 18 Sep 2006  · 389pp  · 109,207 words

Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext

by Belinda Barnet  · 14 Jul 2013  · 193pp  · 19,478 words

Longshot

by David Heath  · 18 Jan 2022

The Invisible Web: Uncovering Information Sources Search Engines Can't See

by Gary Price, Chris Sherman and Danny Sullivan  · 2 Jan 2003  · 481pp  · 121,669 words

The Lucky Years: How to Thrive in the Brave New World of Health

by David B. Agus  · 29 Dec 2015  · 346pp  · 92,984 words

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

by Cory Doctorow  · 6 Oct 2025  · 313pp  · 94,415 words