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The daily grind of the modern professor can be stressful, chaotic, and at times seemingly impossible to organize! In her book, The Organized Academic, award-winning scholar, pedagogue, and former Dean Elizabeth Wells offers realistic day-to-day techniques that promise to transform your academic life. With so much going on, organization is your best weapon against the burnout and disarray of scholarly living. A guidebook like this is an essential addition to any serious achiever’s collection.

This is the audio summary of Designing Your Life, a book that teaches you how to take a design-based approach toward your life in order to live better and optimize the life you lead in every way, and in every area....

The United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richard Courant, among hundreds of other physicists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, chemists, and linguists who transformed the American academy. Yet for every scholar who survived and thrived, many, many more did not. In this rigorously researched book, Laurel Leff rescues from obscurity scholars who were deemed "not worth saving".