{"product_id":"9783319593203","title":"You Must Be Very Intelligent : The PhD Delusion by Karin Bodewits","description":"You Must be Very Intelligent is the author's account of studying for a PhD in a modern, successful university. Part-memoir and part-expos?, this book is highly entertaining and unusually revealing about the dubious morality and desperate behaviour which underpins competition in twenty-first century academia.? This witty, warts-and-all account of Bodewits' years as a PhD student in the august University of Edinburgh is full of success and failure, passion and pathos, insight, farce and warm-hearted disillusionment. She describes a world of collaboration and backstabbing; nefarious financing and wasted genius; cosmopolitan dreamers and discoveries that might just change the world. Is this a smart people's world or a drip can of weird species? Modern academia is certainly darker and stranger than one might suspect.?? This book will put a wry, knowing smile on the faces of former researchers. And it is a cautionary parable for innocents who stillbelieve that lofty academia is erected upon moral high ground.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310896525685,"sku":"9783319593203","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783319593203.jpg?v=1762815707","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783319593203","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}