دانلود کتاب The Independent Scholar's Handbook

This book is, without question, the most valuable work around for those who pursue an interest in a serious, systematic way. Completely revised and updated by the author, the handbook points to resources, organizations, and people, and helps the reader to understand the development and use of such expertise.

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How to Become an Expert in Any Subject— On Your Own
What do you want to learn more about? Really focus your interest on? It might be anything from women in literature to the history of baseball to organic gardening. The Independent Scholar’s Handbook is an invaluable guide to pursuing your interest and becoming an expert in it — outside of a university or other institution. It helps you select your topic; shows you where to look for resources, mentors, assistants, and financial help; gives you pointers on sharing your knowledge and getting published; and suggests ways you might combine your research with a job or career.
Satisfy Your Passion for Knowledge
Some of the most exciting discoveries and intellectual leaps have been made by independent scholars: Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein. Barbara Tuchman, and Betty Friedan are but a few who achieved recognition while working on their own. Other, ' less well-known, scholars include such people as a Seattle doctor whose lifelong hobby, exploring caves, has led him to worldwide travel and conservationism, and the Boston women whose pursuit of the truth about their own health resulted in the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves.
If you have kept your mind active since you were in school but have an uneasy feeling that you have rarely, if ever, stretched it to anything like its limit, this handbook is for you. After years of learning/or someone or something else, you are now invited to begin an intellectual pursuit for yourself. The Independent Scholar’s Handbook will help you unlock your potential, mobilize your creative powers, and use your mind to its utmost.

Ronald Gross, formerly with the Ford Foundation, currently co-chairs the Innovation in Education seminar at Columbia University and is the editor of Adult and Continuing Education Today magazine.