All students and professors need to write, and many struggle to finish their stalled dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, or grant proposals. Writing is hard work and can be difficult to wedge into a frenetic academic schedule. In this practical, light-hearted, and encouraging book, Paul Silvia explains that writing productively does not require innate skills or special traits but specific tactics and actions. Drawing examples from his own field of psychology, he shows readers how to overcome motivational roadblocks and become prolific without sacrificing evenings, weekends, and vacations. After describing strategies for writing productively, the author gives detailed advice from the trenches on how to write, submit, revise, and resubmit articles, how to improve writing quality, and how to write and publish academic work.

Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe best-seller, The Writer's Home Companion Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and co-founder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

在我们的日常生活中，合平常理及遵从逻辑的思维方式．确实是一种解决之道，但有时中规中矩的做法反而导致 失败，而那些看似不合逻辑和非理性的行动，却出乎意料地使问题得以改善。这种矛盾悖论的现象．正是本书所要探讨的主题。 　本书三位作者是美国斯坦福大学医学院精神病与行为科学系临床教授，帕洛阿尔托心理研究院精简治疗中心的创始人和研究人员，他们共同发展了当今心理治疗领域深具影响力的精简治疗理论和模式。本书作者根据自己长期的临床实践经验，深入探讨了人们面对难题时的“变”与“不变”的态度．以及问题是如何形成、为何会持续存在、如何又被突破解决的过程。他们依据群论和逻辑类型理论．提出了第二序改变的观点，强调解决问题本身，而非对问题的追本溯源。虽然书中引用的案例来自心理治疗．但其所提出的问题形成和解决的理念却适合人类互动的各种社会情境，甚至是国际关系的范畴。 　本书充满辩证的思想精髓，激荡出令人惊喜的真理与创造性，一直是美国大学心理系及其他人文与社会学科师生的重要研读著作。

2003年，刘未鹏在杂志上发表了自己的第一篇文章，并开始写博客。最初的博客较短，也较琐碎，并夹杂着一些翻译的文章。后来渐渐开始有了一些自己的心得和看法。在这8年里，作者平均每个月写1篇博客或更少，但从未停止。这本书便是从刘未鹏8年的博客文章中精选出来的，主要关于心智模式、学习方法和时间利用，《暗时间》的书名便来自于此。