This short guide to career development for academics provides sensible and practical advice on how to rise to the top in the highly competitive world of higher education. Drawing on the author's wealth of experience in international universities, the book is packed with tactics and strategies for building a successful academic career and growing a strong personal brand as a leading and highly respected academic.Whether your goal is to be a top professor, academic manager, or univer...

"Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin" features the works of Malaysian artist Amirudin Ariffin whose oil paintings and watercolours capture the true spirit of Malaysia and the lives and emotions of ordinary citizens. For the first time, some of Ariffin's most distinctive and remarkable works, including city scenes, landscapes, portraits, and abstracts, are brought together in a single volume that demonstrates the quality and breadth of his art and the narratives underlying the ...

"Managing Effectively in Academia: A Guide to Good Practice for Academic Managers and Leaders in Higher Education" provides a compact guide to good management practice in contemporary higher education. It covers key topics in day-to-day academic management including managing academic staff, handling students as customers, thinking and acting entrepreneurially and strategically, and dealing with some of the most challenging issues faced by academic managers in 21st-century universities....