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Re: It takes all kinds...

From: Dusan Bolek <pagesflames_at_usa.net>
Date: 24 Jun 2003 01:18:58 -0700
Message-ID: <1e8276d6.0306240018.562a5bde@posting.google.com>


"Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<3ef6cd83$0$16255$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au>...
> "Norman Dunbar" <Norman.Dunbar_at_lfs.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:E2F6A70FE45242488C865C3BC1245DA703D2B29B_at_lnewton.leeds.lfs.co.uk...
>
> >
> > So, in order to be good at what we do, we have to publish a book now eh
> > ?
>
> Unfortunately yes. Or so some "consultants" want us
> to believe. One of many reasons I have declined all
> invitations. I don't really want to be confused with
> the likes of what gets published in some "collections".

This is what I call "academic behaviour". To publish or to die. I think this is the main reason why we have so many crap books, and why on universities around the globe are so many people who are totally useless in their field of interest.

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Dusan Bolek
Received on Tue Jun 24 2003 - 03:18:58 CDT

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