How to Keep Your Woman: - And Keep Her the Way You Love Her (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780984165780)

Linda Nilson, Ph.D. has authored many books, book chapters, and articles on a variety of sociological topics and, more recently, on strategies to improve teaching at the university level. Among her latest volumes is Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors, now in its third edition (Jossey-Bass, 2010). She designs teaching and career-related workshops for college-level faculty and conducts them at institutions and conferences in the U.S. and internationally. Currently she directs the faculty development center at Clemson University and previously directed similar centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, Riverside. Before going into administration, she taught and conducted research in sociology at UCLA. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison as a National Science Foundation Fellow and her B.A. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was elected in Phi Beta Kappa. Between university positions, Linda ran her own commercial writing business, where she wrote and designed brochures, ads, press releases, professional bio's, business correspondence, and executive resumes. During this time she was also business editor of Southern California's Inland Empire Magazine. For several years Linda was active in Toastmasters International. She held various club offices and won many awards for her public speaking, including the U.S. Southern Regional Humorous Speech Contest in 1995. Linda resides in Anderson, SC with her husband Greg Bauernfeind. She has three grown stepchildren whom she loves like her own and two precious miniature Schnauzers.