Outwitting College Professors, 5th Edition: An Insider's Guide to Secrets of the System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781516979639)

John Janovy, Jr. has published over a hundred scien-tific papers, eleven trade books by major publishers, and the leading textbook in his discipline (Foundations of Para-sitology, McGraw-Hill, with L. S. Roberts and S. A. Nadler). He has also written the script for an internationally televised film based on his books about the western plains (Keith County Journal, 1985, Nebraska ETV, 16mm and video, 58min; 1986 Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1st place in local information programming category). His book sub-jects include natural history essays (Keith County Journal, St. Martin's; Vermilion Sea; Houghton Mifflin), high school ath-letics (Fields of Friendly Strife, Viking, winner of the Amer-ican Health magazine book award for 1987), anti-intellec-tualism in America (Comes the Millennium, St. Martin's, as Jack Blake), and higher education (Teaching in Eden, Rout-ledgeFalmer). He is the winner of numerous prizes for both teach-ing and research, including the University of Nebraska's Distinguish Teaching Award, Nebraska Libraries Associa-tion Mari Sandoz Award, American Society of Parasitolo-gists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award, and the University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creativity Award. Dr. Janovy has taught large introductory science courses through-out his career; that experience, along with his several admini-strative positions and service in international scientific organi-zations, gives him unique insight into workings of higher edu-cation, especially those factors that affect student lives. Web site: http: //www.johnjanovy.com Blog: http: //fridaycoffee.blogspot.com Twitter handle: @jjparasite Follow John Janovy, Jr., on Facebook.