{"product_id":"ten-lives-nabil-zary-9789699893520","title":"Ten Lives: What Academic Careers Actually Look Like","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat nobody honestly explains during your PhD or postdoc is this: there isn't one \"real\" academic career. There are dozens-and most of them are invisible.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou've absorbed a hidden curriculum without realizing it. Research beats teaching. Permanent beats temporary. Staying means success; leaving means failure. These unspoken rules shape how you evaluate your options and judge yourself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut some of the most fulfilled academics have never held a tenure-track position. And some of the most miserable have achieved everything the standard path promised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe problem isn't you. The problem is the map you were given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a different map.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen fictional early-career academics. Ten different paths through the academic landscape. Set across seven Moroccan cities-because specific places make universal patterns vivid-and grounded in real conversations with hundreds of researchers, educators, and clinicians worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy fiction? Because invented characters can be honest in ways real people, with reputations to protect, cannot. The characters are fictional. The patterns are real.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you'll meet: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe teaching-focused academic who finds her deepest meaning in work that the metrics don't reward, and how she made peace with that trade-off.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe clinician-educator building simulation programs between emergency shifts in a role that doesn't officially exist; and why he wouldn't trade it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe researcher watching his grant expire while questioning what discovery even means, and the simple framework that clarified his next move.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe scientist who left academia for EdTech and discovered her skills traveled further than she imagined, and what she lost in the exchange.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe policy-linked researcher translating evidence into legislation on timelines no journal comprehends-and the identity tension that never fully resolves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book won't tell you which path is right for you. That would be a lie-I don't know your values, your constraints, or your history. Only you can discover what fits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I can make the invisible paths visible. I can help you feel what different academic lives are actually like-not the CV version, but the Tuesday afternoon version-so you can try them on before you stake years on a direction you've never truly seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author: \u003c\/strong\u003e Nabil Zary has built an academic career across four countries and three continents-from Morocco to Sweden to Singapore to Dubai. Now Professor of Medical Education, he wrote this book after watching hundreds of early-career academics struggle with the same question he once faced: \u003cem\u003eWhat kind of scholar do I actually want to become?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTen Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book in the \u003cem\u003eDesigning Your Academic Life\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy. Designed for use in faculty development programs and postdoc career workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you're a PhD student wondering what comes next... a postdoc on your third temporary contract... a clinician with teaching work no one recognizes... someone sensing there's more to the landscape than you've been shown...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou're not alone. And you're not broken for wanting something different.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nabil Zary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9699893524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789699893520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Neuroink Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d","brand":"Nabil Zary","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48137288810751,"sku":"9789699893520","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_216b3d30-4779-443c-864a-360e7d9279e0.jpg?v=1770167839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ten-lives-nabil-zary-9789699893520","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}