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How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

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<h4>Harvard University Press, March 2009</h4><h5>Michéle Lamont</h5>

Lamont tells all in this behind-the-scenes work on the mysterious underpinnings of academia. Be in the room when the greatest thinkers meet behind closed doors and talk about how excellent excellence is.

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