I'm quite fond of Richard Hamming's You and Your Research[0]. Here are two books that explain a lot about politics. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior

I'm quite fond of Richard Hamming's You and Your Research[0]. Here are two books that explain a lot about politics. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall [0] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html