The book you list as your #1 book is most certainly not an &#x27;academic&#x27; book. Just because a book is written by an academic, does not make it an academic book. Just the byline gives it away (&quot;A Guide for Anyone Who Works with Data&quot;), but the description even more so: &quot;This book describes, simply and in general terms, the process of analyzing data. ... This book is a distillation of their experience in a format that is applicable to both practitioners and managers in data science. &quot;<p>In other words, &quot;we&#x27;ve written down our experiences as applied statisticians&quot;. Which is fine and actually it sounds like it would be useful for me, but it&#x27;s not &quot;academic publishing&quot;.