Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce that I have recently published my first Book, titled ‘Sphinx: The Nature of Doing PhD’. You can find them on the LuLu online bookstore and purchase printed, hard-paper versions with premium quality for yourself.

The Book details:
Copyright and Title
Title ‘Sphinx: The Nature of doing Ph.D.’
ISBN978-1-326-39778-4
Imprint/Publisher LuLu.com
First International Edition, 639 pages
All Rights Reserved
License Copyright Holder: Assylkhan Nurgaliyev
Copyright Year June 2025

I understand that the Book may not be affordable to many people due to its cost. However, you should know that the Book is addressed primarily to professional academic, scientific, and analytical circles, such as leading worldwide university libraries, specialised research institutions and qualified think tanks. Additionally, the Book is addressed to future PhD students and scholars interested in post-Soviet history and the modern concepts and developments established in post-Soviet states today.      
The Book includes several other topics that I covered during my PhD years, such as nation-building, political and institutional design, governance, nationalism, ethnic policy, demography, economic development, and party system issues. Hence, the reader receives a unique Book which is not just a simple collection of mandatory tables and forms for writing a dissertation but an ‘illustrative’ PhD example hardcover based on a particular collection of writings of mine during my PhD research with various topics-based literature reviews, fieldwork forms, research design and methodology samples, supervision forms, PhD student’s six monthly and annual reports, panel and panel progress reports, literature summaries and many other moments that are essential for doing PhD.  

Table of Contents of the Book:
Part I:     Ph.D. Research Proposal                                     
Part II:    Ph.D. Doctoral Manuscript                                 
Part III:   Ph.D. Supervision Forms                                   
Part IV:   Ph.D. Six Monthly Reports                                 
Part V:    Ph.D. Annual Reports                                         
Part VI:   Ph.D. Supervision Summaries                           
Part VII:  Ph.D. Research Design and Methodology       
Part VIII: Ph.D. Panel Progress Reports                         
Part IX:   PhD. Fieldwork samples                                 
Part X:    PhD research-related articles written for CIS media           

The price of the Book is $250 USD, whereas the print cost is $139.55 USD. Additionally, LuLu’s fee for delivery and operational costs is $22.09 USD, and my earnings as the Author are $88.36.

You may purchase the Book in the following ways that are convenient to you:
1) Purchase the printed hardcover Book through the Lulu online bookstore through this link:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/assylkhan-nurgaliyev/sphinx-the-nature-of-doing-phd/hardcover/product-dy66528.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Nota Bene: However, if you want to purchase the Book in the shortest time without waiting for the printed version and its delivery and, therefore, to acquire the Book for a lesser price, then you may buy the electronic PDF version of this Book directly from me.
The price for the electronic PDF version of this Book will be only $ 100 USD. This amount will be my earnings as the Author.

2) You can make a payment to my PayPal (You may click this PayPal icon here or scan the PayPal QR code below) account through this email address: assylkhannurgaliyev@gmail.com
Please send me a purchase confirmation letter with your email address so I can send the electronic PDF version of the Book to you.

3) You may also purchase the electronic PDF version of the Book by paying through my Kazakhstani local bank account:
Halyk Bank
BIC/SWIFT HSBKKZKX
acc. number KZ826010002025171737
cardholder name: Assylkhan Nurgaliyev
Astana, Kazakhstan
Please also send me a purchase confirmation letter to my email (assylkhannurgaliyev@gmail.com) with your email address so I can send the electronic PDF version of the Book to you.    

4) (for Kazakhstani citizens only) You may also purchase the electronic PDF version of the Book by paying just through my Kazakhstani bank card details:
Halyk Bank
card number: 4405 6397 7740 8665
cardholder name: Assylkhan Nurgaliyev

Kaspi Bank
card number: 4400 4303 5390 3088
cardholder name: Assylkhan Nurgaliyev

With best wishes,
Assylkhan Nurgaliyev, The Author