Academia - How to make the question asking for books on academia/science not a shopping list?

Perhaps we need to carve out an exception for books on the practice of academia, since that is (usually) an on-topic discussion here.

Asking for a textbook on how science works is too broad. There is lots that has been published on that subject, and it's not clear how to narrow down among them.

Asking for a textbook on how academia or science works is even broader. Asking how academia works is quite different from asking how science works, so you shouldn't ask for both in a single question.