Charles Wheelan

10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Steiner, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A book filled with so much wisdom that I have no choice but to recommend it.Craig Wilson, USA Today

The antidote to those cotton-candy platitudes that are all too familiar to anyone who's ever worn a mortarboard, Wheelan's 101 head-turning aphorismsbacked up by a PhD in public policy and extensive social science researchset the record straight. Readers everywhere agreed, turning a Dartmouth Class Day speech that had gone viral into a best-selling book.

Whether praising the time wasted in fraternity basements; mentioning that, frankly, the worst days of your life still lie ahead; or simply asking that graduates avoid wreaking the kind of havoc that others before them have, Wheelan softens his candid conclusions with good-natured charm and tales of unconventional success. With cartoons sprinkled throughout to keep things light, this volume makes a perfect gift for graduates of all ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393084573
• Artikelnr.: 59589031

Autorenporträt

Charles Wheelan is the author of the best-selling Naked Statistics and Naked Economics and is a former correspondent for the Economist. He teaches public policy at Dartmouth College and lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his family.