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Way more than luck : commencement speeches on living with bravery, empathy, and other existential skills.

Author: Chronicle Books (Firm)
Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2015]
Edition/Format:   Print book : English
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"The commencement speech is the most popular public address of our time, shared every spring and remembered for years. Here, in an anthology of some of the finest of the genre, ... creative minds in every sector offer their wisdom: David Foster Wallace on living a compassionate life, Debbie Millman on the importance of taking risks, Michael Lewis on the responsibility that good fortune merits--and so many other  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Chronicle Books (Firm)
ISBN: 9781452135199 1452135193
OCLC Number: 897042206
Notes: Subtitle in pre-publication: How to live life with bravery, empathy, and other existential skills we learned in school.
Description: 192 pages ; 21 cm
Contents: Debbie Millman --
Dick Costolo --
Bradley Whitford --
Michael Uslan --
Tom Wolfe --
Madeleine L'Engle --
Michael Lewis --
Nora Ephron --
Ira Glass --
Barbara Kingsolver --
Eileen Myles --
Jonathan Safran Foer --
Khaled Hosseini --
David Foster Wallace.

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