Reading for Life: A Crash Course in Figuring Out Your Passion and Purpose Through the World's Great Works

Author:   Blair Hoxby ,  Caroline Hoxby
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Blair Hoxby ,  Caroline Hoxby
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperOne
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.00cm
ISBN:  

9780062825841


ISBN 10:   0062825844
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 March 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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BLAIR HOXBY is a professor at Stanford University, where he runs the school's popular Education as Self-Fashioning Program for undergraduates. He is the author of What Was Tragedy? Theory and the Early Modern Canon (Oxford University Press, 2015) and Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton (Yale University Press, 2002), and editor of Milton in the Long Restoration (Oxford University Press, May 2016), a collection of twenty-nine original essays that analyze the way authors writing from 1650 to 1750 interpreted, imitated, and parodied Milton. A graduate of Harvard University, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his master's degree in English, before earning his doctoral degree in English and American literature at Yale University. CAROLINE HOXBY is an award-winning professor of Economics at Stanford University, a world leading scholar in the Economics of Education, and one of the architects of Stanford's Education as Self-Fashioning program. She is also the Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Caroline has received multiple honors, including the John and Lydia Pearce Mitchell University Fellowship, Stanford Economics Teacher of the Year, and a Phi Beta Kappa prize. She has a Ph.D. from MIT, has studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and obtained her baccalaureate degree from Harvard University.

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