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Few people have as much experience helping students cope with college life as Douglas Stone, a long-time Harvard residential adviser and coauthor of Difficult Conversations, and Elizabeth Tippett, recent Harvard graduate and founding director of the university's peer mediation program. In Real College, they join forces to help students deal with nightmare roommates, handle academic pressures, make smart choices about alcohol and sex, communicate with parents, and address all the other big issues that can make college as challenging as it is exciting. Stone and Tippett deliver insightful, pragmatic advice with humor and compassion, in a style that parents and students alike will appreciate. This is one book that no college student should be without.
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Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen teach at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Negotiation Project. They have been consultants to businesspeople, governments, organizations, communities, and individuals around the world, and have written on negotiation and communication in publications ranging from the New York Times to Parents magazine. Bruce Patton is also a co-author of Getting to Yes. Each of them lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Elizabeth Tippett developed and directed a student group at Harvard, which served as a resource for campus organizations in managing their conflicts. She is a student at Harvard Law School.
Real College masterfully presents critical information on key topics in a format that is engaging and entertaining. -- Julie C. Lythcott-Haims, Dean of Freshmen, Stanford University
Every student affairs office should recommend it. -- Loren Pope, author of Colleges that Change Lives and Looking beyond the Ivy League
Extremely funny, astonishingly helpful. Every college student and college-bound high school senior should read it. Period. -- Henry C. Moses, Headmaster, Trinity School and former Dean of Freshmen, Harvard College
Remarkably well written, truly reader friendly, and full of good ideas. I highly recommend this book. -- Richard J. Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education, Harvard University, and author of Making the Most of College
Stone and Tippett address serious, substantive, and challenging issues with deep psychological wisdom. This book is superb 'must' reading. -- Charles Ducey, Ph.D., Director, Bureau of Study Counsel, Harvard's Center for Psychological and Learning Services
Every student affairs office should recommend it. -- Loren Pope, author of Colleges that Change Lives and Looking beyond the Ivy League
Extremely funny, astonishingly helpful. Every college student and college-bound high school senior should read it. Period. -- Henry C. Moses, Headmaster, Trinity School and former Dean of Freshmen, Harvard College
Remarkably well written, truly reader friendly, and full of good ideas. I highly recommend this book. -- Richard J. Light, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education, Harvard University, and author of Making the Most of College
Stone and Tippett address serious, substantive, and challenging issues with deep psychological wisdom. This book is superb 'must' reading. -- Charles Ducey, Ph.D., Director, Bureau of Study Counsel, Harvard's Center for Psychological and Learning Services
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