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David McRaney

A two-time winner of the William Randolph Hearst Award, journalist David McRaney writes the blog youarenotsosmart.com. A self-described psychology nerd, he lives in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
How Minds Change

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How Minds Change

What Students Will Be Reading: Campus Common Reading Roundup, 2024-25

With the fall semester in full swing, colleges and universities around the country have announced their Common Reading books for the upcoming 2024-25 academic year. We’ve compiled a list of over 340 programs and their title selections, which you can download here: First-Year Reading 2024-25. We will continue to update this listing to provide the

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2025 Catalog for First-Year & Common Reading

We are delighted to present our new First-Year & Common Reading Catalog for 2025! From award-winning fiction, poetry, memoir, and biography to new books about science, technology, history, student success, the environment, public health, and current events, the titles presented in our common reading catalog will have students not only eagerly flipping through the pages,

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Videos from the November 2022 PRH Common Reading Virtual Author Event are now available

On Friday, November 11th 2022, Penguin Random House Education hosted a special event for first-year and common reading chairs from colleges and universities from across the country. Moderated by Spenser Stevens, PRH Education Marketing Manager, the event featured the following PRH authors speaking about their books:   David McRaney, author of How Minds Change Carmen Rita

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Register for the Penguin Random House 2022 Fall Common Reading Virtual Author Event!

Penguin Random House Common Reading Virtual Author Events  November 11th, 2022 Click Here to RSVP Penguin Random House Education would like to invite you to attend our Fall Virtual Author Event for Common Reading, which will take place on November 11th, 2022, from 1:00-2:00 pm ET (10:00-11:00 am PT) featuring live presentations by David McRaney, Carmen Rita Wong, Jordan

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