Bibliograph

The last lecture, Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

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The last lecture, Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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illustrationsportraits

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The last lecture

Oclc number

183266069

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Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow

Summary

"A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? ... what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment .... It was about living. In this book, ... Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form."--Jacket

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