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The Last Lecture Hardcover - 2008
by Pausch, Randy & Jeffrey Zaslow
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- Hardcover
Based on the extraordinary final lecture by Carnegie Mellon University professor Pausch, given after he discovered he had pancreatic cancer, this moving book goes beyond the now-famous lecture to inspire readers to live each day with purpose and joy. Photos.
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Details
- Title The Last Lecture
- Author Pausch, Randy & Jeffrey Zaslow
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hachette Books, New York
- Date 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1174
- ISBN 9781401323257 / 1401323251
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.1 x 5.1 x 1 in (18.03 x 12.95 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Cancer - Patients - United States, Death - Psychological aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009285139
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”—Randy Pausch
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? If we had to vanish tomorrow, 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 (because “time is all you have…and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.
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- Entertainment Weekly, 07/25/2008, Page 75
- Newsweek, 05/26/2008, Page 12
- People Weekly, 04/21/2008, Page 56
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 03/23/2009, Page 18
- Time, 04/21/2008, Page 4
