TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pausch,Randy
AU  - Zaslow,Jeffrey
TI  - The last lecture
SN  - 9780733623318 (hbk.) :
U1  - 004.092 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Sydney
PB  - Hachette Livre Australia
KW  - Pausch, Randy.
KW  - Computer scientists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Pancreas
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Conduct of life
N1  - I; The Last Lecture --; II; Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams --; III; Adventures... and Lessons Learned --; IV; Enabling the Dreams of Others --; V; It's About How to Live Your Life --; VI; Final Remarks
N2  - "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."--BOOK JACKET
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