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THE LAST LECTURE<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Review<\/h3>\n
Inspiring ?\u00a0The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n

Incredibly moving ?\u00a0Daily Record<\/span><\/div>\n

Book Description<\/h3>\n
Professor Randy Pausch’s moving and inspirational book based on his extraordinary Last Lecture about realising one’s dreams and ambitions.<\/div>\n
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About the Author<\/h3>\n
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Randy Pausch is a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 19881997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the Alice project. He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist for the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/span>, attended the last lecture, and wrote the story that helped fuel worldwide interest in it. He lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, Sherry, and daughters Jordan, Alex, and Eden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  • Publisher ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>CORONET; Latest edition (17 April 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Language ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>English<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Paperback ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>224 pages<\/span><\/li>\n
  • ISBN-10 ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>0340977736<\/span><\/li>\n
  • ISBN-13 ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>978-0340977736<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Item Weight ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>162 g<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Dimensions ? : ?\u00a0<\/span>13.1 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    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: 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?<\/p>\n

    When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didnt 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, wasnt 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2083","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookmysphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}