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The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Binding: Softcover, 206 pages
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 1401309658
Price: RM34.90
Synopsis
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. --This text refers to the
Roughcut edition.
About the Author
Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and
Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988-1997, 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.
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