The Last Lecture
Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living
$37.41
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2010
Summary
The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.
What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give ‘a last lecture’ lecture, he didn’t have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. But the lecture he gave, ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’, wasn’t about dying. It was about the importance of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340978504 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340978503 |
| Author: | Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Two Roads |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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About The Author
Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch was a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. An award-winning teacher and researcher, he worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the Alice project. He died in 2008, two years after his diagnosis.
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