The Last Lecture by Zaslow, Jeffrey; Pausch, Randy - 2008

New York: Hyperion Books. New in New dust jacket. 2008. Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. 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. 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. It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy 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. 206 pp. 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" tall .