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Last Lecture by: Randy Pausch City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 15.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780340977736 ISBN: 0340977736 Label: Hodder Pb Manufacturer: Hodder Pb Number Of Pages: 206 Publication Date: April 17, 2008 Publisher: Hodder Pb Studio: Hodder Pb Sales Rank: 27774 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Live life at its fullestThere are so many things I'd love to say about this book and the legacy Randy Pausch left behind... I think that every parent should read it and learn from it, and every teacher (at all levels) should read it and get inspired from it. Although you can watch the real lecture on YouTube, I strongly recommend reading the book. It brings up issues, beliefs that many of us share, and it does so in such a wonderful way! If I were to leave my kids a collection of life lessons, it would probably be this book. God bless your family, and rest you in peace, Randy! Rating: - Courtesy of Teens Read TooThere's nothing more bittersweet than reading a story where you know the ending before you start the first page. Everyone knows that on July 25, 2008, Randy Pausch lost his battle with cancer. But fortunately for those of us who never knew the man, he's left behind his legacy in THE LAST LECTURE. The well-known lecture can be viewed on YouTube, but with the help of a Wall Street Journal writer, Jeffrey Zaslow, he's taken his famous "last lecture" and written a book on how to live. If you've watched the actual last lecture (I took the time after reading the book to sit and watch the entire talk), then the book is a perfect companion. If you've not seen the video, you will still be touched by the book. Though the book doesn't quote ... Read More: Rating:  - The Last LectureRandy Pausch lived his life the way he wanted to and trusted himself that his decisions were correct. "The Last Lecture" gives us a look into his life and how he thought he could find joy and satisfaction in life even though faced with death. In his soul searching about life and about leaving a legacy for his three children he decided to give a last lecture to a live audience and then he expanded the last lecture and turned it into a book. The book does make you look at your life and ponder about living life to its fullest and it makes you think about the priorities in your own existence. Randy Pausch was obviously an highly intelligent person who had great parents and later found a great wife and had three great children, but then ... Read More: Rating:  - Words of wisdom but nothing newWhile my heart goes out to the family of Randy Pausch for their support of Randy's project and their eventual loss, The Last Lecture, really did not tell us anything new. I, too, am living with cancer and as a fellow cancer victim, it is easy to understand why Randy would want to leave a glimpse of himself to pass on to his children and instill the values he so strongly believed in. However, if one lives a compassionate, respectful, humble, loving life, and makes the best of each day as it comes, the lessons in this very short book are nothing unique that will set the world on fire. The lecture presents an important message about living an honest life, taking time to smell the roses, and the importance of following your dreams, but haven't we ... Read More: Rating: - "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand"If you had the oportunity to give a last lecture, what would you teach to those listening to you? Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, had to make that decision, and he decided to talk about how to really achieve your childhood dreams. Randy was dying of cancer when he gave that class, in September. I saw his lecture on wwwyoutubecom, and it really made a big impression on me. It was interesting, motivating, sometimes funny, and the kind of thing that makes you think. Here was a man with a few months to live, that found some time to gift others with the things he had learnt along the way. It was simply unbelievable... Of course, when I heard that the lecture had been transformed by Randy and ... Read More: |
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