~ Undersized Hardcover
~ Winner of the Audie Award for Biography/Memoir - 2009
Often 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 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 . . .
Within The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration, and intelligence that made his lecture 'Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams' on the importance of overcoming obstacles and seizing opportunities such a phenomenon and thereby given the speech an indelible form as a gift to be shared for generations to come.