Category Archives: Biographies

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

By admin | Published: September 1, 2008
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” –Randy Pausch 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 [...]
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

By admin | Published: September 1, 2008
Jeannette Walls’s father always called her “Mountain Goat” and there’s perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents–Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic [...]
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