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Inspiring Novel
Stephen Hawking has been the face of physics for decades, his groundbreaking work changing the way we view our place in the universe. Yet he is almost as famous for his battle against disability and is a standard-bearer for non-able-bodied people everywhere.Hawkings story is one of a constant struggle of mind over body; as he reached great heights with his work, the greater his physical struggle to lead a normal life became. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at the age of twenty-one, he was given just two years to live. He decided to continue enjoy his life and work and is now thought to be the longest-surviving ALS sufferer in history. Despite this, his work in cosmology, most notably on black holes, saw him become world famous as a physicist and an author and named the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, a teaching post once geld by Sir Isaac Newton. This inspirational book invites you to explore Hawkings unique approach to tackling the big scientific questions of his age and traces the disparate ideas and influences that helped shape his personality and outlook, decoding them to reveal how you can apply his methods and practices to all areas of your life. You too can learn to think like the man who claims he can think in eleven dimensions. Be Inspired to follow in the footsteps of the greatest mind of his age as you learn how to : Overturn the odds Tackle the really big questions Work with your intuition Stand up for what you believe in Never stop challenging yourself.
Dying at 19
This novel is a biographical account of a girl Tullika and is narrated by her friend Meghna. The events occurring are from the last year of her school to first year of college. However, what transpires in Tullika's life over this period is the essence of the novel. The novel is not an account of a particular college or school. It is a simple story of change and what happens when that change is not favorable to a person. How uprooted and confounded a person becomes when he /she moves from a well known environment to a sheer different world. Tullika can represent one such person who made the wrong choices and how her choices not only affected her but all the people who were close to her. Meghna is one such person and she narrates the story which deals with the pain after she lost a dear one and also how she feels reponsible for her death.
The last lecture
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: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? 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. 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 (because time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humour, 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.
Three thousand stiches
So often, it's the simplest acts of courage that touch the lives of others. Sudha Murty-through the exceptional work of the Infosys Foundation as well as through her own youth, family life and travels-encounters many such stories . . . and she tells them here in her characteristically clear-eyed, warm-hearted way. She talks candidly about the meaningful impact of her work in the devadasi community, her trials and tribulations as the only female student in her engineering college and the unexpected and inspiring consequences of her father's kindness. From the quiet joy of discovering the reach of Indian cinema and the origins of Indian vegetables to the shallowness of judging others based on appearances, these are everyday struggles and victories, large and small.Unmasking both the beauty and ugliness of human nature, each of the real-life stories in this collection is reflective of a life lived with grace.