As India gears up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the country will focus once again on the moments of glory we have had on the largest sports arena in the world, featuring such stalwarts as Abhinav Bindra, Mary Kom and PV Sindhu. But it will also be time to ask again the question we ask ourselves every four years: why does a country of a billion plus have so little to show for itself at the Olympics?Dreams of a Billion gives the reader an inside view of what goes on backstage in the Indian Olympics world, alongside a quick history of how India has fared at the Olympics over the past century, and a look at how the Indian Olympics world has changed in the last decade. Which brings us to the question: How good is India's preparation for Tokyo 2020? Can Tokyo be the gamechanger Indian sport wants it to be and hopes it will be?

17 goals, 195 countries, 1.2 billion youth and a million dreams…that’s all it’s gonna take for the world we are gonna make. A world without poverty, without hunger, with equality, with quality education…Can it happen? Yes, it can. The youth can make it happen. You and I can make it happen. It is just a matter of dreaming of a better tomorrow, a better world TOGETHER. “This book effectively explains the need for collective action and suggests a grassroots action plan to tackle the same. Think globally and act locally is reflected in all SDGs and nicely interpreted by the young author.” Dr. Shruti Shukla Educationist, Environmentalist, career Counselor “Inayat’s personal reflection on how each SDG relates to daily life and each person’s journey is a great example of the type of engagement and commitment that is required for their successful achievement.” Juan Pablo Ramirez Miranda Head of social and human sciences, UNESCO “Dream positive, to think and speak positive, to act positive, for peace! This book will help you.” Johan Galtung Norwegian sociologist, principal founder: peace and conflict studies “The author, a 21-year-old medical student, seeks nothing less than a world with justice and dignity for all. She is dreaming big and wants her contemporaries to join her in creating this world.” David Krieger Founder and President Emeritus, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation

Learn to speak the language of your dreams with this fascinating guide to the 100 most common dreams—why we dream them, what they mean, and how they can help us in everyday lives We all dream, but our dreams often seem to be bizarre and confusing experiences that make little sense to us, no matter how much we try to analyze them. The true key to understanding our dreams is looking beyond individual symbols—and being able to see the bigger picture in the stories that we choose to create every night. There are one hundred dream themes that are consistently reported by dreamers around the world, regardless of country or culture. These dreams appear again and again because they reflect fundamental life patterns. This guide will help you recognize these common one hundred dreams, enabling you to achieve a much deeper understanding of your dreams and yourself.

A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller: This "vivid" inside story of WeWork and its CEO tells the remarkable saga of one of the most audacious, and improbable, rises and falls in American business history (Ken Auletta). Christened a potential savior of Silicon Valley's startup culture, Adam Neumann was set to take WeWork, his office share company disrupting the commercial real estate market, public, cash out on the company's forty-seven billion dollar valuation, and break the string of major startups unable to deliver to shareholders. But as employees knew, and investors soon found out, WeWork's capital was built on promises that the company was more than a real estate purveyor, that in fact it was a transformational technology company. Veteran journalist Reeves Weideman dives deep into WeWork and it CEO's astronomical rise, from the marijuana and tequila-filled board rooms to cult-like company summer camps and consciousness-raising with Anthony Kiedis. Billion Dollar Loser is a character-driven business narrative that captures, through the fascinating psyche of a billionaire founder and his wife and co-founder, the slippery state of global capitalism. A Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller “Vivid, carefully reported drama that readers will gulp down as if it were a fast-paced novel” (Ken Auletta)

The story of unmanned space exploration, from Viking to today Dreams of Other Worlds describes the unmanned space missions that have opened new windows on distant worlds. Spanning four decades of dramatic advances in astronomy and planetary science, this book tells the story of eleven iconic exploratory missions and how they have fundamentally transformed our scientific and cultural perspectives on the universe and our place in it. The journey begins with the Viking and Mars Exploration Rover missions to Mars, which paint a startling picture of a planet at the cusp of habitability. It then moves into the realm of the gas giants with the Voyager probes and Cassini's ongoing exploration of the moons of Saturn. The Stardust probe's dramatic round-trip encounter with a comet is brought vividly to life, as are the SOHO and Hipparcos missions to study the Sun and Milky Way. This stunningly illustrated book also explores how our view of the universe has been brought into sharp focus by NASA's great observatories—Spitzer, Chandra, and Hubble—and how the WMAP mission has provided rare glimpses of the dawn of creation. Dreams of Other Worlds reveals how these unmanned exploratory missions have redefined what it means to be the temporary tenants of a small planet in a vast cosmos.

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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.