If I Can Dream

A long-time confidante of Elvis Presley reveals intimate details of the legendary performer's dreams and disillusionments, showing his disintegration due to drugs and the harm he inflicted on himself

After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, a professor shares the lessons he's learned—about living in the present, building a legacy, and taking full advantage of the time you have—in this life-changing classic. "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 over the same question: 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 humor, 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.

A Spring 2017 Indie Next Selection Nina Laden’s warm and lyrical picture book sees and appreciates through a child’s eyes how fortunate we are to live in the world we do. Celebrate the wonder of the world in this reassuring picture book about the joy, love, and beauty that is part of each and every day. Our world is full of possibilities if you look for them.

Dream big! Young readers help characters pursue their aspirations—from driving a race car to traveling to Mars— just by wiggling their fingers! But wait! There's even more fun. In an impressive gatefold finale, kids help a firefighter, astronaut, artist, and more come together to follow their dreams. With interactive holes on every page and a satisfyingly funny touch-and-feel cover, this charming board book offers a uniquely entertaining way to play and read together.

"Anand and Darsh, two Medical aspirants, belong to poor background. One side Anand restricts his dreams to just become a doctor. On the contrary Darsh has a broader vision to become famous. But he is constantly warned by Anand to cut off his broader range of dreams accepting financial crisis as a hurdle. The Author has beautifully portrayed steps taken by Darsh to achieve dreamt success as a token of motivation. So, she urges you to enter into the heart of this book to catch how Darsh became successful after being in the dilemmatic situation. 19 years old Tishya Shree is a 1st year M.B.B.S student. She is passionate for music and writing, and one of her hobby took shape to accommodate pages of her emotion enclosed within the Soul of this book. Her hobby of writing since childhood made to see her name for the first time in ""Dream Bridges Success"". The only thing she wishes to remain evergreen is your love and support. https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTishya"

Elvis Presley's clever manipulation of his numerous interests remains one of the music world's great marvels. His synthesis of country, rhythm & blues and gospel resulted in an inventive mixture of hair-raising rock & roll and balladry. This book focuses on the music of Presley's groundbreaking early years and includes a comprehensive analysis of every Presley recording session from the 1950s. Chapters show how Presley, with one foot in delta mud and the other in a country hoedown, teamed with Scotty Moore and Bill Black to fuse two distinctly American musical forms--country and blues--to form what would come to be known as "rockabilly." Also detailed is Presley's influence on music and how his contributions are still celebrated today.

Aiyekooto learned about birds calls, before title of this anthology. Not strange, research highlighted interesting aspects of bird character. Birds make different calls for different reasons. Distinctly, they are mood calls. There's poetry in the repeated calls. So, after listening to birds calls and responses, I grouped identifiable birds' calls into 5 moods (movements) Beak Up Call, Turning Beak Calls, Discordant Call, Twitching Beak Calls & Synchronized Calls I didn't write about birds'nature in this anthology? Nor write a tweet about birds. However, I learned that birds' calls and responses are no different in nature to those of humans. I versed 50 new poems into these five (5) Moods for I found out that the overall theme of all human (as well as birds') calls is "love". The different variants are occasioned by the mood of the caller and that determines the expected response of others in relation. I hope you enjoy these poems tweeting, chirping and singing!