"Many kids want to be teachers one day. But how did one boy become a teacher at age nine?"--Cover, page [4].

We have all been brought up listening to stories from our grandparents, parents, and many others. Stories have an innate capacity to mould us, to shape our thinking, to inspire us, to motivate us, to coach us and impress our subconscious mind metaphorically. Storytelling is, and has always been, an important part of the solution for simulating positive behavioural changes. And when the stories are real-life stories, the benefits get amplified manifold. The emotional strings attached to real human stories bring credibility, engagement, and buy-in. The second book in the AKHYAYIKAS series (Akhyayika means a fable, a short episodic narrative, or an anecdote) is a compendium of 100 short stories of people who dared to dream. Given the rough twist of fate, they decided to pick themselves up and make successes of themselves in their chosen life purpose. All the characters in the stories have one thing in common: they believed in the power of their dreams. The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose!

A timely look at children's rights, the young activists who fought for them, and how readers can do the same by Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren

Everyone wishes to have their dreams get cherished, but one has to endure many sleepless nights to fulfill them, and must have passion to achieve them. It's a bitter truth that everyone has to face problems, hurdles, and adversities in their life. Many people are worried even to walk on the tailor-made and an easy going path of life, whereas, few are very brave and confident who make their own way and walk on for a successful life. To accomplish any task in a different way and having great strength fighting any difficulty proves one's own determination towards success. One who has learned to fight against all the adversities, hurdles and difficulties in life gets all doors open for his success. Anyhow, one should possess a strong will power and determination. Dr. Kalam's journey from a simple lad, born in a poor family, to being the President of India, gained him huge popularity. It all happened due to his strategic planning, unique working style, and life management skills. Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was highly influenced with the 'life management skills' of Dr. Kalam, which motivated him to pen down a book on Dr. Kalam's life experiences and his life management skills. This book is going to inspire our younger generation and others too who are facing lot many troubles and hurdles to fulfill their dreams. This book also belongs to the same genre and you all are going to be enriched with high energy and enthusiasm. A must read book for everyone who wish to fulfill his dreams.

An international monthly lifestyle journal from Writers' Kalam.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death. Every year, many anticancer drug candidates are discovered and synthesized, but the major challenge lies in identifying, characterizing and evaluating their efficacy. The aim of this Research Topic, "New Mechanisms for Anti-Cancer Drugs" is to collect a group of publications focused on novel chemical compounds exhibiting new modes of actions and/or new target proteins to fulfill their cytotoxic activity on cancer cells. In this context, we will also be pleased to consider studies on drug repurposing, including approved, discontinued, and shelved drugs, when anti-cancer activity results from an unexpected mode of action.

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Agile software development approaches have had significant impact on industrial software development practices. Today, agile software development has penetrated to most IT companies across the globe, with an intention to increase quality, productivity, and profitability. Comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in adopting and using agile approaches and industrial practices to deal with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an agile way. Agile Software Architecture focuses on gaps in the requirements of applying architecture-centric approaches and principles of agile software development and demystifies the agile architecture paradox. Readers will learn how agile and architectural cultures can co-exist and support each other according to the context. Moreover, this book will also provide useful leads for future research in architecture and agile to bridge such gaps by developing appropriate approaches that incorporate architecturally sound practices in agile methods. - Presents a consolidated view of the state-of-art and state-of-practice as well as the newest research findings - Identifies gaps in the requirements of applying architecture-centric approaches and principles of agile software development and demystifies the agile architecture paradox - Explains whether or not and how agile and architectural cultures can co-exist and support each other depending upon the context - Provides useful leads for future research in both architecture and agile to bridge such gaps by developing appropriate approaches, which incorporate architecturally sound practices in agile methods