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In these two lectures, Rosamond Bernier presents an analysis of Matisse's style and reminisces about her acquaintance with the artist.

A brain tumor is always a scary diagnosis, even if it’s benign. Vestibular schwannoma – a benign tumor that grows on the main nerve leading from the inner ear to the brain – has symptoms that can easily be attributed to the normal signs of aging. Even so, they can affect balance, hearing, and facial muscles, requiring surgery.

Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity. In prose that seethes with energy and crackles with dark humor, Urrea tells a story that is both troubling and wildly entertaining. Urrea endured violence and fear in the black and Mexican barrio of his youth. But the true battlefield...

Charles 'Sonny' Liston - World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and one of the hardest hitters who ever lived - attracted more controversy and hostility in his time than any other fighter. Even when he won the heavyweight title, Sonny was denied public acceptance. Reputations chronicles his involvement with the Mob, his controversial title fights with Cassius Clay, and his mysterious death in 1970. It is clear that Sonny was much more than just a hoodlum,...

"After caring for his mother at the end of her life, Thomas Edward Gass felt drawn to serve the elderly. He took a job as a nursing home aide but was not prepared for the reality that he found at his new place of employment, a for-profit long-term-care facility. In a book that is by turns chilling and graphic, poignant and funny, Gass describes America's system of warehousing its oldest citizens." "Gass brings the reader into the sterile home with...

A collection of writings by nearly 200 primary and secondary school children who live in a ghetto, concerning their ideas about themselves and their surroundings.