In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator tries to prove his sanity after murdering an elderly man because of his "vulture eye". His growing guilt leads him to hear the old man's heart beating under the floorboards, which drives him to confess the crime to the police.

The Eye, the Hand, the Mind, celebrating the centennial of the College Art Association, is filled with pictorial mementos and enlivening stories and anecdotes that connects the organization's sixteen goals and tells its rich, sometimes controversial, story. Readers will discover its role in major issues in higher education, preservation of world monuments, workforce issues and market equity, intellectual property and free speech, capturing conflicts and reconciliations inherent among artists and art historians, pedagogical approaches and critical interpretations/interventions as played out in association publications, annual conferences, advocacy efforts, and governance.

Father Boyle started Homeboy Industries nearly 20 years ago, which has served members of more than half of the gangs in Los Angeles. This collection presents parables about kinship and the sacredness of life drawn from Boyle's years of working with gangs.

2016 Books For A Better Life Award winner Drawing on the latest research and remarkable tales of forgiveness from around the world, journalist Megan Feldman explores how forgiveness, when practiced in the right ways, can save lives, make us happier and healthier, and lead to a better world. Veteran journalist Megan Feldman was still smarting over a bitter breakup when she began working on a feature article about a father named Azim who had truly forgiven the man who killed his son. She had found herself totally and completely unable to forgive her ex-boyfriend, and yet Azim had managed to forgive his own son’s murderer. Forgiveness has long been touted by religious leaders as a moral imperative. But Megan wanted to know exactly what it means from a scientific perspective, and why forgiving those who have wronged you is one of the best things you can do for yourself. In Triumph of the Heart, Feldman embarks on a quest to understand this complex idea, drawing on the latest research showing that forgiveness can provide a range of health benefits, from relieving depression to decreasing high blood pressure. The journey takes her from New Zealand and the Maori who practice their own form of restorative justice, to a principal in Baltimore who uses forgiveness techniques to eradicate violence in her school, and to recovered addicts who restarted their lives by seeking and receiving forgiveness. She travels to Rwanda to learn about forgiveness in the face of unthinkable atrocities. This book is a guide for how the practice of forgiveness can help us all in our search for a satisfying, fulfilling, good life.

Born and raised in Henry Horner "Double H" projects, in thecity of Chicago, Star and her brother Snuggles (known as Snugz to most)were the oldest of their mothers six children.Their mother was a gang member herself, and their familywas one of the biggest gangs in the Double H, which madeit all feel normal to the siblings.While most may have lived in fear, they grew to accept thestreet life. Both Snugz and Star dreamed of leaving the projectsbehind for something better; but, they were inherent hustlers,and were inevitably pulled into the life of fast cash and crossfire. Doing what so many before them had done, selling drugs anddoing whatever it took to maintain the upper hand, the siblingshad no idea that they were about to literally face the fight oftheir young lives! All they wanted was to find a way out, but sometimes the only way out is in a body bag. This story, based on actual events, will take you on an emotionalroller coaster. You' Become upset, then you'll smile. It will makeyou feel hate deep down in the core of your being, then it willteach you to forgive. It will make you want to give up hope justbefore teaching you to always keep the faith and to hold on. But most of all, it will make you stronger than you ever knewyou could be!