An unsung American heroine, Dolores a nurse in surgery is betrayed by her own kind: doctors! Th e first one, a gynecologist, keeps her waiting for 3 months before he does a D & C, and by way of a biopsy, finds out she has cervical cancer. At first he is going to do a radical hysterectomy, changes his mind, and dumps her on a radiologist with a non-existent Stage IC diagnosis report. The radiologist, not knowing his Merck Manual too well, convinces her that radiology is as effective as a hysterectomy operation for any Stage I cervical cancer. A year later, the cancer had metastasized. She receives chemotherapy and becomes very religious. The tumors disappear and she believes she is healed. However, three months later her health deteriorates, again. The husband and Dolores meet a lady cured of lung cancer by a strict metabolic diet and Laetrile pills. This happens while he is on a 3 month tour of duty assignment at Fort Hood, Texas as a civilian engineer for the US Army Tank-Automotive Command. On her advice and a talk with the doctor in Mexico they take a chance to cure Dolores with a trip to Clinica Cydel in Tijuana. After a few days of Laetrile treatment, but inability to hold down food, Dolores collapses and she is hospitalized at Dr. Contreras Hospital del Mar. She is put on a plane from San Diego to Detroit 3 weeks later, but rapidly breaks down in health. Her last day out, she attends a faithful Christian service conducted by evangelist Nora Lam. Dolores expires 4 months later.

The author takes the reader through four generations of her family, beginning in the late 1800's. The family left Burgos, Spain and settled Burgos, Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas. Eventually, Dolores, the author's mother married and moved to the border in Brownsville, Texas. The reader will experience a fascinating "first-hand" account of Spanish Mexican culture as well as life along the border in South Texas. Irma Barrientes Sherman vividly brings to life her family's deep faith in Christ, their music, marriage customs, food, dress and folklore. The account focuses on her mother, Dolores from her birth in a small town in northern Mexico to marriage and raising a family of nine siblings in South Texas.

The author takes the reader through four generations of her family, beginning in the late 1800's. The family left Burgos, Spain and settled Burgos, Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas. Eventually, Dolores, the author's mother married and moved to the border in Brownsville, Texas. The reader will experience a fascinating "first-hand" account of Spanish Mexican culture as well as life along the border in South Texas. Irma Barrientes Sherman vividly brings to life her family's deep faith in Christ, their music, marriage customs, food, dress and folklore. The account focuses on her mother, Dolores from her birth in a small town in northern Mexico to marriage and raising a family of nine siblings in South Texas.

This book provides the reader with an invaluable insight to C and C++ in particular and programming languages in general. Although the title suggests that the book has a narrow scope, in fact, just the opposite is the case: The book is an introduction to programming language design, object-oriented programming, assemblers, compilers, interpreters, linkers, computer architecture, and system programming--everything you need to know to be a master of C and C++. Included in the book are several well-defined system programming projects that support the material covered, including a machine interpreter implementation, an assembler implementation, and a linker implementation. The software package for the book supports Windows, OS X, Linux, and Raspbian.

No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.