Social Capital

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification.

"No codiciarás" es uno de los 10 mandamientos. Sin embargo, lo que esto abarca es mal entendido o mal interpretado por muchos. ¿Quién es culpable de este pecado? ¿Qué consecuencias tiene el pecado de la envidia? ¿Son la envidia y los celos lo mismo? ¿Hay momentos en que está bien o incluso mejor sentir un poco de envidia o celos? ¿Cómo testifican las Escrituras de la severidad del pecado? Y por último pero no menos importante, ¿cómo lo superamos? Estas y muchas otras preguntas serán respondidas en este libro analítico y espiritual de un cristiano devoto.

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindicated her outrage: District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc. was decided in 1953.

When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone - and especially Donald Trump - is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital flows? Unfettered capital has resulted in a string of financial and economic crises that have left our political systems strained and dialogue corroded. The once perceived benefits of openness have been cast to the wayside and the cracks in the global order can no longer be ignored.

Indossando di volta in volta i panni dell'avidità, della cupidigia, dell'usura, della concupiscenza, della taccagneria o della grettezza, la struttura camaleontica dell'avarizia è tale che essa può addirittura assumere le sembianze della virtù. È il vizio più "economico" dei sette ed è un economista ad indagare le ragioni per le quali nel corso del tempo, a partire dalla tarda antichità esso sia andato soggetto ad una pluralità di slittamenti semantici, secondo un'alternanza che non trova riscontro in nessuno degli altri vizi capitali.

Non solo pigrizia ma anche tristezza, sconforto, inquietudine, indifferenza, noia, e soprattutto depressione. Se nasce come peccato capitale nella visione religiosa, l'accidia diventa malattia psichiatrica nella visione laica e moderna.

How do attorneys who represent clients facing the death penalty cope with the stress and trauma of their work? Through conversations with 20 of the most experienced and dedicated post-conviction capital defenders in the United States, Fighting for Their Lives explores this emotional territory for the first time. Through vivid interviews amplified by the author's responses and commentary, these attorneys reveal aspects of their internal experience that they have never talked about until now.