...This chapter is a response to the call for research agenda focusing on the ‘problem of riches’. It suggests that the topic of philanthropy fits within this agenda yet is under-researched in the social sciences. In this chapter, original research into the distinctive features of contemporary UK...

... was as lush as the Villa del Casale at Piazza Armerina remains unknown. From Sicily also comes the ascetic treatise On Riches (probably by a Pelagian author), the most scathing critique of wealth from late antiquity. Roman Christian aristocrats, including Melania and her circle, expressed...

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...0 27 01 2000 Once after I led a series of workshops here at UMass, a faculty participant told me sheepishly that some of them had taken to calling me “Write-it-wrong Elbow.” He feared I might be insulted, but I wasn’t. Let me explore some riches in wrongness. after workshops calling explore...

... were, for most of the period covered by the letters, rising in the social and economic scale, and thus particularly pro.ne to buying or considering buying property. pro Balbo praedia Caelio Verrines nouveaux riches This content is only available as a PDF. ...

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...This chapter defends the limitarian doctrine, which entails the view that it is morally objectionable to be rich. I examine how limitarianism can be spelled out and whether it can be convincingly defended. As is the case with egalitarianism and other distributive views, one can distinguish between...

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... into the advertising field. In 1950 he began writing pop songs with Jerry Ross (born March 9, 1926, in the Bronx), including the chart-topping 1953 pop hit Rags to Riches. Heart Hernando’s Hideaway Hey There I’ll Never Be Jealous Again I’m Not at All in Love Rags to Riches Small Talk Adler...

... to be aggressive, wily, and not overly principled, it was more important to have privileged social origins. The new rich used the social assets they had to hand, were quick to recognize which parts of their expertise and skill sets were of no further value in the turmoil, and realigned their resources accordingly...

..., and John Riches were Scottish Episcopalians who responded to the twentieth-century world with innovative theology. Between the two World Wars, the passibilist theologian Brasnett explored the eternal suffering of God in Christ and its meaning for humanity. Then MacKinnon wrestled with the reality of evil...

... riches Society interwar Britain The English had no doubt, at least for most of the period 1918–51, that there was an upper class, though they would not necessarily have agreed as to its boundaries. The purpose of this chapter is to define the upper class and to examine how its members behaved...

..., the young man received, in payment for his labors, not only the bar and its contents but 1,500 mil-reis in cash. An established proprietor in his own right, Joao toiled even more feverishly, possessed by such a thirst for riches that he patiently endured the cruelest hardships. He slept on a straw mat...

...-sold story of the past 2,000 years? What was it about Jesus’s teaching of self-sacrifice that was revolutionary then and is still relevant today? Jesus Bible Gospels John the Baptist Apostles temptations power pride riches Prometheus Socrates You know the story. What can we tell you about...

... for the feats of 2007 Kentucky Oaks winner Rags to Riches. Pletcher's second Kentucky Oaks winner, she cemented her place in racing history by becoming the first filly in over a century to win the Belmont Stakes, defeating eventual Horse of the Year Curlin by a head. Ashado Ashland Stakes azoturia Breeders...

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...There was evidence of women as noticeable recipients of wealth and riches during the Egyptian phase of the Fatimid dynasty. Women and male relatives of the early imam-caliphs were fully dependent upon the allowances that the imams bestowed on them. In Egypt, however, while the male relatives...