An award-nominated ProPublica reporter traces the evolution of the historical American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 while offering insight into its fiercely partisan supporters and detractors
An award-nominated ProPublica reporter traces the evolution of the historical American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 while offering insight into its fiercely partisan supporters and detractors
An award-nominated ProPublica reporter traces the evolution of the historical American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 while offering insight into its fiercely partisan supporters and detractors
The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s ?audacity of hope” met the auster
Winner of the 2009 Skystone Ryan Prize for Research, Association of Fundraising Professionals Research Council“All outstanding philanthropic successes have one thing in common: They started with
Philanthropy is a booming business, with hundreds of billions of dollars committed to the social sector each year. Money Well Spent, an award-winning guide on how to structure philanthropy so that it
Details a money earning program designed to teach children ages four through twelve the value of money and help them understand the realities and possibilities of work and innovation.
States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money should be spent, we are also confronted with a host of mo
Well, you did it! You spent the family vacation money on a trip to Gettysburg this year. Now what? You’ve driven around a great big field full of monuments, the kids are complaining that they wante
From the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century, vast sums of money were spent on the building and sumptuous decoration of churches. The resulting works of art contain many of the greatest monuments of late antique and early medieval society. But how did such expenditure fit with Christ's message of poverty and simplicity? In attempting to answer that question, this 1998 study employs theories on the use of metaphor to show how physical beauty could stand for spiritual excellence. As well as explaining the evolving attitudes to sanctity, decorum and display in Roman and medieval society, detailed analysis is made of case studies of Latin biblical exegesis and gold-ground mosaics so as to counterpoint the contemporary use of gold as a Christian image in art and text.
Her parents bought her a husband. It was not money well spent. She was not pretty, a condition rarely forgiven. But she was brilliant, a prolific and celebrated author, and perfectly placed as a premi
