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Post-Ghetto
Is South Los Angeles on the mend? How is it combating the blight of crime, gang violence, high unemployment, and dire poverty? In provocative essays, the contributing authors to "Post-Ghetto" address these questions by pointing out robust signs of hope for the area's residents--an increase in corporate retail investment, a decrease in homicides, a proliferation of nonprofit service providers, a paradigm shift in violence- and gang-prevention programs, and progress toward a strengthened, more racially integrated labor movement. By charting the connections between public policy and the health of a community, the authors offer innovative ideas and visionary strategies for further urban renewal and remediation. Contributors: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson, Andrea Azuma, Edna Bonacich, Robert Gottlieb, Karen M. Hennigan, Jorge N. Leal, Jill Leovy, Cheryl Maxson, Scott Saul, David C. Sloane, Mark Vallianatos, Danny Widener, Natale Zappia
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay
"Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches." - Sunday Times "A delicate depiction of life, love and possibly madness... Moving and surprising" - Daily Express Nina Findlay, alluring, accomplished, deluded, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men, brothers she's known since childhood. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Nina's depended on becomes catastrophically unstable. The life she's known begins rapidly to unravel, and odd things begin to happen which those around her insist are all in her mind. Separated from her husband, she goes on holiday to a tiny Greek island, the honeymoon island of ...
El as bajo la manga
Cada político tiene su as bajo la manga: le sirve un proceso de paz, un megáfono en la plaza o un candidato que es un títere, porque la trampa suele ser su jugada maestra. La única carta tapada que nos queda a sus víctimas, que los hemos elegido, es la risa. Y nadie como Daniel Samper Ospina, kamikaze de la opinión, para ponerlos en su lugar en nuestro nombre. Samper Ospina cumple siete años de escribir para Semana esa columna implacable que nadie se pierde los domingos. Su inagotable trabajo humorístico no sólo es el libro de historia más confiable que se le puede recomendar a quien quiera conocer por dentro la farsa colombiana, sino que, tal como lo prueba esta recopilación de sus mejores columnas de los últimos tres años, lo convierte en el as bajo la manga para esos lectores que saben que el humor es la última defensa.
Three Light-Years
Cecilia and Claudio are doctors are the same hospital. They eat lunch together almost every day; they talk, sometimes even share secrets. Each is enmeshed in a complicated, painful relationship that has technically ended but isn't really over: she is newly separated, with two small children; he's stuck in the apartment building where he grew up, where his senile mother, not to mention his ex-wife and her new family, all still live. Cecilia and Claudio are attracted to each other: magnetically, powerfully. But life has taught them to treat that attraction with suspicion. Then a chance encounter between Claudio and Cecilia's sister, Silvia, shifts the precarious balance of the relationship between the two colleagues. Claudio begins to recognize the damage caused by his wary stance toward everything around him. He has hidden a hunger for life and experience beneath a veneer of apathy, a mask that also conceals a deep well of anguish. And just when Cecilia comes to the realization that she loves Claudio and is ready to commit to a genuine relationship, fate steps in once again.
Sword Stone Table
From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by: Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • S. Zainab Williams Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseb...
Agua
Estara prohibido, como casi todo Pero no hay prohibiciones para los naufragos Ni condena para los que habiendo sobrevivido Conservan la actitud de exponer lo que son. Los estetas levantan las cejas, es lo que pueden No hay mucho predicado para cualquier pilar Una definicisn simple, contundente e inefable Para sufrir entre parintesis que nadie leera. Sigue, si feliz, o al menos aligrate de cuando en vez La corteza para los que miran, la madera para los que ven Aunque uno y otro disfruten, lo sepan o no, de la misma sombra Bajo la cual un alguien entendera la precisisn de la flecha mas cara La que queda, la que se guarda, la que por mucho tiempo se oculta.
Little Italy
In Little Italy: The Way It Was, Peter Corona, Ph.D. shares personal stories of the early days during the first half of the twentieth century when San Diego's Little Italy had more than 6,000 families living within its boundaries. Once known as the "Italian neighborhood" or the "Italian Colony," this thriving community was one of America's best kept secrets. In a pre-determined society that dictated life's direction from birth to death, residents followed a unique code of ethics, customs, and folkways, but most importantly, adhered to a code of silence. Through personal recollections, conversations with lifelong friends, and surveys of church and public records, Dr. Corona vividly describes ...
Lease of Goods
The contract for lease of goods is well known in practical life. Short-time leases of cars, to both businesses and consumers, are perhaps the most striking example, but contracts for temporary use of another person’s goods in exchange for rent are common for a wide range of products, like industrial equipment, office machines, leisure boats, sports gear, etc. Long-term leases are often chosen as an alternative to other forms of acquisition of goods ("financial leases"). This book presents a set of Principles of European law on lease contracts within the framework of the Study Group on a European Civil Code. The Principles are closely co-ordinated with other parts of what will become the Dr...
