Reading After Theory
Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.
By Nightfall
Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of be...
Day
NATIONAL BESTELLER - A "quietly stunning" (Ocean Vuong) exploration of love and loss, the struggles and limitations of family life-and how we all must learn to live together and apart-from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours "Along with George Eliot, Michael Cunningham belongs in that rare group of novelists who hold the world close, with apparently infinite respect, compassion, and tenderness, all while describing the world and its inhabitants unsparingly."-Tony KushnerNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Public Library, Lit Hub, Paste, Kirkus Reviews April 5, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, husband and wife, are slowly drifting apart-and both, it seems, are a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, is living vicariously through a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house-and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while his sister, Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. April 5, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown, the cozy brownstone is starting to feel more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan communicate mostly in veiled sleights and frustrated sighs. And dear Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts-and his secret Instagram life-for company. April 5, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family reckons with a new, very different reality-and with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on.
The Hours
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The narrative of Woolf's last days before her suicide early in World War II counterpoints the fictional stories of Samuel, a famous poet whose life has been shadowed by his talented and troubled mother, and his lifelong friend Clarissa, who strives to forge a balanced and rewarding life in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, this is Cunningham's most remarkable achievement to date.
Hours
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved ...
Wild Swan
Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely ha...
Day
'Unsparing and tender' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn 'A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents. April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts - and his secret Instagram life - for company. April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality - with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on. From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life - how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely. 'Cunningham is one of our great American writers, and here is another masterpiece ... Read it and be changed' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less
Day
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious - and learning to go on.April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence, while Violet, five, does her best not to notice the growing rift between her parents.April 5th, 2020: As the world goes into lockdown the brownstone is feeling more like a prison. Violet is terrified of leaving the windows open, obsessed with keeping her family safe. Isabel and Dan circle each other warily, communicating mostly in veiled jabs and frustrated sighs. And beloved Robbie is stranded in Iceland, alone in a mountain cabin with nothing but his thoughts - and his secret Instagram life - for company.April 5th, 2021: Emerging from the worst of the crisis, the family comes together to reckon with a new, very different reality - with what they've learned, what they've lost, and how they might go on.From the brilliant mind of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham, Day is a searing, exquisitely crafted meditation on love and loss, and the struggles and limitations of family life - how to live together and apart, and maybe even escape the marriage plot entirely.
Home at the End of the World
'It was the start of my second new life, in a city that had a spin of its own - a wilder orbit inside the earth's calm blue-green whirl. New York wasn't open to the hopelessness and lost purpose that drifted around lesser places . . . ' Meet Bobby...
Day
‘Unsparing and tender’ Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn ‘A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers’ Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon ‘A quietly stunning achievement’ Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, falling in and out of love, losing the things that are most precious – and learning to go on. April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel’s younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house – and whose departure threatens to break the family apart. And then there is Nathan, age ten, taking his first uncertain steps toward independence,
Hours
Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her ...
How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet
'Will have you in stitches' The Irish Times 'He's almost certainly not the hero you ordered, but he's the hero we need right now' Dave Gorman 'I nearly stopped breathing twice as I was laughing so much. Glorious." Dom Joly 'Probably the funni...
By Nightfall
From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Peter Harris is forty-four, prosperous, the owner of a big New York apartment and a player in the contemporary...
Specimen Days
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell's 'Cloud Atlas'. Lucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in th...
Den
Tri dnja. Tri goda. Odna semja, izmenivshajasja navsegda. Geroi Kanningema pritjagatelny i mnogomerny, on udivitelno tonko rassuzhdaet o detstve i vzroslenii, o rabote i ljubvi, ob udovolstvijakh i trudnostjakh semejnoj zhizni, o tom, kak slozhno byt chelovekom. - Fransin Prouz Odin den, 5 aprelja. Kakim on stal dlja semi Dena i Izabel v 2019-m, 2020-m i 2021-m godakh? Kakoj byla zhizn geroev do pandemii, vo vremja karantina i posle nego? Chto dalo vynuzhdennoe uedinenie? I novaja realnost - pomozhet li ona chto-to izmenit? Ili zhe vechnye problemy tak i ostajutsja vechnymi? Vzroslet i stanovitsja samostojatelnym vsegda trudno, v semejnoj zhizni mnogoe stanovitsja privychnym i terjaet noviznu, najti cheloveka, kotoryj tebja ponimaet, tozhe nelegko. Kanningem kak vsegda masterski ne prosto opisyvaet svoikh geroev, on vovlekaet chitatelja, kotoryj sochuvstvuet i soperezhivaet im. Perevod s anglijskogo: Ljubov Tronina
Dim na kraju svitu
Skandalna ekranizatsija z Kolinom Farrellom, Robin Rajt-Penn, Dallasom Robertsom i Sissi Spejsek u golovnikh roljakhjeVtrata, sim'ja, ljubov, druzhba i viddanistjeZnamenitij roman Majkla Kanningema 'Dim na kraju svitu' - tse istorija zhittja druziv, chiji doli to pereplitajutsja, to znovu roz'jednujutsja protjagom trokh desjatilit, ogoljujuchi zhivij nerv tsilogo pokolinnja - nestrimnogo, schirogo i zhadibnogo do vsikh utikh zhittja.Pislja zakinchennja koledzhu Bobbi perejizhdzhaje v Nju-Jork do druga ditinstva Dzhonatana ta jogo susidki po kimnati Kler - populjarnoji ljubitelki seksu, narkotikiv ta inshikh nebezpechnikh rozvag nichnogo mista. Bobbi i Kler zakokhujutsja, rujnujuchi vsi plani Dzhonatana. A koli Kler vagitnije, trijtsja ostatochno virishuje stvoriti vlasnu osoblivu sim'ju, de vsi troje budut brati uchast u vikhovanni ditini, i perejizhdzhaje na kraj svitu - v nevelikij fermerskij budinok nepodalik Vudstoku, mistsja, spovnenogo tajemnits ta chudes.Chomu varto prochitati
Sex Work and Human Dignity
The notion of human dignity is frequently, yet enigmatically, invoked in legal and political debates on sex work, where many people use it without much elaboration on exactly what they mean by it. Sex Work and Human Dignity: Law, Politics and Disc...
Henry VII
This biography illuminates the life of Henry VII himself, how he ran his government, how his authority was maintained, and the nature of the country over which he ruled since he first claimed the throne in 1485. Sean Cunningham explores how Henry'...
Environmental Science: A Global Concern ISE
Environmental Science:A Global Concern is a comprehensive presentation of environmental sciencefor non-science majors which emphasizes critical thinking, environmentalresponsibility, and global awareness. This book is intended for use in a ...
How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13
This fully revised and extended third edition of How to Teach Poetry Writing: Workshops for Ages 8-13 is a practical and activity-based resource of writing workshops to help you teach poetry. Designed to build writing, reading, speaking and listen...
Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior
The Social Psychology of Consumer Behavior brings together the most promising and theoretically fruitful research developments by internationally renowned scholars, whose work is at the cutting edge of research. Experts from both fields - social p...
Education for the Future
"Almost every day you can read somewhere that a fundamental change is needed in schools and the education system..." Dr M Gloeckler. - How do we accompany and support the development of children and adolescents so that they can be motiva...
Ballerina Dreams
One windy day, a magazine blew down the road. I reached out and caught it. A pretty picture of a woman was on the front cover of the magazine. She wore a short pink dress that stuck out around her in a circle. She looked very happy. At the age of ...
Corona and the Human Heart
In Corona and the Human Heart, Dr Gloeckler gives new inspiring perspectives on the significant role of the human heart in the development of the immune system, from early embryological growth through to adulthood, and the importance this understa...
Dreaming the Divine
Seeking communion with the divine through dreams is one of the oldest forms of personal spirituality. Dreaming the Divine shows you how to push beyond the boundaries of ordinary dreaming, and introduces you to a process known as "dream incuba...
Baxter's View
Baxter's View
Under the Bonnet
Under the Bonnet
Witchcraft
Are You Curious To Know Whether Spells and Magic Truly Exist? If The Answer Is Yes, Then Better Stay Awhile Because You Just Found Your Ticket To Hogwarts How do people usually associate when they hear words like 'witches' or 'magical rituals'? Perhaps all their imagination can think of is old, haggard women flying on broomsticks and Hollywood movies. But what if there's a lot more to be linked with these terms rather than films and Medieval legends? Witchcraft and wizardry, in their true nature, are in a tight relationship with a means for self-improvement, control of their own lives and destiny, and potentially influencing the surrounding environment. They combine faith and magic with the positive intention to make the Earth a better place. And if you are all about that... Then Prepare Yourself For An Exciting Journey That Transcends The Physical World, Reaches Into The Spiritual, and Lifts You Up To Heights That You Have Yet To Achieve Experiment On Various Practical and Doable
Wisdom of Strategic Learning
The Wisdom of Strategic Learning has enabled many organizations to develop a strategic approach to learning and development. Its premise that learning must be integrated with the strategic direction of the organization has been validated by numero...
There's Something Happening Here
Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the L...
General Stand Watie's Confederate Indians
This is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie was recruited in Indian Territory by Albert Pi...
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham's classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed ov...