New Releases by Michael Cunningham

UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN NPR, HARPER''S BAZAAR , LIT HUB Y KIRKUS REVIEWS , ENTRE OTROS El ganador de los premios Pulitzer y Pen Faulkner por Las horas vuelve a mostrar «su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundoen toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura». Colm Tóibín 5 de abril de 2019: la primavera despunta en Brooklyn y en el hogar de los Walker-Byrne la felicidad doméstica se resquebraja lentamente. Dan e Isabel han empezado a distanciarse, y el hecho de que Robbie, el encantador y frágil hermano de ella, al que todos adoran, deba abandonar la casa no es algo que ayude. Mientras este busca apartamento e intenta superar su último fracaso sentimental ocultándose tras un glamuroso avatar en las redes, Nathan, el hijo de diez años, da pasos inseguros hacia la adolescencia y su hermana Violet, de cinco, hace lo posible por aliviar el desencanto familiar. Dividida en tres actos que tienen lugar el mismo día de 2019, 2020 y 2021, Día es una asombrosa exploración del amor y la pérdida, las dificultades y las limitaciones de la vida familiar: una «narración desgarradoramente convincente sobre los tiempos que vivimos. [...] Una novela brillante de nuestro más brillante escritor». Colum McCann La crítica ha dicho... «Michael Cunningham muestra su gran don para crear personajes memorables, observar el mundo en toda su rareza y hermosura y escribir sobre el amor y la pérdida con tanto arrojo como ternura. [...] Refleja con agudeza y brillantez el Nueva York contemporáneo». Colm Tóibín «Una historia de subrayada intimidad y naturalismo que disecciona con enorme percepción las grietas que abre el tiempo en las parejas». Javier Ors, La Razón «La trama fluye sin trabas -ajena a los marchamos de literatura experimental- para hablar de amor, de desafección, de ternura, de expectativas no cumplidas». Andrea Aguilar, El País «Cunningham es uno de nuestros grandes escritores estadounidenses, yaquí tenemos otra obra maestra. [...] Consigue lo que solo los grandes libros logran. Leerlo te transformará». Andrew Sean Greer «Otra exquisita novela de Cunningham». The Boston Globe «Un retrato absolutamente impactante de la humanidad. [...] Una obra maestra». Literary Hub «Un escritor de gran aplomo, con un agudo intelecto y un sentido del humor fascinante». Jenny Shank, The Star Tribune «Uno de los mejores cronistas del amor». Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times «Junto con George Eliot, Cunningham pertenece a ese inusual grupo de novelistas que valoran el mundo y a quienes lo habitan, con respeto, compasión y una ternura aparentemente infinita, al tiempo que lo analizan sin contemplaciones». Tony Kushner «Un logro de excepcional belleza y equilibrio». Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

5 avril 2019. Dans une maison de Brooklyn, le vernis du bonheur familial se fissure. Dan et Isabel s’éloignent peu à peu mais trouvent refuge auprès de Robbie, le jeune frère d’Isabel. Robbie qui habite toujours dans le grenier et vit par procuration à travers un avatar glamour en ligne. Il y a aussi Nathan, dix ans, et sa sœur Violet, cinq ans, qui tentent de ne pas remarquer le fossé qui se creuse entre leurs parents. 5 avril 2020. Alors que le monde est confiné, la maison se transforme en prison. Violet est terrifiée à l’idée de laisser les fenêtres ouvertes. Isabel et Dan communiquent par des soupirs de frustration. Et Robbie est bloqué en Islande… 5 avril 2021. La famille doit faire face à une nouvelle réalité, très différente. Car tout a changé. Trois journées d’avril comme la chronique ininteru00adrompue d’un couple qui s’essouffle, d’une famille qui vacille. Michael Cunningham réussit à merveille à nous plonger dans la vie de personnages célestes, tout en nuances et en émotion. Un grand roman pour son retour à la littérature. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par David Fauquemberg Michael Cunningham, né en 1952, est un romancier et scénariste américain. Son roman Les Heures a reçu le prix Pulitzer en 1999 et a été adapté au cinéma par Stephen Daldry avec, dans les rôles principaux, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman et Julianne Moore. Il a enseigné à Columbia University et est actuellement professeur à Yale University.

Une méditation magistrale sur le temps, l’amour et la mort, hantée par les démons de Virginia Woolf. Trois femmes, trois époques, une journée. Angleterre, 1923. Virginia vient d’achever Mrs Dalloway. Dans le New York de la fin du XXe siècle, Clarissa accompagne Richard dans sa terrible maladie. Laura, femme au foyer californienne des années 1950, est accablée par l’ennui. Dans ce roman bouleversant de sensibilité, les heures défilent et métamorphosent ces héroïnes que tout semble séparer, hormis peut-être les maux de l’âme et le rêve d’un ailleurs. « Les Heures sonnent comme un subtil mécanisme d''horlogerie aux rouages de dentelle noire. Assurément splendide. » Elle Né en 1952, Michael Cunningham est un romancier et scénariste américain. D’abord connu pour ses textes dans le New Yorker, il connaît la consécration grâce à son roman La Maison du bout du monde. Chef-d’œuvre unanimement salué, Les Heures, prix Pulitzer 1999, a été adapté au cinéma par Stephen Daldry avec Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman et Julianne Moore. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Anne Damour PRIX PULITZER 1999 PRIX PEN/FAULKNER 1999

Barrett Meeks, reduce dall’ennesima delusione amorosa, sta camminando per Central Park quando all’improvviso sente di dover guardare verso il cielo; lassù vede una luce pallida, evanescente, che sembra illuminare proprio lui con un’aura quasi divina. Barrett non crede nelle visioni – o in Dio – ma non può negare ciò a cui ha appena assistito. Allo stesso tempo, nel modesto quartiere di Bushwick, a Brooklyn, Tyler, il fratello di Barrett, un musicista ancora in cerca del successo, sta tentando – con poca fortuna – di scrivere una canzone per la sua fidanzata Beth, da eseguire il giorno del loro prossimo matrimonio. Beth è molto malata e Tyler è deciso a scrivere una canzone che non sia solo una ballata romantica, ma una vera e propria promessa di eterno amore. Barrett, ossessionato dalla luce, si butta a capofitto nella religione. Tyler, invece, si convince sempre più che solo le droghe possono sbloccare la sua vena creativa. Beth, da parte sua, cerca di affrontare la vita con la forza e il coraggio che riesce a raccogliere. La regina delle nevi è un romanzo splendido e commovente, che sa essere comico e tragico, con un equilibrio che solo i grandi autori come Michael Cunningham, vincitore del premio Pulitzer per Le ore, riescono a padroneggiare per creare storie e personaggi indimenticabili.

Peter e Rebecca Harris sono una coppia di mezza età, sposati da oltre vent’anni. Vivono a New York e lavorano entrambi nel campo dell’arte, lui come gallerista e lei come direttrice di una rivista. Benestanti, realizzati, ben inseriti nella vita sociale newyorkese, proprietari di un appartamento in una zona prestigiosa, non hanno preoccupazioni se non il freddo rapporto con la figlia Bea, che vive a Boston. Ai più, comunque, la loro vita sembra perfetta, o perlomeno invidiabile. Qualcosa cambia quando il fratello di Rebecca, Ethan, conosciuto in famiglia come Erry (da Errore), si trasferisce a vivere a casa loro. Ethan ha ventitré anni, è giovane, bello, intelligente e problematico. Giura però di aver superato la sua dipendenza dalle droghe e spera di riuscire a combinare “qualcosa nel campo delle arti” a New York, per questo ha chiesto ospitalità alla sorella. Peter lo accoglie di malavoglia e solo per fare felice Rebecca, ma ben presto si rende conto che il giovane esercita su di lui un fascino nuovo, oscuro e pericoloso, tanto da spingerlo a mettere in discussione le fondamenta della sua vita. Michael Cunningham racconta, sullo sfondo della New York dell’arte ferita dalla crisi economica, la storia di una persona che si crede speciale ed è incredibilmente e dolorosamente normale, indagando le fragilità, le segrete aspirazioni, i sogni e le paure di un uomo che, alla soglia della maturità, deve fare i conti con se stesso.

Michael Cunninghams Pulitzerprisvindende Timerne skildrer tre dage i tre vidt forskellige kvinders liv. Clarissa Vaughan, forlagsredaktør i 1990''ernes New York, forbereder et selskab for sin ven, digteren Richard, og går en smuk junimorgen ud for at købe blomster. Virginia Woolf er mere end 70 år tidligere i færd med at skrive sin berømte roman Mrs. Dalloway og overvejer forskellige åbninger. I Los Angeles i 1949 er den hjemmegående husmor Laura Brown netop begyndt at læse Mrs. Dalloway, men afbrydes, fordi sønnen Richie og ægtemanden Dan kræver hendes opmærksomhed. Vi følger de tre kvinder i løbet af hver deres dag, og på overraskende vis knyttes deres skæbner sammen.

Det er november 2004. 38-årige Barrett Meeks er nok engang ramt af kærlighedskvaler og går nedbtrykt gennem Central Park. Pludselig ser han et blegt, gennemskinneligt lys på nattehimlen. Barrett tror ikke på åbenbaringer – og heller ikke på Gud – men han kan ikke benægte det, han har oplevet. Samtidig, i den mindre mondæne del af Brooklyn, kæmper Barretts ældre bror, musikeren Tyler, med at skrive en bryllupssang til sin kommende hustru, Beth. Beth er alvorligt syg, og Tyler er fast besluttet på, at sangen skal stå som et varigt udtryk for hans kærlighed til hende. Plaget af sin åbenbaring søger Barrett religionen. Tyler derimod bliver mere og mere overbevist om, at kun kokain kan frigøre de kreative evner. Imens forsøger Beth at forlige sig med sin egen dødelighed med så meget mod, hun kan mønstre. Snedronningen er smuk og hjerteskærende, komisk og tragisk. Et stærkt portræt af to brødres midtvejskriser, deres længsel efter at høre til og finde en mening i tilværelsen. “Mr. Cunningham’s most original and emotionally piercing book to date." - New Tork Times

På overfladen lever Peter og Rebecca Harris en misundelsesværdig tilværelse i New York omgivet af kunst og byens pulserende liv. Han er gallerist, hun er redaktør, og de lever et liv, hvor venner er noget man har i overflod, og cocktailpartys er det, man slår tiden ihjel med. Men en uro ulmer i Peter. For midt i det tilsyneladende perfekte liv længes han efter, at livet for alvor rammer ham. Og det gør det. I skikkelse af Rebeccas lillebror Mizzy – der egentlig hedder Ethan, men bliver kaldt Mizzy: ”Fejltagelsen”. Når mørket bryder frem er en smuk og hjerteskærende roman om ægteskab, om de flossede bånd mellem forældre og børn, om det moderne menneskes formålsløse famlen – og om længsel. "Cunningham har udviklet denne fængslende narrative stemme, der blander hans egne skarpe kommentarer med Peters spot-heroiske fortvivlelse. Halvt Henry James, halvt James Joyce, men helt igennem Cunningham (...)” – The Washington Post ”Der er sætninger så kraftfuldt præcise og smukke, at de nærmest svæver over siden” – Entertainment Weekly

Em Um cisne selvagem e outras histórias, sombrios contos de fada são reimaginados pelo premiado autor vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer Michael Cunningham, e ricamente ilustrados por Yuko Shimizu. Uma maçã envenenada e uma pata de macaco que têm o poder de mudar o destino; uma menina cujos cabelos extraordinariamente compridos são responsáveis por uma catástrofe; um homem com um braço humano e uma asa de cisne; e uma casa, bem nos confins da floresta, feita de confeitos de goma e biscoito de gengibre, glacê de baunilha e açúcar cozido. Em Um cisne selvagem e outras histórias, os habitantes e talismãs de terras distantes, muito distantes – as figuras míticas de nossa infância –, se veem transformados pelo premiado autor Michael Cunningham em histórias de sublime revelação. Aqui estão os momentos que esqueceram de nos contar ou deliberadamente ocultaram nos contos de fadas: os anos posteriores à quebra de um feitiço, o instante arrebatador em que um milagre é concretizado e o destino de um príncipe curado só pela metade de uma maldição. Há também a história do homenzinho com um talento especial que trama para conseguir um filho. E o preguiçoso João, que prefere viver no porão de sua mãe a correr atrás de um emprego, até o dia em que troca uma vaca por um punhado de feijões mágicos. Reimaginados por um dos mais talentosos contadores de histórias da sua geração e ilustrados com delicadeza por Yuko Shimizu – em um estilo que lembra Aubrey Beardsley com um toque de Maurice Sendak –, os contos da hora de dormir nunca foram tão sombrios, perversos e realistas. "Cunningham reconta de modo elegante e ousado dez contos de fadas clássicos, intensificando o mistério inquietante das versões originais. As notáveis ilustrações em preto e branco de Yuko Shimizu constituem um contraponto visual adequado a esta coletânea simultaneamente sombria e maravilhosa." Publishers Weekly

Em seu sexto romance, Michael Cunningham volta ao mundo da arte e penetra na alma de um homem de meia-idade que aparentemente cumpriu todas as exigências da vida. Suas certezas, no entanto, desmoronam de um momento para o outro. O quarentão Peter Harris é dono de uma galeria de arte bem-sucedida, embora não do primeiro time. Seu casamento é estável e sua vida social está bem encaminhada. Mas a visita do cunhado detona uma crise que coloca Peter diante de grandes dilemas. Ethan, 23 anos mais jovem do que a irmã do galerista, é Mizzy: "The Mistake", o engano. Usuário de drogas, ele flana pelo mundo sem se fixar em nada, irresponsável aos olhos da família e portador de uma beleza perturbadora. A presença magnética do jovem lança Peter em uma cadeia de questionamentos: sobre seu negócio; sobre o entusiasmo perdido pela mulher; sobre a relação fria que mantém com a própria filha; sobre os artistas que representa. De um lado, o marchand se divide entre o fascínio de um jovem que se recusa a encontrar um lugar no mundo e a força que esse mundo exerce sobre ele. Do outro, Peter se divide entre a consciência do caráter extraordinário da arte e a convivência com as regras do mercado. De ambos, ele espera um arrebatamento que só pode vir de maneira inesperada.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Cuốn sách là câu chuyện về cuộc đời và số phận của ba người phụ nữ. Trong đó Virginia Woolf là một nhân vật có thật ở ngoài đời, và hai người phụ nữ còn lại: Laura Brown và Clarissa là sự sáng tạo “có liên quan” của tác giả Michael Cunningham. Virginia Woolf là một nữ nhà văn người Anh đang viết cuốn tiểu thuyết Bà Dalloway. Laura Brown đang cùng con trai chuẩn bị bánh kem sinh nhật cho chồng với những suy nghĩ ngổn ngang về những điều cô đọc trong cuốn Bà Dollaway. Cuối cùng, câu chuyện diễn ra trong bối cảnh New York hiện đại nơi mà Clarissa Vaughan cũng đang chuẩn bị một bữa tiệc chúc mừng cho người bạn của mình đoạt được giải thưởng. Cuốn sách có sự đan xen giữa các nhân vật để tạo mạch liên kết cho toàn bộ câu chuyện. Và cũng nhờ đó mà những giá trị, tư tưởng qua các thời kỳ dần được hé lộ. Người phụ nữ thế kỷ XX trong từng giai đoạn sẽ có gì giống nhau và khác nhau, và liệu họ có giống như chúng ta- những người phụ nữ của thế kỷ XXI - về phương diện tư tưởng và những giá trị nhân sinh quan khác hay không? Hãy cùng đón đọc Thời khắc – tiểu thuyết được nhận giải Pulitzer 1999 - để có cái nhìn sâu sắc và toàn cảnh hơn.

"A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham"--

''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 funniest thing I''ve read this year'' Rufus Hound Get ready for the online adventures of one man who just wants to make friends And one very annoyed world Based on the ingenious Sir Michael Twitter account, How to (Almost) Make Friends on the Internet is the funniest book you''ll read this year. Whether it''s offering his services as a Karate Lawyer or Funeral DJ, devising the world''s worst plan to get a free haircut, or trying to buy a blue bucket that may or may not be for sale, Michael just wants to connect with people. The only problem is that people are slightly less enthusiastic about connecting with him and the results are utterly hilarious. Warning: you''ll never think about adding someone called Michael to a group chat the same way ever again. ''Finally, someone has worked out a good use for social media and it''s brilliantly, painfully funny'' Iain Morris, Co-creator of The Inbetweeners ''Michael is the funniest human on the internet, bar none. Read his book, you cowards'' James Felton, author of 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

¿Qué tienen en común un chico que se enamora perdidamente de la novia de su hermano muerto en un accidente fabril a principios del siglo XX; una psicóloga forense que investiga a un joven terrorista que planea un atentado en la Nueva York posterior al 11S; y un androide que se obsesiona con una inmigrante extraterrestre en un futuro lejano? Walt Whitman. Con toda su potencia alucinada, las palabras de Whitman y su Hojas de hierba emergen en la narración como faros que iluminan oblicuamente los deseos, traumas y pasiones de los personajes de estas tres historias electrizantes situadas en la Nueva York del pasado, el presente y el futuro, y, tal como ocurría con Virginia Woolf en Las horas (ganadora del Premio Pulitzer), le otorgan a esta conmovedora y ambiciosa novela de Michael Cunningham un sentido trascendente que la inocula para siempre en la memoria. "El libro de los días ofrece todo tipo de placeres literarios, y todos en abundancia: suspenso, hilaridad, inventiva, romance, y un pasaje tras otro de una prosa que nos deja sin aliento". Ethan Canin "Este es un libro transformador, un registro encantador y desgarrado de nuestro tiempo y lugar, y de nuestro deseo de prevalecer". The New York Observer

“An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second.” —Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, 1928 About Time: Fashion and Duration traces the evolution of fashion, from 1870 to the present, through a linear timeline of iconic garments, each paired with an alternate design that jumps forward or backward in time. These unexpected pairings, which relate to one another through shape, motif, material, pattern, technique, or decoration, create a unique and disruptive fashion chronology that conflates notions of past, present, and future. Virginia Woolf serves as “ghost narrator”: excerpts from her novels reflect on the passage of time with each subsequent plate pairing. A new short story by Michael Cunningham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Hours, recounts a day in the life of a woman over a time span of 150 years through her changing fashions. Scholar Theodore Martin analyzes theoretical responses to the nature of time, underscoring that time is not simply a sequence of historical events. And fashion photographer Nicholas Alan Cope illustrates 120 fashions with sublime black and-white photography. This stunning book reveals fashion’s paradoxical connection to linear notions of time.

In a dynamic investment framework with depreciation, we show incumbent satellite operators have incentives to “warehouse” a fraction of their assigned spectrum and orbital slots, keeping nonoperational assets in place, which reduces output, increases prices, and diminishes social welfare. Exploring three distinct market structures, we model firms'' incentives to warehouse, and show conditions under which firms choose to warehouse rather than replace nonfunctioning satellites. We find a dominant firm with a competitive fringe produces more and longer duration warehousing relative to perfect competition or monopoly. Regulators could remediate warehousing by increasing a firm''s marginal costs, or by increasing the probability of reallocating orbital slots that do not have a fully functioning satellite.

- Aquesta novel·la alterna una evocació dels últims dies de Virginia Woolf, abans de suïcidar-se el 1941, amb la vida de dues dones: Clarissa Vaughan, una editora, i Laura Brown, una mestressa de casa. Cunningham fa convergir, amb una sorprenent facilitat i solidesa, tres dones, tres èpoques, on s''entrellacen l''amor, la mort, l''esperança i la desesperació. Aquesta història apassionant i commovedora va obtenir el premi Pulitzer i el Pen/Faulkner el 1999 i ha estat duta al cinema per Stephen Daldry, amb Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman i Meryl Streep com a protagonistes.

Michael Cunningham erzählt die alten Märchen neu – er betrachtet sie aus einem anderen Blickwinkel, hinterfragt sie mit Witz und Verve und zeigt dabei, wie zeitlos sie sind. Noch nie waren Märchen so lustig und raffiniert, so düster und sexy – und so wahr. Rumpelstilzchen, Hänsel und Gretel, Schneewittchen und Rapunzel – wer erinnert sich nicht an die Gutenachtgeschichten aus der Kindheit, an Märchen, die uns verzauberten und schaudern machten. Einer der begnadetsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller holt nun diese und andere Märchen in unsere Gegenwart und erzählt, was sie verschwiegen oder vergessen haben oder wie es nach dem angeblichen Ende »wirklich« weitergeht. Und welch tiefe Abgründe sich an jeder Ecke auftun können. Die altüberlieferten Mythen über Könige und Prinzessinnen, Flüche, Zauber, Habgier und Verlangen erweisen sich in Michael Cunninghams spielerischen, so ironischen wie klugen Erzählungen als verblüffend modern und menschlich.

Parents make agonizing educational decisions for their children, and there are more options than ever before. Some opt to teach their children in the home; others pay handsomely to put their children in the best private schools money can buy. The remaining groups of parents select public, charter, or magnet schools based on those schools’ particular merits or because those schools represent their primary educational option. These subtle lifestyle decisions are building blocks upon which students develop their personality, intellectual ambition, extracurricular interests, and social networks. Neighborhoods, schools, and community activities are often as influential in the formation of a student’s identity as their socioeconomic background, cultural heritage, or family milieu. With the erosion of neighborhood relationships and detachment from traditional norms, educational institutions provide a comprehensive solution for busy families to organize the educational, social, and recreational aspects of their lifestyles. Schools, therefore, have become the new neighborhood in American life. Pastors tend to be ill-prepared for the unique dynamics families bring to the church from their various walks of life. This paper will examine methods for assimilating public, private, and homeschool students into a cohesive student ministry where they can retain their identity, be enriched by other students’ experiences, and, most importantly, be united by their faith in serving Christ in their student ministry and in the greater church body.

The second edition of this book shows how full implementation of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act by the SEC in 2016 enables entrepreneurs and SME executives to leverage crowdfunding platforms to raise significant amounts of capital for their startups and small-to-medium–sized businesses. The unprecedented fundraising opportunities contained in the hundreds of pages of new SEC rules have generated tremendous excitement in the startup, small business, angel investing, and venture capital worlds—tempered by uncertainty about the correct interpretation of the rules and the compliance risks implicit in them.In The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding Guide for Small Businesses and Startups, 2nd Edition, crowdfunding pioneer William Michael Cunningham trawls the hundreds of pages of new rules for the essential takeaways and practical tips on successfully tapping the new crowdfunding sources that the JOBS Act opens up to small businesses and startups, while complying with new SEC regulations in the least burdensome way. The 2nd edition of The JOBS Act delivers the following new material: Updates and augments the 1st edition with description, analysis, and discussion of post-2012 SEC rules and forms implementing the JOBS Act Focuses on the final SEC rules that implement Title III (“Regulation Crowdfunding”) and Title IV (“Regulation A+”) to make the JOBS Act a practical fundraising vehicle for small business and startups Presents case studies of successful JOBS Act-compliant crowdfunding campaigns Tips readers to the opportunities, loopholes, and hazards in the hundreds of pages of new SEC rules that crowdfunders need know to maximize their fundraising success and avoid inadvertent non-compliance Deploys new graphical analysis tools and financial models summarizing and comparing characteristics of various equity-based and donation-based crowdfunding campaigns Reviews and describes significant Title III offerings and highlights relevant Title IV offerings Lists all SEC/FINRA-approved equity crowdfunding platforms (“funding portals”) Describes Title VII and provides crowdfunding-pertinent information on the new Offices of Women and Minority Inclusion at twenty-nine federal agencies Who This Book Is For Entrepreneurs and small business owners who wish to leverage the JOBS Act to crowdfund their enterprises. The secondary readerships are investors, angels, venture capitalists, securities lawyers, community development specialists, and visitors to crowdfunding platforms, which are required under the JOBS Act to demonstrate to the SEC and FINRA that they are proactively providing educational resources to potential crowdfunders.

This book offers a critical consideration of the apology in politics. It provides a detailed overview of all aspects of the phenomenon of the apology made by states, which has increased significantly since the mid-1980s. It is the product of a decade’s research and reflection on the subject and thus provides a complete coverage of all the key debates and features. States of apology evaluates the relationship between the personal apology and the apology in politics, the political and cultural factors behind its emergence and the philosophical problems generated by the state apologising and in particular the question of responsibility across generations. The book also considers the dynamics of domestic apologies and the relationship of the apology to the field of international relations. It is written in a clear and jargon-free style which will make it accessible to both students and non-students alike.

Au carrefour de la fable et de la nouvelle contemporaine, dix petits contes cruels, accompagnés de superbes illustrations de l''artiste Yuko Shimizu, revisités avec un soupçon de cynisme et une bonne dose d''humour noir par la prose douce-amère et l''acuité psychologique de Michael Cunningham. Il était une fois une jolie princesse et un prince, doté d''un je-ne-sais-quoi de féminin. Elle est en danger, il vole à son secours. Ils vivent heureux, ont beaucoup d''enfants, et puis... les années passent. La princesse regarde son beau château, ses beaux enfants, quelle est cette mélancolie qui la tenaille ? Ce manque qu''elle ne parvient à formuler ? Cette nostalgie d''un moment perdu qu''elle rejoue sans fin dans sa tête : ce moment où, juste avant que ses lèvres ne se posent sur celles de la grenouille, juste avant que la monstrueuse créature ne se transforme en prince charmant, tout était encore possible... La Belle qui éprouve des regrets d''avoir épousé la Bête ; Jack, celui du haricot magique, qui se la joue bling-bling et flambe avec les œufs d''or de la poule ; la sorcière d''Hansel et Gretel qui se retrouve vieille et seule dans sa grande maison de pain d''épices désespérément vide... Neuf contes revus et parfois corrigés par Michael Cunningham, pour nous démontrer que si parfois tout est bien qui finit bien, bien souvent hélas, même le plus beau des contes peut avoir une fin cruelle.

Con la potente prosa que ya desplegó en Las horas, Cunningham nos brinda una novela coral e intimista, ambientada en un Nueva York invernal y gélido, donde unos personajes desamparados se enfrentan al desencanto de la edad adulta. Tras su enésima ruptura sentimental, mientras pasea desolado por Central Park en una noche helada, Barrett vislumbra una luz sobrenatural que flota en el aire. En ese mismo momento, su hermano Tyler intenta escribir una canción de amor para su novia enferma cuando faltan pocos días para la boda. Liz y su amante Andrew también contemplan los copos de nieve que cubren la ciudad, preguntándose una vez más por el sentido de las caricias cansadas que se dedican. Todo parece inmóvil, suspendido entre un quizá y un ojalá, pero esa luz... Al igual que en Las horas, Cunningham sorprende a sus personajes en momentos decisivos de sus vidas, instantes en que el placer, el deseo y la rabia se rozan y duelen. Nosotros, los lectores, lo acompañamos en esta aventura donde finalmente la vida respira y deja un hueco para la felicidad. La reina de las nieves, una historia cómica y trágica a la vez, demuestra una vez más el talento de Cunningham, uno de los grandes novelistas de su generación. «Estoy seguro de que hay gente encantada de hacer recados, llegar puntuales al despacho y esperar con ganas que llegue por fin la hora del almuerzo. Les deseo lo mejor, pero lamento decirles que nunca han sido los personajes adecuados para una novela, y es muy probable que nunca lo sean.» Michael Cunningham Reseñas: «De nuevo como en Las horas y Días memorables, Cunningham ha construido una estupenda novela coral dotada de un mecanismo expresivo de alta precisión. [...] La reina de las nieves es una estupenda fabula postmoderna a partir de una célebre historia de Andersen.» Robert Saladrigas, La Vanguardia, Cultura/s «Poner el nombre o una frase de Michael Cunningham en Twitter equivale a éxitoasegurado. Son legión sus seguidores. Ahora llega su última novela, La reina de las nieves. Prosa intimista en un Nueva York helado hasta los tuétanos.» Rodrigo Fresán, ABC Cultural «Personajes desamparados que se enfrentan al desencanto en una novela en la que siempre hay resquicios para la felicidad.» Al día (13tv)

Crime Scene Unit Management: A Path Forward is a must-have resource for anyone involved with forensic investigations and the search for evidence at the crime scene. The book provides standards for how to manage a crime scene so that evidence is collected and preserved without errors and includes guidelines for how to implement the standards and set up regional training programs for smaller jurisdictions with tighter budgets. Key features include examples, checklists, and flow charts for evidence handling and routing. CSIs, fire investigators, homicide investigators, accident investigators, police executives, and students of forensic science will benefit from this thorough approach to how the crime scene—and the personnel charged with tending to the evidence—should be managed.

"A twisted retelling of classic fairy tales from the novelist Michael Cunningham."--