John Hunt Publishing: 1395 books
The Disappearing Ninth Legion: A Popular History
A Popular History
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The Disappearing Ninth Legion puts this mysterious Roman legion firmly back on the historic map. A great deal of fiction and conjecture has appeared in books, films, and on the internet, but this book draws on actual historical and up-to-date archaeological information to paint a picture of the real...
by Stiene
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The most comprehensive book on the system of Reiki ever published, this book will become an invaluable asset for Reiki novices, students and teachers alike. Bringing together every important piece of information that has been taught, discussed or written about Reiki since its development in the early...
by Melusine Draco
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Every good reference book is both a product and a reflection of its time. The Dictionary of Magic & Mystery is not just another compendium or dictionary of occultism: it is a jumping-off point for further research. Here, the reader will find the ancient and modern interpretation for magical and...
by Susan Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
In mid argument with a loved one, as we stand unfairly accused, we would much rather be right than happy. As practising forgiveness raises our awareness of our attraction to and identification with the ego's sneaky ways, our pain often increases. Some of these essays are reports from the eye of just...
by Owen Hatherley
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for being part of a non-movement called 'Britpop', and...
In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy vol. 1
Horror of Philosophy vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the...
Virtually Christian
How Christ Changes Human Meaning and Makes Creation New
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Using the seminal anthropology of Rene Girard and drawing out its radical implications Virtually Christian reconfigures the traditional framework of theology. Gone are the heavenly otherworld and its metaphysical God. In their place is revealed a God deeply implicated in the human story and laboring...
The End of Oulipo?
An attempt to exhaust a movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Oulipo celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2010, and as it enters its sixth decade, its members, fans and critics are all wondering: where can it go from here? In two long essays Scott Esposito and Lauren Elkin consider Oulipo's strengths, weaknesses, and impact on today's experimental literature.
Wounded Wisdom: A Buddhist and Christian Response to Evil, Hurt and Harm
A Buddhist and Christian Response to Evil, Hurt and Harm
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Most of us have lived through painful, humiliating or traumatic experiences, leaving us haunted and conditioned by reactions that trap us in ongoing cycles of feeling hurt and hurting others. And on the wider political scale, we have obviously yet to learn the art of responding well to the hurts of...
Reclaiming Jesus
Making sense of the man without the miracles
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The figure of Jesus many people have today is perfectly unreal half man half god unsmiling apparently in love with death. Can we do better than this sad caricature? Reclaiming Jesus digs through the evidence and comes up with a few surprises and reveals a Jesus most of us haven't met before. We notice...
Love Upside Down
Life, Love and the Subversive Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Oh no, another book on love? But this is different. This is for people who are looking for a gritty account of life, love and the dilemmas of human existence. This is for twenty first century thinkers and lovers, from searching Christians to open minded agnostics and willing atheists who want a genuine...
A New Philosophy of Literature
The Fundamental Theme and Unity of World Literature: the Vision of the Infinite and the Universalist Literary Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
In The New Philosophy of Universalism Nicholas Hagger outlined a new philosophy that restates the order within the universe, the oneness of humankind and an infinite Reality perceived as Light; and its applications in many disciplines, including literature. In this work of literary Universalism, which...
The Twilight Symbols
Motifs-Meanings-Messages
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
How well do you know the Twilight universe… really?In her famous four-book series The Twilight Saga, author Stephenie Meyer refers to myth, music, history, literature and more. She masks numerous symbols in her romantic vampire dreamscape. The Twilight Symbols is a rich A to Z guide of symbols in the...
Around the Outsider
Essays presented to Colin Wilson on the occasion of his 80th birthday
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
In May 1956, aged just 24, Colin Wilson achieved success and overnight fame with his philosophical study of alienation and transcendence in modern literature and thought, The Outsider. Fifty-four years on, and never out of print in English, the book is still widely read and discussed, having been translated...