John Hunt Publishing: 1395 books
Fear of Music
Why People Get Rothko But Don't Get Stockhausen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Modern art is a mass phenomenon. Conceptual artists like Damien Hirst enjoy celebrity status. Works by 20th century abstract artists like Mark Rothko are selling for record breaking sums, while the millions commanded by works by Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon make headline news. However, while the...
Play From Your Fucking Heart
A Somewhat Twisted Escape Plan for People Who Usually Hate Self-Help Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Play From Your Fucking Heart offers absolutely no new wisdom whatsoever. In fact, it could be called an eco book, as its entire contents are recycled. Indeed, it is written with the stated belief that there is no new wisdom, that in fact the experience a reader has whenever they read something and go...
by Tina Hobin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The intention of this book is to inspire men & women to enhance their self-awareness, to overcome common health problems and improve their health and general wellbeing through the ancient art of the belly dance. It helps readers to understand how the body works, the root causes of illness and how by...
Don't Lose Track
40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and interviews hand selected by Jordannah from a catalog of over 200 articles.
Strangled
Identity, Status, Structure and The Stranglers
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music. Although major artists within the punk and new-wave movements, their contribution to those genres has been effectively quarantined by subsequent critical and historical analyses. They are somehow "outside" the realm of...
Transcendent Vocation
Why gay clergy tolerate hypocrisy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Based on detailed analysis of interviews with gay clergymen, and also with retired heterosexual clergymen whose ministries span the period since the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, Transcendent Vocation provides specific examples to back up the contention that the approach of the Church of England to homosexuals...
by Daniel Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Daniel Simpson’s memoir charts a gonzo career at The New York Times. Ambitious and idealistic, he was hired to report on the Balkans but quit within months, freaked out by his editor’s zeal for starting wars. Disillusioned, Daniel went native in Belgrade. Together with the charismatic G, who'd appeared...
Poor but Sexy
Culture Clashes in Europe East and West
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
24 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber in the tabloids, the New Cold War in the broadsheets...
Continuity and Rupture
Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.
The Queen of Sparta
A Novel of Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Xerxes, the Great King of Persia invades Greece in 480 B.C. at the head of a massive army. Three hundred Spartans and King Leonidas die heroically blocking the Persian advance at the pass of Thermopylae. The Persians are poised to conquer all of Greece. The only one standing in their way is a woman –...
Lady Katherine Knollys
The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard. She married...
Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists
The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Heavy Radicals: The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists is a history of the Revolutionary Union/Revolutionary Communist Party — the largest Maoist organization to arise in the US — from its origins in the explosive year of 1968, its expansion into a national organization in the early seventies,...
Meeting Shiva
Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Meeting Shiva is a spiritual memoir. Tiziana, a single woman in her mid-thirties, is at the end of an adventurous overland trip through the Himalayas, which she embarked on to search for her tantric soul mate. When the soul mate hasn’t materialized after eight months of wandering through Tibet,...
Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry
Living a Natural Life, With Full Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Taking both Zen and Druidry and embracing them into your life can be a wonderful and ongoing process of discovery, not only of the self but of the entire world around you. Looking at ourselves and at the natural world around us, we realise that everything is in constant change and flux - like...