John Hunt Publishing: 1395 books
In Confidence
Talking Frankly about Fame
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
A study of celebrity based on the seventy odd interviews featured in the Sky Arts television series, In Confidence. Informants include David Schwimmer, Stephen Fry, Harry Belafonte, Alan Ayckbourn, Kathie Burke, Michael Frayn, Christopher Hitchens, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Sheila Hancock, Richard Dawkins,...
Hidden Valleys
Haunted by the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie place, particularly in relation to its stories and dreams. It also starts from events that took place in North Yorkshire, in 1978. A work of philosophy, an...
James Fenimore Cooper
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was America’s first novelist, celebrated for his masterpiece, /The Last of the Mohicans/. Over a prolific career he created a national mythology that endures to this day. According to Daniel Webster, “We may read the nation’s history in his life.” Yet Cooper...
On the Other Side of Love
A Woman's Unconventional Journey Towards Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
When life has lost all meaning, what do you do? You grab whatever comes your way. This, in short, is Marie's story as drawn out of her memories, diaries and taped interviews. It takes the reader from Jerusalem to California, Paris, London and Turkey and is a very personal account. However, it also reflects a universal truth in which many will recognize their own story.
Literary Freedom
A Cultural Right to Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature is a non-fiction study of literary freedom from a political-philosophical perspective. It adds an original perspective on the issue of literary freedom as it synthesizes debates from human rights as well as providing a new way of addressing the question...
by Ian Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary political issue. With keywords ranging from academicisation to neoliberalism, from postcolonial to Zionism and with subjects including, Badiou, North Korea, sexual...
by Romany Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Poison Pen Letters to Myself chronicles a very personal journey through the years overcoming severe bouts of depression and consequently creating a more holistic and spiritual lifestyle. The chapters Red Letters, Return to Sender and Addressee Unknown reveal periods of depression and anxiety; anger and...
by Julia Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Miracles Are Made of This is a contemporary story about wisdom; the one and only ingredient which enables miracles to happen. The central character is female and she has found wisdom. It was there all along, in the one place she had never previously looked - within her. Her success was achieved through...
Self Enquiry
On Being You. A Journey into Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In stripping away the flowery language, the sugar coating so to speak, the author is aware that he is presenting Self Enquiry as the challenging Practice it is designed to be, directly, "in the raw". But then this will take you to an important question: Who or what is being challenged? What is it within...
Bleating Hearts
The Hidden World of Animal Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Comprehensive and hard-hitting, Bleating Hearts examines the world’s vast exploitation of animals, from the food, fashion, and research industries to the use of other species for sport, war, entertainment, religion, labor and pleasure.
Secrets of the Combined Astrology
The Full 144 Combinations of the Chinese & Western Zodiac Signs
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
144 Astrological Archetypes that reveal more about you than you knew about yourself. Secrets of the Combined Astrology is a comprehensive work focusing on the 144 combinations created when the 12 Chinese signs (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Boar) meet the...
Reclaiming Civilization
A Case for Optimism for the Future of Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
What is civilization, and is it a good thing? It’s a name for the most glorious of humanity’s monuments and cultural achievements; yet it also speaks of the conquests, oppressions, and empires which make their glory possible. This book explains the essence of civilization, then asks what’s wrong with it, and considers what can be done about it.
Negative Capitalism
Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal...
The Writing on the Wall
On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
The 2008 global financial crisis has led to the re-emergence in public discourse of the idea that capitalism could end. For many, it was proof of the notion that capitalist civilisation has an endemic tendency towards crisis that will ultimately bring about its demise. Must we assume, however, that such...