John Hunt Publishing: 1395 books
Sweetening the Pill
or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even...
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts
A Defence Of Growth, Progress, Industry And Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles himself seem to be embracing 'degrowth' and anti-consumerism,...
A Diet of Austerity
Class, Food and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, just as the poor are blamed for the economic crisis, Malthusian conceptions about food and ecology are being used to hold the working class responsible for climate...
How to Read Your Horoscope in 5 Easy Steps
Stop Reading Books and Start Reading Charts
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Have you ever tried to learn astrology but been put off by the symbols, squiggles and unpronounceable jargon? Have you got so far but given up because of the increasing complexity? Chrissie Blaze, astrologer, author, broadcaster and international speaker, has spent twenty-five years teaching complex...
by Mikkel Thorup
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Pro Bono? discusses philanthropy not as a social or humanitarian practice but as an integrated part of present-day creative capitalism, having a direct relation to its growing inequality. The book investigates four expressions of philanthropy as ideology: consumer philanthropy, where we are asked to...
Find and Follow Your Inner Compass
Instant Guidance in an Age of Information Overload
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In a time when we are bombarded from morning to evening with information from all sides as to what is best and what we should and shouldn't do to live happy lives, how can we navigate through this massive sea of information and know what's best for us in any given situation? Is there a reliable way to...
Cyber Disobedience
Re://Presenting Online Anarchy
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Few activities have captured the contemporary popular imagination as hacking and online activism, from Anonymous and beyond. Few political ideas have gained more notoriety recently than anarchism. Yet both remain misunderstood and much maligned. /Cyber Disobedience/ provides the most engaging and detailed analysis of online civil disobedience and anarchism today.
Escape from Quantopia
Collective Insanity in Science and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
An unforgettable trip from the foundations of physical and biological existence to the psycho-social maladies currently undermining human prospects, "Escape from Quantopia" exposes the twin failings of science and capitalism, the double helix of the modern world. Prefigured by the deranged imperative...
Advancing Conversations
Aubrey De Grey - Advocate For An Indefinite Human Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing...
Pagan Portals - Kitchen Witchcraft
Crafts of a Kitchen Witch
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Pull up a chair, have a cup of tea, sit back and take a glimpse into the world of Kitchen Witchcraft. This little book will give you an insight into what a Kitchen Witch is, what they do and how they do it. It gives an overview of the Sabbats, working with the Moon, the elements and candle magic. Packed...
A Vegan Ethic
Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
“If veganism is about doing your best to not harm any sentient life, we must logically extend that circle of compassion to human animals as well,” writes Mark Hawthorne in this practical, engaging guide to veganism and animal rights. Along with proven advice for going and staying vegan, an overview...
Discover the Power of You
How to Cultivate Change for Positive and Productive Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
DISCover the Power of You is for individuals who have a desire to better understand their own personality. People who may aspire to become great leaders in their field, regardless of their current business level. And more specifically, for anyone looking to raise their own self-awareness, confidence and understanding, in order to cultivate positive changes in their culture.
Breaking the Spell
An Exploration of Human Perception
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Breaking the Spell: An Exploration of Human Perception examines how people have become largely disconnected from a living, energetic universe through social conditioning. Over generations humanity has lost much of its creative spirit, imagination, and perceptual faculties. In this book the author addresses...
by Carolyn D. Prof. Reinhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A Fruit-Bearing Spirituality is the fruit of years of formal study in the field of spirituality combined with 70 years of life experience. The book is not about religion, theology or church, but helps the reader to learn more about the meaning of the word spirituality for today. It includes...