Bøger af Ian Hunter

In 2010, ex Kooks bass player, and six times platinum songwriter, Max Rafferty, recorded his debut solo album at Leeders Farm studios with Dan Hawkins of The Darkness. Everyone from music industry moguls, fellow musicians, and friends, were unanimous in their praise of this astonishing new album. However, it was never to see the light of day. This is the incredible true story of what happened and why genius often has a high price on the soul.

After the murder of his best friend and the implosion of his band, Sebastian Eliot has left small town England on a quest to reinvent himself. It's 1995 and London is once more the eye of the musical hurricane. The Britpop phenomenon is about to explode across the globe, and in Camden Town every night is Friday night. Sebastian Eliot can be anyone he wants to be, but it's not long before his dreams of pop stardom see him sucked into a dark world where no one is quite who they seem. The same is true of Sebastian Eliot. He doesn't really exist.

Paul and his sister Stevie are on holiday with their parents in the Scottish Highlands.The lady in the post office tells their dad of a secret place called the Green Thorn Cove. She gives him directions and the family decide to seek it out. The children enter the cove and are befriended by a tiny elf. They are taken on a magical journey and are confronted with danger and mythical creatures along the way.

In 2010, ex Kooks bass player, and six times platinum songwriter, Max Rafferty, recorded his debut solo album at Leeders Farm studios with Dan Hawkins of The Darkness. Everyone from music industry moguls, fellow musicians, and friends, were unanimous in their praise of this astonishing new album. However, it was never to see the light of day. This is the incredible true story of what happened and why genius often has a high price on the soul.

This is the story of the first term of a Chinese student, Chan, at Cambridge University. It is very saucy and very naughty; not the sort of thing to show your wife/husband and certainly not the children; but might be of interest to your girlfriend/lover. Chan is very concerned about the size of his penis, and goes to great lengths to remedy this, with interesting and painful results! His not-quite perfect knowledge of the English language leads to some embarrassingly funny situations, and his total lack of talent at sports produces a brilliant cricketer; but only because he tries to defend his private parts.

A book of various poems, some quite dark and others lighter in content.

Montague mole embarks on a journey to better his life. His friend Bertram bunny goes with him to help along the way but Montague soon discovers that the life he has is fine just the way it is.

Rethinking the School is one of the first major applications of Foucault's genealogical method to the school system, and will be widely debated by educationalists, policy-makers and those interested in the interaction of government and subjectivity.

Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.

Written by one of the leading scholars in the field, British Trash Cinema is the first book to offer a survey of the full range of British exploitation and cult paracinema, looking beyond horror and sexploitation, to 'permissive' social problem films, art house camp, science fiction, Hammer's prehistoric fantasies, and the worst British films.

Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and historically informed challenge to that view.

The policing of pornography remains a subject of widespread controversy. This book indicates that obscenity law is not, as liberals claim, a mistaken attempt to police moral ideas, but rather forms part of the legitimate governmental regulation of a problematic social conduct.

Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) was a tireless campaigner against the political enforcement of religion in the early modern confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations - against heresy and witchcraft prosecutions, and in favour of religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual groundwork for the separation of church and state and the juridical basis for pluralistic societies. In this text, Ian Hunter departs from the usual view of Thomasius as a natural law moral philosopher. In addition to investigating his anti-scholastic cultural politics, Hunter discusses Thomasius' work in public and church law, particularly his disputations arguing for the toleration of heretics, providing a revealing comparison with Locke's arguments on the same topic. If Locke sought to base toleration in the subjective rights protecting Christian citizens against an intolerant state, Thomasius grounded it in the state's duty to impose toleration as an obligation on intolerant citizens.

Rival Enlightenments, first published in 2001, is a major reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history. Ian Hunter approaches philosophical doctrines as ways of fashioning personae for envisaged historical circumstances, here of confessional conflict and political desacralization. He treats the civil philosophy of Pufendorf and Thomasius and the metaphysical philosophy of Leibniz and Kant as rival intellectual cultures or paideiai, thereby challenging all histories premised on Kant's supposed reconciliation and transcendence of the field. This study reveals the extraordinary historical self-consciousness of the civil philosophers, who repudiated university metaphysics as inimical to the intellectual formation of those administering desacralized territorial states. The book argues that the marginalization of civil philosophy in post-Kantian philosophical history may itself be seen as a continuation of the struggle between the rival enlightenments. Combining careful and well-documented scholarship with vivid polemic, Hunter presents penetrating insights for philosophers and historians alike.

A brutally honest chronicle of touring life in the Seventies, and a classic of the rock writing genre, Diary of a Rock `n' Roll Star remains the gold standard for rock writing. This new edition includes new content from Hunter.

Addresses the main considerations for an organization considering a large-scale transference of HR transactional activity to an outsource provider. This report also provides an overview of the market for HR outsourcing services in Europe. It profiles the main outsourcing providers in the UK and continental Europe and includes several case studies.