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Michael Hone
This autobiography is a very slightly revised edition of a book I wrote a number of years ago, under the title Port Beausoleil, twelve years of work, an intense time as I was admitting things that had me often, very often, sobbing. For judicial reasons I'll have to let the reader decide which parts of the book are true, which are exaggerated, but in one form or another, in one location or another, it all did take place as I'm incapable of invention, invention that I find superfluous when reality is always more unexpected and damning. At age 18, the moment I was old enough for a passport, I left the citadel of the Mormons and the country of my birth, never to return to either. The adventures ...
The Nonprofit Sector
Provides a multi-disciplinary survey of nonprofit organizations and their role and function in society. This book also examines the nature of philanthropic behaviours and an array of organizations, international issues, social science theories, and insight.
Astorre Manfredi
Few people have heard of Astorre Manfredi. He nevertheless lived in one of the most exciting times in the history of the world, the Italian Renaissance, home to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Cellini, Cesare and his sister Lucretia Borgia, the children of the immensely powerful Pope Alexander VI, all of whom were known to Astorre, two of whom, Alexander VI and his son Cesare, murdered him. Astorre had been 17, his brother Gianevangelista 15, when their bodies were brought to the surface of the Tiber, both boys tied together at the neck, weighted by stones, along with the remains of young girls, as naked as the lads and ligated in the same fashion. Historian Johann Burchard dared write only...
Ghostcloud
A riveting, magical escapade about finding friendship and the courage to set yourself free against all odds. Kidnapped and forced to shovel coal underground, in a half-bombed power station, 12-year-old Luke Smith-Sharma keeps his head down and hopes he can earn his freedom from the evil Tabitha Margate. Then one day he discovers he can see things that others can’t. Ghostly things. A ghostly girl named Alma, who can bend the shape of clouds to her will and rides them through the night sky. With Alma’s help, Luke discovers his own innate powers and uncovers the terrible truth of why Tabatha is kidnapping children and forcing them to shovel coal. Desperate to escape, Luke teams up with Alma, his best friend Ravi, and new girl Jess. Can Luke and his friends get away before they each become victims to a cruel and sinister scheme? Debut author Michael Mann delivers a wildly imaginative middle grade fantasy set in a smoke-stained world that’s sure to entertain readers who are eager for an adventure with paranormal superpowers. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
Renaissance Murders
This book is the bearer of horrendous events like the smothering of two children, King Edward V and his brother, in the Tower of London; the incredible story of the impersonators of Henry VII, which led to the deaths of hundreds and the end of one of the impostors by slow hanging. Slow hanging, evisceration, emasculation--all performed as the victims looked on--quartering and beheading, were specialties of the Renaissance. Cesare Borgia assassinated his brother and then his sister's beloved husband Alfonso. Countess Caterina Sforza saw her stable-boy husband's privates cut away and stuffed in his mouth. Pier Luigi Borghese had a rent-boy's throat slit outside his apartments to prevent blackm...
Homoerotic Art
This full-color edition will not only display the most wonderful homoerotic works of art since our hallowed forefathers the Greeks, it will fully treat the sexuality of the times so that the artists can be placed in the context of the eroticism that reigned during the Renaissance--a sensuality that involved full access to both sexes. The historical context will also be made clear, as necessary as gold-picture-frames to the real treasure: the paintings the frames encompass. We'll learn why Florence was the epicenter of the Renaissance, its core the de' Medici who housed Michelangelo and his lover Torrigiano, a boy who broke Michelangelo's nose and fled to England to avoid the consequences, ta...
Nobody Knows You
The biggest hurdle between you and your plans for growth is this: nobody knows you. This is true if you’re a freelancer, an employee, an executive, even a company founder. You may be going all out with your company brand, but you’ve neglected to hone your own. But the first thing your business needs to grow, is you. If you feel like there is way more potential than you are currently leveraging, this book is for you. It is for those wanting to scale their business. For those sitting on a great idea with nowhere to go next. For those experts looking for ways to share the knowledge. For those corporate execs who need to find the next competitive edge. And for those who simply want to find a...
Hustlers
I'm the right person to recount this history, having written books that cover Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Middle Ages and Prussian homosexuality. The first half, Book One, is the highly serious, heavily documented story of hustlers during antiquity, including Alcibiades, Marc Antony and Constantinople emperor Basil I, while Book Two deals with present-day hustlers, men who crave sex, cruising nearly 24/7, for whom orgies and pool parties became so common that they sought new experiences through alcohol and drugs, and most died from what I call the gay plague, that or suicide. In depicting this I am also well placed, being a boy of my times, my thirst for knowledge and natural lust pushing me to travel widely, San Francisco at age 16, Paris at age 18, and following university and a stint in the Peace Corps I returned to Paris, my home base for long excursions to Amsterdam, Rome, Venice, a sabbatical year in Berlin and fourteen months in Greece, centered around Myconos. The reader is warned that this second section has pictures of frontal male nudes and language that clearly belongs in the locker room, both unavoidable--caveat emptor!
Hadrian and Antinous - Their Lives and Times
The moving story of Hadrian and Antinous has spanned the ages not only as the bond of two men's love, but equally as an eternal mystery as to why a youth forfeited his life to perpetuate that of his lover. The book is an historical work, as historically correct as I could make it. Naturally most of the book concerns Hadrian because we known far more about his life than we do about the Bithynian Greek youth. There is also a heavy emphasis on the times in which they lived and the times that preceded them, as they played indelible roles in the two men's lives: indeed, they molded them. Hadrian wanted to live forever and felt he possessed the intellectual and financial means to achieve that goal...
Homosexual Secret Societies
Homosexual societies have always been secret for the simple fact that one could lose one's head ... if lucky, lucky because the usual means was the far more painful burning at the stake. If beheading was found too soft, a miscreant's hands and feet could first be lopped off. Another highly popular method had a man hanged until nearly dead, then lowered and disemboweled before his very eyes, and finally beheaded and the body cut into four pieces (drawn-and-quartered). He could also be castrated just before being gutted, and a popular variation, right up to this day, is having the castrated remains stuffed into his mouth, chocking him to death. Even when one escaped death, the consequences of ...
