Hamilton: 2081 books
Raising a Soul Surfer
One Family's Epic Tale
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Bethany Hamilton's incredible story of surviving and thriving in the wake of a shark attack, told in her bestselling autobiography Soul Surfer, has sold more than 1.5 million copies. Yet her family's adventures started long before Bethany lost her arm and became a pro surfer. Now Cheri Hamilton, Bethany's...
Zachary Taylor
Soldier in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This tome is the second volume of Holman Hamilton’s landmark biography of Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), the 12th President of the United States. It examines Taylor’s brief but important political career and traces Taylor’s life from his return to the U.S. in December of 1847 from the bloody Mexican...
by Lyn Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
A client commissions Lara McClintoch to buy an Eighth Century T’ang dynasty Chinese silver box, which contains a formula for immortality. Before Lara can outbid a Toronto museum curator, the box is stolen from a Beijing auction house. Lara follows a dangerous trail through the back alleys of modern...
Skin Flutes & Velvet Gloves
A Collection of Facts and Fancies, Legends and Oddities About the Body's Private Parts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
With over twenty years of experience as a sex educator and sex therapist, Dr. Terri Hamilton brings you this detailed look at everything you wanted to know about male and female 'private parts' and didn't even know to ask. In chapters such as "A Hose by Any Other Name" she examines historical...
The Feringhees
Sir Robert and Sir William—Two Europeans in India Volume 1: The Proud Empire; Volume 2: The Straight Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
A stiff upper lip, steely eyes and a cold heart is often how the English imperialist is pictured in popular imagination. Drawing from memoirs, commentaries and family letters, Elizabeth Hamilton brings forth an alternative portrayal of her ancestors, Sir Robert Hamilton and Sir William Barton. Their...
by Geoff Hamilton, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Understanding Gary Shteyngart, the first comprehensive examination of Shteyngart’s novels and memoir, introduces readers to one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful contemporary American authors. Born in Leningrad in 1972, Shteyngart immigrated to the United States in 1979,...
by Donna B. Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In this new study, Donna B. Hamilton offers a major revisionist reading of the works of Anthony Munday, one of the most prolific authors of his time, who wrote and translated in many genres, including polemical religious and political tracts, poetry, chivalric romances, history of Britain, history...
by Christopher Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Middle age, for many, marks a key period for a radical reappraisal of one's life and way of living. The sense of time running out, both from the perspective that one's life has ground to a halt, and from the point of view of the greater closeness of death, and the sense of loneliness engendered by...
Deeply Rooted
Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Portraits of a Texas dairyman, a New Mexico rancher, and a North Dakota farmer who “embody the future of American agriculture” (Alice Waters).
A century of industrialization has left our food system riddled with problems. For solutions, we look to nutritionists and government agencies, scientists...
Social and Economic Networks in Early Massachusetts
Atlantic Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The seventeenth century saw an influx of immigrants to the heavily Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. This book redefines the role that non-Puritans and non-English immigrants played in the social and economic development of Massachusetts. Marsha Hamilton shows how non-Puritan English, Scots, and Irish...
After the Golden Age
Romantic Pianism and Modern Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
Kenneth Hamilton's book engagingly and lucidly dissects the oft-invoked myth of a Great Tradition, or Golden Age of Pianism. It is written both for players and for members of their audiences by a pianist who believes that scholarship and readability can go hand-in-hand. Hamilton discusses in meticulous...
Untrain Your Parrot
And Other No-nonsense Instructions on the Path of Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
This book offers exercises, instructions, jokes, stories, pithy quotes, and—most of all—encouragement to anyone interested in exploring Zen but who may find traditional presentations severe or intimidating. Hamilton writes with an easygoing, friendly style that invites readers of all backgrounds...
Your Invincible Power
Open the Door to Unlimited Wealth, Health and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The law of attraction works in our lives all of the time and has been written about in many books, giving us various views on the way we interpret this subject. Pamela Hamilton and W. T. Hamilton, who are mother and son, clearly write with different views. W. T. offers his ideas with a light humor...
Kentucky Folktales
Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies...