Hamilton Books imprint: 325 books
by John Perry, T. Debey Sayndee
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Ebola virus disease represented a grave crisis for Liberia. After many years of civil conflict its health system had been weakened and there were too few physicians and health care workers who were willing and able to deal effectively with the disease which spread far beyond Africa to Europe and...
After Aesop
Improvisations on Aesop's Fables
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
In After Aesop: Improvisations on Aesop's Fables, Steven Carter adds parody to his wide-ranging repertoire of literary genres. Aesop, perhaps the world's best-known author, produced hundreds of fables that have been re-told countless times, but rarely parodied on a one-to-one basis. By turns hilarious,...
Ninachka
The Making of an Englishwoman?
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
This autobiography tells the story of an indefatigable spirit who survived the Second World War, a doomed marriage, the murder of her father, rape, and the almost endless consternation of family problems. Author Dr. Nina Murray was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1913. As a child, she found herself...
Darwin's Walk and The Last Wave
Disappearing Landscapes, Declining Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This book describes the reasons humankind may be facing its last moments on Planet Earth. Darwin marked the path of species evolution, modification, and extinction. Following Darwin’s trajectory of evolution, the author reveals how human-made technologies have had a devastating impact on Earth’s...
Three To Ride
A Ride That Defied An Empire and Spawned A New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Three to Ride chronicles the events leading to the actions taken by British colonists in America against British troops, ultimately concluding in independence for the colonies. The subject is explored over time, beginning with discord between a number of English subjects and the religious teachings...
by Jerome Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This is a story of a music-training program at one among many American institutions of higher learning. These institutions accepted the challenge to evolve and develop training programs for music as part of a liberal arts education. Covering a period of more than one hundred years, the book discusses...
The South African Mosaic II
A Sociological Analysis of Post-Apartheid Conflict, Two Decades Later
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
The book revisits a study conducted in 1994 on subjects defined as historically disadvantaged by the apartheid regime. However, despite the ravages of that regime, these individuals had succeeded and gotten extraordinary opportunities to pursue higher education in colleges and universities in the...
Principles of Psychology in Religious Context
Psychological and Spiritual Origins of Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
This book asserts that the better one understands the causes of behavior, the better one can apply that knowledge to produce a better world. It describes the mechanisms that cause human behavior, such as freedom of will, in a manner consistent with religious beliefs. It also asserts that all avenues...
Uncertain Safari
Kenyan Encounters and African Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and working in Kenya and traveling to many other parts of the continent, the book focuses primarily on East Africa and concentrates on Kenya in particular. It...
Benjamin Verdery
A Montage of a Classical Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book honors the classical guitarist Benjamin Verdery, Professor at the Yale School of Music. It contains personal reflections from his friends and colleagues which illustrate several aspects of Professor Verdery: his influence on his peers, his students, and the classical guitar world; features...
Jean-Baptiste-Pierre LeBrun
In Pursuit of Art (1748–1813)
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Jean-Baptiste Pierre LeBrun's life was marked by his intense interest in art, first as an artist, and then from 1770 until his death in 1813, as an art dealer/connoisseur and as a participant in the transformation of the Louvre into a national museum during the French Revolution. He managed to accommodate...
Judging Jesus
World Religions’ Answers to “Who Do People Say That I Am?”
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Few persons have had greater impact on history than Jesus of Nazareth. That he existed is generally conceded. Who he was remains a major issue. Since great religions claim to possess basic and unique truths about the human venture, the Christian message about Jesus challenges other great religions....
Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary
John Madl-Miké (1905–1981), the Kolping Movement, and the Years in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe. It emerged from the revival of the institution founded by Adolph Kolping, a contemporary of Karl...
(Sacrifices) Left at the Altar
Reading Tractate Zevachim of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their extensive discussions constitute the bulk...