Hamilton Books: 325 books
I Really Didn’t Want to Become a Doctor
Tales and Musings from a Family Doc Retired After 50-Plus Years
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This book traces memoirs of a family doctor who shunned the notion of becoming a physician as he observed his family doctor father while growing up. To spend so many years in school—only to have meals, sleep, and vacations interrupted by needy patients—offered no allure. Not until his third year...
A Compelling Journey from Peking to Washington
Building a New Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The son of a prominent Chinese government official and general and the former schoolmate of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Chi Wang personally experienced one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history, including the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, theJapanese occupation of Hong Kong and mainland...
Fierce with Reality
Literature on Aging
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The anthology is far more culturally diverse than the few other literary collections on aging. Ranging from ancient Chinese poetry to Mary Oliver, Alice Walker, and Willie Nelson, the anthology includes poetry, fiction, philosophical essays, personal essays, humor, analyses of ageism, and folktales...
by Andrew J. Schatkin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
This collection of essays and thoughts covers such areas as basic Christian thought, which includes traditional family morality and a great concern for alleviating poverty and promoting social justice, political thought comparing the need for a system which includes both socialist and capitalist elements,...
Becoming a Mensch
Timeless Talmudic Ethics for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Becoming a Mensch is a 'user's guide' to becoming a better person, taking readers through a process of personal growth by means of modern-day vignettes that draw upon the Talmud's ancient wisdom. By examining character traits such as 'kindness and compassion,' 'self-mastery and self discipline,' and...
Hospitality
An Ecclesiological Practice of Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
The term hospitality describes a state of generosity, accommodation, and consideration towards others. The Shalom Church, which views hospitality as a gift, seeks not to control the gift, but to share and celebrate it in practice. When the practice is intentional it will become embedded in one's lifestyle....
The Flight and Fall of the Eagle
A History of Medieval Germany 800–1648
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The intellectual, cultural, and political renaissance that characterized the Europe of Charlemagne was threatened severely by invasions from all sides. Only Germany avoided the consequent phenomenon of feudalism. This was due to a series of rulers who provided protection to the people, reform to the...
Boys of the Cloth
The Accidental Role of Church Reforms in Causing and Curbing Abuse by Priests
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Drawing on the author’s unusual background as a seminarian turned scientist and business executive, Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The book combines a first-hand account of seminary life during the 1960s—a period that turns out to...
Seen and Unseen Worlds
Private Memoirs of a Former Jesuit
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Since 451 A.D., at the Council of Chalcedon, Christians have prayed a credo—a short summary of their belief—during Mass which begins: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth and of all things seen and unseen.” With that belief, they see the unseen: God, His Blessed...
The Control Factor
Our Struggle to See the True Threat
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
For those who believe America is worth defending, The Control Factor explores the psychological maneuvers, fantasies, and entanglements we engage in to avoid clearly seeing the Islamic threat that confronts us. The prerequisite for developing necessary strategies to ensure our survival is taking responsibility for our perceptions and actions.
On God's Existence
Traditional and New Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Philosophy and the advances in cosmology, neurology, molecular biology, and the social sciences have made the convincing and converging arguments for God’s existence more probable than ever in history.On God’s Existence is concise summary of these arguments as well as new arguments inspired by the advances of the sciences.
Africana Faith
A Religious History of the African American Crusade in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Essentially, the study of black religion in America has been mysterious, quarrelsome, and paradoxical. Repeatedly the reason in this primer aspires to make a concentric analysis of the function and capacity of spirituality and religiosity, within the African American Muslim movement. Recently, there...
by Oscar Patterson III
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Interpreting Masonic Ritual endeavors to addresses the depth of the ritualistic experience through a discussion of what ritual means to man as well as what man means to ritual. Ritual teaches us about reality but we will not come to a full understanding of it if we disparage what others do and view...
by Alfred B. Heilbrun Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
As a punishment for our most serious crime—the intentional killing of a victim in an egregious way—the death penalty naturally attracts opposing moral views. One view says that the state should never execute a criminal no matter what the crime may be. The other view requires execution as justice...