Hamilton Books: 325 books
One Word but Many Tongues
Confessions of a Multiculturalist
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
This book recounts the author’s spiritual transformation resulting from his encounter with new languages and cultures. This encounter allowed the author to transcend the boundaries imposed on him by the circumstances of his birth (born and raised behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War). The...
Being Human
Philosophical Reflections on Psychological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The thread running through this collection of essays is the inviolate marriage between philosophy and psychology. Psychotherapist Mary Capocefalo has written, 'Long before psychologists were asking questions about mind and behavior, philosophers were expressing the same curiosity.' The Socratic method...
Conflict for Space
A Focus on Identity Duality
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book argues that a sense of affinity for land and space constitutes the foundation of human agency and underlies all social activity of human beings from a personal level to family, nation, region, and the world. Identities, to which the process of regionalism is intimately tied, have a close...
Salpuri-Chum, A Korean Dance for Expelling Evil Spirits
A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of its Artistic Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits. The authors explore the origins and practice of Salpuri-Chum. The ancient Korean people viewed their misfortunes as coming from evil spirits; therefore, they wanted to expel the evil spirits to recover their...
The Magic of Truth
A Reality to Remember
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
Questions of truth have occupied philosophers, scientists, and theologians throughout human history. What is truth? Does it exist? How do we define truth? Who determines what is true and what is not? The Magic of Truth defends the relativity of truth by examining its role in literature, the arts,...
God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion
Smile if You Truly Believe Your Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
The central proposition of God's Prescription for Mental Health and Religion is that the highway to mental health of individuals and of society is God's prescription of selfless devotion and service to others. Mental health does not refer to the absence of mental disturbance, but rather to feelings...
Systems Theory and Family Therapy
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order...
Arms and the Imagination
Essays on War, Politics, and Anglophone Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
From the time of John Milton to that of William Blake, the literature of Britain absorbed the impact of two major military developments. In the early modern era, the military revolution strove to establish permanent armies under state discipline and, in England, the resistance to this development...
Postwar Higher Education in America
Just Yesterday
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The twenty million students now pursuing higher education in America are paying more than history, culture and the consumer price index can possibly justify, while the product they are purchasing is one that has become systematically debased. General education has been depreciated, core curricula...
An American Journey
Life Lessons for Parents of Immigrant Children
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Valuable teaching moments and life lessons are illustrated in a personal and colorful story told by a successful immigrant parent. Immigrants struggle with two cultures and so do their children. How do they mesh the two? An American Journey teaches immigrant parents life lessons to convey to their...
On the Boundary
A Life Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The book records the author’s personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a “being-in-the-world”, the author’s experiences reach from World War...
by E. Rae Harcum
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This book combats the anti-religious sentiment of some psychologists. It argues that Christians do not have to give up their religious faith to keep the contributions of science. A science compatible with religion accepts that human beings have freedom of will to select behaviors and that all methods...
Renewal
Thought, Word, and Deed
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
This collection of short essays, sermons, lectures, reviews, analyses, and poems is offered as a means to provoke thought, inspire imagination, and encourage conversation about the future of the church. Church renewal awaits a renewed synergy of theology, homily, and energy. Together, thought, word,...
by Toni Orrill
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2007
The Glorious Summer is a personal account of a cross-country journey of soul-searching and rediscovering the Christian faith. Along the way, the author learned to see the world in a new and remarkable way, and to accept circumstances as part of a higher purpose.
This work captures a startlingly...