Hamilton Books: 325 books
The Wisdom of the Body
Lessons from Sixty Years in a Wheelchair
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Everything we learn comes to us through the senses. We interpret the books we read, the speeches and sermons we have heard, and so on. Over the years, we put these things together along with our personal experiences of daily living. Somehow, we integrate all of this sensory input and arrive at an...
Building Blocks
Buckeye CableSystem’s Communications Revolution, From Printer’s Ink to Cable to Fiber
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Building Blocks is the history of Buckeye CableSystem. Buckeye is part of a family empire started in 1900 by the son of an immigrant in upstate New York. This book is a fascinating tale of the family’s progression into the fourth generation and through the myriad of daily newspapers, radio and television...
Life's Bulldozer Moments
How Adversity Leads to Success in Life and Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Donato Tramuto felt bulldozed by life as a child when he lost most of his hearing to an ear infection that left him isolated and treated as a failure. A succession of tragedies rocked his world, including a last minute decision to change his plans to fly out of Logan Airport on 9/11 on the same LA-bound...
by David Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity’s relationship with God, and the objective state of our world. David Pollard argues that though much of Weil’s work was focused on particular conditions operating...
My Memoirs
Life’s Journey through WWII and Various Historical Events of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism. The author witnessed the mass deportations under Communism and mass executions of Jews, known as the Holocaust, and other tragic events during WWII, which left their mark on our consciousness....
'We Are Going to Pick Potatoes'
Norway and the Holocaust, The Untold Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway. Her first conscious recollection of life goes back to 1942, when as a young child she escaped to Sweden, a neutral country during World War II, to avoid annihilation. Germany had invaded Norway and the persecution of two thousand Norwegian...
The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management
A Handbook for Academics and Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2017
The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management brings budgetary theory and practice together, filling the void between the two that has existed in the field of budgeting and public finance. This book bridges the gap by providing students with applications and exercises that reinforce budgetary...
Norway Wasn't Too Small
A Fact-Based Novel about Darkness and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Norway didn't have many Jews—but it had enough to attract Hitler's attention. It’s 1940 in Norway, and one Jewish family would rather be thinking of anything else. Budding artist Rebekka Davidson sketches the soldiers filling the school and streets, while her cousin Harald Rosenberg learns that...
Flyover Country
Baby Boomers and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas....
Unholy Land
In Search of Hope in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land. Here, religion uneasily confronts politics and democracy, sublime nature undergoes militarization, and hospitality and...
Holy Anime!
Japan's View of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Christianity has been in Japan for five centuries, but embraced by less than one percent of the population. It’s a complicated relationship, given the sudden appearance in Japan of Renaissance Catholicism which was utterly unlike the historic faiths of Shinto and Buddhism; Japan had to invent a...
by Henry Scott Stokes
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In 1941, Imperial Japan rapidly brought an end to the British Empire in Asia. Because a non-white race dared to upset the white colonialists’ status quo in Asia, the British resented the Japanese long after the war. Mr. Henry Scott-Stokes states that he held such a view as well before arriving in...
The Boy in the Suitcase
Holocaust Family Stories of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The Boy in the Suitcase: Holocaust Family Stories of Survival is a uniquely different Holocaust book. It reads like an intriguing novel, such as the title chapter which tells the story of an infant smuggled out of Germany in a suitcase and raised in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter tells a different...
Lurps
A Ranger's Diary of Tet, Khe Sanh, A Shau, and Quang Tri
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Lurps is the revised edition of the memoir of a juvenile delinquent who drops out of ninth grade to chase his dream of military service. After volunteering for Vietnam, he joins the elite U.S. Army LRRP/Rangers—small, heavily armed long-range reconnaissance teams that patrol deep in enemy-held territory....