Hamilton Books: 325 books
Dracula's Bloodline
A Florescu Family Saga
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
This engrossing book tells the story of the Florescu family, from its feudal blood ties, to the notorious 15th century figure Vlad Tepes (Count Dracula), right up to present day, touching on such diverse personalities as the Kennedys, Bill Clinton, and Michael Jackson. In the tradition of Alex Haley’s...
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor
A Compendium of the Most Delightful, Romantic, Humorous, Ironic, Sarcastic, or Pathetically Funny Stories and Statements in Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
The Many Faces of Biblical Humor examines how the Bible writers intentionally used humor, irony, and sarcasm to argue their points concisely. This work begins with the dysfunctional families of Genesis, continues delightfully through every book of the Bible, and ends with a glorious fulfillment in...
Masters of Preaching
The Most Poignant and Powerful Homilists in Church History
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The history of Catholic homiletics is rich and layered with theology and spirituality. Every period of Church history contains preachers who have been blessed with oratorical skills and spiritual depth. They are saints, scholars, bishops, priests, and deacons from the Eastern and Western traditions....
Henry Roe Cloud
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2009
Henry Roe Cloud was the first Native American to graduate from Yale. His education, his religion, his personal life, and his public life were a mosaic made up of traditional Native American beliefs and practices, the white man's educational system, reform theology, progressive education and progressive...
African Religion Defined
A Systematic Study of Ancestor Worship Among the Akan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This edition updates the scholarship on ancestor worship—with the addition of three new chapters. Beginning with Akan theology and ending with sacrifices, the study examines Akan conception of God, the abosom (gods and goddesses) relative to creation, centrality of the ancestors’ stool as the...
Dacia
Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2009
This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians...
A Physician Under the Nazis
Memoirs of Henry Glenwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and...
Twelve Inventions Which Changed America
The Influence of Technology on American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people...
Bread, Butter, and Sugar
A Boy's Journey Through the Holocaust and Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Based on the true story of Martin Schiller, a child survivor of the Holocaust, this gripping memoir describes the unfolding horror of the Nazi genocide seen through the eyes of a child. "Menek" (Schiller's childhood nickname) was six-years-old when the Nazis invaded Poland, and his family...
Modern Paradigms
Authors, Texts, Harlequins
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The book addresses students and professors interested in comparative literature and the complex problematic of modernity/postmodernity, hermeneutics, literary, and cultural theory within the past few decades of the 20th century. The author explores the works of Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, M. Proust,...
Activism through Poetry
Critical Spanish Poems in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Activism through Poetry: Critical Spanish Poems in Translation is a compiled anthology of translated poems, which explore cultural, political, social, and ecological issues in the context of contemporary Spain. The work highlights the active role that poetry plays in the debate of these issues.
The...
Accidental Soldier
A Reserve Officer at West Point in the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Accidental Soldier depicts Richard B. Schwartz's military experiences, first as an ROTC cadet at the University of Notre Dame and finally as an Army veteran teaching in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1959, Vietnam was little more than a word on a map; within ten years, Americans saw the Tet Offensive and...
by Bruce A. Little
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
God: Why This Evil? examines the more traditional Christian explanation for why God permits evil in this world and offers an alternative explanation. After reviewing several greater-good explanations, that is God allows evil in order to bring about some greater good, Professor Little concludes that...
New Aphorisms & Reflections
Third Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
New Aphorisms & Reflections: Third Series, the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, features more than 450 entries, some of which are autobiographical. Like its predecessors, New Aphorisms & Reflections includes a sampling of 'meetings of the minds'-dialogues...