Hamilton Books: 325 books
Adela Sloss-Vento
Writer, Political Activist, and Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer. It is only through this archive that documentation becomes...
Starting Over
A Political Biography of George Allen
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Starting Over traces the remarkable political career of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen. Once considered a likely presidential candidate, Allen became a YouTube sensation after a slip of the tongue. But the Allen story is not over and his career has featured multiple returns...
Fame-Dropping
Five Decades of Encounters with the Eminent
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Fame-Dropping is a bit like name-dropping, but when your guide is historian James C. Humes, you can expect something more than just trivial details about celebrities. A former White House speechwriter and Pennsylvania state legislator, the author commands powers of persuasion that have opened doors...
by Jerry M. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
In *The Rebirth of the Middle East,*Rosenberg discusses how peace, stability, and prosperity are dependent upon economic and trade relations between Israel and Palestine, as well as other neighboring Arab and Muslim countries. The world is poised to participate in this healing process with funding...
Auschwitz, USA
A Comparative Study in Efficiency and Human Resources Management: How the Nazis' Final Solution Annihilated the Jews in Europe and How America's 'Free Enterprise' Has Consumed Our Intelligence and Humanity in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
In the last hundred years of industrial advancement, a great deal of scientific progress has been made in the field of efficiency studies. Known as human resources management among those who study these things, the main quest has always been how to control human thoughts and actions so that everything...
Willy Brandt
Prisoner of His Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2005
Originally published in 1975, this book chronicles the exciting and tragic rise and fall of Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt.
Viola Herms Drath recently participated in a symposium on Willy Brandt and the First Grand Coalition (1966-1969) please visit the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies for information.
Culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
A Multidisciplinary Primer
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives. The general thesis that undergirds the book is that by knowing who was predisposed to benefit the most from the trade and why, prompting them to initiate it, appropriate culpability...
by Vanessa Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of...
The 2014 Elections in Florida
The Last Gasp From the 2012 Elections
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book places the 2014 elections in Florida in historical perspective and provides an analysis of the outcomes of each of the state and federal races held in that year: Governor, State Constitutional Offices, the US Congress and the Florida State House of Representatives and the State Senate. It...
The Crescent Moon and the Magen David
Turkish-Israeli Relations Through the Lens of the Turkish Public
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The nationalist outlook of the Turkish state since the beginning of the Republican era in 1923 targeted uniform identity formation. While Turkey did not recognize the existence of ethnic identities as long as they were Muslim, non-Muslims were challenging this ideal. During this social engineering,...
Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance
Soyinka on Religion and Human Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance articulates the religious ideas and vision of Wole Soyinka in his non-fiction writings. It also analyzes Soyinka's response to religious violence, terror, and the fear of religious imperialism. The book suggests the theoretical notions of radical humanism and...
Rise, Decline and Renewal
The Democratic Party in Maine
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Rise, Decline and Renewal tells the remarkable story of the Maine Democratic Party – how it suddenly rose from irrelevance in 1954 with the election of Governor Ed Muskie, successfully challenged the ruling Republican Party over the next two decades, and initiated a creative period of wide-ranging...
Metaphors of Healing
Playful Language in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Metaphors of Healing features hundreds of metaphors Harish Malhotra has created for use with his patients in therapy, which have yielded positive results. Through his metaphors, Malhotra has passed down a successful open-ended interview technique to medical students who are encountering patients for...
Troy Duster
Berkeley Sociologist, Teacher, and Civil Rights Activist
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Duster is a black man who was born in South Chicago. His maternal grandmother is the famous Ida B. Wells. He...