Hamilton Books imprint: 325 books
SEVA to Realize the SELF
Selfless Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding. In order to offset this lack of health care and educational facilities in Indian villages, many private individuals and...
Passing the Torch
Supporting Tomorrow's Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Passing the Torch describes the remarkable achievements of public university students from marginalized populations who transcend oppression and poverty to become powerful leaders for social justice. Ruth and Bill Goldman drew upon their expertise in mental health and higher education to launch a...
Grains of Truth
Reading Tractate Menachot of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E., Judaism faced a serious crossroads. The rabbis of late antiquity spent the next few centuries immersed in extensive debates in an effort to create an ethical and practical basis for a Torah-based faith. Their discussions constitute the bulk...
by Maria Pacino
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2007
Equity, diversity, and social justice are the values to which global democracies aspire. These elements have strong implications for our children and their schools. They are truly timely issues for all educators. The experiences of the author as a teacher, mother, and immigrant are woven throughout...
Elderescence
The Gift of Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Thirty-five million Americans are living beyond the age of sixty-five, a twenty-five year increase in life expectancy since 1900. This longevity, once the gift of a few, has become the destiny of many. This time of life is not just about retiring; in fact many who retire return happily to some type...
Rain on a Strange Roof
A Southern Literary Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
A scholar of Southern literature and culture, Jan Whitt has written a personal narrative about adoption, childhood abuse, and fifty years of searching for her family in rural Appalachia. A testament to the power of love and the resilience of the human spirit, Rain on a Strange Roof unflinchingly explores...
Aspects of Playwork
Play and Culture Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using...
What Do You Do Around Here Anyway?
Real-Life Discussion Generators for Wannabe Principals
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
What Do You Do Around Here Anyway? candidly reports the experiences of one middle school principal for 160 consecutive days, or one school year, with little or no editing. The material is much more than the typical case study. The events are presented in context; the results of actions taken are seen in the daily lives of all affected.
Multicultural and International Approaches in Social Work Practice
An Intercultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Building upon the author’s integrative and interactive ideas about human services fields, this book presents an intercultural perspective of social work education, practice, and research with culturally–linguistically-relationally underprivileged minority groups in the local and global communities,...
The Best Dang Job in the World
A Leadership Guide for College and University Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
In The Best Dang Job in the World, Bill Rezak creates a fictional campus to highlight characteristics, attributes, and behaviors which are key to success in leading an institution of higher learning. The book centers on Rick Nedic, a dean who finds himself the victim of a faculty no-confidence vote....
Catholic Social Teaching and Distributism
Toward A New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Catholic Social Teaching is a relatively new and growing body of theology. Its foundation can be found in the Bible and Tradition of the Church. However, it began to be formalized beginning in 1891 with the writing of Pope Leo’s revolutionary Social Letter/Encyclical, On the New Things/Rerum Novarum....
Call From the Cave
Our Cruel Nature and Quest for Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This book explores the nature of power in persons, groups, and nations by asking a question that we can understand in contemporary terms: what would Bill Gates do if he had Hitler’s absolute power?It is a sociological question that exposes power as a tool of control over the powerless, not as a...
by David Kottler
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Seven Ways of Knowing is an examination of what we mean when we say we know something, and the extent and sureness of this knowledge. It starts with an analysis of our perception of material objects, the role of evolution, and the nature of space and time. A non-mathematical description of relativity...
Following Jesus to Burning Man
Recovering the Church's Vocation
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Following Jesus to Burning Man: Recovering the Church's Vocation places the author, a Pentecostal/evangelical minister, in a thoroughly pagan context in the Nevada desert where he discovered the presence of God in a way that transformed his understanding of ministry in the twenty-first century context....