Hamilton Books: 325 books
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Reading Tractate Horayot of the Babylonian Talmud
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.), the Talmud has provided the basis for Jewish ethical and practical norms for centuries. It is also an extremely long and forbiddingly difficult work that has accumulated countless...
Doomsday Delayed
USAF Strategic Weapons Doctrine and SIOP-62, 1959-1962
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
In the wake of the Soviet launching of Sputnik I, John H. Rubel became one of six Assistant Directors of Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense in the recently re-organized Pentagon. It was here that Rubel would witness two of the most significant events of his career. In Doomsday...
Clash or Complement of Cultures?
Peace and Productivity in the New Global Reality
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This bookrecommends balance between cooperation and competition in intercultural/international relations, with more emphasis on the former. To make this possible, it describes a paradigm shift and demonstrates why it is logical and how it can be attained—thus going beyond traditional legal and moral...
Catholicism and American Political Ideologies
Catholic Social Teaching, Liberalism, and Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book examines the perspectives of American liberalism and conservatism in the new millennium—their general political and social philosophy and their positions in leading public issue areas—and evaluates them in light of Catholic social teaching. Before making that evaluation, it sets out...
Sisterly Love
Women of Note in Pennsylvania History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Sisterly Love: Women of Note in Pennsylvania History is a collection of biographical sketches of women who have made or are making significant contributions to Pennsylvania history. The authors of each chapter span across several disciplines and colleges in the Philadelphia area through SEPCHE, the...
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation
A Review of My Life on the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
The Scalping of the Great Sioux Nation recalls Davis' early upbringing and education on two Indian reservations. Davis also assesses the policies of the United States government regarding the status of Indians in society. Scalping is not too strong a term to describe the multiple injustices which...
How the Sun Lost Its Shine
A Newsroom Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
How the Sun Lost Its Shine: A Newsroom Memoir is award-winning journalist Elaine Tassy's no-holds-barred account of her four years working as a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. As one of few black female staff writers, she noticed and spoke out about the vast differences she saw in how editors, mostly...
Masters of Preaching
More Poignant and Powerful Homilists in Church History
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Who were Catholicism’s greatest orators? What was the key to their effectiveness? Was it mere scholastic ability or spiritual inspiration? The answer is “both.” In this follow-up work, Father Ray E. Atwood examines the lives, theologies, and preaching examples of the Church’s greatest preachers....
by Bernard Alpert, Fran Alpert
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians. This traumatic event created the need to construct and articulate a comprehensive past that would give meaningful context to the identity of the Israelites. New modes of communal organization and worship during this period...
by Edward Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention. Some mentioned the Homeric gods, but others did not. Atomists and Sophists identified themselves as agnostics if not outright atheists,...
The Armenian Events Of Adana In 1909
Cemal Pasa And Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to give an accurate and reasonably complete narrative account of the Armenian events of 1909 and their aftermath in the province of Adana and the developments leading up to and following them; and equally importantly, to provide an interpretive framework...
Antioch on the Orontes
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire. Today, it is a small Turkish town of 200,000 inhabitants whose visitors may find it difficult to imagine this place at its peak. This book is a biography of Antioch — or Antakiyye of the Arabs,...
The Making of an African King
Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle among the Awutu (Effutu) of Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
In this edition of The Making of an African King: Patrilineal and Matrilineal Struggle Among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Ghana, Revised & Updated, every chapter is updated, taking into account the 2015 Ghana Supreme Court ruling on the internecine kingship struggle among the Ᾱwutu (Effutu) of Simpa...
Pagan Trinity - Holy Trinity
The Legacy of the Sumerians in Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007
This book offers a revolutionary new synthesis of ancient history and religion by bridging the gap between the archaeology of Mesopotamia (now the country of Iraq) and the biblical account of Genesis. Professor Alan Dickin shows how the Sumerians, the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia, established...