From the bestselling author of Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You and Gallipoli Sniper.In The Price of Valour award-winning journalist John Hamilton gives us an extraordinary insight into the life of a real Australian hero, Hugo Throssell.From the bloody battles of The Nek and Hill 60 during the Gallipoli campaign, where Throssell won a Victoria Cross, to the Great Depression ...

Dive into the heart of a riveting spiritual journey with John Hamilton and Honest to God, an exploration of faith, excess, success, and the search for meaning. This book takes the reader on a raucous ride from the splintered stages of overflowing, firetrap rock clubs where liquor flowed freely and cocaine was ever-present, to the boardrooms of multi-national corporations where millions of dollars rested on creative ideas, to the ivy-covered campus of the oldest seminary in the country, and...

Kwame, the son of a tribal chief, wants more from life than can be found in his small West African village. Working as a houseboy at the management residence of a foreign owned gold mine, his thirst for knowledge about the world has him listening to the conversations of the residents and fantasizing about one day travelling the globe himself. Until he overhears something that he wishes he hadn’t. His conscience won’t let him ignore it and he becomes entangled in a web of theft, murder and ...

Surreptitious poisonings on humans is a more common occurrence than one might think. I have survived surreptitious poisonings or toxic chemicals from 3 different evil individuals on this planet. Some of the known chemicals which have been in my body due to surreptitious poisonings are uranium, arsenic, copper, barium and insect repellent. I am currently still being poisoned by criminals as this book is being published. Poisons can be odorless, tasteless and colorless which makes it hard to...

From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatility and semantic vagueness of security both in current and historical usage. Adopting a philological approach, he explores the fundament...

This is the story of a young man as he journeys through life. On his journey, he learns to hunt the elusive whitetail deer as well as wild pigs.As you read his life story, you will meet the men who mentored him as a hunter and a Christian, teaching him to become a responsible adult and hunter and how to apply lessons learned to his own family, making him a better man for it.

Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who, indeed, knows the answer to that all-important question in our democracy: should presidents and presidential candidates write books? (The answer is no.)In this irreverent analysis of the bo...

Follow one woman's journey from her rural home through Thai politics and back to reconciliation and home. Daeng grew up in a small rural village in the Isan region in Thailand in the shadow of an idolized brother, Jit. Jit heads off to University in Bangkok while Daeng stays at home with their aging mother. Tragedy strikes Jit is killed because of his political activism. Now Daeng must find her way on a new path, finding her heart, independence and the answers she so desperately wants.

Winnipeg was Canada’s first important city in the west and was the supply point for other prairie cities like Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton, and even far-off Vancouver. It exploded from a village of 2,700 people in 1877 to a fully modern metropolis of 100,000 in just thirty years and by then had a university, newspapers, publishing firms, a major theatre, and a vibrant mass of immigrants who flooded in to open up the West.Growing Winnipeg was served with paddle-wheelers on t...

While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka's reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addr...

Community Justice discusses concepts of community within the context of justice policy and programs and addresses the important relationship between the criminal justice system and the community in the USA.Taking a bold stance in the criminal justice debate, this book argues that crime management is more effective through the use of informal (as opposed to formal) social control. It demonstrates how an increasing number of criminal justice elements are beginning to underst...

How much do you know about Scottish history?We all know bits of it. This book sets out to show how these 'bits' fit together – how the characters and events of Scottish history made the country of Scotland. We do not ponder 'WHY?' we demand 'HOW?':How was Scotland founded by refugees?How did the Vikings make Scotland happen?How did King David save Scotland AND give it away?How did Robert the Bruce forget Scottish history