The WWI biography of a Victory Cross recipient who fought bravely at Gallipoli, only to be shunned after the war for speaking out against it.The son of a former Premier of Western Australia, Hugo Throssell volunteered to join the Imperial Australian Force during the Great War. He was shipped to Gallipoli in 1915 with the 10th Australian Light Horse Regiment, which fought in a dismounted role. He was involved in the famous charge of the 10th Light Horse at the Battle...

Everyone has those certain days when you get up; the sun is shining, there's a nice breeze under a blue sky and everything seems like a perfect day with endless possibilities. Then, something off-the-chain happens. Events turn and suddenly the day goes straight to hell in a hand-basket.What began as a beautiful day of traveling while on assignment for the cleric, Eleazaar, and his dwarven acolyte, ends up in an epic struggle for survival for themselves and thousands of others. With...

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...

The World Does Not BreakAstraeon Saga — Book ThreeBy John HamiltonThe world did not break.That was the mistake.In the aftermath of catastrophe, Astraeon survives—not through victory, but through restraint.The Veil, once shattered, has strained and held. Cities rebuild. Borders harden. Containment protocols promise safety. But beyond their reach, fractured settlements are forced to adapt in quieter, more dangerous ways. Survival demands silence....

THE ASTRAEON SAGAThe sky trembles. The Veil screams. And an ancient power awakens…When a catastrophic fracture tears across the heavens, forgotten magic surges back into Astraeon—a world built on Sparks of living energy and guarded by the mysterious Veil. As ancient sigils break and long-dormant forces stir, three lives are pulled into a destiny older than the world itself:A reluctant hero marked by a forbidden Spark.Haunted by a power he never asked for—and...

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.

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.

As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, “the Word became Flesh.” Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to the nature of language.In Philology of the Flesh, John T. Hamilton explores writing and reading practices that engage this notion in a range of poetic enterprises and theoretical reflections. By pressing the notion of philology ...

In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take for granted—facility with the local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures. Adding further to the challenges, they must put news of the world in context for an audience wi...

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...