John Hamilton Libros

Focusing on the exploration of Mars, the book details the missions of various artificial satellites, highlighting the Mariner missions from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the U.S. Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance. It features engaging text, maps, and stunning photography, while also discussing orbiters from other countries like Russia, India, and Japan. Additionally, it covers upcoming planned missions, providing a comprehensive overview of humanity's efforts to study the Red Planet.

Exploring the concept of the Incarnation, this book delves into the interplay between language and the divine. John T. Hamilton presents philology as a form of love for words, examining how language transcends mere information, emphasizing its corporeal nature. Through a range of intellectual episodes, from Renaissance Humanism to modern poetry, he highlights the connection between form and content, urging a reevaluation of our engagement with language. This work invites readers to consider the deeper implications of how we understand and interact with words.

Focusing on the remarkable skills and innovative technology utilized during the Apollo 13 mission, this title details the critical efforts that enabled the safe return of the crew after a major malfunction. It explores the teamwork, problem-solving, and engineering ingenuity that were essential in overcoming the life-threatening challenges faced in space. Readers will gain insight into the historical significance and the lessons learned from this extraordinary rescue operation.

Engaging readers with simple text and stunning visuals, this book explores Mars through the lens of the latest scientific discoveries from NASA and other agencies. It covers essential aspects like the planet's physical measurements, geology, atmosphere, and climate. Key geographical features are highlighted, including Valles Marineris, the largest canyon, and Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano, alongside significant craters and the icy poles, as well as Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos.

This title introduces readers to the skills and technology that came together to save the 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in Thailand's Tham Luang cave. Simple text and incredible close-up photographs focus on the amazing rescue work. This title also features details about what to do if readers find themselves in a similar situation, surprising facts, and quotes from the rescuers and the rescued. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

The finest account yet written of the infamous charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at The Nek giving a raw and graphic description of the charge described as 'nothing short of bloody murder'.

The narrative highlights the skills and technology utilized during the dramatic rescue of the Maersk Alabama crew from Somali pirates in April 2009. Featuring simple text and striking close-up photographs, the book captures the intense moments and innovative techniques that contributed to the successful operation, offering readers an engaging look at this remarkable event in maritime history.

An extraordinary account of a little-known aspect of the fighting in Gallipoli the snipers war.

Explores a profound and enduring threat to American democracy that arose out of World War I: the establishment of pervasive, systematic propaganda as an instrument of the state. During the Great War, the federal government exercised unprecedented power to shape the views and attitudes of American citizens.

A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn’s portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment.The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data, statistical reasoning, and presumably neutral abstraction, which often dismiss humanist subjectivity, legitimize self-sufficiency, and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today, he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal, ethical, and political complacency in our present era.