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  • Complacency

    Classics and Its Displacement in Higher Education

    by John T. Hamilton ...
    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 ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gallipoli Sniper

    The Remarkable Life of Billy Sing

    by John Hamilton ...
    'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.' - Defender Magazine

Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial Force 5th Light Horse, he was thrust onto the narrow strip of land held by the Australians on Gallipoli, he witnessed the terrible effects of the Turkish snipers and decided to fight fire with fire. Using a simple Lee ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Security

    Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care

    by John T. Hamilton ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    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 ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gallipoli Sniper

    by John Hamilton ...
    A powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fightThe Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, and the sudden crack of a gunshot and instant death were an ever-present menace.The most successful ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • The World Does Not Close: 2 (THE ASTRAEON SAGA)

    Astraeon Saga, #1

    by John Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Astraeon Saga
    ASTRAEON — BOOK TWOThe World Does Not CloseThe Veil has been torn, but it has not fallen.In the wake of disaster, the world of Astraeon does what it has always done best: it adapts. Cities rebuild. Roads reopen. Alliances form where fear once ruled. Yet beneath the surface, something has changed — not broken, but rearranged.As ancient powers stir and the boundaries between safe ground and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Does Not Break: 3 (THE ASTRAEON SAGA)

    Astraeon Saga, #1

    by John Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Astraeon Saga
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Price of Valour

    by John Hamilton ...
    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 ... ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • Gallipoli Victoria Cross Hero

    The Price of Valour: The Triumph and Tragedy of Hugo Throssell VC

    by John Hamilton ...
    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 ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • ASTRAEON: BOOK ONE – THE SHATTERED VEIL: 1 (THE ASTRAEON SAGA)

    Astraeon Saga, #1

    by John Hamilton ...
    Series Book 1 - Astraeon Saga
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arctic Revolution

    Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994

    by John David Hamilton ...
    This pathbreaking book offers some nononsense truths about northern development. ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You

    by John Hamilton ...
    On August 7th 1915, men of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade staged one of the most tragic, brave and futile charges of the First World War. Seeking to break out of the Anzac position at Gallipoli they attempted to storm an extraordinarily strong Turkish position, defended by artillery, machineguns and thousands of men, using nothing but fixed bayonets and raw courage. The first wave of Light Horsemen ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • France/Kafka

    An Author in Theory

    by Prof. John T. Hamilton ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    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 ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD