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Hook, Donald Dwight was born on December 16, 1928 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Son of Dwight Carlisle Hook, Eunice (Fowler) Hook.
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{ INSULTS: OLD AND NEW } by Hook, Donald D (AUTHOR) Aug-01-2009 Hardcover
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Between Two Worlds: A Cultural History of German-Jewish Writers
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Understanding How to Live at Any Age--Before It Is Too Late
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We function as part of several different worlds: an exterior world we can see and touch and an inner one of feelings and emotions, while living and working among fellow human beings amidst routines of all sorts. But we also sense that there is some kind of world beyond either of these. We need to understand and appreciate these different worlds so that we can enjoy good health, profit from our work, taste of fun and humor, have satisfying relations with relatives and friends, and engage in exploring our creative urges. Success in this endeavor will produce a balanced and harmonious life that will serve as an example to contemporaries and become a legacy for our family. Donald D. Hook, Ph.D., is Professor _emeritus_ at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. His many learned articles and books include, besides professional texts on German language and literature and linguistics, such subjects as religion, sociology, biography, and history. Dr. Hook writes from the vantage of long military service, extensive travel and multiple residences, duty as a federal agent, a lifetime of church involvement, and, for more than three decades, the teaching of mostly young people in college. He is the father of two and grandfather of three. He and his wife retired to Delaware in the mid-1990s, where they both write books and publish under their own imprint, Wildwechsel Books.
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Madmen of History, Sixth Edition
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Published both by major U.S. houses as well as independently by the author, this book has been reissued at least every ten years since its initial appearance in 1976 by Jonathan David Publishers, Middle Village, NY. Its success has been remarkable, so much so, in fact, that schools and libraries have repeatedly had to reorder after their copies were stolen by patrons, students, and teachers! It continues to seem relevant to readers during all those years because society and government are always saddled with the same types depicted in this book. Teachers have frequently used this book as a supplementary text in history courses. The text is fast-moving, at times conversational, and never packed with dry dates and treaties and other aspects of history books that often turn off young readers. This is the first appearance of Madmen of History as an ebook, and the second ebook by the author. Read it chapter by chapter--there is no absolute order required--but avoid reading it at bedtime because you may not sleep well!
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Death in the Balance: The Debate over Capital Punishment
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Understanding How to Live at Any Age--Before It Is Too Late (Paperback) - Common
(Einleitung in Die Augustana, Book 2: Entstehungsgeschicht...)
Einleitung in Die Augustana, Book 2: Entstehungsgeschichte Des Evangelischen Lehrbegriffs Bis Zum Augsburger Bekenntnisse (1868)
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Back Then--Those Were the Days
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Conceived for an audience of pre-teens and their parents and grandparents. Although set in a small Southern city, the facts and circumstances are applicable to many U.S. towns and cities during the Great Depression.
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Madmen of History
(As stated in the Introduction, this book has been republi...)
As stated in the Introduction, this book has been republished at least every 10 years since its first appearance in 1976. That pace has represented a sort of "watchful waiting," for this is a book of history, not current events, and it often takes a long time for tyrants to arise and seize power. It takes even longer for these perpetrators of misery and repression to arouse sufficient revulsion that their removal from prominence is undertaken, their punishment or demise assured, and their place in infamy recorded. Who will the next tyrants be? Look east. Donald D. Hook, Ph.D., is Professor _emeritus_ of Modern Languages and Literature at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Author of books and articles on linguistics and literary subjects, religious matters, sociology, cultural history, quotations, genealogy (with wife Harriett Blackwell Hook), and short fiction, Dr. Hook retired from university teaching in 1994 and moved to Delaware, where he continues to treat controversial topics both in non-fiction and fiction writings, as in his recent _Contradictions: Short Stories and Psychograms_.
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Psychograms of Sickness and Death: A Partial Autobiography
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Twenty-one short stories based on personal experiences, arranged in seven sections under pertinent topics, and interlaced by means of short commentaries, poems, and an intercalation extending throughout the book. Fully returnable.
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Gun Control: The Continuing Debate
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I comment at greater length in the preface, but I try to make the point, with authority, that balance is needed in this country today with regard to the sane possession and use of firearms. Gun control is an emotion-laden issue not unlike capital punishment. I believe there is more persuasive evidence on the side of the gunners, but I share the concern of the anti-gunners that the misuse of guns in America has gotten out of hand. I do not agree with the solution of more and more control as put forth by the latter group, but I do subscribe to certain controls, and especially to a drastic one introduced toward the end of the book. I also strongly endorse educating the public in the proper use of guns and enthusiastically support the various sporting uses of weaponry. The book also contains a handy glossary of gun terms.
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Reflections, Images, and Forecasts
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Like the immediately preceding book of short stories and psychograms, _Contradictions: Short Stories and Psychograms_ (2008), the present volume contains stories that continue to relate the author's experiences, impressions, and thoughts begun in _Psychograms of Sickness and Death: A Partial Autobiography_ (2002). The reader is asked to keep in mind that consciousness constitutes the content of feeling defined and analyzed--that is, feeling that has attained a certain sharpness which gives it definition and allows it, by means of the being's intelligence, to assume relational significance. A psychogram, as used here, is thus the written account of a positive or negative feeling state within a being viewed from the standpoint of what the psyche feels in relation to a given experience. More simply, it can also be said to be a description of the mental functioning of an individual, in short, his psychological description. The collection endeavors to evoke scrutiny of our world in the past and the present and endue predictions of the future with imagination and accuracy.
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The Plight of the Church Traditionalist: A Last Apology
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In this book the author, now a Catholic, bids farewell to the Episcopal Church (ECUSA) after nearly four decades of membership and service at all levels. He describes the main reasons for this denomination's spiritual collapse and its drastic loss of members and suggests what disaffected members might do. Though historically accurate and scholarly in reasoning, the appeal is to a wide readership.
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Clerical Failure
(Hook's third book on American churches since 1991. Many o...)
Hook's third book on American churches since 1991. Many of today's clergy exemplify "clerical failure." They fail to promote the Christian faith, attend parishioners' personal needs, lead exemplary lives, or uphold denominational principles. Target audience: 48 million disillusioned Christians!
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Donald Dwight Hook
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Student, Washington & Lee University, 1946—1948. AB, Emory University, 1950. AM, Duke University, 1958.
Postgraduate, University North Carolina, 1957—1958. Doctor of Philosophy, Brown University, 1961.
Career
Professor Modern Languages Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 1961—1994. Visiting professor University Hartford, Central Connecticut State University, St. Joseph College, Chadron State University, Nebraska, University Rhode Island. Corporal United States Air Force, 1950-1952, 1st lieutenant United States Air Force, 1952-1955, retired, 1955-1960.
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Reflections, Images, and Forecasts
(Like the immediately preceding book of short stories and ...)
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Psychograms of Sickness and Death: A Partial Autobiography
(Twenty-one short stories based on personal experiences, a...)
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Understanding How to Live at Any Age--Before It Is Too Late
(We function as part of several different worlds: an exter...)
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Gun Control: The Continuing Debate
(I comment at greater length in the preface, but I try to ...)
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The Plight of the Church Traditionalist: A Last Apology
(In this book the author, now a Catholic, bids farewell to...)
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Understanding How to Live at Any Age--Before It Is Too Late (Paperback) - Common
(Einleitung in Die Augustana, Book 2: Entstehungsgeschicht...)
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Madmen of History
(As stated in the Introduction, this book has been republi...)
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Madmen of History
(As stated in the Introduction, this book has been republi...)
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Back Then--Those Were the Days
(Conceived for an audience of pre-teens and their parents ...)
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Clerical Failure
(Hook's third book on American churches since 1991. Many o...)
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Madmen of History, Sixth Edition
(Published both by major U.S. houses as well as independen...)
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Death in the Balance: The Debate over Capital Punishment
(Book by Hook, Donald D., Kahn, Lothar)
- { INSULTS: OLD AND NEW } by Hook, Donald D (AUTHOR) Aug-01-2009 Hardcover
- Between Two Worlds: A Cultural History of German-Jewish Writers
- Fahrt ins Weiss-Blaue
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Reflections, Images, and Forecasts
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Married Harriett Gay Blackwell, August 18, 1954. Children: Terence Blackwell, Karen Fowler Hook Chase.
