Booker Books

This book was very interesting not only to residents of Knoxville,TN, but to anyone raised in the South. It is still very relavant to the present. No matter how much we as Blacks achieve we are still treated as less than a whole person. It is a must read for our young black generation. History is truly repeating itself.

Simple, timeless vignettes that capture the feel of Booker T. Washington. It is a short piece, but one filled with quiet dignity of men and women who went the extra mile to be good citizens in every day settings.

This is an excellent book that presents American history from the perspective of Black men. The author reviews major historical events and examines their impact on the African American male population. The book covers social history and looks at the political economy of the Black male population, and offers new insights in the fields of American history, Black studies and gender studies. Must reading for the serious scholar but also for the person interested in learning more about African American history.

The Insider's Guide to AOL is more than just a beginners guide. Among other things it shows you how to create your own Web site. Covers AOL 4.0 and is a guide to everything that is useful in AOL.

Book was very interesting to read. Many moments of suspense interlaced with comedic relief. At times, I just couldn't put it down.

This is the second book in Monty Joynes' series about Anglo (aka Booker Washington), a white man who has meandered his way into the spiritual center of a contracting Pueblo Indian community.

I discovered LOST IN LAS VEGAS after stumbling across the initial work, NAKED INTO THE NIGHT, in my local college library. I was quite impressed, all the more so because I discovered half way through reading it that the author lived in my relatively obscure mountain town! I found him in the phone directory, gave him a call, and after a half-hour conversation, immediately went out and bought the other two books. I was not disappointed!

LOST IN LAS VEGAS takes Anglo, who has by now earned a place of controversial respect among elders of his adopted Pueblo tribe, on the onerous task of retrieving a lost young Indian leader who is squandering his special dancing talents in the irreverent casinos of Nevada's gambling capitol. With characteristic sangfroid and guileless generosity, Anglo eventually wins the trust of the cynical dancer and even the high class prostitutes who control him. Anglo assists Dancer on an extraordinary vision quest in the desert outside Las Vegas, which realigns the young man with his Native roots. While the outcome is predictable, the journey is uplifting and often spellbinding. This is my favorite of the three works published so far.

All the books in Monty Joynes' series belong in the category of what might be called spiritual or allegorical fiction. Although the stories are obviously imaginary, they evoke perennial truths and awaken an intuitive sense of the sublime. I am really surprised these works have not received greater popular acclaim. I found them much better written, more profound and believably realistic than such recent bestsellers as CELESTINE PROPHESY and CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD. Perhaps they'll be the sleepers of the year.

The title refers to Mary Booker and Richard Hillary. Richard Hillary is famous in his own right for being the author of "The Last Enemy" which describes some of his experiences as a Spitfire pilot in the early years of World War Two as he fought against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. His book has become a classic of aviation literature and he is commemorated in the Richard Hillary Trust.

This book came about after the author Michael Burn (who married Mary in 1947) found a collection of Mary and Richard's love letters after she died in 1974. The book is very evocative of the era and is an intimate and romantic story of the love affari between a young pilot and a beautiful older woman. It reminds us of the courage and endurance of the young pilots, and the fears and hopes of those that lived through those times.

The book contains 26 chapters written by some highly active researchers in the field from around the world --

1. Boundary Element and Coupled Methods in Geomechanics. (G. Beer)

2. Computational Strategies for Standard Soil Plasticity Models. (Borst and Groen)

3. An Asynchronous Parallel Algorithm for Consolidation Problems. (Wang, Matteazzi, Schrefler and Zienkiewicz)

4. Estimation of Material Parameters with Discontinuities for Elliptic Models. (L.W. White)

5. Constitutive and Numerical Modeling of Liquefaction. (Paster, Chan and Zienkiewicz)

6. Viscoplasticity of Geomaterials. (Cristescu and Cazacu)

7. Gradient and Cosserat Models: Theory and Computation. (Muhlhaus, Borst and Sluys)

8. Micromechanics of Granular Materials as Structured Media. (C.S. Chang)

9. Constitutive Modeling for Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid by the Asymptotic Homogenization Method. (Terada, Ito, Kikuchi)

10. Unified Disturbed State Concept and HiSS Plasticity Models. (G.W. Wathugala)

11. Laboratory Testing for the Validation of Constitutive Models. (A.S. Saada)

12. Nondestructive Testing Techniques for Material Characterization. (T. Kundu)

13. On the Mathematical Modeling of Certain Fundamental Elastostatic Contact Problems in Geomechanics. (A.P.S. Selvadurai)

14. Application of the Theory of Classical Plasticity to the Analysis of the Stress Distribution in Wedges of a Perfectly Frictional Material. (Booker and Zheng)

15. Limit Analysis of Foundation Systems with Offshore Applications. (J.D. Murff)

16. Modeling of Interfaces and Joints. (Drumm, Fishman and Zaman)

17. Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction During Seismic Events. (Muraleetharam, Wei and Mish)

18. Dynamics of Rigid Pavements Including Vehicle-Pavement Interaction Effects. (M. Zaman)

19. A Practical Modeling Technique for Assessing Potential Contaminant Impacts Due to Landfills. (Roweand Booker)

20. Finite Element Analysis of Free Surface Seepage Flows. (Cividini and Gioda)

21. Simulating Fully 3-D Hydraulic Fracturing. (Carter, Desroches, Ingraffea and Wawrzynek)

22. The Theory of Anisotropic Poroelasticity with Applications. (Abousleiman and Cui)

23. Modeling Fluid Flow and Rock Deformation in Fractured Porous Media. (M. Bai)

24. Models for Uncertainty and Its Propagation withApplications to Geomechanics. (R. Ghanem)

25. Natural Slopes in Slow Movement. (L. Vulliet)

26. Reliability and Stability of Slopes. (J.T. Christian)

Noteworthy is the chapter 10 on the Disturbed State Concept. The concept appears interesting. Recenly, Professor C.S. Desai has published a 700 page book on the concept --

"The Disturbed State Concept," CRC Press (2001).

I wish to congratulate the editors for putting together a fine volume.

This book was a lifesaver for me. My daughter cried for two weeks about the prospect of going to school. Once we started reading My First Day of School, she was so excited and ready to go. Her entire perspective changed. It was like all of her anxiety just disappeared. I love this book and can't wait for more titles in the series.

It's never a great idea to write a review when one is only partway through a book, but this book is a treat & I'm sorry I'm already 1/2way through it! Matthew Henson has a very easy-to-read style, erudite in that educated 19th Century way, with a lightness of touch & wit that ensures it's never dull. He has a quirkiness of vision that grabbed me right off....at times he reminds me of Mark Twain, with that dry wit Samuel Clemens did so well.
If the book declines in any fashion I'll edit the review, but I seriously doubt I'm going to run across any reason to downgrade my rating. Wish he wrote more!