Booker Books

I really enjoyed reading One Woman, One Hustle. I identified with a lot of the poems and lived vicareously through others. Sheri Booker is an inspiration.

Booker's _Introduction to Lit Theory and Criticism_ is a nice beginner text. It gives thorough overviews of major critical movements. This DOES NOT give you actual critical articles. It is an INTRODUCTION ONLY. The major theorectical movements of the 20th century are explained in detail. Overall, a very solid work.

If you want to grow espiritually I recomended this book. In this book you will find the path to help you grow and see everything in a different way. In this book, Richard Booker explains what is a disciple, how do we become one, the cost, and how to make more. This book is a blessing. I will never forget the words written in this book because they have changed the way I see things. You will never be the same after yo read this book. The author explain every point with clarity, with verses of the bible that will help us see the direction of the message. The book is well organize. The author start by given us the meaning, or what is a disciple and continue to explain how can we become one, the cost and how to make more.

Every chapter take you deeper and deeper into the Word of God. One of the chapter that really impact me was the How do we become a disciple. Why? Because this chapter open my eyes to realize that being a christian is not just go to church and assist to few activities. No, is not. Being a Disciple is - to be able to die to ourselves everyday.

This book is for radical believers willing to commit to Christ. If you are a believer that want to commit to Him, read this book and you will not be the same.

God Bless You!!

As a prior student who used this book in my principles class in undergrad (I now have a masters in the subject), I learned so much using this book. Now, as a professor using a different text, I dream of a book this helpful to my students!!! I use this book to prepare my examples to use during lectures.

If you're interested in architectural history and Nantucket or American architecture of New England, then you'll want to read and keep this meticulously researched book that is both a good read and informative. Also, it contains beautiful photographs of Nantucket's most important homes. Kudos to the authors and photographer!

Richard Booker has done it again! He has cleared concepts that have long been lost or misunderstood. I have enjoyed all of the books I have read by this author and highly recommend them to people who are seriously seeking answers but are intimidated by the long list of past erroneous teachings. This book will change the way you approach your "rest" in a hurried and misguided world.

This was an excellent work overviewing the major achievements of Booker T. Washington. Concentrating on his years at Tuskegee Institute, the authors do a good job portraying Washington's beliefs while explaining the political climate at the time. Washington's critics of the time were also acknowledged and their views represented. The book also explains what a great example Tuskegee Institute and Washington's educational ideas were for others establishing similar institutions.

Most people who have any familiarity of BTW have heard the oversimplified stereotype that he was supposedly an "Uncle Tom", etc. This shows the fallacy of that thinking. Here, BTW tells off the Governor of South Carolina in 1895 for cutting off funds for Black schools "if you think education is expensive-try ignorance!" and socks it to the Louisiana Legislature for allowing Blacks to be lynched "I heard a boy say "today I have seen a man hanged and I shall soon see one burned. Before I hear such a remark from one of my sons I would rather see him in his grave." read it, and you'll be surprised.

I ordered this for my grandson, but this book is filled with history, history of those that have been forgotten, but have contributed so much to this society, which has produced such great black men like Obama. It if wasn't for them, he would've never achieved the accomplishments he has.

William Chester Jordan's Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear uses "the career of the French churchman Jacques de Thérines [to retell] some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of French ecclesiastical politics in the early fourteenth century"(ix). Jordan's narrative is not a true biography. Neither is it political history, nor church history. Instead, it is a bit of all three. Jordan investigates French politics and ecclesiastical matters--as well as their relationship to each other--as they intersect in the writings of Jacques de Thérines. In Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear, Jordan examines Jacques's views on the expulsion of Jews from France and the persecution of the Templars as well as his involvement in the controversy surrounding the exempt orders. By retelling the story of Jacques's career as a Cistercian, Jordan provides an interesting perspective on what life was like in France during the first decades of the fourteenth century.

Jordan chronicles Jacques's life from the University of Paris to his rise to abbot of Chaalis and later Pontigny. The theme of Jacques's life seems to be one of service to his order. Not only did Jacques repeatedly have to defend his orders exemptions, but also he had to manage the financial well being of his abbey during very trying times. Jordan emphasizes that France was torn by war throughout Jacques's lifetime. In addition to the incessant warfare, this period saw crop failures due to poor weather as well as bouts of plague.

Jordan's narrative about the career of Jacques de Thérines illuminates these tumultuous years of the early fourteenth century. Jordan uses the story of Jacques to open a window into the broader world of medieval France. The narrative is slanted in favor of the Cistercians, but this bias preserves the perspective of Jacques and the Cistercians themselves. And the preservation of their perspective is important to historical inquiry in its own right. Besides the historical interest of this book, Jordan has crafted an excellent narrative. It is readable and enjoyable, and he maintains the pace by not straying too far from the career of Jacques. Additionally, Jordan uses the techniques of storytelling to great effect. For example early in the book he describes the burial practices of the Cistercians, and then he revisits the theme at the end when describing Jacques death. All these things make Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear and excellent book.