Booker Books

UnHoly Orders is an impressive volume of almost 200 pages, 8 1/2x11 format, coil bound. It reflects the author's passion for the subject in its comprehensive coverage of a topic that many people find uncomfortable to deal with. Step by step, page by page Booker (now Wiebe) takes the reader through identifying the problem to resources for recovery. She is as thorough in her description of what constitutes abuse as she is ruthless in her encouragement to individuals and congregations to find solutions. Scripture, prayer and extensive resources provide some balance to the difficult matter that groups are invited to study. There isn't room to do justice to Janet Booker's book. If this is a subject you or your group would like to tackle, or if it is an issue within your congregation, this book is for you.

In 1901, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) published this autobiography. Born into slavery, after emancipation, Mr. Washington developed a philosophy that African-Americans needed to sweep away the ignorance that their subservient position had left them with, and earn the respect of the whites through hard work and excellence. In 1881 he founded the Tuskegee Institute to teach African-Americans how to study, how to work hard and intelligently (producing better results than the white businesses of the day), and how to have respect for themselves and others. This is Mr. Washington's story of his youth and his success at Tukegee.

This is a fascinating and uplifting book. Though cognizant of the racism that often surrounded him, Mr. Washington never lost his faith in the basic goodness of the people of all colors that he met. The only problem I had with this excellent book was the knowledge I could not shake, that Mr. Washington's faith was not rewarded, and the white community of the day would not give the African-American community respect and fair treatment.

That said, though, this is a great and wonderful book, which should rightly be considered an American classic. If you want to read a book that is a window on the America of the late nineteenth century, or if you want an uplifting book about a man of faith and love, then I highly recommend that you get this book!

This is one of America's great books, and Booker T. Washington was a great American.
Washington was born into slavery, freedom came when he was about six years old. As a child, he worked at farming and coal mining, while he sought an education. All of this time he lived in base poverty.
After saving what little money he could, he set out from his home in West Virginia, for a black school in Virginia. The school was run by a retired Union Army officer, who recognized Washington's ability.
Washington worked his way through school, graduated, and headed home to West Virginia to establish a school for blacks. There wasn't much money in it, but his dream was to help his people escape from ignorance and poverty.
When the state of Alabama wanted to establish a school for blacks, the Tuskegee Institute, Washington was chosen to run it. His budget was pitiful, and he started teaching school in a dilapidated shanty and a hen house. His students tolerated these conditions, along with grinding poverty, because that's what it took to receive an education.
The school always insisted that all students work while they study. They raised crops and animals, made bricks for sale, and built the various buildings which were needed to hold the school's ever expanding population.
Money was always short, and Washington had to spend a lot of his time in the North raising funds. He was a talented speaker, and became famous on that account. He eventually formed relationships with a number of wealthy patrons, who provided funds to run and expand the Tuskegee Institute.
By the time the book was written, the Institute had 6000 graduates working across the South, and had trained a large number of teachers to educate southern blacks.
This book is valuable, both for the information it holds, and for the fine example of Christian love which Washington models.

This adorable book really helped my 2 year old daughter understand what it would be like when her sister was born (who would stay with her, where Mommy was going, etc). We received it as a gift while I was still pregnant and my daughter wanted to read it every night. She LOVED this book. The illustrations are wonderful and the story appeals to both kids and adults. I highly recommend it!

A Jewish laugh riot! Lots of amazing talent in their ealier years such as Valerie Harper (Rhoda), Lou Jacobi, and so many others. Don't miss out on some genuine belly laughs! Josh Bernstein, DDS

I've just finished reading David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. It is an epic and familiar tragedy. Just the technical aspects of Mitchell's writing alone would warrant this novel a masterpiece. He shifts voice as though he were multiple authors and not one man writing from the point-of-view consciousness of several different characters in several different times. Despite the predictability of its plot, the book's prose is so surprising that one forgets the more unoriginal concepts throughout.

Mitchell takes the reader through six completely different time periods from gold rush San Francisco to apocalyptic future Hawaii. He uses one character to do it. Maybe character isn't the right word. Perhaps soul is more accurate. This soul, identified by a strange comet-shaped birthmark, reincarnates itself into various forms and versions of humanity. This soul is faced with the evil of the world each time and it is up to the reader to decide if evil triumphed over good.

The insatiable hunger for more...more anything is the plank of Mitchell's evil. His characters poison one another for treasure, steal intellectual property for glory and slaughter for pure survival. Whether this is a testament to the ills of consumerism or merely an exposure of the basest of human instinct is impossible to tell. Suffice it to say that humanity is its own worst enemy.

So, the cloud that is the soul must be guided by the atlas that is ineffable peace. And although that cloud will dissipate and wander off course it still must exist.

"'& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!'

Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"

Cloud Atlas is composed of six stories intricately weaved together. Each story is told in a different style and time, and each is interrupted at a suspenseful moment and then concluded later in the book. This is a masterful execution of a unique device, coupled with vivid storytelling. Highly unique.

I read "Cloud Atlas" before I read "Ghostwritten" and "Number9Dream," and although I hold "Ghostwritten" to be one of the best pieces of contemporary fiction I have ever had the pleasure to read, "Cloud Atlas" does not rank too much below it. The structure, although jarring at first, almost immediately became part of the overall appeal and I found myself trusting Mitchell to bring about a stunning conclusion. Mitchell's prose, in my opinion, is much like Don DeLillo's in that it is beautiful in its simplicity and crafted without being overtly so. With "Cloud Atlas" much like "Ghostwritten," Mitchell has breathed more life into the world of fiction. It is a book to be read if you are a reader in search of artful characters, a magnificent plot, a daring structure, or any combination of the above.

It's rare these days to come across an new, original masterpiece. It's a tough book to write a review of because there are so many incredible surprises and I don't want to create any spoilers - but the writing, the brilliance is so extraordinary - my advice is just read the book before reading this review further, but if you feel you need to know more, here you go:

This book is about "its structure", which consists of 6 stories, 5 of which are divided in half and placed around the 6th. The book is mostly about power, slavery, hatred and violence, and yet is full of humor and truly enjoyable to read. Each of the 6 stories is written in a different style - one is a diary, another is a series of letters, another is a pulp fiction novel, one is an autobiography (of which a character in a later story views the movie version of), one is an interview, one is an "oral history". Each of the stories is also a document featured in a later stories - for example, in the second story, the first story is discovered in the library. Also, the stories are critiqued in each other - in the second story, the problems and inconsistencies of the first story are pointed out. There are other themes and links, from birthmarks to names to ships. It never seems artificial or contrived however. The stories span centuries and cultures, although many of them center on or relate to the Big Island in Hawaii.

Some of the reading is difficult - the middle story is written in the author's own created futuristic dialect (shoes are called "nikes" for instance), which sometimes takes a while. The initial story is difficult to follow at times, and the book requires a fair amount of concentration. Much of the book is surprisingly exciting and interesting. I've never read anything quite like it.

David Mitchell's _Cloud Atlas_ is a sprawling work, with six separate narratives, five of which are interrupted only to appear in their successors. That is, the first half of the first story becomes a part of the first half of the second story, and so on, till they revolve around the sixth story before we hear the second halves of each of the stories in turn. The effect of this was that the second half of my read felt like it kept ending and each set of characters got wrapped up, one set at a time. For all the aspiration and pretension of this central structural device, its parts generally come across as very accessible. Some will appeal more than others (I grew tired of the post-apocolyptic pidgin dialect of the sixth story pretty quickly), but which ones strike the deepest chords will vary from reader to reader. If there is a larger theme, I would say it is each character's awakening to the casualness with which humans enslave one another (literally and figuratively) and the forms that their struggles to overcome this take.

One thing I would say about the shifting styles and the grand structure at its heart is that for all that craft and design, the whole ends up feeling like a grabbag. I don't mean to suggest that's a bad thing. When you read some things, from detective novels to Dante's Inferno, you're left with a sense that every event, even every word is there for some express structural purpose and that none of this will make sense without the greater whole. Cloud Atlas doesn't quite feel that way. These characters and their various narratives are bumping into each other in the grand scheme of things, rather than embodying some greater logic. To its credit, each of these stories gets a character of its own and each one's relation to the others is a particular, distinct thing. It reminded me of the feeling I get traveling, a bit out of place and wandering into other people's lives as I overhear their stories, recognize a little something and float on to the next.

I found this novel deeply disturbing: are we really meant to sympathize with and care about the oh-so-sensitive alcoholic child-beating male protagonist simply because he is Maori and can blather on about ancestors and sacred spaces ? The destroyed child , progressively more destroyed and brutalized over the course of the novel, stands for what? It appears that the author wants us to approve of his pathetic attachment to his adoptive father....I didn't believe a word of the peculiarly happy ending. The author seems proud of her supposedly innovative style, which didn't seem particulalry innovative to me.

This book defies the constraints of the written word and captures a tri-soul: a devastating, miraculous, chameleon-like story that will reach out and grab your psyche, changing you forever. Deeply psycho-empathetic, alchemical, and rich beyond anything you've ever read. A gem hiding under the literary rubble of ego's and forced structures. Hulme breaks the mold that binds us to repetitive story-telling and reveals a world so intensely unique that we will be convinced to claim it as our own.

This is what one is temptedd to call a perfect book. Hulme's rough wisdom penetrates to illumine the brokenness of the self and the unhealable nature of relationships. It is not a counsel of despair but a mirror held up to human nature.

I've just finished "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme and cannot fathom all the five-star reviews it received. I can only believe that Hulme herself is sitting and writing them in her home far, far away from civilization.

This is a self-indulgent mess written over the course of twelve years! Unbelievable, self-indulgent characters that one cannot care about over the course of 445 pages of repetitive scenes.

Ultra violence toward a defenseless mute boy again and again until he's toothless, scared, welted, limping and cockeyed are forgiven by the author because the father has an unbelievable spiritual awakening in the wilderness of New Zealand. Good for daddy not so hot for what's left of son.

The holy man the father meets in the wilderness sounds like... all other holy men! - talking in parables and sounding like a watered-down version of King-James-Bible speak.

The writing at times is so convoluted that one is left to wonder if any resolution has occurred in this mess.

Am I the only reader that was frustrated by the number of Maori words that are NOT translated in the glossary. Key words and phrases in Maori are left to the reader to guess at!

Like many reviewers, I am working my way through all the Booker Prize winners with only five to go. This novel shakes my faith in the legitimacy of the award. It's as if the committee is saying, "Look, we need something from New Zealand."

I place it last among Booker Prize winners - yes, below even "Vernon God Little" and "How Late It Was, How Late."

Apparently, many people enjoyed this book, including the majority of my book group. But I agree with the 3 publishers who, Keri Hulme explains in the preface to the first edition, rejected this book. This is a difficult, unpolished, often incomprehensible book. Perhaps as fair warning, Hulme provides what she calls "an explanatory dream." What this dream explains never becomes any clearer than most of the book itself. I can't deny that there were parts of this book that I enjoyed, but there were parts of the books that were simply maddening. In the end, I decided that the negatives far outweighed the positives of this book.

i ordered Up from Slavery because I thought I needed to read it. However, I found I wanted to read it. I recommend it for all Americans. It was truely inspirational.

Booker Ts story really inspires. It just shows that with positive thinking and motivation, tremendous difficulties, odds and challenges are beatable. It's a message many of us would gain from if we would just stop complaining and blaming others for our lot in life, and just get moving on up!

I've reviewed the CreateSpace edition, ISBN 1438268165. It's a clear, easy to read version, well designed and the print and binding are excellent. Highly recommended!

Wow! What an amazing story! It is fascinating to read Booker T. Washington's account of a childhood in slavery followed by his rise to national prominence as the founder of the Tuskegee Institute.

While some may argue that Washington was naive and overly accomodating, I was amazed at his ability to forgive and see the best in people. He did not nurse grudges or let others bring him down. Whether or not you feel that he should have spoken up more for judicial equality, you have to admit that he was a strong, dedicated man of character.

Everyone: white, black, brown, or any other shade, can benefit from reading the autobiography of this great American.

Washington's relentlessly positive message is encouraging but at the same time too perfect for believability. The reader desires that Washington would once take off the mask of cheer that he appears to be putting over some parts of his autobiography and tell us what he really thinks.

His optimism extended to the political status of African-Americans and their future integration into American society. As the constant threat of lynching and KKK-ism continued throughout most of the 20th Century, even as positive steps were made in racial integration, it appears his optimism was at best proven wrong, or at least premature. And it is easy to understand the criticism by other contemporary black leaders like W. E. B. DuBois for his easy optimism.

But on the other hand, until and unless I read otherwise in a well-researched biography, perhaps Washington's optimism isn't a front or a mask to cover deep bitterness, but is true and sincere, and indeed, nothing in his story hear reads as if forced or fraudulent.

I purchased this book at the small National Park bookstore at Booker T. Washington's birthplace in rural southwestern Virginia. The setting still matches the quiet and isolation that Washington describes, and lends credence to his tale of self-reliant optimism. I also purchased a National Park Service pamphlet Booker T. Washington: An Appreciation Of The Man And His Times, which makes a nice short companion to Washington's masterpiece.

Up from Slavery, autobiography by Booker T. Washington, is a true classic in African-American literature. Washington opens Chapter 1: "A Slave Among Slaves" with his vivid recollections as a Negro child growing up in the South: a slave on a plantation in Virginia, a white father he never knew, illiterate and living in horrid conditions. After the emancipation of slaves, Washington's family moves to West Virginia where he labors at the salt furnace and in the coal mines. In his precious few moments of spare time, he learns to read and gains enough confidence to leave everything behind to journey to the Hampton Institute. Later, because of his success at Hampton, he is given the opportunity to start Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Tuskegee Institute is successful partly due to Washington's extensive travel to the North to solicit funds for the school. The students at Tuskegee, in addition to the day-to-day traditional class work, are expected to learn an industrious trade and to work at mastering that trade. Based on his own life experience, Washington believes that the most prudent way the Negro race will persevere is through this combination of education, hard work and service to others. He believes that the White race will come to appreciate the Negro race only if the Negro people prove their worth to society. Because of his passive stance, many, such as W.E.B. DuBois, et. al., labeled Washington as "The Great Accomodator." In other words, accommodating those who were the enslavers instead of advocating for the rights of those who were enslaved. You can get a sense of this in Washington's most notable speech, the address to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895:

"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than artificial forcing."

This speech brought national acclaim to Booker T. Washington and, at the time, placed him in the forefront as one of the leading authorities of his race.

Though this book is based upon a fictional character as to how one got started into trading, it provides a very interesting reading into the psychology of a trader's mind. Do not expect the book to present any strategies for trading, it makes one think before acting. Have a plan before entering a trade instead of shooting by the hip....

I thought this book was done just fine..!!
Rob Booker really wrote a book that happens to capture the mindset of every trader just starting out.
I liked the fact that the book has a variety of scenarios, which encourages the trader in all of us to think outside the box.
I look forward to reading other books that Rob wrote.

Una manera muy didactica, y divertida la que nos presenta rob en su historia de Sr Banes. Excelente

cubre los aspectos que uno como trader novato comete, por que tiene que cometer.

Gracias Rob

This is the best book I've read so far on trading. If you have ever traded currencies, or are thinking about it, you need to check this title out. There is a little bit (or a lot) of Harry Banes in all of us! Read this book before you take your next trade!

Over last couple of days I finished reading " Adventures Of a Currency Trader" by Rob Booker .

Very good book , interesting and insightful . The story has lot of drama and suspense and lot of lessons to learn as well .

The story is about Harry Banes , who is an average person and who reach the hall of fame by help of his mentor , Harvey Winklestien . Harry lives in NY , so he can walk to any trading floor anytime he want .
I wish I could be bale to do that . Though the story is little bit unrealistic , its not possible for someone to become expert from absolute beginner in 3-5 weeks . Anyway it's just a story book , as I mentioned before very entertaining and insightful . After a long time I read some fiction , though it's not really a fiction .

The moral of the story is summarized into three broad rules . Thou Shalt Never Lose More Than 25 Percent of Thine Account . ( Day Light saving )Thou Shalt Test Before Trading . ( Back testing ) Thou Shalt Stand Accountable to Another Person for Thy Trades . ( Amazing ) This broad values are new to me , though I am not new to FX .

I think this book is for advance audience . Everyone can enjoy the story of Harry banes , but not everyone is in a position to absorb the thoughts which are hidden between the lines . We need some experience in loosing trades , gyration of hit and run trading and above all people who have a tendency of chasing price and holding on to their ego will benefit from this book immensely .

This books builds up slowly over few chapters and then get very intense in last few chapters . Following are my favorite chapters . Chapter 13 : The Story of George SislerChapter 15 : Breakfast with HarveyChapter 17 : TestingChapter 18 : HomeworkChapter 19 : Team Banes Begins Anew ( Accountability for Day traders )The story emphasis on having your own strategy and back testing it with enough historical data and then implementing the day light saving limit or percentage of NAV concept . The most amazing part is , keeping a journal of all your trades and asking your partner to review them . The execution of your trades should meet your objective , all execution should be well planned and back tested . The book is not for you to learn about technical analysis or getting some magic trading strategies . The book is more on psychological aspects of FX trading , but it covers very valuable points . It mentions about support and resistance levels . It explains clearly why you should look more in to daily and 4 H chart rather than always looking at the 5M charts .

If I would have read this book 10 years ago, I believe I would have been a Christian for 10 more years. Booker is a fantastic teacher, analyzing events in the Old Covenant [Testament] and how they forshadow and point to the New Covenant. This book explains the steps in the covenant, which so many people do not know about. I myself was one of those people. The book takes you through the old priestly customs and rituals and how they point to our High Priest, Jesus. It also answers questions like "Why couldn't anyone touch Jesus while he was ascending?" and "Why was Jesus called the Son of Man?" This book is an absolute must-have! Essential! Keep it with your Bible!

Whether this is a required book for class or not this book explains the Blood Covenant in a very clear way.

I enjoyed this book, but before I give its praises, I must list a complaint first. Then, I will be able to focus on the positive aspects of this book.

Interspersed throughout the book is Richard Booker's own theology, particular unconditional eternal security i.e. "once saved, always saved." I disagree with that theology and I believe the Bible says so as well (Hebrews 10:26, several others). Even Jesus said that not everyone who calls him Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 7:21-28). And there are many atheists in the world who were once former pastors and/or believers in God. According to the Bible, they will not be in Heaven. And since this is not a thick book (153 pages with six pages of helpful study questions), his viewpoint distracts from the message of the book.

And the message of the book is the constant theme of the blood covenant throughout the Bible, and how the Old Testament laid the foundation for the work that Jesus would complete in the New Testament. Booker gives some background information regarding covenants and identifying them in the Bible. Also, he explained the Tabernacle and priestly garments, and how Jesus fulfilled these. Great stuff! But I particurly LOVED the way he compared the 5 types of Levitical sacrifices to what Jesus did here on earth. WONDERFUL! (I always knew there had to be more than just killing animals). There's also a great section on Jesus in the Passover, which Booker explains even more in his book "Jesus in the Feasts of Israel" (another must-have book). This book gave me a greater understanding of the unifying structure of the Bible.

So if you agree with Booker's salvation theology, you will love this book (maybe even give it 5 out of 5 stars!). If not, then you will still need to get this book! It is a great way to understand how the Old Testament and New Testament go together, how Jesus fulfilled what was put down in the early feasts and sacrificial system. This book definitely belongs in your library!

This is a must have book....A lot of us have heard the word covenant but we don't really understand want it really means to be in covenant with someone....

I took a class in our Ministry Training Institute that used this book as a text....and I have conscious ever since.....

I now know that I have covenant rights that I did not know of before and we only languish in our sins because we don't know our covenant rights in Christ.....

I would recommend this book highly if you want to know what a covenant truly is and we as Christian's fit into the Covenant picture....

Richard Booker in this book approaches the Bible from a Calvinistic, charismatic, and Premillennialist view point. This is seen when he states on p. 77, that a Christian has been given supernatural faith and that it is impossible for a person to fall away from the blood covenant. To support this he changes the author's meaning of Hebrews 6:4-6 quoted from the KJV, "...if they should fall away....". The Greek of the original language as translated by George Ricker Berry should read, "and who fell away (past tense)." Thus a distinct possibility of apostasy and not just a hypothetical thought which is impossible. Booker states that humans inherit Adam's sin (p. 92, 96), implying total depravity thus requiring God to operate directly on the hunman heart which becomes God's faith given to the sinner and not the faith of the believer.

Booker also states that the Jews will rebuild the literal Temple in the latter days just before the return of Jesus Christ (p. 64), whom he renames "Jeshua Hamashiah" (p. 84).

While there are some good thoughts in the book, one must remember that Booker's approach to the Bible is through the preconceived theology of Calvinism and despensationalism.