Books to Read in Our Family's
Bookshelf
Mark Verber
Currently Being Read
- Daughters & Dads - Chap & Dee Clack
- Practicing Peace - Cathy Whitmore
- Faster - James Glick
Projects with Helen
- Learning Web Design - Jennifer Niederst (with Helen)
- Squeak: Learning Programming with Robots - Stephane Ducasse (with Helen)
Next Up
- The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren
- The Owner's Manual for the Brain - Pierce Howard
- The Importance of Being Foolish - Brennan Manning
- The Nurture Assumption - Judith Rich Harris
- Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin
- Stocks for the Long Run - Jeremy Siegel
- Service Oriented Computing - Singh & Huhns
- Getting Things Done - David Allen (reread)
- Never Be Lied To Again - David Lieberman
- Centered Living - M. Basil Pennington
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions - Gary Klein
- Habits of a Child's Heart - Valerie Hess
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Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
- The Holiness of God - R.C. Sproul
- Project Management for Business and Engineering - John Nicholas
- Renovation of the Heart - Dallas Willard (reread)
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The 8th Habit - Covey
- Why the Rest Hates the West - Meic Pearse
- Handbook of Nature Study - Anna Comstock (with Helen)
- The Servant Leader - Ken Blanchard & Phil Hodges
- When God Prays - Skip Heitzig
- Mind Hacks - Tom Stafford
Book for Next Trip
- Time Management from the Inside Out - Morgenstern (reread)
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The Order of
Things - Barbara Ann Kipfer
- The Art of Pilgrimage - Phil Cousineau
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
- Out of the Comfort Zone - Verwer (reread)
- The Bug - Ullman
- Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryston
- Traveling Mercies - Lamott
- The Map that Changed the World - Winchester
- The Great Bridge - David McCullough
- For the Time Being - Annie Dillard
- Alaska Days With John Muir - Samuel Hall Young
- Tolkien Man and Myth - Joseph Pearce
- Nobel Book of Answers - Editor: Bettina Stiekel
- Touching the Void
Math, Science, Technology, Health
- Design of Everyday Things - Donald Norman (reread)
- Turtle Geometry - Abelson & diSessa (reread)
- Law of Forms - G. Spencer-Brown (reread)
- How to Solve It - George Polya (reread)
- To Engineer is Human - Henry Petroski (reread)
- Language Proof and Logic - Barwise
- Introduction to Probability - John Freund
- A Natural History of California - Allan Schoenherr
- Roadside Geography of Northern California - Dave Alt, Donald Hyndman
- Synergetics - R. Buckminster Fuller
- Thinking Physics - Lewis Epstein
- The Fire in the Equations - Ferguson
- The Sigma Way - Peter Pande
- The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
- The Pleasure Trap - Lisle & Goldhamer
- Envisioning Information - Tufte (Reread)
- Building Security - Barbara Nadel
Systems, Architecture, Software, CS
- Reliable Distributed Systems - Kenneth Birman (reread)
- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking - Weinberg (reread)
- Transaction Processing - Gray & Reuter (reread)
- Systems Engineering and Analysis - Blanchard & Fabrycky (reread)
- Computer Organization and Design - Patternson &
Hennessy (read updated)
- Documenting Software Architectures - Clements, Bachmann, Bass, etc
- Ontological Engineering - Gomez-Perez
- Patterns of Enterprise Archiecture - Martin Fowler
- Systems Thinking - Jamshid Gharajedaghi
- How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand
- Design Rules: The Power of Modularity - Baldwin & Clark
- A New Kind of Science - Wolfram
- Software Architecture in Practice - Bass, Clements, Kazman
- Essential Business Process Modeling - Michael Havey
- Concurrent Programming - Gregory R. Andrews
- Concurrent Systems Operating Systems - Jean Bacon
- Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About - Knuth
- A Course in Number Theory and Crypto - Koblitz
- The Invisible Computer - Norman
- Artificial Immune Systems - Leandro de Castro & Jonathan Timmis
- Swarm Intellegence - James Kennedy & Russell Eberhart
- From P2P to Web Services and Grids - Ian Taylor
- Spinning the Semantic Web - Dieter Fensel, Henry Lieberman
- Advanced Method for Knowledge Discovery from Complex Data - Diane Cook
- Ambient Findability - Peter Morville
Software Engineering
- Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design - Donald
Gause & Gerald Weiberg
- Software Requirements - Wiegers
- Agile Documentation - Andreas Ruping
- J2EE Big Picture - Haugland
- Code Complete - Steve McConnell (finish)
- Software Runaways - Glass
- Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
- Planning Extreme Programming - Beck
- Questioning Extreme Programming - McBreen
- Deathmarch - Yourdon
- The Mythical Man Month, 2nd Edition - Fred Brooks (reread)
- Software Design - Cognitive Aspects - Francoise Detienne
- Beyond Chaos - Larry Constantine
- Agile Software Development Ecosystems - Highsmith
- Security Engineering - Ross Anderson
- The Rational Unified Process made Easy - Kroll, Kruchten (reread)
- Effective Enterprise Java - Ted Neward
- UML Distilled - Martin Fowler (refresh)
- Software Ecosystems - Messerschmitt & Szyperski
- Secure Code - Graff & van Wyke
- Capacity Planning for Web Services - Daniel Menasce &
Virgilio Almeidah
System and Network Administration
- Practice of System and Network Admin -Hogan & Limoncelli
- Principles of Network and System Administration - Mark Burgess
- BGP4 - John Stewart III
- IT Services: Costs, Metrics, Benchmarking & Marketing - Tardugno
Business, Economics,
Management
- The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid - CK Prahalad (read fully)
- Behavior Interviewing: New, Accurate, Cost Effective - Janz, Hellervik, Gilmore
- Improving Performance - Rummler & Brache
- Microsoft Secrets - Michael Cusumano / Richard Selby (reread)
- Dealers of Lightning - Michael Hiltzik
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey (reread)
- Working with Emotional Intelligence - Daniel Goleman
(reread)
- The Leadership Engine - Noel Tichy
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John Maxwell
- The Sigma Six Way - Peter Pande
- From Alchemy to IPO - Cynthia Robbins-Roth
- The Silicon Valley Edge - Lee, Miller, Hancock, Rowen
- Harnessing Complexity - Axelrod
- The Art of the
Long View - Schwartz
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HBR on Developing Leaders
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HBR on Measuring Corporate Performance
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Readings on Managerial Psychology - ed: Leavitt, Pondy, Boje
- Servant Leadership - Greenleaf (reread)
- Strategic Decision Making - Craig Kirkwood (finish)
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Leading Quietly - Joseph Badaracco
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Leadership is an Art - Max De Pree (reread)
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The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt (reread)
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Teach Your Team to Fish - Laurie Beth Jones
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Ready for Anything - David Allen
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Your Soul at Work - Bruce Hiebert
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Thinking Visually - Malcolm Craig
- Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis - Evans &
Olson
- Swarm Creativity - Peter Gloor
- The No Asshole Rule - Robert Sutton
Soft Sciences
- How to Read a Book - Adler & Doren (reread)
- I am Right, You are Wrong - Edward de Bono
- The Mechanism of Mind - Edward De Bono
- Steps to an Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson (reread)
- The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship - Marsden
- A Skeptics Notebook - Niebuhr
- The Mustard Seed Conspiracy - Tom Sine
- The Road to Peace - Nouwen
- Consuming Passion - Clapp
- The Soul of Politics - Wallis
- The Altruistic Personality
- A Short History of Medieval Philosophy - Julius Weinberg
- Jihad -vs- McWorld - Benjamin Barber
- The Structure of the Objective World - Nozick
- The Law of Peoples - Rawls
- Wittgenstein's Poker
- The
Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner
- Six Thinking Hats - Edward De Bono (reread)
- God's Politics - Jim Wallis (Finish)
- Personal Knowledge - Michael Polanyi
(Finish)
Family, Relationships & Education
- Parenting with Purpose - Lynda Madison
- Teaching Your Children Joy - Eyre
- Traits of a Healthy Family - Dolores Curran
- The Gentle Art of Communicating with Kids - Elgin
- Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America - Page Smith
- Raising Kids Who Hunger for God - Benny & Sheree Phillips
- Disciplined Mind - Howard Gardner
- Nurturing a Child's Soul - Timothy Jones
- Relational Parenting - Ross Campbell
- Parenting with Love and Logic - Cline & Fay
- Raising Resilient MKs - Joyce Bowers (editor)
- How to Pray for Your Children - Quin Sherrer
- The Educated Child - William Bennett
- You and Your Only Child - Nachman
- Keys to Parenting the Only Child - Pickhardt
- Raising Your Spirited Child - Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
- The 36-Hour
Day A Family Guide to Caring for Persons With Memory Loss in Later Life
- And Thou Shall Honor: The Caregiver's Companion - McLeon
- Empathy and Moral Development - Hoffman
- The Moral Child - Damon
- The Courage to Teach
- Parker Palmer
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Frames of Mind - Gardner
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Teach Your Child to Think - De
Bono
- Your Anxious Child - John Dacey, Lisa Fiore
- Teaching Your Children Values - Linda & Richard Eyre
Theology
- The Way of the Heart - Nouwen (reread)
- Life of the Beloved - Nouwen (reread)
- Walk with Jesus - Nouwen (reread)
- With Burning Hearts - Nouwen (reread)
- Letters to Marc About Jesus -Henri Nouwen (reread)
- Turn My Mourning into Dancing -Henri Nouwen (reread)
- Future Grace - John Piper (reread)
- Daily Experience with God - Andrew Murray (reread)
- Finding the Lost, Cultural Keys to Luke 15 - Kenneth Bailey (reread)
- The Peacemaker - Ken Sande (reread)
- How People Grow - Cloud & Townsend (reread)
- Tell the Truth - Metzger (Reread)
- Practicing God's Presence - Brother Lawrence
- The Art of the Biblical Narrative - Robert Alter
- Common Made Holy - Anderson & Saucy
- Spiritual Mentoring - Anderson & Reece
- God's Call - Brother Andrew
- A Renewed Spirituality - Lynne Baab
- Jacob and the Prodigal - Kenneth Bailey
- Reviewing Leadership - Robert Banks
- Sacred Thirst - M Craig Barnes
- Invitation to Solitude and Silence - Ruth Haley Barton
- Receiving the Day - Dorothy Bass
- Darwin's Black Box - Behe
- Wide as the Waters - Benson Bobrick
- Wild as the Waters - Benson Bobrick
- The Gospel to the Nations - Bolt & Thompson
- The New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism - Borgen
- Falling in Love with Jesus - Brestin & Troccoli
- The Joy of Fearing God - Jerry Bridges
- Rose From Brier - Amy Carmichael
- A Call To Spritual Reformation - D. A. Carson
- Telling Truth - D. A. Carson (editor)
- Covenant Marriage - Chapman
- How to Read T.F. Torrance - Elmer Colyer
- Safest Place on Earth - Larry Crabb
- Soultalk - Larry Crabb
- Who You Are - Larry Crabb
- The Language of Babylon - Terry Crist
- Letters from Saints to Sinners - John Cumming
- The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism - Daube
- Intercession, Thrilling and Fulfilling - Joy Dawson
- He Restores My Soul - Dean
- Surprised by the Power of the Spirit - Jack Deere
- Torches of Joy - Dekker
- The Life of our Lord - Charles Dickens
- Revolution Within: A Fresh
Look at Supernatural Living - Dwight Edwards
- Spiritual Director, Spiritual Companion - Tilden Edwards
- Wild at Heart - John Eldredge
- The Journey of Desire - John Eldredge
- The New Global Mission - Samuel Escobar
- Stages of Faith - James Fowler
- Disciplemaker's Handbook - Alice Fryling
- Simple Acts of Kindness - Terri Green
- The Testimony of the Evangelists - Greenleaf
- My Soul in Silence Waits - Margaret Guenther
- Holy Listening - Margaret Guenther
- Toward Holy Ground - Margaret Guenther
- Unspeakable - Os Guinness
- Steering Through Chaos - Os Guiness
- When No One Sees - Os Guiness
- The Call - Os Guiness
- The Journey - Os Guiness
- Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ - Jeanne Guyon
- Bad Girls of the Bible - Liz Higgs
- In the Face of God - Michael Horton
- The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
- Live to Tell - Brad Kallenberg
- A Testament of Devotion - Thomas R. Kelly
- Communication Theory for Christian Witness - Charles Kraft
- The Change factor - Gary Kuhne
- The Pursuit of God in the Company of Friends - Richard Lamb
- Penguins & Goldern Caves - L'Engle
- Bright Evening Star - L'Engle
- Integrative Theology - Gordon Lewis & Bruce Demarest
- Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning
- Healing the Broken Family of Abraham - Don McCurry
- The Unknown God - Alister McGrath
- A New Kind of Christian - McLaren
- Love Walked Among Us - Paul Miller
- Love Your God with all Your Mind - Moreland
- Life and Holiness - Thomas Merton
- Honor & Shame - Roland Muller
- How, Then, Shall We Live? - Wayne Muller
- Humility - Andrew Murray
- Reason for the Hope Within - Michael Murray
- Practical Issues of This Life -Nee
- Encountering Religious Pluralism -Arnold Netland
- The Power of a Praying Husband - Stormie Omartian
- The Hermeneutical Spiral - Bruce Osborn
- Never Beyond Hope - J.I. Packer
- Spiritual Journaling - Richard Peace
- The Insider - Jim Petersen
- The Attributes of God - Arthur Pink
- God's Passion for His Glory - John Piper
- Don't Waste Your Life - John Piper
- Seeing and Savoring Christ - John Piper
- Not the Way it Should Be - Alvin Plantinga
- Embodied Holiness - Powell & Lodahl
- Growing Faith - Bruce Powers
- Evangelism
Outside the Box - Richardson
- Stewards in the Kingdom - R. Scott Rodin
- The Kingdom Within - John Sanford
- Natural Church Development - Christian Schwarz
- The Universe Next Door - Sire
- Naming the Elephant - Sire
- Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All? - Sire
- Renewing Your Mind - R.C. Sproul
- Basic Christian Leadership - John Stott
- The Case for Christ - Lee Strobel
- Missions in the 21st Century - Tom Telford
- Worship, Community & The Triune God of Grace - James Torrance
- A Seven Day Journey with Thomas Merton - Ester de Wall
- The Godly Man's Picture - Thomas
Watson
- Ancient-Future Faith - Robert Weber
- Soulcraft - Douglas Webster
- God's Pursuing Love - John White
- The Divine Conspiracy - Dallas Willard
- Character Matters! - Yates
- Jesus Among Other Gods - Ravi Zacharias
- God is the Gospel - John Piper
- Interior Castle - Terra of Avila
- Call Me the Seeker - Michael Gilmour
- A Generous Orthodoxy - Brian McLaren
- Finding Our Way Home - Mark McMinn
- The Language of God - Francis Collins
- Walking Away from Faith - Ruth Tucker
- 2020 Vision - Bill & Amy Stearns
- Chosen but Free - Norman Geisler
- The Relational Word - Josh McDowell & Thomas Williams
- Divine Nobodies - Jim Palmer
- Christian Living Beyond Belief - Cliff McManis
- The New Rebellion Handbook
Essays, History, Biographies and Letters
- Wounded Prophet - Michael Ford
- Sacred Journey - Buechner
- Telling Secrets - Buechner
- Peripheral Visions - Bateson
- Put Your Heart on Paper - Henriette Klauser
- High Tide in Tucson - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Kindness of Strangers - Mike McIntyre
- Notes for Myself - Anne Hazard Aldrich
- If You Want to Write - Brenda Ueland
- Growing Up Poor - Robert Coles
- Pilgrim Souls - Amy Mandeker & Elizabeth Powers
- Madeleine L'Engle, Suncatcher - Carole Chase
- Islam and the West - Lewis
- Speak,
Memory - Vladimir Nabokov (reread)
- Founding Brothers - Ellis
- Lords of the Horizons - Goodwin
- Wind, Sand and Stars - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Founding Mothers - Cokie Roberts
- Killing Fields, Living Fields - Don Cormack
- The Heavenly Man - Paul Hattaway
- Grace Matters - Chris Rice
- Popol Vuh - Dennis Tedlock
- History of Cambodia - David Chandler
Fiction, Lit, Poetry
- Hamlet - William Shakespeare
- Getting Used to Dying - Zhang Xianliang
- Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
- Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya
- Bone - Fae Ng
- Selected Poems - Shelley
- Selected Poems - Donne
- Everyman Selections - Keats
- Everyman Selections - Woodsworth
- The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
- Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander Smith
- Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander Smith
- The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander Smith
- A Light in the Window - Jan Karon
- The Highm Green Hills - Jan Karon
Art, Photography, Hobbies
- The Negative - Ansel Adams (reread)
- Basic Photographic Materials and Processes - Stroebel,
Compton, Current & Zakia (reread)
- Art & Soul - Brand & Chaplin
- Chi Running - Danny Dreyer
- Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide
- Chi Walking - Danny Dreyer