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
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• HBR on Developing Leaders
• HBR on Measuring Corporate Performance
• Readings on Managerial Psychology - ed: Leavitt, Pondy, Boje
• Servant Leadership - Greenleaf (reread)
• Strategic Decision Making - Craig Kirkwood (finish)
• Leading Quietly - Joseph Badaracco
• Leadership is an Art - Max De Pree (reread)
• The Goal - Eliyahu Goldratt (reread)
• Teach Your Team to Fish - Laurie Beth Jones
• Ready for Anything - David Allen
• Your Soul at Work - Bruce Hiebert
• 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
• Frames of Mind - Gardner
• 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