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Innegative terms, books like Jeremiah that require a great deal of redemptive historical and theological knowledge are not a great place to start. For example, Ezekiel or Jeremiah require deep knowledge about the divided kingdom and the exile. A young Christian could gain knowledge and insight from these books, of course, but they may encounter more frustration than necessary compared to others.

In positive terms, books that build basic foundations in theology, Christian living, and redemptive history provide a better starting point for young believers. The following are categories and specific books that I recommend young Christians try first. I have listed the four categories in the order I recommend starting and progressing.

After the Gospels, Acts, while a very challenging book, sets the stage for the foundation of the church, the coming of the Spirit, and the spread of the gospel. These events provide good foundations for understanding the epistles of the New Testament.

Exodus has similar ramifications. The exodus from Egypt is the central event of redemption in the Old Testament. The Passover, the journey in the wilderness, and the giving of the Law and Mosaic covenant are some of the most important and alluded to events throughout the Old Testament.

Certain books contain rich, foundational Christian doctrine but rely on relatively extensive knowledge of the context of the Bible. Galatians and 1 Corinthians, for example, require knowledge of the historical context to fully understand. Here are some books that are accessible (not necessarily easy) and productive for learning the basics of Christian doctrine.

Then, after a few months, Stavridis began inviting authors to give talks at the command: people like Dave Kilcullen on his book The Accidental Guerilla and the classical historian Barry Strauss on his book The Battle of Salamis. No doubt about it, it was an intellectually stimulating place to work.

Christopher Nelson: Good morning, Admiral. Thank you for taking the time to chat. As I understand, you are a grandfather now. Congratulations. What books are you reading to your granddaughter? Little Blue Truck and anything Curious George is popular in our house.

A few years ago, when you were the European Commander, you wrote about your daily consumption of information for Atlantic magazine. Fast forward to today, has it changed? Do you read differently now that you are out of uniform?

The last book that changed my mind was Sapiens by Harari. Before reading it I thought the key changes coming in our world would revolve around cyber and information. Now I believe they will be biologic, which will change every element of the international system and our perceptions of the meaning of life. Harari unpackaged this in a second book, Homo Deus which I am reading now!

Adm. James Stavridis is the 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. A retired 4-star officer in the U.S. Navy, he led the NATO Alliance in global operations from 2009 to 2013 as Supreme Allied Commander with responsibility for Afghanistan, Libya, the Balkans, Syria, piracy, and cyber security.

I recently read Objectivity, which was a very good book.

It is a book written by Lorraine Duston.

The story revolves around an atlas of illustrations of living organisms to show how objectivity has been achieved in the history of science.

It gave me a good chance to think about the records I post on iNaturalist, other photos, metadata, etc.

I recommend it.

So glad you got to read the Story of More. I was feeling kind of guilty because I checked out our library right after you recommended it and found not one but 2 copies on the shelf ! It is a very good read, but sadly mostly about Human Nature destroying Mother Nature. Her attempts to instill hope for the future failed in my case.

When he had nothing to do, which was most of the time, Don Quixote read books of long ago. He read everything that had to do with knights and challenges, battles and tournaments, chivalry and enchantment. He would begin a book before breakfast, and seldom leave off until his candle guttered in the light of the following day.

I know, what am I thinking offering a Magic Tree House review to the internet? Magic Tree House books have been around for generations. Their popularity has never wavered over the years. Countless kids have discovered a love of reading because of these books. This series is an American institution, for crying out loud.

There are some really great things about the Magic Tree House series. The books are the perfect length to break up over several days. However, the chapters are short enough to read several in one sitting. The story lines are told from a single point of view. The plot is linear and clear. There are only a few characters in each book. These are all things I look for when choosing a book to read aloud to young kids.

The main characters are a brother and sister named Jack and Annie who are in elementary school. One of the things I like about the books is that they are so nice to each other. It can be tough to find books that model a consistently positive sibling relationship.

The characters in the stories are brave. They know the power of books and knowledge. The kids are good problem solvers. They frequently defend the weak. Jack and Annie have a lot of characteristics I would like my kids to have, too.

Second, I dislike that in every book Jack and Annie sneak out of their house and do not tell their parents where they are going. In many of the books the kids leave the house in the middle of the night while their parents are sleeping. The author makes a point of hammering home that these elementary aged children are actively choosing to keep secrets from their parents.

So, to read or not to read? They are not my favorite to read aloud, but there is nothing in them that would cause me to blacklist them. We have read aloud a few of them that the kids have picked up at the library, and I pepper in my own commentary about how it is never appropriate to leave the house without telling me, and point out what are true historical facts and what is myth.

@Juan: I know Juan, I know - but there are some things that can only be learned by actually getting down to the task at hand. Speaking in abstract ideals all day simply makes you into an academic. It's in the application of the abstract that we truly grok the reason for their existence. :P

@Keith: Great mention of "The Inmates are Running the Asylum" by Alan Cooper - an eye opener for certain, any developer that has worked with me since I read that book has heard me mention the ideas it espouses. +1

While this doesn't teach you programming, it teaches you fundamental mathematics that every programmer should know. You may remember this stuff from university, but really, doing predicate logic will improve you programming skills, you need to learn Set Theory if you want to program using collections.

The idea being that there are failing parts in any given piece of software that are masked by failures in other parts or by validations in other parts. See a real-world example at the Therac-25 radiation machine, whose software flaws were masked by hardware failsafes. When the hardware failsafes were removed, the software race condition that had gone undetected all those years resulted in the machine killing 3 people.

Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck. While I don't advocate a hardcore XP-or-the-highway take on software development, I wish I had been introduced to the principles in this book much earlier in my career. Unit testing, refactoring, simplicity, continuous integration, cost/time/quality/scope - these changed the way I looked at development. Before Agile, it was all about the debugger and fear of change requests. After Agile, those demons did not loom as large.

This book explains a lot of things about software engineering, system development. It's also extremly useful to understand the difference between different kind of product developement: web VS shrinkwrap VS IBM framework. What people had in mind when they conceived waterfall model? Read this and all we'll become clear (hopefully)

Excellence in programming demands an investment of mental energy and a dedication to continued learning comparable to the professions of medicine or law. It pays a fraction of what those professions pay, much less the wages paid to the mathematically savvy who head into the finance sector. And wages for constructing code are eroding because it's a profession that is relatively easy for the intelligent and self-disciplined in most economies to enter.

Programming has already eroded to the point of paying less than, say, plumbing. Plumbing can't be "offshored." You don't need to pay $2395 to attend the Professional Plumber's Conference every other year for the privilege of receiving an entirely new set of plumbing technologies that will take you a year to learn.

If you live in North America or Europe, are young, and are smart, programming is not a rational career choice. Businesses that involve programming, absolutely. Study business, know enough about programming to refine your BS detector: brilliant. But dedicating the lion's share of your mental energy to the mastery of libraries, data structures, and algorithms? That only makes sense if programming is something more to you than an economic choice.

If you love programming and for that reason intend to make it your career, then it behooves you to develop a cold-eyed understanding of the forces that are, and will continue, to make it a harder and harder profession in which to make a living. "The World is Flat" won't teach you what to name your variables, but it will immerse you for 6 or 8 hours in economic realities that have already arrived. If you can read it, and not get scared, then go out and buy "Code Complete."

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