Resources to Explore: Healthcare, Children’s
Madness & Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Books Healthcare Kids
Author: Scott J. Pearson
Software-Technology Visualization
Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring
by Stephen Few(c) Copyright 2013. Dashboards are a hot topic in our information-laden world. They are imagined by those in the design world (often very poorly) and implemented by programmers who do not take their imagination any further. This book, written by an acknowledged expert in the field of visualization, describes how to design dashboards that communicate essential data to users, mostly business-people. As such, its audience consists of designers, not programmers. Although I am…
Biography-Memoir Kids
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
by Maxwell KingAudiobook Fred Rogers, a.k.a. Mr Rogers, grew up the son of a rich businessman, majored in music at college, got into television in the early years of NBC, studied at seminary to become a Presbyterian minister, started children’s television at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, and extended children’s television into education with PBS. He is fondly remembered as being extraordinarily patient with children just by being himself. A generation of children –…
Biography-Memoir Religion-Philosophy
The Confession of St. Patrick
Translated by Charles H. WrightFifth century C.E. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was a British heathen-turned-missionary who spent his life “civilizing” or “Christianizing” the Irish. Though affiliated with the Roman church, Patrick was remarkably free of scholastic learning. As such, he represents a distinct wing of the church’s intellectual tradition. While the Western church was becoming other-worldly (and overbearing), Patrick and his Irish converts emphasized the worldly usefulness of faith. This confession was…
Books Software-Technology
Resources to Explore: Software
The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plauger Literate Programming by Donald E. Knuth Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective by Diomidis Spinellis Tutorial: Human Factors in Software Development Edited by Bill Curtis
Software-Technology
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
by Steve McConnellCopyright (c) 2004 Code Complete is a 850-page tome which might serve as Computer Science guru-author Steve McConnell’s magnum opus. His presentation addresses an audience that spans programmers at the beginning level, intermediate level, and advanced level. With its wide-ranging scope, it fills in any computer scientist’s holes of knowledge. Units are filled with a handful of chapters each and consist of foundations, producing high-quality code, variables, statements, improvements, systemic issues, and craftsmanship. McConnell…
Humanities Religion-Philosophy
Companion to the Quran
by William Montgomery WattCopyright (c) 1967, 1994. It’s interesting to become a voyeur into other religions. I see how much of Islam is quite similar to Christian fundamentalism – subjugation to a text, promises or threats of an afterlife, and a general lack of humanism. Perhaps this belies my Christian theological orientation more. I don’t really like Christian fundamentalism, nor do I like the Koran much. I respect Muslims, and I mean them no harm.…
Biography-Memoir Humanities Religion-Philosophy
Martin Luther: The Man who Rediscovered God and Changed the World
by Eric MetaxasCopyright (c) 2017.AudiobookMartin Luther’s life is controversial any way you cut it. Fundamentalists (with whom Metaxas is sympathetic) like to claim Luther as one of their own because of his insistence on Scriptural primacy. (They like to call it Scriptural authority, but such concepts were not present within Luther’s writings.) Liberals like to claim him because he broke free from institutional chains to usher in the freedom which founded to modern world. Unfortunately,…
Books Software-Technology
Resources to Explore: Software
Programming on Purpose: Essays on Software Design by P.J. Plauger How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by G. Polya Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs by Scott Meyers How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics by Zbigniew Michalewicz and David B. Fogel More Effective C++: 25 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs by Scott Meyers Object-Oriented Design Heuristics by Arthur J. Riel Writing Secure Code by Michael Howard and David LeBlanc Customer…