readinglist

These are some of the books I recommend on various subjects.

Free Software / Digital Issues


Free Software, Free Society, Richard Stallman

Free as in Freedom (2.0), Richard Stallman

The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig

(VIDEO) Revolution OS, produced by Wonderview Productions


Control Theory / Engineering


Chance and Chaos, David Ruelle

Automatic Control Systems, Farid Golnaraghi and Benjamin C. Kuo

Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods, Bernard Friedland


Radio/Transmission Theory


The ARRL Antenna Book, American Radio Relay League

Information, Modulation, Transmission, and Noise, Mischa Schwartz


Computer Science / Software Engineering


The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks

The Deadline: A Novel about Project Management, Tom DeMarco

The Phoenix Project, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford


Christianity: Classics


Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom

The Autobiography of Madame Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvières de la Mothe Guyon

The Didache

The Autobiography of George Muller, George Muller

Areopagitica, John Milton


Christianity: Science / Christian Thought / Philosophy


The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Mark Noll

Jesus Christ and the Life of the Mind, Mark Noll

A Mind for God, James Emery White

The Universe Next Door, James W. Sire

Creation and Complexity: Interdisciplinary Issues in Science and Religion, Christine Ledger and Stephen Pickard

Putting it All Together, Richard H. Bube

On Mental Education (contained in Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics (1859)), Michael Faraday

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), Galileo Galilei

Harmonice Mundi(The Harmony of the World) (1619), Johannes Kepler

Test of Faith(VIDEO), Various Contributors, published by WIPF and Stock Publishers


Christianity: Theodicy/Christian Counseling/Pastoral Theology


When Suffering Persists, Frederick Schmidt

God and Human Suffering, Douglas John Hall

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner

A Little Exercise for Young Theologians, Helmut Thielicke

Changes That Heal, Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Practical Psychology for Pastors, William Miller and Kathleen Jackson

Wise Stewards: Philosophical Foundations of Christian Parenting, Michael W. Austin