Man-o-man, I like me some Bill Bryson. I think I would buy audio recordings of his compilations of the nightly news… Oh wait, I think I just did. “One Summer” really does feel like a compilation of newspaper articles from around 1927 sprinkled with insights and ideas that only come from hindsight. I enjoyed this book more than At Home, but less than A Short History of Nearly Everything. ...
I believe that critical thinking is going to be the most important skill my son will ever have. The ability to think for himself and make good decisions quickly based upon what he knows while being able to change his decisions based upon new information when it is available. [Your Deceptive Mind](http://www.audible.com/pd/Science-Technology/Your-Deceptive-Mind-A-Scientific-Guide-to-Critical-Thinking-Skills-Audiobook/B00D9473WC" title=“Your Deceptive Mind at Audible) is a part of [The Great Courses: Professional](http://www.audible.com/series/ref=a_pd_Scienc_c2__sa?asin=B00DNBDOUG" title=“The Great Courses: Professional Series at Audible) series and is made up of 24 lectures given by Professor Steven Novella. ...
I received this hardcover book from Zappos while on the Zappos Insights Tour. Outliers has been on my reading list for a long time and I am really glad that I finally got around to reading it. There are a lot of great insights in this book and I feel like I learned a lot. My plans for my child’s education have changed significantly because of this book. The information about the differences in learning among children that are taught year-round versus children that take a long summer break makes a lot of sense to me and I now plan on teaching our child year-round. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app on my iPhone. I was looking for something non-fiction and stumbled upon The Great Courses on Audible. After browsing around a bit I found The Great Courses: Ancient History which led to “The Other Side of History.” I was intrigued by the idea of learning about the lives of everyday people in medieval times. ...
I bought this audiobook from Audible and listened to it using the Audible app and my iPhone. This book did not impress me. To me the narrator, James Adams, sounds really bored throughout the book. Maybe it has to do with my own opinion that “Science” knows a lot less than it thinks it does and that much of what is currently accepted as irrefutable truth will soon be recognized as being wrong. So a book of 13 things that science does not know is not very impressive to me. ...
I read this book on Safari Books Online using the Safari Books app on an iPad. I am not a big fan of using flash in the type of photography I usually do, but I am trying to improve my skills with speedlites and strobes. I have an old Canon 550EX and a pair of Yongnuo cheapo flashes with Yongnuo wireless triggers. ...
I read this book on Safar Books Online using an iPad and the Safari Books Online App. This is the 4th Scott Kelby Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Photographers book I have read, and they all have been worth the time. These books have been where I have gotten most of my personal photography workflow from and why I made the switch from doing all of my post-production in Photoshop to doing it all in Lightroom. In fact I only open up Photoshop to do quick panoramas (I have other software I use for large intricate panos) and for extensive retouching or composites. ...
I bought this book from Safari Books Online and read it using the Kindle app on my iPad. I really like Zack Arias as a photographer and a person. He is very open about what he does, why he does it, his triumphs, and his troubles. Photography Q&A is full of questions that amateur and professional photographers have asked Zack with his honest and heartfelt answers. So much good information here, it is an amazing amount of information. ...
I bought this book on audible and listened to it on my iPhone using the Audible app while traveling from Atlanta to Portland. I have been working on loosing weight and getting in better shape over the last year. So far I have lost around 30 pounds, I am very happy about that. As a part of getting in shape I have been doing some running, mostly the run/walk/run thing, but for now I only average a 15-minute mile, a bit slower in the summer heat. So this is where my interest in running has come from. ...
Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas C. ZakasI read this book using Safari Books Online using various laptops and an iPad. This is an amazing book. Following a style guide while programming is common in many languages, but for me it is a new idea in JavaScript. Reading Douglas Crockford’s Style Guide http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html can teach you a lot, but Maintainable JavaScript teaches you not only the how, but also the why. ...