Showing posts with label my library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label my library. Show all posts

Sunday, October 06, 2019

2. Leadership and Diversity Books

Will add to the list as I find them in unpacking...

Leadership, Management, Administration
  • The Making of a Leader by Bobby Clinton
  • From Good to Great by Jim Collins
  • Great by Choice by Jim Collins and Morton Hansen
  • Built to Last by Collins and Porras
  • How the Mighty Fall by Collins
  • What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • The Starfish and the Spider by Brafman and Beckstrom
  • Leading Change by Kotter
  • Necessary Endings by Henry Cloud
  • Leadership Pain by Samuel Chand
  • Power Plays by Wayne Schmidt
  • Leadership (5e) by Northouse
  • Introduction to Leadership (2e) by Northouse
  • Leading Up by Michael Useem
  • Leading Leaders by Jeswald Salacuse
  • Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by Ibarra
  • Mentoring Leaders by Carson Pue
  • Leading From the Inside Out by Rima
  • Leadership the Wesleyan Way, ed by Aaron Perry and Easley (I'm in there)
  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
  • Death by Meeting by Lencioni
  • The Ideal Team Player by Lencioni
  • Sticky Teams by Osborne
  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  • Think Better by Hurson
  • Brain Rules by John Medina
  • The Four Disciplines of Execution by McChesney, Covey, and Huling
  • Range by David Epstein
  • Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
  • The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
  • Work Rules by Laszlo Bock
  • Project Management for Dummies 
  • Roberts Rules of Order
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton
  • Living Your Strengths by Winseman, Clifton, and Liesveld
  • Standout 2.0 by Buckingham
  • Made to Stick by Heath and Heath
  • Eldership and the Mission of God by Briggs and Hyatt
  • Church Elders by Jeramie Rinne (deficient)
  • Half Time by Buford
  • Foundations of Church Administration by Petersen, Thomas, and Whitesel
  • Management for Your Church by Lindgren and Shawchuck
  • The Church Leader's MBA by Smith and Wright
  • What Every Pastor Should Know by McIntosh and Arn
  • The Missional Leader by Roxburgh and Romanuk
  • Five Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell
  • Amplified Leadership by Dan Reiland
  • Home Run by Kevin Myers and John Maxwell
  • A Tale of Three Kings by Edwards
  • From Success to Significance by Reeb
  • Free by Chris Anderson
  • The E Myth Enterprise by Gerber
  • The E Myth Manager by Gerber
  • The E Myth Revisited by Gerber
  • Visioneering by Stanley
  • Dare to Serve by Bachelder 
  • Unscripted by Johnson
  • The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
Culture and Diversity
  • Cultural Intelligence by Livermore
  • Culture Making by Crouch
  • Culture Map by Erin Meyer
  • Christ and Culture by Niebuhr
  • Christ and Culture Revisited by Carson
  • Christianity in Culture by Kraft
  • American Nations by Colin Woodard
  • Jesus Without Borders by Green, Pardue, and Yeo
  • Facing Leviathan by Mark Sayers
  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Race: A Theological Account by Carter
  • The Christian Imagination by Willie James Jennings
  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree by Cone
  • A Black Theology of Liberation by Cone
  • Jesus and the Disinherited by Thurman
  • Dream with Me by Perkins
  • Multiethnic Conversations by Deymaz and Okuwobi
  • Being the Church in a Multi-Ethnic Community by McIntosh and McMahan
  • Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
  • Prophetic Lament by Rah
  • Many Colors by Rah
  • Disunity in Christ by Cleveland
  • The History of White People by Painter
  • Dear White Christians by Harvey
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Social Inequity by Marger
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Adichie
  • Evicted by Desmond
  • Through My Enemy's Eyes by Munayer and Loden
  • The Lemon Tree by Tolan
  • Coming Together in the 21st Century by DeYoung
  • I Am Because We Are by Hord and Lee
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Tatum
  • The Color of Compromise by Tisby
  • Lifting the White Veil by Hitchcock
  • Bridging the Diversity Gap by Alvin Sanders
  • Waking Up White by Irving
  • Prejudice Across America by Waller
  • Place, Not Race by Cashin
  • To Plead Our Cause by Bales and Trodd
  • The End of White Christian America by Jones
  • Embrace by LeRoy Barber
  • The Death of Race by Banum

Friday, October 04, 2019

1. Science and Math Books

I can't imagine I will complete this idea, but as I am in the process of moving, my books are largely in boxes. Wouldn't it be interesting to catalog all my books? Well, it would be for me. I'll add to the list as I find them. I've put my favorites in bold.

Math
  • Calculus 6e, by James Stewart (this is the book I've been using to make YouTube videos on calculus for several years now)
  • Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula by Paul Nahin
  • e: the Story of a Number by Eli Maor
  • Linear Algebra, by Richard Penney
  • No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra by Ivan Savov
  • Differential Equations: A First Course by Guterman and Nitecki (my college textbook)
Chemistry
  • Chemistry: The Central Science by Brown, LeMay, Burston, and Murphy (this is the book I've been using to make YouTube videos on chemistry for several years now)
Physics
  • University Physics, by Young and Freedman (this is the book I've been using to make YouTube videos on physics for several years now)
  • A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by Daniel Fleisch
  • Fundamentals of Physics I and II by R. Shankar
  • The Feyman Lectures on Physics, vols I, II, and III
  • The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
  • QED by Richard Feynman
  • Quantum Mechanics and Path Integrals by Richard Feynman and Hibbs
  • Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
  • Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (I've had since late 80s)
  • Just Six Numbers, by Martin Rees
  • Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
  • The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
  • The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene
  • The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics, by Leonard Suskind
  • Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind
  • Thirty Years That Shook Physics by George Gamow
  • Quantum Mechanics: A Complete Introduction, by Alexandre Zagoskin (bought in LA when I took Sophie to Pepperdine)
  • Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd ed) by David Griffiths
  • Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers by David Miller (a textbook)
  • Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity by Rovelli and Vidotto
  • 30-Second Quantum Theory by Brian Clegg
  • Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Lancaster and Blundell 
  • Quantum Theory, by David Bohm
  • Higgs by Jim Baggott
  • Three Roads to Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin
  • Relativity by Einstein (older version and 100th anniversary edition)
  • The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro Ferreira
  • A Most Incomprehensible Thing: Notes towards a Very Gentle Introduction to the Mathematics of Relativity (both second and third edition)
  • General Relativity by Robert Ward (a thick texbook I've had since 1984)
  • Special Relativity by A. P. French
Biology
  • The Ancestor's Tale by Richard Dawkins and Yan Wong
Computer Science
  • Learning Web App Development by Semmy Purewal
  • Android: Programming and App Development for Beginners by Samuel Shields
Miscellaneous
  • The Columbia University College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide (since 1985... I was in a book club)
  • House Construction Details by Burbank and Romney (1979 - my dad was very patient with my requests)