Bit Literacy MIT computer science graduate Mark Hurst has put together a book here that details ways for the average person to be able to cope with the massive influx of “bits” – of digital information – that press in on modern life. Easy to read, minimally technical, there are a lot of practical ideas …
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Book: Whose Word Is It? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why
Book: Whose Word is it? The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why (US Title: Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the bible and why) I’ve been meaning to read this for a long while, so I was happy that it appeared in a list of books that I can read for …
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Book: Escape from Reason
Book: Escape from Reason I read this book in a single day, which should give you a feel for its length. Nonetheless, Francis Schaeffer covers some significant ground in just a few pages. If you’ve ever wondered about the evolution of philosophy over the last 8 centuries or so, this seems a tight summary. This …
Book: The Innocent Man: Books
Book: The Innocent Man John Grisham in his first book of non-fiction: the story of a man, wrongly convicted for murder, and the problems in the US justice system. I prefer Grisham when he’s writing fiction – having read the blurb, I knew too much of where the book was going.
Book: Show Them No Mercy
Book: Show Them No Mercy The Old Testament talks about a lot of killing – and the New Testament talks about a lot of love and forgiveness. How is it possible to reconcile the two views? This book has four different authors – C.S. Cowles, Eugene H. Merrill, Daniel L. Gard, and Tremper Longman III …
Book: A Spectator’s Guide to World Views
Book: A Spectator’s Guide to World Views Edited by Simon Smart, a collection of essays by a range of Christian authors. This book is, I think, targetted at a first-year-uni age group, and seeks to introduce its reader to different ways of understanding the world: Relativism, Humanism, Feminism, New Age, Consumerism. It works well as …
Book: A Spectator’s Guide to World Religions
Book: A Spectator’s Guide To World Religions In a single book, John Dickson presents five major world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Though Dickson is a Christian, in this work, he seeks to present each religion in its “best light”, hoping that in doing so, Christianity will appear best by comparison. We’ve just …
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Book: The Dawkins Delusion?
Book: The Dawkins Delusion? Having read Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion earlier in the year, I was interested to see what (Christian) Oxford Academic Alistair McGrath had to say about the work. This short book – 65 pages of main body, with another dozen or so of footnotes – is courteous in tone, but quite …
Book: After The Apostles
Book: After The Apostles If you’re trying to get up to speed on Early Church History (the first few hundred years AD), then this book might help. Its only trouble is that in trying to condense everything together into such a small space (121 pages), a lot of detail, and at times, the flow of …
book: Cryptonomicon
First, a word of caution: I bought the 1100-odd page mass market paperback of Cryptonomicon, and found that as an edition, it was a little tougher to read: no margins to speak of, and a bit of an odd shape for a novel… perhaps borrow a more expensive edition from a library, and you’ll have …