Friday, February 18, 2005

Literature of this Week

I just thought it would be interesting to reflect the massive amount of reading that I've went through the last week. I'm pretty surprised to see me reading this much in such a short time that I wonder what hit me. Anyway, here is the list:

Arms and The Man - Dr. Gerald Bull, Iraq and the Super Gun
pg. 335
by William Lowther

An interesting book about Dr. Gerald Bull who was argubly one of the world's premiere gun scientist who was gunned down under mysterious circumstances. He is best known for his work in implementing the super gun which the Iraqi Government has sponsored.

The Teaching of Buddha
pg. 550 (dual language)

The English translation of the Japanese version of the teaching of Lord Buddha.

Blood on the Shores
pg. 287
by Viktor Leonov, translated by James F. Gebhardt

A very interesting memior of the Soviet Union's most famous special operation seal during WWII, Viktor Leonov, which is augmented with additional research by Gebhardt.

After the Gold Rush
pg. 182
by Steve McConnell

This book is an interesting book discussing about the possible future of the Profession of Software Engineering.

1 comment:

Xtercy said...

wow .. that;s alot of reading ;)