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Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross by Richard John Neuhaus

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery by Gary Rogowski

Thinks by David Lodge

The real Jesus : the misguided quest for the historical Jesus and the truth of the traditional Gospels by Luke Timothy Johnson

Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz

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CollectionsYour library (841), Wishlist (11), Currently reading (6), All collections (851)

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Tagschristian (228), science fiction (165), location:library (123), computing (111), completed (105), fiction (102), location:den (94), reference (88), programming (51), mathematics (49) — see all tags

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About meI am a graduate student at Virginia Tech and an employee at the MITRE Corporation. For more details, have a look at my home page.

Oh, a facebook page:
http://vt.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613915626

And if you have a soft spot in your heart for dry academic publications, here is an ill-used and even more haphazardly-maintained page summarizing my contributions to this social decay: JA's papers.

About my libraryMy library began before I can remember... there are a number of volumes that I was given in my first year of life, which remain in my library. When departing the Northwest for Boston for college (1994), I went through my first Great Purge, selling or donating a large collection of sci-fi books.

Again, following college, I went through another purge, again getting rid of hundreds of science fiction and underused classics.

Recently, I have discovered BookCrossing, which is an excellent way of putting books into circulation while getting a little satisfaction...

Special tags:
marshillaudio - this book was mentioned in the mars hill audio journal
booksandculture - this book was mentioned in the Books & Culture
coursetext - this is a textbook for one of my courses (textbooks which were not used formally in one of my courses just get the tag textbook)
mastergardener - recommended in the new river valley master gardener course
jensen-msr07 - books purchased related to our ongoing MITRE-sponsored research project
unread - books which are unread
reference - loosely, books which I don't ever intend cover-to-cover
completed-xxxx - where xxxx is a year. I provide this when I rememeber, else I use...
completed - completed at some time in the past

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GroupsAndersonFamily, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Catholic Tradition, Christian Ministry Training, Christian Worship and Liturgy, Christianity, Christians in the Work Place, Computer Scientists, Cookbookers, Faith and Reason —show all groups

Favorite authorsRobert Farrar Capon, Marva J. Dawn, Richard J. Foster, James W. Fowler, Karl Giberson, Luke Timothy Johnson, Donald E. Knuth, Jonathan Lethem, David Lodge, Herman Melville, John Polkinghorne, Michael Pollan, Mary Doria Russell, Jonathan Sacks, Dan Simmons, Andreas Viestad, Caroline A. Westerhoff, Lauren F. Winner, Donald A. Yerxa (Shared favorites)

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Currently readingResponsible Grace: John Wesley's Practical Theology (Kingswood Series) by Randy L. Maddox
The Eyes of the Heart : A Memoir of the Lost and Found by Frederick Buechner
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Post Captain (Aubrey Maturin Series) by Patrick O'Brian
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne
In Search of Belief by Joan Chittister
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Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul by Dave L. Goetz

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On Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems into the National Airspace System: Issues, Challenges, Operational Restrictions, Certification, and Recommendations ... and Automation: Science and Engineering) by Konstantinos Dalamagkidis

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Automation, Control and Complexity: An Integrated Approach by Tariq Samad

Noticed you liked Catcher in the Rye, and I was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Thought you might like my novel since it's also about a disturbed adolescent suffering from mental illness. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like (I'm currently out of physical copies). If you're interested, send me your e-mail address (mine is mail@christophertusa.com), and I'll send you the e-book. Here's a link to a summary (and a sample chapter) in case you'd like to read more about the book before you commit:

http://www.christophertusa.com/

Thanks,

Chris

posted by cmtusa at 11:04 am (EST) on Sep 11, 2009

FYI
I have uploaded a cover for Admirals and Empire: The United States Navy and the Caribbean, 1898–1945 by Donald A. Yerxa.

posted by DVanderlinde at 10:38 am (EST) on Apr 23, 2009

Welcome to the Political Conservatives group.

Are you a former Portland-er?

posted by RoseCityReader at 11:22 am (EST) on Dec 13, 2007

I bought Northcutt's book at Stacey's in Palo Alto back when the book first came out. At the time I was very interested in realtime, distributed OSes. How about you?

posted by bvs at 12:26 am (EST) on Aug 26, 2007

Thanks for the invite to the Mars Hill Audio Journal group. It was sort of funny since last night I was thinking I wanted to resub to the journal. I have been reading Vigen Guroian and his writings made me remember a couple great MHAJ sessions. Thanks for the impetus!

posted by dominionfamily at 10:05 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2007

Nice to see that we have some wacky books in common, as well as the more serious and down to earth. It looks like you have some good Anglo-Catholic books lying around your library (I also have a copy of the Breviary; one of my little treasures).

posted by WalsinghamNut at 5:38 am (EST) on Aug 5, 2007

I'm new at this site, but I already saw a thread in which you said something about Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, and I wanted to say hello to you because I sort of feel that anybody who loves that book is worth knowing. I love it too.

posted by Cien at 7:35 pm (EST) on Feb 13, 2007

I note that you have quite a number of Christian books. I wonder if you might be interested in my Bible Reading Notes, covering the whole of Scripture, posted in November 2006 at http://chascameron.spaces.live.com www.christinallthescriptures.blogspot.com www.theologyofgcberkouwer.blogspot.com
Happy New Year.

posted by bellsmyre at 6:41 pm (EST) on Jan 3, 2007

Did you find the bookstore for used Christian books in PDX?

You could try Pilgrim's Books on about 90th (?) and Stark, but it might be more evangelical-leaning than you're after.

posted by pdxwoman at 1:59 am (EST) on Dec 30, 2006

Thanks for inviting me to the worship discussion group. You may also be interested in a religious order of which I am a part, the Order of St. Luke, www.saint-luke.org. Also on yahoo groups as OSL.

posted by lworthington at 11:57 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2006

Hi,
thanks for the welcome. I will be a little slow at first as become familiar with the site. I am sure I will get a lot out of this group.
Sue

posted by currysue at 11:04 pm (EST) on Dec 12, 2006

I see we have similar interests in many areas. Browsing your catalog i noticed "Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time" By: Marva J. Dawn and after checking it out the reviews on Amazon i saw that i really wanted to read what she has to say so i ordered it. Ordering online is so convenient (and can be dangerous to one's financial health if one's not careful!)

posted by smellthecoffee at 7:58 am (EST) on Dec 11, 2006

Wow. I didn't think I'd find someone else here with such a similar interest in computing, theology and science fiction. I've just started putting all my books up, but it looks like we have quite a bit more in common.

posted by kifty at 2:19 pm (EST) on May 11, 2006

An enjoyable library - we have a few books in common

posted by moncrieff at 10:17 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2006