Technical Books

A few of the books I've recently read:

The Holocaust-Martin Gilbert

Breakout-The Marines at Chosin Resevoir-Martin Ross

If Not Now, When?-Primo Levi.

The Drowned and the Saved-Primo Levi

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families-Phillip Gourevitch (Rwandan Genocide)

The Rise and Fall Of the Third Reich-William Shirer

Declarations of Independence-Howard Zinn

Into Thin Air-Jon Krakauer

From Freedom to Slavery-Gerry Spence

The Rape of Nanking-Iris Chang, (The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII). The story of the Japanese atrocities commited during their occupation of the Chinese city of Nanking.

Extreme Measures (stories of people in extreme situations, mostly of the Polish ghettos in WWII)

Explaining Hitler-Ron Rosenbaum.

Ordinary Men-Christopher Browning. German police squads during the Holocaust.

Hitler's Willing Executioners -Daniel Goldhagen, The story of how "ordinary" German citizens carried out the Holocaust.

The Reawakening-Primo Levi. The tale of what happpened to an Holocaust survivor after his release. The story of an Holocaust survivor. 

Shoah-Claude Lanzmann

A Civil Action -Jonathan Harr, True story of environmental pollution, cancer, lawsuits, and cover-up.

A Peoples History of the United State- Howard Zinn

Survival in Auschwitz- Primo Levi

Comanche Moon-Larry McMurtry

Dead Man's Walk- Larry McMurtry

Technical Books

Beginning Ecommerce-WROX

Professional XML-WROX

Professional ADO 2.5 RDS-WROX

Professional XML-WROX

Professional Javascript-WROX

Beginning Java 2-WROX

VB6 Web-WROX

Professional  ASP 3.0-WROX

Professional ADO RDS Programming with ASP-WROX

Active Server Pages-Stephen Walther

Active Server Pages 2.0-Stephen Walther

Beginning Components for ASP-WROX

Lou's Favorite Authors

 
Hugo
Tolstoy
Steinbeck

Greatest book ever written (not including the bible)

Les Miserables -Hugo
The Kingdom of God is Within You -Tolstoy