Kindle Titles On Sale This Month, February 2013

Every month, Amazon.com has a list of 100 titles available in the kindle format on sale for $3.99 or less. Here are the ones that jumped out at me this morning (all aff links):

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five by John Medina. I own his book Brain Rules and I've checked out Brain Rules for Baby from the library before. At this price, I don't mind buying it and having it always on hand for reference. Medina adheres to the theory of evolution, but the advice he dispenses is based on replicable scientific studies. (For example, if he says the human body is designed to run 12 miles every day, even though this is his evolutionary belief, he has studies that can be repeated to back it up.) One of the points he likes to make is that there are no credible studies to support the notion that those womb sound machines have any beneficial effects for the unborn baby, so this book isn't just what to do with your child, but what NOT to do or what NOT to waste your time or money on.

Churchill : The Unexpected Hero by Paul Addison. I'm not a Winston Churchill fanatic, but I want to know much more about him than I do currently. Some speculate that he was dyslexic and/or had ADHD. This book is 300+ pages, so it's not going to be a fluffy overly-brief and generalized biography.

Remember, you don't need to own an Amazon kindle in order to read kindle books. You can download a kindle app for your PC, laptop, Mac, BlackBerry, Android, iPhone or iPod Touch and so forth. Just click here: free Amazon kindle reading apps. You could also buy a kindle, and if you just want a kindle for reading books, I recommend the Paperwhite (with which I will most likely replace my current kindle Touch):
 

UPDATE: Actually, I will NOT be replacing my current kindle with the paperwhite because my kindle has text-to-speech, and the paperwhite lacks this feature. So if you want text-to-speech, you pretty much need to buy a Kindle Fire.

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It doesn't get any more 12/12/12 than this!

You Have 2 Weeks to Read "The Hobbit"

You have two weeks to read The Hobbit before The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens in theaters! Also, you literally need to watch this trailer:



Bonus: Have you read The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy or Peter Kreeft's The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings? You should!

Available Now! Four-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss

Watch this one minute video:

Buy it here from Amazon.com (I did!):
print ($21.00)
kindle ($9.99)

You can check my previous post on the Four-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss here. Note: it's much more than just a book on how to cook. Don't believe me? Go to fourhourchef.com and see for yourself. :-)

Highlights from Tim Ferriss's Four-Hour Life Seminar

Here is Tim Ferriss with some of the highlights from his recent two-day CreativeLive seminar called The Four-Hour Life: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. It's a three minute youtube video. Of course, I don't endorse EVERYTHING Tim says, does, or promotes, but there's too much good stuff here not to share.



The reason the subtitle is Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise is because his book trilogy corresponds with those themes: Healthy is Four-Hour Body, Wealthy is Four-Hour Workweek, and Wise is Four-Hour Chef.

I'm not joking, you guys, I can't wait for Four-Hour Chef to "hit the shelves" at amazon.com!

If you want to know more about this book (is it only about cooking?), check out the Four-Hour Chef website.

Four-Hour Chef

This, more than the other two (Four-Hour Workweek and Four-Hour Body), is the Tim Ferriss book I've been waiting for. The book is The Four-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life. This is the one where he breaks down and divulges his strategies and tactics on how to learn anything. He's alluded to it in previous books, or broken down certain things, but now he's showing how to do it yourself.

This is the book I'll probably get the most mileage out of, and I think I'll find that I've been doing SOME of what he's prescribing, but now I'll have a better picture of what I ought to be doing. I'm hoping for a wellspring to just flow in 2013 based on what I'm able to break down, and then build up, once I have this book in my hands (or in my kindle).

Want to be a better learner? This is your book. I pre-ordered the kindle version a year ago, I think. You can pre-order it now and it will be released on Tuesday. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

I will find better ways to teach and learn the Biblical Languages (especially understanding that not all students can or should be treated the same, that is, learning styles, etc.), or die trying. There is at least one chapter dedicated to language learning. I can't wait to get started. But if you want a little bit of a sneak peak, check out this blog post by Tim from a few years ago: How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months.

Is It Over?

Has someone won yet? Have majorities been decided in Congress? How did State and Local races go?

Did the union survive?

I'm assuming now that we won't have all the results from the northeast (especially NY and NJ), but from a White House standpoint, we're assuming those Electoral College votes are all going to the incumbents anyway, right?

It seems like sometimes there are post-election day run-off races in one or two southern states (if the incumbent doesn't win by a large enough margin).

What did your prayers sound like yesterday? What did they sound like today?

Where is Christ in all of this?