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Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt wrote the first edition of this influential book in 1999 to help their clients create better software and rediscover the joy of coding. These lessons have helped a generation of programmers examine the very essence of software development. Now, 20 years later, this new edition re-examines what it means to be a modern programmer. Topics range from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.

C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other members of the Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s work-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing? How does creative collaboration enhance individual talent? And what can we learn from their example?Beautifully illustrated by James A. Owen, Bandersnatch offers an inside look at the Inklings of Oxford—and a seat at their table at The Eagle and Child pub. It shows how encouragement and criticism made all the difference in The Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, and dozens of other books written by the members of this literary circle. You’ll learn what made these writers tick and more: inspired by their example, you’ll discover how collaboration can help your own creative process and lead to genius breakthroughs in whatever work you do.

A Church Called Tov: Forming a Goodness Culture That Resists Abuses of Power and Promotes Healing

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

Renovation of the Heart explains the common misunderstandings about human nature and the discipleship process by outlining the general pattern of personal spiritual transformation––not as a formula, but as a systematic process.

This bestseller by Dallas Willard explains that as intentional apprentices of Jesus, we are to move deeper into a relationship with God while becoming more like Jesus. In his unique, winning way, Dallas Willard will guide you in discovering your true identity while exploring spiritual growth in a new way.INTRODUCING SPIRITUAL FORMATION

2: THE HEART IN THE SYSTEM OF HUMAN LIFE

3: RADICAL EVIL IN THE RUINED SOUL

4: RADICAL GOODNESS RESTORED TO THE SOUL

5: SPIRITUAL CHANGE: The Reliable Pattern

INTERLUDE

6: TRANSFORMING THE MIND, 1: Thoughts

7: TRANSFORMING THE MIND, 2: Feelings

8: TRANSFORMING THE WILL (HEART OR SPIRIT) AND CHARACTER

9. TRANSFORMING THE BODY

10: TRANSFORMING OUR SOCIAL DIMENSION

11: TRANSFORMING THE SOUL

12: THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD

13: SPIRITUAL FORMATION IN THE LOCAL CONGREGATION

Praying: Finding Our Way Through Duty to Delight

Parenting: The 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

What does it take for lasting change to take root in your life? If you've ever tried, failed, and wondered why, you need How People Change. This book explains the biblical pattern for change in a clear, practical way you can apply to the challenges of daily life. But change involves more than a biblical formula: you will see how God is at work to make you the person you were created to be. That powerful, loving, redemptive relationship is at the heart of all positive change you experience.

It is not enough to condemn culture. Nor is it sufficient merely to critique culture or to copy culture. Most of the time, we just consume culture. But the only way to change culture is to create culture.

Andy Crouch unleashes a stirring manifesto calling Christians to be culture makers. For too long, Christians have had an insufficient view of culture and have waged misguided "culture wars." But we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators that God designed us to be. Culture is what we make of the world, both in creating cultural artifacts as well as in making sense of the world around us. By making chairs and omelets, languages and laws, we participate in the good work of culture making.

Crouch unpacks the complexities of how culture works and gives us tools for cultivating and creating culture. He navigates the dynamics of cultural change and probes the role and efficacy of our various cultural gestures and postures. Keen biblical exposition demonstrates that creating culture is central to the whole scriptural narrative, the ministry of Jesus and the call to the church. He guards against naive assumptions about "changing the world," but points us to hopeful examples from church history and contemporary society of how culture is made and shaped. Ultimately, our culture making is done in partnership with God's own making and transforming of culture.

A model of his premise, this landmark book is sure to be a rallying cry for a new generation of culturally creative Christians. Discover your calling and join the culture makers.

Christian identity is in moral and political crisis, scandalized by the many ways in which it has been coopted and misrepresented. Addressing this painful reality, Lee Camp writes that Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke because of “our failure to rightly understand what Christianity is.” From this provocative claim, Camp’s manifesto makes the convincing case that a renewed Christian politic is more essential than ever, one that is “neither left nor right nor religious,” but a prophetic way of life modeled after Jesus of Nazareth.

Camp’s robust vision exposes modern parodies of faith—the American concept of “Christian values,” for one—and challenges Christians to rethink who they are and how they participate in the modern world. Authentic gospel truth is a scandal to the American myth, he argues, and we are called to be scandalous witnesses.

PROPOSITION 1 - History Is Not One Damn Thing after Another

PROPOSITION 2 - The End of History Has Already Begun

PROPOSITION 3 - American Hope Is a Bastard

PROPOSITION 4 - Christianity Is Neither a Prostitute nor a Chaplain

PROPOSITION 5 - The United States Is Not the Hope of the World

PROPOSITION 6 - The United States Was Not, Is Not, and Will Not Be a Christian Nation

PROPOSITION 7 - How Christian Values, and the Bible, Corrupt Christianity

PROPOSITION 8 - Every Empire Falls

PROPOSITION 9 - Christian Partisanship Is like a Fistfight on the Titanic

PROPOSITION 10 - Hostile Forces Have a Role in the Unfolding of History

PROPOSITION 11 - Christianity Is Not a Religion; Christianity Is a Politic

PROPOSITION 12 - Liberal Political Puissance Is Not the Goal

PROPOSITION 13 - Exemplary Political Witness Is the Goal

PROPOSITION 14 - Christianity Is Not Countercultural

PROPOSITIONS 15 - Christian Engagement Must Always Be Ad Hoc