Reddit mentions: The best children reference & nonfiction books

I don't know a lot of titles for the youngest ages, though the Junie B. Jones and Magic Treehouse books are favorites of my mother's elementary-aged students. Speaking of magic, you can't go wrong with The Magic Schoolbus. Oh! And Where the Wild Things Are.

As suggested by /u/jpop23mn, the Berenstein Bears are great books for young readers (I loved them so much as a kid), and Dr. Seuss is classic.

For middle-schoolers, I recall enjoying Maniac Magee (though I don't recall much about it), lots of Bruce Coville's monster books, the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, and one of my favorites, The Phantom Tollbooth. My sister enjoyed the Warriors series (and still reads them now as a college student). Then there's classics like Where the Red Fern Grows and Bridge to Terabithia, though those books cover some difficult subject matter (death).

Ghost stories are much beloved, and if you can find folklore and fable specific to various cultures, you can learn about other cultures while enjoying a good story!

Some other fantastic books to have around are The Daring Book for Girls and The Dangerous Book for Boys, both of which teach all kinds of fantastic information and skills while also being entertaining. I especially urge you to get the Daring Book for Girls if you have a daughter, because it not only teaches useful skills like changing tires and woodworking, but it also teaches about strong, independent, successful women through history. It promotes independence, self-esteem and self-confidence, which (in my opinion) are vital to any young person's upbringing, but especially women, since so much of the media and society seems bent on making women insecure, dependent and subservient. (Please excuse my politics.)

The Chronicles of Narnia are fantastic, if you don't mind that they're a religious allegory. When I was a kid, I read them for fun, and didn't give a damn about the religious aspect. (I'm agnostic.) Another good series is the Dark Materials series, though some parents avoid it because of Pullman's anti-religious sentiments. Again, I didn't care about that, I just enjoyed a good story.

Hopefully, with a big enough selection of books, your kids will be able to choose their own books by high school. But it's still nice to keep around some young adult and adult novels for the kids to explore. The Dragonlance novels are fantasy novels set in a D&D-inspired world, but this setting has more of a chivalric, idealistic mood, which is good for young adult readers as well as adults. You've also got the Harry Potter series, which is kind of a given...

The challenge is finding adult novels that are appropriate for your kids. If you are trying to avoid exposing your children to certain ideas before a certain age, then you'll have to personally read and consider each book before you put it on their shelf. If you're the kind of parent who allows their kid to read what they want to read, doing your best to answer their questions and put the stories into context, then it's a little easier. If your kid reads Jurassic Park, they're going to be exposed to an awful lot of violence, but they're also going to learn some fascinating scientific information as well. Crichton's books are science-fiction with a strong scientific background, so they're educational as well as thrilling, but they've got adult themes that might be better for more mature readers. (That being said, I was reading them at a young age.)

I hope this is a decent start. There are lots of good lists online, too. I'd suggest checking out GoodReads and various Amazon lists. Just remember that it's up to you to choose what you want your kids to be exposed to.

Edit: As a male, I have a distinct lack of experience with books aimed at young females. I would like to think that a good book can be enjoyed by boys and girls alike, but some books have more of a gender-focus than others.

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Thank you all for your suggestions!! I bought a few of the ones mentioned here as well as some others. I went a little overboard, but I figure I can space out the gifts for later in the year, and some are for her little brother too.

1. Nancy Drew (1-5) I LOVED these when I was younger, they're such a classic and Nancy's take charge attitude taught me so much.
   
   
2. Little Pea (for her brother) A cute little kids book about a young pea who has to eat all of his candy for dinner, so he can have veggies for dessert! It's so charming and silly and is a fun reversal for kids who don't want to eat their veggies :)
   
   
3. The Planets in Our Solar System (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) Thanks for the suggestion /u/tectonicus!
   
   
4. The Daring Book for Girls - a fun reference for knowledge and classic kids games, always ideas for fun stuff to do!
   
   
5. Getting To Know The World's Greatest Artists - These art history books for kids gave me such a decent foundation in art history that when I finally took it in college I got my first A+ at a university level. Not to mention, having that knowledge made my time at art museums for field trips and such so much more relevant as I grew up! Also, I give these books full credit for my success in Jeopardy studio auditions :)
   
   

• >Van Gogh
  
• >Monet
  
• >O'Keefe
  
• >Da Vinci
  
• >Rockwell
  
• 
  
  
  
  
  (She's French born, so I made sure to include some American artists in there too.)
  
  

6. The Paper Bag Princess - another one of my favorites that my dad used to read to me when I was younger. I loved it because when the Dragon strikes, it's the princess who has to outsmart him to save the bratty prince :)
   
   
7. The Magic School Bus Lost In The Solar System, and The Magic School Bus On The Ocean Floor. Classics! Thank you /u/tectonicus, /u/mariposamariposa, and /u/caemin!
   
   
8. The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak - couldn't tell too much about this one, but it's supposed to be very clever and leave a lot to the kid's imagination, fun to read out loud!
   
   
9. Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman (Childhood of Famous Americans). Another book I enjoyed as a girl about a young woman who who "broke the mold" - stepping outside of social boundaries and working hard at something she was incredibly talented at.
   
   
10. The Way Things Work - This one looks great!
    Thank you /u/mariposamariposa, and /u/moration!
    
    
    Edit: For the commenters saying I should just give her princess stuff if that's what she likes - I have and will continue to. This year I spent over 100 hours making her an Elsa from Frozen dress for her birthday. This should be proof enough that I encourage and share her enthusiasm. http://imgur.com/a/ga9DQ

>With quizzes, can you use someone else's quizzes? Say another teacher wants to use the same quiz or you're collaborating with someone at another campus.

You can, how easy it is depends on how your school is setting things up how easy it is. If you are collaborating with another AP Physics 1 class, and you want to run pretty much the same stuff, the easiest way would be to share a class with each teacher having their own section. You could share everything, but control your own assignment and due dates, as well as grading only your own stuff.

Otherwise, the way that always works is to have one teacher export the quiz, send it to the other and import it. This however will not allow you to work together on the quiz, just transfer finished quizzes.

Finally, there is also something called Commons, which would allow anyone in the world to share anything, rubrics, assignments, quizzes, whole classes, and everything inbetween. However I am not sure if that is in general release now, or still only in certain districts.

Anyway, here is my go to "New Physics Teacher" list.

Books

TIPERS

• TIPERs: Sensemaking Tasks for Introductory Physics
  
• Newtonian Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research: nTIPERs
  
• E&M TIPERs: Electricity & Magnetism Tasks
  
• Ranking Task Exercises in Physics
  
  TIPERs are a fantastic resource for including conceptual thinking assignments. Answer keys are generally available if you talk to your school's Pearson Rep. IMO, the E/M book is the weakest, in part because it ignores that circuits are a thing. I would start with the first as it is a general overview, and go from there.
  
  

  General Physics Education
  

  
  

• Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching
  
• Hands-On Physics Activities with Real-Life Applications
  
• Tutorials In Introductory Physics and Homework Package - This is less helpful as you get further in your career and are more comfortable designing your own assignments, but was very helpful when I first started.
  
• Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality - If you like Hewitt's next time questions you'll love these.
  
• Teaching Introductory Physics - Pretty much all physics teachers should read this at some point, such a fantastic resource.
  
• Teaching High School Physics Volume I - First of a three volume set, I like these, but they were written by one of my college profs, so I am biased.
  
  

  Websites
  

• Pretty Good Physics - While mostly an AP resource, tons of teacher made materials are available. If you want access to the good stuff (tests and such) those are keep in PGP-secure, there are instructions on how you can gain access.
  
• PheT
  
• Compadre - Tends to be hit or miss for me, but a good collection of resources.
  
• AP Physics HTML 5 Sims - A collection of simple simulations written by an AP Physics teacher, good for introductory labs.
  
• New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning - Another collection of materials for all types of courses, particularly handy if you have any ESL students and know none of the language.
  
• Physics Classroom - Pretty much the defacto online physics textbook.
  
  

  Youtube
  

• Lasseviren1 - Great Calc-physics tutorials
  
• Flipping Physics
  
• Minutephysics
  
• Veritasium
  
  If anyone else has suggestions let me know, I will try to keep an up to date list to post for all of the "I'm new to physics help!" posts. I might add an AP section.
  

Sorry, I forgot to respond to this! I tried to pick out books that are fairly accessible & not loaded with anthropological jargon or the like.

• If you want a really concise overview of Native American history, I recommend North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction. Theda Purdue and Michael Green are/were (Green recently passed away) very important historians in Native American history. (Plus it's adorable that they're married.)
  
  
• One of my favorites is Tiya Miles's Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. I like how it shows how race played out in the South in much more complicated ways if we include Native Americans. It reads like a story more than a history book.
  
  
• Tiya Miles also wrote The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story. I haven't read it, but I've heard it's good.
  
  
• Nancy Shoemaker's A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America is an undergraduate-level analysis of the ways that both Europeans and Natives constructed their identities in opposition to each other. Each chapter covers a specific topic.
  
  
• While I haven't read it, Daniel K. Richter's Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America is a commonly assigned book in undergrad classes. It places Native Americans at the center of American history, rather than focusing on Europeans.
  
  
• Another commonly assigned book for undergrads that I haven't read: Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
  
  
• Linford D. Fisher's The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the SHaping of Native Cultures in Early America is a bit more academic due to the topic, but I think it's still pretty accessible. If you're interested in learning about how Native American religions adapted & blended with Christianity, it's a good account.
  
  
• A really important book is Kathleen DuVal's The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. Like Fisher's book, it's a little more academic, but it talks about how Native Americans controlled interactions with Europeans in the Mississippi/Arkansas River Valley areas. Instead of Europeans destroying Native cultures, there was a period when Europeans had to adapt to Natives' demands.
  
  
• I find the Red Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s fascinating, but the books & articles I've read are organizational histories and wouldn't be that appealing to a non-specialist. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee is the most popular book about that movement, but I've never read it.
  
  Sorry for so many suggestions, but I thought I would give a bunch so that you can see what might appeal to you based on your own interests. All the above books are important because they help change our understandings of Native American and American history. Natives are not passive subjects in the books but are active in shaping their own lives.

Recommended Textbooks
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Integrated Chinese - This is used in many university classes in the US. The companion CD is definitely recommended. The workbook wont be much use if you don't have someone to check your answers, as the company is pretty strict about not letting out the answer keys.

New Practical Chinese Reader - This is a great alternative to Integrated Chinese. There are also PDFs and mp3s of all materials floating around on the internet if you look.

Character Practice
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Skritter - Seriously awesome. It does have a monthly subscription though.

Oral Practice
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Pimsleur, Assimil, or the FSI course (free). I've only used Pimselur, but I've heard good things about the others. These are good for practicing your tones.

Online Resources
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Chinese-forums

nciku - A Chinese - English dictionary. You can draw out unknown characters, which can be much easier than going by radical like in other dictionaries.

You should also set up Windows (or whatever OS you use) to be able to type in Chinese (usually through pinyin).

Once you're good enough, you can find easy books called "Graded Chinese Readers" that often have a companion CD to help with pronunciation. They're pretty cheap as well if you import them from China.

Good luck, Mandarin is a difficult language, but it's also really fun. It might take a long time to see progress (I still can't read newspapers), but as long as you keep at it you'll probably be happy with your results.

I know you said your not a fan of "puzzles" but in particular there is a very interesting one I liked as an math undergraduate that I think is very accessible understanding wise to non-stem majors and gives a hint about what the field of topology looks like. We has a sub in one of my math classes cover this once when he didn't properly get the material he was suppose to teach sent to him.

The Bridges of Königsberg it's puzzling at first but with the right guidance, I feel that even someone who has no background in math can grasp the answer and understand how it works as well as how it's solution is found.

Touching on some math history is also a possibility. The history of how numbers developed can be interesting and applies to everyone since everyone learns about and uses numbers in their life. Seeing the natural progression from natural numbers to integers to rationals and finally to reals throughout history is really cool if you ask me. And learning about some of the "crazy smart" math people in history can really make math feel every so slightly more relevant and relatable because you realize that it was real people who invented this abstract "math stuff" in a sense.

There is also the applications of number theory and modulo arithmetic stuff to encryption. At first doesn't seem super relatable to non-stem people but I've run across two more relatable problems in my classes. The first was the Luhn algorithm which can be used to check if certain identifying numbers like credit cards or social security numbers are indeed actual credit card or social security numbers.

The second (which I don't know if it is actually how it works in real life) is the idea of using modular arithmetic to preserve CD/DVD information despite scratches. If your CD for example has the numbers 101 and you get a scratch through the "" part of the cd, how does the cd player know what was there? Well you can add up those three digits and take them mod 2 and add the answer to the end of your string as a 4th digit. So 101 becomes 1010 because 1+1=2=0 mod 2. Now if the cd is scratched the cd player can check the 4th number and go "Oh ok, all three numbers have to add to 0, so my lost digit must be 0!" and your cd still works!

Those are a couple of random interesting problems/topics I've run into in my higher level math courses that I think are accessible for non-math majors and interesting.

EDIT - I also just remembered that I've been reading a lot of books about the importance of understanding math and statistics lately (Proofiness and Innumeracy if your interested) and I think it's a very important skill for anyone who is not so inclined towards math. Being able to understand numbers in a real world sense and be skeptical about data we see in the real world, is a powerful skill for building knowledge and avoiding biased information.

Hiya! I'm a recent physics/computer science graduate and although I can't think of any super cool handmade options off the top of my head, there are some physics books that I find interesting that your boyfriend may enjoy. One solid idea would be just about anything written by Richard Feynman. Reading through the Feynman Lectures is pretty standard for all physicists, though there are free versions online as well. There are a few others, such as The Pleasure of Finding things Out and Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman. There's also a cool graphic novel that recounts the events of his life called Feynman by Ottaviani. If you're not familiar with who this guy is, he is a colorful and concise orator who won a nobel prize in physics. His biggest contributions were in nuclear physics and quantum computation, and his quirks make his explanations of these topics very interesting. The Feynman Lectures are more formal, while his personal books are a mixture of personal experience and explanation.

 
Something else that I typically gift all of my friends who are problem solvers interested in physics is the book Thinking Physics. This book is great for developing some high level intuition in every field of physics (mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, etc.). This book is great because it's broken into small digestible sections that build your knowledge as you solve more of the questions (solutions are given).

 
Good luck!

>it's just surreal that the natives of this land only gained the right to vote in it less than one century ago and it's kind of sickening to think about how archaic this time is.

I don't want to look like I'm forming a pity party, but the Civil Rights Movement didn't really help out Indian Country. We had to have our own round of protests and fighting in the 1970s. Check out the American Indian Movement, the Occupation of Alcatraz Island and especially the Alcatraz Proclamation, among others. What really stunning is that the American Indian Religious Freedom Act didn't come about until 1978, let alone the fact that they had to pass it at all!

>Are there any books, movies, or another form of media that are true stories or realistic fiction that depict American Indians in a way that you find to be interesting and faithful?

Anything by Vine Deloria, Jr. is awesome, although he is more historian and scientist than he is story-teller. A short list of my favorites:

• Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
  
• God Is Red: A Native View of Religion
  
• Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
  
  If you want to read some great fiction that depicts American Indians accurately, start with Sherman Alexie:
  
  
• Smoke Signals
  
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
  
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  
  Outside of those authors, some popular picks are Black Elk Speaks and Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.
  
  As far as movies go, any self-respecting Indian has seen the movie Smoke Signals dozens of times. Powwow Highway is a favorite of mine, and Dance Me Outside is movie gold, although it doesn't get enough attention.
  
  >I'm thinking - why hasn't HBO or some big network done a drama that focuses on American Indians? This could be a very interesting book, as well... Or is this idea something even somewhat appealing to you as a young American Indian?
  
  I'm not sure what you are thinking, but I have my own ideas. I'd like to see a series that focuses on a single reservation for each episode, and details the hardships that the people of that reservation deal with on a daily basis. Call it a pity party, but there are children in the United States right now that live in houses with dirt floors and sleep on pallets and go to school on 30-year-old school buses on unkempt dirt roads (and sometimes off-road) where they learn a curriculum outdated for a decade or more........ I can go on and on. Get in your car and drive to Pine Ridge Reservation RIGHT NOW, you'll be convinced that you walked into a third world country in the middle of a war. Its not pretty. The corruption in the tribal government needs to be put in the spotlight, and the part that the Federal and State governments have played in this tragedy need to be righted. That's the facts.

Mom of a severely speech delayed toddler here.

It's never a bad idea to bring up concerns you have with your child's doctor. If you're concerned, schedule an appointment and ask for input from the medical types.

In addition, if you're in the US there's a national program called Early Intervention whose sole mission is to locate children under age 3 who are developmentally delayed, evaluate them, and provide therapy or other needed services so they're as caught-up as possible before starting school. Evaluations are free of charge and most services are also at no cost. You don't need a doctor's referral. Google (your state) Early Intervention for contact info.
(Whoops, just saw you're in Ireland so the above doesn't apply, but I'm going to leave it there in case it can help anyone else!)

That all said,
2 words (mama & dada) at 14 months is in the range of normal. The fact that he understands so much is also fantastic and points to him being developmentally appropriate. I don't recommend you freak out. :)

Narrating everything is perfect.
Definitely keep answering him when he talks. One thing my kid's speech therapist really encourages us to do is to have conversations with him even if it's all in babble. Baring his teeth and going "nar nar nar nar nar" means something - I have no idea what, but something - to my son these days so when he says that to me I say it right back and we have a pretty funny conversation about nar nar nar nar nar. It reinforces the back & forth of a regular conversation and gives the child confidence that they're participating the right way.
We use a lot of picture books like these with my 2yo both in therapy & at home. We either say the word while pointing to a picture or ask him "where's the ball?" and wait for him to point it out.
Really, just keep talking to him, and talking to other people while he's around!

I think it's really normal at 4-5 for kids to be thinking about sameness and differentness and try to make sense of what they see.

The approach I take--after a lot of thought and research--is to teach and talk about skin color the same way we would about eye color or hair color. There are some good books that talk about the science of skin color - First Encyclopedia of the Human Body touches on it--my kid is obsessed with that book, All the Colors We Are takes a matter of fact and scientific approach. The book Children Just Like Me is another really useful resource when talking about different cultures and people.


I've also made a point to buy black, brown and Asian baby dolls and Barbies (not just the standard white ones) since she was about 2. At first I felt really self-conscious about doing this, but I think it's helped her see variety as the norm instead of thinking of her whiteness as normal and everything else as "other."

At this stage, that's the message you want to be instilling - everyone has lots of differences and they're all pretty darn normal and cool.

And finally--how to deal with loud kid comments in public. A few days ago my daughter shouted and pointed, "LOOK MOMMY! A little person!!! THAT'S NOT A KID!" I was embarrassed and felt bad and I told her in the moment that it's not nice to yell out people's differences because it might make them feel like everyone is looking at them--she got that--attention can be embarrassing.

When we got home we talked about dwarfism just like hair color or normal height -- it's something about you that get when you're born. I think I said something like, "even if a person is born to be a little person, their brain grows up just like yours or mine as they get older and when they're grown ups they have jobs and families just like any other grownup." She thought it was really really cool.

I'm sure she'll do it to me again. I don't know if there's a better way to handle it in the moment to be more respectful of others--but my main focus is trying to get a message of inclusiveness to my kid.

I dunno. This stuff is hard.

I know nothing about Greek, but for Urdu I have Teach Yourself Urdu by David Matthews and Mohamed Kasim Dalvi. I think it's a pretty good book. However, I would not try to learn the script from it. Get Teach Yourself Read and Write Urdu Script for that. A friend of mine also had good things to say about Let's Study Urdu by Ali Asani. She also really liked Urdu: An Essential Grammar. I haven't used that, but I have use the Essential Grammar book for Hindi and thought it was pretty well-written. There is also Darvazah: A Door into Urdu, but unfortunately certain parts of the site don't seem to work.

If you're into it, you could also learn Devanagari (Hindi script) and then you'd have access to Hindi learning materials as well (Hindi and Urdu are VERY similar- most deviation is in vocab and grammar is mostly the same). I could give you some recommendations for Hindi too if you're interested.

yes I know that Japan borrowed Chinese characters for their writing system but that doesn't make the languages related. just like koreans used the chinese writing system to express their language, and the vietnamese also. however, neither of those languages are related to chinese except that there is a great deal of vocabulary that is borrowed.

that would be like saying that because my friend borrowed my clothes to wear, he is my brother, which isn't true either.

chinese and japanese are from different language families and have evolved independently of each other.

I honestly don't know why you made this thread because you seem to think you know more than you really do. I have been taking chinese for almost two years and am in china RIGHT NOW studying chinese.

it is my opinion that if you actually want to learn chinese and not flex your intellectual penis on reddit you should do it from the standpoint that you don't have any experience with chinese, because in reality you don't.

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also, just so I can feel like I'm being more helpful rather than feel like I'm berating you here is the book I used in "chinese 101"

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Chinese-Reader-Textbook-Vol/dp/7561910401/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262081421&sr=8-2

it has dialogues in chinese characters subtitled with the pinyin. and the vocab lists are the same way. and until you get to an intermediate chinese course all beginning level chinese text books will have pinyin. it is necessary to learning the language.

http://www.chinabooks.com.au/ChinaBooks/search.cfm?UR=14071&search_stage=details&records_to_display=5

THIS is the book they use for entry level courses here at BLCU for people learning Chinese. it is in much the same format as the other book (dialogues in chinese characters subtitled with pinyin).

I think you will find this to be the most common format and also the most logically designed for learning chinese.

Depending on the age of the kid, these could be some good ones:

What Do You Believe?

See Inside World Religions

The Belief Book and others in that series

What is God? (this one does presuppose some kind of a higher power, but compares its depiction across many religions and suggests that god is in us/everywhere around us/basically the concept of good)

I Wonder (not specifically about religion, but more about the idea that science can answer some questions but not yet all - some things are a mystery that we can only wonder about)

Also definitely recommend including some books on the scientific version of the creation story (i.e. the big bang, evolution, etc) so kids have that perspective to draw on as well. Again depending on the age, some good ones are:

Older Than the Stars

Big Bang: The Tongue-Tickling Tale of a Speck That Became Spectacular

One Day a Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything

Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story

Grandmother Fish

Sapiens: Our Human Evolution

Hope some of those are helpful! :)

First things first. The child will be undergoing a huge transition and ya'll ought to have some therapy/counseling for her all set up and ready to go when she comes into your home. It will help all of you get started on a good note.

Because she has been told things that are not true about her dad, she will be very confused and will likely act out as she settles in.

I have seen a lot of great advice on here for adoptive/foster parents and you guys would benefit from reading some material geared towards that parenting group as well. One thing I have heard a lot of for adoptive parents of older children (I know you're not adopting, I just think the principle applies here) is to meet your child's every need.

No, really. Meet her every. Need. If you have family over visiting and she asks for a glass of water, you or your SO should be the ones getting up and doing it, even if family offers. If she needs help on the potty, falls down and hurts herself, needs her hair brushed, whatever it is. During the transition process it is critical for her to bond positively with you guys and for her to learn that you guys are a source of trust and security.

As for getting her up to speed on things like colors and numbers, fortunately there's plenty of books out there to help! My son LOVES these:

http://www.amazon.com/First-100-Words-Roger-Priddy/dp/0312510780

http://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Colors-Shapes-Roger-Priddy/dp/0312510810/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

http://www.amazon.com/First-100-Animals-Roger-Priddy/dp/0312510799/ref=pd_sim_b_5?ie=UTF8&refRID=0NMAK9FW4ZKEBP3GCB05

Sorry I don't know how to make shorter links on Reddit. They might be too young for your "Stepdaughter", but my son learned all of his colors shapes and numbers by reading these books. he is 2 1/2.

He also has shape toys. I like "melissa and doug" toys. This one is my son's favorite:

http://www.amazon.com/Melissa-Doug-Wooden-Shape-Sorting/dp/B000GKATU0

Because of this clock puzzle, my son knows what a fucking rhombus and octagon is.

We don't sit him down and drill him. We invite him to play with these toys and materials and simply talk about them as we go along. Children are sponges, and they learn all on their own. They simply need the invitation, and a patient adult willing to open up this world to them.

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on that note, we take what we learn in the books and reinforce it in every day life.

"Wow, is that your YELLOW ball?"

"Look honey, do you see that silly cartoon cat? He is PINK! That's so funny, isn't it! Why is that silly kitty cat PINK? Cats aren't pink, are they?"

"Okay when the light is red, that means daddy has to stop! Let's wait for the light to turn green! Keep watching, tell me when it turns GREEN! Green means we can GO!"

Etc etc. Most of this stuff will come naturally to you as you get into the groove. You find all kinds of opportunities to reinforce concepts as you go about your day.

How do I make the world a better place? I listen, I care, I do what I can when I can, and I remember that I can do more and can always try.

The people who make my world better are my wife and my child. They are the only two people I give that power to.

My dream? That is someday get up enough courage to create (in photography or in writing) the thing that I am capable of making but too afraid to do.

You're pretty sexy yourself.

The thing I'd like (It'll be something I'll read to my daughter):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679805273/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2V8LWRQE0JPQ&coliid=I1A7SYAF820YF1

FOR YOU TO READ:
http://aqilkhans.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/dale-carnegie-how-to-stop-worrying-and-start-living.pdf

• Cheers, friend

There are admittedly not many good resources out there for learning Finnish. I started with self teaching myself, but never really got very far until taking Finnish classes in college. Self study from things available on the internet isn't that bad once you already have a foundation, but getting that foundation is annoyingly difficult.

It doesn't help that almost every book out there for learning Finnish makes things needlessly complex. At some point or another, I think I've looked at almost every major resource (book-wise anyways) for English speakers learning Finnish. Here's some notes on some that come to mind, feel free to ask about others if you want.

• Kuulostaa hyvältä / Sounds good by Lili Ahonen. This is a 2 part series, one of which has the Finnish first in the title, and the other with the English first. Kuulostaa hyvältä features short texts in Finnish along with exercises, but is completely in Finnish. Sounds Good is to be used along with it's Finnish counterpart, and contains grammar and vocabulary explanations in English. This is probably the best book I've found for learning Finnish, though it might be a bit difficult to get started with.
  
• From Start to Finnish by Leila White. This is probably one of the better books for those who have absolutely no current foundation or understanding of Finnish. It's not too heavy on the technical details, and contains many useful examples. It is however grossly overpriced for being such a short book (only 180 pages or so), this being due to it being imported from a Finnish publisher.
  
• Teach Yourself Finnish by Terttu Leney. This book is one most people recommend, and for a complete beginner it's not a bad choice. You will not get very far in Finnish with this book, it just doesn't go very in depth. You will get the ability to interact with people in your stereotypical tourist situations, and it will help you get comfortable with Finnish's grammar system, but it has a very limited amount of vocabulary words and texts to learn with.
  
• *Colloquial Finnish by Daniel Abondolo is a decent reference book if you're attempting to write a linguistics paper about Finnish, but not so good to learn from.
  
  Non-book resources:
  
  
• Selkouutiset, a Finnish 'easy' newspaper. Bookmark this for when you get a decent Finnish foundation under you, it's very useful for helping expose you to Finnish once you hit the intermediate stages.
  
• Local Finnish programs. Check out the Finnish consulate webpage for a list of universities and other places which offer Finnish classes in the US.

I've always been good at math, logical and analytical thinking. I think it's partially doing my homework, extra math stuff my grandparents did with me (including contests and stuff like that), as well as hobbies that require such thinking being encouraged (card games, chess, dominoes, board games, etc.).

All I do is look at numbers and see numbers as well. Finding patterns in numbers, or systems, or whatever isn't something that comes natural to most people, even those who are competent at math. Being able to come up with predictions, patterns, and models is among the most difficult tasks we have, which is why we have professional scientists rather than a growing body of knowledge entirely done by hobbyists and amateurs. The point being that training your mind to do these tasks isn't some terrible character flaw you have, in fact most people who try struggle with it.

The Khan academy is a commonly suggested, and excellent, resource for most basic math topics. What I think you're asking for, specifically, is applying math and analytical thinking to day-to-day scenarios in order to make sense of the world around you. That skill actually has a name: "numeracy", the name given by some mathematicians as they believe it is as fundamental a skill as literacy. I do think that it's a crucial skill, but don't get discouraged by the comparison at something as "basic" as literacy. For one because there is an overwhelming amount of people who are not numerically literate, and also literacy itself is not trivial, while we learn the basics of reading at a very young age typically there is a more advanced comprehension requirement and we are not considered "literate" until about the 10th or 11th grade (and a standardized test usually determines this).

I can't think of any activities to build numeracy skills, but to get started John Paulos' Innumeracy is a good resource. It shows common pitfalls, why they are wrong, reasons as to why they occur, and the correct way to think about the suggested problems. If you feel confident after reading it a good way to practice the skill is to find news articles, and see if any of the numbers are misleading.

Critical thinking courses (typically listed as a philosophy course, I believe?) are also a great way to improve logical and analytical reasoning. This is the rather pricy textbooks I used, I linked to the Canadian site because Amazon Canada lists the complete table of contents, so you can search around for other books that cover the topics, if you wish. You could also find courses online, for example khan academy (to be honest, I don't like the topics as presented because it spends a lot of time on fallacies, but doesn't even cover inductive reasoning), or on Coursera.

National Geographic's Big Book of Why is good. They also have other great science books. So it Time's Big Book of How.

Time, National Geographic and other companies do kid's almanacs that are great. My kid and his friends still devour them.

The Magic Schoolbus books are a good place to start.

Girls Think of Everything is a great book on women inventors.

The Way Things Work is great.

Sick Science Kits are neat. But I think younger kids might need a little oversight.

Why Urdu and not Hindi? I'm not saying it's a bad idea to learn Urdu, but there are so, so many questions that are raised. Do you want to learn to write it as well? With whom will you speak? After all, learning a language is usually a means, not an end. Does anyone in your family know Urdu? Do you watch lots of Bollywood movies, or do you like the music of someone like Atif Aslam? Do you already speak Panjabi or Pashto? Maybe, Baloch or Sindhi?

It's totally fine if you answer "no" to all these questions. In fact, if you DO answer no to them all, then your desire to learn Urdu is all the more intriguing.

Do you speak any other languages?

Last question:

Do you already have an ear for it? You can't learn Urdu on Duolingo. You CAN go to Amazon and buy Ruth Laila Schmitt's Essential Urdu Grammar. If you pair that with 1) passion, 2) lots of Bollywood (it's Hindi, I know, but it's ear training), 3) some music, and 4) friends who will indulge your nascent attempts to communicate, then you just might succeed.

There is some statistics in K-12 math in North America, but it's pretty rudimentary and basic (i.e. it's mostly simple probability, and doesn't get into samples vs. populations and so on). Things like "If a bag has 1 red marble, 2 blue marbles, 3 green marble, and 4 yellow marbles, and you reach in and pick a marble at random, what is the probability you'll get a green marble?"

I picked up a little book a long time ago called Innumeracy - Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos, a math professor at Temple University. In that book (updated in 2001), he talks about the problems people have when they aren't very "numerate", and most of the topics he covers have to do with statistics.

Actually, in his preface to the updated 2001 edition (use Amazon's "Look Inside" feature), Paulos also talks about mathematical pedagogy. He discusses: 5 key misconceptions:

1. "Mathematics is nothing more than computation" - False - "our mathematical problems result more from insufficient exposure to mathematics as a way of thinking ... than from an inability to compute."
   
2. "Math is a completely hierarchical subject" - False - "There is a cumulative aspect to certain parts of mathematics, to be sure, but it is frequently less important than many realize...."
   
3. "Storytelling is as effective an educational tool in mathematics as it is in other domains, and belief to the contrary is the third misconception. ... I've always been very sensitive to the way stories, parables, vignettes, and sometimes even jokes help put formal mathematics into context, illustrate its limitations, and emphasize what should be a truism: that numbers and statistics always require interpretation."
   
4. "Math is only for the few" - False - "Almost everybody can devevlop a workable understanding of numbers and probabilities, of relationships and arguments, of graphs and rates of change and of the ubiquitous role these notions play in everyday life."
   
5. "Math numbs us or limits our freedom in some way" - False - "Too many people cling to the usually unarticulated belief that one must choose between life and love on the one hand and numbers and details on the other. ... Balderdash."
   
   Anyhow. Sorry for the long post, but I think it's worthwhile. Read Paulos' preface in its entirety.

First Big Book of Why looks like an awesome book for my preschooler. She loves reading and learning, especially anything about animals.


One of my favorite things that I do with my daughter is the HIPPY (Home Instructions for Parents of Preschool aged Youngeters) program that was offered free through her preschool. We get a book and a packet every week. It teaches my daughter a variety of skills and she really enjoys her HIPPY time with mom. This week we learned what a matrix is and how to sort items in the matrix. The HIPPY activities my daughter liked best was making applesauce, making a clock with moving hands and making puppets out of socks.

Thank you for the contest.


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I loved looking at picture books and asking my son to point at different things, colors, etc. It gives good insight into what they understand without them needing to talk. The My First books (like this: First 100 Words) were great for this - labeled pictures with no story.

I absolutely loved doing sign language with my son. I highly recommend the Baby Signing Time videos - I think you can find them on YouTube. They also have a preschool series called Signing Time. Songs are cute and help kids with vocabulary and early reading, in addition to learning sign language.

One of my favorite memories was when my son, about 1yo at the time, heard a garbage truck early on the morning. He was obsessed with garbage trucks, and he sat up and started excitedly signing truck in bed. I thought it was so cool that at such an early age, he could 1) identify what he heard, 2) communicate what it was to me, and 3) express how excited he was.

Well I won't resort to name calling, but here's the quickest example of US universities being okay with teaching communism as superior to capitalism.

The book, Communism For Kids has been published by a major U.S. university publisher, MIT Press, and is now available in paperback or Kindle on Amazon.

From the description: "Once upon a time, people yearned to be free of the misery of capitalism. How could their dreams come true? This little book proposes a different kind of communism, one that is true to its ideals and free from authoritarianism."

There's also video of students in various universities in the US protesting debates held by people like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and others where students flew the hammer and sickle, screamed in megaphone, and even attempted to bash in the windows of the hall... all with zero repercussions from the campus.

Perhaps your information isn't complete.

Edit: Here's video of Berkley enjoying a celebration of Communism

First of all, you'll find that there are two different writing standards for Norwegian, Bokmål and Nynorsk. You will almost certainly want to learn Bokmål, the most common. There are also a wide range of regional dialects; you will almost certainly want to learn Standard Østnorsk. It's nothing to worry about, as Bokmål and Østnorsk are almost always the ones taught to foreigners, but do be aware that you will find Norwegian that doesn't conform to what you've learnt.

As for somewhere to start, I'd suggest Norwegian on the Web, a basic introductory course covering grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, built up little by little in each of ten chapters. To have a minimal understanding of pronunciation you will need to read up to at least chapter 6; for grammar at least chapter 8.

I know you say you can't really sink money into it, but in my opinion the most valuable book, if you were to buy one, is Norwegian: An Essential Grammar. Most of your Norwegian learning can be done on the Internet, but I've not really found another decent reference for more complex Norwegian grammar. That can wait, though.

You'll probably also be recommended Teach Yourself Norwegian at some point, but in my honest opinion I don't think that's a particularly good book, especially considering the free courses you can find online. Just make sure to use a course from a reputable source — there are guides written by non-natives that are misleading or just plain wrong.

Once you get past the level expected for courses, you can try having a go with actual Norwegian text and speech, perhaps beginning with resources for people who are still learning Norwegian, like Klar Tale and SkoleTV.

Lykke til!

I have had a bunch of books, but I have given a lot away to another 3-year-old who loves bodies, so some of the out-of-print or rare books are not easy to find for me. I have this one:

http://www.amazon.com/First-Human-Encyclopedia-Reference-Series/dp/0756609976/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=14M5S3ATR6T05TJT3MTQ

I don't have the ones I listed below, but they look interesting. I have always had slightly "older" books than my kids, and let them look at the pictures and read what they were interested in. For example, my 4- and 7-year-olds have some books about the brain and are reading about neuroanatomy and neurotransmitters, and the central and peripheral nervous system, but sometimes they just pick up the books and look at the pictures and learn that the brain is responsible for all kinds of actions and thoughts and sensations.

http://www.amazon.com/Uncover-Human-Body-An-Book/dp/1571457895/ref=pd_tcs_compl_t_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0991ESGG92BTT0FW65QQ

http://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Books-Patty-Carratello/dp/1557342113/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1MF77N2TKN3B7D84Y692

Finally, these videos look pretty interesting, but I have not tried them:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/humanbody.html

Ok... this is a weird one but I am going to throw it out there anyway. When I was 8 (many years ago) my grandfather gave me this book: Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein. It is basically a picture book of simple physics puzzles meant to help high schoolers or undergraduates develop an intuition for the subject. It asks questions and then provides answers on the next page with solid, simple descriptions.

I. Was. Hooked. I couldn't get enough. This book taught me that we could examine the world around us and understand how it works. My 8 year old brain boggled at the possibilities! WE CAN LEARN ABOUT ANYTHING IF WE TRY! Fucking magnets... I figured out how they work! Or, at least I got an idea. This book made me curious and excited to explore the world around me.

From an excited, curious kid, I moved up on, always eager to explore. This book lead to an undergraduate education in Physics and my current pursuit of a PhD in biophysics. This book played a massive role in developing my critical assessment of the world around me.

The Tzimisce Teacher:

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Carl Sagan warned of a world of scientific ignorance where illogical superstitions like the anti-vaccine movement and religious tribalism increasingly took hold.

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John Allen Paulos warned of a world of mathematical illiteracy where pyramid schemes and predatory lotteries increasingly took hold, reflected perhaps even in the popularity of the non-mathematical D&D5e and v5 VTM tabletop games.

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In an increasingly hostile environment for the Kindred, where through the ages, not only a secretive cabal of academic vampire mages attack the clan, but a zealot-led Second Inquisition and a beckoning spell to remove former leaders, the Tzimisce have to be more intelligent and clever than the huge population of psychotic, self-serving, technologically-adjacent humans to preserve the clan's secret affairs, and excel mentally beyond the ranks of the enemy clans and factions in order to ensure survival.

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In countries across the world, the populace are encouraged through effective emotional manipulation to become mindless, passive consumers, docile, disposable workers, and uninformed citizens, an inclination infecting even the most vaunted of intelligentsia, so while a prospective candidate member for the clan (even among the revenant families) may be admired for certain strengths of personality and courage or a unique perspective or fetishistic abberance, such individuals still remain the product of successive centuries of refulgent anti-intellectualism, and as such, must be taught or destroyed if not able to meet the challenges of membership.

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To this end, The Tzimisce teacher dedicates their unlife to a calling of judgement. The teacher pays visits to members of the clan one can find with auspex through the world (a personal specialty from the teacher's experience), and tests them and corrects holes in their understanding of the kindred or the world or political ensnarement. If the Kindred is receptive and willing to improve and shows reasonable progress they are allowed to live, and if they are intellectually stagnant, recalcitrant, or umasterful to a degree beyond redemption, then they are executed, along with any sires or packmates or regional Sabbat leaders that attempt to stop this from happening.

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There are some Tzimisce that completely remove themselves from the reach of other clans through adapting their bodies to hostile environments far beneath the Earth, within the oceans, or even outer space (to still contend with other supernatural creatures), but for those that remain at risk among the humans, The Teacher has culled a huge number (perhaps thousands or tens of thousands) of unacceptable clan-mates. The Teacher has not been previously spoken of much through clan histories because many fail to live to tell of meeting The Teacher.

>I'm a 17 year old senior in HS looking to major in physics or engineering next year when I go off to college. I'm subscribed to this subreddt because I find it very interesting. That being said, I don't have an extensive background on physics and was very curious about the Higgs-Boson.


Good for you! We need more people going into the hard sciences. Take the following with a grain of salt, just wanted to share some hindsight. When it comes to physics, start early. I highly recommend a book called Thinking Physics. I didn't find out about it until college when a TA recommended it in an intro course; wish someone told me about it in High School. It would be right up your alley. :) Also, don't be discouraged if the math roughs you up a bit when you get to linear algebra.

If you like the advise if the comment above you, check out this book , "the way things work" it's under teen and young adult section but I (31, M.D) still check it every now and again because it explains how things work in a great and informative way, from a simple slope to a computer and everything in between.

It's a great starting point on each topic and once you get the basics of say a motor you can google and wikipedia the particular aspects that interest you the most.

I've been custom building and working in shops since I was... well technically too young to be legally employable.

Emily Dickinson factors in here: "The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care".

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As a competitive BMXer, my bent toward building was a product of necessity: I'd have a bike I liked, typically upgraded the cranks right out of the box, and would replace parts as I broke them, or as parts I liked the look of would be offered in trade from other bmxdiots. BMX kids aren't known for the depth of their pockets (maybe their individual parents are, but not the bmxdiot himself). So I learned valuable technical skills, and did what I had to do to keep my wheels spinning.

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Fast forward a few surgeries later:

I have short extremities for my height, so once I got over my prejudice toward spandex and drop bars, Building up my Allez was basically a necessity, because I have a bent for shorter cranks and stem than most people my size. I also have very wide shoulders, which means wider bars than most people my size.

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However, A Cannondale F29 (alloy, lefty fork) in size large fit me just fine out of the box, so I bought it, raced it, crashed it, killed it, and loved the living hell out of it while I still had it. Hated the bland colors, but I feel that made me more competitive because I wasn't afraid to chip the paint.

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I'm a pro mechanic and I have been for years, one of the primary benefits to building is aesthetic. My Allez looks like something out of TRON or Rainbow Brite. I've also swapped the group on it multiple times. A close second is fit. For me, personally, It's all about the thrill of the build. In fact I frequently get bored with bikes once I get them dialed in. Coincidentally, This is the first book my parents ever got me. And it made an impression.

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If you absolutely need your bike to be one of a kind, you have no choice but to build. If you absolutely have to have the latest and greatest fighter jet for racing purposes, out of the box options like SWORKS and things like Cannondale's Black INC are gonna be your go to.

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Also, for clarification for those who do need to limit their budget: What I haven't factored in so far, is that I'm a trained professional and an expert when it comes to bicycle fuckery. I know exactly what I am doing when it comes to part compatibility, and specialty tools. This is how hotrods work! Hot rod culture came out of skilled, but underprivileged kids who had more hard earned knowledge than money for a fast car. If you don't have the skills, or the time (and primarily) humility to learn them, the path of least resistance (and lowest cost) to a sub 11 second quarter mile is to buy an off the showroom sports car.

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EDIT: Hope this helps and Keep Kickin'

Vigernere1 gave you some pretty solid advice. It sounds like you are focusing on reading more than speaking, correct?

I have studied for a few years, and I am probably around 2000 characters. I bounced around with a few textbooks, but if I were to start over, I'd use New Practical Chinese Reader books 1-4. The videos from the lessons are on youtube as well. Then move to All Things Considered (put out by Princeton). I have 4 of the books from their series. They are all good, but All Things Considered is fabulous. They have a few books that are higher level than that as well. It also has simplified and traditional characters.

Buy Pleco if you haven't already and make flashcards. Do quizzes and quiz yourself to you go blind and you should be good to go.

[New Practical Chinese Reader] (https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Chinese-Reader-Vol-2nd-Ed/dp/7561926235/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1501086151&sr=8-1&keywords=new+practical+chinese+reader)

[All Things Considered] (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=all+things+considered)

Consider the massacre at Wounded Knee, December 29, 1890. There is no argument that men, women, and children were slaughtered that day cruelly.

At the time, there were medals of honor given to many of the men who fought there:

http://www.history.army.mil/moh/indianwars.html

As time went on, a popular poet, Stephen Vincent Benets, mentioned Wounded Knee in his popular poem "American Names" in 1927:

http://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/30days30poets-stephen-vincent-benets-american-names

The phrase from this poem was used by Dee Brown in the title of his excellent, ground breaking, and culture shifting work, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" in 1970:

http://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846

What is notable in regards to your question above, is that this work is extremely critical of the American Government's behavior towards Native Americans, yet remains almost required reading in many American High Schools.

However, it remains that those medals of honor still stand. But there are recent rumblings to have those medals rescinded:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/18/massacre-wounded-knee-medals-honor-rescinded

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-huffhannon/wounded-knee-medal-of-honor_b_2664709.html

http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/rescission-of-medals-of-honor.html

So it is a shifting, evolving truth.

Western nations tend to have greater commitments to free speech, official censorship channels do not have the same power here as in other countries like Russia and Turkey. Therefore, there isn't a "Western historians do not accept" type situation as you suggest because a truly critical eye can dominate in the academia of the West over official pronouncements on sensitive topics. While elsewhere, official pronouncements cannot be criticized without fear of punishment or censure.

This doesn't mean the West has fully addressed past national crimes, it just means critical speech and dissent is more tolerated than in other nations on sensitive topics, generally speaking.

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I learned to do this my first semester of Chinese. It's actually incredibly easy and nowhere near as complex as one might think it would be. The computer is really accurate about guessing which character you want to use based on context so as long as you input the pinyin correctly you generally get the correct character.

This is the one we used for class, but windows also comes with its own version which you can access by simply going to keyboard settings and adding Chinese (simplified or traditional) as an input method. From there switching between languages is as simple as hitting alt+shift!

If you're interesting in learning, we used this textbook series which I found to be really awesome. And it can be found online for free, of course.

Colloquial Russian by Svetlana Fleming & Susan Kay. It was the set text for my first year of university (studying German and ab initio Russian) and now I'm near the end of my fourth and final year and I can confidently say that it provided an excellent foundation. It has accents to mark stress as well as useful audio CD accompaniments. Available on Amazon fairly cheaply - hope it helps :) желаю вам удачи!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colloquial-Russian-Complete-Course-Beginners/dp/0415469953/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427536468&sr=1-1&keywords=colloquial+russian

In my opinion, apps and software don't tend to be of much use; they don't let you advance quickly enough and don't expose you to enough material. If you're serious about learning Russian, grab a good book and study each text or dialogue until you understand it both in reading and aurally. There's Teach Yourself Russian, Routledge's Colloquial Russian, the FSI FAST (Familiarization and Short-Term Training) Russian, Assimil Russian (if you speak French), and I've heard good things about the New Penguin Russian Course. In all cases, be sure you get audio along with the book, or have a native speaker who is willing to help you learn. Good luck!

Hi, I have spent the past few years of my life advocating for critical thinking, and giving training on the topic. Many people have talked about listening to and reading both sides on any topic which is an important point - I like to say that critical thinking is a team sport. I also recommend that your first step should always be to read the Wikipedia article on any new topic that you encounter. You should not trust information on Wikipedia 100%, but this step will help you to get an overall understanding of the topic and a sense of how experts think on it.

I also recommend the following books, and I have put them in order from shortest/easiest to longest/hardest so I recommend reading them in this order:

An Illustrated Book of Bad Argumentshttps://bookofbadarguments.com/

Innumeracyhttps://www.amazon.ca/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405

Critical Thinkinghttps://www.criticalthinking.org/store/products/critical-thinking-tools-for-taking-charge-of-your-learning-amp-your-life-3rd-edition/143

Some free resources:

https://youarenotsosmart.com/

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

And I am currently working on a free multiplayer game where you learn the logical fallacies by trying to fool your friends with deceptive famous quotes. It should be ready in a few months so I will take note of your username and DM you the link when it is ready.

since there are many many awesome books already up. Im going to vote for The Way Things Work as the absolute best book you can give to a child. this book is probably single handedly responsible for why people think im smart because i can fix basic machinery. i spent many a night reading it, still have it and hope to pass it on one day.

Suggestion: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences

Not directly related to engineering, but still very good.

I also like books about design, especially opinionated design (I think design and engineering go hand in hand). One good one I've read lately is The Compact Culture.

I came from a beginner/intermediate level of Japanese fluency to Mandarin a year and a half ago. I have been using the New Practical Chinese Reader series (here) and have been very pleased with it. I think it will work well for you because 1) the vocabulary seems pretty accelerated to me and 2) there is a good amount of audio content with the texts. Hope that helps.

I love this idea. However, I can't think of any that I know of aside from ones that I find through Googling "kids science magazines." I do, however, know a pretty neat book that I read as a child that really opened my mind to the way things worked (I assume this newer version is just as good). From what I remember, it doesn't really delve into stuff like religion, but satisfies that curiosity every kid probably had at one point regarding the why of everything. I can't say that this is what made me become as scientifically-minded as I am now, but I can say that this was a start.

Also your nephew will develop a strange love for mammoths.

working with a microcontroller will be a good way to have hands on learning about electronics backed up by your programming skill.

You could also look at the kids book http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473. It has mammoths, and is pretty fun, alongside being quite descriptive of the innards of technology. This is an update to the one I had. I still enjoy looking at my copy, and my son liked it when he was 4.

Epstein, Thinking Physics (http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Physics-Understandable-Practical-Reality/dp/0935218084)

This book is wonderful. It is almost a bathroom reader, but it has amazing depth and great lessons that range across all of physics.

As for books, the best I could find on Amazon (based on ratings) was Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/gkornbl/H325F09/ is a syllabus I found for a Native American History course that could have some good resources.

Also check out this IamA which may provide some perspective and/or resources or you could PM them.

IAmA Native American who lives on a reservation. AMA

Also there is r/NativeAmerican if you want to ask over there.

Anything by Simon Singh is worth reading. In addition to what others have recommended, these books are good:

[The man who loved only numbers](http://www.amazon.com/MAN-WHO-LOVED-ONLY-NUMBERS/dp/0786884061/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254333710&sr=8-1
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Flatland

Prisoner's Dilemma

A mathematician reads the newspaper

A mathematician plays the stock market

Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences

Also, while not exactly about Maths:

Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman

What do you care what other people think?

The Art of Computer Programming

if she is serious, the real astronomers love. best book for adults and kids, by same author as curious george. Guaranteed satisfaction or I'll buy it back from you

https://www.amazon.com/Stars-H-Rey/dp/0547132808

Yes, Bryson's is a good one. I'd also recommend some classic books: 1. The Universe and Dr. Einstein. 2. About any book written by George Gamow, like One Two Three . . . Infinity. 3. Thinking Physics. I think all these books are quite motivating.

That's awesome! Go Mom! :)

I think that this book might be unexpectedly empowering for her as she begins her next adventure: https://www.amazon.com/Oh-Places-Youll-Dr-Seuss/dp/0679805273

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no, its xin shiyong hanyu keben， 新实用汉语课本

https://www.amazon.de/Practical-Chinese-Reader-shiyong-hanyu/dp/7561910401

its a good textbooks series for learning, the first volume still has pinyin under the characters and the second one still has tone markers over them , easing you into reading over time.

i recommend getting each together with its workbook, since you get a lot of practice examples in the workbook. I`m currently in book 5 out of 6 but im looking at switching since ive heard that for advanced level theres better textbooks available, im just used to the format by now :)

Oh the places you'll go. My mom gave it to me as part of my graduation gift years ago. It sits proudly beside "Principles of Neural Science" and "Neuroanatomy". I encourage everyone to read it :)

I was lucky enough to stumble on Logic Gates while reading David Macaulay's amazing "The Way Things Work." I probably learned more from that book than I did in high school (Well, maybe not quite). It certainly was more interesting.

Something about them has always fascinated me though, ever since I saw them in his book. The idea that you can make all these gates, gates that do basic logic operations with electric signals, just by wiring a few transistors (and a diode or two I think?) together blows my mind. And then that you can take those gates and build...computers basically. That's what chips are (mostly at least): piles and piles of gates crammed into an incomprehensibly small space.

The fact that I could buy a cheap pile of transistors, diodes etc from radioshack, wire them together and build a calculator, from scratch, drove me crazy as a kid (in a good way). Still does.

Hey OP, this is the book that my formerly Catholic now atheist parents read to me as a kid.

It's a pretty simple read, meant for kids, about the fact that many people envision God - and by proxy, religion in general - in many different ways. And, of course, that some people don't believe in any God, or some just aren't sure.

I think discussion is a good thing, because kids will encounter religion, all around them, from a young age. Learning early on that many people think they have the one right answer was, for me, the first step to understanding that maybe people just don't actually have the answers, and maybe all this "God" business is just something that different groups of people have made up in their own unique ways and told stories about over the centuries.

Anyways, highly recommend the book. Bonus points if you get your kid to read some of it!

Norwegian shares some with both Swedish and Danish, so it's a nice pick for understanding at least a bit of those. It's also quite easy for English speakers to learn, on par with Swedish and maybe just a touch easier.

For learning resources, check the sidebars of specific subreddits like /r/norsk and /r/svenska, and/or ask in there. But for Norwegian I really like Norwegian: An Essential Grammar, and I used the Pimsleur course.

I have several National Geographic books on my son's wishlist. He'll be 2 soon and I want to get him hooked on science as soon as possible. He's still quite little, but right now asking him to do chores has really started getting him to think. He drew on my bedroom door with chalk and I told him to erase it because we only draw on the chalk board. The look on his face totally showed that his gears were moving. In about a minute he was back from his room with the chalkboard eraser. When it didn't erase from the door well, he picked up a towel from my bedroom and wiped the rest of it off. It's the little things, right? haha.

Out of the books on his list, I'd say "The Big Book of Why" might get him thinking the most. Thanks for the contest!

Paulos is pretty good. He has some other good books too.

I've read and can recommend Innumeracy and AMPtSM as quick bedtime reading or to mathematical laymen.

Like I said. A 1 year old won't remember. Won't really know what's going on. It will be more for you than anything. I little $5 item is fine.

A quick check on amazon has a bunch of stuff. I found a book that would be great. Only $3 something. And it will help your child immensely to read to her/him daily.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312510780/ref=mp_s_a_1_8/192-1078523-6739854?qid=1458074671&sr=8-8&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=best+gifts+for+1+year+old+girls&dpPl=1&dpID=51dxds64%2ByL&ref=plSrch

Why do you need this for college? I'm not trying to be mean but most colleges don't care if you know a language unless you're fluent. And I'm not sure how much you mean by "a bit".

The textbooks my Mandarin class in college is using are the New Practical Chinese Reader Series They're pretty cheap as far as textbooks go and you can watch video clips of their conversations on youtube.

Here is a website that has a lot of links for how to learn Chinese. I know not all of the links work, but a couple of them looked pretty good.

This is an excellent read on Native American history and their relation to white Americans – a true classic.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Best science teacher I ever had the pleasure of being taught by introduced me to this book. This book and his class changed my world.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0935218084

A little about joe for anyone who's interested.

http://nutrias.org/culotta/ltio.htm

Good question. Maybe someone who knows better can chime in? I'm not even sure how the traditional configurations evolved. They seem to vary a bit from author to author, though they are often similar.

H.A. Rey (of Curious George fame and an avid stargazer) published a book in 1952 called The Stars. It has been very popular and re-edited and reprinted several times. It's still for sell on Amazon. In this book he suggests new configurations which actually suggest modern stick figure representations of the constellations, such as the one mentioned by /u/Other_Mike.

The different configurations use the same bright stars, but people may choose different dimmer stars. H.A. Rey, for example, occasionally chooses some rather dim 5th magnitude stars to make his figure come out the way he wants. He includes some 4th magnitude stars, but not others. But the bright stars (3rd magnitude and brighter) are the same for everyone and people are just connecting them differently.

Older version was one of my favorite books as a child. Got few others on electricity, lasers, optics and such specifically. Best... thing...ever! Sparked my interest in, well, everything :)

The book that I have and I adore Prudent Advice. <Link if anyone is interested. It is beautifully written and varies between really serious advice and more silly things. I don't have a daughter, but I hope I will one day and until then use it to remind myself sometimes.

Sonya, Your Momma wouldn't tell you this but if a book has been banned, you should probably read it.

I also really like: You don't have to pretend to know something if you don't.

And: Get messy!

Every child needs this book.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Here's a great book on, well, how things work, that has a bunch of great infographics

Come join us over at /r/ChineseLanguage for starters! Look into chinese pod for listening, anki deck for learning vocab. And then try a book like New Practical Chinese Reader as a textbook. But to be honest, without some tutoring, or preferably time in China, it will be a massive uphill struggle at the best of times.

[Under $4] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0312510780/ref=aw_ls__6?colid=2AM7TAQQA7P2I&coliid=I35U7SHGRVNUKV)

[Under $3] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307021343/ref=aw_ls__5?colid=2AM7TAQQA7P2I&coliid=I1XA4R3BFFGRLS)

I don't have anything under $2 except for digital, which I CANNOT SEE THE PRICE OF ON MOBILE because Amazon hates me.

These are both books for my niece. I want her to be a reader like me. So far, she LOVES books.

Thanks for the contest!!

i had the Daring Book for Girls as a child and i LOVED it! its full of empowering stories, knowledge on things “most girls dont know” like tying knots, survival skills, etc. Im so glad my parents bought me it!!

heres a link: The Daring Book for Girls https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062208969/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_.z3-BbFEWK81F

it has been done.

the most interesting was a test for a disease that has a 98% accuracy rate for a disease that only 1 out of 200 have and if you test positive you have only a 20% chance of having the disease. google Bayes Therom.
if you like math read it.

The ones I grew up on may be a little dated at this point, but are still worth a read:

"The Stars" by H A Rey

"Stars and planets" by WS KALS (ISBN: 0-871561671-0)

"How to make a telescope" by Jean Texereau (ISBN:0-943396-04-2)

More on the math side, but still helpful: "celestial navigation step by step" by Warren Norville (ISBN: 0-87742-177-3)

"Field guide to the night sky" by National Audubon Society (ISBN: 0-679-40852-5)

[edit:] and I found the most recent one I bought, "atlas of the universe" by Sir Patrick Moore (ISBN: 1-55297-819-2)

This one was I actually used as a stand-in for the assigned college level astronomy course (mostly for accurate data)

[edit 2:] you may also want to study a little chemistry for a better understanding of the stars themselves

Try to find entry points that interest you personally, and from there the next steps will be natural. Most books that get into the nitty-gritty assume you're in school for it and not directly motivated, at least up to early university level, so this is harder than it should be. But a few suggestions aimed at the self-motivated: Lockhart Measurement, Gelfand Algebra, 3blue1brown's videos, Calculus Made Easy, Courant & Robbins What Is Mathematics?. (I guess the last one's a bit tougher to get into.)

For physics, Thinking Physics seems great, based on the first quarter or so (as far as I've read).

The Way Things Work looks like a good choice. There's an updated version... from 1998. Well, I guess physics don't update that often, so it's all good.

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1D5PAH7X04JQNKQ0DQD9

If you don't have The Stars by H. A. Rey, that's a great place to start.

Yes, it's by the guy who wrote Curious George, but it's a highly used and respected book.

Key word is thorough. Prob and stat is actually very intuitive, the issue is that that intuition must be built from the ground up. Most university courses fail in this respect.

Let me recommend some good, useful, and fun to read books for you: Innumeracy, Beyond Numeracy, and probably most importantly A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper all by John Allen Paulos. He's sort of a pop-math author I would consider analogous to Carl Sagan for numbers.

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table


This joke has actually turned into a EXTREMELY useful book I use to teach 5th graders their geometry formulas. There is a whole series of them now and are by far some of my favorite books to use in teaching! He is married to Lady Di of Ameter and his son is Radius.

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table


This joke has actually turned into a EXTREMELY useful book I use to teach 5th graders their geometry formulas. There is a whole series of them now and are by far some of my favorite books to use in teaching! He is married to Lady Di of Ameter and his son is Radius.

>98.44%/99.9%

That should be 98.44-99.9%

>being european.

Actually, it's "something other than NA"...

>So yeah, between naught and fuckall percent native American

Again, I'm going to need a numerical value for "fuckall".. Because "naught" means zero, so I'd have to assume fuckall means "more than zero"...

Innumeracy can be overcome with the proper desire and effort. This might be a good place to start...

It's hard to define great nonfiction books because they're not books kids cherish and read for years to come. The books are severely limited by the target age of the reader. Whereas, I'm sure my daughter will still own her Harry Potter set when she's 25-years-old.

1. A Street Through Time (Mostly pictures, but fascinating. There's also A City Through Time.)
   
   
2. Castle part of a series, similar to A Street Through Time, but black-and-white.
   
   
3. The (New) Way Things Work by the Castle author, although maybe too advanced for a 7-year-old.
   
   
4. Stephen Biesty's Incredible series -- Meticulous drawings and small print notes breaking down objects and processes.... the interior of a race car, the architectural sections of a cathedral, how wigs are made, how medieval armor is made, etc.
   
   
5. National Geographic Young Explorers. Specifically, the books from the 1980s found now at thrift stores. It seems every school and library once carried them. Maybe written too young for a 7-year-old, not sure. See if your library still carries the series.
   
   
6. Other multi-part 'How does X work?' books. I have one out-of-print series in mind I'll pull the title from after my kids are at school.
   
   
7. Ranger Rick magazine. Here's a Flash preview magazine. It has no advertising. In comparison, NatGeo Kids is packed with advertising and pop culture articles that have nothing to do with geography or the natural world. Tip: Google Ranger Rick and click the Google Ad to subscribe for $15 instead of $20.
   

Don't forget about books for the toddler years too! They're grabby and will rip paper because they don't know how to manipulate it yet, so you want board books that can stand up to them. Because my daughter, at least, can't stand when we're reading her something that she can't flip through, and teaching gentle touch is a slow process.

Aside from all the kid's books rendered into board book form, I love books that are full of labelled pictures of things, like this. I point at words to teach her them and I can see her vocab expanding as she points at pictures when I call them out to her.

Spanish version: http://imgur.com/RRJ4V.jpg , some of the character generation ideas have been reused.

Looks like there is a new version around, it's been honorably added to my wish list. http://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Books.
The Way Things Work is a must have.
The Dangerous Book for Boys is pretty good too. Might be a little over his head although the first amazon review claims their six year old loves it.

>everyone however, needs to know how to file taxes, how to get a job, how to cook.

Nope. I'm curious why you think everyone needs to know how to cook.

If I had to choose a world where everyone could cook, or everyone had a good sense of statistics, I'd easily choose the latter. We'd all be happier and more successful.

The Way Things Work is pretty awesome.

There is this book: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Babies-Baby-University/dp/1492656224

And this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510032

But in my (biased) opinion, it's hard to appreciate quantum science without the mathematics. I think it would make sense to just keep your kids interested in science in general, and then as they mature mathematically/scientifically introduce some quantum. It makes no sense to talk about quantum with someone who doesn't know what probability is or possibly even what an electron/photon is or maybe even what a wave is.

I think there are definitely some prerequisites needed in order to actually discuss quantum physics properly.

There is a whole series of math-related "adventure novels" (not sure exactly what they are about) involving a hero named Sir Cumference.

Example: http://www.amazon.com/Cumference-First-Round-Table-Adventure/dp/1570911525

I found this reference grammar book very helpful understanding the grammar while I was learning Urdu.
It has Roman alphabet transliterations throughout the book so it's good for you if you are unfamiliar with Urdu alphabet.
Also what I like about this book is that it has short sections dedicated to Persian and Arabic elements used in Urdu. As you probably already know, Urdu has a lot of loanwords from Arabic and Persian and basically that makes it a lot different from Hindi. From my experience it would give you a head start if you have any knowledge on these two languages. So if your target language is Urdu and not Hindi, I recommend you to take a brief look at the languages that influenced Urdu.

There is, but it's probably better for like teenagers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262533359/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_QW60Ab7P8G9KT

Dawkins is a great author and thinker, and he would benefit a lot from taking a look at this.

I bought some great material the other day on Amazon.

[This is the book](
http://www.amazon.com/New-Practical-Chinese-Reader-Textbook/dp/7561910401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334379917&sr=8-1)

And here are the CDs

You'll see that both things are available used for very reasonable prices. It's the best language learning self-teaching system I've seen out there in a long time. It seems to be thorough, and the student is expected to learn and use that knowledge in the exercises - just like a student would with a real elementary school lesson book.

It's a refreshing departure from most language learning materials I've found out there in bookstores and on the net, which are woefully inadequate.

Classic, there is a series of books based on this one:

Sir Circumference and the First Round Table

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone

There is even more, but you get the point :) I found out about these books when I tried that joke on my wife and kids a while back. They said I stole it from a book. I said no way. Then she pulled these from our enormous bookshelves. They had been patiently waiting for me to try that one. Just so they could show me the books, saving them for a few years, knowing some day I could not resist telling that joke...

With the mentality of the current GOP I could see it. It's an interesting book though. Wish politicians read things like that and this.

Not an engineer, but I did love this book when I was a kid.

No, not Oh, the Places You'll Go!; it's such well-written book, full of meaning an elegance with a positive message! Why would anyone flush a book that has so clearly dwarfed all others in poetry and value? Why would anyone attack such a sacred work of encouragement and truth? I mean, sure some of it sounds silly and mythical, but the meaning rings true even today! Surely, they can't be so jealous that their sacred texts hold so little poetic worth or modern relevance that they would flush the most holy of holy texts!

...Oh wait, I forgot; I have a level of maturity that allows me to recognize that it's just a book and not be bothered by what they do with their copy, especially in the modern day as destroying a book is not a successful method of removing the content from the public sphere thanks to publishers and the internet.

If it was my copy they burned flushed, I'll demand they pay me the price of a new one and a little extra, for destruction of others property shouldn't be encouraged; perhaps $20 or so.

I wonder if it's on Kindle...

I've been reading Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The collection of short stories is so truly depressing. The native americans in general were very trusting and desired a meaningful relationship with the white settlers. In the end, however, land disputes gave way to hostilities over and over again.

It's not particularly small, but Relativity Visualized by Lewis Carroll Epstein is mostly pictures and is an awesome book.

Edit: by the description of the cover, maybe it's Thinking Physics, also by Epstein?

Yep absolutely, as long as they are getting a broad spectrum of different viewpoints. There are several good books about comparative religion geared toward children too.

What do you Believe is a really good overview of the worlds major religions for kids and What is God is excellent at explaining that some people believe in god but leaves it up to the child to determine what they believe.

You should buy your son this book:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1406322229/


I believe he would enjoy it immensely. I know I enjoyed reading The Way Things Work when I was his age. (Note that the latter link goes to the 2nd edition. I read the first edition.)

For those interested, I highly recommend reading Russell Means' autobiography, "Where White Men Fear to Tread."

And, of course, all Americans should read Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

Heh. Funny.

It's sure easy to confirm one's bias when you make stuff up.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff-dp-0393310728/dp/0393310728/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1554384269

Also, maybe even more significantly:

https://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences-dp-0809058405/dp/0809058405/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1554384368

These two sentences mean the exact same thing, and they absolutely are both standard Norwegian, although you would definitely hear the second one being used the most in spoken Norwegian.

 

As for commas, the first one should indeed have a comma before for as it is a coordinating conjunction (as are og and men, among others), although there should be no comma in front of the fordi in the second sentence, as it is a subordinating conjunction. I suggest you go read up on the differences coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (including subordinating clauses).

 

If you're willing to spend a bit of money, two good books I would recommend are Norwegian: An Essential Grammar or Norsk grammatikk.

So, I think the book ya'll were deprived of this wonder in your childhoods, The Way Things Work

Gorgeous illustration, combined with diagrams that a 5 year old can understand, i5's a great way to learn some basic science!

In addition to the Chinese Breeze series already recommended, you can't go wrong with a text book.

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Try New Practical Chinese Reader (comes with CD). Basically, each chapter is a reading/dialogue that lists the vocab and defines grammar structures used in the chapter. Working your way through the book will give you a really solid foundation in the language, which will pair nicely with your other methods.

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The NPCR series goes up through level 6 btw. 加油！

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*Edit: Also, check out /r/ChineseLanguage for other Mandarin learners

> Mathematical literacy is more important than the typical person things.

The way you phrased that reminded me of Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos, which is a great book on these types of things.

My kids really like the DK First Human Body Encylopedia.

Edit... This 3D one looks really neat too.

Love those books.

Depending on how old you are if you saw it growing up, it could have been [The Way Things Work] (https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473) or possibly the How Stuff Works [book itself] (https://www.amazon.com/How-Stuff-Works-Marshall-Brain/dp/0785824324/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491399864&sr=1-1&keywords=how+stuff+works)

Well, I'm not sure if this one qualifies.

So if it doesn't, I'll do this one

Either one, both are great and I plan to use for baby sitting gigs.

Here's a tool to help with checking your reality :)

Innumeracy

From the Amazon page:

>... this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest scientists. After all, it’s never too early to become a quantum physicist!

Merry Christmas/God Jul/Hyvää Joulua!

This is actually quite common, this phenomenon is known as "Language Attrition":

>Language attrition is the loss of a first or second language or a portion of that language. Speakers who routinely speak more than one language may use their languages in ways slightly different from a single language speaker, or a monolingual. The knowledge of one language may interfere with the correct production or understanding of another.

Which seems to be what you're experiencing with Finnish, especially if your immersed in Swedish culture the majority of the time with school, the media, friends, family (even though you also said the speak finnish) etc.

To combat this I suggest attempting Finnish as if you were a novice...

Books:

1. Teach Yourself's Complete Finnish
   
   
2. Routledge's Colloquial Finnish
   
   
3. Routledge's Essential Grammar: Finnish
   
   Or if it's not too hard you could try something like "Suomen Sujuvaksi" or "Tarkista tästä!" Where Finnish is taught in Finnish, that might or might not help.
   
   Hopefully this helps :)
   

Don't cut yourself short, man. Maybe try easier things, like this. Or maybe this.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colloquial-Russian-Complete-Course-Beginners/dp/0415469953/ref=pd_cp_b_0

This book is the best I can suggest if you want to learn quickly.

https://www.amazon.com/Communism-Kids-Press-Bini-Adamczak/dp/0262533359/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

FUN FOR ALL AGES!

Also check out Colloquial Finnish. The Colloquial series is really good.

Pimsleur and Michel Thomas are also quite good but they're useless for reading and writing (which are honestly less important, especially for something with writing as simple as Finnish)

The King's Chessboard - Exponents

Math Curse - Word Problems.

Grandfather Tang - Tangrams.

The Grapes of Math - Number sense and multiplication. This author has lots of others as well.

The M&M Math Book - Counting, shapes, early number sense.

How much is a million? - Complex numbers. I think there's a sequel out too.

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table - Geometry. There is an entire Sir Cumference series.

So many more, but those are off the top of my head. Follow the Amazon links and click through related books. You'll find a ton.

I'm sure this has been said before, but "Oh, the places you'll go" by Dr. Suess is such an inspiring book. I think it's not just healthy for my children, it also reminds me not to get stuck in "the waiting place".

http://www.amazon.com/Oh-The-Places-Youll-Go/dp/0679805273

Edit: Also "oh baby, go baby" for the real little ones:
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Dr-Seuss-Nursery-Collection/dp/0375857389

The Way Things Work FTW! There's a sequel that just came out, too. Must put it on my Christmas list.

Like I said, people are not ignorant, just lazy. I was implying that a parent ought to impart the mental tools needed to explore the world themselves.

I was taught to read and to ask questions. My parents played the "why" game with me till I was so invested in my stubbornness that they handed me an "encyclopedia for kids" and I actually read it.

I started reading this when I was in the 2nd grade. Reading on and off again I finished it in the 4th grade. The Way Things Work.

newer version: The New Way Things Work

As a kid at that age I loved, "The way things work".

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Perhaps the book The Way Things Work? I loved this book when I was a kid.

Firstly, fucking adorable.

Secondly, buy her this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Go read the Amazon reviews.

Hilarious. So many people pretending to have read it and pontificating against something they don't understand.

This is such a fun book for learning a wide array of basic scientific principles.

I recently bought the updated version after seeing a post like this a while ago. Here is a link to Amazon.

Learning physics is learning to think. Start here, don't cheat, you will thank me when your done.

https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Physics-Understandable-Practical-Reality/dp/0935218084/

I really liked Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos.

http://www.amazon.com/Oh-Places-Youll-Dr-Seuss/dp/0679805273

this is a VERY suitable one. I bought it for my sister as a graduation present, but it works for new baby very well.

Some suggestions:

Oral History/Stories

• The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota - Dooling
  
  
• American Indian Myths and Legends - Erdoes, Ortiz
  
  
• American Indian Trickster Tales - Erdoes, Ortiz
  
  Historical/Educational material
  
  
• Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Contitions of North American Indian; Vol. I & II - Catlin
  
  
• Major Problems in American Indian History - Hertado, Iverson
  
  
• We are Still Here: American Indians in the Twentieth Century - Iverson
  
  
• American Indian Politics and the American Political System - Wilkins, Stark
  
  Native Authors
  
  
• Custer Died For Your Sins - Vine Deloria Jr.
  
  
• Standing in the Light - Young Bear, Theisz
  
  
• The Way to Rainy Mountain - Momaday
  
  
• Prayers of Smoke
  
  
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Brown
  
  Non-Native Authors
  
  
• Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder - Nerburn
  
  
• The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows - Nerburn
  
  
  Region Specific
  
  
• Lakota Society - Walker
  
  
• The Lakota and The Black Hills - Ostler
  
  
• Black Elk Speaks - Neihardt
  
  And just for fun, a Movie
  
  
• Dreamkeeper - Steve Barron
  
  Feel free to point out any mistakes, I'll add more should I think of them.
  
  These are just suggestions.

Did you mean this? This book was my favorite when I was a kid

I have been having a lot of luck with Urdu: An Essential Grammar, which is very broad in its treatment.

Check out Prof John Allen Paulos' work. 'Innumeracy' comes to mind. I'm on mobile, so I won't try to link.

EDIT: Found a Real Computer, here's a link

Here's his website.

Disclaimer: I had Prof Paulos for a class before I dropped out of Uni. :)

Quantum Physics for Babies

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Babies-Baby-University/dp/1492656224

You're welcome.

I taking a wild guess that you have read this book Innumeracy

Even if you haven't it is a very interesting read.

If you're ok with used, you can pick one up for less than $5 on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Cumference-First-Round-Table-Adventure/dp/1570911525
A good read

Might I recommend: For Boys
And For Girls

I have two nieces and two nephews.

I recommend this book, it has done wonders for me.

Also, Duolingo does explain the grammar (not very extensively, admittedly), are you reading the blurbs each skill has?

For clarification, the book details the broad scope of the horrors of Manifest Destiny in the United States with stories from across the continent. It is beautifully written and one of the few for which I searched out a first edition.

Hah, these are quite different to our baby girls first books that we got at our baby shower!

My Dad Thinks he's funny

Quantum Physics for Baby

and Avocado Baby

I'm looking forward to reading our girl "My dad thinks he's funny", because my god I do all those things already.

• The Daring Book for Girls
  
• The Dangerous Book for Boys
  
  Check the "Customers Who Bought This Also Bought" section for lots of fun stuff.

This will help.

http://www.amazon.com/Stars-H-Rey/dp/0547132808/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324559707&sr=1-1

The Daring Book for Girls?

So?

Looks like an interesting little book. Do you suggest we ban books that express different ideas?

https://www.amazon.com/Communism-Kids-Press-Bini-Adamczak/dp/0262533359/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491847605&sr=8-1&keywords=communism+for+kids#productDescription_secondary_view_div_1492152043229

Most of them do not look much like what they're supposed to be. H.A. Rey came up with alternative versions of the same constellations which look more like what they depict. I had this book as a child and I now see some constellations with the classical shapes, and some with Rey's.

I think the best overall account is Elliott West's The Last Indian War I also really enjoyed Merril Beal's I Will Fight No More Forever, which draws heavily on personal accounts of the conflict. And finally, if you haven't read Dee Brown's Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, you absolutely must. He writes a broad history of American/Indian relations (and it's not a pretty one), and talks about the Nez Perce War.

[This] (http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405) is a great book - and actually a lot more fun than it sounds at first -

John Allen Paulos - Innumeracy

|Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it|

There's a whole book written about the subject, Innumeracy. Lots and lots of people don't understand numbers and how to interpret them, leading to all sorts of weird things.

A good read, from cover to cover.

Maybe something like this or this. They're not strictly Science, per se, but they can open up a conversation that leans that way.

The font and illustrative style reminds me of The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, except there are no mammoths.

My favorite book as a kid, by the way.

I've heard great things about John Allen Paulos' Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences but haven't read it myself yet so I don't know how much it covers about probability.

There are lots of chemistry sets out there. Also, the toy rockets that you build and launch - tons of different kits with different difficulty levels.

Oh, and I always liked these books - The Way Things Work and The New Way Things Work

You want to read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405

I object. This meme is stealing good dad jokes from king author.

http://www.amazon.com/Cumference-First-Round-Table-Adventure/dp/1570911525

Get Epstein's book Thinking Physics. Every physicist loves it, it requires no mathematical knowledge whatsoever, and I have seen more than one professor struggle with finding answers. This doesn't teach you the underlying mathematical structure, leaves out most of what you need to pass exams, but once you're through, you've built up a thorough understanding of the world around you.

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https://www.amazon.com/Communism-Kids-Bini-Adamczak/dp/0262533359

The New Way Things Work

This? New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

The Way Things Work

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

Were there mammoths? Could be The New Way Things Work

Gotta get 'em this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473

for me it was this minus the 'new'

The New Way Things Work

Used copies shipped for under $5:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0395938473/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=

Hi there, This book is the one I'm using. I would also switch all your online accounts to bokmål (if possible) and perhaps install a Norwegian proxy so you can watch dagbladet and nrk videos.

I would also advise anyone to check out Urdu: An Essential Grammar's Farsi (and Arabic) grammar of Urdu section.

The Stars by H. A. Rey

http://www.amazon.com/Stars-H-Rey/dp/0547132808/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322713066&sr=8-1

Oh the places you'll go!

This one

http://www.amazon.com/Oh-Places-Youll-Dr-Seuss/dp/0679805273

This is relevant.

innumeracy I know you didn't mention math, but this book completely changed the way I think about the subject.

http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405

http://www.amazon.ca/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its-Consequences/dp/0809058405

I didn't even realize that was a perception. I guess people in this sub may find this book illuminating.

Technically I don't think it's an "official" word. I got it from this guy.