(Part 2) Best children reference & nonfiction books according to redditors

Taylor: lonsheep

book: real

Winnie Cooper wrote a book on this.

A while back, I saw a musical called Calculus and it was hilarious. I also learned more than I ever did in a class. Get her the CD.

Vi Hart is a female math doodler who makes learning math really fun.

Some of this may be a bit advanced, but it sounds like she can handle it.

Awesome!

I'm always on the hunt for anything science or space themed for my girls.

It's harder to find than it should be.

There are also these cool science themed books for kids that my older girl loves. Here is one of them in the series that her uncle got her:

Rocket Science for Babies (Baby University) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492656259/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_QPpFzbAY2FQJ5

Hillary Clinton: Some Girls are Born to Lead

It Takes a Village: Picture Book by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A Girl Named Hillary: The True Story of Hillary Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight

Hillary Clinton: The Life of a Leader

I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark

I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Elizabeth Warren: Nevertheless, She Persisted

And there are a lot more where those came from. There were a lot of politician worshiping children's books I chose not to include because my list was already pretty long.

First, i know it will seem pessimistic of me to ask but; are you guys getting along very well? Most likely one will be better than the other, cause some frustration and will kill the learning process because of ego mismanagement.

If you guys can really work as a team, here's what i suggest:

• As a couple, your best asset is the very fact that you're a couple. If you live in a big town, google russian and the name of your town and go hangout there. Since it will be an "enclave" rather than a ghetto, you will see cultural stuff everywhere. Pamphlets and ads in local russian newspapers with tons of cultural events and beginners-in-russian are most often than not warmly welcomed, since russian is a very hard language to master for non-native speakers, meaning that they will be happy that a stranger puts in the effort of learning their language and their culture. They will often go the extra mile to help you pronounce and correct your mistakes. Of course, you will encounter suspicious and taciturn characters but hanging out in russian cafés and attending local cultural events will super-charge your russian assimilation. Languages are meant to be spoken.
  
  
• Secondly, i strongly, strongly recommend the acquisition of this book:
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Russian-Learners-Dictionary-Words-Frequency/dp/0415137926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431171&sr=8-1-spell
  
  And follow this man's method, The Goldlist Method:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6FERpM5fQ (Part one)
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyJiGVJ0LM (Part two)
  
  This will be your main method of vocabulary acquisition. I also recommend:
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Schaums-Outline-Russian-Grammar-Second/dp/007161169X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1300431298&sr=8-2
  
  and
  
  http://www.amazon.ca/Big-Silver-Book-Russian-Verbs/dp/007143299X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
  
  Yes i know, spending money sucks, but i bought all three of them and not regret my choice at all. Very practical.
  
  Speaking of spending money, if you have money to spend, spend it on a private tutor for both of you. The value of this cannot be stressed enough. He will explain things to you that books can't and will correct your pronunciation and also challenge you by having higher degrees of conversation (like the use of dative instead of instrumental, etc) so that you learn in deep and not just "to get by".
  
  A huge part of language acquisition is the exposition to culture. The longer you expose yourself to russian, the faster and better learners you will be. That means listening to russian music, watching russian videos and movies, reading russian news and get interested in what's happening int he country, speaking russian as much as possible. Immerse yourself in it.
  
  If you do all of this and you really, really dedicate yourself to it and use your couple as a blessing rather than a curse, i guarantee you that in 6 months, your level of russian will be that native russians will not believe you when you will tell them it's всего шесть месяцев :)
  
  Hope this helped, good luck with your russian!
  

I had just finished Grad school, and I didn't have a job and was living at home—that helps :)

But basically I would wake up, repeat words I learned the previous day, then learn another 30 or so (I have a decent memory). Then I would go over a grammar topic for a few hours then try to watch something. The only thing I didn't do was talk much (I wrote lots) because I had no money for a teacher and don't like talking to random people.

But to be honest I just become obsessed with Russian and it became my job (for the first year, anyway. After that I had different strategies as I started working etc). Sometimes I spent 12 or more hours on it a day.

I used this book for the vocal—https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Learners-Dictionary-Words-Frequency/dp/0415137926

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.

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! :)

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Exclusive-Hooked-Phonics-Complete/dp/1604991771

You're welcome!

I would say she is still a keeper

It does have some wonderful illustrations by /u/helloluis and Timi Ajiboye, but no characters with a cowboy hat.

If you want a character with a cowboy hat, there's this book by the Bitcoin Rabbi.

If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?

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

/r/flatearth

/r/theworldisflat

It's dangerous to go to these subreddits. Take this!

EDIT funny how you are getting downvoted. I wonder by who

Yea /u/Stutturdreki linked to r/atheistparents and I found a book that would be ideal...

https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Believe-Big-Questions/dp/146544386X

A is for Activist
I Dissent

I guess he never read this book to his kids

I remember my parents reading me this book before bedtime, and they give examples of million, billion, and trillion.

Any religion that believes in Christ is Christian which is all of the ones you've listed.
The differences?

Catholic: One of the earliest christian religions. Split with Orthodox Christians about 1000 years ago. Catholics one pope Orthodox Multi-popes.

I'm being very vague BTW

Protestant: Didn't like pope went their own way.

Anglican: Henry the 8th didn't like pope or wife. Got rid of both.

Lutheran: Martin Luther says Nein to Pope! Does it his way.

Jehovah's Witness: Figures all the other Christians are interpreting bible wrong. Puts their own spin on it.

Mormonism: Not only wrong interpretation, they added some more to the bible. Made a Zane Gray Testament of sorts.

Baptist: Again no Pope puts their own spin on the bible. They like water.

There are some great books that give an overview of each religion.
There's a kids book called 'What I believe'. It's actually really good for people who are curious.

I'm an atheist as well but I lean towards Buddhist Philosophy. (which has no deity BTW)
It's great that you're curious. To me a true Atheist harbours no anger towards religion but a curiosity for better understanding.

Edit: Maybe this is the book I was thinking of. You may feel silly but it's a great introduction that isn't too heavy!

https://www.amazon.com/What-You-Believe-Big-Questions/dp/146544386X/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BQP09TX3F857CF2R7CEQ

Actually it is not appropriately titled then.

It would be more like:

"Recommended Final Fantasy title for a virgin of the series who also happens to be a virgin in real life? (PS Vita)"

"For a virgin, Recommended Final Fantasy title for a virgin of the series? (PS Vita)"

"Hello! Virgin here! Recommended Final Fantasy title for a virgin of the series? (PS Vita)"

etc.

Because you see, virgin of the series means, in the context of the post, that the OP has never played a FF game before.

But it is not implied through the current post title that the OP is a virgin.

I encourage you to read some Reading Comprehension books such as this book.

Have a nice day!

She's also written a few books to get kids intersted in math.

• Math Doesn't Suck - Middle school math
  
• Hot X: Algebra Exposed
  
• Kiss My Math - Pre-algebra
  
• Girls Get Curves - Geometry
  

If you allow me to lump math/science, The Wonder Years star, Danica Mckeller

http://www.amazon.com/Math-Doesnt-Suck-Middle-School-Breaking/dp/1594630399

Brought to you by the author who wrote If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?

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.

Hey, this is the book

https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Learners-Dictionary-Words-Frequency/dp/0415137926

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

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.

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!

That's fine, report away; I believe in the system. I'm confident I'll be exonerated as I know I have never done anything of the sort.

You'd have a hard time explaining why I wouldn't manipulate the 1, or I think at most 2, posts that are downvoted. You'd also have a hard time explaining why some of my most upvoted comments contain other regular users thanking me for a post. Yeah, you've a real penchant for interpreting empirical evidence.

It couldn't possibly be that, aside from these types of exchanges, many of my posts are informative, thoughtful, well researched, and scientifically accurate. Nah, people would never upvote posts like that. I know that idea really irks you. I will gladly concede that once it's evident to me during an exchange the other party is very clearly in the wrong, I will use more stern and harsh language with them, like in this case with you. You should have seen that I have never sworn, and while I probably come dangerously close to crossing a line, I don't actually cross it.

Anyways, no, it's not another attempt at insulting you. I made that explicitly clear when I said, "I'm actually trying to establish a foundation for a productive exchange". You genuinely cannot read.

So, this can no longer be a productive exchange as you don't appear to understand the words I write. You lack the mental acuity to understand the points I make, so we are "speaking" at each other. I offered to use a medium of communication where this will not be the case, and you have refused. Not only can you not read, but you are a coward. I have the courage to stand by my statements in a format where there is less room for ambiguity, and you do not. My offer stands whenever you're ready.

With that, I wish you good luck in achieving grade school level reading abilities. Maybe then you'll have the confidence to hash it out verbally. If you happen to have a P.O. box, or you feel comfortable in send me your mailing address, I will literally send you a gift to get you started. Again, good luck.

My kids really like the DK First Human Body Encylopedia.

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

Not as vivid as the visuals you described, but there's a children's book about RBG.

"I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark" by Debbie Levy

Aside from looking hot, she earned a bachelor's in Mathematics at ULCA, co-authored a paper and wrote a middle school math book.

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.

These two are supposed to good for beginners

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0578490676

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1641990503

For an investor, this book is quite pro-sound money

https://www.amazon.com/FAKE-Teachers-Assets-Making-Middle/dp/1612680844

Yes. There is an organized attack on America happening right now. It MUST be stopped.

I have had arguments in op-ed pieces with these folks, and man...are they fucking stupid.

I have a large math background, and can argue with these fakers. There used to be a guy called Dembski that got a graduate degree in math and then used a bizarre area of game theory to argue for creationism. He lost. Even his professors have denounced his work as "meaningless" and "dishonest". He'll usually simply put up some equations that appear "mathy" and nobody argues with him. But I'll give him a run for his money with my own equations.

Long ago, a famous mathematician (Euler) cited an equation as proof for God's existence. His work was pure bullshit. Even a gifted mathematician fucks up when trying to prove god.

Have a good one, man.

However, I cannot recommend math highly enough. There's some real wisdom there. Did you know that some numbers have biographies? If you're interested (and most people aren't), you could start (and I already know you're probably not interested), here's some books that make math sexy and fun:

By Danica McKellar

Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail

Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss

Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape

Hot X: Algebra Exposed!

Good luck.

Adult Dystopian Recommendations:

• Oryx and Crake – Jimmy/Snowman coasts through life fueled mainly by ennui. His only rebellion is to be mediocre when his advantages in society (white, upper (maybe middle) class, Western male) have him poised for success. Glenn/Crake deliberately turns himself into the Big Bad in order to correct the wrongs he sees in society. Whether his main issue is with human nature, sucking the planet dry, socially stratified capitalist society, willful ignorance, or insatiety and curiosity is unclear. Oryx sees it all and accepts them all, knowing that she’s too unimportant to do anything except pick up the pieces and provide comfort in the meantime.
  
  
• The Year of the Flood – The world and especially capitalist society is stacked against you, but resourcefulness and an open mind will serve you well.
  
  
• The Handmaid’s Tale – Quiet rebellions like memory and record-keeping can be subversive also. But it’s only actions that set the stage for change. And the people you (maybe?) save will interpret everything differently from your intentions anyways.
  
  
• Never Let Me Go – Is it truly a dystopia when only a small group is affected? If you’re thinking of reading this, do not under any circumstances watch the movie trailer. The slow build to “something is not quite right” is part of the charm.
  
  
• Into the Forest – Literary fiction. More about acceptance and regression to a [“natural”](#s "and feminist, which apparently means incestuous but Deep! and Thematically! incestuous") state.
  
  
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Historical fiction about Chinese reeducation camps, but still pretty dystopian. Bourgeois teenage boy questions his educated, upper-class roots and teaches peasant love interest about Western literature. [She](#s "abandons him for a capitalist dream because the lesson she took from it was that love was worthless. Basically, they both take away the worst parts of each other’s starting philosophies and smash them together.")
  
  
• Wild Ginger – If historical fiction is happening, why not another Cultural Revolution one? If you keep your head down, you might just survive long enough to grow up and really see the hypocrisy – stuff even greater than what you saw as a kid.
  
  
• 1984 – Isn’t this more about how the system will break you and leave you a husk of your former self if you trust anyone completely? So you should be smart and skeptical and never assume things are in your best interest just because someone’s telling you so.
  
  
• Brave New World – Have to admit, at 12 this had me thinking that maybe fascism wasn’t such a bad idea after all. The despair and existential crisis aspects weren’t hitting me then: I just noticed how happy almost everyone else was.
  
  
• The Road – All about bleakness and futility and carrying on because the hope of family’s the only good thing left?
  
  
• Fahrenheit 451, where the people in charge are corrupt specifically concerning that thing you're fighting against.
  
  
• World War Z – I’m almost hesitant to call this dystopian, because even though it’s about a freaking zombie apocalypse, it’s uplifting to hear all the stories of human resourcefulness and ingenuity and the mental strength you didn’t think was there. Of course, some of the stories covered are “logical responses” gone bad.
  
  YA-ish Dystopian Recommendations:
  
  
• Feed – It doesn’t work out for the only [person](#s "(Violet)") who truly fought the system (she’s beaten down so horribly that it’s heartbreaking that even the reader wants to look away), but she does technically inspire one other person to at least notice what’s going on in the world, even if it’s probably too late.
  
  
• Hunger Games – Katniss is really only involved because she has nowhere else to go. Side characters have real motivations for being involved, but she really is a figurehead along for the ride and that’s OK. The story is about that and how she copes.
  
  
• The Selection – cough Popcorn cough. America is highly motivated by money (For her struggling family, of course). Ignoring the love triangle stuff, her ideal is to move from serfdom to literally any other [political system.](#s "And this never happens. The political buildup you see in The Selection and The Elite is stomped all over in the vapid cheesecake of the love hexagon finale.")
  
  
• Incarceron & Sapphique – Finn’s rebellion is that he just wants out to someplace that must be better. Claudia lives in artificial luxury and rebels mostly just for personal rebellion, not anyone else’s sake.
  
  
• The Giver – Probably more MG, but how did running away from one collective society automatically become “capitalism is best?” Jonah runs away because he’s learned enough to make his own moral decisions about one of the helpless members of his society (and artificial protection sounds socialist to me). I can’t remember reading the sequels.
  
  
• The Book Thief – Again, MG and historical fiction about a bombed out German town in WWII, but I think a setting like that qualifies it as dystopian. Technically, Liesl fights the system by stealing (possibly forbidden) books from the wealthy and by not reporting the Jew in the basement, but that last one is just showing loyalty to her new family. Her entire upbringing predisposed her to not trust the System, especially a War System, anyways.
  
  Other Dystopias:
  
  
• Matched and Delirium will be considered together because they are the same damn book, right down to the Boy-Who-Could-Have-Been-Chosen-If-Not-For-Rebellion! and the protagonist’s government-approved hobby. Delirium has better writing. Matched is easier to read and has more likable characters. We get it, teenagers should be allowed to date who they like and mommy and daddy non-biological guardians shouldn’t say no. Also, it sucks to have a guidance counselor Make A Schedule for you in order to prepare you for an office job equivalent that’s full of busywork but one of the few respectable positions left. The horror! Seriously, in what world is that rebelling against socialism? You know, that thing that promotes trade schools and equal rights for everyone, even the people you don’t personally like?
  
  
• Divergent – I’m going to let someone else handle that one because urgh. I know a lot of people like it, and it’s YA, so someone else, please support, qualify, or refute.
  
  I’d also be curious to hear what /u/bethrevis has to say about the societies on Godspeed and elsewhere and where they fit into this opinion piece.
  
  Guys, I think I just wrote an English essay. And probably put more work into it than I did in high school. And I won’t even get an A because it’s the internet and we deal solely in lolcats.
  
  But tl;dr: Adult dystopias (that I’ve read) tend to be about the futility of existence or the necessity of self-sacrifice to get a result. The YA dystopias I liked were a little more hopeful (usually) and didn’t support this opinion piece’s thesis. The ones I didn’t like made me understand the hate for dystopias.

The Baby University including Baby Loves Rocket Science (https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Science-Babies-Baby-University/dp/1492656259/) and Baby Loves including Baby Loves Aerospace Engineering (https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Loves-Aerospace-Engineering-Science/dp/1580895417/) books might be good.

The books is 40% off at Amazon right now.

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Money-Tale-Bitville-Discovering/dp/0578490676/ref=sr_1_3?crid=30EP2GIAEO3XZ&keywords=bitcoin+money+book&qid=1556771854&s=gateway&sprefix=bitcoin+money%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-3

The cover-art looks '70s to me, but Amazon says it is from 2006. Odd.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sherlock-Holmes-Curly-Haired-Company-ebook/dp/B00HFXR6W0

I bought this for myself after about 4-5 months of study, they are basic stories in Chinese with the Enlighs translations for difficult words at the foot of the page, there is a whole series of them, fairly cheap and very good practice.

Would make a great gift imo.

Does this help?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HFXR6W0?ie=UTF8&redirectFromSS=1&pc_redir=T1&noEncodingTag=1&robot_redir=1

https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Science-Babies-Baby-University/dp/1492656259

Sorry, couldn’t resist. ;-). I’ll see myself out now.

(Seriously though, the whole series is kind of awesome.)

It's not the SS, but The Book Thief is about kids growing up in Nazi Germany and joining Hitler Youth and so on.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I think it was the unorthodox narrator's perspective and the dark humor that really got me about this book. It's YA, but such a good read that I think most adults will like it too.

Not quite science, but when I was young I liked to read the How Much is a Million? book, which got me interested in numbers. It may be above your target audience if you're aiming at 2nd grade, but How Things Work was one of my favourites too.

If you had trouble with any of those words, Here's a fantastic program just for you!.

I highly recommend Lagune 1. Make sure to get the workbook and remaining Audio CDs as well.

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.

Oh yeah...In my school of Engineering, every class I had 2 - 5 women. Most of them did not even finish up along with other guys. Now I am speaking of experience here in Oregon State University. Hell ya, I would be lying if I said engineering was a cake walk for me, so I am not bitching about being hard but talking about numbers from first hand experience. Try looking up this book by Danica Mckellar. She was an actor who later did a Phd in Math and wrote the book to generate an interest in Math for women. Interest is what is lacking....
http://www.amazon.com/Math-Doesnt-Suck-Middle-School-Breaking/dp/1594630399

Seconding this suggestion. Not just because anything in your original budget would be little better than a toy that might leave him uninspired (seriously, look at 114mm-130mm Dobs). But also, in my experience, leading by example is the best way to foster a lasting interest. Also recommended - picking up a few space books (example) to talk about what you're looking at, if he doesn't have any already.

National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Space Atlas

National Geographic Kids: Space Encyclopedia

Go For Launch by Abby Garrett

> ...internet enabled forklifts!

Whut.

Also, there's a reason I specifically mentioned internet after you brought up intranet. Specifically.

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grades-Instructional-Fair/dp/0742417697/

I bought this book, which you might find interesting:

Russian Learners Dictionary

The words are listed by their commonness, so you will learn the most common words first.

It's a little annoying because a lot of really obvious words are in there in the beginning (Я, Ты, и, или, etc) but then it starts to get interesting.

If you can get through that whole book, you will have a vocabulary of 10,000 of the most common Russian words.

My parents gave me this book when I was a child. It really helped me understand religious diversity. My grandparents also gave me a book of Bible stories for kids that had stories from the Old Testament in it, too (some of the ugly ones), and whenever I wanted to read a religious text my parents would get it for me. Basically, my parents made sure that I never wanted for knowledge.

a couple links to her books:

http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Algebra-Exposed-Danica-McKellar/dp/0452297192/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1314044932&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.com/Math-Doesnt-Suck-Survive-Breaking/dp/0452289491/ref=pd_sim_b_2

You can try National Geographic First Big Book of Space.

It is available on amazon for the UK Bitcoin Money: A Tale of Bitville Discovering Good Money https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578490676/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_DFhRCb9YC51C8

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.

For "Asian males" who want to improve their English skills, here's a solution:

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Exclusive-Hooked-Phonics-Complete/dp/1604991771

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?

Like this?

For kids: Bitcoin Money.

For adults: The Bitcoin Standard.

This will help you

If what you want to achieve is A1 and nothing beyond, you best bet would be getting one of the many course books:

• Schritte (http://www.amazon.com/dp/3190018510/). You may simply ignore the 1 stars review as they're irrelevant.
  
• Lagune (http://www.amazon.de/dp/3190016240/) and a lot more others. Actually it doesn't really matter which one you pick. Any one of them is sufficient.
  
  A arguably better alternative would be the free online course offered by Deutsche Welle (http://deutschkurse.dw.de/KursPlattform/WebObjects/KursPlattform.woa/wo/6.1). Do register and try it. Really valuable resource. Together with Deutsch – warum nicht? (http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/deutsch-warum-nicht/s-2163) you can go far. (In case you didn't realise already, both the sound files and pdf notes can be found on the right, featuring four series.)
  
  Maybe the only problem you would encounter is speaking. The speaking test is actually like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGNd-6pDkEI), and you may panic if you don't already speak in German for a several hours. Try to find someone who speaks German and wants to do a language exchange with you. (http://www.language-exchanges.org/) is one of them. You may as well find one on Reddit.
  
  By the way, if you really want to have a strong command of German sooner or later, there are some good, though popular (popular doesn't always mean bad) books for foundation, apart from your already awesome German for Reading:
  
  
• German: How to Speak and Write It (http://www.amazon.com/dp/9650060359/)
  
• The Everything Learning German Book (http://www.amazon.com/dp/159869989X/)
  
  If you insist on getting a grammar book, a nice start would be:
  
  
• Essential German Grammar (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0340741899/)
  
• English Grammar for Students of German (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0934034389/)
  
  And eventually you may want to take down the boss:
  
  
• Hammer's German Grammar and Usage (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1444120166/)
  
• Duden 04. Die Grammatik (http://www.amazon.de/dp/product/3411040483/)
  
  Finally I recommend you to take a look at my favourite reading material when I started, Studien und Plaudereien (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22160), freely offered by Project Gutenberg.

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!

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

I bought my son 'How much is a million' which helps to visualise big numbers including a million, billion & trillion (if a billion children stood on each others shoulders...)

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.

looking for

https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Curly-Haired-Company-ebook/dp/B00HFXR6W0

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She is a mathematician who writes books about math now. Seriously!

Also, it looks like she really likes pantyhose stockings.

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.

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.

Reading Comprehension, Grades 7 - 8

There are some great books for young kids about Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and MLK by Brad Metzer in a very Bill Watterson-style (Calvin and Hobbes) that resonated with my girls. Another great one is about Ruth Bader Ginsberg that is titled "I Dissent!".

All have good examples of civil (and legal) dissension with examples that kids can apply to their own lives.

Hmmm... I didn't know I was a Chinese propaganda element until you told me honestly. I get that not understanding proper argumentative writing can bring about fear if you are ignorant, this would be money well spent for you: https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Comprehension-Grades-100-SeriesTM/dp/0742417697/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2VJKSTLZ9KZ61&keywords=reading+comprehension&qid=1568167220&s=gateway&sprefix=reading+comprehension%2Caps%2C158&sr=8-7