Compiling soft-skills in Simplified English

I have a substantial amount of reading to do. Having aquired over $400 worth of reference books, there is not much more I should purchase until I have read through at least 20% of about four of them.

Titles in the neurological cache:

  RDA; Foods that harm, Foods that heal

  Readers Digest; Encyclopaedia of Australian Wildlife

  Cambridge; Grammar of English

  SAMS; Teach yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (spanning 21 weeks)