I am making my recommendation on based on the fact that our ratings at this site are about the same. A great great first book on Strategy is Simple Chess by Michael Stean. It is cheap at Amazon.com The writing is crystal clear and the examples are very illuminating. I think a lot of the other books on Strategy are for later on in our development.
I highly recommend Simple Chess by Michael Stean
I know there are a lot of books on middle game and all but i was wonderig what everyone's thoughts were on which book or software or w/e was best for learning positional play?