Take a look at this week's Book Nook for some good reads.
 

 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning
By Victor Frankl

Psychology/Spirituality

 

Viktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man's Search for Meaning, his harrowing Holocaust memoir. In this book, he goes more deeply into the ways of thinking that enabled him to survive imprisonment in a concentration camp and to find meaning in life in spite of all the odds. Here, he expands upon his groundbreaking ideas and searches for answers about life, death, faith and suffering. Believing that there is much more to our existence than meets the eye, he says: 'No one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.'

In Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl explores our sometimes unconscious desire for inspiration or revelation. He explains how we can create meaning for ourselves and, ultimately, he reveals how life has more to offer us than we could ever imagine.

(Rs. 750/=) Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia




The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
By William Shirer

Political History

 

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer's monumental study of Hitler's German Empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of this century's blackest hours. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.

(Rs. 2,350/=) Available at Serendib Bookshop (Pvt) Ltd Mount Lavinia



The Moral Landscape
By Sam Harris

Non-fiction

 

Sam Harris' first book, "The End of Faith", ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through science has now become the primary justification for religious faith.
In this highly controversial book, Sam Harris seeks to link morality to the rest of human knowledge.

Defining morality in terms of human and animal well-being, Harris argues that science can do more than tell how we are; it can, in principle, tell us how we ought to be. In his view, moral relativism is simply false - and comes at an increasing cost to humanity.

And the intrusions of religion into the sphere of human values can be finally repelled: for just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim algebra, there can be no Christian or Muslim morality. Using his expertise in philosophy and neuroscience, along with his experience on the front lines of our 'culture wars', Harris delivers a game-changing book about the future of science and about the real basis of human cooperation.

(Rs. 845/=) Available at Makeen Books, Col 3   



Those in Peril
By Wilbur Smith

Fiction

 

Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major global oil producers. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, her yacht is hijacked by Somalian pirates and her nineteen year old daughter Cayla is kidnapped. Major Hector Cross is an ex-SAS operative and the man behind Cross Bow Security, the company contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security.

His loyalty to the Bannock family goes beyond the call of duty. The pirates demand a crippling ransom for Cayla's release, and complicated political and diplomatic sensitivities render the major powers incapable of intervening. With growing evidence of the horrific torture to which Cayla is being subjected, Hazel calls on Hector to help her rescue her daughter. Between them, Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.

(Rs. 1495/=) Available at Makeen Books, Col 3   



Gota's War
By C.A.Chandraperuma

Non-fiction

 

This book tells the story of the war between the LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka in the context of the wider political conflict which begun in 1956. In January 2008, the FBI ranked the Tamil Tigers as the world's deadliest terrorist organization outranking even Al Queda. Yet by May 2009, the LTTE military organisation lay completely annihilated by the armed forces and the tactics adopted are described in detail.  At the centre of it all stood the president's brother Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - soldier turned IT professional turned public servant, in his new role as Defence Secretary.

The book was released yesterday at Water's Edge, and is available for sale from today. (Rs. 1000/=) Available at Vijitha Yapa bookshop




Seal Target Geronimo
By Chuck Pfarrer

Non-fiction

This is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault element commander of SEAL Team Six. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive boots-on-the-ground account of what happened during each minute of the mission - both inside the building and outside.

(Rs.1,650/=) Available at www.books.lk


Activity Books
 

Where's Wally?
By Martin Handford
Age: 5+

 

Start the search for Wally in the original eye-boggling classic! The hunt for Wally is on! Wally, along with his friends, are fiendishly hidden in every intricately-detailed scene. Hours of fun and games await in this classic activity book - complete with striking new cover - that kick started a worldwide phenomenon.

Now a 25th anniversary edition of the original classic picture book which kick-started the world-wide Where's Wally? Phenomenon is also available and kids can search for Wally and his friends through extra fantastic features such as great gatefolds revealing more things never seen or searched for before to extend the entertainment of all happy hunters. Absolutely amazing!

The seventh classic title in the internationally famous Where's Wally? Series has recently been released and the search for Wally and his friends continues through more astounding scenes in this new classic title: “Where’s Wally: The Incredible Paper Chase”.

 

 

As Wally travels through worlds of dinosaurs, soldiers, clowns and so much more he leaves a tiny piece of paper to look for in every scene. Featuring a fold-out Muddy Swampy Jungle Game - with press out counters and tongue-twister forfeit cards - and a press-out circus for Wally fans to put on their very own show. This is the most interactive Where's Wally? title ever.

Find these and many more “Where’s Wally?” titles at MILK, 12 Barnes Place, Colombo 7.  Tel; 2696286 or Like them on facebook:  MILK @ 12 Barnes Place for special offers.



Star Wars: Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
By Sean Williams

Science Fiction

 

From across the galaxy they’ve come: agents of both the Republic and the Sith Empire, an investigating Jedi Padawan, an ex-trooper drummed out of the Republic’s elite Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian. An extraordinary auction has drawn them all together in quest of a prize only one can claim. Each is prepared to do what he must to possess the treasure, whose value may be the wealth of a world itself. None intend to leave empty-handed. All have secrets, desires, and schemes. And nothing could ever unite them as allies except the truth about the deadly danger of the object they covet. But can Sith and Jedi, Republic and Empire enemies for millennia join as one against the certain doom of the galaxy?

(Rs. 640/=) Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda

 


Disclosure
By Michael Crichton

Fiction- Psychological/Legal

 

The #1 Bestseller by the author of "Jurassic Park." As he did in "Rising Sun," Crichton focuses on a topic as close as today's newspaper headlines: sexual harassment.  Tom Sanders is an up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom. When his new boss turns out to be a woman who is both his former lover and a business rival, Sanders determines to be professional. But after a closed-door meeting, the woman accuses him of sexual harassment. It's her word against his, and suddenly Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded as the villain. As he scrambles to save his career and his reputation, Sanders uncovers an electronic trail into DigiCom's secrets . . . and the cynical scheme devised to bring him down.

(Rs. 640/=) Available at Sarasavi Bookshop Nugegoda