The Address Sept-Oct 2013

BOOKS
FEASTS OF PENANG:
MUSLIM CULINARY
HERITAGE
WAZIR JAHAN KARIM
[RM150.00]
This book was written out of
love and passion for Straits
Muslim heritage foods, inspired
by Wazir Jahan Karim’s mother,
Begum Bismillah Munawar, a
well-known philanthropist and
hostess in the 1960s who, amidst
her volunteerism for the poor
and disadvantaged, took much
pride and joy in entertaining
friends and relatives to
gastronomic home dinners. For
fear that many of these recipes
would remain only part of the
nostalgic memories of newer
generations of Straits Muslims,
Wazir Jahan embarked on a
project to document the culinary
heritage of Straits Muslims from
the northwest of Peninsular
Malaysia, mainly Penang.
WINNING FROM WITHIN: A
BREAKTHROUGH METHOD
FOR LEADING, LIVING AND
LASTING CHANGE
ERICA ARIEL FOX
[RM59.90]
Life is a series of negotiations,
whether or not you think of
yourself as a negotiator. From
seemingly insignificant daily
decisions to major life choices, you
negotiate every time you aim to
persuade, argue over a decision,
or resolve a conflict. But as
negotiations and leadership expert
Erica Ariel Fox reveals, the most
important negotiations are those
we have with ourselves. Most of us
recognise the difference between
our knowledge – what we know
we should do and say – and our
knowhow – what we actually do
and say in real life when it counts.
Fox calls this the ‘Performance
Gap’, and she shows you how to
close it, turning breakdowns into
breakthroughs, whether struggling
with a difficult client, arguing
with a combative teenager, or
organising for community action.
BOLEHLAND
MASAO USUI
[RM32.90]
Land. It represents the collective
spirit of ‘can do’ attitude of a
nation, whether of its people
or the governance. It literally
means achieving the impossible.
Or figuratively thinking nothing
is impossible. Either way, the
thought is infectious. This is
about the people in Bolehland.
Citizens who rallied behind the
call of their leaders to strive for
excellence, empowering them
to feel no fear, to never give up
and to know no failure. These
are the people who believe that
equal opportunities exist for
everyone. From the perspective
of one shallow-thinking Japanese
expatriate, who is also a bestselling
humourist, this is a study
of the cumulative effect of 28
million people trying to do the
‘impossible’.
THE EYE OF GOD
JAMES ROLLINS
[RM59.90]
New York Times bestselling
author James Rollins delivers
an apocalyptic vision of a future
predicted by the distant past.
In the wilds of Mongolia, a
research satellite has crashed,
triggering an explosive search for
its valuable cargo: a code-black
physics project connected to
the study of dark energy – and
a shocking image of the eastern
seaboard of the United States
in utter ruin. At the Vatican,
a package arrives containing
two strange artifacts: a skull
scrawled with ancient Aramaic
and a tome bound in human
skin. DNA evidence reveals that
both came from the same body:
the long dead Mongol king
Genghis Khan. Commander
Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set
out to discover a truth tied to the
fall of the Roman Empire, to a
mystery going back to the birth
of Christianity, and to a weapon
hidden for centuries that holds
the fate of humanity.
28 TA | SEPT/OCT 2013