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There are too many people just do not know what they do not know about.  From the editors of Cracked.com, the book “You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True Facts” perhaps can tell you the truth about the things you need to know, such as 50% of humans are infected with a parasite that can turn them into zombies and Francis Crick was on LSD while discovering genetics.  You can purchase this book just for a good laugh, but try to give some serious thoughts on the subject discussed in the book, can you still laugh?

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The 87-year old Mr. Lee Kuan Yew – father of current Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, minister mentor, former prime minister (1959 – 1990)  and also the founding father of Singapore – has resigned from the country’s cabinet after his party’s worst election result on 7 May 2011 since independence.  He said “the time has come for a younger generation to carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and complex situation.”  This is a key moment in Singapore history.

Are you curious how Mr. Lee Kuan Yew dominated Singapore’s development for over 50 years, and made Singapore from a fishing village to one of the world’s richest and safest countries?  Below are three good books which you can learn from the great living man in history.

1.  The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

One of the must-read politician’s autobiography.  The autobiography stories an English speaking Cambridge educated ‘Straits Chinese’ man grew up without knowing the local languages grew up through WWII, from a black-market entrepreneur during war to the founder of the state with his sharp analytical mind and visionary.  The autobiography also provides insight into the relationship between the Malaysia and Indonesia surrounding Singapore, and also the relationship with the Communist Party.

2.  From Third World to First : The Singapore Story: 1965-2000

The second memoir of Singapore’s arrogant and visionary leader, Lee Kuan Yew.  The man transformed the country from colonial backwater to economic powerhouse.  Despite providing economic freedom like encouraging entrepreneurship, Lee also has complete social control such as banning chewing gum in the country.  The book also describes Lee pro-elitist thinking, such as one of its proposal for tax breaks and schooling incentives to encourage educated men and women to marry each other and have children.  A great book which is more difficult to read as compared to the first memoirs for those lacks a strong grounding in macroeconomics.  The book does not only includes development of Singapore in terms of social, economic and political, but also the man’s foreign relations.

3.  Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Giants of Asia series)

A full-length book of two days session with Lee Kuan Yew was recently published in December 2010 by an American Journalist, Tom Plate.  The book has 24 chapters covering a wide range of topics which includes the old Lee’s temper, family, countries, and management method.  A book to get Westerner journalist’s views and observations on Lee Kuan Yew, as Tom Plate relayed his thoughts into the book.

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A lot of people will laugh out loud when they are told Zombie will haunt us one day.  People think that Zombie is only a fictional disease in movies, but have these people give deep thoughts why there are so many zombie-related movies?  The movies are actually a secret initiative of government to mentally prepare us for Zombie attacks.

Written by Max Brooks, “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead” outlines every possible situations and provides plans for defense and attack.  The book also shows evidences of Zombie attacks dating from 60,000 B.C. to recent 2002.  You never know when this book will save your life.

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“Yoda In Action!” is a children book which takes plot from Star Wars film “The Clone Wars”.  The book is published by DK written by Heather Scott.  The content is mainly about Jedi Master Yoda wants to sign a treaty with the Toydarians but receives resistance from Ventress and Count Dooku.  Yoda interacts with droids and use clones to fight the Separatist Army from stopping the signing of the treaty.

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“The Design of Everyday Things” was first published in 1988 written by Donald A. Norman, a cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group and director of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences at University of California.  Although it has been more than 20 years since the book was first published, it is still serve as a very useful book that will benefits the readers, and it is definitely a book that anyone who has interest in design should read.  Surrounding things as simple as a door pull and light switch, telephones involves a great deal of simple yet creative design.  The book is easy and interesting to read.  It reveals good and bad design, and simple rules that will benefits designers in improving the usability of the objects for humans.

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Do you know that clean cartoons which are suitable for family viewing contain dirty contains?  “Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings” pointed out the cartoonists’ dirty drawings which you will hardly notice.  The book collects 1900′s era dirty cartoons of world famous American cartoonists, including Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon), Charles Schulz (creator of Peanuts), George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Al Capp (Li’l Abner), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Johnny Hart (B.C.), Joe Shuster (Superman), Bob Kane (Batman), Carl Barks (Donald Duck), Jack Kirby (creator of X-men, Hulk, Fantastic Four), Hank Ketchum (Dennis the Menace), Dan De Carlo (Archie), Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon), and Cliff Sterrett (Polly and Her Pals) are not as clean as you think they are.  The book is not that dirty but a fun material to read.

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James Wesley, Rawles is a survivalist and an editor of SurvivalBlog.com.  He wrote the book “How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times” to share his knowledge in the essential tools and skills needed for your family and you to survive in time of needs.  The tools and skills can be used in many harsh situations, not limited to global financial collapse, global pandemic, nuclear war, asteroid hitting and terrorist attack.  Based on the book, the basic things are water, food storage, fuel and home power, plants and livestock, medical supplies, communications, home security, etc.  However based on readers’ reviews, the book is general and has no figures or tables (totally text).  It would be good if you just need an idea of how to deal with extreme situations.

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Do you want to knit your own Doraemon sweater, vest zippered hood vest, pouch, doll, backpack, or bag?  This Japanese craft book contains 48 pages to teach you how to knit Doraemon all by yourself.  The price for the craft book is $40.

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Joseph “Joe” Shuster was a canadian-born artist and the co-creator of DC Comics Superman with Jerry Siegel.  This book “Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-creator Joe Shuster“, authored by Craig Yoe, will definitely change your views on Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, and Jimmy Olsen.  The book revealed the rare erotic artwork of Joe Shuster.  The book includes introduction by Stan Lee, the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics, with other detailed account of the scandal and the murder trial from the publication for these images.

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Harry S. Truman 1884 – 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945 – 1953) and 34th Vice President o the United States.  He was President Franklin Roosevelt’s third vice-president, and succeeded to the presidency after President Roosevelt died.  Truman  surely had American values and being appreciated by ordinary Americans as a vice president candidate.  Truman may had plain looks and speech, however during his presidency, he faced many historical challenges and made impactful decisions, including use nuclear weapons (atomic bomb) against Japan, founding of the United Nations, sent U.S. troops into the Korean War, beginning of cold war, etc.

David McCullough wrote the biography of the 33rd president and reveals Truman‘s life as schoolboy, farmer, soldier, merchant, county judge, senator, vice president and chief executive.  Truman was a true man who constantly surprised the world, and overcame failure and challenges.  The book is nothing like a biography, but it is like a novel that keeps people keep turning the pages until the end.  Don’t be fooled by the boring cover as the book itself constantly surprise readers, just like Truman himself.

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