Weight | 420 g |
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ISBN | 978-0-1419-7909-0 |
Language | English |
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Enlightenment Now
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If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual steven pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases.
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ෆිලිප්ස් ලෝක සිතියම් පොත
සිතියම්කරණය පිළිබඳ සාරගර්භ කරුණු සහ අවකාශීය තොරතුරු අන්තර්ගත කොට නිර්මිත ජාත්යන්තර මට්ටමේ සිතියම් පොතකි. භෞතික, සමාජ ආර්ථික, දේශපාලන කරුණු පිළිබඳ නිවැරදි හා නවතම දත්ත ඇතුලත් ය. සිතයම්කරණය පිළිබඳ ලොව ප්රකට එංගලන්තයේ ජෝර්ජ් පිලිප් සමාගමේ නීත්යානුකූල අවසරය ඇතිව සීමාසහිත ඇම්.ඩී. ගුණසේන සමාගම මගින් සිංහල බසට පෙරළා ඉහළ ගුණත්වයකින් යුක්තව මේ සිතියම් පොත සම්පාදනය කොට තිබේ.
ශ්රී ලංකා සිතියම් පොත
සිතියම් පොතක් යනු නිශ්චිත ප්රදේශයක භූවිෂමතාව දෙනෙත් ඉදිරියේ කැටි කර දක්වන අපූරු නිමැවුමකි. මේ ශ්රී ලංකා සිතියම් පොතින් භූ ලක්ෂණ සිතියම්, දේශගුණික, ආර්ථික ප්රවාහන කලාප දැක්වෙන සිතියම් ඇතුළු සිතියම් කරණයට අදාල සියලු තොරතුරු අන්තර්ගත වේ. ආදර්ශ සිතියම් ද සහිතව ඔප කඩදාසියේ කල්පවතින නිමාවකින් යුක්තව සම්පාදනය කොට තිබේ.
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පාලි රචනා 1
සරල කෙටි වැකි යෙදු පාලි සාහිත්ය ග්රන්ථ හිඟයි. රසවාහිණිය ධම්ම පදට්ඨ කථා ආදී ග්රන්ථවල දිග වැකි තිබීම නිසා ආධුනිකයන්ට පහසුවෙන් තේරුම් ගැනීමට නොහැකියි මේ ග්රන්ථය ලියන ලද්දේ ඒ අපහසුව මගහැරවිමටය. පිංතුර මාර්ගයෙන් පාලි වචන ඉගැන්වීම පහසුවන බැවින් ඒ සදහා පිංතුර යෙදිමි.
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