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Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritim...

Description About the Author Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by i...

Description About the Author As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Y...

Description Praise About the Editors This is the historical memoir of Dr Poh Soo Kai, a man of medicine and a founder member of the People’s A...

Description About the Author Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Elizabeth Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chine...

Historians rely on Singapore's strategic position to explain its great success as a royal trading port in the 14th century, and as a British colony...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description Praise About the Author The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many...

Description This book is much more than a round-up of Singapore's new urban cityscapes. Rather, it traces the development of the city-state, sh...

Description About the Author Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and is among the most competitive a...

Description This book traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the presen...

The Singapore shophouse is an architectural gem - a particular building form that is unique to the island. This book traces its development from ru...

This box contains 12 delightful notecards depicting 12 landmark sites in Singapore. Painted by Graham Byfield, each has been chosen for its histori...

Description About the Author The vocabulary and sentence structures have been kept simple so that the stories can be enjoyed without too much h...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Memories of Chinatown is a Singapore classic and is now republished with a new visual interpreta...

Description About the Authors This accessibly written encyclopedia, compiled by two experienced educationists, gives summary information and gu...

This box contains 12 delightful notecards depicting 12 famous sites in Singapore’s Chinatown, an area known for its authentic architecture and colo...

Description About the Authors The unique Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial archi...

Description About the Author The vocabulary and sentence structures have been kept simple so that the stories can be enjoyed without too much h...

Lee Kuan Yew played the pivotal role in Singapore’s transition from British Crown Colony to independent developing nation, and on to the economical...

Description About the Authors Once a teenage runaway, S R Nathan rose to become two-term president of prosperous, independent Singapore. In thi...

Over 1,200 rare, fascinating and beautiful images vividly bring Singapore’s history to life – including the first ever photographic portrait taken ...

Singapore Sketchbook is a celebration of streets and buildings, classic scenes and marvelous architectural details. Singapore is a thriving, modern...

An illustrated collection of Singapore truth and trivia, Singapore at Random is filled with anecdotes, statistics, quotes, diagrams, facts, advice,...