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Description Praise About the Author The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration...

Description Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (8,465 KB) This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes ...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description The conventional understanding of Singapore’s foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by...

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description About the Author The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on...

Introduction by Gretchen Liu. The black and white houses of Singapore, harking back to colonial times, are an architectural institution. Built when...

Description Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course t...

Description Have you ever longed for that white Christmas you always see on cards and in movies? When Jack and Milly wake up before daybreak on...

Description Returning to update “SINGAPORE, Sketches of the Lion City” artist and illustrator, Lorette E. Roberts, was once again struck by the...

Description About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...

Description About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...

Singapore Notebook features over 50 drawings and watercolours of artist Graham Byfield, who turns his keen eye and delicate brush to record the enc...

Description This little book showcases some particularly Singaporean sights. Included are people, art, architecture, religion, flora and fauna,...

Description About the Editors In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous ...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

Description The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of c...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...

Description About the Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...

Description About the Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

Description This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and in...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description Presenting for the first time the illustrations of 500 postcards from the author’s private collection, this book offers a rare and ...

Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental tran...

Description About the Authors The book provides the background on simulating copulas and multivariate distributions in general. It unifies the ...

Description Praise About the Playwright Following the successful launch of Shorts I, The Necessary Stage presents Shorts II, the second instalm...

Description Praise About the Playwright After the successful launch of Trilogy, The Necessary Stage returns with another collection of plays, S...

Description About the Author Shift register sequences cover a broad range of applications, from radar signal design, pseudo-random number gener...

Description The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences...

Description Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases are diagnosed at an advanced incurable ...

Description As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to l...

Description About the Author The Dean of Harvard Business School, Nithin Nohria, declared that, "The public has lost trust in business, and som...

Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. Following on from the success of the best-selling colouring bo...

Description About the Author Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. This interactive activity boo...

From the artist and the publisher that brought you the hugely successful Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest - this special artist's edition feature...