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Description About the Editors Look inside the book "You need a very small space to have sex.""The co-driver is there to slap the driver when he...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Description Singapore Shophouse Walks: Joo Chiat, Katong and Geylang  takes its readers on a journey around the East Coast area of Singapore. T...

Description This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and Engl...

Description About the Author In 2009, the family of the late Lee Kip Lin donated to the National Library Board, Singapore over 14,500 slides an...

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 This is not a cookbook. It is the story of a people.  In the Malay Archipelago – encompassing Singapore, Malaysia...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   |  Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Did you know that we owe the iconic Singa...

Description About the Author Singapore: small tropical island and dynamic city, where some of Asia’s tallest buildings tower over modest quaysi...

Description Once the centre of trade and commerce connecting Singapore to the rest of the Malay Archipelago, Kampong Gelam served as a religio...

Description Praise About the Photographer With an introduction by Agnès de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (Translated from the French by Kevin J. M. Keane) ...

Description Now released in a new, convenient and handy size, Over Singapore: 50 Years Ago is a view of old Singapore from a new angle. Many of...

Description About the Author This beautiful photo book leads the reader on a visual and historical journey around Singapore’s Chinatown and its...

Description About the Author It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unp...

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 The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and ...

Description Praise Look inside the book Russel’s career began when one of his photographs made it to the cover of Track & Field News magazi...

Description Colonel William Farquhar (1774-1839) was a British Colonial Officer who became Commandant of Malacca in 1803, a post through which ...

Description Key Features On 10 July 2020, Singapore held its 18th general elections in history and the 13th since independence in 1965. As in ...

Description About the Author One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. ...

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 Photographer Look inside the book In Beyond Wilderness, photographer Chua Chye Teck explores the fast disappearing natura...

 Description About the Author Look inside the book Thomas Lim, one of Singapore’s premier florists and interior designers, presents the highlig...

Description About the Author Swan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 189...

Description About the Author First published in 1952 and the subject of numerous reprints and editions, this cookbook is an acclaimed classic a...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title To the generation of Singapore resi...

Description Praise About the Author As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has alway...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description About the Author When a child steps outside his ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Fi...

Description Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited...

Description The hajj calls Muslims to journey to Mecca from wherever they are across the world. Of the far-flung communities one of the largest...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

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

Description AVAILABLE IN 20 DIFFERENT COVERSCover subject to availability. From humble art school to renowned international institution in 80 ...

Description About the Author More Daily Nonya Dishes adds to the collection of everyday dishes of the Babas and Nonyas documented in the author...

Description About the Author This cookbook gives recipes for the food that Babas and Nonyas of old ate for their breakfast, lunch, dinner and i...

Description About the Author This book is a completely new edition of the out-of-print Methodist Girls’ School centenary publication of 1987. D...

Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...

Description About the Author Parting Glances examines a country undergoing profound development by turning a camera lens on six communities in ...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...

Description About the Author Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present. Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in Inter...

Description Praise After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of poli...

Description This fourth edition of the social history of the Babas and Nonya makes the seminal work by Felix Chia available again after being l...

About the Author This new book by Artist and Illustrator Lorette. E Roberts is a pictorial travelogue of her sketches, comments and paintings o...

Description About the Illustrator As Singapore continues to undergo intensive restructuring and makeovers, and heritage buildings of yesteryear...

Description About the Author Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers were early settlers of Singapore at the turn of the 19th century. Wak ...

Description About the Author The tiny island of Pulau Ubin, located off the northeast coast of mainland Singapore, is one of the last rural are...