Arts

Description Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular...

Description The Enlightenment theorists involved in the public/private debate exposed the logical fallacies of theology and the philosophical w...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Aspects of the Newtonian Methodology (224 KB) This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

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

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

Description This book is part of the authors’ continuing research on quality of life issues in Singapore. It builds on past research into the v...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

Description About the Author In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measure...

Description About the Author More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a compre...

Description Praise About the Author Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way ...

Description About the Author In early 1905, a group of Javanese led by Alias bin Ali, started a settlement on a hillside in Singapore, not far ...

Description About the Author Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) fo...

Description About the Editors Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh C...

Description About the Author Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China...

Description About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...

Description The 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016) was held in Xi'an, China on August 23 – 26, 201...

Description This book details the findings of a large-scale survey on the values and lifestyles of 1500 Singapore residents in 2001. Semi-struc...

Description About the Editors Environmental Policies in Asia highlights the environmental challenges Asian planners and policymakers face as th...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description About the Author Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It trans...

Description Positive experiences in daily lives enhance people's well-being and motivate them to do well and help others. Therefore, it is impo...

Description The aim of this book is to encourage Singaporeans to give back to society and this applies not only to the wealthy but also to ever...

Description This book pays tribute to 25 Singaporean South Asians who pioneered and excelled in their respective fields from 1950 to 2015. It i...

Description About the Editor Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact w...

Description About the Editor This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, a...

Description In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishm...

Description Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical r...

Description Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, al...

Description About the Editor In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Enviro...

Description About the Authors With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again. Having bra...

Description This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, deve...

Description About the Authors After more than three decades of rapid growth, China is now entering into the New Normal Era, which will be chara...

Description About the Authors This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) presents the inaugural regional competitiveness analysis fo...

Description About the Editors 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one contribution to th...

Description About the Editor This book celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), a political dialogue process bringing tog...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asian Competitiveness Institute (ACI), updated annually to analyse Indon...

Description About the Authors There have been broad-based growth in wealth for cities all over the world, albeit increasingly unequal within an...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's ...

Description Ever since Singapore became independent in 1965, its leaders have invested tremendous efforts and resources to develop its economy ...