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Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for...

Description What are the issues which one would consider important for a country? This is a question most citizens would ask as they head into ...

Description This book, an initiative of the Architecture & Urban Design Excellence (AUDE) programme of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (U...

Description About the Authors This fully revised and updated identification guide to 280 bird species, including all resident and regular migra...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Since pre-independence days, Geylang Serai has...

Description About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...

Description About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...

Description About the Authors Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-ima...

Description About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...

Description About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...

Description Chapteh, congkak, hopscotch and five stones..Do these names ring a bell? This book takes you back in time to the 1950s and 1960s fo...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (106 KB)Lecture I: Hunting Black Swans and Taming Black Elephants: Governance in a Compl...

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

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Directly facing Singapore’s seafront, the east...

Description Praise About the Editor Look inside the bookSince 2015, Mekong Review has provided a fresh perspective on Asian histories, lives ...

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 From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...

Description About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

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

Description Praise About the Author The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animal...

Description A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in th...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play A neighbourhood with a heady mix of nostalgic ...

Description About the Author It is 1958 and Josephine is staring at a Milo tin. She cannot make sense of the letters! To learn how to read, she...

Description About the Author Every Chinese household to some extent uses home remedies. Children are often given a bowlful of soup or brew with...

Description About the Editor Multiculturalism is arguably the X-factor of Singapore’s admired country brand. But while the island republic’s o...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator A comprehensive field guide to the 829 bird species of Malaysia (including Sabah and Sarawak) a...

Description About the Editor From independence in 1965, Singapore has experienced a meteoric rise to a modern developed city-state. What is les...

Description About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...

Description About the Author More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore...

Description Here, in beautiful Singapore, we live in harmony. Regardless of our different races, religions and customs, we are able to grow and...

Description About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

Description The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established...

Description About the Author The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World Wa...

Description The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published to coincide with...

Description About the Author In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide reader...

Description Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...

Description Praise About the Author Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100....

Description About the Author Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol...

Description About the Author One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan ...

Description The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship benefits from the author's many years of experience as a serial entrepreneur. By mapping hi...

Description Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...

Description About the Author This collection of 328 photographs shows the rhythm of daily life in Singapore between 1959 and 1965 – the pivotal...

Description Praise About the Authors Look inside the book Excavations, Interrogations, Krishen Jit & Contemporary Malaysian Theatre recount...

Description About the Illustrator Look inside the book From the bronze Corpus Christi that overlooks the parish in the Church of Saint Mary of ...

Description About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (English, Creative Nonfiction) The focus of Shubigi Rao’s ongoing Pu...

Synopsis Praise Author on YouTube Anil David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had...

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...