Goh Keng Swee: A Portrait
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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-ima...
View full detailsDescription About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and ...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...
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View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100....
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Look inside the book | Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Directly facing Singapore’s seafront, the east...
View full detailsDescription Key Features On 10 July 2020, Singapore held its 18th general elections in history and the 13th since independence in 1965. As in ...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animal...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and is among the most competitive a...
View full detailsDescription A General History of the Chinese in Singapore documents over 700 years of Chinese history in Singapore, from Chinese presence in th...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...
View full detailsDescription The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published to coincide with...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Look inside the book | Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play A neighbourhood with a heady mix of nostalgic ...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor Multiculturalism is arguably the X-factor of Singapore’s admired country brand. But while the island republic’s o...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Every Chinese household to some extent uses home remedies. Children are often given a bowlful of soup or brew with...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors & Illustrator A comprehensive field guide to the 829 bird species of Malaysia (including Sabah and Sarawak) a...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor From independence in 1965, Singapore has experienced a meteoric rise to a modern developed city-state. What is les...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...
View full detailsDescription About the Author More than two hundred years after Thomas Stamford Raffles established a British factory on the island of Singapore...
View full detailsDescription Here, in beautiful Singapore, we live in harmony. Regardless of our different races, religions and customs, we are able to grow and...
View full detailsDescription About the Author One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan ...
View full detailsDescription The Straits Chinese or Peranakan community is perhaps one of the oldest overseas Chinese communities in history, having established...
View full detailsDescription About the Author “Dancing was fun; it didn't seem like a job but a party every day.” “They practised dancing seriously; it was thei...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World Wa...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide reader...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author The most important of Tommy Koh's writings on the Law of the Sea are brought together in Building a New Leg...
View full detailsDescription The Art and Science of Entrepreneurship benefits from the author's many years of experience as a serial entrepreneur. By mapping hi...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This collection of 328 photographs shows the rhythm of daily life in Singapore between 1959 and 1965 – the pivotal...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol...
View full detailsDescription Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...
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View full detailsDescription About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (English, Creative Nonfiction) The focus of Shubigi Rao’s ongoing Pu...
View full detailsSynopsis 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...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...
View full detailsDescription One of Singapore’s most prominent performance artists, Lee Wen produced a body of provocative, thought-provoking, and sharply satir...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...
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