Arts

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

Description Celebrating a "golden age" of travel, this new book retraces the steps of a Grand Tour of South East Asia from the turn of the 20th...

Description Contributors & Editors: Maj. Yap Siang Yong, Romen Bose, Angeline Pang, Kuldip Singh, Lisa Lim, Germain Foo This latest edition...

Description About the Author A memoir of Lim Chin Joo, this is a book about his life as a kampong boy growing up against the backdrop of the Se...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Admire beautiful sketches of well-loved places...

Description About the Author How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, poli...

Description About the Editors In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the ...

Description A visual guide to the country's delicious street foodOn the hunt for the ultimate food experience in Singapore? This guide to the c...

Description The "small actions" you take today can put you on the path to big career success tomorrow. If these actions are innovative, intelli...

Description About the Author The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest. Participants straddle all st...

Description About the Author This autobiography is a record of Cham Tao Soon's life and interactions with many interesting people over the cour...

Description How does a nonya use a yam stalk to control the sexual powers of her wayward baba? Why are Baba children never given sugarcane to c...

Description About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforc...

Description Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium, where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace coalesced, and sometimes clashed,...

Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better known, joined the civil service in 1959, moving to the position of secretary to Lee Kuan Yew’s Prime Minis...

Description About the Author This book offers a glimpse into an almost unknown but distinct community in Singapore and Malaysia: the Peranakan ...

Description About the Editors An invitation to explore, test and refine sustainable urban development in your own city This third and final vol...

Description About the Author While parenting may be one of life’s most rewarding experiences, it can also be a perplexing and heartbreaking jo...

Description About the Editor Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining moments from the ...

Description About the Author Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast...

Description Have you ever wonder about the significance of the various vibriant festivls celebrated by the Chinese people every year, or why th...

Description A successful businessman, Lim Bo Seng became synonymous with the anti-war movement in Singapore during WW II. His commitment toward...

Description About the Author With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique and significant place...

Description About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...

Description This book traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the presen...

Description About the Author This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snap...

Description About the Author Cartoonist Morgan Chua delves into the brief but rich history of Singapore the city state. Backed by years of astu...

Description About the Author Accumulating years of intensive research and rigorous taste-testing, Lee Geok Boi returns with another cookbook, t...

Description About the Author A sheltered young prince leaves his palace to discover the world outside. How does his journey begin and end? The ...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

Description About the Author Malay Weddings Don't Cost $50 is a collection of 42 articles which serves as a guide to Malay culture and heritage...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

Description About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...

Description About the Author A limited-edition, 150 copies, signed and numbered of Ronald Searle's drawings from World War Two. Ronald Searle...

Description About the Authors Khairat Kita documents the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing aid an...

Description About the Editors The European Union is the most successful regional organisation in the world. ASEAN is the most successful region...

Description Praise About the Author Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the...

Description Knowing nothing of Singapore in the 1990s, a young Englishman, Neil Humphreys, arrives in the land of "air-conned" shopping centres...

Description About the Authors Until recently, Bhutan has been relatively unknown. In many minds, it is a mystical secluded place. Nonetheless...

Description About the Author A dramatic, compelling account of a SAF pioneer officer's formative years in post-war Singapore. Best known for hi...

Description This book presents a clear and concise introduction to 100 common herbs of the region, highlighting their fascinating uses in tradi...

Description About the Author Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Jap...

Description About the Author Sylvia Toh's bestselling Eh, Goodu! and Lagi Goodu! appeared in 1982 and 1986 and famously crystallised many of th...

Description About the Author Chinese Etiquette prevents faux pas by teaching gift-giving, seating arrangements, communal dining and auspicious ...

Description The Peranakan Association Singapore Being Baba presents selected articles on Peranakan culture through the eyes of contributors to ...

Description About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...

Description Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...