Arts

Description About the Author Read a sample chapter Since 1819, more than 6,200 place (street and village) names divided into more than 3,900 na...

Description The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figu...

Description About the Author Gedung Kuning or the Yellow Mansion was home to the family of Haji Yusoff 'Tali Pinggang' from 1912 to 1999. It wa...

Description About the Author Understanding Singapore Politics, Second Edition, aims to present a structural-functional understanding of politic...

Description About the Author This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore – understo...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description About the Author The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into Eng...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description About the Author Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. Th...

Description About the Authors Following the success of their first book "The Leader, The Teacher, & You", which won the Singapore Literatur...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

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

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description Reporter is an account of John McBeth’s 50-year journey through Asia, more than half of that time as a correspondent for the Far Ea...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...

Description About the Editor Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's...

Description Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? ...

Description About the Author With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are litter...

Description About the Author The link between mental health struggles and living a life true to ourselves is often difficult to see, and the ro...

Description Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by CHOICE Einstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear ...

Description Chen Poh Seng’s great grandfather lived in Pulau Tekong, his 50-over cousins were born and educated there. He lived in Changi Point...

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 Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. ...

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

Description About the Authors On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a...

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 The authoritative biography of the 'Father of Singapore'. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-...

Description Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacc...

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

Description About the Author This book is a 25-year milestone celebration of DAS' efforts in creating awareness for dyslexia and providing qual...

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

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

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

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...