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Description Praise About the Authors Have you ever wondered what your barista is thinking as she makes your morning coffee? What’s it like to be...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Non-Fiction) 3rd Prize Winner of Popular Readers' ...

Description Praise About the Author Shorlisted for the 2020 Singapore Book Awards (Best Non-Fiction) Look inside the book        Get the Chiam ...

Description About the Editor 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book  Renee Lee and Liew Chin Choy, two of Singapore’s foremost arts management professionals and...

Description Singapore Shophouse Walks: Joo Chiat, Katong and Geylang  takes its readers on a journey around the East Coast area of Singapore. T...

Description This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and Engl...

Description About the Author In 2009, the family of the late Lee Kip Lin donated to the National Library Board, Singapore over 14,500 slides an...

Description About the Author Ever since Singapore became an independent nation in 1965, its government has been intent on transforming the isla...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book Constance Singam's love affair with food began with her mother's Keralan cooking. For ...

Description About the Authors The unique Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial archi...

Description Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role ...

Description Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, this title offers insights into the life story of this Singapore island city-state throu...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   |  Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Did you know that we owe the iconic Singa...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010–Present) was the Institute of Policy ...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description About the Authors Look inside the bookThe ten private apartments featured in this publication were built in Singapore between the 1...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description About the Author How does a certified accountant become an artist? How did the world of finance instruct his art to make him the un...

Description About the Author Singapore: small tropical island and dynamic city, where some of Asia’s tallest buildings tower over modest quaysi...

Description Once the centre of trade and commerce connecting Singapore to the rest of the Malay Archipelago, Kampong Gelam served as a religio...

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

Description Now released in a new, convenient and handy size, Over Singapore: 50 Years Ago is a view of old Singapore from a new angle. Many of...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...

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 The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially du...

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

Description Colonel William Farquhar (1774-1839) was a British Colonial Officer who became Commandant of Malacca in 1803, a post through which ...

Description This is a volume of collected stories and vignettes of the extended Hochstadt Clan of Singapore. Singapore’s Hochstadt family was e...

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 One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. ...

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 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 Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) examines the experience of people during the period following the fall of...

Description About the Photographer Look inside the book In Beyond Wilderness, photographer Chua Chye Teck explores the fast disappearing natura...

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

Description About the Author Look Inside the Book A comprehensive resource that introduces readers to key techniques of Chinese pastry- and des...

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 First published in 1952 and the subject of numerous reprints and editions, this cookbook is an acclaimed classic a...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title To the generation of Singapore resi...

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