Arts

Description About the Editor Expect to receive your copy by early January! If you are ordering other titles, order this backorder separately to...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book Esteemed arc...

Description About the Author Winner for the 2024 Singapore Book Awards (Best Illustrated, Non-Fiction) Explore Singapore’s identity presented o...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Description About the Author This is not a cookbook. It is the story of a people.  In the Malay Archipelago – encompassing Singapore, Malaysia...

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 Articles by SilverStreak, Storm-Asia and Johor Kaki Featured in tabla!, Vasantham News, and The Straits Times: 20 July and 21 July ...

Description Praise About the Authors and Photographer Shortlisted for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Colvin Prize 2...

Description A History Of Money In Singapore covers the history of money in Singapore from pre-colonial times to the present day, narrating the ...

Description Praise About the Author Ink and Influence: An OB Markers Sequel is media veteran Cheong Yip Seng's account of Singapore's dramatic ...

Description About the Editors Ageing is a part of life that all Singaporeans must face and, in fact, all families will have next of kins who wi...

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 Swan & Maclaren were one of the main architectural practices working in Singapore from their foundation in 189...

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

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

Description Praise After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of poli...

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 Author Mentioned by Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s Fourth Prime Minister, in an interview S. Rajaratnam, one of Singap...

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

Description About the Author The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is the memoir of Professor Tommy Koh. His life is full of firsts. He was...

Description About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...

Description Praise About the Writers Earth. Water. Air. Word has it that there was once a man who controlled the three elements in Singapore. I...

Description Praise About the Editors Peter Ho, former head of Singapore’s Civil Service, has during his decades of public service brought to be...

Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...

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

Description Praise About the Author This book tells the inside story of how Singapore defied considerable odds to develop a dynamic economy and...

Description About the Author Named after Burma’s unofficial national dish of fish noodles, Mornings are for mohinga serves as a reorganised and...

Description About the Author Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present. Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in Inter...

Description About the Author What is China? While many perceive it as a rising power challenging Western dominance, eminent historian Professor...

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 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 In 1953, four China-born artists who had made their home in Singapore held an exhibition titled Bali. It was a sen...

Description Praise About the Author Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1...

Description An illustrated collection of essays on modern and contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international contemporary art worl...

Description Sojourners to Settlers – Tamils in Southeast Asia and Singapore is a 2-volume publication, co-published by the Indian Heritage Cent...

Description About the Editors Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decis...

Description Praise About the Author A comprehensive collection of 477 drawings—including plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and fish—ac...

Description About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...

Description This book traces the history of the costume of Peranakan women; specifically, the sarong, kebaya, and baju panjang. The sarong keba...

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

Description About the Author This is a cookbook, and an intimate memoir, giving readers a sense of what it felt like to grow up in a Peranakan ...

Description About the Author Little has been written about the cuisines of Borneo, the fourth largest island in the world, occupied by three n...

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 Praise About the Author Island in the World: Singapore's Geopolitical DNA is a thoughtfully curated collection of Simon S C Tay's p...

Description About the Editor This richly illustrated catalogue examines the power of photography and its mobilisation within systems of knowled...