Arts

Description About the Author The Old Dream Maker explores a man's decades-long artistic journey to define himself in a world where the only co...

Description About the Editors Singapore society is increasingly becoming diverse. During the first few decades of nation building, policies wer...

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

Description Contributors Ten world-renowned photographers.Two acclaimed writers.One timeless Himalayan kingdom. Bhutan: Portrait of a Kingdom i...

Description Get the set here! Foreword by Tommy Koh This volume reflects on the past, present, and future of Singapore's politics and society t...

Description Singapore Indian Heritage is the Indian Heritage Centre’s first publication since the centre’s opening in 2015. It comprises essays...

Description Cheah Hwei-Fe’n examines parallel techniques of embroidery, work with gold thread, lace, and drawn needlework in this profusely ill...

Description About the Author Explore the Cloud Forest, Flower Dome, SuperTrees and more! The World in a Garden is the follow-up book to Perpetu...

Description Praise About the Authors The history of Singapore’s Chinese community is carved in stone and wood: in the epigraphic record of 62 C...

Description About the Authors The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthro...

Description About the Author Zubir Said is best known as the composer of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, Semoga Bahagia, t...

Description Praise About the Editors/Translators During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the Chōsabu, to study ...

Description About the Author The Art of Chua Mia Tee: A Portrait of a Life’s Work is an ambitious and significant publication that – for the fi...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description Praise About the Author In the heart of Singapore, just off Orchard Road, the House of Tan Yeok Nee stands as the last surviving tr...

Description About the Authors & Contributors Neither a tourist guide nor a work of historical records, Pink Chilli in a Bowl is a personal ...

Description Get the set here! Foreword by Euston Quah This volume reflects on the past, present, and future of Singapore's economy and society ...

Description About the Author “Balancing moments both familiar and unnoticed, Last Order is a celebration of hawker culture and its impact on Si...

Description About the Author This book is a love letter to Singapore, the adopted homeland of a Chinese Shanghai native, Cao Yaping, who has be...

Description This book tells the story of the man who transformed an improbable country into the thriving metropolis it is now. Selected from ov...

Description Praise About the Author During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the British government sought to avoid escalation of the war in Vi...

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description About the Editor This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, a...

Description Economic analysis of the industrial experiences of the newly industrialized economies in Asia is generally lacking in the literatur...

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 The "Belt and Road" initiative announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 aims at reviving the ancient trade routes connecti...

Description About the Editor This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and...

Description About the Author International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detac...

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

Description Praise About the Author At the first Boy Scout camp held by founder Robert Baden-Powell on Brownsea Island in 1907, the pioneer Boy...

Description A treasury of heartfelt stories, emotions, and wishes from children about Singapore, this collection is published to mark two momen...

Description About the Author Frank Swettenham joined the Malayan Civil Service in 1870, aged twenty, and retired in 1903 as Governor of the Str...

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

Description Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular...

Description The Enlightenment theorists involved in the public/private debate exposed the logical fallacies of theology and the philosophical w...

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 About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

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 Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

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

Description About the Author & Editor In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental jou...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

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 More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a compre...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description About the Author Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge, a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) fo...