Arts

Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited.  Despite t...

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

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 Author The deteriorating quality of governance in Singapore has worried many in this country. It is clear that the anachr...

Description About the Author Through wars and revolutions, triumph and tragedy, loves lost and enduring, Georgette Chen forged an artistic visi...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Madam Jar is a hot-tempered chilli sauce container. She enjoys ordering around the playful baby ...

Description About the Author & Illustrator This collection of watercolour images celebrates Singapore’s hawker culture which has been recog...

Description See Me, See You is the world’s first exhibition of early video installation of Southeast Asia, spanning the early 1980s to the earl...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Theatre surveys the beginnings, evolution and current state of the theatre in English, Manda...

Description About the Series This book tells the story of the Singapore legal system. Beginning with the British years, it moves on to the post...

Description Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

Description Chen Chong Swee is acknowledged as one of the earliest artists to have explored depicting Southeast Asian scenes within the medium ...

Description About the Author In 1890, a teenage Tan Kah Kee left his hometown in Jimei, Fujian, embarking on a journey towards Singapore to joi...

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

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

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

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 This book accompanies a special exhibition of Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints and contemporary photographs of Japan by Singapo...

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

This Guide to Psychiatry Singapore Perspective is the 16th revision of the original series of "Guide to Psychiatry" which has been revised and upda...

Description About the Author The Peranakan or Baba and Nonya culture is the result of intermarriage, from the 15th century, between Chinese imm...

Description About the Author Primary Eureka features the best of model narrative and stories written by English Language and Literature special...

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

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 Praise About the Author This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British ...

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

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

Description About the Authors First detailed account of the life of one of Singapore’s pioneers – a landowner, merchant and philanthropist Viv...

Description About the Author The tiny island of Pulau Ubin, located off the northeast coast of mainland Singapore, is one of the last rural are...

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

Description About the Editors This book examines the leadership and legacy of Lee Hsien Loong, the third Prime Minister of Singapore from 2004 ...

Description About the Author Singapore: A Cinematic Portrait traces how the island has been seen, imagined, and reinvented on screen—from early...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine Cinema has always been an immense source of inspiration when it comes to creative p...

Description About the Author The Birds in the Park is written as a sequel to The Birds in the Balcony where siblings Ann and Tim witnessed a co...

Description About the Author The story of modern Singapore can be told through its living heritage, be it artistic, cultural or natural. Histor...

Description About the Author Dugong. Coffin Ray. Convict Blenny. Vampire Squid. Whale Shark. Do these animals sound dangerous or endangered to ...

Description Praise About the Authors A Collection of True Stories of Grief, Resilience, and Hope from 30 Gazans Living the War A Testament to S...

Description About the Author Singapore Notecards is a series of collectible gift cards featuring illustrations of major landmarks and historic ...

Description Travel back in time to the Singapore River! Aloysius and his Grandpa spend a day on the Singapore River in olden day Singapore. As ...

Description Praise About the Author What is the secret of effective government in today’s complex and turbulent world? In this collection of es...

Description About the Author & Translator 在新加坡，郭令明和城市发展集团是家喻户晓的名字和商号。但是除了偶尔新闻上的消息之外，有关这位掌舵人的其他一切几乎是个谜，因为他行事低调，且不爱张扬。 这本由知名得奖作家白胜晖以英文撰写，由新报业...

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 Praise About the Author This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and exa...

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

Description Best Non-fiction Title Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, more than a quarter of...

Description Finalist at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award The United States of America is the largest investor in Singapore. And in 2019, ...