Arts

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 About the Author Discover the creativity that is in all of us (and yes, that includes you) through the TIM-BUG-Tool. This tool is p...

Description This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development fro...

Description About the Editor Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and c...

Description About the Author This is a pocket-sized, information-packed and entertaining guide that has been compiled on the basis of long expe...

Description About the Author At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore dem...

Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...

Description About the Author How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context...

Description Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...

Description About the Author The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on...

Description This little book showcases some particularly Singaporean sights. Included are people, art, architecture, religion, flora and fauna,...

Description “Baba”, “Nonya”, “Peranakan” and “Straits Chinese” are terms that refer to the descendants of Chinese traders who settled in Southe...

Description Have you ever wondered what life was like in a malay Kampong in the old days? Or why practically all your malay friends are Muslims...

Description The famous author Rudyyard Kipling once wrote, " East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."Yet they have met i...

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 Authors Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook. I...

Description Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...

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 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 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 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 Author Singapore has been known as the Lion City since the late 13th century when it was discovered by Sumatran Prince Sa...

Description About the Author Japanese Etiquette delves in to details from bowing, sitting on tatami, drinking sake from a masu, coping with unf...

Description About the Author Indian Etiquette cover key aspects of the rich culture, from gift-giving, presenting a garland, eating with finger...

Initiated by H55’s Creative Director, Hanson Ho and produced in collaboration with researcher-writer Justin Zhuang, INDEPENDENCE is the first book ...

Description In 2015, The Institution of Engineers, Singapore (IES) organised Engineering Feats @ IES-SG50, a nationwide competition launched by...

Description About the Authors The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabit...

Description About the Authors This biography documents K. Kesavapany’s journey from the Malayan estates in the late 1930s to his move to Sing...

Description About the Author Botanical Singapore is a collection of watercolor and pencil illustrations of commonly seen plants and flowers. Ex...

Description Praise About the Author 《粵海清廟：建築與歷史的對話》透過潮州傳統建築九大工種，即瓦作、木作、圬作、磚作、石作、灰塑彩繪、泥塑、嵌瓷與漆飾的闡述，介紹粵海清廟 2010年至2014年間進行修復時的工作程序，以及其建築風格、材料與技術。 W...

Description Praise About the Author Retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan gives his perspectives on regional and global developments tha...

Description Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per cap...

Description In 2006, Chris Tan began a conversation with readers and home cooks in The Sunday Times which went on for five years. He encounters...

Description In Asian Larder, veteran food journalist Sylvia Tan, with several cookbooks to her name, opens up her larder to readers and demysti...

Description About the Series This book examines the crucial role of trade and investment in Singapore’s economy. Using globalisation as a backd...

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

Description About the Series Singapore is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. This feature gives multiple layers and co...

Description About the Series This book discusses the significance of multiracialism as one of the central components of nationhood in Singapore...

Description About the Series Good governance is at the heart of Singapore’s development, forged in the furnace of the early challenges that Sin...

Description About the Series Singapore has leveraged on its strategic location and open economy to become a global maritime and logistics centr...

Description About the Series Singapore is one of the premier financial centres in the world. It is one of the biggest markets for the trading o...

Description About the Series This book gives a concise account of the Singapore economy, beginning withits origins in the colonial era and cont...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Central Provident Fund reflects the economic history and social development of Singapore. CP...

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

Description C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...

Description Every time we use a Singapore bank note, we see his face – the face of Yusof Ishak, the first President of Singapore. But did you k...