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Description About the Author Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been m...

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 This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles’ second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the fi...

Description This book provides an in-depth and rigorous study of the Wigner transform and its variants. They are presented first within a conte...

Description This book is part of the authors’ continuing research on quality of life issues in Singapore. It builds on past research into the v...

Description Feeling scared or unsure about how to cope in a new school environment? Finding a way to start things right (again)? Fear not! Help...

Description About the Authors On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a...

Description About the Author This book presents a balanced and complete account of Sun, one that places him within the broader context of the t...

Description About the Author Trust is a key enabler for economic value creation. We trust that a $100 note has value and that a company's stock...

Description About the Author Advances in cancer research have grown exponentially in recent decades. What we now know about the disease owes a ...

Description Particle Physics and High Energy Physics have stagnated since the early 1970s. Now, the underlying principle of reductionism — so s...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

Description Praise About the Author Finalist for the 2019 Lammy Award for best LGBTQ SF/F/Horror and the Locus Award for Best Novella JY Yang...

Description Praise About the Author A Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards for Best Novella The Tensorate novellas, beginn...

Description Praise About the Author The Tensorate novellas, beginning with The Black Tides of Heaven, have garnered critical acclaim, and hav...

Description Tao Te Ching, written more than 2,500 years ago, is reputedly the first philosphical works in Chinese history. It presents the phil...

Description This title commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Tan Kah Kee Foundation.

Description About the Author The first major global economic contraction of the 21st century, or the "Great Recession", as it is more commonly ...

Description Volume 1 of "The Strategic Analysis of Financial Markets," — Framework, is premised on the belief that markets can be understood on...

Description About the Author Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham b...

Description This book contains a systematic and pedagogical exposition of recent developments in particle physics and cosmology. It starts wit...

Description About the Author This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integr...

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 The transformation of the Singapore River symbolises the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st centur...

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 The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, ...

Description About the Author The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim—born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women’s Studi...

Description About the Author Adam Milan washes up on the coast of Bali after being forced off a yacht at gunpoint by a psychotic captain. He is...

Description About the Author In Vol.2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scan...

Description About the Author At the crossroads of Singapore history, noted public intellectual and entrepreneur Devadas Krishnadas shares his i...

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 Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore: one in the present, the other in the 1920s. Artist...

Description About the Author & Illustrator There’s a joint party at the palace for Prince Louis’ first birthday and to welcome Baby Sussex ...

Description About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to WWII. I...

Description This volume brings together the work of several prominent researchers who have collaborated with Janusz Brzozowski, or worked in to...

Description The effective management of innovation is integral to the development of any business. This book provides a collection of articles ...

Description Praise About the Author Ping, the daughter of Chinatown's Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances...

Description About the Author By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public healt...

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

Description About the Author Tim writes vividly about his extraordinary life, his journey from the hard work and poverty of the coal mining tow...

Description About the Author This book, which is co-published with the Preservation of Monuments Board, takes a fascinating look into the archi...

Description About the Author Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide...

Description About the Author One self-obsessed, one imbecile, one scrawny, one old, and one squire. Do they have what it takes to save Raventop...

COMING SOON Arcadia sees the world like no one else. Exceptionally observant, the quick-witted sixteen-year-old finds herself drawn into unravellin...

Description About the Author Glenn Knight was Singapore's first Director of Commercial Affairs and Deputy Public Prosecutor until his illustrio...

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

Description 有一个湖就要干了，所有的蛇都准备离开湖边。这时，小蛇告诉大蛇，只要一被人们看见，就会被打死。于是，聪明的小蛇想出了一个办法，人们不但没打死他们，还很害怕地以为蛇神来了。最后小蛇和大蛇是怎么办到的呢？我们一起来读读故事吧！

Description 本书是柯思仁博士在《联合早报》副刊的专栏文章，作为文化、剧场和表演的研究学者，他期许以剧场和现实互为隐喻的方式，书写剧场给予的启示，现实产生的冲击，并以写散文的精力来经营。这三十二篇散文是作者在三十二幕特定空间与时间框架里当下的启发和感受。 原本在黑漆漆的观众席...