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Description About the Author Driven by Purpose, Destined for Change is a heartwarming, candid and frank biography of one of Singapore’s most pr...

Description About the Author Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur are usually solved quic...

Description About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author The War is over, the Union Jack flies again over the Municipal Building. Life has come full circle. Or has it? The...

Description About the Author David Marshall was part of the nationalist political struggle after WWII, the first elected chief minister during ...

Description About the Author Sylvia Toh's bestselling Eh, Goodu! and Lagi Goodu! appeared in 1982 and 1986 and famously crystallised many of th...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Author Prolific writer Colin Cheong brings together three classic novellas and 23 short stories in this first-ever collec...

Description About the Author Cambodia is at war with itself, forcing thousands of its people to flee to the refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian...

Description Praise About the Author The Changi Murals are a priceless part of our war heritage, holding deep emotional value, not just for ex-p...

Description About the Author This book consists of three celebrated short story collections and an early novel, each reflecting Lim's prowess a...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...

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

Description About the Author The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into Eng...

Description About the Author In this companion volume to The Best of Chef Wan Volume 1, Malaysia’s Culinary Ambassador and Asia’s most recognis...

Description About the Author Malaysia’s Culinary Ambassador and Asia’s most notable chef, Chef Wan shares more than 60 of his favourite Asian r...

Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947– 2015) was undoubtedly Singapore's best-known crominal lawyer. The Best I Could traces the li...

Description This fourth edition of the social history of the Babas and Nonya makes the seminal work by Felix Chia available again after being l...

Description About the Author In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian fact...

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 Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description Praise About the Author Forty years after the Bangkok Declaration, which established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (AS...

Description A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." in the pursuit of excellence the first step is to take in a job well don...

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 When Avril, the Emporium’s whimsical shopkeeper, identifies himself as the Spirit of April Fool’s Day, he selects ...

Description About the Author In this latest epic adventure, Hannah learns that being the April Fool’s Apprentice isn’t all fun and games. When ...

Description About the Author Welcome to Avril’s Emporium, the greatest store on Earth, that just turns out to be a portal between the Human Wor...

Description About the Author Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of how financial markets have evolved over time and became increasingly more complex. Th...

Description Pathogenic bacteria have unique biological properties, which enable them to invade a host and cause sickness. The molecular bases o...

Description About the Author “For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.” Maurice Baker is an...

Description The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof...

Description ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are a family of integral membrane proteins present in all cells of all species of archaea, ...

This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the mid...

Description Praise About the Author Since the 1990s, Thai contemporary art has achieved international recognition, circulating globally by way ...

Teochew Heritage Cooking is the definitive reference for anyone looking to learn more about the colourful heritage and food culture of the Teochews...