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Description About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1892: Chief Detective Inspector David Hawksworth, orphaned, middle-aged and gimlet-eyed, travels...

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 Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course t...

Description Returning to update “SINGAPORE, Sketches of the Lion City” artist and illustrator, Lorette E. Roberts, was once again struck by the...

Description About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...

Description About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1890s: A cholera epidemic breaks out in Singapore’s congested Chinatown, and Detective Inspector...

Description About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...

Description About the Author As Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary as a sovereign and independent country, what does it mean to be a Sin...

Singapore Notebook features over 50 drawings and watercolours of artist Graham Byfield, who turns his keen eye and delicate brush to record the enc...

Description About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...

Description About the Authors Singapore Love Stories is a vibrant collection of seventeen stories that delves into the diverse love lives of Si...

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

Description This book features a collection of black & white and coloured postcards, produced between 1900 and 1930, depicting scenes of c...

Description About the Author This bestselling classic cookbook by cookery doyen Sylvia Tan provides recipes for the well-loved dishes of Singap...

Description About the Editors In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous ...

Description Praise About the Author Wendy Hutton's Singapore Food has been recognised as one of the most authoritative titles on the unique cul...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

Description The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of c...

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 About the Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...

Description About the Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

Description This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and in...

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 Presenting for the first time the illustrations of 500 postcards from the author’s private collection, this book offers a rare and ...

Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental tran...

Robert Frank's seminal photography book, The Americans, was what inspired Lam to start a 10-year project in 2006 to document the story of Singapore...

Description About the Poet From the author’s Introductory Note: “In the 1960s, love songs turned to songs of protest and youth the world over i...

Description About the Authors The book provides the background on simulating copulas and multivariate distributions in general. It unifies the ...

Description About the Author Natural therapist Juliet Kelly-Wong shares her personal journey of good health, life improvement and more in Simpl...

Description Praise About the Playwright Following the successful launch of Shorts I, The Necessary Stage presents Shorts II, the second instalm...

Description Praise About the Playwright After the successful launch of Trilogy, The Necessary Stage returns with another collection of plays, S...