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Description About the Author This debut collection by Yeo Wei Wei explores the realms between private selves, past and present, through vivid a...

Description Sequel to Josephine Chia’s 2014 Singapore Literature prize-winning book, Kampong Spirit - Gotong Royong: Life in Potong Pasir, 1955...

Description About the Author This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays ...

Description Lee Hsien Loong, Professor Wang Gungwu and Professor Leonard Andaya Presents three public lectures given to commemorate the 50th an...

Description About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...

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

Description About the Author Zubir Said is best known as the composer of Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore, Semoga Bahagia, t...

Description About the Author This book offers a glimpse into an almost unknown but distinct community in Singapore and Malaysia: the Peranakan ...

Description About the Author Lim Kim San's name is linked inextricably to Singapore's public housing. This is entirely appropriate because he p...

Description About the Author Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present. Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in Inter...

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 He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...

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...

Description About the Author A memoir of Lim Chin Joo, this is a book about his life as a kampong boy growing up against the backdrop of the Se...

Description This book is one of the few books written in English on Chaozhou culture and history. It compiles information from Chinese and Engl...

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

Description About the Editors In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the ...

Description About the Authors A collection of Southeast Asian journalism, research and comics, the book covers a range of themes, such as civil...

Description About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...

Description About the Author The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World Wa...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singa...

Description About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...

Description Praise About the Editors The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Ove...

Description Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...

Description Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...

Description About the Editors What is the modern in Southeast Asia’s architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreakin...

Description About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...

Description Praise About the Author Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed si...

Description Celebrating a "golden age" of travel, this new book retraces the steps of a Grand Tour of South East Asia from the turn of the 20th...

Description About the Author Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as...

Description About the Author What do the animals from the Singapore Zoo do on their day off? They meet for cake and tea at Raffles Hotel, of co...

Description About the Author What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Shou...

Description About the Author The long-awaited sequel to the Ellie Belly series is finally here. What's more, it's upsized with bonus diary stor...

Description About the Author Ellie Belly is NOT friends with Megan. She knows Megan set her up. She figures out how to prove her innocence…BUT ...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie Belly in is Primary 2! And she does NOT like it! Why did...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie finds out from Snowy about dogs stuck on a puppy farm wi...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie has a BIG small problem. Cammy finds a baby mouse in cla...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Class 1J is having a super exciting day. They are on a field t...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie’s favourite teacher Mrs Goh is away on course. So Class ...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie discovers NEWS from a little turtle: the turtles at The ...

Description About the Author This title is available in Chinese.What a CATastrophe! The principal catches Cammy and Ellie wandering around the...

Description About the Author This title is available in English and in Chinese. Ellie Belly is a spirited 7-year-old who loves doodling in clas...

Description About the Author Essays on Singapore's Foreign Policy “Diplomacy is not about being nice, polite or agreeable. It is fundamentally ...

Description 3rd Prize of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category In this volume of fresh essays and published a...

Description Lee’s Lieutenants: Singapore’s Old Guard was a national non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in 1999. Now this semina...

Description In 2017, Malaysia sprang a surprise on Singapore by filing two applications for revision and interpretation of the International Co...