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Description About the Author Interview Look inside the book Get the E-book on Amazon, Google Play or Kobo    Listen to the audiobook Singapore’...

Description About the Author Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling poli...

Description About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...

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 About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

Description Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited...

Description About the Author When a child steps outside his ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Fi...

Description The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figu...

Description About the Author Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol...

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

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 This book traces the development of stand-alone residential architecture in Singapore from its early days as a colony to the presen...

Description About the Author The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, ...

Description This book presents a clear and concise introduction to 100 common herbs of the region, highlighting their fascinating uses in tradi...

Description About the Author This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore – understo...

Description About the Author Cartoonist Morgan Chua delves into the brief but rich history of Singapore the city state. Backed by years of astu...

Description About the Author From communal villages to high-rise flats, how has the “kampung spirit” of old survived the transition? For those ...

Description Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...

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

Description Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium, where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace coalesced, and sometimes clashed,...

Description About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforc...

Description About the Author In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide reader...

Description About the Authors Following the success of their first book "The Leader, The Teacher, & You", which won the Singapore Literatur...

Description About the Authors First detailed account of the life of one of Singapore’s pioneers – a landowner, merchant and philanthropist Viv...

Description Through attending games and talking to players, coaches, media and fans from the past and the present, seasoned football correspond...

Description About the Author The Gardens by the Bay comprises three distinctive waterfront gardens occupying 101 hectares of land by Marina Bay...

Description About the Author Can a photograph show what is absent, what has been erased? Through this illuminating series of images, we get to ...

Description About the Author Northeast Hinterland captures evocative and thought-provoking night scenes of Punggol – a northeastern suburb that...

Description About the Author The gamblers interviewed for this book all had one thing in common — they didn’t know what hit them. They thought ...

Description Praise About the Author With its cutting-edge skyscrapers standing cheek to cheek with traditional Chinese shophouses, picturesque ...

Description About the Author This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 butterfly species most commonly seen in Peninsular Malaysia, Sing...

Description They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, ...

Description About the Authors Since the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) was first established in 1981, it has played a valuable role i...

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

Description About the Authors They are often mere statistics these days – the growing ranks of the elderly, whose care will be borne by ever fe...

Description About the Editor Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining moments from the ...