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Description Praise About the Authors Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected bus...

Description Praise About the Author Mentioned by Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s Fourth Prime Minister, in an interview S. Rajaratnam, one of Singap...

Description About the Author Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore’s Past is a compilation of biographies based on historical fact abou...

Description About the Author “Unfortunately, some important people... such as Tay Seow Huah, had died before interviewers could get to them.” L...

Description Winner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 S...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (English, Creative Nonfiction) The focus of Shubigi Rao’s ongoing Pu...

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 Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to ser...

Description Praise About the Author & Translator Dakota 达哥打 by Wong Koi Tet, winner of the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize (Chinese Creativ...

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 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 About the Author The fourth edition of the popular pictorial book contains over 120 new photographs with updates to existing places...

Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

Description Modern Singapore was forged in the flames of a volatile past. Different groups fought to tear Singapore apart during our early year...

Description Praise About the Writers Earth. Water. Air. Word has it that there was once a man who controlled the three elements in Singapore. I...

Description Contributors & Editors: Maj. Yap Siang Yong, Romen Bose, Angeline Pang, Kuldip Singh, Lisa Lim, Germain Foo This latest edition...

Description About the Series The early structures in Singapore were constructed from locally available materials. After British colonisation, m...

Description About the Author Teochew-speaking gambier and pepper farmers were early settlers of Singapore at the turn of the 19th century. Wak ...

Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...

Description Praise About the Author This book tells the inside story of how Singapore defied considerable odds to develop a dynamic economy and...

English Description Chinese Description Men in White is the inside story of one of the world’s most successful political parties. Narrated in t...

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

Description Praise About the Author Backorder: Backorders are expected to be fulfilled by early November 2024. If you're also ordering other ti...

Description About the Series Singapore’s reputation as a food paradise reflects its position at the intersection of four culinary cultures: Chi...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Constitution traces the development of Singapore’s Constitution against the framework of Sin...

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

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

Description About the Author What is China? While many perceive it as a rising power challenging Western dominance, eminent historian Professor...

Description Praise About the Author Mentioned by Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s Fourth Prime Minister, in an interview S. Rajaratnam was one of the...

Description Praise About the Author In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian wate...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...

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

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

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

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 and Illustrator A graphic novel that celebrates the visionary man behind the Jurong Industrial Estate and one of t...

Description About the Author In 1953, four China-born artists who had made their home in Singapore held an exhibition titled Bali. It was a sen...

Description Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per cap...

Description About the Series Singapore is a modern and global island-state, internationally recognised as one of the most liveable cities in th...

Description About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Language reviews and discusses the changing language use patterns within Singapore society f...

Description Praise About the Author Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1...

Description In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might loo...

Description About the Author Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, es...

Description Praise About the Author Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small ...

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