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Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

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 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Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....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 In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description About the Author A sheltered young prince leaves his palace to discover the world outside. How does his journey begin and end? The ...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

Description Praise About the Author OUT OF PRINT Look inside the book The Japanese Occupation in Singapore was a part of the theatre of the Asi...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

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

Description Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

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

Description About the Authors Khairat Kita documents the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing aid an...

Description This book accompanies a special exhibition of Edo-period Japanese woodblock prints and contemporary photographs of Japan by Singapo...

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

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

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

Description About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...