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

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Description About the Author These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years....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 Contributors & Editors: Maj. Yap Siang Yong, Romen Bose, Angeline Pang, Kuldip Singh, Lisa Lim, Germain Foo This latest edition...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description Praise About the Author A comprehensive collection of 477 drawings—including plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, and fish—ac...

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

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

Description About the Author What is history? How is it made? And why does it matter? Reimagining Singapore’s History brings together leading h...

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 For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...