Memoirs

Description Praise About the Author As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has alway...

Description This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development fro...

Description About the Authors Once a teenage runaway, S R Nathan rose to become two-term president of prosperous, independent Singapore. In thi...

Description Look inside the book Iskandar Ismail has dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries and realising the possibilities of Singapore ...

Description Praise About the Author I Thought I Knew is a poignant, blow-by-blow account of a leading urologist whose world collapsed when h...

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

Description About the Author Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation—Lim Chin Beng—the man they called Mr SIA. Abs...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description About the Author It is remarkable that no biography of Tan Kim Seng has been published until now considering that his imprint on 19...

Description About the Author This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu. Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but wha...

Description Praise About the Author Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around th...

Description About the Author Packed full of riotous high jinx and fascinating personal anecdotes, Lat: My Life and Cartoons introduces a whole ...

Description About the Author This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles’ second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the fi...

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 With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...

Description About the Editors Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decis...

Description Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...

Description About the Author Over the six-month period from late 2012 to early 2013, Hu Jintao, the President of the People’s Republic of China...

Description In Singapore, SMEs are a vital part of the economy, yet little is known of the many leaders whose vision, acumen and hard work have...

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 Look inside the book The urban legend goes that Morgan Chua’s first political cartoon of Lee Kuan Yew in th...

Description Praise Look inside the book Russel’s career began when one of his photographs made it to the cover of Track & Field News magazi...

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 About the Author A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experime...

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

Description Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...

Description About the Author The Art of Chua Mia Tee: A Portrait of a Life’s Work is an ambitious and significant publication that – for the fi...

Description About the Author 10 September 1990 marked a significant milestone in Singapore's political history with the introduction of the Nom...