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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will continue to cause, great disruptions to lives, livelihoods, ways of life, and quality of life. We will n...

About the Book One of Singapore’s most prominent performance artists, Lee Wen produced a body of provocative, thought-provoking, and sharply s...

The Meatmen Hawker food plays a key role in the culinary scene in Singapore. Where the best or latest hawker dishes are to be found is a pet topic...

The Meatmen Zi char (a Hokkien term, literally translated “cook fry”) is widely recognised in Singapore to refer to a variety of dishes that one ...

The tiny island of Pulau Ubin, located off the northeast coast of mainland Singapore, is one of the last rural areas in Singapore still surviving. ...

As Singapore continues to undergo intensive restructuring and makeovers, and heritage buildings of yesteryear make way for new and ever-modern arch...

Alvin Loh With more than 150 years of history, the 74-hectare Singapore Botanic Gardens holds a unique and significant place in the history of Si...

Botanical Singapore is a collection of watercolor and pencil illustrations of commonly seen plants and flowers. Executed in the style of the Willia...

Singapore’s resident bird population, together with the many migratory species that visit seasonally, are one of the most picturesque highlights of...

This tiny, humid island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula was once a forest-covered Garden of Eden. The majority of the 2,500 different species of ...

PN Baliji These are the unpublished stories about the stories that you may have read in Singapore newspapers over the years. Above all, they are S...

Description About the Author Praise This new edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the auth...

First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull’s Hist...

My Unique Child is a beautifully written guide for parents, caregivers, and educators of children with autism. Based on well-researched informatio...

What are the issues which one would consider important for a country? This is a question most citizens would ask as they head into a general electi...

The Singapore 2011 General Election was dubbed by some as the first "Internet" election. How far is this true and to what extent did old and new me...

Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the...

Synopsis"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have m...

Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Synopsis"It is important not to forget the role of the many people like [Gunn Chit Wha] who…played their ...

Many of us have tasted Malay kuih and know how they look like, but do we know the stories behind the names and origins of the kuih that we love to ...

Val Yap Balls Inc. by Val Yap, CEO of PolicyPal (and Forbes “30 Under 30 Asia” in 2017), aims to dismantle the unconscious social bias against wo...

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 such a far reac...

It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unpopular advice to political leader...

This book is a poignant story of a small-town boy, who stumbled into a lifelong flying career spanning 38 years as a pilot. Now at 99, Captain Ho W...

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 collection of h...

One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore...

Peter Ho, former Head of the Singapore Civil Service, was the Institute of Policy Studies' 2016/17 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. Th...

“I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and I can’t shake it off. I will commit the worst t...

“The five Deep Human superskills are beautifully detailed, with real-life examples so that the reader is able to easily relate to them and can imme...

The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts...

How do a passion to create an education revolution and the business acumen to fuel rapid and spectacular global expansion co-exist within one organ...

The Sound of Memories: Recordings from the Oral History Centre, Singapore features the happy, funny, poignant and bittersweet — but always heartwar...

Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...

The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published to coincide with the 200th anniv...

This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspectives co...

This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore Perspective...

Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exteriors of today's institutions, to th...

Celebrating a "golden age" of travel, this new book retraces the steps of a Grand Tour of South East Asia from the turn of the 20th century to the ...

As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election ...

Synopsis"Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A…" 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the...

One of Asia's most important public intellectuals, Wang Gungwu is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that dif...

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

Dr Goh Keng Swee’s public career spanned two eventful decades. He was a founding member of Singapore’s ruling political party, and played a signifi...

Ho Kwon Ping The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship ...

Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforce will continue to place huge pre...

Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Si...