Non-Fiction

Description About the Editors Environmental Policies in Asia highlights the environmental challenges Asian planners and policymakers face as th...

Description About the Editor Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's...

Description This book details the findings of a large-scale survey on the values and lifestyles of 1500 Singapore residents in 2001. Semi-struc...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description The 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016) was held in Xi'an, China on August 23 – 26, 201...

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

Description Dr Wai-Fah Chen – a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanic...

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

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

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 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 The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) i...

Description About the Author This book is based on a highly successful joint project between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts ...

Description About the Author In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measure...

Description Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do wi...

Description This book is part of the authors’ continuing research on quality of life issues in Singapore. It builds on past research into the v...

Description About the Authors On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a...

Description About the Editor Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and c...

Description About the Author & Editor In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental jou...

Description About the Authors Former Head of the Singapore Civil Service Mr Lim Siong Guan now shares his diverse experiences and fresh insight...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Winner of the 2019 Singapore Book Awards Best Education Title Sam Jam sat in a school library an...

Description About the Author The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into Eng...

Description About the Authors This unique book overturns our ideas about non-Euclidean geometry and the fine-structure constant, and attempts t...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...

Description About the Editors Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that t...

Description Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases are diagnosed at an advanced incurable ...

Description Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. ...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence...

Description The Enlightenment theorists involved in the public/private debate exposed the logical fallacies of theology and the philosophical w...

Description About the Author Meet Siti Hasmah, a little girl, who wants to be a journalist, in a period when not every girl was sent to school....

Description Held in Wuhan of China from August 20–21, 2016, the 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Manufacturing Technologies (M...

Description The 2nd Annual 2016 International Workshop on Materials Science and Engineering (IWMSE 2016) was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, Chin...

Description Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries give us an alternative to the more prevalent lithium-ion (Li-ion) versions, and are known for their...

Description Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular...

Description This book is written from the viewpoint that a deep connection exists between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the resul...

Description It is important for every physicist today to have a working knowledge of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Introduction to G...

Description About the Editors Holistic Business Process Management focuses on building business process management (BPM) as a model to address ...

Description Gold Nanoparticles for Physics, Chemistry and Biology offers an overview of recent research into gold nanoparticles, covering their...

Description LIGO's recent discovery of gravitational waves was headline news around the world. Many people will want to understand more about w...