Non-Fiction

Description Praise About the Author You probably created your business because you wanted to solve real-world problems, and in the process ...

Description Praise About the Author Perhaps you are trying to survive a career crisis at the moment. Perhaps you have just become a newly min...

Description About the Illustrators Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2022 (Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title) Look inside the book In th...

Description Praise About the Author Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago it unwillingly became an independent nation, after it wa...

Description Praise About the Author Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100....

Description Singapore Indian Heritage is the Indian Heritage Centre’s first publication since the centre’s opening in 2015. It comprises essays...

Description (This catalogue is published to document the exhibition Once Upon a Time in Little India held at the Indian Heritage Centre from Oc...

Description Sojourners to Settlers – Tamils in Southeast Asia and Singapore is a 2-volume publication, co-published by the Indian Heritage Cent...

Description This book traces the history of the costume of Peranakan women; specifically, the sarong, kebaya, and baju panjang. The sarong keba...

Description Cheah Hwei-Fe’n examines parallel techniques of embroidery, work with gold thread, lace, and drawn needlework in this profusely ill...

Description Peranakans were quick to exploit the potential of photography when it arrived in Singapore. From ritual spaces to personal albums, ...

Description Wartime Kitchen: Food And Eating In Singapore (1942-1950) examines the experience of people during the period following the fall of...

Description This is a volume of collected stories and vignettes of the extended Hochstadt Clan of Singapore. Singapore’s Hochstadt family was e...

Home to more city dwellers than any other region, and the locus of many of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to centre s...

Description About the Author Some did not expect him to last long as Prime Minister. Few predicted he would succeed in the footsteps of Lee Kua...

Description About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...

Description Mahadeva, the founding secretary-general of the Singapore National Union of Journalists (SNUJ), suddenly found himself in the news ...

Description In 2010, Green Zeng made a return to art-making after a long hiatus. Since then, he has created a variety of original and thought-p...

Description Praise About the Author Tough times don’t last, but tough people do! The recipe for resilience lies in the practice and joy of be...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-bookHow does one rise above the trauma of child sexual abuse? Sofia Abdullah ...

DescriptionProfessor Chan Heng Chee is the Institute of Policy Studies' 7th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited c...

Description About the Author The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest. Participants straddle all st...

Description About the Author Winner for the 2024 Singapore Book Awards (Best Illustrated, Non-Fiction) Explore Singapore’s identity presented o...

When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longe...

Description About the Editors Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does...

Description Key Features On 10 July 2020, Singapore held its 18th general elections in history and the 13th since independence in 1965. As in ...

This Guide to Psychiatry Singapore Perspective is the 16th revision of the original series of "Guide to Psychiatry" which has been revised and upda...

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 Author Baba Malay for Everyone – is a language guide for Baba Malay - the Peranakan language. This guide is a complete ...

For most, home is a sanctuary, a safe abode to retreat from the bustle of life. For the last six decades, this is what HDB has provided for million...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

Description Throughout the history of mankind, the rise of societies, whether civilizations, nations, or communities, has been a story of human...

Description Look inside the book陈喜明（Heman Tan），51岁，是名专业厨师、厨艺顾问、陶艺家；也是三项铁人运动员。他15年来不间断的协助弱势群体和进行教会的慈善工作。2018年他正式成立铁饭碗计划（A ProjectIRON Rice Bowl）...

Description Professor S. Jayakumar, a former minister, diplomat and law dean, shares his candid views on many facets of Singapore’s governance,...

Description The hawker centre is an integral part of Singapore's urban landscape. As they are now easily found all around the island, many may ...

Description Praise About the Authors The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to g...

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 About the Author Professor Lim Pin, a highly-respected practicing endocrinologist and clinical teacher, played a key role in layi...

Herman Hochstadt, or hrh as he is better known, joined the civil service in 1959, moving to the position of secretary to Lee Kuan Yew’s Prime Minis...

Grand strategist and founder of modern Singapore offers key insights and controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and...

"The Singapore Lectures reflect the city-state's progress for the past 40 years. This selection skilfully captures the highlights from the way Sing...

Description Praise About the Author This book documents the development of psychiatry in Singapore since its humble beginnings in the British ...

Description About the Author With no vested interest in the real estate industry, the author has the autonomy to cover property topics that mat...

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 这本著作集合了他的陶艺作品和厨艺秘方，他起伏的人生经验，他愿意无私帮助他人的善心。从这本书中，你将对他有更深入的认识，从他的分享中得到启发和激励。 This book which combines his ceramic cre...

《粵海清廟：建築與歷史的對話》透過潮州傳統建築九大工種，即瓦作、木作、圬作、磚作、石作、灰塑彩繪、泥塑、嵌瓷與漆飾的闡述，介紹粵海清廟 2010年至2014年間進行修復時的工作程序，以及其建築風格、材料與技術。 Wak Hai Cheng Bio: A Dialogue between Arc...

Description Co-Winner of Singapore Literature Prize 2018, Creative Non-Fiction 这本翁弦尉散文集由三部分构成：现形、七月流火、在破晓的尽头。作者文字精凋细刻，书写马来西亚华人弟子的成长故事。正如台湾中央研究院...

Description Praise Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018, Creative Non-Fiction 南来文化人与这个南洋小岛，有过一段怎样的生命交集因缘？ 在新加坡这个现代都会，还有哪些几为人们遗忘的文化历史...