Non-Fiction

Description The definitive guide to pairing wine with Asian food, this book presents a systematic approach you can use to make matches with pan...

Description About the Author As author Wendy Tan lay in Intensive Care a few years ago, drifting in and out of consciousness, a sense of unfini...

Description About the Author Nominated for Singapore Literature Prize 2016, English Non-Fiction  Asia’s top female celebrity magician ‘Magic Ba...

Description About the Authors They are often mere statistics these days – the growing ranks of the elderly, whose care will be borne by ever fe...

Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

Description About the Author More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a compre...

Description Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore: Volume 34 This volume is to pique the...

Description After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran fled his homeland on foot, crossing the rugged Patko...

Description About the Author Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book ...

Description A man may outlive a thousand sorrows or a thousand joys but that is all a fairy-tale to a listener. Our lives are real for ourselve...

Description Praise About the Author In this charming and funny book, Suresh recalls his days in the Singapore Armed Forces after being enlisted...

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

Description About the Author In modern physics, various fundamental problems have become topics of ongoing debate. There was the 20th century c...

Description About the Author China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Computational Material Science (1,266 KB) The purpose of this book is two fold. First to explain the p...

Description Praise About the Author Over 60 recipes of Peranakan classics, such as Nyonya laksa, ayam buah keluak, itek tim and sugee butter c...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of a young man who failed his PSLE examinations, but through sheer determination, persev...

Description About the Authors Since the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) was first established in 1981, it has played a valuable role i...

Description Praise About the Author The British Royal Navy has been sharply criticized for tactical errors in Asia during the years leading to ...

Description About the Author The Merlion and the Ashoka: Singapore-India Strategic Ties examines the historical evolution and future prospects ...

Description Praise About the Author The British military failure against the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942 is a well-documented and cl...

Description About the Author & Translator Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the tur...

Description About the Author A compellingly-narrated, thrillingly-portrayed account account of an epic motorcycle journey taken in 2014 from Si...

Description Thai cuisine - one of the most exotic cuisines in Asia is a perfect and harmonious blend between spicy, hot and bland ingredients w...

Description About the Author The Little Malaysian Cookbook offers tried and tested recipes from renowned food writer, Wendy Hutton, for some of...

Description About the Author In The Little Cantonese Cookbook, Chef Deborah Lowe shares her passion and expertise in Cantonese cooking, putting...

Description About the Author Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social pheno...

Description About the Author In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power seems to be swaying towards the East with the rising...

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

Description Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...

Description About the Authors Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Bro...

Description About the Author This book explores a little-known phase in the history of both Indonesia and Singapore: how the dynamics of the In...

Description About the Author This book covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering in the recovery of hydrocarbons from underground reserv...

Description This book covers the fundamentals of the earth sciences and examines their role in controlling the global occurrence and distributi...

Description The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide for Young Investigators in Science is a guide that prepares young investigators in Science...

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

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (354 KB) This book is devoted to the Einstein's field equations of general relativity for...

Description About the Author The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is ...

Description The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics. Although the p...

Description This book provides a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concepts in thermodynamics — probability, entropy, Helmholt...

Description About the Author In The Ethical Investor’s Handbook, author Morten Strange connects the dots, to show how economics and finance pla...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book Trade Secrets of A Successful Entrepreneur, Finding Balance Between Forex And Life Cur...

Description About the Author Driven by Purpose, Destined for Change is a heartwarming, candid and frank biography of one of Singapore’s most pr...

Description About the Author Gardens are magical places — images of Nature and Culture, models of paradise, spaces where plants live in war and...

Description About the Author David Marshall was part of the nationalist political struggle after WWII, the first elected chief minister during ...

Description About the Author Sylvia Toh's bestselling Eh, Goodu! and Lagi Goodu! appeared in 1982 and 1986 and famously crystallised many of th...

Description Praise About the Author The Changi Murals are a priceless part of our war heritage, holding deep emotional value, not just for ex-p...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...