Non-Fiction

Description Old Singapore was an eclectic trade emporium, where an ethnically and culturally diverse populace coalesced, and sometimes clashed,...

Description About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Illustrated Non-Fiction Title To the generation of Singapore resi...

Description In this book, the synthesis and applications of recent nanomaterials are discussed and reviewed in detail. The scope of the book co...

Description About the Author Sutekina Okashi means “lovely sweets” and this is talented baker Keiko Ishida’s follow-on book to her bestselling ...

Description Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of S...

Description About the Author C.M. (Mary) Turnbull's contributions to historical writing on Singapore extended from her 1962 thesis, published i...

Description About the Author Though there are several books on the Singapore economy, none have focused on the time series-based investigations...

Description About the Author This book collects my scholarly research on the behavior of foreign exchange rates conducted over the past twenty-...

Description About the Author This book is a guide for advanced undergraduates, post-graduates and researchers to the fundamental principles in ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (519 KB) This book examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for ...

Description This book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we ...

Description About the Author The story is told through alternating perspectives of Daniel, his parents, and the people he made an impact on. Hi...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: What is Science? (470 KB) This is the first textbook for psychologists which combines the model compari...

Description This book is the distilled essence of the author teaching statistical mechanics to juniors, seniors and graduate students for over ...

Description About the Author The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced met...

Description In 2015, Singapore celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its independence. From its founding as a British colony with no natural r...

Description This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced unde...

Description We know him best as the founder of modern Singapore . He was instrumentral in bringing about the island 's development into a free ...

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: American League (432 KB) The book focuses on, identifies, and analyzes various divisions and conference...

Description The totality of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a compact Riemannian manifold is called the spectrum. We describe how the spect...

Description Praise About the Author The famous street food and home cooking of Singapore is presented in a unique way in this cookbook. Jo Mari...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Description Praise About the Author The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration...

Description Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (8,465 KB) This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes ...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Author Sky Tales – the much anticipated follow up to Captain Lim Khoy Hing’s first bestseller Life in the Skies – is a ne...

Description About the Editors Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real esta...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description The conventional understanding of Singapore’s foreign policy can be summarized in three main propositions: first, it is dictated by...

Description About the Author Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a var...

Description About the Author The book uses three Indonesian concepts (merantau, malu, liar) to explain the mobility of migrants and tourists on...

Description Singapore’s rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the n...

Description About the Authors A selection of topographic prints of places such as the harbour, Singapore River, Fort Canning Hill, as well as p...

Description About the Author Singapore through 19th Century Photographs is a comprehensive photographic record of Singapore from the early 1840...

Description The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course t...

Description About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...

Description About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description About the Editor This volume is conceptualised around the notion by Raymond Williams, a cultural theorist, that any cultural system...

Description About the Author As Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary as a sovereign and independent country, what does it mean to be a Sin...

Description About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...

Description This little book showcases some particularly Singaporean sights. Included are people, art, architecture, religion, flora and fauna,...