Non-Fiction

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 About the Author This book is written for professionals who are in leadership positions, i.e., managers, consultants and business o...

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,...

Description About the Author This bestselling classic cookbook by cookery doyen Sylvia Tan provides recipes for the well-loved dishes of Singap...

Description About the Editors In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous ...

Description Praise About the Author Wendy Hutton's Singapore Food has been recognised as one of the most authoritative titles on the unique cul...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

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 Author This important study of the shifting diplomatic efforts around the response to and resolution of the Vietnamese in...

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

Description This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

Description This book is an annual effort by the economists at the Nanyang Technological University to provide analysis, interpretations and in...

Description About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Authors The book provides the background on simulating copulas and multivariate distributions in general. It unifies the ...

Description About the Author Natural therapist Juliet Kelly-Wong shares her personal journey of good health, life improvement and more in Simpl...

Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

Description About the Author Shojin Ryori is the art of Japanese vegetarian cuisine that originated from the Japanese Zen temples, but is today...

Description About the Author Shift register sequences cover a broad range of applications, from radar signal design, pseudo-random number gener...

Description The contents in this volume are based on the program Sets and Computations that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences...

Description About the Author Sensations: A Tasting Menu of Chinese-inspired Flavours is a showcase of award-winning Chef Sam Leongs creativity ...