Non-Fiction

Description About the Author The authoritative biography of the 'Father of Singapore'. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-...

Description About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...

Description This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the la...

Description Shown here is how basic concepts of physics can be used to improve models in finance, economics, psychology and biology. Readers ar...

Description The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard M...

Description About the Author Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2020 (English, Creative Nonfiction) The focus of Shubigi Rao’s ongoing Pu...

Description The complex field of analytical chemistry requires knowledge and application of the fundamental principles of numerical calculation...

Description This book is the solution manual to the textbook "A Modern Course in University Physics". It contains solutions to all the problems...

Description About the Author The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one ...

Description About the Author Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses ...

Description About the Author Primary Eureka features the best of model narrative and stories written by English Language and Literature special...

Description About the Author Primary Eureka features the best of model narrative and stories written by English Language and Literature special...

Description About the Author Primary Eureka features the best of model narrative and stories written by English Language and Literature special...

Description About the Author This book, based on a hugely successful course given to thousands of businesspeople, shows how anyone can speak wi...

Description About the Author The property market goes through cycles and an investor needs understand market conditions before entering into an...

Description When Mahita was 15, her teacher at Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then ra...

Description Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies at the university as well as at the po...

Description This descriptive textbook provides a clear look at the theories and process technologies necessary for understanding the modern pow...

Description About the Author Centuries ago, the tip of the Malay Peninsula was a forest-covered Garden of Eden, with over 2,500 different speci...

Description Good biosecurity policy decisions, particularly in relation to plant industry protection, are of ever increasing importance. Growth...

Description About the Author The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is gaining increasing attention among education a...

Description Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacc...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description About the Author Cooking is an art and baking is a science, and making pies is a combination of both. Who can resist a home-baked p...

Description This book presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and ap...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Outline of the Physics (512 KB) The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton ...

Description Berry phase has been widely used in condensed matter physics in the past two decades. This volume is a timely collection of essenti...

Description Phototherapy, or the usage of light to treat diseases, is an important modality in a physician's therapeutic armamentarium. It is e...

Description Praise About the Author Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of...

Description About the Editor Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of ...

Description The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the for...

Description About the Author The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Authors Investing is all about asking the right questions. Everyone asks: how do I invest like the top investors? But her...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Ahmed Zewail: Ultra-Scientist and Citizen (1,519 KB) A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ah...

Description About the Author This book gives an introduction to some central results in transcendental number theory with application to period...

Description About the Author This cookbook provides the recipes for the classic and forgotten dishes of Penang, and also reveals the rich influ...

Description About the Authors This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategi...

Description Patterns of the Future explains the current world using the theory of long-term development waves (Kondratiev waves). Markku Wileni...

Description About the Editors Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and p...

Description The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as e...

Description Praise ‘I was determined to show the Chinese guerrillas that the British could stand up to anything they could. Communist Lao Lee o...

Description About the Author The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, ...

Description Praise Written by adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and social works, this inspiring collection of true stories provides p...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

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...