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Description Praise About the Authors Have you ever wondered what your barista is thinking as she makes your morning coffee? What’s it like to be...

Description About the Authors Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is ...

Description About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...

Description The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...

Description Praise About the Author Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around th...

Description About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...

Description About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...

Description About the Author What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, th...

Description Praise About the Author The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animal...

Description About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...

Description About the Author Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by i...

Description Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...

Description Praise About the Author As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has alway...

Description About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

Description About the Author The story of George Bogaars, a civil servant who played a key role in Singapore’s political history.Do civil serva...

Description About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...

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

Description Praise About the Author The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many...

Description About the Editors In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the ...

Description About the Author Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to ser...

Description About the Author How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, poli...

Description About the Authors A richly illustrated account of the development of Singapore’s modern built environment. Everyday Modernism is th...

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...

Description Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...

Description About the Editors An invitation to explore, test and refine sustainable urban development in your own city This third and final vol...

Description About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...

Description About the Author Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Elizabeth Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chine...

Description An illustrated collection of essays on modern and contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international contemporary art worl...

Description About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...

Description About the Author Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

In postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape, but the "big four" Protestant churches--Anglican...

Description About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...

Description A much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia.Distribute...

Description About the Author This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's mos...

Description About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...

Description About the Author The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, ...

Description Praise About the Author Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S$50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, a...

Description About the Editors Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, mar...

Description Praise About the Editors The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Ove...

Description Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...

Description Praise About the Author This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public in...

Description About the Author At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore dem...

Description About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...

Description About the Author How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context...

Description About the Author This memoir by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought ...

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