Hard at Work: Life in Singapore
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...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the wa...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is ...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Authors and Photographer Shortlisted for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Colvin Prize 2...
View full detailsDescription The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-seven years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, th...
View full detailsDescription About the Author C.M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was publish...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Wang Gungwu, historian of grand themes and broad perspectives, has held positions in universities around th...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors This casebook is a unique resource, offering never before documented insights into the practices and principles o...
View full detailsDescription About the Author From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campai...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author The environmental turn in the humanities and social sciences has meant a new focus on the history of animal...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by i...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The story of George Bogaars, a civil servant who played a key role in Singapore’s political history.Do civil serva...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to ser...
View full detailsDescription About the Author How has Singapore's environment and location in a zone of extraordinary biodiversity influenced the economic, poli...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why? In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Established in 1859, Singapore’s Botanic Gardens has been important as a park for Singaporeans and visitors...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the ...
View full detailsHerman 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...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean–style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian wate...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors An invitation to explore, test and refine sustainable urban development in your own city This third and final vol...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authorit...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription An illustrated collection of essays on modern and contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international contemporary art worl...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Arthur Yap published four major collections of poetry: only lines (1971), commonplace (1977), down the line (1980)...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...
View full detailsIn postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape, but the "big four" Protestant churches--Anglican...
View full detailsDescription 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 ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...
View full detailsDescription A much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia.Distribute...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This volume marks the recovery and first combined publication of the stories of Arthur Yap, one of Singapore's mos...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor Modern Singapore is the city in a garden, a biophilic and highly managed urban space that is home to a variety of ...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The Singapore and Melaka Straits are a place where regional and long-distance maritime trading networks converge, ...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...
View full detailsDescription Chin Woon Ping's Hakka Soul chronicles the dreams, ambitions and idiosyncrasies of her family, beginning with the death of her gran...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, mar...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Editors The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Ove...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small ...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author This is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public in...
View full detailsDescription About the Author At the height of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, the foreign relations between the United States and Singapore dem...
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