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Description About the Author Singapore/Malaya, 1890s: A cholera epidemic breaks out in Singapore’s congested Chinatown, and Detective Inspector...

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

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

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

Description The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of c...

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

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

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

Robert Frank's seminal photography book, The Americans, was what inspired Lam to start a 10-year project in 2006 to document the story of Singapore...

Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental tran...

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

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

Description About the Author Shadow Play won Best Debut Novel at the 2012 SBPA Book Awards in Singapore and was shortlisted for the Popular–The...

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

Description As the first volume of World Scientific Encyclopedia with Semantic Computing and Robotic Intelligence, this volume is designed to l...

Description Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases are diagnosed at an advanced incurable ...

Description About the Author The Dean of Harvard Business School, Nithin Nohria, declared that, "The public has lost trust in business, and som...

Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. Following on from the success of the best-selling colouring bo...

From the artist and the publisher that brought you the hugely successful Secret Garden and Enchanted Forest - this special artist's edition feature...

Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. Following on from the success of the best-selling colouring bo...

Description About the Author Tumble down the rabbit hole and find yourself in an inky black-and-white wonderland. This interactive activity boo...

Description Inspired by real-life events, this character-building story is packed with humour, educational elements and interesting facts. Scot...

Description Given that scientific material can be hard to comprehend, sustained attention and memory retention become major reader challenges. ...

Description The book helps scientists write papers for scientific journals. Using the key parts of typical scientific papers (Title, Abstract, ...

Description Coined as the third revolution in electronics is under way; Manufacturing is going digital, driven by computing revolution, powered...

Description About the Editor Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institut...

Description About the Author With Singapore evolving at blistering pace, old Singapore is being left behind, neglected or just plain dying? As ...

Description Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as a form of radar to create images of objects, uses the motion of the radar antenna over a targeted...

Description About the Author Sam Leong is one of the most forward-thinking, talked about, celebrated and controversial chefs of his generation....

Description About the Author Ryan has just returned to Singapore after years abroad in the US. Feeling alone and out of place - and an easy tar...

Description About the Authors This book documents short stories of inspirational local runners who were involved in the creation of Sundown Mar...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description About the Author Singapore got sexy and the country's best-selling author got jealous. After five years chasing echidnas and platyp...

Description Praise About the Author The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Ind...

Description This book aims to provide an overview of the importance of communities to mitigate the threat of terrorism, drawing key lessons and...

Description About the Author Japan’s invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of ...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description About the Author Following the success of Real Estate Riches and Building Your Real Estate Riches, which were bestsellers in major ...

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 A co-publication with the National Library Board, Singapore. The founding of Singapore has typically been attribut...

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...