Singapore Chronicles: Healthcare
Description About the Series This book reviews the development of healthcare in Singapore, especially over the last 50 years. It presents major...
View full detailsDescription About the Series This book reviews the development of healthcare in Singapore, especially over the last 50 years. It presents major...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Good governance is at the heart of Singapore’s development, forged in the furnace of the early challenges that Sin...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore has leveraged on its strategic location and open economy to become a global maritime and logistics centr...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore’s reputation as a food paradise reflects its position at the intersection of four culinary cultures: Chi...
View full detailsDescription About the Series The term “flora and fauna” refers to the plants and animals found in a particular region. Singapore’s primeval veg...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore is one of the premier financial centres in the world. It is one of the biggest markets for the trading o...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Eurasians explores the social history of Singapore Eurasians, focusing particularly on the 5...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Environment documents Singapore’s journey towards greater environmental sustainability, biod...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Energy examines the evolving growth of Singapore's energy use and manufacturing. Starting wi...
View full detailsDescription About the Series This book examines the origins of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in the inter-War years and its subsequent de...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Education examines the key imperatives and principles that drove policy formulation, the suc...
View full detailsDescription About the Series This book gives a concise account of the Singapore economy, beginning withits origins in the colonial era and cont...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Diplomacy shows how Singapore has dealt with many daunting challenges: separation from Malay...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Demography traces the trends and developments in Singapore’s population from the pre-Indepen...
View full detailsDescription About the Series How can a tiny island defend itself against Goliaths in the region? This book addresses that often-asked question....
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Constitution traces the development of Singapore’s Constitution against the framework of Sin...
View full detailsDescription About the Series This book is a history of Singapore from the founding of a settlement by Raffles in 1819, to the post-imperial pha...
View full detailsDescription About the Series This book documents the development of civil society in Singapore from the colonial era to the present day. It exa...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Historically, Singapore has been home to a myriad of people of Chinese descent, including those whose ancestors mi...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Central Provident Fund reflects the economic history and social development of Singapore. CP...
View full detailsDescription About the Series A collection of short essays written by the two authors, this book is an unconventional chronicle of the visual ar...
View full detailsDescription About the Series The early structures in Singapore were constructed from locally available materials. After British colonisation, m...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Go on an exciting adventure through Singapore’s most iconic attractions with this colouring book for kids! From th...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Go on an exciting adventure through Singapore’s most iconic attractions with this colouring book for kids! From th...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Choo Seng Quee is arguably Singapore's greatest football coach. He brought Singapore football to great heights, es...
View full detailsDescription A curry puff stall that dates back to the 1950s; homemade desserts sold to make ends meet; immigrants cooking with firewood; itiner...
View full detailsDescription Best Cover Design Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards In This Together: Singapore’s Covid-19 Story is a dramatic insider ac...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The evergreen debate over government's involvement in business continues in earnest. Participants straddle all st...
View full detailsDescription Professor S. Jayakumar, a former minister, diplomat and law dean, shares his candid views on many facets of Singapore’s governance,...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This autobiography is a record of Cham Tao Soon's life and interactions with many interesting people over the cour...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol...
View full detailsDescription This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development fro...
View full detailsDescription About the Author It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unp...
View full detailsDescription Professor Tan Tai Yong is the Institute of Policy Studies' 6th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (106 KB)Lecture I: Hunting Black Swans and Taming Black Elephants: Governance in a Compl...
View full detailsDescription Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, this title offers insights into the life story of this Singapore island city-state throu...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Comprehensive modern history of Singapore, from C16 to present. Michael D. Barr is Associate Professor in Inter...
View full detailsDescription C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...
View full detailsDescription He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...
View full detailsDescription Every time we use a Singapore bank note, we see his face – the face of Yusof Ishak, the first President of Singapore. But did you k...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...
View full detailsDescription The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published to coincide with...
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 Essays on Singapore's Foreign Policy “Diplomacy is not about being nice, polite or agreeable. It is fundamentally ...
View full detailsDescription Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...
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