Society and Social Sciences

Synopsis Praise Author on YouTube Anil David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had...

Description Praise About the Author This new edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the aut...

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

Description About the Author One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan ...

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 Author The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010–Present) was the Institute of Policy ...

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 Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed si...

What happens when an entire community is moved? Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore’s oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourhoo...

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

Description About the Author Nearly everyone knows that Singapore has one of the most efficient governments and is among the most competitive a...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforc...

Description Lim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for...

Description About the Authors This biography documents K. Kesavapany’s journey from the Malayan estates in the late 1930s to his move to Sing...

Description How does a nonya use a yam stalk to control the sexual powers of her wayward baba? Why are Baba children never given sugarcane to c...

Description The branding of Singapore International Airlines with the image of a beautiful, petite and servile 'Oriental' woman dressed in figu...

Description About the Authors China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, a...

Description About the Editor This book aims to study China's economic statecraft in the contemporary era in a comprehensive manner. It attempts...

Description About the Author Chinese Etiquette prevents faux pas by teaching gift-giving, seating arrangements, communal dining and auspicious ...

Description About the Author Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (35 KB)Scaling Up Safety for the Sake of Self-Determination: Exploring Options to Mediation and Cases of ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book A new international phenomenon! Tales of panic buying, fear and irrational behaviour i...

Description About the Author This book provides a comprehensive portrait of class structure, dynamics, and orientations in Singapore – understo...

Description About the Author International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detac...

Description 2016 International Conference on Humanity and Social Science (ICHSS2016) was successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd – 24...

Description About the Author Indian Etiquette cover key aspects of the rich culture, from gift-giving, presenting a garland, eating with finger...

Description About the Editor This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (382 KB)  Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variet...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (86 KB)Safeguarding Asia's Growth (4 MB) Is This the Asian Century? comprises 25 ar...

Description About the Author Japanese Etiquette delves in to details from bowing, sitting on tatami, drinking sake from a masu, coping with unf...

Description About the Author Out of Stock IndefinitelyMalay Etiquette teaches everything from performing a salam, washing before meals. appropr...

Description About the Editor Contrary to prior expectations, Narendra Modi has expended a significant amount of time, energy and political capi...

Description New conventional wisdom posits that the public in democracies is inattentive but not really ignorant nor easily swayed, and indeed ...

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 About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...

Description About the Editors Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of ...

Description About the Author Written by Emeritus Professor LIM Chong-Yah, Founding Chairman of the tripartite National Wages Council (NWC), thi...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description About the Author In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power seems to be swaying towards the East with the rising...

Description About the Author China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and...

Description About the Author Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book ...

Description The "Belt and Road" initiative announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 aims at reviving the ancient trade routes connecti...