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...

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

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

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 This title commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Tan Kah Kee Foundation.

Description About the Author Western Etiquette covers the essential of presenting oneself, from issuing and replying to formal invitations, dea...

Description About the Editors The European Union is the most successful regional organisation in the world. ASEAN is the most successful region...

Description “儿童”是建构历史和文化的重要概念及方法。 本论文集以战后新马地区出版和发行的儿童期刊以及教科书等为主要研究对象，结合口述采访、本地书局历史和原始档案资料，在将“南洋儿童”概念历史化的同时，重点分析其发展变化与本地区新兴的反殖民话语、民族国家的兴起、新马与香港之...

Description About the Author Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses and lesbian lovers—it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warr...

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

Description About the Author The Internet has been used to democratise public discourse in Malaysia and Singapore, two countries in the zone be...

Description Constructing Singapore studies Singaporean nation-building by focusing on two processes: elite formation and elite selection. It gi...

Description Chinese Auspicious Culture we examine how Chinese folk customs have evolved over the centuries to become a natural science that com...

Description About the Author In this book, distinguished historian Philip A. Kuhn tells the remarkable five-century story of Chinese emigration...

Description About the Editors English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues sur...

Description About the Author Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated is...

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 The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...

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

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

Description About the Author In March 2009, the Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) was briefly taken over by a Christian fact...

Description About the Author This book describes the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce's changing relationship with the state and with busi...

Description About the Author The transformation of the Singapore River symbolises the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st centur...

Description About the Author This essential text fills a glaring gap in the social science of South-East Asia with its comprehensive and integr...

Description About the Authors Singapore fell to Japanese forces on 15 February 1942. Within a matter of days, the occupying army took prisoner ...

Description About the Editor Written Country intriguingly reconstructs the history of modern Singapore through fifty defining moments from the ...

Description From the 1930s to 1965, discussions about modernisation, race and civic responsibility were as common as they are today. The youth ...

Description About the Author At the crossroads of Singapore history, noted public intellectual and entrepreneur Devadas Krishnadas shares his i...