Society and Social Sciences

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

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

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 Authors Following the success of their first book "The Leader, The Teacher, & You", which won the Singapore Literatur...

Description About the Author Understanding Singapore Politics is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. Th...

Description Thinking of starting a postdoc? Want to know how to move on from a postdoc? Or simply want to make the best of your postdoc years? ...

Description About the Editor The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and i...

Description About the Editor The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and i...

Description About the Editor The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and i...

Description The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore f...

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

Description About the Editor The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and i...

Description Singapore’s demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to ...

Description How did Singapore's health care system transform itself into one of the best in the world? It not only provides easy access, but it...

Description About the Editor This book celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), a political dialogue process bringing tog...

Description About the Authors There have been broad-based growth in wealth for cities all over the world, albeit increasingly unequal within an...

Description About the Editors 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one contribution to th...

Description This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, deve...

Description About the Editor In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Enviro...

Description About the Author This book is a 25-year milestone celebration of DAS' efforts in creating awareness for dyslexia and providing qual...

Description This book pays tribute to 25 Singaporean South Asians who pioneered and excelled in their respective fields from 1950 to 2015. It i...

Description Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown...

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

Description The Malay/Muslim community, comprising approximately 13% of Singapore's population, is an integral part of modern Singapore's forma...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description About the Author Gedung Kuning or the Yellow Mansion was home to the family of Haji Yusoff 'Tali Pinggang' from 1912 to 1999. It wa...

Description About the Authors On 1 January 2004, the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a...

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

Description About the Author With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are litter...