Society and Social Sciences

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

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

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

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

Description About the Author The COVID-19 pandemic has caused, and will continue to cause, great disruptions to lives, livelihoods, ways of lif...

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

Description About the Editor Islam and Peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific provides a unique backdrop of how native or migrant Muslims interact w...

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

Description The aim of this book is to encourage Singaporeans to give back to society and this applies not only to the wealthy but also to ever...

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

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

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

Description About the Editor What is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being reject...

Description About the Author In Trump's Populist America, author Steven Rosefielde argues that the policies Trump fashions are not half measure...

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

Description One of Singapore’s most prominent performance artists, Lee Wen produced a body of provocative, thought-provoking, and sharply satir...

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

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

Description About the Authors Since the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) was first established in 1981, it has played a valuable role i...

Description About the Author The gamblers interviewed for this book all had one thing in common — they didn’t know what hit them. They thought ...

Description About the Editors Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does...