Society and Social Sciences

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

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

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

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 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 This book is a spin-off from a highly successful seminar series jointly organized by the Division of Economics of the Nanyang Techn...

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

Description Positive experiences in daily lives enhance people's well-being and motivate them to do well and help others. Therefore, it is impo...

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 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 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 Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

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

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 In early 1905, a group of Javanese led by Alias bin Ali, started a settlement on a hillside in Singapore, not far ...

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

Description This book is part of the authors’ continuing research on quality of life issues in Singapore. It builds on past research into the v...

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 Editor Far from being a melting pot, multi-racial Singapore prides itself on the richness of its ethnic communities and c...

Description About the Authors This book is the definitive volume on the history of chess in Singapore. Covering 1945–1990, it covers the post-w...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...