Society and Social Sciences

Description In a frank contemplation as she nears the end of her own course of life, educator Sie Siok Hui reveals moments of epiphany while ho...

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

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

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

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

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

Description About the Author By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public healt...

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

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 Authors Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unli...

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...