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Description About the Author & Translator Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2016 (English Non-Fiction) Translated from the Chinese...

Description About the Author The city is a place laced with the material and the immaterial, the visible and invisible. There are the migratory...

Description Contents Singapore and India established diplomatic relations in August 1965. However, their ties date as far back as the 10th cent...

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 The Singapore Heritage Cookbook series documents and preserves the cultural and culinary heritage of the different...

Description Economic analysis of the industrial experiences of the newly industrialized economies in Asia is generally lacking in the literatur...

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

Description This book showcases the innovative research of Professor Skovgaard, by providing in one place a selection of his most important and...

Description This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 201...

Description This book is about the definition of the Shannon measure of Information, and some derived quantities such as conditional informatio...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the E-Book    |    Listen to the audiobookIn 1971, teenaged Amrit disappea...

Description Praise About the Author Ink and Influence: An OB Markers Sequel is media veteran Cheong Yip Seng's account of Singapore's dramatic ...

Description Get the set here! Foreword by Tommy Koh This volume reflects on the past, present, and future of Singapore's politics and society t...

Description Get the set here! Foreword by Euston Quah This volume reflects on the past, present, and future of Singapore's economy and society ...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singa...

Description Mencius is an ancient philosopher with a modern spirit. As a humanist, Mencius believed that a man's character is originally good, ...

Description Da Xue (The Great Learning) and Zhong Yong (The Doctrine of the Mean) were originally in Li Ji (The Record of Rites). It was Zhu Xi...

Description The Great Learning is the shortest of the Four Books but its influence is no less far reaching. This is due to its emphasis on how ...

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 Author It is interesting to analyze the application of mid-infrared (MIR, 1000–5000 nm) radiation to study the dynamics o...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description About the Author International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on...

Description International Economics: Global Markets and Competition integrates the microeconomics of international trade with open economy macr...

Description About the Author Often an unnoticed caress on our faces, winds are voiceless and formless. How do we interpret them? What mysteries...

Description About the Authors Welcome to the WILD Company! Here is a company staffed by animals from many species—different from other compani...

Description About the Author Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company...

Description Fluid distribution during spaceflight and impact on brain and vision health is an emerging field of high-priority research in the N...

Description Stoicheiosis Astronomike ("Elements of Astronomy") is a late Byzantine comprehensive introduction to Astronomy. It was written by a...

Description Geophysics is concerned with the physical processes and properties of the Earth and its surrounding environment, and with the use o...

Description About the Authors Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little attention has been paid to th...

Description It is important for every physicist today to have a working knowledge of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Introduction to G...

Description This book deals with quantum field theory, the language of modern elementary particles physics. Based on university lectures given ...

Description This book is written from the viewpoint that a deep connection exists between cosmology and particle physics. It presents the resul...

Description Praise About the Author At home with loneliness and passing encounters, can we be familiar with another or even ourselves? Does lov...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book When should I start investing? What platform should I use? How...

Description About the Author & Illustrator A fully-illustrated, sharply-curated book on modern epidemics to arm young readers with easily d...

Description About the Author When an ambitious, adventurous gent named Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles "discovered" the tiny Southeast Asian island...

Description About the Author In this long-awaited sequel to bestselling Invisible Trade: High-class sex for sale in Singapore, Gerrie Lim unrav...

Description Praise About the Authors Look inside the book  |  Get the E-book Peranakan is the term given to descendants of early Chinese migran...

Description About the Poet A collection of poems written by Heng Siok Tian. Her poems have been anthologised in Moving Worlds, Fifty on 50, Tum...

Description About the Editor This book, with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and...

Description About the Author This book examines the staying power of the People's Action Party, a political party that has governed Singapore s...

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 Look inside the book Iskandar Ismail has dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries and realising the possibilities of Singapore ...

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 updated edition with a refreshed cover allows readers to better understand and appreciate the truths and expe...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (382 KB)  Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variet...