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Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine Sound - the noises we hear in common spaces, processes shaping the creation of musi...

Description About the Contributors Look inside the magazine This issue of Now & Again delves into the concept of The Uncanny — the elusive ...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Winner of the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction PrizeWinner, Singapore Book Awards 2017 (Best Fiction...

Description Praise About the Author We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. Corazon, Angel a...

Description A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, pre...

Description It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence...

Description “Baba”, “Nonya”, “Peranakan” and “Straits Chinese” are terms that refer to the descendants of Chinese traders who settled in Southe...

Description About the Author Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has mor...

Description Praise About the Playwright Student’s Edition includes resource notes Off Centre was first staged by The Necessary Stage in 1993, u...

Description About the Playwright A Necessary Resource is the much-awaited guide to Off Centre, one of Singapore's most celebrated plays. This r...

A penniless American traveller lands a gig as the ragtime pianist of a waterfront saloon and begins a journey filled with drunken sailors, bar figh...

The easy and indulgent life of established colonials shown in full swing. These memoirs of travellers and residents include extracts from the follo...

Description A gun on Fort Canning signals morning call. A long walk on country roads is followed by lolling about the bungalow verandah. At 9 o...

A tuan discovers his cook has included tiger meat in his curry. Sampan boys race down the Singapore River. A gang robs dhobies and make off with sh...

Description Mems collecting water-lilies, bargaining for tropical birds, feasting on turtle steaks, visiting a coffee plantation and nearly fai...

Description About the Author Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London t...

Winner of POPULAR Readers’ Choice Award 2011, English (Adult) The title of this book was inspired by a song written back in the 1940s and performed...

Description About the Authors This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational an...

Description About the Author & Chef Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book Scrap the notion that healthy is boring. Eat consciously, live...

Description When does a space become a place? How do the places we inhabit shape our lived experiences and identities? In Once Upon A Place: 8 ...

While flipping through Grandpa's photo album of his childhood days, Aloysius and Grandpa are magically transported to 1900s Singapore. Aloysius, ha...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Book Cover DesignWinner of the Penang Monthly Book Prize 2...

Description Praise About the Author One Fierce Hour is Alfian Sa’at’s first and breakout work. It was hailed as ‘truly a landmark’ for Singapor...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description Since its publication in 1923, Sir Song Ong Siang's One Hundred Years' History of the Chinese in Singapore has become the standard ...

Description In this book, Lee draws on that wealth of experience and depth of insight to offer his views on today’s world and what it might loo...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

Description About the Poet From the poet’s Preface: When love ends, what do you keep? Some autumns ago, I met a remarkable woman and we fell in...

Description About the Editor Multiculturalism is arguably the X-factor of Singapore’s admired country brand. But while the island republic’s o...

Description About the Author One of Japan’s favourite comfort foods, onigiri or rice balls are quick and easy to put together, nutritious, low ...

Description About the Author One of Japan’s favourite comfort foods, onigiri or rice balls are quick and easy to put together, nutritious, low ...

Description Praise About the Author Look inside the book From Bedok to Beo Crescent, Jalan Sultan to Joo Chiat, celebrity food blogger Dr Lesli...

Description About the Editor What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundari...

Description Today's manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to develop new technological and high reliability products in record time. This...

Description About the Author and Illustrator Orang and Hutan are the best of friends. Hutan provides Orang with food, shelter and a place to re...

Description Native orchids have grown freely on roadside trees in Singapore for centuries and the Singapore Botanic Gardens has cultivated many...

Description About the Author Geetha’s seemingly perfect world is shattered when she loses her husband of five years, forcing her into a period ...

Description About the Author & Translator Chew Kok ChangTranslated from the Chinese by Shelly Bryant Look inside the book   I   Get the E-b...

Description About the Author This book is a completely new edition of the out-of-print Methodist Girls’ School centenary publication of 1987. D...

Description About the Photographer Look inside the book Selected by The Business Times as one of the Top 10 iconic artworks of the past 50 year...

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...

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Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Established by the colonial government, southw...

Description About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book on Amazon or Google Play Since pre-independence days, Geylang Serai has...