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Description About the Author This collection of 26 short stories represents the prizewinning entries of the annual Asiaweek short story competi...

Description About the Author The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one ...

Description This book is the solution manual to the textbook "A Modern Course in University Physics". It contains solutions to all the problems...

Description The complex field of analytical chemistry requires knowledge and application of the fundamental principles of numerical calculation...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize (English Poetry)  …At the very start of us, I foresaw e...

Description Praise About the Author Tough times don’t last, but tough people do! The recipe for resilience lies in the practice and joy of be...

Description About the Author When the prophesied hero dies one day before the world needs saving, 13-year-old Julian Kee is randomly chosen as ...

Description Noor Aishah Mohammad Salim was all of 26 years old when she became Singapore's First Lady in 1959 as the wife of Yusof Ishak, Singa...

Description About the Author The tiny island of Pulau Ubin, located off the northeast coast of mainland Singapore, is one of the last rural are...

Description The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard M...

Description Shown here is how basic concepts of physics can be used to improve models in finance, economics, psychology and biology. Readers ar...

Description This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the la...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description About the Author This is Josephine's first Children's novel for mid-graders. Amelia is a modern nine-year-old Peranakan Chinese gir...

Description About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...

Description In August 2001, the beta issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (QLRS) quietly appeared online. Twenty years and almost 80 is...

Description About the Author & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 3 and above Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book   |   Get the series...

Description About the Author ‘You will keep hearing the insistent racket of these stories long after you set this fine collection down.’-Profe...

Description About the Author Jakarta, 2014. Hendra is ‘Radikal’, a techno DJ at the top of his game. In his relentless pursuit of new highs, he...

Description About the Author A co-publication with the National Library Board, Singapore. The founding of Singapore has typically been attribut...

Description About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...

Description About the Author The authoritative biography of the 'Father of Singapore'. By the time of his death, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Raffles Hotel is the best-known, oldest and most elegant hotel in Singapore. But is that all th...

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

Description About the Author & Illustrator The first railroad was built in the early 19th century and the world's axis shifted along with i...

Description Praise About the Author Arcadia Greentree knows she isn’t exactly normal. But then she discovers she isn’t Arcadia Greentree either...

Description About the Author Raising Thinkers introduces tools and techniques to enhance critical and creative thinking, decision making and em...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Join Raya and her mama and aba as they enjoy iftar, bake Ramadan cookies, do good deeds around t...

Description 🎁Recommended for ages 7 and above Taking classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids reimagines them into easy-to-rea...

Description About the Author Look inside the book     |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Award-winning poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at...

Description About the Author Look inside the book     |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Former diplomat Bilahari Kausikan highlights t...

Description About the Author Look inside the book A critical look at Singapore’s harsh policies and the human cost of the war on drugs. Activis...

Description About the Author Look inside the book     |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle Former Nominated Member of Parliament Kuik Shi...

Description About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the Rational Conversations bundle NOTE: Only 4 autographed copies are available, ...

Description About the Author Look inside the book    |    Get the Rational Conversations Bundle Activist and vice president of Transient Worker...

Rawa is the name of the island and its waters. Rawa is the wind. It is also the name he has lived with for seventy years. He is Rawa, in name and e...

Description About the Author Re-affirming the Core is the follow-up to author Bryan Shen’s first book, The Un-affirmed Core, which sought to re...

Description About the Author As a species, our superpower is the ability to organize ourselves in flexible ways to pursue a variety of goals. B...

Description About the Playwright Over the past three decades, award-winning playwright Haresh Sharma has written more than 120 plays, many of...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Look inside the book (English) Ready, Kueh Set, Go! is an energetic tale that follows five young...

Description About the Author Following the success of Real Estate Riches and Building Your Real Estate Riches, which were bestsellers in major ...

Description Praise About the Author Real Wealth, Real Estate is about: What “Location, Location, Location” really means in Property How proper...

Description About the Authors ‘You shouldn’t be with a Chinese girl…that should be my girl,’ a man in Singapore allegedly said this to a Chines...

Description About the Author Rebuilding the Ancestral Village examines the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese and their ance...

Description About the Author Professor Lim Pin, a highly-respected practicing endocrinologist and clinical teacher, played a key role in layi...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...