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Description Praise About the Authors The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is one of the most successful agreements to g...

Description About the Author How should Asean leaders advance the Asean Economic Community? What obstacles does Asia face in managing US-China ...

Description Singapore's rapid ascent from Third World to First since its independence in 1965 has won it acclaim as an 'economic miracle'. Econ...

Description Praise About the Author Shortlisted for Singapore Literature Prize 2018 Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book A teenager discov...

Description About the Author What is history? How is it made? And why does it matter? Reimagining Singapore’s History brings together leading h...

Description Praise About the Author The future of work is full of uncertainty, ambiguity and anxiety. In the 1960s, many companies on Standar...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

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 Immediately recognizable by their hong tou jin or red headscarves, Singapore's Samsui women-immigrants from the Sa...

Description About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...

Description Reporter is an account of John McBeth’s 50-year journey through Asia, more than half of that time as a correspondent for the Far Ea...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description About the Author Japan’s invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of ...

Description This book aims to provide an overview of the importance of communities to mitigate the threat of terrorism, drawing key lessons and...

Description Praise About the Author The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Ind...

Description The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore's central bank and integrated financial regulator. As a central bank, MAS pr...

Description About the Author It's time to change the way we view our children. Using tried-and-tested strategies from decades of experience, ...

Description Praise About the Author and Editor Get a gripping glimpse into the therapy room and most powerful boardrooms in Asia in this first ...

Description About the Author Change has run amok! Technological advancement measures its frequency in minutes. Much of what we think we know a...

Description Following the success of her first two books, Talk Money and More Talk Money, financial journalist Lorna Tan is back with her third...

Description About the Author Why do some people spend their whole lives working only to find themselves still short of money in old age? The an...

Description About the Author Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Between family troubles and faltering dreams, Mikaela Kong rises with th...

Description About the Author Singapore got sexy and the country's best-selling author got jealous. After five years chasing echidnas and platyp...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description About the Author In Rewrite The Rules, Ritu G Mehrish and Rajita Saxena empower Asian women leaders to challenge the status quo and...

Description About the Author From communal villages to high-rise flats, how has the “kampung spirit” of old survived the transition? For those ...

Description Praise About the Authors Pounding beneath rib/cage is a visceral struggle for selfhood and belonging. These poems shatter through t...

Description Praise About the Author A powerful story of young love and idealism set in Singapore in the 1960s, a time of political uncertaintie...

Description About the Author Out of a silent harvest, a scorched Maekung valley, comes the stirring story of Jinda, a courageous young Thai gir...

Description About the Author When a foreign worker is found dead in a Singapore back street, few people care. But then another victim turns up,...

Description About the Author When Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother, Su Yi, is on her deathbed, he rushes to be by her bedside-but he's...

Description Praise About the Author NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the international sensation Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich...

Description About the Author Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to ser...

Description About the Author The Latin phrase, jus soli (“right of the soil”), is an unconditional right of a person born within the territory ...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Ripple Effect is a powerful story about resilience, rivalry, and rediscovery when life changes t...

Description About the Author What is China? While many perceive it as a rising power challenging Western dominance, eminent historian Professor...

Description Praise About the Authors Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected bus...

Description Praise About the Author A celebratory portrait of a man who has left an indelible mark on the national literary scene. Robert Yeo ...

Description Praise About the Authors Look inside the book   |   Get the E-book Growing up, Quentin and his five siblings—no matter what they we...

Description About the Author During assembly, a cockroach scurries in, wreaking havoc! Amid the frenzy, Mabel loses Robozonic! The boy who pick...

Description About the Author It is the First World War and the Flashmanesque German naval reserve captain, Julius Lauterbach, is a prisoner of ...

Description Celebrating a "golden age" of travel, this new book retraces the steps of a Grand Tour of South East Asia from the turn of the 20th...

Description About the Author Room 216 is about four strong female characters and their complex experiences. It tells the story of university ro...

Description Praise About the Author Routes 2 continues the story of Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1945-75. This book occasionally disrupts th...

Description Praise About the Author Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1940-75 is both a personal and public memoir; it is personal as it records par...

Description About the Authors This book documents short stories of inspirational local runners who were involved in the creation of Sundown Mar...

Description Praise Look inside the book Russel’s career began when one of his photographs made it to the cover of Track & Field News magazi...

Description Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...