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Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description Praise Book Trailer About the Author Shortlisted for 2019 Singapore Books Awards Best Middle Grade/Young Adult TitleFinalist for th...

Description From a troubling encounter with the Marcos family in the early 1980s to operating in China in the period before and during the Tian...

Description This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Synopsis About the Creator Limited edition (only 100 copies available)
Before there was The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, there was the art of...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (8,465 KB) This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes ...

Description Praise About the Author Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100....

Description About the Poet This collection brings together in one volume, the author’s first four volumes of poetry which have long been out of...

Description Praise Creative Teams About the Editors Traffic. A crunchy snack. An argument. What does sound look like to you? Difference Engine ...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description Praise About the Author British artists and commentators in the late 18th and early 19th century encoded the twin aspirations of pr...

Description About the Editors What is the modern in Southeast Asia’s architecture and how do we approach its study critically? This pathbreakin...

Articles Roundtable Responses Contributions by Sarena Abdullah, Anna Koshcheeva, Elly Kent, Yin Ker, Thanavi Chotpradit, Stanley O'Connor, Si...

Description Praise About the Author The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration...

Description About the Authors Until the mid-1950s nearly all the waters lying between the far-flung islands of the Indonesian archipelago were ...

Gretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and imm...

Description Praise About the Author The famous street food and home cooking of Singapore is presented in a unique way in this cookbook. Jo Mari...

Description About the Author This book is written for professionals who are in leadership positions, i.e., managers, consultants and business o...

Description About the Author It is said that the duty of public servants is to 'speak truth to power' - to give honest, sound and sometimes unp...

Description The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially du...

Description The totality of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a compact Riemannian manifold is called the spectrum. We describe how the spect...

Description About the Author Singlish is a punchy and witty patois used in Singapore. It mixes English with words, phrases, and syntaxes from t...

Description About the Author Shamsydar Ani’s taste buds have always been adventurous. Thanks to them, dishes from her modern South East Asian k...

Description About the Author and Illustrator Swish! Pow! As Adam watches how Tok Ali’s top knocks out all the other tops in a top-spinning comp...

Description About the Author It was the dry season, when all Kelantan bursts into artistic bloom, with theatre and contests and all manner of...

Description About the Author Tiger spirits prowl Kampong Penambang in the third novel of the award-winning Kain Songket Mysteries detective ser...

Description Praise About the Author Spomenik is a collection of poems and photographs from the Balkans. These impressions of people and places ...

Description This book is a detailed and comprehensive exploration of the development of sport in Singapore in the colonial period, from the ear...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: American League (432 KB) The book focuses on, identifies, and analyzes various divisions and conference...

Description About the Author The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Sing...

Everyone loves school outings and Stacey is definitely excited to visit the Indian Heritage Centre with her friends from school. Stacey doesn’t kno...

Stacey dives into the exhibits at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum and learns secrets from the past. Join her on her latest magical advent...

An exciting visit to the National Gallery awaits Stacey! As she wanders the halls of the majestic building, what magical things will happen as she ...

Visiting the National Museum is the first thing on Stacey’s list when the holidays start. And she is in for a surprise treat—Stacey is about to get...

When Stacey accompanies her aunt to the Peranakan Museum, she does not realise what an adventure it’ll become. Boy, is she in for a wonderful surpr...

Description About the Author Singapore, where driven foreign women have a hard time finding work: a Harvard-educated mother struggles to find a...

Description We know him best as the founder of modern Singapore . He was instrumentral in bringing about the island 's development into a free ...

Description Praise About the Author A thought-provoking and sometimes startling anthology which explores issues challenging Singaporeans: ident...

Description About the Editors This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004–2014). As...

Description About the Poet Does the word “childhood” call up mushy sentiments and nostalgic memories where time has given a rosy glow to what h...

Description About the Author Some did not expect him to last long as Prime Minister. Few predicted he would succeed in the footsteps of Lee Kua...

Description The Eurasian Association, Singapore (EA) was set up in July 1919 by pioneer Eurasians who, while working to support themselves and ...

Description This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced unde...

Description About the Author A captivating story written and illustrated by a mother-and-daughter team about coping with disappointment, helpin...

Description In 2015, Singapore celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its independence. From its founding as a British colony with no natural r...

Description About the Author & Illustrator Look inside the book   |   Get the E-bookChristmas in Singapore is special, with families all ov...