
17A Keong Saik Road
17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in China...
View full details17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in China...
View full details50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into ...
View full detailsIn this rare book, The Necessary Stage has compiled a stimulating collection of essays and discussions that survey aspects of 10 years of Singapore...
View full detailsLee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...
View full detailsC. M. Turnbull’s one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource since its first edition was published in 1977. Revised fully twice,...
View full detailsAward-winning poet and playwright Alfian Sa'at calls for greater support for the arts in our city-state.Paperback: 48 PagesProduct Dimensions: 120 ...
View full detailsFew nations if any, have ever held two national elections in a span of four months. Fewer still are key players who took part in both. This book is...
View full detailsThis is a personal and philosophical account of schizophrenia that aims to raise awareness of mental health issues. The personal aspect of the book...
View full detailsAmong the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who trav...
View full detailsAir-Conditioned Nation Revisited is an anthology of essays on Singapore politics by Cherian George. It draws upon his influential collection Singap...
View full detailsIn 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six years moving from house to house...
View full detailsWhen Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scratch. Aristocracy of Armed Talent tells t...
View full detailsShowcasing all their work from Universe and New World Series, Around The World Across The Universe chronologically displays Phunk‘s evolution as a ...
View full detailsThis unique book revisits the moment in the Malayan Emergency when some 500,000 women, children and men were uprooted from their homes and moved in...
View full detailsSingapore lawyer Teo Soh Lung has written this careful account of her experiences and feelings when detained in Whitley Detention Centre 21 from Ma...
View full detailsThe Black and White house in Singapore is the most distinctive and imposing of the island's colonial architectural legacy. Surviving examples are t...
View full detailsIn this book, you’ll find the annotated scripts of two acclaimed lecture performances written by Ng Yi-Sheng, exploring forgotten chapters of Singa...
View full detailsWhy is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards ...
View full detailsHokkien Button is no ordinary dog. She was trained as a therapy pet who understands Hokkien, winning the hearts of many. When Fiona first meets But...
View full detailsLim Siong Guan, Singapore's former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Si...
View full detailsThis book poses the question that Singaporeans must wrestle with: can we survive as an independent city-state? Kishore Mahbubani believes that Sing...
View full detailsOn her last trip abroad before the COVID-19 pandemic, Clara Chow visited Ipoh. Over three days, she explored cave temples, bank vaults and a suppos...
View full detailsChia Ann Siang was once one of Singapore's wealthiest landowners and merchants. His name lives on today in Ann Siang Hill in Chinatown, but little ...
View full detailsFormer diplomat Bilahari Kausikan highlights two global trends that can shape Singapore's future—identity politics and the rise of China—and how Ch...
View full detailsIn postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia, Pentecostal megachurches dominate the Christian landscape, but the "big four" Protestant churches-Anglican,...
View full detailsChristian-Muslim relations in Singapore are influenced by the past. The founding of Singapore by the British and the subsequent arrival of Christia...
View full detailsFlorence, Italy is the birthplace of the Renaissance. Its art, architectural heritage, culture and politics still has an influence in today’s worl...
View full detailsPHUNK is a contemporary art and design collective based in Singapore. Founded in 1994 by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan when ...
View full detailsOne of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) 2015/16 Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. In ...
View full detailsDr Chee Soon Juan, Singaporean neuropsychologist and secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, sets out his political ideas and his expe...
View full detailsChef Janice Wong's approach to cuisine is novel and innovative--she views familiar items in a different light, twisting and combining them in a uni...
View full detailsAt the turn of the millennium, American-born Paige Parker and investment guru Jim Rogers spend three years—1,101 days to be exact—driving over six ...
View full detailsWhy would someone leave a shining career in management to work among the dead? Angjolie Mei, funeral director and "life celebrant", recounts how th...
View full detailsIllustrated by Chang Yang The hawker centre is an integral part of Singapore's urban landscape. As they are now easily found all around the island,...
View full detailsFood made with simple ingredients can create wonderful memories, bring comfort and nourish at the same time. Yet, for a busy person or family, prep...
View full detailsIn this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainabili...
View full details"The drawings selected for this book are highlights of my figure drawing sessions with live models. The duration of their poses ranges from 30 seco...
View full detailsWhat happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed alo...
View full detailsSingapore’s 2020 general election saw its fair share of drama and comedy, and the results were not unexpected. But beyond the polls, the hard truth...
View full detailsSince his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said ...
View full detailsStarting from the premise that lasting health requires a lifestyle that is counter to the short-term thinking and instant gratification prevalent i...
View full detailsProfessor S. Jayakumar, a former minister, diplomat and law dean, shares his candid views on many facets of Singapore’s governance, including fasci...
View full detailsThis is a statement, an art piece, a belief, a dream, an idea. This is an observation, an obsession, a process, a completion. This is a question, a...
View full detailsGrowing up as a woman is hard. Growing up as a woman in the Muslim community is harder. In a world still filled with superstitions, if you die duri...
View full detailsFor most people in Singapore, having a job is just a fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses a wide range of experiences. Have you ever real...
View full detailsSingapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that unde...
View full detailsPresented in Q&A format, and enriched with strong contextual narrative, each chapter features Lee in full flow – sometimes combative, occasiona...
View full details"This journey of mine welcomes you to slow down and stop for a moment to digest the purpose of food and eating. To me, food is a catalyst for human...
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