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Description About the Authors A collection of Southeast Asian journalism, research and comics, the book covers a range of themes, such as civil...

Description About the Author The story of modern Singapore as told through its living heritage is encapsulated in this handsome book, published...

Description About the Author The Japanese invasion of Malaya in December 1941 is one of the more heavily studied military campaigns in World Wa...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's economy and society from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singapore...

Description This book presents insights on Singapore's politics and governance from leading thinkers, based on selected commentaries from Singa...

Description About the Editors This book, the first in a planned series, reports on Singapore's Future Cities Laboratory and its ambitious missi...

Description Praise About the Editors The countries that make up Southeast Asia are seeing an incredible resurgence in their economic power. Ove...

Description Praise About the Author For three-and-a-half bleak years during World War II, Japan occupied Malaya and Singapore, transforming a o...

Description Praise About the Author When Singapore declared independence in 1965, it faced the monumental task of building a military from scra...

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

Description About the Author Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exterio...

Description Praise About the Author Looks at moments in Singapore's and Las Vegas' pasts when the moral and legal status of gambling changed si...

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 Sudden in Youth: New and Selected Poems brings together the best of ten years of Felix Cheong's poetry, as well as...

Description About the Author What do the animals from the Singapore Zoo do on their day off? They meet for cake and tea at Raffles Hotel, of co...

The Magic Circle tells the story of what happens when Charmaine Chan’s sister Elaine is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer. As the illness...

Description About the Author What do we expect of an author who is unapologetically female? What do we expect of consuming art in general? Shou...

Description About the Author Essays on Singapore's Foreign Policy “Diplomacy is not about being nice, polite or agreeable. It is fundamentally ...

Description 3rd Prize of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category In this volume of fresh essays and published a...

Description Lee’s Lieutenants: Singapore’s Old Guard was a national non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in 1999. Now this semina...

Description In 2017, Malaysia sprang a surprise on Singapore by filing two applications for revision and interpretation of the International Co...

Description Abridged from Lee Kuan Yew: A Life in Pictures, this book features private and public pictures of Lee. It includes some new photos ...

Description “Why did I insist on Singaporeans all needing to learn their mother tongue? For the Chinese, why did I insist that they learn Chine...

Description Praise Why did Lee do away with vernacular schools despite violent political resistance?Why did he close Nanyang University?Why sta...

Description Mr Lee Kuan Yew described Hard Truths as his all-time "favourite" book. He stayed in the public eye for 60 years - as the revolutio...

English Description Chinese Description Men in White is the inside story of one of the world’s most successful political parties. Narrated in t...

Description Winner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 S...

Description Who was “Fatty Weng”? Which family restaurant is being run by the fourth generation? “Samy’s Curry” got its name from its owner, bu...

Description About the Author Sundays with Sumiko is a collection of her most representative columns over the past two decades, exploring family...

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 Philip Yeo is unlike any civil servant. He prefers action over talk, cartoons over words and speed over due process. The maverick w...

Description About the Author and Illustrator There will never be another Singapore Zoo attraction as delightful or instantly lovable as Inuka, ...

Description When young Kayden is told by his busy mother to use his head and think of something to do, he picks up his pencil to do a join-the-...

Description Poetry, boring? That’s a common misconception — and it’s what this book aims to change. Do You See What I See? is an illustrated bo...

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 Praise About the Author Longlisted for the 2013 Frank O'connor International Short Story Award 3,000 people go missing every year i...

Description Praise About the Author You’ve asked for it, we’ve heard you and here it is. The whole Singapore Siu Dai experience, in one packagi...

Disability is neither strange nor distant. Part autobiography, part reflections of social advocate Cassandra Chiu’s experiences as a person living ...

What happens when an entire community is moved? Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore’s oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourhoo...

Published by the Singapore Heritage Society and CSYA Pte Ltd. ISBN: 9789810744540Format: PaperbackPages: 304Published: 2017

Chen Wei A cheerful little boy who loves adventure and is mad about Chinese culture. This book tells the story of Little Jack’s exciting journey b...

Ju Chen A cheerful little boy who loves adventure and is mad about Chinese culture. In this book, Little Jack travels back in time to find himself...

Description Praise About the Author & Illustrator 🎁Recommended for ages 9 and above Shortlisted for the Red Dot Awards 2020-2021 (Younger ...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator Adventure-loving Sing and her enormous family are back in this sequel to The House on Palmer Ro...

Description About the Authors & Illustrator It is 1930s Singapore and war is raging in China and Europe. But for eight-year-old Sing and he...

Description About the Authors  Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.How can people thrive as th...

Grandma Pat is going to introduce you to colourful festival that we celebrate in Singapore. Our Muslim friends go to the mosque and celebrate this ...

"Twenty-two stories in the volume, and this is how the tally stands country-wise: one each from Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nepal and Pakistan...