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Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

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Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback   Disability is all around us—among people we meet, the media, sports, our own family and fri...

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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore

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Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we think we know about the lived experiences of minority-raced people in Singapore. Inspired by Brown I...

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Khairat Kita: A History of Malay/Muslim Mutual Aid in Singapore

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A collection of interviews, photographs, essays and personal reflections, Khairat Kita is a project documenting the last few remaining Malay/Muslim Mutual Benefit Organisations (MMBOs) providing ai...

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What We Inherit: Growing Up Indian

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A celebration of the slippages, strife and secret histories that make us—for better or worse—who we are. A woman faces off against a xenophobic stranger across a supermarket turnstile.A young girl ...

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Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore

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 Making Kin: Ecofeminist Essays from Singapore contemplates and re-centres Singapore women in the overlapping discourses of family, home, ecology and nation. For the first time, this collection of ...

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Published by: Pagesetters Services   Most of the old factories are long gone and many workers have retired. Combining history, memory and heritage, Theatres of Memory: Industrial Heritage of 20th C...

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Voting in a Time of Change: Singapore’s 2020 General Election

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 GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the first Leader of the Opposition. Voting in a Time of Change is part of a longitudi...

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Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

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Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial h...

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In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant plac...

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Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited

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  "Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort and central control, where people have mastered their environment, but at the cost of individua...

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A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Related Legislations (2nd Edition)

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  This book examines key clauses of the Employment Act and its related legislations. Written in clear and concise language, this book breaks down and interprets legal jargon for the laymen and allo...

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They Told Us To Move: Dakota—Cassia

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 What happens when an entire community is moved? Dakota Crescent was one of Singapore's oldest public housing estates and a rental flat neighbourhood for low-income households. In 2016, its residen...

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Siglap at the Crossroads: Memories of Its Only HDB Estate

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This is a full‐colour spread of photos and stories that capture the sights and heartbeat of Siglap HDB housing estate. “Sometimes, we don’t appreciate how precious some things are until they are g...

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A Quest for Freedom – freedom from poverty, freedom to learn, freedom to live – without fear or favour. This has been the quest of Gopalan Raman, known to most of his friends and fellows in the le...

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I am not a label, I am Gary

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This Is What Inequality Looks Like

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  NATIONAL BESTSELLER This New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the ...

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  “Dancing was fun; it didn't seem like a job but a party every day.” “They practised dancing seriously; it was their life!” “It is an ugly profession; to prostitute oneself... is a commonly accept...

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The Art of Advocacy In Singapore

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  Advocacy is a tricky pursuit in Singapore. Your motives can be questioned, your activities monitored, and your scope for action limited.  Despite the constraints, civil society activists have per...

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Singapore, Incomplete: Reflections on a First World nation’s arrested political development

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View content page here. As the government lays the ground for a transition to a fourth generation of leaders after the death of Lee Kuan Yew and its 2015 general election triumph, Cherian George co...

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My Nantah Story: The Rise and Demise of the People’s University

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Read the foreword and Tan Kok Chiang's introduction here. In 1958, more than a hundred thousand people attended the inauguration ceremony of Nanyang University (Nantah), a true “people’s universit...

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A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

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  A direct descendant of Chew Joo Chiat, Philip Chew was born in 1935 and is a pioneer of Singapore in his own way. A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat tells the story of a forgotten pioneer of Singapo...

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Living with Myths in Singapore

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Read the Content Page and Chapter 1: Singapore as a Mythic Nation here. Singapore is a mythic nation, where our ‘reality’ and ‘common sense’ are conditioned by a group of influential myths. Our ma...

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A Watershed Election (新加坡政治的分水岭: 林宝音政论文选)

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  This title is the Chinese translation of “A Watershed Election” by Catherine Lim. 2011大选是新加坡政治生态的分水岭。此届大选，反对党有好多个候选人一口气中选进入国 会，可以说 没有先例的事。2015大选又是一次分水岭。这回近70%大多数选票投给了行动党，由上回近60%得票率提升上来。众多人群出席反对党举...

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  Through the 90-odd paintings in this book, Teng Jee Hum hopes to share his feelings about what it has been like to be a Singaporean in the last 50 years or so. Many of the images are the artist’s...

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Singapore: A Portrait In Diversity

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View sample pages. Singapore is a melting pot of nations: people from all over the world come to this small island to live and work. Tom Soper captures 50 stunning portraits of people from 50 diffe...

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Remains: A Singapore Journey

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Under A Shadow

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  “Mum, what’s happening? Are we poor?”“Your father has gotten into some trouble.”“What kind of trouble?” When Singapore surrendered to Japan in 1942, Rosaly Puthucheary was only six years old. Und...

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Faith In Architecture

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“This book you are holding is designed to take you on a sacred journey through its pages. In fact, it is a journey that all of us take daily, just by walking along the streets of Singapore.” Often ...

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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

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  Published by Singapore Democratic Party View sample pages (English)View sample pages (Chinese)  Dr Chee Soon Juan, a young lecturer with the National University of Singapore, burst onto the polit...

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A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Practical Applications

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by Martin Gabriel Please check out the revised edition of this book: A Guide to the Employment Act and Its Related Legislations.  Synopsis This book discusses various key clauses of the EA and the...

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Voting In Change: The Politics of Singapore

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  Singapore’s 2011 general election went down in history as its most significant since independence. This volume offers a snapshot of the heady days leading up to Polling Day on 7 May 2011, and the...

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Priest In Geylang: The Untold Story of the Geylang Catholic Centre

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Cosmopolitan Singapore—emblematic of globalised capitalism—usually calls to mind a number of clichés: orderly, clean and green, a shopping and business paradise, and a model of sound economic manag...

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Man/Born/Free: Writings on the Human Spirit From Singapore

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  "Through the history of the twentieth century, we have surely all become spiritual children of Nelson Mandela and siblings to South Africa, through whose momentous struggles we find an image for ...

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View sample pages here. The riot that struck Little India on 8 December 2013 was the worst outbreak of violence Singapore had experienced in four decades. Within minutes, updates—and judgments—pour...

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That We May Dream Again (2nd Edition)

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  In the early morning of 21 May 1987, sixteen Singaporeans were arrested under the Internal Security Act of Singapore. The Act legitimizes detention without trial. In the weeks that followed, anot...

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The Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

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  The Gurkhas need no introduction, with their storied reputation built up over two centuries of battlefield exploits around the world. A unit of these Nepalese warriors have been serving Singapore...

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Interpersonal and political conflicts, wars and armed struggles are raging across countries, ethnic groups and religious communities in the world today. There seems to be no way of stopping the vi...

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Growing Up Perempuan

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  Growing 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 during childbirth you become a vampiric ghost and i...

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Walking With Singapore: The Workers' Party 60th Anniversary

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  The Workers’ Party marks its 60th anniversary this year. The party invites readers to know their story, tell them how to do better, and join them to walk the long road of progress and fight the g...

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Local Encounters in a Global City. Singapore Stories.

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  What is the impact of a constant flow of people and capital in one of the most globalised cities in the world? In this collection of essays, the authors pursue an ethnographic approach to globali...

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The Birthday Book 2017: What should we never forget?

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 An annual publication, The Birthday Book examines emerging challenges and opportunities for Singapore, based on a selected prompt. The number of writers each year matches Singapore’s age—52 for 20...

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1987: Singapore’s Marxist Conspiracy 30 Years On

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  Published by Function 8 LtdSurvivors of Operation Spectrum—the alleged Marxist conspiracy—speak up in this volume. For many of them, this is the first time that they cast their minds back to 1987...

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Making Sense of Life @ / & SMU: A Partial Guide for the Clueless

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  This extraordinary volume provides unexpectedly heart-warming and heart-breaking insights into the interior lives and thoughts of SMU business graduates. It is both a paean to and an indictment o...

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Speaking Out & Speaking Up: Xinjiao Perspectives

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The Birthday Book 2016: What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?

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  “What is Singapore’s Next Big Thing?” An intellectual salvo from young and passionate Singaporeans inhabiting different slices of Singapore society, The Birthday Book is a collection of 51 essays...

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  This book recounts 15 cases that Martin personally handled as a HR consultant. Each case mirrors the thoughts and strategies employed by Martin, and demonstrates how one can be flexible in dealin...

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Change in Voting: Singapore's 2015 General Election

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  For Singaporeans, the year 2015 will be remembered for its grand celebrations of the nation’s 50th year of independence (SG50), as well as the demise of founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. It w...

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  This is a collection of stories of 14 families of different ancestry, whose forefathers migrated to Southeast Asia from southern China in the last two centuries. Despite suffering severe hardship...

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WITHIN & WITHOUT Singapore in the World; the World in Singapore

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  2015 was an important year for Singapore Management University (SMU).  It was SMU’s 15th anniversary, and, more importantly, Singapore’s 50th anniversary as an independent nation. The editors fel...

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  How do the vulnerable love and live? In a HIV shelter for children in India, a group of medical students from Singapore meet Uma—a victim, a survivor, a mother. Drawing on Uma’s life experiences...

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  It was a diary that had first sat at the back of a locked steel cabinet for two decades and then in a taped box for close to another four decades. A secret diary kept by a Cabinet Minister of the...

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25 Years of The Substation: Reflections on Singapore's First Independent Art Centre

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 INDEPENDENCE. OPPORTUNITY. RAW. EXPERIMENTAL. FRINGE. PROGRESS. RESPONSIVE. EMPATHY. FEARLESS. IMAGINATION. PERSEVERANCE. CHALLENGE. INCUBATOR. SUPPORTIVE. CONTEMPORARY. MULTIDISCIPLINARY. SOCIOPO...

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Multiculturalism through the Lens: A Guide to Ethnic and Migrant Anxieties in Singapore

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Democratically Speaking

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 Dr Chee Soon Juan, Singaporean neuropsychologist and secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party, sets out his political ideas and his experiences of Singapore's political scene since he w...

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How did a man in a wheelchair break a world record? What did a factory worker do to get her PhD? Who turned an ah beng gangster into a committed volunteer? What does it really mean to be DIFFERENT?...

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The Singapore Letters of Rigor Mortis

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  This book is a collection of letters by Dr George Caldwell, most of which were published in the main newspapers in Singapore from the late 1960s till the late 1990s. The letters were an attempt b...

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The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History

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  In exploring the past, researchers labour in the present: to locate the archival document which is located somewhere behind a gate with its keeper; or to find that elusive participant who will th...

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The Accidental Entrepreneur: Life and Reflections of Choo Heng Thong

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  Published by Choo Heng Thong Born in the post-war baby boom years in Malaya, Choo Heng Thong rose from his humble beginnings in Johor Bahru to become an entrepreneur in the heady days of Singapor...

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  Teo Eng Seng. Art and Thoughts is the first detailed, historical study of this artist by the renowned art historian T.K.Sabapathy. It spans more than fifty years of continuous creative activity, ...

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View sample pages. Seen primarily as final resting places, cemeteries are increasingly under threat from urban redevelopment in land-scarce Singapore. Regarded as ‘excess space’ by state planners, ...

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Singapore Insights from the Inside

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  The Singapore International Foundation invited members of the international community to share their unique insights and personal experiences of Singapore so that more might know about Singapore ...

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume 2 - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature II

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  Sharing Borders, Volume 2 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, s...

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Writing Asia: The Literatures in Englishes Volume I - Sharing Borders: Studies in Contemporary Singaporean-Malaysian Literature I

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  Sharing Borders, Volume 1 in the Writing Asia Series, is the most comprehensive account to date of Singaporean and Malaysian literatures in English. Apart from the assessment of single authors, s...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 8: Interviews II

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  INTERLOGUE is a Series which brings into critical focus the works of Singapore writers in English. The Series aims for stimulating insights presented in a refreshing manner through sustained enga...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 7: Edwin Thumboo, Creating a Nation Through Poetry

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  An interviewer speaking to Edwin Thumboo once asked: "But what is the reference for this...I mean where is the authority which I can cite?" and Thumboo's response was: "When it comes to Singapore...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6: Haresh Sharma, The Cultural Politics of Playwriting in Contemporary Singapore

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 6: Haresh Sharma, The Cultural Politics of Playwriting in Contemporary Singapore

  This volume in the Interlogue Series examines in detail Haresh Sharma’s extensive body of work, beginning with his very early writing and ending with his 2006 work. Prof. David Birch tries to pai...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 5: Robert Yeo

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 5: Robert Yeo

  In this volume, George Watt analyses the works of Robert Yeo, a major voice in the articulation of Singaporean literature - something much needed but curiously avoided by many. Yeo's writings enc...

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 4: Interviews

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Interlogue: Studies in Singapore Literature, Vol. 4: Interviews

  In this volume, Dr. Ronald D. Klein shares with us the invaluable insights to the background and works of selected poets, writers and playwrights within their respective social context and climat...

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Human Rights Perspectives

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Human Rights Perspectives

  The contribution of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the modern world is far-reaching. Despite being a “declaration” it has exerted enormous influence on a host of international ...

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Essays on Edwin Thumboo

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Essays on Edwin Thumboo

  There is an element of mystery in the poetry of Edwin Thumboo. Mystery in the sense of there being, to borrow Einstein’s wording, “something subtle, intangible and inexplicable”, and truly beyond...

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Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952 - 2008

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Edwin Thumboo: Bibliography 1952 - 2008

  Prof Thumboo was appointed Professor of English at the National University of Singapore in January 1979 and is presently Emeritus Professor of the Department of English Language and Literature an...

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A Far Better Thing I Do...: The 2000 From Monfalcone

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A Far Better Thing I Do...: The 2000 From Monfalcone

  In the early months of 1947, 2000 workers from the Monfalcone shipyard and aircraft factory in Italy resigned from their stable jobs and set off for Fiume. They went not because of necessity, but...

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A is for Achar, L is for Love

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A is for Achar, L is for Love

  As her ninety-four-year-old Popo’s health fails, Tammy finds herself returning to her grandmother’s kitchen in search of the Peranakan foods of her childhood. Growing up in Popo’s house, the seve...

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A Nation Awakes: Frontline Reflections

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A Nation Awakes: Frontline Reflections

edited by Tan Jee SayEthos Books no longer stocks this title. View sample pages. Synopsis Few nations if any, have ever held two national elections in a span of four months. Fewer still are key pla...

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A Whole Neu World: 18 Months in Laos

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A Whole Neu World: 18 Months in Laos

  A Whole Neu World is an engaging account of Neu Wee Teck's (mis)adventures in Laos and his encounters with its lovely people during his stint as a volunteer teacher with the Singapore Internation...

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Life's So Like Dat

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 What makes us uniquely Singaporean? Is it the way we speak, dress, work, play, spend our money and time? Or is there more? In Life's So Like Dat, Leo takes a dig at not just the Singaporean manner...

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Memoirs of a Migrant

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  As a founder member of the Labour Party of Singapore in 1948, the Minister for Communications and Works in two Labour Front governments from 1955 to 1959, Principal of St. Andrew’s Secondary Scho...

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Powering Your Property Tree: Perspectives from a Seasoned Mortgage Professional

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Powering Your Property Tree: Perspectives from a Seasoned Mortgage Professional

by Yip Woon Lye  View sample pages. Synopsis Powering Your Property Tree is a rich collection of thoughts, insights and practical applications into Singapore’s bludgeoning property market by one o...

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Saudade: The Culture and Security of Eurasian Communities in Southeast Asia

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Saudade: The Culture and Security of Eurasian Communities in Southeast Asia

by Antonio L Rappa View sample pages. Synopsis Saudade is a Portuguese idiom that symbolizes a sense of belonging; a special feeling of attachment to a time and place, as well as a desire to retain...

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Sensing Singapore: Reflections in a Time of Change

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Sensing Singapore: Reflections in a Time of Change

  In his new book, Sensing Singapore: Reflections in a Time of Change, entrepreneur, thought leader and political commentator Devadas Krishnadas provides an insight into what these events say about...

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Tapestries: A Teaching Life

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Tapestries: A Teaching Life

Mrs Toh Kah Beng — a teacher's name which brought both fear and respect into the hearts of generations of students from one of Singapore's top schools.Growing up in the early years of post‐war Sing...

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Towards The Blue: Adventures of a City Wimp

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Towards The Blue: Adventures of a City Wimp

  When Mei Ching Tan landed a grant of ten grand, she knew immediately that she could not buy a chocolate factory, so she did what she always dreamt of doing: have the wilderness experience of her ...

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When The Bough Breaks

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When The Bough Breaks

  Tammy L Wong is devastated by the horror of September 11 2001, and finds herself at a crossroads with her dance career in Singapore. Unable to function in her personal life, she begins obsessing ...

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