Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered
Description About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Dr Goh Keng Swee was Singapore’s first Minister for Finance from 1959 to 1965 who initiated Singapore’s first ind...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor Income inequality has become a global phenomenon. Rapid technological advancement and an expanding global workforc...
View full detailsDescription About the Author and Illustrator A graphic novel that celebrates the visionary man behind the Jurong Industrial Estate and one of t...
View full detailsDescription About the Author Understanding Singapore Politics, Second Edition, aims to present a structural-functional understanding of politic...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor Since 1965, Singapore has been propelled to the dizzying heights of first-world prosperity. Yet, the People's Acti...
View full detailsDescription The year 2019 marks Singapore's Bicentennial milestone since the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles in Singapore in 1819. It was in an...
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View full detailsDescription An illustrated collection of essays on modern and contemporary Asian art by a key figure of the international contemporary art worl...
View full detailsDescription Praise After decades of overwhelming political domination by the People's Action Party (PAP), Singapore has entered a phase of poli...
View full detailsDescription Lee’s Lieutenants: Singapore’s Old Guard was a national non-fiction bestseller when it was first published in 1999. Now this semina...
View full detailsDescription About the Author For several decades, the city-state of Singapore has been an international anomaly, combining an advanced, open ec...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author In this wonderfully detailed narrative, Daryl Yeap brings us the fascinating story of Hui-lan, Ida and Lucy...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953 and 1...
View full detailsDescription A much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia.Distribute...
View full detailsDescription About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In 2015, Singapore celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. This book covers the complex historical forces...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decis...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Revisionist" or "alternative" historians have increasingly questioned elements of the Singapore Story - the...
View full detailsDescription About the Author “Unfortunately, some important people... such as Tay Seow Huah, had died before interviewers could get to them.” L...
View full detailsDescription About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...
View full detailsDescription About the Editors Malaysia's stunning 2018 election brought down a ruling party that had held power since independence in 1957, mar...
View full detailsDescription About the Author A lecturer turned banker, Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam never expected to become a politician, much less a president. Chall...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore Chronicles: Language reviews and discusses the changing language use patterns within Singapore society f...
View full detailsEnglish Description Chinese Description Men in White is the inside story of one of the world’s most successful political parties. Narrated in t...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Even small states can have grand strategies. Singapore, despite its poor natural resource endowment, small ...
View full detailsDescription Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015 at the age of 92. This book, which was first published in 1998, tells the story of his li...
View full detailsDescription About the Author In this fully updated, third edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds new information following recent government ele...
View full detailsDescription About the Authors The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained ...
View full detailsDescription Touted as one of the main engineers of Singapore’s economic growth, Dr Goh’s collection of writings and speeches seek to shed light...
View full detailsDescription Praise About the Author Retired Singapore diplomat Bilahari Kausikan gives his perspectives on regional and global developments tha...
View full detailsDescription Mr Lee Kuan Yew once famously said “when I project myself forward 100 years for Singapore, I cannot tell you that it will exist.” A...
View full detailsDescription Singapore has evolved from a developing country to a developed one, in only a few short decades. Its gross domestic product per cap...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. This feature gives multiple layers and co...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Good governance is at the heart of Singapore’s development, forged in the furnace of the early challenges that Sin...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore has leveraged on its strategic location and open economy to become a global maritime and logistics centr...
View full detailsDescription About the Series Singapore is one of the premier financial centres in the world. It is one of the biggest markets for the trading o...
View full detailsDescription About the Author The history of communism in Malaya (including Singapore) almost coincided with the rise and fall of communism worl...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor In this collection, public intellectuals and civil society activists discuss Singapore's public rhetoric about lib...
View full detailsDescription About the Editor As Singapore enters its 50th year of independence, it is a time for introspection to look back at the successes an...
View full detailsDescription In the Founders’ Footsteps: Singapore-China Diplomatic Relations奠基人足迹:新中建交30年 A bilingual pictorial retracing the footsteps of the ...
View full detailsDescription Best Non-fiction Title Finalist for the 2023 Singapore Book Awards At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, more than a quarter of...
View full detailsDescription Finalist at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award The United States of America is the largest investor in Singapore. And in 2019, ...
View full detailsDescription Praise In this updated book, viewed by many as a definitive guide to Singapore-style diplomacy, former minister, diplomat and law d...
View full detailsDescription The 200th anniversary of the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles and William Farquhar in Singapore is an opportunity to tell afresh the...
View full detailsDescription Founding Fathers is a handy series featuring 10 must-know individuals who were at the beginning of the Great Adventure of Independe...
View full detailsDescription In his 60 years as a politician, 31 of them as Prime Minister, Mr Lee delivered thousands of speeches. This book contains 33 that s...
View full detailsDescription Compiled for the first time in Lee’s Legacy, this selection of incisive viewpoints displays a wide range of perspectives on Mr Lee’...
View full detailsDescription Lee Kuan Yew: A Tribute is a keepsake collection of stories on Singapore’s first prime minister, initially published in The Straits...
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