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Description Praise Written by adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and social works, this inspiring collection of true stories provides p...

Description About the Author What will you do if you are standing at a crossroad in life and God calls you to leave familiar surroundings for a...

Description Praise ‘I was determined to show the Chinese guerrillas that the British could stand up to anything they could. Communist Lao Lee o...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description Top Prize at the 2022 Popular Readers' Choice Award Dr Lee Bee Wah, affectionately known as Hua Jie (花姐, Sister Flower in Chinese) ...

Description When Mahita was 15, her teacher at Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then ra...

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 About the Author On a hot August afternoon in 1811 an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows of...

Description About the Author Professor Lim Pin, a highly-respected practicing endocrinologist and clinical teacher, played a key role in layi...

Description Praise About the Author and Editor Get a gripping glimpse into the therapy room and most powerful boardrooms in Asia in this first ...

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

Description Praise About the Author A celebratory portrait of a man who has left an indelible mark on the national literary scene. Robert Yeo ...

Description Praise About the Author Routes 2 continues the story of Routes: A Singaporean Memoir 1945-75. This book occasionally disrupts th...

Description Praise Look inside the book Russel’s career began when one of his photographs made it to the cover of Track & Field News magazi...

Description Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...

Description 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...

Description About the Author Sam Leong is one of the most forward-thinking, talked about, celebrated and controversial chefs of his generation....

Description Praise About the Authors Look inside the book   |    Get the E-book on Amazon, Apple or Kobo    |    Listen to the audiobook Ashley...

Description This book by a pioneer generation civil servant is a fascinating and an engaging account of Singapore's spectacular development fro...

Description About the Author This collection of occasional reflections is a first by one of Singapore’s most distinguished poets. Exploring how...

Description About the Author 'Chinese New Year 1915 will long be remembered in the Straits Settlements,' write Edwin and Mary Brown in their ex...

Description About the Author Sky Tales – the much anticipated follow up to Captain Lim Khoy Hing’s first bestseller Life in the Skies – is a ne...

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

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 In this book, Mr Liew Mun Leong, chairman of the Changi Airport Group and of urban and infrastructure consultancy Surbana Jurong Gr...

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

Description Praise About the Editors Look inside the book  |   Get the E-book Welcome to the wonderful world of Sushi and Tapas. Sample a feast...

Description About the Author It is far more about being attacked than about swimming in shark's lane. An insidious Italian executive chef prec...

Description About the Author Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cun...

Description About the Author This memoir by Goh Poh Seng tells of his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought ...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description About the Author It is remarkable that no biography of Tan Kim Seng has been published until now considering that his imprint on 19...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...

Description About the Author “We obsess about who they look like - the papa, the mama, a cousin, one or other of grandparents. Mostly, they lo...

Description About the Author The Art of Chua Mia Tee: A Portrait of a Life’s Work is an ambitious and significant publication that – for the fi...

Description About the Author Subhas Anandan (1947– 2015) was undoubtedly Singapore's best-known crominal lawyer. The Best I Could traces the li...

Description Praise About the Author Martin See Tho was 32 when he became a wheel-chair bound victim of Machado Joseph Disease, an incurable deg...

Description About the Editor As Lee Kuan Yew and his Old Guard founding leaders attempted to shape an improbable nation from a tropical island ...

Description Veteran journalist Clement Mesenas looks back on eight eventful days in 1971 when a group of young reporters staged a historic stri...

Description About the Author A compellingly-narrated, thrillingly-portrayed account account of an epic motorcycle journey taken in 2014 from Si...

Synopsis Praise Author on YouTube Anil David was used to taking shortcuts. As a child he was a pathological liar. By the time he was 14, he had...

Description About the Author & Translator Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the tur...

Description About the Author 10 September 1990 marked a significant milestone in Singapore's political history with the introduction of the Nom...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of a young man who failed his PSLE examinations, but through sheer determination, persev...

Description He was a well-known doctor and professor, and was one of the leading names in obstetrics and gynaecology in Singapore for decades. ...

Description C.V. Devan Nair, the son of a rubber plantation clerk, rose from humble beginnings to become an outstanding union leader, a Member ...