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Available in paperback and e-book format. Paperback + E-book bundle available below: Get the e-book at 50% off with each purchase of a paperback. What does it mean to be Malay in the 21st century? ...

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The CAPE Handbook to Advocacy in Singapore

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Ethos Books has partnered with the Community for Advocacy and Political Education (CAPE) to produce The CAPE Handbook to Advocacy in Singapore. Authored by CAPE and produced by Ethos Books, this co...

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On Sundays, We Play

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Published by: Gantala Press  On Sundays, We Play is a photo art book documenting the fascinating social world of women migrant domestic workers from the Philippines, Indonesia and India, who play v...

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Drama Box and the Social Theatre of Singapore

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Published by: Drama Box Ltd and Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd This pioneering study provides an essential guide to the formative years of Drama Box, a leading Chinese-language theatre company in Sin...

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We Are Not The Enemy: The Practice of Advocacy in Singapore

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View a recording of the launch here: Available in paperback and e-book format. Purchase the paperback and get 50% off the e-book! Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discuss...

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The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope

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Available in paperback and e-book format. Purchase the paperback and get 50% off the e-book!  Singapore is small, a complex country full of contradictions, inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies. Ofte...

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Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore

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Winner, Best Non-Fiction Title, Singapore Book Awards 2024 - 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...

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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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Theatres of Memory

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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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Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

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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 individual...

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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

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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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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 Na...

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Lancing Girls of a Happy World

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

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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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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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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Under A Shadow

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Under A Shadow

  “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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LGOU: Let God Owe You

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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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I am not a label, I am Gary

 An abused child. A tattooed gangster. A Boys’ Town resident. A punk rock chef. A camp leader. A speaker and facilitator. A recipient of LKY Model Student Award. A tuition teacher. A trainee socia...

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Why is it important to imbibe a thinking culture? What can contemporary Malays contribute by way of an active intellectual and social life towards reform and progress? Where are the loci of critica...

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Walking With Singapore: The Workers' Party 60th Anniversary

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Walking With Singapore: The Workers' Party 60th Anniversary

  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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Local Encounters in a Global City. Singapore Stories.

  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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The Birthday Book 2017: What should we never forget?

 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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A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

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A Penniless Boy, Chew Joo Chiat

  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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1987: Singapore’s Marxist Conspiracy 30 Years On

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1987: Singapore’s Marxist Conspiracy 30 Years On

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

  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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  This collection of essays by local and exchange students of SMU who were brought together to develop a deeper understanding of Singapore’s extraordinary progress in the past half century arose fr...

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

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

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

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

  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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Godsmacked

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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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World War II @ Bukit Brown

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  This collection of stories, essays and poems looks at the impact of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in the Second World War (1942-1945) from the perspective of those interred at Bukit Brown ...

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Human Resource Case Studies

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Human Resource Case Studies

  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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Change in Voting: Singapore's 2015 General Election

  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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In Pursuit of NEW LIFE

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

  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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Happy Long Life to You

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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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The Politics of Defeat

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The Politics of Defeat

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

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

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