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Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited

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Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited

 "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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Days of Being Wild: GE2006 Walking the Line with the Opposition

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Days of Being Wild: GE2006 Walking the Line with the Opposition

  Days of Being Wild records with words and images, the heady days of GE2006. It reflects the nine days when Singaporeans throw off the visage of their normally reticent selves. They clamber over d...

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Living with Myths in Singapore

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Living with Myths in Singapore

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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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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Neverness

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Neverness

There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters are too deep. A lot was going on in 1979. Most Malay villages were long gone or in their d...

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

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

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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Riot Recollections

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Riot Recollections

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

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

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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The Art of Advocacy In Singapore

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The Art of Advocacy In Singapore

  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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The Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

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The Invisible Force: Singapore Gurkhas

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

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

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

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

 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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Voting In Change: The Politics of Singapore

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Voting In Change: The Politics of Singapore

  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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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

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Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering

 Where I Was: A Memoir About Forgetting and Remembering is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. In a land of many cultures, many races, many religions;...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kampong Boy

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View sample pages. Over the last decade, M Ravi has been involved in some of the most high profile and politically sensitive constitutional cases in Singapore. He has taken a courageous stand again...

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

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

  "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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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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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

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Teacher Thinker Rebel Why: Portraits of Chee Soon Juan

  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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That We May Dream Again (2nd Edition)

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That We May Dream Again (2nd Edition)

  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 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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Troublemaker

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  Troublemaker is a collection of Bertha Henson’s columns from her blog, Bertha Harian, as well as the now defunct Breakfast Network. They represent her take on the news of the day, spanning politi...

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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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World War II @ Bukit Brown

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World War II @ Bukit Brown

  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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