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"A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy": Reflections by Ngiam Tong Dow   NEW!
Ngiam Tong Dow. Edited by Simon Tay
An insider's experience of working in Singapore's civil service from the nation building years to the present.
 
Financial Services in Singapore  
Tan Chwee Huat
The financial services sector in Singapore is liberalising. This book is a must-read for investors and those considering a career in financial services .
 
The Singapore River: A Social History 1819-2002  
Stephen Dobbs
For most of its history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River. Cross-disciplinary in nature, and full of lively detail, this book looks at the transformation of the River and the livelihoods of the people who worked it as a key to understanding the transformations of the modern city.
 
Life is Not Complete Without Shopping: Consumption Culture in Singapore  
Chua Beng Huat
Sharp analysis from one of Singapore's foremost social scientists.
 
Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore  
James F. Warren
History from below: a highly innovative study on the life of the coolies of colonial Singapore.
 
Ah Ku and Karayuki-San: Prostitution in Singapore 1880-1940  
James F. Warren
An original, affecting study of the group of workers perhaps most marginalized in the memories of Singapore's growth and development over the last 120 years.
«together with Rickshaw Coolie, the most original and important books published on the history of Singapore since the Second World War»
-Prof John Bastin
 
Contesting Space in Colonial Singapore: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment  
Brenda S. A. Yeoh
«What a splendid book this is!»
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
 
Biology of Vanda Miss Joaquim  
Hew Choy Sin, Yam Tim Wing & Joseph Arditti
The book on Singapore's National Flower.
 
Landscape Planning in Singapore  
Edmund Waller
Examines the planning history and policies that lie behind Singapore's Garden City image. Presents six case studies of Singapore parks and neighborhoods; fully-illustrated.
 
The Angiosperm Flora of Singapore: Connaraceae  
M.w.k. Goh & H.t.w. Tan
 
Singapore Studies II  
Chua Beng Huat (ed.) 
The state of the art.
 
Financial Markets and Institutions in Singapore (11th ed.)  
Tan Chwee Huat   
The standard text book
 
Singapore Housing: An Annotated Bibliography  
Belinda Yuen, Teo Ho Pin & Ooi Giok Ling
 
A Concise Flora of Singapore Vol. 2: Monocotyledons  
Hsuan Keng, S.c. Chin & H.t.w. Tan
 
Planning Singapore: From Plan to Implementation  
Belinda Yuen (ed.)
 
Public Space: Design, Use and Management  
Chua Beng Huat
 
The Concise Flora of Singapore Vol. 1: Gymnosperms and Dicotyledons  
Hsuan Keng
 
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