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The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace by Kishore Mahbubani
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.62The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations-especially Islam and the... -
Mega-urban Regions in Pacific Asia: Urban Dynamics in a Global Era by Gavin W. Jones 9789971693794
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.38Southeast Asia contains four urban conglomerates of the sort that this study characterizes as Mega-Urban Regions - Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. These locations are examined in this book,... -
The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace by John Van Wyhe 9789971698201
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $25.51Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite... -
Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-war Singapore by Michael D. Barr
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and political dynamism. Students, labour unions, ambitious political contenders, and... -
From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Singapore’s Queenstown Area in the 1960s and 1970s by Tan Kok Yang
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.36Tan Kok Yang grew up in a small public housing estate in Queenstown during the 1960s and early 1970s. Queenstown is one of the earliest public housing estates in Singapore and over the years, has... -
Merdeka and Much More: The Reminiscences of a Raffles Professor, 1953-67 9789971694227
Booksplease Price: $22.16Professor K.G. Tregonning's anecdotal memoir of his years as a member of the Department of History in the University of Singapore, culminating as Raffles Professor, captures the mood and milieu of... -
Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order by See Seng Tan
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The 1955 Asia-Africa conference (the ""Bandung Conference"") was a meeting of 29 Asian and African nations that sought to draw on Asian and African nationalism and religious traditions to forge a new... -
Cosmopolitan Intimacies: Malay Film Music of the Independence Era by Adil Johan 9789814722636
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.12The golden age of Malay film in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a musical and cultural cosmopolitanism in the service of a nation-making process based on ideas of Malay ethnonationalism,... -
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai And Southeast Asian Pasts by Craig J. Reynolds 9789971693350
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig J. Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. History is vital to collective memory, dynastic succession,... -
Guns of February: Ordinary Japanese Soldiers' Views of the Malayan Campaign in 1941 by Henry P. Frei 9789971692735
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Guns of February shows the Fall of Singapore and Japan's 1941 military campaign in Malaya through the eyes of Japanese soldiers who took part, based on interviews, memoirs, war diaries, and other... -
Personal Names in Asia: History, Culture, and Identity by 9789971693800
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" system of the world of passports and identity cards but a great many are not. This is... -
The Mystery of "A Yellow Sleuth": Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police by Ronald Allan 9789814722643
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of "Nor Nalla" (Detective-Sergeant Federated Malay States Police). It was met with puzzled enthusiasm,... -
Japanese Firms in Contemporary Singapore by Hiroshi Shimizu 9789971693848
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98This pioneering work discusses the role of Japan in the economic development of Singapore since 1965 by looking at the nature and extent of the value-added activities of Japanese multi-national... -
Indonesian Exports, Peasant Agriculture and the World Economy, 1850-2000: Economic Structures in a Southeast Asian State by Hiroyoshi Kano 9789971694012
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.38An 'Indonesian economy' first took shape in the latter part of the nineteenth century, consisting of a dominant export industry supported by a rural agrarian sphere. The agricultural sector provided... -
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005 by Constance Turnbull 9789813251168
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.57First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's History provides a solid foundation for understanding of... -
Home Is not Here by Wang Gungwu 9789813252905
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.26As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to... -
Aan Thai: Basic Thai Reading Textbook by Titima Suthiwan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87Aan Thai is a basic Thai reading textbook designed to accompany the author's ""Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook"". It provides simple texts along with exercises in vocabulary, syntax, reading and... -
Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook by Titima Suthiwan 9789971693206
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook is specially prepared for elementary Thai language classes where the language is initially taught with the use of phonetic symbols. A step-by-step guide to writing... -
Law, Institutions and Malaysian Economic Development by K. S. Jomo 9789971693909
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface between economics and... -
Tall Tales and Misadventures of a Young WOG by Goh Poh Seng 9789971696344
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.37This book of autobiographical short stories by the late Goh Poh Seng, the Westernised Oriental Gentleman or Wog of the title, describes his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the... -
It's a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today by Gerard Sasges 9789971696986
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31Through interviews and 70 photographs, It's a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling... -
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem by Anthony Reid 9789971693312
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.38Separatist feeling in Aceh, Indonesia's westernmost province, has deep historical roots but it is often dismissed as a reaction to a heavy-handed military presence in the area since 1989. With... -
Home Is Not Here by Wang Gungwu
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.23One of Asia's most important public intellectuals, Wang Gungwu is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese overseas. Here the historian... -
Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? by Syed Hussein Alatas 9789813251182
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87The name of Thomas Stamford Raffles continues to be a mark of prestige in Singapore, more than 200 years after he first established a British factory on the island. Not one but two statues of Raffles... -
Noon at Five O'Clock: The Short Stories of Arthur Yap by Angus Whitehead 9789971697914
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.51A schoolboy time travels in a strange old shop house. A child with Down's Syndrome is run over chasing a balloon seller. An older sister tightly slaps her theatrical younger sister. A soul fatally... -
Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus by Donald Low 9789971698164
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer... -
Revolution in the City of Heroes: A Memoir of the Battle that Sparked Indonesia's National Revolution by Suhario Padmodiwiryo 9789971698447
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.32Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, or "Hario Kecik", Revolution in the City of Heroes, is an evocative first-hand account of a... -
A New World in the Making: Life and Architecture in Tropical Asia by Tay Kheng Soon 9789813251694
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31A memoir and collection of essays on architecture and urbanism from one of the most interesting figures in Singapore's cultural landscape. According to architect Tay Kheng Soon, the time has come to... -
Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas of Joseph Conrad by Joseph Conrad 9789813252189
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.71Singapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working... -
Acute Glaucoma: Acute Primary Closed Angle Glaucoma - a Major Global Blinding Problem by Arthur Lim 9789810459482
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Acute primary closed angle glaucoma is a dangerous eye disease on the increase. It can blind a patient rapidly. Yet, blindness from acute glaucoma is preventable as the symptoms draw attention of the... -
Culture City. Culture Scape. by Ute Meta Bauer
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31A much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia. Distributed for the NTU Centre for Co ntemporary Art Public art integrates... -
If We Dream Too Long by Poh Seng Goh 9789813251151
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he navigates the difficult transitional period between...