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Singapore: A Country Study

March 22, 2015

This volume is one in a continuing series of books now being prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies-Area Handbook Program. Sale Price:$14.99 1491016558
Singapore at War

March 22, 2015

Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served as the British Command HQ during the war. What actually happened in this underground nerve centre of the Malayan Campaign? Drawing on top-secret documents only recently opened to research, the author investigates the workings of the Battlebox and the fascinating role […]
Cultural Sites of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia

March 22, 2015

South-East Asia has a considerable number of ancient cultural sites which are increasingly visited and appreciated by overseas travellers. This book covers the main archaeological and architectural sites found in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They are described in detail and illustrated with plates and original figures, including axonometric drawings produced specially for the book. Sale […]
Goh Keng Swee:A Legacy of Public Service

March 22, 2015

Dr. Goh Keng Swee’s extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh’s major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng […]
Research on the Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya and Singapore

March 22, 2015

This book explains ‘how to do’ research on the early Malay doctors. A detailed account of the meaning of the word ‘Malay’ is given, in due recognition of the high status accorded to Malay Civilisation in the Malay annals and Chinese chronicles. Forty-three early Malay doctors were traced over nine years in Malaya and Singapore. […]
From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Hard Disk Drive Industry (Stanford Business Books)

March 22, 2015

Momentous developments in the global economy over the last two decades have dramatically increased the availability of industrial investment sites and lowered the cost of relocating core activities to new countries. But how should these developments be exploited for competitive advantage? Firms face competing pressures: scale economies and the advantages of proximity push them to […]
Singapore The Encyclopedia

March 22, 2015

Singapore: The Encyclopedia contains over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries on a vast range of topics ? practically everything the general reader might want to know about Singapore, four decades after the achievement of full independence. Sale Price:$998.79 9814155632
HURRICANES VERSUS ZEROS: Air Battles over Singapore, Sumatra and Java

March 22, 2015

In this book the author not only tells his story of flying against the Japanese but he succeeds in painting a much wider picture embracing the events leading up to and during the Japanese invasion of Singapore and the Dutch West Indies. Sale Price:$20.14 1844156222
Education and the Nation State: The selected works of S. Gopinathan (World Library of Educationalists)

March 22, 2015

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. In a career spanning four decades, S. […]
Sinister Twilight: The Fall of Singapore

March 22, 2015

World War II seige of Sngapore by the japanese Sale Price:$0.01 0099559609

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