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

    by Cherian George, Kok Hoe Ng, Thirunalan Sasitharan, Carol Yuen, Daryl Yang, Haolie Jiang, Joel Yew, Remy Choo, Kirsten Han, Isaac Neo, Kristian-Marc James Paul, Alfian Sa'at, Walid Jumblatt Abdullah, Irie Aman, Reetaza Chatterjee, Kenneth Paul Tan, Corinna Lim, Alex Au, Suraendher Kumarr ...
    Advocates and activists in Singapore contribute to policy discussions and positive change through a combination of deft manoeuvres and patient politics. Yet civil society is often unacknowledged, their skill and labour instead frequently misunderstood, even earning them the label of “troublemakers” or “enemies of the state”.This collection of essays and interviews is a candid reflection on the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Singapore International Arbitration Act

    A Commentary

    by Nelson Goh, Jonathan Lim, Paul Tan ...
    Over the past couple of decades Singapore has successfully established itself as one of the major centres for international dispute resolution. The Singapore International Arbitration Act (SIAA), originally enacted in 1994 to give effect to the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, has been revised and amended four times over its lifetime, further strengthening Singapore's position as ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Redeeming Flesh

    The Way of the Cross with Zombie Jesus

    by Matthew John Paul Tan ...
    Why are zombies consuming the popular imagination? This book--part social analysis, part theological critique, and part devotional--considers how the zombie can be a way to critically situate our culture, awash with consumer products. Matthew Tan considers how zombies are the endpoint of social theory's exploration of consumer culture and its postsecular turn towards an earthly immortality, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Singapore

    Identity, Brand, Power

    by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved through more commercially motivated and outward facing efforts at nation and city branding. Both ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A Theological Engagement with Pornography

    by Matthew John Paul Tan ...
    In Christian circles, consuming pornography has been treated primarily as a moral issue, and the analysis of pornography has dealt with motivations, harms and responses. This book explores how such analyses end up missing important theological dimensions of pornography, and in so missing those dimensions, leave important aspects of the cultural power of pornography unaddressed. The book argues ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Governing Global-City Singapore

    Legacies and Futures After Lee Kuan Yew

    by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book provides a detailed analysis of how governance in Singapore has evolved since independence to become what it is today, and what its prospects might be in a post-Lee Kuan Yew future. Firstly, it discusses the question of political leadership, electoral dominance and legislative monopoly in Singapore’s one-party dominant system and the system’s durability. Secondly, it tracks developments ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Talking Bottom - A Guide to the Cult Sitcom (Unabridged)

    by Paul Tanter, Angela Pearson, Mat Brooks ...
    Narrated by Lee Cornes ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    In 1991, a new comedy hit British screens and, at first glance, it was just another sofa-based sitcom. Soon, it became clear Bottom was a masterpiece. Mixing cartoon-style slapstick, nob gags and Beckettian nihilism, it left an indelible mark on British comedy. Written by and starring comedy legends Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson as reprobates Richard Richard and Edward Hitler, their depraved ... Read more

    $17.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justice, Unity, and the Hidden Christ

    The Theopolitical Complex of the Social Justice Approach to Ecumenism in Vatican II

    by Matthew John Paul Tan ...
    Does social justice promote Christian unity? With reference to paragraph 12 of Unitatis Redintegratio--Vatican II's declaration on ecumenism--this book argues that an emphasis on justice and unity without proper consideration of social context actually risks obscuring a clear public declaration of Christ, by having Christians uncritically accept the presumptions that underpin the sociopolitical ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lee Kuan Yew School Of Public Policy: Building A Global Policy School In Asia

    by Kishore Mahbubani, Stavros N Yiannouka, Astrid S Tuminez, Scott A Fritzen, Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    In an industry of higher education that measures the longevity of its leading institutions in decades and centuries, the establishment and rapid growth of the eight-year-old Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKY School), National University of Singapore, is a remarkable story that deserves to be told. The five co-authors, all of whom were involved in guiding the School during its formative ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Performance Appraisal Tool Kit

    Redesigning Your Performance Review Template to Drive Individual and Organizational Change

    by Paul Falcone, Winston Tan ...
    The key difference between a highly successful organization and one that just merely reaches its quarterly goals--most of the time--might very well be how they address performance reviews.Are they just a perfunctory, annual “check-off,” with no other goal than to justify salary increases, or does the organization truly know how to manage and measure its employees’ performances to best impact a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Chinese Animation

    Volume 1: Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics

    by Christine Abigail L. Tan, Thomas Paul Thesen ...
    This first volume of Chinese Animation explores the meaningful impact of Chinese religion, philosophy, and aesthetics on 20th-century animation in China. It establishes a foundation in traditional Chinese art, design and intellectual concepts to analyse animated films and features. The focus is on the ink-wash painting style, its artistic evolution, spiritual significance, and the transformation ... Read more

    $39.81 USD

  • Kulikovo 1380

    The battle that made Russia

    by Mark Galeotti, Paul Kime, Bounford.com ...
    Series Book 332 - Campaign
    The colourful, enthralling story of the Russo-Mongol battle of Kulikovo, involving: the killing of a Muscovite prince (only for it to turn out to be a body double) and an unexpected ambush to turn looming defeat into glorious victory.The 14th-century Mongol conquest of the Rus' – the principalities of Russia – was devastating and decisive. Cities were lain waste, new dynasties rose and for a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD