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  • A Tiger Remembers

    The Way We Were in Singapore

    de Ann Wee ...
    Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cultural expectations and domestic rituals. She went on to become a pioneer in Singapore’s fledging social welfare department and is often described as the founding mother of social work in Singapore. In A Tiger Remembers, she draws on her decades of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Harry's Last Stand

    How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

    de Harry Leslie Smith ...
    'A kind of epic poem, one that moves in circular fashion from passionate denunciation to intense autobiographical reflection ... should be required reading for every MP, peer, councillor, civil servant and commentator. The fury and sense of powerlessness that so many people feel at government policy beam out of every page.' The Guardian'It is not enough to read Harry's record of the struggles and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • George Yeo On Bonsai, Banyan And The Tao

    de Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee ...
    Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation with him.The book has a rather unusual title because there are many aspects to George Yeo which ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Floating on a Malayan Breeze

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims—the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy—ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • How To Be Right

    de James Delingpole ...
    As a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator, James Delingpole has expressed his thoughts - articulately and amusingly - on everything from politics to popular music, from school sports days to spliffs. In this A-Z of brief essays he turns his lively mind to modern society gone mad. Can't understand what's wrong with much-loved feet and inches? Don't believe the global-warming hype? ... Leer más

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  • Singapore

    Unlikely Power

    de John Curtis Perry ...
    Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Dear Oliver

    Uncovering a Pakeha history

    de Peter Wells ...
    A captivating exploration of a Pakeha family's history in colonial New Zealand through intimate letters and personal reflections.In Dear Oliver, Peter Wells unearths a treasure trove of family letters, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of ordinary people navigating extraordinary times. From the war against Te Kooti to the devastating Napier earthquake, Wells traces his ancestors' journey ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Finding the Heart of the Nation 2nd edition

    The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues

    de Thomas Mayo ...
    In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author Thomas Mayo gets behind the politics and legal speak to explain why the Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to all Australians.Australia is set to vote on a referendum to enshrine a First Nations voice in the constitution as a result of the 2022 federal ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Whitefella Jump Up

    The Shortest Way to Nationhood; Quarterly Essay 11

    de Germaine Greer ...
    Series Libro 11 - Quarterly Essay
    In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense of being Aboriginal might save the soul of Australia.In a sweeping and magisterial essay, touching on ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Becoming Pakeha

    de John Bluck ...
    A journey between two culturesAfter more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a unique treaty, you might think things would be better than ever. In this perceptive and piercing book, John Bluck argues that Pakeha and Maori worlds grow ever more separate: the Aotearoa of today is a landscape of two predominant cultures, overlaid with so many others, fractured and more likely to ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies

    Population and Environment in Australia

    de Tim Flannery ...
    Series Libro 9 - Quarterly Essay
    In the first Quarterly Essay of 2003, Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future. The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Lion City

    Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

    de Jeevan Vasagar ...
    A compelling, illuminating and evocative history of Singapore—the world's most successful city-state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed Malaysia, Singapore found itself independent - and facing a crisis. It took the bloody-minded determination and vision of Lee Kuan Yew, its ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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