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Basic Laparoscopic Techniques and Advanced Endoscopic Suturing
By Arnaud Wattiez, Lan Chomicki and Stephen Chew The trend towards minimally invasive surgery is growing. Yet there is still a relative dearth of published material for those interested in acquiring the basic operative skills needed for laparoscopic surgery. Written...
Public Space: Design, Use and Management
Edited by Norman Edwards and Chua Beng Huat This collection of essays addresses the important issue of public space in terms of its design, use and management and value as a social, economic and cultural resource, with special reference to...
Orders and Families of Malayan Seed Plants
By Hsuan Keng The Malayan flora is one of the richest in the world. This book gives a brief systematic account of all the major groups of seed plants classified under 41 orders and 178 families which are represented by...
Governing Civil Service Pay in China
by Alfred M. Wu As agents of the state, civil servants are central to public governance and socioeconomic development. In developing countries, it has been seen that an effective civil service pay system may provide strong incentives for better public...
Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War
by Christopher E. Goscha This first historical dictionary in English of the Indochina War (1945–54) provides the most comprehensive account to date of one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century. Using over 1,600 personally researched and crafted...
A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005
Get our new paperback edition here!By C.M. Turnbull When C.M. Turnbull's A History of Singapore, 1819-1975 appeared in 1977, it quickly achieved recognition as the definitive history of Singapore. A second edition published in 1989 brought the story up to...
Tamils and the Haunting of Justice: History and Recognition in Malaysia's Plantations
By Andrew C. Willford This compelling book explores the dilemma faced by Malaysian Tamils as they confront the moment when the plantation system where they have lived and worked for generations finally collapses. The old, long-term community-based model of rubber...
Mongols From Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastoralism and City Life in the Mongol Lands
edited by Ole Bruun and Li Narangoa This volume examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies,...
A Mandarin and the Making of Public Policy: Reflections by Ngiam Tong Dow
Edited by Simon Tay and Ngiam Tong Dow Singapore's success story has increasingly been recognised but few have told it from the perspective of an insider. As a senior civil servant and "mandarin" from 1959 to 1999, Ngiam Tong Dow...
Bali - An Open Fortress, 1995-2005: Regional Autonomy, Electoral Democracy and Entrenched Identities
By Henk Schulte Nordholt Long portrayed as a cultural safe haven, the Indonesian island of Bali is facing fundamental challenges as the political, religious and economic landscape changes. The book investigates the effects of decentralization and democratization on Balinese politics,...
Financial Markets And Institutions in Singapore (11th Edition)
By Tan Chwee Huat Since its first edition in 1978, Financial Markets and Institutions in Singapore has been the definitive reference work on Singapore's financial sector and the nation-state's strategy for becoming a financial centre of global importance. Financial institutions...
A Dictionary of Cantonese Slang: The Language of Hong Kong Movies, Street Gangs and City Life
By Kingsley Bolton and Christopher Hutton This unconventional and colourful dictionary locates the discussion of its subject, Cantonese slang, within the social, cultural and political dynamics of Hong Kong society. 'Slang' refers to a wide range of Hong Kong vernacular...
The Nanxun Legacy and China's Development in the Post-Deng Era
Edited by John Wong and Zheng Yongnian In the spring of 1992, Deng Xiaoping made a historic tour of South China, popularly known as Nanxun or "southern tour". During the tour, Deng made several important speeches, boldly calling for more...
The UP Saga
by Susan M. Martin Histories of the plantations sector in Malaysia have largely focused on the rubber industry and on the rise and fall of big British-owned colonial enterprises. But since independence, the sector has entered a new phase of...
Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels
Edited by Nicola Piper, Shen Hsiu Hua, Beatriz P. Lorente and Brenda S.A. Yeoh The migration of people within and beyond Asia no longer takes the form of permanent ruptures, uprooting and resettlement. Today, such movement is more likely to...
Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands
edited by Sarah Turner, Annuska Derk and Jean-François Rousseau Click below to explore story maps that illustrate the flow of cardamom, cinnamon and star anise in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands! Since its inception over two millennia ago, the spice trade has...
From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s
By Tan Kok Yang ebook available at: and Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S$50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, and television broadcasts ended at 10pm every night. From the Blue...
Materializing Southeast Asia's Past: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Volume 2
Edited by Marijke J. Klokke and Veronique Degroot Materializing Southeast Asia's Past contains articles in historical and anthropological archaeology, epigraph, and art history. The interpretations of art and material culture offer new understandings of classical Hindu and Buddhist cultures of...
Singapore: An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial Transformation
By Rodolphe De Koninck, Julie Drolet and Marc Girard Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental transformation and innovation. The government of the small island republlc, which...
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma
By Mary P. CallahanWinner of the 2006 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asia Studies The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government despite its poor economic...
Red Hills: Migrants and the State in the Highlands of Vietnam
by Andrew Hardy Several million rural inhabitants of Vietnam’s northern deltas made the decision to move home during the 20th century, seeking to make new homes in the country’s highlands. Their decisions and the settlements they created had wide-ranging effects...
Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos
by Rosalie Stolz How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to write about kinship in a way that neither falls into the trap of taking for granted kinship phenomena...
Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines
For Ateneo de Manila University Press James Francis Warren Typhoons offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage of the Philippine landscape that includes the earliest contact with the West, the...
The Social Dynamics of Deforestation in the Philippines: Actions, Options and Motivations
by Gerhard van den Top This major work offers a detailed case study into the dynamics of forest use, degradation and loss in Northeast Luzon, Philippines. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study charts the degradation and loss of forest cover...
Asian Values and Vietnam's Development: Selected Papers
edited by Irene Nørlund and Pham Duc Than This collection considers how cultures influence each other's values and social organization to elucidate cross-cultural interactions. The idea of a special set of 'Asian values' in a more profound understanding has clearly...
A World of Water: Rain, Rivers and Seas in Southeast Asian Histories
Edited by Peter Boomgaard Currently unavailable Water, in its many guises, has always played a powerful role in shaping Southeast Asian histories, cultures, societies and economies. This volume, the rewritten results of an international workshop, with participants from eight countries,...
The Scripting of a National History: Singapore and Its Pasts
By Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli The People's Action Party's unbroken mandate to rule in Singapore rests in no small part on how it has explained its lineage and record to the electorate. The Scripting of a National History studies...
Reforming Thai Politics
edited by Duncan McCargo With the sudden end of rapid economic growth, the urgency of political reform in Thailand became acute. The Thai parliament passed major changes to the electoral system in late 2000, weeks before the January 2001 election....
The Asian Modern: Culture, Capitalist Development, Singapore
By C.J.W.-L. Wee How does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian context? With this opening question, the author proceeds to give an account of how the modernization processes for postcolonial...
Urban Quality of Life: Critical Issues and Options
Edited by Belinda Yuen, Christine Low and Lim Lan Yuan In recent years, the issue of quality of life has increasingly become an area of attention in cities around the world. Studies have been undertaken to measure quality of life,...
The Malayan Emergency: Essays on a Small, Distant War
by Souchou Yao The book, by a cultural anthropologist, tells the story of the Malayan Emergency through the cultural interpretations of modern conflict, and examines the counterinsurgency through the lens of the postwar British Empire. Souchou Yao’s penetrating and illuminating...
Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script
edited by Vibeke Børdahl and Liangyan Ge, with illustrations by Yalong Wang Western Han is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature, making available to scholars a rare storyteller’s script from the late Qing period. The script is...
Design for a Contemporary World: A Textbook on Fundamental Principles
By Christian Boucharenc Design for a Contemporary World is a textbook that presents the theory and practice of design fundamentals. Design plays a significant role in environmental, ethnical, economic and cultural arenas, and contributes to people's wealth, cultural identity and...
Laotian Pages: A Classic Account of Travel in Upper, Middle and Lower Laos
by Alfred Raquez, edited and translated by William L. Gibson and Paul Bruthiaux Laos, 1900 – a frontier land caught in a power struggle between Eastern kingdoms and Western colonial powers, an ancient pastoral world confronted by the modern machine...
Cambodia's Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery
edited by Robin Biddulph and Alexandra Kent Watch: A panel discussion on the book featuring the book’s editors and contributors: Robin Biddulph, Alexandra Kent, Courtney Work, Pádraig McAuliffe, and Eve Zucker, CKS President and NYSEAN Executive Board Member, who was...