Lee-Wang Cheng Yeng, Acting Deputy Librarian (User Services)

To lead you into Singapore 2000, we compile a select list of non-fiction titles and one media programme published recently on subjects ranging from history to politics and government, from business and economy to nature.

General

Singapore: a pictorial history 1819-2000 / Gretchen Liu. Singapore: Archipelago Press with National Heritage Board, 1999.
DS599.61 Liu (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Main Shelves MD Gen Reading)

Singapore studies II: critical surveys of the humanities and social sciences / edited by Chua Beng Huat. Singapore: Singapore University Press for the Centre for Advanced Studies, 1999.
DS599.2 Sis 2 (CL RBR CL Sing/Mal-NUS)

Singapore studies: critical surveys of the humanities and social sciences / edited by Basant K. Kapur. Singapore: Singapore University Press for the Centre for Advanced Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, 1986.
DS599.2 Sis (CL Main Shelves CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Main Shelves)

Singapore 21: together we make the difference. Singapore: Singapore 21 Committee, 1999.
DS599.63 Stw (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Gen Reading LW Sing/Mal Coll)

Arts and culture

Arts, cultural & media scenes in Singapore / edited by Koh Siong Ling. Singapore: Ministry of Information and The Arts, [1998?]. Mainly statistical data.
NX577.2 Art (CL Main Shelves CL Reference CL Sing/Mal Coll)

9 lives: 10 years of Singapore theatre, 1987-1997: essays commissioned by the Necessary Stage / introduction [and edited] by Sanjay Krishnan. Singapore: Necessary Stage, [1997].
PN2960.12 Nin (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

From kachang puteh to popcorn [videorecording]: a history of Singapore film / produced by Khim Loh and directed by Peter Lamb. Singapore: Television 12, 1999.
PN1993.5 Fro (CL Media Resource Stack # CVC10501)

Business and Economy

The extent of Singapore's investments abroad / Samuel Bassey Okposin. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1999.
HG5820.2 Okp (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Main Shelves)

Wages and wages policies: tripartism in Singapore / edited by Lim Chong Yah and Rosalind Chew. River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1998.
HD5085.12 Wag (HL Main Shelves CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll)

History

Between two oceans: a military history of Singapore from first settlement to final British withdrawal / Malcolm M. Murfett, et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
DS599.61 Btw (CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll)

A biography of President Yusof bin Ishak / by Melanie Chew; in collaboration with the National Archives of Singapore. Presidential notes; v.1. Singapore: Singapore National Printers for Board of Commissioners of Currency, 1999.
DS599.51 Yi.Che (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Our place in time: exploring heritage and memory in Singapore / edited by Kwok Kian-Woon, et al. Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society, 1999.
DS599.4 Opt (CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll LW Main Shelves)

Secret societies in Singapore: featuring the William Stirling Collection / by Irene Lim. Singapore: Singapore History Museum, 1999.
HS315.12 Lim (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Language

Language, society and education in Singapore: issues and trends / edited by S. Gopinathan, et al. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1998. 2nd ed.
P119.3212 Lan (CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Reading culture: textual practices in Singapore / edited by Phyllis G.L. Chew and Anneliese Kramer-Dahl. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1999.
P302.1512 Rea (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Law

The Singapore legal system / Kevin Y. L. Tan. 2nd ed. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1999.
KE5020 Sig (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll LW Main Shelves LW RBR LW Sing/Mal Coll)

Nature

A field guide to the birds of West Malaysia and Singapore / Allen Jeyarajasingam and Alan Pearson; illustrations by Alan Pearson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
QL691 Mal.J (CL Sing/Mal Coll SC Reference 6)

State of the natural environment in Singapore / edited by Clive Briffett and Ho Hua Chew. Singapore: Nature Society, 1999.
KE5075 Sta (LW Main Shelves LW Sing/Mal Coll)
QH77.12 Sta (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Stick and leaf insects of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore / Paul D. Brock. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society, 1999.
QL509.651 Bro (SC Main Shelves)

Politics and Government

Lee's lieutenants: Singapore's old guard / edited by Lam Peng Er and Kevin Y.L. Tan. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999.
DS599.5 Lee (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll LW Sing/Mal Coll)

The political economy of a city-state: government-made Singapore / Linda Low. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1998.
HC497.12 Low (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Race and state in independent Singapore, 1965-1990: the cultural politics of pluralism in a multiethnic society / John Clammer. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
DS599.4 Cla (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll LW Main Shelves)

Singapore: towards a developed status / edited by Linda Low. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
DS599.63 Sto (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal-NUS)

The Singapore puzzle / edited by Michael Haas. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.
DS599.63 Spu (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

The vulnerability of small states revisited: a study of Singapore's post-Cold War foreign policy / Bilveer Singh. Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada Univ Press, 1999.
JX1581.12 Bil (CL RBR CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Quality of life

If tomorrow never comes / Anthony Yeo. Singapore: Armour Publishing, 1999.
BD431 Yeo (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

7 faces of Singaporeans: their values, aspirations and lifestyles / Kau Ah Keng, Tan Soo Jiuan and Jochen Wirtz. Singapore: Prentice Hall, 1998.
HN770.2 Kau (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Main Shelves)

Social life

Reconstructing identities: a social history of the Babas in Singapore / Jrgen Rudolph. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 1998.
DS599.4 *Per.Ru (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Growing up in Singapore: research perspectives on adolescents / edited by Agnes Chang Shook Cheong, S. Gopinathan and Ho Wah Kam. Singapore: Prentice Hall, 1999.
HQ799.12 Gro (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Study on the Singapore family / Stella R. Quah.
Singapore: Ministry of Community Development, 1999.
HQ690.2 Qua (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

The 3 paradoxes: working women in Singapore / Jean Lee, Kathleen Campbell, Audrey Chia. Singapore: Association of Women for Action and Research, 1999.
HD6205.12 Lee (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll HL Main Shelves)

Sports

Mountain to climb: the quest for Everest and beyond / David Lim. Singapore: Epigram, 1999.
DS599.51 Ldy (CL Main Shelves, CL Sing/Mal Coll, MD Gen Reading)

A nation at play: 25 years of the Singapore Sports Council / Chua Chong Jin. Singapore: Singapore Sports Council by Times Editions, 1998.
GV663.12 Chu (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Urban planning

Urban planning in Singapore: the transformation of a city / Ole Johan Dale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
HT169.12 Dal (CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Planning Singapore: from plan to implementation / editor Belinda Yuen. Singapore: Singapore Institute of Planners, 1998.
HT169.12 Pla (CL Main Shelves CL Sing/Mal Coll)