Lee-Wang Cheng Yeng, Central Library

We compile here a list of titles on various topics for your reading pleasure. This list also serves as an introduction to the new students that the NUS Library collection contains more than academic texts and the mandatory required reading materials. For those considering a lifetime reading plan, take a look under the heading Reading.

All titles listed are located at Central Library Main Shelves unless otherwise stated.

Language

English as a global language / David Crystal. 1997. PE2751 Cry

English with an accent: language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States / Rosina Lippi-Green. 1997. PE2808.8 Lip

Language, society and power / Linda Thomas, et al. 1999. P40 Lag

The politics of Chinese language and culture: the art of reading dragons / Bob Hodge and Kam Louie. 1998. P35.5 Chi.Ho

Speaking freely: a guided tour of American English from Plymouth Rock to Silicon Valley / Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne H. Soukhanov. 1997. PE2846 Fle

Literature

Fictions of business: insights on management from great literature / Robert A. Brawer. 1998. PS173 Bus.Br (CL Main Shelves & HL Main Shelves)

How to read a poem: and fall in love with poetry / Edward Hirsch. 1999. PN1042 Hir

Immigrant subjectivities in Asian American and Asian diaspora literatures / Ma Sheng-mei. 1998. PS153 Asi.Ma

Odes to edibles: an anthology of Singapore dialect poems / Kucinta Setia. 1998. PL5149 Kse.O

Oriental prospects: Western literature and the lure of the East / edited by C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'haen. 1998. PS1 Dsl 22

Oxford in English literature: the making, and undoing, of 'the English Athens' / John Dougill. 1998. PR8489 Oxf.D

Patterns of feminist consciousness in Indian women writers / Anuradha Roy. 1999. PR9739 Wom.Ro

Post-colonial literatures in English: history, language, theory / Dennis Walder. 1998. PR9080 Wal

Signs of masculinity: men in literature, 1700 to the present / edited by Antony Rowland, Emma Liggins and Eriks Uskalis. 1998. PN56 Mas.Si

Bearing across: studies in literature and science / Steven Carter. 1998. PN55 Car

Chemistry and science fiction / edited by Jack H. Stocker. 1998. PS374 Sci.C

The dreams our stuff is made of: how science fiction conquered the world / Thomas M. Disch. 1998. PS3507 D611Dr

The mechanics of wonder: the creation of the idea of science fiction / Gary Westfahl. 1998. PN3433.8 Wes

Time machines: time travel in physics, metaphysics, and science fiction / Paul J. Nahin. 1999. PS374 Sci.N

Film

Film and literature: an introduction and reader / Timothy Corrigan. 1998. PN1995.3 Cor

International relations on film / Robert W. Gregg. 1998. PN1995.9 Int.G

Life the movie: how entertainment conquered reality / Neal Gabler. 1998. PN1995.9 Soc.Ga

New Chinese cinema / Tan Kwok-kan and Wimal Dissanayake. 1996. PN1993.5 *Chi.Ta

Transcultural cinema / David MacDougall. 1999. GN347 Mac

Reading

The new lifetime reading plan / Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major. 4th ed. 1997. Z1035 Fad
From Aristotle amd Chekhov to Acebe, from Kafka and Hemingway to Lady Murasaki and Lu Xun, Fadiman and Major construct a programme of guided reading which includes works from the literature of the world.

The most wonderful books: writers on discovering the pleasures of reading / edited by Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald. 1997. Z1039 Aut.M

For the love of books: 115 celebrated writers on the books they love most / edited by Ronald B. Shwartz. 1999. Z1039 Aut.Fo

Culture

Celebrity and power: fame in contemporary culture / P. David Marshall. 1997. E169.04 Mar

Consuming fashion: adorning the transnational body / edited by Anne Brydon and Sandra Niessen. 1998. GT596 Con

The motor car and popular culture in the 20th century / edited by David Thoms, Len Holden, Tim Claydon. 1998. HE5663 Mot

The soul of popular culture: looking at contemporary heroes, myths, and monsters / edited by Mary Lynn Kittelson. 1998. BF175.4 Cul.S

The worlds of Japanese popular culture: gender, shifting boundaries and global cultures / edited by D.P. Martinez. 1998. DS822.5 Wor

Aging

1999 is designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Older Persons.

Aging: Asian concepts and experiences, past and present / edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart. 1997. HQ1064 Asi.Ag

Aging and identity: a humanities perspective / edited by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. 1999. HQ1061 Agei

The mistreatment of elderly people / edited by Peter Decalmer and Frank Glendenning. 1997. HV6626.3 Mis

On women turning 70: honoring the voices of wisdom / interviews and photography by Cathleen Rountree. 1999. HQ1061 Rou
Includes interviews with Betty Friedman and Doris Lessing.

The other within us: feminist explorations of women and aging / edited by Marilyn Pearsall. 1997. HQ1061 Oth

Social gerontology: a multidisciplinary perspective / Nancy R. Hooyman, N. Asuman Kiyak. 1999. HQ1061 Hoo

Intellectual life

Ancients against moderns: culture wars and the making of a fin de siecle / Joan DeJean. 1997. DC128 Dej

At home in the world: cosmopolitanism now / Timothy Brennan. 1997. E169.12 Bre

The first moderns: profiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought / William R. Everdell. 1997. B804 Eve

Mental Health

Chinese societies and mental health / edited by Lin Tsung-Yi, Tseng Wen-Shing, Yeh Eng-Kung. 1995. RA790.7 Chi.C

Conquering schizophrenia: a father, his son, and a medical breakthrough / Peter Wyden. 1997. RC514 Wyd

People

A beautiful mind: a legend by the age of thirty, recognized as a mathematical genius even as he slipped into madness, John Nash emerged after decades of ghostlike existence to win a Nobel and world acclaim / Sylvia Nasar. 1998. QA29 Nas.N (SC Main Shelves)

Brother number one: a political biography of Pol Pot / David P. Chandler. 1999. DS557.13 Pol.Ch

The course of my life: my autobiography / Edward Heath. 1998. DA591 Hea

Joseph Needham: 20th-century Renaissance man / by Maurice Goldsmith. 1995. Q143 Nee.G
Needham is none other that the scholar behind the Science and civilisation in China series. In a Straits Times interview (27.8.99, p.42) Prof Ho Peng Yoke, the current director of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, observed that without the collaboration of Lu Gwei Djen (his second wife), there would be no Science and civilisation in China series.
If you read Chinese, savour their partnership in Q143 Nee.W (CH Main Shelves)

Kahlil Gibran: man and poet: a new biography / Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins. 1998. PJ7826 Gib*B.

King of the world: Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero / David Remnick. 1998. GV1132 Ali.Re.

Nehru / Judith M. Brown. 1999. DS481 Neh.B. (CLRBR)

Life in the treetops: adventures of a woman in field biology / Margaret D. Lowman; foreword by Robert Ballard. 1999. QH31 Low.L (SC Main Shelves)

Music and Dance

Dancing to the flute: music and dance in Indian art / Jim Masselos, Jackie Menzies, Pratapaditya. 1997. N8217 Dan.Ma

The passion of music and dance: body, gender and sexuality / edited by William Washabaugh. 1998. GV1588.6 Pas

Travel

The great hill stations of Asia / Barbara Crossette. 1998. DS10 Cro

Sleeping with literary lions: the booklovers guide to bed and breakfasts / Peggy van Hulsteyn. 1997. TX907.2 Van (CL Ref 7)

Through the dragon's mouth: journeys into the Yangtzi's three Gorges / Ben Thomson Cowles. 1999. DS793 Yan.C
A chronicle of a 1946 journey.

Travel that can change your life: how to create a transformative experience / Jeffrey A. Kottler. 1997. BF637 Sel.Ko

Women

Career strategies for women in academe: arming Athena / edited by Lynn H. Collins, Joan C. Chrisler, Kathryn Quina. 1998. LB2332.3 Car

The three paradoxes: working women in Singapore / Jean Lee, Kathleen Campbell, Andrey Chia. 1999. HD6205.12 Lj (CL & HL Main Shelves)

Who supports the family: gender and breadwinning in dual-earner marriages / Jean L. Potuchek. 1997. HQ536 Pot