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Whatever you plan to do - whether you are
traveling first class or on a limited budget - make sure you experience the very best the
city of Singapore has to offer with this pocket-sized guidebook. From the Raffles Hotel to
the city's own beach resort at Sentosa, all the must sees are covered in Top 10
lists.
There are accommodation reviews for every budget, as well as restaurants for all tastes and cuisines, from fusion restaurants to alfresco dining in Chinatown. There are dozens of Top 10 lists, including the Top 10 Chinese and Indian cultural experiences, the Top 10 museums and architectural highlights, and lists of the best nightspots, bars, and lounges in Singapore. There's even a list of the Top 10 things to avoid! |
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Lonely Planet has been the guidebook of choice
for Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei for 28 years. We know where to find the most authentic
longhouses in Sarawak, the most idyllic beaches in Langkawi, the best places for a shopping
spree in Singapore and the most delicious hawker food in Malaysia.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. |
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Soaring over the city on the world's largest
observation wheel, the Singapore Flyer
Sweating over a platter of crab bee hoon (rice noodles) in the red-light district Inhaling the scent of joss sticks and incense burning at the Thien Hock Keng Temple Romancing your partner as you wine and dine in the lush Singapore Botanic Gardens Tipping the doorman at the Raffles Hotel as you seek out a Singapore Sling Skipping from mall to mall until your feet (and credit card) give out |
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Malaysia beckons with an astounding mix of lush
rainforests, gorgeous beaches and precipitous mountains, and this latest volume in the
award-winning Eyewitness Travel
Guide series covers every aspect of this
fascinating country.
Nature lovers can swim with colorful fish off the shores of numerous islands or spot orangutans and other exotic jungle-dwellers in Sarawak. Using the unique cutaway maps and 3-D models explore the ultra-modern skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore which overwhelm the colonial buildings still found in the center of both metropolises.
Malaysia beckons with an astounding mix
of lush rainforests, gorgeous beaches and precipitous mountains, and this latest volume
in the award-winning Eyewitness Travel Guide series covers every aspect of this
fascinating country. Nature lovers can swim with colorful fish off the shores of numerous islands or spot orangutans and other exotic jungle-dwellers in Sarawak. Using the unique cutaway maps and 3-D models explore the ultra-modern skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur and Singapore which overwhelm the colonial buildings still found in the center of both metropolises. |
Singapore History Books
| In this memoir, the man most responsible for
Singapore's astonishing transformation from colonial backwater to economic powerhouse describes
how he did it over the last four decades. It's a dramatic story, and Lee Kuan Yew has much to brag about. To take a single example: Singapore had a per-capita GDP of just $400 when he became prime minister in 1959. When he left office in 1990, it was $12,200 and rising. (At the time of this book's writing, it was $22,000.) Much of this was accomplished through a unique mix of economic freedom and social control. Lee encouraged entrepreneurship, but also cracked down on liberties that most people in the West take for granted--chewing gum, for instance. It's banned in Singapore because of "the problems caused by spent chewing gum inserted into keyholes and mailboxes and on elevator buttons." If American politicians were to propose such a thing, they'd undoubtedly be run out of office. Lee, however, defends this and similar moves, such as strong antismoking laws and antispitting campaigns: "We would have been a grosser, ruder, cruder society had we not made these efforts to persuade people to change their ways.... It has made Singapore a more pleasant place to live in. If this is a 'nanny state,' I am proud to have fostered one." |
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Japan and the four little dragons--Taiwan, South
Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore--constitute less than 1 percent of the world's land mass and
less than 4 percent of the world's population. Yet in the last four decades they have become,
with Europe and North America, one of the three great pillars of the modern industrial world
order. How did they achieve such a rapid industrial transformation? Why did the four little
dragons, dots on the East Asian periphery, gain such Promethean energy at this particular
time in history?
Ezra F. Vogel, one of the most widely read scholars on Asian affairs, provides a comprehensive explanation of East Asia's industrial breakthrough. While others have attributed this success to tradition or to national economic policy, Vogel's penetrating analysis illuminates how cultural background interacted with politics, strategy, and situational factors to ignite the greatest burst of sustained economic growth the world has yet seen. |
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| Singapore was not always the orderly and succesful city-state that it appears to be now. Over the last seven centuries, the island has undergone several changes of identity. In this entertaining and wide-ranging account, drawn from research undertaken in collaboration with the National Museum of Singapore, Mark R. Frost and Yu-Mei Balasingamchow present Singapore's mercurial life-story as experienced by the people who participated in it. Singapore: A Biography brings together a Ming-dynasty travelogue, 19th-century memoirs and correspondence, modern oral histories and even radio and television broadcasts to reconnect a modern audience with the Singapore story. | |
| This fine compilation rises above the usual coffee-table designation with 1200 well-chosen images, mostly historical photos from both commercial photographers and amateurs but also sketches, paintings, and postcards from numerous sources, including one-of-a-kind family albums. For example, there is the earliest known extant pencil sketch (1823) and photograph (1843) of Singapore. Arranged chronologically, the four chapters consist of concise commentary and identification notes; the views include topographical studies, posed formal portraits, and spontaneous street scenes. All ethnic groups are presented in a balanced fashion, as are all kinds of activity political, economic, religious, cultural, and social. If the final section depicting the present-day city-state is a bit suggestive of government propaganda, Singapore's recent achievements are truly remarkable. |
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