The English Collection comprises of the fiction and non-fiction section, of which the non-fiction section is the largest section of the Library. We have fiction books featuring the works of many fine writers, and popular, contemporary books including local works and movie tie-ins. Our non-fiction collection encompasses books on subjects ranging from hydrochloric acid to Chulalongkon, from ice hockey to Spontaneous Human Combustion, and from The Human Immuno-deficiency Virus to The Appalachian Mountains.
Book Highlights
Title: When Do the Good
Things Start?Everybody read the comics. A chuckle, and then on to serious staff. Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and clinical psychiatrist Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, offers a treasury of thought, philosophy and psychology. The latter has found that the wit and wisdom in Schulz's strips is just what his patients needed to see themselves in a new light. In this book, Dr Twersky provides a unique and effective jumping-off point for the practical, down-to-earth counseling that supplies you with the answers to a better life, and if you get a few laughs along the way, so much the better.
Introducing some of Singapore's finest young playwrights, this book is the first collection of local plays from the Theatreworks Writers' Laboratory, an event long overdue. The nine plays in this collection are diverse in theme and style, and challenge the readers' everyday assumptions, presenting the ordinary, mundane and familiar from a unique and often disturbing perspective. To list some, "Bernard's Story" is about rape and the psychology of a rapist; "Three Fat Virgins Unassembled" and "Bra Sizes" both have feminist themes, challenging popular images of women and presenting what it is like to be a women in a male-dominated Asian society.
Title: Production
DecisionsThis is a series of eight books designed to give an understanding of the nature, workings and purpose of businesses. each book contains materials to explain aspects of the decision making process, as these are relevant to both industry and commerce, and the public and private sectors. Each book also provides an extensive range of case studies and other participative materials to assist individual or group learning. The series is designed for those who are studying the workings of big organisations, and who wish to explain this through an integrated approach, rather than just by learning functional skills.
Title: Lee Kuan Yew -
The Man and His Ideas.Many books have been written about Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew, but hardly any are by the people who lived through the social and economic transformation he brought to the island republic over three decades. Based on three fresh and exclusive interviews with Mr. Lee, three senior journalists from The Straits Times have taken up the challenge.
The book tells the story of Mr. Lee's life, the events, people and political fortunes that were to shape his view of the world, as well as the path he set for the transformation of his country. From anti-colonial union rabble rouser to state chief, national founding father and now the country's Senior Minister, well known for his trenchant views, Mr. Lee had traveled a long road politically and ideology.
