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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Read Part 1 here.

Governing Singapore: Democracy and National Development
Raj Vasil
Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2000
Call No: SING English 320.95957 VAS
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[Review taken from blurb.]
Governing Singapore provides the most useful and up-to-date account of Singapore’s political history since the accession to power of the People’s Action […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Read Part 2 here.
Well, nomination day has come and gone and now the battle-lines are drawn. We have been working ourselves backwards and forwards to bring you some relevant resources regarding the 6 May election.

Parties and Politics: A Study of Opposition Parties and the PAP in Singapore
Hussin Mutalib
Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic, […]

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FRESH INK . selected new arrivals
You’ve read it all about Saint Jack previously on High Browse and the media. Now Ben Slater, author of Kinda Hot, takes time off his busy schedule to spend one hot session with us, sharing about himself and his latest gem about the making of Saint Jack…
HB team: Hi Ben, […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
Now how many of you know that besides borrowing books, CD-ROMS and DVDs, the library does offer other services? Well, the cafe, I guess, technically, is a service. But I’m talking about something more ‘knowledge-related’, ahem. I’ll just do some lelong here lah.
ASK!
ASK! basically is an Advisory & Enquiry Service at […]

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FRESH INK . selected new arrivals

Singapore: SNP Reference, c2006.
Call No.: SING 299.51 CHA
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If you are monolingual English-ed like me, Singapore’s Chinese folk religion is largely a closed, unreadable book. You may assemble small disjointed paragraphs, but you cannot get any real sense of the culture. What you get is a fragmented, […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events

Photo Credit: Greg Martin
AN EVENING WITH PAUL THEROUX
Join renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux for an informal evening at the Central Lending Library. He will be giving a short talk, followed by a Q&A session and of course, the much-desired book signing!
What:
subTEXT presents “An Evening with Paul Theroux”
When:
27 April […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
readasia+ book discussion
Date: 20 April 2006
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: library@orchard
Since my last post about readasia+, the group has covered books like My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mammon Inc by Hwee Hwee Tan.
Next up is a title by one of my fav authors: […]

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BOOK BLOG PARTNERS . transcending reading boundaries
If you’re into football, books or anything library-related (huh?), we invite you to visit our sister blog, Programmes@ 100 Victoria Street, initiated by the INVENT division of NLB. The blog features the various going-ons at the extremely busy NLB building at 100 Victoria Street and in May, what’s happen’ […]

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WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations

There are very few excellent writers whom I have read with abandon but who have impressed me no less with their literary quality. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) is foremost among them. He might not be as highly esteemed by literary pundits, as he perhaps deserves to be, possibly because his […]

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HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events
The School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is conducting a research study and would like to talk to Singaporean women about watching Korean TV dramas. If you are a female Singaporean above 25 years old, loooove Korean dramas and have been regularly watching it for at least one […]

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