Ridge Books imprint: 10 books
Broken Bodies
8 Biblical Reasons for Why We Get Sick
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
If God is good, why do we get sick? When God created the world, He declared: "It is good." But then came the Fall, and with it sickness and death. In this heart-tugging monograph, Dr. Davis McGuirt draws from both his training in theology and the personal agony of watching his father die from cancer...
by Eden Winters
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Jerome and Greg played on the dirt road halfway between their homes when they were kids, and found much better games to play there when they grew older. It's their special spot, the perfect place for Greg to propose, and the worst place possible for the accident that takes his life.
Devastated...
Sometimes Deceived
Why evolution is fake science
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
It's often said that evolution is science and creationism is religion. Although this opinion is widely held by the public – including many religious people – it represents a misunderstanding of both creationism and evolution. In Sometimes Deceived, Liberty University professor Dr. Daniel Howell...
A Tiger Remembers
The Way We Were in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
A history of Singapore through the changing institution of the family: full of humour, and incident, this is the Singapore story from the perspective of a remarkable woman.
The ASEAN Miracle
A Catalyst for Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that different civilisations—especially Islam and the West—cannot live together in peace. The ten countries of ASEAN provide a thriving counter-example of civilizational...
The End of Innocence?
Indonesian Islam and the Temptations of Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Long cited as a model of harmonious cohabitation between different religions, the most populous Muslim country in the world until recently occupied a special place in the Western imagination. Indonesia, home to a peaceful version of Islam, offered a reassuring counter-model to a rowdy and accusatory...
From the Blue Windows
Recollections of Life in Queenstown, Singapore, in the 1960s and 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Imagine a Singapore in which flat rental was S50 a month, a plate of noodles cost as little as 20 cents, and television broadcasts ended at 10pm every night.From the Blue Windows is a collection of Tan Kok Yang's memories of growing up in Queenstown back when the tallest residential building there was...
Those Days in Muramatsu
One Woman's Memoir of Occupied Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
In the aftermath of the Pacific War and Japan's capitulation, Mrs Yumi Goto and her family lived in the small community of Muramatsu, where they had relocated to get away from Tokyo. Yumi Goto was an English-speaking graduate of one of Japan's top universities for women, and when a contingent of American...
The Mystery of A Yellow Sleuth
Detective Sergeant Nor Nalla, Federated Malay States Police
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
In 1931 a book appeared in London with the title A Yellow Sleuth: Being the Autobiography of “Nor Nalla” (Detective-Sergeant Federated Malay States Police). It was met with puzzled enthusiasm, The Straits Times commenting that the book “presents an interesting problem of distinguishing fact...
by Wang Gungwu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself. Wang Gungwu is one of Asia’s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations...