Ws imprint: 140 books
by Nury Vittachi, Step Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets?...
Saving Ourselves
Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah...
I Want to Marry You But …
A Marriage Guide for the Young Adult
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Lawyers may have a tendency to treat marriage as a strict legal agreement between two parties with certain legal rules and terms that must be followed. Though in some ways akin to a contract, the institution of marriage goes far beyond contractual obligations. It encompasses social, financial, and...
Graph Theory
Undergraduate Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book is an expansion of our first book Introduction to Graph Theory: H3 Mathematics. While the first book was intended for capable high school students and university freshmen, this version covers substantially more ground and is intended as a reference and textbook for undergraduate studies...
Scott & Witty Wikky
A Young Inventor's Quest
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
To find out more about the book and its characters click here: www.wittywikky.com
Inspired by real-life events of a talented 10-year old inventor, this character-building story is packed with humour, educational elements and interesting facts.
Scott Sun is a talented young boy who develops...
Unleashing the Greatness in You
The Power of Self-Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
You can be Great.
No matter what your background is or what failures you've experienced, you can achieve greatness. That is the main thrust of this book. The author, Dr John Ng, is Chief Passionary Officer of Meta Consulting
by J J Woo
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
3-in-1: Governing a Global Financial Centre provides a comprehensive understanding of Singapore's past development and future success as a global financial centre. It focuses on three transformational processes that have determined the city-state's financial sector development and governance — globalisation,...
Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior
Measurement and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book deals with teachers' behaviors that promote the creativity of students. It includes a rating scale for measuring a teacher's creativity fostering behavior — a scale known as the CFTIndex — and a series of conceptualization and research papers, including a lead article by Professor Authur...
Tests and Exams in Singapore Schools
What School Leaders, Teachers and Parents Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students. The results are often used to make irrevocable decisions on the students' future education careers.
This book is written with school leaders, teachers, and parents in mind,...
by Mun Wai Ho, Mark Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies at the university as well as at the polytechnics, 'A' levels and the international baccalaureate programmes. These courses are usually structured as part of the Final Year Projects. Their applied nature is...
Island Life
A Natural History of Pulau Tengah, Johor, Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Nine nautical miles off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, strung along the middle arc of the Seribuat Archipelago, the roving eye will spot a clutch of sun-washed islands. Narrow the lens a little to focus on the middle island, Pulau Babi Tengah (or Middle Pig Island in the Malay language) named...
Silver Shades of Grey
Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn't really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. This book offers some operating instructions for life, a guide to engaging passionately with age!
Dealing...
by Shao Wei Chew Chia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
San is in her spaceship! Lion is keeping her company. What will they see and do next?
The universe is almost, but not quite, bigger than imagination. Within it, we are sheltered by a place we call 'home'. For San, home is right here in Singapore, but San is also a child of the universe.
Readership: Children who are interested in picture books and the universe.
Singapore Teachers
Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course that the chief editor, Dr Fang, has taught at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Narrative inquiry has been used in the course to help teachers and school...