We Green Solutions: 33 books

HOW DO WE LIVE – free in a world clamouring for recognition, results and accolades? True in a world operating by competition and strife? Strong in a world labouring under the weight of hazy beliefs? The journey to freedom, truth and strength begins as we shed the leaves of self-reliance and...

Everything is about communications. There is nothing that we say or do that does not have a communication implication and outcome. Written for busy CEOs, leaders and senior executives, One Dish Wonder is peppered with vital points and anecdotes that offer simple yet compellingly valuable advice on managing communication risks. An indispensable guide for anybody in business.

Does love die? How does one survive the death of a loved one? Overcome the feelings of inadequacy and helplessness, when someone inexplicably takes one's life? Especially when the loved one is your wife? What could be the possible reasons behind such an act and how does one pick up the pieces and move on? Perhaps love never dies - even when we do.

The year is 2035. War is globally postponed. The island of Singapore is voted World's Best City. Lim Bo Bo, like all children there, wears a Brain Booster, to help him grow smart. We follow his adventures, as he gets a Brain Upgrade, tries Mole-Gas Food, joins a Talent Contest, travels back 2000 years...

Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-2006) was undoubtedly Indonesia’s most significant novelist and writer. After the 1960 publication of this book, now translated for the first time, Promoedya spent some 20 years in prison often in appalling conditions. The book sets out in the form of nine letters much...

The 3rd outstanding memoir by Dr Philip G Veerasingam covers the period 1940 to 1960, a revolved era of a simpler life in Ceylon and follows closely on his previous work, Remembered Vignettes – the life of a medical student in Ceylon of the early 1960s and Cry of the Devil Bird – incidents in the life of a surgeon working in Ceylon from 1965 to 2005.

Inspired by Robert Swartwood’s Hint Fiction, Sanjana Hattotuwa curates a snapshot of Sri Lanka through the eyes of 96 established and emerging writers. There are over 160 stories in this book, each no more than 25 words. Some may know family, friends and colleagues whose stories mirror those within....

In this engrossing and heartwarming autobiography, Jock Oehlers brings readers with him on his life’s journey, from a carefree young boy growing up in Colonial Singapore, through the terror and hardship of the Japanese Occupation, to becoming a respected Professor of Oral Surgery and successful...

This memoir is by Peggy J. Browning. She shares her life vignettes, and her experiences, particularly her dedication to teaching 12-year-olds, a career she embarked on when she was almost 50. It includes the texts of speeches she had presented over the decades to enthusiastic audiences in her native Great Falls, Montana, as well as more recent recollections of her travels around the world.

A collection of fifteen diverse stories which add unique dimensions to human experience. Themes focus on the unexpected, intensify perceptions of the familiar and proffer insight into the unfamiliar. A child’s dream was a premonition in The Bride Wore Black. A belated medical diagnosis comes to light in It Began with the Birds. This is the author’s third book.

Where I Was is a rich, entertaining and compelling account of the life of an extraordinary woman. In a land of many cultures, many races, many religions; in a state where politics and public policies impinge, sometimes callously, on the daily lives of its denizens, Constance Singam is an individual...

The Parenting Trap is not a book that dishes out parenting know-hows and to-dos. Instead, Singaporean Chinese Mum Karen Foote, who is married to her Australian husband Craig, shares her personal struggles as well as joy as she navigates her way through two vastly different cultures to find her own...

Ameena Hussein sets her story within Sri Lanka’s closely guarded Muslim community, offering little known insights into customs and traditions. THE MOON IN THE WATER is the story of an educated, urbane, sophisticated Muslim girl whose secure and happy world is shaken when she discovers on her adoptive...

Alexander Hamilton’s profound influence on American life is well- documented. Less well-appreciated is the story of how Hamilton’s works travelled abroad; leaders in Germany, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea came to keenly appreciate the relevance of Hamilton’s works to the modernisation challenges...