This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the…
Want to Read"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are rendered meaningful by shared scripts and narratives that permeate our society."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
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1. Ministry of Moral Panic
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4.08
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Meet an over-the-hill Pop Yé-yé singer with a faulty heart, two conservative middle-aged women hold… read more
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- asia
"A relationship means exhaustion. Entrapment. I haven’t the energy for the eventuality of it. Love is no big truth."-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
"But I love Sir long time, she'd said repeatedly, blubbering, but I love Sir long time. The wife got up and slapped her smartly across the face. Love? The wife gave a bark of laughter. What do you thi…"-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
"The truth was probably that my mother had been so defined by the existence of my father that when he died, she couldn’t see anything else before her. He’d closed his fist around her, she’d let him, a…"-Amanda Lee Koe, Ministry of Moral Panic
2. What Gives Us Our Names
By: Alvin Pang
3.94
Format: 111 pages, Chapbook
He'd gotten the idea from a book, not unlike the one you last read and loved, whose lurid covers yo… read more
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3. Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart
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4.33
Format: 700 pages,
Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub by Hamza Yusuf This exploration of… read more
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4. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
By: Sonny Liew
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye is a biography showcasing the life and work of Chan Hock Chye, a … read more
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5. Corridor: 12 Short Stories
By: Alfian Sa'at
3.84
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore. With unsentimental clar… read more
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6. Sugarbread
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more
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7. Inheritance
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Inheritanceis a nation's coming-of-age story, seen through the sharp lens of a traditional Punjabi … read more
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8. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
9. Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
By: Robert A. Caro
4.44
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
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- politics
- nonfiction
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"People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as the stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest inte…"-Robert A. Caro, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
10. Brown Is Redacted
By: Kristian-Marc James Paul
4.17
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Brown is Redacted: Reflecting on Race in Singapore responds to, expands on and questions what we th… read more
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11. Air-Conditioned Nation Revisited
By: Cherian George
4.42
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Think of Singapore instead as the Air-Conditioned Nation—a society with a unique blend of comfort … read more
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12. Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
By: Kishore Mahbubani
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century is between China and the US. But is i… read more
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- politics
- economics
- nonfiction
"... any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"the weaponizing of the US dollar has created a powerful global incentive to create an alternative currency for global trading purposes."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"Most Americans are unaware that the average income of the bottom 50 percent of their population has declined over a thirty-year period."-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
"... despite its openness, America has its own sacred cows. One such sacred cow is that America is number one and will be number one forever"-Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy
13. This Is What Inequality Looks Like
By: You Yenn Teo
4.46
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, the… read more
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- social science
- asia
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- essays
- social issues
- economics
- society
- anthropology
"Memories sustain us — they tell us who we are and to whom we’re connected."-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
"What we do and do not do are shaped by our sense of how others are — shared understandings of right and wrong, good and bad, valuable and worthless. The pathways and practices we end up taking are re…"-You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like
14. Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore
By: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
4.17
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global i… read more
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15. The Last Fools – The Eight Immortals of Lee Kuan Yew
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4.20
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As Lee Kuan Yew and his Old Guard founding leaders attempted to shape an improbable nation from a t… read more
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16. Love for Imperfect Things / The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
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4.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
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"A person’s behavior might not be motivated by any particular thought or feeling, but still we make all kinds of assumptions, deciding, “This person must think x about me."-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things / The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
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17. The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope
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4.59
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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18. Loss Adjustment
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4.20
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
“I have had nothing bad happen to me except my own doing. I have let this cowardice envelop me, and… read more
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"My dad—Victoria’s grandfather, “Poppa Jim"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"Amid this constant physical presence of fellow human beings, we gaze inward, trying to absorb what has happened with our lives and why the person we love the most is not here."-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"I imagine them being so upset they sucked the tar as a comfort, with shaking hands, and when the comfort didn’t come, hurled them away, one after the other, where the paper and tobacco fizzled and di…"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
"I try to be the rock that I see they hope I can be. People can take only so much distress and hair-tearing. They need to be given to, as well as to give. What they want from me is hope, that I can ca…"-Linda Collins, Loss Adjustment
19. Homeless
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3.70
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ten years ago, Liyana Dhamirah was in a precarious situation: at 22, she was heavily pregnant and h… read more
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20. A Place For Us
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3.99
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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21. Son of Singapore
By: Tan Kok Seng
3.91
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringing… read more
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"It is a strange thing, looking at the sea. When it is calm, or with only gentle ripples, it gives an impression of being soft and kind. But often, on such a calm, the wind suddenly blows, thrusting t…"-Tan Kok Seng, Son of Singapore
