Category Architecture

Reporter: Forty Years Covering Asia

July 11, 2013 All Books, Architecture, Asian Culture & History, Asian Writing

by John McBeth
ISBN 9789810873646
Hardback; 400 pages
235 x 150mm
Pub Date: Jan 2011
Price: S$42.00 (excl. GST)
BIC: KNTJ

Reporter is an account of John McBeth's 40-year journey through Asia,more than half of that time as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the venerable magazine long regarded as the region's English language Bible on political and economic affairs. While necessarily a memoir, the book is more a reflection of the lives of a small group of foreign journalists ...
 

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A Perennial Feast – Food, Flavours, Restaurants & Recipes

April 8, 2013 All Books, Architecture, Travel

by Kim Inglis | photography by Jacob Termansen
ISBN 9789810733520
Hardback with Jacket; 176 pages
480 colour illustrations
Pub Date: December 2012
Price: S$46.68 (excl. GST)
BIC: WBA, WTL

A showcase of culinary excellence at the YTL group of hotels and resorts, this book is much more than a restaurant review or a recipe collection. Delving into the culture of a variety of cuisines, stretching from Malaysia and Southeast Asia into China, Japan and Europe, it takes readers on a gastronomic journey ...
 

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Singapore – Little Red Book

March 4, 2013 All Books, Architecture

Photography by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
ISBN 9789810814687
Paperback Flexi Bind; 160 pages
Pub Date: Sep 2009
Price: S$9.95 (excl. GST)
BIC: WTM

Singapore is a microcosm of the many and varying cultures found in Asia. Everywhere you look you see a different face, another style of dress, a different building style: it’s a layered country, full of contradiction, yet homogenised. Like the country this new book showcases these particularly Singaporean sights: the contrasts and contradictions as well as the parallels. In a way no other book has achieved ...
 
 

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