Two days until we launch "Being Present"! Editors Rosalie Stolz and Paul-David Lutz will be joined by contributors Sumiya Bilegsaikhan, Elizabeth Elliott, Giulio Ongaro, Floramante Ponce, and Phill Wilcox, and moderator Gerald Jackson.
Apr 23, Thursday | 5pm SGT
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Join us for the launch of "Being Present", streaming live on NUS Press Facebook & YouTube. Editors Rosalie Stolz & Paul-David Lutz will be joined by contributors Sumiya Bilegsaikhan, Elizabeth Elliott, Giulio Ongaro, Floramante Ponce, & Phill Wilcox.
23 April, Thurs | 5 pm SGT
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#NewBook: "The Economic History of Singapore" is the first comprehensive #economichistory of Singapore. It brings fresh insight into the enduring forces that have shaped the city-state’s development, and reflects on its economic future.
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We're pleased to announce we have 2 titles shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards! "Infectious Disease Emergencies" is shortlisted for Best Professional Title, & our new reprint of "Everyday Modernism" is shortlisted for Best Book Cover Design. 🎉
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Today is the last day of @asianstudies.org #AAS2026!
Drop by booth 406 to say hi - and to buy books of course - and make sure to attend John DiMoia's panel!
Get our books at 35% off via @uchicagopress.bsky.social: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...
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This evening, Maitrii Aung-Thwin, C. Michele Thompson, & Faizah Zakaria are all part of a panel on the cultural worlds of #SoutheastAsian #forestproducts...
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We had a packed day of interesting panels on day 3 of
@aasasianstudies.bsky.social, featuring Justin McDaniel, Meredith Weiss, Abidin Kusno and many of our other distinguished authors (contd. in next tweet)!
Reminder: Get their books at our booth #406 📚 #AAS2026 #AsianStudies
🎧 Listen: Sally Low, author of "Colonial Law Making" (NUS Press, 2023) was interviewed on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. They discuss the story of the encounter between Cambodia’s indigenous legal tradition and modern French legal thinking. newbooksnetwork.com/colonial-law...
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#NewBook: "Being Present" is a showcase of ethnographic research on Laos, a rapidly transforming country at the heart of mainland Southeast Asia and a southern gateway to China.
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Our biggest sale of the year is almost over! If you haven't yet, now's the chance to get that missing book for your shelves: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/collections/...
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#NewBook: Prof Tan Yock Lin (1953–2023) was a prominent figure in Singapore’s legal community. "A Gentleman of the Law" honours the legacy of a scholar whose impact will long continue to shape the legal landscape in Singapore and beyond.
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Just 6 days left until our end-of-year sale is over!
From "Wanderlust", the biography of the world's first female solo traveller, to "lives & times of hrh" & "Not for Circulation", tales of two Singapore originals, discover their stories & more here: buff.ly/RuQPSUU
From "Las Vegas in Singapore", which looks at the collision of the histories of Singapore and Las Vegas via Marina Bay Sands, to "Divine Custody" & "Traces of the Sage" which uncover the history & material culture of temples, discover our books on places!
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Grab books for your coffee table at discounted prices, including "Marjorie Doggett’s Singapore" which "features a treasure trove of previously unpublished photos of the island", and "Art & Trousers", an ArtNews Top Art Book of 2021.
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Our #EOYSale2025 $10 and Under highlights: "It's a Living" about the world of work in Vietnam, "Hard Choices" which the Business Times described as "arguably the most stimulating and provocative book ever written on public policy in Singapore", & many more!
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Our end-of year sale is finally here!
Over 50 discounted titles (including new books and bestsellers) starting at just $5! No code needed.
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The use of the new technology of light detection and ranging (‘lidar’) in the past decade has revealed that the Cambodian royal city of Angkor was one of the world’s largest pre-industrial urban centres.”
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[Early Southeast Asia] highlights the region’s importance to theories of human evolution due to vital discoveries such as ‘Java Man’, Homo floresiensis (aka ‘the Hobbit’), and the recently discovered Homo luzonensis on the island of Luzon... (contd.)
.@historytoday.com the world's leading pop history magazine, included "Early Southeast Asia" in its Books of the Year list!:
“Southeast Asian history sometimes seems at the periphery of mainstream historical interest [not to us!], but two books this year are exceptions... (contd.)
Charles Higham was interviewed on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his book "Early #SoutheastAsia". Interviewer Patrick Jory speaks to Higham about the recent discoveries that are revealing remarkable new insights into the region’s early history.
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#prehistory
"In the Mirror" will be launched at the George Town Lit Fest! Editors Brandon Liew and Daryl Lim Wei Jie will discuss literary legacies, tradition, and the future of poetry in English.
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When: 29 Nov, 10-11am
Where: Wawasan Reading Room
#GTLF #Malaysia #Literature
#NewBook: How did Bangkok, once a modest riverside town, transform into the vibrant capital of a modern nation? This book explores the dynamic forces that reshaped Bangkok between the late 18th and mid-20th centuries.
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📸: Launch of “In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam" yesterday. Editors Brandon K. Liew & Daryl Lim Wei Jie are pictured here with our guests-of-honour Prof Wang Gungwu & Mr Robert Yeo, and moderator @psmedia.asia.
Read the Straits Times review of the book: buff.ly/nnfwk3h
#Poetry
Also - until this Friday only, all purchases of "In the Mirror" made on our website will come with a free copy of "Collected Poems of Arthur Yap!"
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Reminder: Join us for the launch of "In the Mirror: New and Selected Poems of Wong Phui Nam"!
When: Sunday (Nov 2) at 11 am, registration from 10:30 am
Where: Programme Room 2, Central Public Library (B1 of National Library Building)
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#poetry #booklaunch
NUS Press mourns the passing of our author John Miksic, renowned archaeologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at NUS.
Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...
Checking in from the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the Philippines are the Guest of Honour! Here are Lisandro Claudio (Liberalism and the Postcolony) & Filomeno Aguilar Jr. (Migration Revolution) at the Philippines pavilion with our Director Peter Schoppert.
Books on the Philippines: buff.ly/ttkohmz
You are warmly invited to the launch of "In the Mirror", the first comprehensive collection of the poems and critical essays of Wong Phui Nam.
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Date: Nov 2 (Sun), 11AM
Time: Programme Room 2, Central Public Library
#SingaporeWritersFestival #SingLit #Poetry #Malaya
For a limited time and while stocks last, all orders of "In the Mirror" in Singapore/Southeast Asia will get a FREE copy of "The Collected Poems of Arthur Yap"!
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#NewBook: "In the Mirror" is the first comprehensive collection of the poetry and essays of Wong Phui Nam (1935–2022), a foundational poet of Malaysian literature in English. Edited by Brandon K. Liew & Daryl Lim Wei Jie, with an afterword by Edwin Thumboo.
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