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Woman on Top
A daring biography by one of Singapore’s most prominent entertainment personalities, Dr Loretta Chen, as she shares her heartbreaks and valuable life lessons. Laugh and cry together with her as she recounts her colourful life, from growing up with a famous sibling (MediaCorp actor Edmund Chen), being open about being a lesbian in staid Singapore and engaging in civic politics, to heart-wrenching accounts of having both parents stricken with life-threatening illnesses, dealing with her partner’s suicide and her very public failed business venture. But just like a phoenix that emerges from fiery ashes, Loretta takes it all in her Jimmy Choo-clad stride and inspires readers with her positivity and zest for life!
Madonnas and Mavericks
There is a saying that women hold up half the sky. This cannot be more true than in the Singapore context where women form more than 50% of the workforce. This book is a tribute to the women who have contributed to the growth of Singapore. The women have been selected across varying fields ranging from legal, financial, medical, fashion, sports, arts to even the now ubiquitous “social media”. These women have demonstrated their ability to rise above the ordinary and to push the margins as frontier. Unlike the Forbes’ list that holds a definitive annual audit of the foremost heads of state, CEOS and celebrity role models ranked by money and media momentum, our list of Madonnas and Mavericks are determined by their spheres of influence, dedication and commitment to their craft and industries as well as their somewhat elusive nature. These women may not be always in the limelight but they certainly have contributed to our nation’s growth and success.
The Elim Chew Story: Driven by Purpose, Destined for Change
Driven by Purpose, Destined for Change is a heartwarming, candid and frank biography of one of Singapore’s most prominent entrepreneur and multi-hyphenate, Elim Chew. Elim shares her lesser known familial histories, pangs of growing up, days of being wild, history of retail icon 77th Street, social enterprise, youth mentorships as well as her latest love, fishing. Through the book, we get a deeper understanding of who multi-hyphenate Elim Chew really is, get to share in and learn from her community leadership, business experiences, unique perspective on life and a whole lot of Singlish. She also provides insight into newly independent Singapore in the 1970s as well as an insider’s glimpse into pop culture in the rocking 1980s and 1990s. You will also get to know more of Elim’s hair-raising past, present motivations and future visions. The book is written with reflections, take away lessons, engaging entrepreneurial tips and activities for anyone who wishes to be Driven by Purpose and Destined for Change.
Inspiring Women of Hawaii
There is a saying that women hold up half the sky. This cannot be more true than in Hawai'i whose very creation myth states that the very first human created was a woman known as La'ila'i. In fact, the formation of the Hawaiian Islands is attributed to the goddess Pele and her digging of the fire pits that led to the birth of the Island chain. Her sister goddesses were similarly powerful in brave rescues and battling demons. It takes no stretch of imagination to say that Hawaiian culture recognizes and venerates a woman's power, passion, and intellectual prowess. This book is a celebration of inspiring women who have contributed to the growth and development of the Aloha State determined by ...
The Making of a Family Saga
The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the "Ginling family," Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange.
Big Data Management, Technologies, and Applications
"This book discusses the exponential growth of information size and the innovative methods for data capture, storage, sharing, and analysis for big data"--Provided by publisher.
Growth Without Inequality
Cover -- Half title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: Diagnosis -- 1. Growth and Its Drivers -- 1.1 A Critique of the Standard Growth Theory -- 1.2 Growth Driver I: Institution -- 1.3 Growth-Driver II: Scale -- 1.4 Growth-driver III: Productivity -- 1.5 Explaining Growth Phenomena -- Notes -- 2. Growth and Its Consequences -- 2.1 Price-Value Analytics -- 2.2 Value Hijacked: Scarcity Engineering and Price Manipulation -- 2.3 Value Subverted: Financial Capitalism -- 2.4 How Growth Subverts Equality -- Notes -- PART II: Solution -- 3. The Vain Search for Solution -- 3.1 The Market as a Non-solution for Inequality -- 3.2 Government-mar...
Gentlemanly Terrorists
Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India.
The Sun Shines after the Clouds Have Blown Away
Beverly Carinus together with her husband Steve Pilkington-Williams write an amusing and unusual glimpse into living with and coping with Steve’s inoperable brain tumour. This book is not about the tragedy of the tumour rather it’s about the fight and survival for life and love and shared laughter. It’s a love story about two people whose lives ran in parallel lines, each seeking that someone who was missing from their lives. Yet once they had experienced the joy of finding each other; fate threw a tragic twist their way. In 2004 Steve was moving from Dubai to start a new and exciting phase of his life in Singapore and asked Bev to join him. A few months later he fell ill and was diagn...
Queer Singapore
Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore's current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of sexual repression and cultural liberalisation. Using the innovative framework of illiberal pragmatism, established and emergent local scholars and activists provide expansive coverage of the impact of homosexuality on Singapore's media cultures and political economy, including law, religion, the military, literature, theatre, photography, cinema, social media and queer commerce. It shows how new LGBT subjectivities have been fashioned through the governance of illiberal pragmatism, how pragmatism is appropriated as a form of social and critical democratic action, and how cultural citizenship is forged through a logic of queer complicity that complicates the flows of oppositional resistance and grassroots appropriation.
