Hachette Children's Yearbook & Infopedia 2021

Author: Hachette India
Publisher: Hachette India
ISBN: 938925387X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 349

Book Description
12th UPDATED EDITION! A power-packed GK, current affairs and reference book! If you want a fact-finder, if you are looking to expand your general knowledge, if you are looking for a ready reckoner of must-know information and if you want to know what in the world is going on... then this book is indispensable for you. Every annual edition of the Hachette Children’s Yearbook & Infopedia offers you carefully culled news, general knowledge, current affairs, fascinating facts and loads more on your favourite focus points. With well-researched and updated content and data presented in a reader-friendly way, this book is the essential companion for every smart student who wants to get ahead and stay ahead. PLUS: FACTS AND STATS ON INDIA AND EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD! What You Will Find Inside: News Highlights from India and around the World; People Who Made Headlines; Inside the Earth; Environment News; Out There in Space; History Timelines; Science Basics; Literature Info; Sports Spotlights; Superlatives: India and World; The Year Ahead; Anniversaries and Days to Remember; Awards and Prizes & and More! DON’T MISS THE COVID-19 ROUND-UP; 45 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PANDEMIC; A BRIEF HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS; A TIMELINE OF VACCINES; A COVIDICTIONARY

The Interpreter's Daughter

Author: Teresa Lim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 163936269X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
A beautiful, sweeping, multigenerational narrative that spans from nineteenth century south China to modern day Singapore. I would learn that when families tell stories, what they leave out re-defines what they keep in. With my family, these were not secrets intentionally withheld. Just truths too painful to confront. In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. The photo is mounted on cream card with the name of the studio stamped at the bottom in Chinese characters. The place and date on the back: Hong Kong, 1935. Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the family stories that were always being told and retold. Why? she wondered. This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her family's remarkable history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers, she was guided to the fascinating, ordinary, yet extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of nineteenth century south China. But to recover her great-aunt's past, we first must get to know Fanny's family, the times and circumstances in which they lived, and the momentous yet forgotten conflicts that would lead to war in Singapore and, ultimately, a long-buried family tragedy. The Interpreter's Daughter is a beautifully moving record of an extraordinary family history. For fans of Wild Swans, The Hare With Amber Eyes, and Falling Leaves, The Interpreter's Daughter is a classic in the making.

Active Learning for Digital Transformation in Healthcare Education, Training and Research

Author: Miltiadis Lytras
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0443152497
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
Active Learning for Digital Transformation in Healthcare Education, Training and Research discusses the potential of advanced training of health professionals as a contributing factor to improve treatment outcomes. By reading this book, professionals who deal with patients with low health literacy will be prepared to promote better access to digital tools, understand the habits of users of health services, and empower engagement. The book contains a set of techniques and instruments associated with health literacy, communication skills and personal development that will enable their application in good daily practices and assist healthcare professionals to promote digital transformation to patients. This is a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students and healthcare professionals who are interested in learning more about how they can be an effective agent of change in healthcare. - Discusses the potential of patient education through the training of health professionals to improve patient engagement and adherence to treatment - Presents techniques from real-world examples to demonstrate the efficacy of better communication between health professionals and patients, especially in the digital medicine era - Outlines digital tools that can be used to strengthen the healthcare professional-patient relationship

More Than The Eye Can See: Memoirs Of Gopinath Pillai

Author: Gopinath Pillai
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981125575X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
More Than The Eye Can See tells the story of Gopinath Pillai, a Singaporean businessman and diplomat who served as Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Iran (1989-2008) and High Commissioner to Pakistan (1994-2001). Alongside working with prominent members of Singapore's pioneering generation to strengthen the country's manufacturing profile and international trade during the Cold War, he broke into liberalising India as a trailblazing entrepreneur and contributed to the nation's public life as the first Chairman of NTUC Fairprice and Founder Chairman of the Institute of South Asian Studies.A self-described 'Jack of All Trades', Gopi's memoirs frame episodes of personal struggle against milestones in the progress of the nation. Born in Singapore to Malayalee parents in 1937, Gopi spent his early childhood in India throughout the Japanese Occupation, where he witnessed the Communist Movement in Kerala first-hand. When he returned to Singapore in 1946, Gopi grew up in a multi-racial society taking its fledgling steps as a democracy. His career took him all over — to Thailand and Malaysia as an economist and journalist and the Middle East and America as a manager — reflecting Singapore's early industrialisation and the pursuit of its values and interests abroad and at home.Co-written with John Vater, More Than The Eye Can See offers a panorama of a man and his century.

Alexandra Hospital: A Legacy Of Care

Author: Chong Lingxiu
Publisher: Alexandra Hospital
ISBN: 981172945X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Alexandra Hospital: A Legacy Of Care, published in May 2024, is the 2nd heritage book published by Alexandra Hospital, under the National University Health System (NUHS). This book showcases stories from the years leading up to the hospital's inception and inauguration, to the early British administration era, the Japanese Occupation, subsequent liberation, and its transition into civilian hands, as well as the journey towards becoming Singapore's first integrated general hospital. Set against the backdrop of major geopolitical and nationwide healthcare events, hear stories from people of various vocations and backgrounds who have played pivotal roles in shaping the history of this institution over the course of more than 8 decades.

Lexicography of Coronavirus-related Neologisms

Author: Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311079831X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
This volume brings together contributions by international experts reflecting on Covid19-related neologisms and their lexicographic processing and representation. The papers analyze new words, new meanings of existing words, and new multiword units, where they come from, how they are transmitted (or differ) across languages, and how their use and meaning are reflected in dictionaries of all sorts. Recent trends in as many as ten languages are considered, including general and specialized language, monolingual as well as bilingual and printed as well as online dictionaries.

The Singapore Mall Generation

Author: Dr Liew Kai Khiun
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9815044583
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
Yesterday’s malls as today’s heritage. This book unearths Singapore’s latent histories, cultures and communities that grew within its now ageing modern shopping centres, envisioned in the 1960s futuristically as “Arcades in the Air”. Contributors for this edited book highlight some of such unexpected narratives from the pioneering “Planned Shopping Centres”. They include: malls as historical and photographical sites, as homes for pioneering arcade gamers, youths cultures and veteran rock musicians, and as platforms for artistic imaginations and exhibitions. As largely individually owned shops units within the buildings, the older malls have also fostered more diverse and autonomous communities and businesses. Amidst Singapore’s constantly changing urban landscape, these otherwise dated shopping centres stand precariously as venerable sites of collective social and cultural memories. Includes essays from: Chua Beng Huat, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Darren Soh, Roy Kheang, Eunice Lim, Elena Yeo, Steve Ferzacca, Kar-men Cheng, Wee Li Lin

Our Singapore River

Author: Tina Sim
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811259062
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Travel back in time to the Singapore River!Aloysius and his Grandpa spend a day on the Singapore River in olden day Singapore. As Aloysius is introduced to the ships, the bumboats, the boatmen, the coolies and the warehouses, he realises how awesome life on the river was — how busy, noisy, dirty, and smelly too! — and the very vital role it played in Singapore's early days as a port settlement.Travel into Singapore's past with the Time Travel, Singapore! series. The series showcases the people, places, practices, foods, arts, events and so much more that were an integral part of people's lives then.

Singapore Street Names (4th edition): A Study of Toponymics

Author: Victor R. Savage
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9815009230
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1180

Book Description
Place names tell us much about a country — its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image, The study of place names called toponymics unlocks the stories that are in every street name and landmark. In Singapore, the existence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonization, immigration and nationalism has given rise to a complex history of place names. But how did these places get their names? This revised and expanded 4th edition of the book incorporates additional information, from archival research as well as interviews that have come to light since the last edition. Also included are many new entries that have presented themselves as Singapore’s built environment undergoes redevelopment. Expanded by over 100 pages.

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures

Author: Robert C. Brears
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030877450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 2334

Book Description
While urban settlements are the drivers of the global economy and centres of learning, culture, and innovation and nations rely on competitive dynamic regions for their economic, social, and environmental objectives, urban centres and regions face a myriad of challenges that impact the ways in which people live and work, create wealth, and interact and connect with places. Rapid urbanisation is resulting in urban sprawl, rising emissions, urban poverty and high unemployment rates, housing affordability issues, lack of urban investment, low urban financial and governance capacities, rising inequality and urban crimes, environmental degradation, increasing vulnerability to natural disasters and so forth. At the regional level, low employment, low wage growth, scarce financial resources, climate change, waste and pollution, and rising urban peri-urban competition etc. are impacting the ability of regions to meet socio-economic development goals while protecting biodiversity. The response to these challenges has typically been the application of inadequate or piecemeal solutions, often as a result of fragmented decision-making and competing priorities, with numerous economic, environmental, and social consequences. In response, there is a growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical in nature with people and communities interacting with one another and with objects, such as roads, buildings, transport links etc., within a range of urban and regional settings or contexts. This comprehensive MRW will provide readers with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.