DESIGN INCUBATOR
A Prototype for New Design Practice
Patrick Chia

Artist, craftsman, engineer, ethnographer, psychologist, entrepreneur, agent of change – is a designer one of these or a blend of all? What is a designer’s role in our current global and social landscape?

Arranged by themes and consisting of documentary photographs, illustrated sketches, renderings and diagrams as well as articles and texts, this book presents an extensive archive of projects and workshops in product and research development.

Interspersed with insights and reflections from team members past and present, it is a handbook for designers that seek to incorporate unique, progressive methods and approaches into their personal or professional practices as well as a retrospective monograph on the Design Incubation Centre.

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Life Without Limits
How to live a ridiculously good life

Life Without Limits is the story of gutsy Nick Vujicic, an amazing 28-year-old Aussie born without arms or legs who is now an internationally successful inspirational speaker. Packed full of wisdom, testimonials of his faith and laugh-out-loud humour, Nick tells of life in his 'Chesty Bond' body, his visit to Africa at the age of 20 where he gave away $20,000 of his life savings to the poor, and raised another $20,000 for them on the side, and how he learned to surf, skateboard, dive and more.

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A Perennial Feast: Food, Flavours, Restaurants & Recipes
Kim Inglis and Jacob Termansen

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.

Beginning in Malaysia, the heart and home of the YTL group, it showcases both island resorts and city heritage hotels and restaurants, all the while giving an overview of Malay cuisine. Recipes for traditional Malay fare are combined with some East meets West fusion food and some innovative seafood dishes.

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Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World
Interviews and Selections by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, with Ali Wyne

Presents the founding father of modern Singapore’s strategic, policy-relevant insights, in his own words, on global challenges of the next quarter century, offering controversial opinions on globalization, geopolitics, economic growth, and democracy.

Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore’s prime minister for three decades. The phrase “Grand Master” signifies the breadth and depth of Lee’s strategic thinking. He is regarded as the Henry Kissinger of the Eastern Hemisphere. The book provides his insights on China, the US, and the rest of the world, among other things.

Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents and Everyone Who Cares About Education

A new edition - revised and updated with over 100 pages of new material.

A unique collaboration between the celebrated management thinker and Fifth Discipline author Peter Senge, and a team of renowned educators and organizational change leaders, the revised edition of Schools The Learn addresses the new and unique pressures on our educational system that have emerged since the book’s initial publication in 2000. 

"Chock full of useful tools, ideas, and exercises, this book is ideal for the many teachers and parents … Schools That Learn is as essential resource." - Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of DRIVE and A WHOLE NEW MIND.

Still just two decades into his career, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the most original creative talents for many decades, a ‘Leonardo da Vinci of our times’ (Terence Conran). He has produced everything from zippered bags that can be expanded to five times their size (Longchamp) and sculptural chairs forged from the world’s largest aluminium extruder, to a bridge that rolls open and closed, and an exuberant seed bank, ‘hairy’ with fibre-optic lights (the award-winning UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo). This book is the first to present an exhaustive overview covering the studio’s entire history – over 140 projects. Years in development, the book has been prepared in close collaboration with Heatherwick himself, offering an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at all aspects of Heatherwick’s creative, design and manufacturing processes. Projects are organized chronologically and bookended by an introduction setting out the studio’s philosophy and a reference section. Each project is fully illustrated and accompanied by a text explaining, in Heatherwick’s own words, the particular design challenge it posed and the creative and practical processes it engendered.

ISBN: 9780500516249
Thames & Hudson

It’s 50 years since the Rolling Stones’ first gig at the Marquee Club in London, and the celebrations to mark their golden anniversary are set to be as epic as their amazing career. This book – the only official volume to celebrate this momentous occasion – is a key part of those celebrations. Introduced by each member of the band, this is their story of the last half century, told in rare and unseen photographs, contact sheets and ephemera from and beyond the band’s own archive. Packed with content, stunningly designed and beautifully manufactured, The Rolling Stones: 50 will be the definitive illustrated book on the band for many years to come.

Not many of us can claim to have pounded the streets of Kuala Lumpur as part of a 21km run, fallen off Mount Murud, Sarawak's tallest mountain (and survived!), or sailed down the Linggi River in Negeri Sembilan in search of crocodiles. But Sharon Cheah can! And that's only scratching the surface of her whirlwind tour of Malaysia. This was a journey that spanned five years as Cheah, a Malaysian journalist, set the goal of visiting every state in East and West Malaysia, to really get to know her homeland.The result? A fascinating series of travel essays spanning history, culture, religion, environment, foods and myth and archaeology. From a homestay in Kelantan to visiting one of the top three rainforest research centres in the world (in Sabah), come discover Malaysia as you've never seen it before. Malaysia Bagus!

A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it’s not too late to start over...

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant).