Marshall Cavendish Edition imprint: 285 books
CultureShock! Finland
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CultureShock! Finland guides you on a fun-filled crash course on getting to know this rarely explored country. Find out why the Finns are so proud of their motherland and why others fall in love with it from their first visit. From cosmopolitan Helsinki to traditional Lapland, discover the gems of each...
CultureShock! Czech Republic
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Gain an insight into the local characteristics from the Czech love of nature to their musical inclination to their magical folklore. Be aware of social etiquette when dining in someone’s home or learn what to expect when attending a traditional wedding. Navigate your way around the complex Czech language,...
CultureShock! Berlin
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2009
CultureShock! Berlin will bring you on an exciting discovery and pave the way for a smooth and enjoyable stay in this ever-changing city. Full of practical information and interesting insights, the book is a valuable road map for expatriates and long-term visitors on how Berliners tick, and how to get...
CultureShock! Austria
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
CultureShock! Austria provides a thorough crash course on under-standing and adjusting to life in this beautiful country. While giving justice to Austria’s rich cultural heritage and its romantic splendour, the book also explains the day-to-day realities of living and working in the country. It’s...
STTS: Present for Success
A powerful approach to building confidence, developing impact and transforming your presentation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Presenting and public speaking is a worry for many working executives and professionals. Alison Lester helps the reader to abate these fears by helping them to understand why they react they way they do and how to overcome it. Alison also gives the reader the fundamentals of presenting effectively, from...
Risk Happen
Managing risk and avoiding failure in buisness projects
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Project management has become a big part of how all organizations get things done. Managers at all levels need to take on and deliver projects. The scope of these projects range from small projects lasting days to multi-million dollar projects taking years. All of these projects have one big thing in...
Wild Women Do
Female Killers, tricksters and crooks in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Often regarded as the fairer sex, women can be just as evil and ruthless as their male counterparts. In fact some even consider them more deadly as they are not above using the feminine charms to get their own way. Here then are cases of women who have fallen foul of the law. From girls who cheat elderly...
If I Could Tell You
Singapore fiction, modern fiction on family life
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
When nothing is really yours, not even the flat you grew up in, just where do you call home? The residents of Block 204 have a few months before their building is torn down, before they are scattered throughout the island into smaller, assigned flats. All of them know they will still be struggling to...
The 100
Insights and lessons from 100 of the greatest speakers and speeches ever delivered
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
What are the greatest speeches of all time? Who are the greatest communicators and orators and what made them so successful? And, significantly, what lessons can you learn from the world’s greatest influencers and communicators? This book individually profiles 100 powerful speakers and analyses the...
Sarong Secrets
Of love, loss and longing
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Pure reading pleasure from start to finish … bitter-sweet, light and delicate as the kebaya, spiced with the tang of sambal belachan. From the author of the award-winning bestseller Kebaya Tales comes yet another amazing collection featuring the colourful world of the babas and nyonyas. In Sarong Secrets,...
by Shirley Lim
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The novel is set in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, against a backdrop of political turmoil and social changes. Married to wealthy, conservative Henry, English literature graduate Li An is torn between the comforting lull of a secure world and the seductive erotism of the unknown, foreign spaces. When tragedy strikes...
This is Business
My life as a Singapore gangster II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Away from prying eyes, in hidden alleys and on invisible streets lies an underworld, privy only to those who know where to find it. A world built on trust, loyalty, blood and fueled by money and power. Foo Yin Tung has worked hard to get to where he is. He now oversees his gang’s online gambling and...
by Jennifer Gargiulo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This hilarious new book records the tongue-in-cheek journey of an expat in Singapore, told through vignettes, snapshots and Top 10 lists: “10 sure signs you’re in a Singapore taxi”; “Things first-time visitors to Singapore say”; “10 signs you’ve overstayed”; “Politically-incorrect expat...
The Shirley Lim Collection
Four decades of stirring stories by one of the foremost figures in Asian literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The short stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim—born in Malacca, Malaysia and now Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of California—reflect the complex mosaic of her world. From the rich Peranakan tradition of her childhood to the harsh perplexity of American life in adulthood,...