@ Saturday 28 January 2012, 10.00am – 11.00am

Are you an aspiring author looking to get your book out into the bookstores? Confused about how the publishing process works? As part of its educational outreach program, Aktive Learning will be giving a free webinar (delivered over the Internet) that will cover:

• Why publish your book?
• The realities of the book market in Singapore
• The process of book publishing
• Self-publishing vs vanity publishing vs traditional publishing
• How much money can you make by publishing your book?
• Tips for aspiring authors
• Q&A

This program is kindly supported by the National Book Development Council of Singapore.

Sign up in the form below to register for this webinar and we will send you the details nearer to the date. Replays of the webinar will also  be made available for those who cannot make that date – please sign up below to be notified of the replay details as well.

Have questions you’d like to be answered during the webinar? Just ask them in the comments below and we will try and answer as many as we can.

In this book Singapore’s top trading gurus share their insights on:

• How they started and developed their trading systems
• The markets and instruments they trade
• Mechanical versus discretionary trading
• Fundamental versus technical analysis
• Where they get profitable trading ideas
• How they manage their risk and losses
• Their best and worst trades
• The top secret of their trading success

It costs thousands of dollars to attend any one of their seminars – but now you get the wisdom and advice of nine of them for the low price of this book. Do not miss this opportunity to learn and profit from the advice of Singapore’s most successful traders!

Here are the experts you’ll be hearing directly from in Secrets of Singapore Trading Gurus:

Click here to learn more and buy the book

Succeed at School will show you how to get out of your comfort zone and make the most of your teenage years. Inside you will learn to:

• Breeze through your academics without breaking a sweat
• Score in sports while breaking a sweat
• Unleash your inner artist without becoming a weirdo
• Engage the hearts and minds of your friends
• Become a confident and effective leader
• And grab a coveted scholarship while you’re at it!

Why waste your life mugging when you can do so much more? This book will show you how Ben managed to juggle everything successfully and how you can do so too!

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You’ve seen their names in the investment/money pages of newspapers and some have authored books, so it’s interesting to hear their advice whether you intend to buy a home or an investment. Lawyers, investment consultants, financial planners and of course realtors give their take on whether to try property-sharing, buy new or resale, leasehold or freehold, industrial or residential, and argue that property is still the better investment.

There’s lots of useful information to mull over along with tips and personal philosophies, and you will emerge with a clearer, less emotional approach to property ownership. What they all agree on
is prudence and not biting off more than you can chew. This book is as up-to-date as can be and includes the latest government changes, and as Propwise.sg is a Singapore property blog, you can get updates as and when.
– Tan Shee Lah

Inside this book Singapore’s top property experts share their insights on:

• Profitable investment strategies for today’s market

• Finding your ideal investment property

• Smart property financing

• Avoiding legal pitfalls and other mistakes

• How to make millions from en bloc sales

It would cost thousands of dollars to get one of these experts to consult on your property purchase – if you could even get access to them. Do not miss this opportunity to learn and profit from the advice of the ultimate real estate insiders!

Here are the experts you’ll be hearing directly from in Secrets of Singapore Property Gurus:

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Diary of a Taxi Driver was awarded 4.5 out of 5 stars in a Straits Times review:

After an overhaul at the science research institute where he had worked for 16 years, Dr Cai Mingjie’s employment contract was terminated in May 2008.

Unfortunately, the Chinese-born Singaporean could not get another job despite submitting ‘numerous CVs and application letters to various organisations including universities, government agencies, and private companies’.

In February last year, he became a taxi driver: ‘The taxi driver licence can only be issued to Singapore citizens… Therefore, either taxi driving is the most privileged job in Singapore, or it is the last resort to be reserved for Singaporeans when all other jobs shut them out.’

His loss is our gain. While every taxi driver surely has his (or sometimes, her) share of stories to tell, few actually do, at least not on paper. But this learned cabby started a blog which he eventually developed into this journal-style book.

Although he drove for the comparatively short time of six months (according to the epilogue, he has since received several other job opportunities), this slim book is still packed with a wide range of characters and situations.

Some will be cringingly familiar to any white-collar professional who has ever been impatient or rude towards a cab driver; others are denizens of a Singapore that emerges only after midnight. Some stories are unexpected, some all too familiar; many are heartbreaking.

A passenger excitedly shouts his sexual experiences at Orchard Towers into his phone, oblivious that the driver can hear him. A bar girl from China, after a slow night at work and unable to afford the fare, tells him brazenly: ‘You are a nice man. I want to be a friend with you.’

Some of the stories can take on a rather sanctimonious tone but these are the exceptions rather than the rule. Mostly, the writer avoids moralising, trusting the episodes to speak for themselves.

This book is not just the story of what it is like to be a taxi driver: It offers snapshots of a Singapore literally on the move, of a restless and dissatisfied population, of people rushing to be somewhere else.

- Stephanie Yap, The Straits Times

When Dr. Cai Mingjie, a lifelong scientist and university professor, lost his job at a leading research institute in Singapore, his world collapsed around him. Despite having published numerous papers and a Stanford PhD, he could not find a suitable job.

Disheartened by the global financial crisis, he became a taxi driver, the Singaporean job of last resort. While driving a cab he jotted down notes about his experiences and posted them on his blog, quickly becoming an internet celebrity with close to one million hits so far. This book includes edited posts from his blog plus exclusive new material.

Experience the real Singapore and join Dr. Cai as he recounts true stories about naïve prostitutes and lecherous johns, abusive customers and kind strangers, violent drivers and heart-wrenching encounters.

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Can’t understand how your schoolmates get to the top of the class? The Student’s Guide to Exam Success has the answers! Getting good grades isn’t just about studying hard, it’s about studying smart. Learn to score no matter what. There’s also a section on how not to lose marks on careless mistakes. This book will teach you how to manage your time and draw up study plans. Your friends will be wondering how you do it.

091006 Review of TSGTE in Oct issue of Teenage

The Student’s Guide to Exam Success is reviewed in the October issue of the NTUC Lifestyle magazine, which goes out to over 200,000 readers and is Singapore’s largest circulating monthly population.

A scholar and top student himself, Andrew Tan shows he knows students all too well: Their problem is a short attention span. So, his book was conceived with the average teen in mind – it’s not verbose and the layout is easy on the eye. Andrew briefly touches on the before, during and after of exams, with chapters such as Succeed in School While Having More Free Time, Score Higher Points In Any Type Of Question and Study For The Exam In The Most Efficient And Effective Way. Don’t treat this as an ultimate study manual but rather, a compilation of tips and experiences by someone who’s been – there – done – that, and who has taken pains to make studying focused and less painful.
– Leong Wai Kit

090930 Review of TSGTE in NTUC Lifestyle Oct issue

Please see attached for a copy of the list.

090930 The Student’s Guide to Exam Success #1 on the Popular Children’s Books Bestseller List