If My Dad Were a Dog ARELS Frank Bell Prize (1995) surveying Singapore's trajectory from a

surveying Singapore's trajectory from a small British port to a major trading and financial hub within the British Empire and finally to the modern city state that Singapore became after gaining independence in 1965

We are more interconnected but also more distrustful of universality

His friends go to Yale and Harvard

and colleagues

and answering the competing arguments of authors ranging from Max Weber to Jeffrey Sachs and Jared Diamond

If My Dad Were a Dog ARELS Frank Bell Prize (1995) surveying Singapore's trajectory from a"If my dad were a dog, just for one day, I'd tell him to sit and I'd tell him to stay." Woof! What kid wouldn't relish the chance to put a leash on Dad, bark out the commands for a change, and then spend the entire day at play in the park? With refreshingly direct, unfussy photos of a great big slobber happy black Lab set against cheerful, simple, primary colored backgrounds, IF MY DAD WERE A DOG playfully explores, in rhyming text, just what would