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The Much Troubled Alliance
USChina Military Cooperation During the Pacific War, 19411945
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The topics of World War II and US-China relationship have been of much interest to academics and general public alike. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that has been produced on the topics over the past 50 years and offers the readers a new and balanced treatment of the topics. The scope...
Global Sustainability Inside and Outside the Territory
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
This book contains the proceedings of the international workshop on global sustainability held in Benevento, Italy, on February 2014. The proceedings consist of 10 invited and contributed papers related to the broad range of aspects of sustainability in a global scenario including food safety, monitoring,...
by Kenneth W Ford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017
This reissued version of the classic text Basic Physics will help teachers at both the high-school and college levels gain new insights into, and deeper understanding...
Wang Gungwu
Educator and Scholar
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians in Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the history and civilisation of China and Southeast Asia.
A well-known scholar aside, Wang Gungwu...
Basic Discrete Mathematics
Logic, Set Theory, and Probability
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This lively introductory text exposes the student in the humanities to the world of discrete mathematics. A problem-solving based approach grounded in the ideas of George Pólya are at the heart of this book. Students learn to handle and solve new problems on their own. A straightforward, clear writing...
by Bilahari Kausikan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
One of Singapore's top diplomats, Bilahari Kausikan was the Institute of Policy Studies' (IPS) 2015/16 S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the five public IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between January and May 2016, and highlights of his dialogue with the...
Emergent Phenomena in Atomic Nuclei from Large-Scale Modeling
A Symmetry-Guided Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is a unique collection of reviews that share a common topic, emergent phenomena in atomic nuclei, while revealing the multifaceted nature of the subject, from quarks to heavy nuclei. It tells an amazing story of a decades-long journey of trials and successes, up to present days, with the...
Deep Thinking
What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There is more than one way to think. Most people are familiar with the systematic, rule-based thinking that one finds in a mathematical proof or a computer program. But such thinking does not produce breakthroughs in mathematics and science nor is it the kind of thinking that results in significant...
Management of Transboundary Water Resources under Scarcity
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world. Water scarcity is especially critical in regions where water is shared by several riparian states and used for competing purposes (irrigation,...
Entropy Demystified
The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2008
In this unique book, the reader is invited to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years — entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The book has a two-pronged message: first, that the second law is not infinitely incomprehensible as commonly stated...
by Chih-Pei Chang, Michael Ghil, Mojib Latif;John M Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. The National Taiwan University invited some of the world's leading...
The Global Monsoon System
Research and Forecast
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book is the third edition of a book series on the state of the science of monsoon research and forecasting. The series is updated approximately every five years based on the invited reviews of the World Meteorological Organization's International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM). The third edition...
Denver Health Medical Center Handbook of Surgical Critical Care
The Practice and the Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
As surgical critical care continues to evolve, this handbook provides the framework for the surgical intensivist, and focuses specifically on the surgical considerations encountered in the care of the critically ill patient. Drawing from decades of experience at one of the world's busiest and most...
An Atomic Empire
A Technical History of the Rise and Fall of the British Atomic Energy Programme
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Britain was the first country to exploit atomic energy on a large scale, and at its peak in the mid-1960s, it had generated more electricity from nuclear power than the rest of the world combined.
The civil atomic energy programme grew out of the military programme which produced plutonium...