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Education-at-Large
Student Life and Activities in Singapore 19451965
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The first part of the book contains documentation of a groundbreaking exhibition held in 2007 on student activities and societal engagements during post-war Singapore 1945–1965 and transcripts of forums held in conjunction with it. The second half centres on oral history accounts of mostly former...
by Chandre Dharma-wardana
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key...
Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
Insights into J Robert Oppenheimer, “Father of the Atomic Bomb”
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
2004 marked the centennial of the birth of J Robert Oppenheimer, and brought historians and scholars, former students, nuclear physicists, and politicians together to celebrate this event. Oppenheimer's life and work became central to 20th century history as he spearheaded the development of the atomic...
Building the H Bomb
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017Building the H Bomb: A Personal HistoryForum on Physics and Society, January 2017Don McCauley's audio interview with Kenneth FordThe Authors Show, 11 August 2016Mt....
A Biography of Paul Berg
The Recombinant DNA Controversy Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002)
This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his enormous scientific contributions,...
GMO Sapiens
The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book won the INDIEFAB 2015 Bronze Award for Science (Adult nonfiction).
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods made from them, are a hot topic of debate today, but soon related technology could go much further and literally change what it means to be human....
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This book is the first of its kind devoted to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry and the universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences such as the...
The Silwood Circle
A History of Ecology and the Making of Scientific Careers in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960s onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the...
Unforgettable: A Marine Military Romance
Warrior's Touch Trilogy, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
UNFORGETTABLE is book 2 of the Warrior’s Touch Trilogy . Book 3, IRRESISTIBLE, is available everywhere now!
I won’t be denied, no matter how loud she screams.
She says she’s not scared, but she should be.
Because I’ll show her just how far I can go.
How deep she...
Deep Dive into Financial Models
Modeling Risk and Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Since 2007, the repeated financial crises around the world have brought to the headlines financial practices and models considered to fuel the economic instabilities. Deep Dive into Financial Models: Modeling Risk and Uncertainty comes handy in demystifying the underlying quantitative finance concepts....
Global Corporate Finance
A Focused Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Global Corporate Finance, 2nd edition written by a son-father team introduces students and practitioners to those principles essential to the understanding of global financial problems and the policies that global business managers contend with. The objective of this book is to equip current and future...
An Introduction to Differential Equations
Stochastic Modeling, Methods and Analysis(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Volume 1: Deterministic Modeling, Methods and Analysis
For more than half a century, stochastic calculus and stochastic differential equations have played a major role in analyzing the dynamic phenomena in the biological and physical sciences, as well as engineering. The advancement of knowledge...
by Ovidiu Calin
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
The goal of this book is to present Stochastic Calculus at an introductory level and not at its maximum mathematical detail. The author aims to capture as much as possible the spirit of elementary deterministic Calculus, at which students have been already exposed. This assumes a presentation that...
Financial Analysis, Planning & Forecasting
Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
This book is an introduction-level text that reviews, discusses, and integrates both theoretical and practical corporate analysis and planning. The field can be divided into five parts: (1) Information and Methodology for Financial Analysis; (2) Alternative Finance Theories and Cost of Capital; (3)...