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Neutrino Astronomy
Current Status, Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube. The aim of the book is to bring together chapters on the status of current and future neutrino observatories with chapters on the implications and possible interpretations of the present observations...
Mathemusical Conversations
Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Mathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13–15 February 2015, organized...
Superpower, China?
Historicizing Beijing's New Narratives of Leadership and East Asia's Response Thereto
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This book sets out to answer how China's rise can best be understood from both East Asian and Western perspectives. It also assesses the prospect of realignment away from the US hegemony in East Asia in light of persistent regional rivalries. Throughout the book, the authors show that for China's...
Wars From Within
Understanding and Managing Insurgent Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Wars from Within brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioner-researchers specializing in the study of insurgent movements in order to provide a deeper understanding of the violent manifestations of insurgencies in different parts of the world. In doing...
Countering Extremism
Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This unique work is the first to address the subject of community engagement strategies in countering extremism, and explores the development and research of these strategies. In so doing it demystifies the process of community engagement, while simultaneously extolling the virtues of the ground breaking...
Overcoming Deafness
The Story of Hearing and Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Hearing is one of the most empowering of our senses; it enables us to work, socialise and communicate. It's hard to imagine living in a silent world, yet just 60 years ago this was the inevitable outcome for the majority of people with ear disease or language problems. Nowadays, virtually everybody...
Tan Lark Sye
Advocator and Founder of Nanyang University
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University.
Hailing from Jimei, Fujian Province of China, Mr Tan Lark Sye (1897 – 1972) was a leading rubber industrialist in Southeast Asia. Being a social activist, he believed in the value of...
Cyberterrorism
The Legal and Enforcement Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It transcends national borders (and by extension national legal systems), making it difficult for individual countries to formulate a cohesive defence plan against it. The world has yet to see...
A Study on Globalizing Cities
Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.
With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Episodes of air pollution throughout the 20th and 21st centuries have had a huge influence socially, economically and politically. From the Great Smog of London to the Kuwait Oil Fires, and from the ashes of Mount St Helens to air pollution in Beijing, this book chronicles their enduring legacies...
by Jeffrey Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
The modern world is complex beyond human understanding and control. The science of complex systems aims to find new ways of thinking about the many interconnected networks of interaction that defy traditional approaches. Thus far, research into networks has largely been restricted to pairwise relationships...
The Fundamental Constants
A Mystery of Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
The speed of light, the fine structure constant, and Newton's constant of gravity — these are just three among the many physical constants that define our picture of the world. Where do they come from? Are they constant in time and across space? In this book, physicist and author Harald Fritzsch...
Ethnic Chinese Business in Asia
History, Culture and Business Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This unique volume provides a broad introduction to the ethnic Chinese business in Asia, with focus on the ethnic Chinese in East and Southeast Asia. The growing interest in ethnic Chinese business reflects its importance in these two regional economies, and its relations with China's economy —...
Chicago's Radio and Television Industry
A Quest for World Class, #5
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
The story of how Chicago became America's first radio program production center only to see it industry collapse at the beginning of the television era. A history of entertainment program production in Chicago.