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Singapore
Trade, Investment and Economic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Singapore's rapid evolution from a modest trading post under colonial rule into a prosperous, self-confident nation is one of the notable success stories of the second half of the 20th century. International trade and investment linkages have been the cornerstones of the city-state's economic success...
Indian Economic Superpower
Fiction or Future?
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
View the Author's interview here.
India's prominence in the global economy is on the rise. Are we witnessing the rise of an economic superpower? Or is it a mirage? What factors have influenced this economic growth story across the different sectors? Which sectors present future growth potential?...
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore
A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family and friends up to the defeat of the British during...
Machinery, Materials Science and Energy Engineering (ICMMSEE 2015)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
With the rapid development of machinery, materials science and energy engineering technology in China, new theories and application results constantly appear. Higher and newer requirements in these fields are sought by business enterprises and members of the engineering profession.
This conference...
by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation...
Science in China, 16001900
Essays by Benjamin A Elman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science...
Tang Dynasty Tales
A Guided ReaderVolume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
by Michael A Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Incorporating elements from history, science, philosophy and international relations theory, this book takes a fresh look at the life and thought of Robert Oppenheimer.
The author argues that not only are Oppenheimer's ideas important, engaging and relevant, but also more coherent than generally...
by Hideki Yukawa, L M Brown, R Yoshida;0
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experience, both social and intellectual, that helped to form his character and direct his career. Especially valuable to the historian of science...
by Heng Huat Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This book is written for undergraduates who wish to learn some basic results in analytic number theory. It covers topics such as Bertrand's Postulate, the Prime Number Theorem and Dirichlet's Theorem of primes in arithmetic progression.
The materials in this book are based on A Hildebrand's...
Writing the Modern History of Iraq
Historiographical and Political Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged...
by Alessandro Trovarelli, Paolo Fornasiero
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book follows the 2002 edition of Catalysis by Ceria and Related Materials, which was the first book entirely devoted to ceria and its catalytic properties. In the ten years since the first edition a massive amount of work has been carried out in the field, and ceria has gained a prominent position...
Photochemical Processes in Continuous-Flow Reactors
From Engineering Principles to Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of flow chemistry with the high energy field density of microscale geometries. Moreover, it provides means to scale photochemical reactions efficiently.
This book gives an overview...