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Bergen-Belsen 1945
A Medical Student's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation.
It was at this...
Tan Kah-Kee
The Making of an Overseas Chinese LegendRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy...
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein
Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion...
The Tommy Koh Reader
Favourite Essays and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Professor Tommy Koh is Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
In his distinguished career, Prof Koh...
Searching for the Best Medicine
The Life and Times of a Doctor and Patient
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
This book describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. Part One is about the author's struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience; Part Two is about his life growing up, the pretzel bakery, his family, being educated at Bronx Science,...
Who Shall Live?
Health, Economics and Social Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations...
by Ruggero Bertani
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the form of thermal springs, have been used by populations for heating, cooking and bathing. Modern-day usage has been extended to electricity generation from binary cycle power...
Newton's Darkness
Two Dramatic Views
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2003
”What purpose is served by showing that England's greatest natural philosopher is flawed … like other mortals?” asks one of the characters in Newton's Darkness. “We need unsullied heroes!” But what if the hero is sullied? At stake is an issue that is as germane today as it was 300 years...
by Fayyazuddin, Riazuddin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive account of basic concepts of quantum mechanics in a coherent manner. The book is self-contained and not only covers basic concepts in quantum mechanics but also provides a basis for applications in atomic and laser physics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed...
Lives and Times of Great Pioneers in Chemistry
(Lavoisier to Sanger)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Chemical science has made major advances in the last few decades and has gradually transformed in to a highly multidisciplinary subject that is exciting academically and at the same time beneficial to human kind. In this context, we owe much to the foundations laid by great pioneers of chemistry who...
by Erling Norrby
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Each year the Nobel Prizes in the natural sciences reveal amazing discoveries. New milestones in the relentless advance of science are identified. The growth of knowledge and its evolution can be researched in the Nobel archives where nominations are kept secret for 50 years after the awards have...
by John Scales Avery
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
IN THE NEWSInterview with John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on EarthCountercurrents.org, March 2017
The latest advances and discoveries in science have made, and continue to make, a huge impact on our lives. This book is a history of the social impact...
The Rainbow and the Worm
The Physics of Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals...
Singapore Childhood
Our Stories Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The political, economic and social changes that have occurred over the past 60 years have shaped and transformed the childhood of children in Singapore. This book explores this transformation through anecdotes and memories through interviews with individuals hailing from different races and age groups,...