World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Martinus J G Veltman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most generic and abstract of all systems of human thought. Once Newton found he could describe dynamics and planetary motions using purely mathematical laws and deductive processes, he understood that there was no limit to what else could be explained — given time...
Services Marketing
People, Technology, Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is the eighth edition of the globally leading textbook for Services Marketing by Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock, extensively updated to feature the latest academic research, industry trends, and technology, social media and case examples.This...
If You Had to Draw a Universe for Me...
50 Questions About the Universe, Matter and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
What was there before the Big Bang? Are researchers ordinary people just like everyone else? What will physicists do when they've discovered what's inside particles? Do particles grow when we grow? Does space go on forever? What's inside a black hole?
In 2014, CERN launched an art competition...
Brave Beachley
The True Story of World Champion Surfer Layne Beachley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Brave Beachley tells the tale of Australian Layne Beachley and how she chased her dream to become a world champion surfer.
"Because tough times are sure to happen.
They are part and parcel of life's plan.
But don't let those tough times stop you,
pick yourself up and say: 'I CAN!'"
SisuGirls...
Mr SIA
Fly Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Introducing the life and times of a legend in international aviation — Lim Chin Beng — the man they called Mr SIA.
Absorbing the life and work of Lim Chin Beng is like watching a fly past of airlines and aircraft old and new. In this book, his past comes to meet you in many forms — designs,...
The China Renaissance
The Rise of Xi Jinping and the 18th Communist Party Congress
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Rising superpower China duly anointed a new generation of leaders led by Xi Jinping at the Communist Party's 18th National Congress held in November 2012. While the conclave itself passed off with smoothly choreographed efficiency, the months leading up to this once-a-decade transition were anything...
Dynamic Governance
Embedding Culture, Capabilities and Change in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a...
Birds and Frogs
Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 19902014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014.
The...
Crackle and Fizz
Essential Communication and Pitching Skills for Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This is a book for scientists and other experts who need to explain the significance and potential of their work to colleagues, committees, funding bodies or the general public. It details how to harness story-telling principles to make complex or technical content easier to communicate and fulfilling...
Emperor of Enzymes
A Biography of Arthur Kornberg, Biochemist and Nobel Laureate
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book chronicles the life and work of the late Arthur Kornberg, one of the premier biochemists in the world, who discovered the enzyme DNA polymerase, a key enzyme required for the biosynthesis of DNA.
The book provides readers with a view of the personality and character of one of the...
International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics
Theory, History, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
This historically-based textbook on international finance and open-economy macroeconomics provides a complete course on the theory and policies that shaped our international financial system. Utilizing the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference as a unifying theme, the book covers all the standard topics of...
Optimal Mean Reversion Trading
Mathematical Analysis and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Optimal Mean Reversion Trading: Mathematical Analysis and Practical Applications provides a systematic study to the practical problem of optimal trading in the presence of mean-reverting price dynamics. It is self-contained and organized in its presentation, and provides rigorous mathematical analysis...
Innovate Your Innovation Process
100 Proven Tools
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book. The eight chapters include narratives on: From Ideas to Action; Breaking the Rules; Learning Creativity...