World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
2011 China's Trade Performance Report
World Economy Restructuring and China's Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Since its accession to the WTO, China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which has become the major driving force behind its surging economic development. However, the outbreak of the financial crisis at the end of 2008 left China with a fragile international market. Although there...
Beating the Odds
The Life and Times of E A Milne
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy — he believed two time scales operate in the universe.
Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished...
Managing Innovation
Understanding and Motivating Crowds
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume comprises key articles from both the International Journal of Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, published by...
Ten Years
Expo 2010 & Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Ten Years: EXPO 2010 & Me by Zhou Hanmin is a collection of speeches, interviews, papers and reports, that reflects Prof. Zhou's important contribution to Expo 2010 Shanghai. In this book, Prof. Zhou shares his experiences, lessons, and thoughts over the past decade on the following questions:
This...
Andrei Sakharov
Quarks and the Structure of Matter
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
In 1980, the Cold War was in full bloom. The Soviet father of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel Peace Laureate turned dissident physicist, Andrei Sakharov, had been exiled to Gorki by the Soviet authorities. Called “senile” and under heavy Soviet censorship, Sakharov had a hard time communicating his...
Science Diplomacy
New Day or False Dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
As modern foreign policy and international relations encompass more and more scientific issues, we are moving towards a new type of diplomacy, known as “Science Diplomacy”. Will this new diplomacy of the 21st century prove to be more effective than past diplomacy for the big issues facing the...
Curiosity and Passion for Science and Art
S-layer Proteins of Bacteria and Archaea
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This book describes the accomplishments of a curious and imaginative scientist, and his endeavours to translate or even to extrapolate scientific insights into the world of art.
The science section in this volume concerns studies on S-layers, a very important class of proteins found on the...
Where Did We Come From?
Life of an Astrobiologist
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The life story of this book spans many stages of the life and scientific career of one of the foremost astrophysicists/astrobiologists of our times. Starting from his boyhood days, the book describes the author's scientific work over the past 50 years, the ground-breaking discoveries he had made,...
The Minder Brain
How Your Brain Keeps You Alive, Protects You from Danger, and Ensures that You Reproduce
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world — all this is somehow enabled by the brain. The brain is the person, and if it goes wrong, a person is ruined. This book is about part of what the brain does — a...
by Fuxi Gan, Qinghui Li, Julian Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The aim of the book is to report the recent research development of ancient glass and glazing technology and the historical–cultural exchange of the East and West along the Silk and Steppe Roads. The contents of this book are dedicated to promote the exchanges between researchers in both social...
The Promise of Science
Essays and Lectures from Modern Scientific Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
This thought-provoking publication covers a wide-range of innovative areas of research and technologies that are unlocking groundbreaking new potentials in science. It contains important scientific information gleaned from the lectures of some of the world's experts in their respective fields. The...
The World Scientific Reference on Entrepreneurship
In 4 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This multi-volume set focuses on a topic of growing interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students: entrepreneurship. In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of entrepreneurship courses, programs, and initiatives...
by Gerard M Crawley
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Concerns about energy resources and the environmental impact of energy use will continue to be important globally. World Scientific's unique series of books on Current Energy Issues is intended, in part, as an expansion and update of the material contained in the World Scientific Handbook of Energy....
Scientific Programming
C-Language, Algorithms and Models in Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
The book teaches a student to model a scientific problem and write a computer program in C language to solve that problem. To do that, the book first introduces the student to the basics of C language, dealing with all syntactical aspects, but without the pedantic content of a typical programming...