World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
Indian Mathematics
Engaging with the World from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context. It builds on research into the connection between mathematics and the world-wide advancement of economics and technology. Joseph draws out parallel developments in other cultures and carefully...
Physics and Our World
Reissue of the Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Victor F Weisskopf
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
As the proceedings of a symposium in honor of Victor Weisskopf at MIT, this volume contains papers by leaders of physics at the time, including M Delbrück, M Gell-Mann, H Bethe, T D Lee, B R Mottelson, W K H Panofsky, E Purcell, J Schwinger, S M Ulam, and others. Some papers address problems in the...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 1: Fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), with a history of thousands of years, is the crystallization of the ancient Chinese's experiences in their struggle against diseases. It is also an integral part of the Chinese's splendid culture. Under the influence and direction of classic Chinese philosophies,...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 4: Introduction to Chinese Internal Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Chinese internal medicine is a clinical subject which explains, using traditional Chinese theories, the etiology, pathology and therapeutic rules of the diseases or syndromes belonging to internal medicine. It is also the foundation for learning and research in other clinical branches of Chinese medicine,...
The South China Sea Disputes and the USChina Contest
International Law and Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This book focuses on a region that, next to the Middle East, has become a dragnet of international conflicts in the world. The South China Sea (SCS) region, furthermore, is the subject over which a rumored war may break out between the United States, the extant superpower, and China, an emergent superpower...
Microbial Biomass
A Paradigm Shift in Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Microbial Biomass informs readers of the ongoing global revolution in understanding soil and ecosystem microbial processes. The first paper on the subject was written by David Jenkinson in 1966, and here new insights and expansions are given on the fascinating world of soil microbial processes. In...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 2: Introduction to Diagnosis in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The 21st century is the start of an era where people are beginning to look at health and medical care from a different perspective. Understanding the conventional pattern of medical treatment alone has ceased to meet the ever-growing demands of social development, and hence, the trend of exploiting...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 7: Introduction to Tui Na
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Traditional Chinese tui na, one of the earliest medical treatment methods with a long history tracing back to ancient times, is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This book is compiled with the aim of popularizing tui na modality along with allowing readers to understand...
New Zealand and the World
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of New Zealand's international relations. It is a country that has often shown an international presence that is out of proportion to the modest spectrum of national economic, military and diplomatic capabilities at its disposal.
In...
Rethinking Chinese Jurisprudence and Exploring Its Future
A Sociology of Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
This book is an antecedent study on the task facing China's legal science, more strictly speaking — China's legal philosophy, in post-Cold War world structure. In broader terms, this is an academic study of China's own “identity” and future in the world structure. The author believes that from...
Aha... That is Interesting!
John H Holland, 85 Years Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
John Holland is one of the few scientists, who all by themselves and by their pursuits, helped change the course of science and the wealth of human knowledge. There is hardly a field of science or problems, that is not affected by John's work on complexity and in particular, complex adaptive systems....
by Dean J Tantillo
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book provides state-of-the-art information on how studies in applied theoretical organic chemistry are conducted. It highlights the many approaches and tools available to those interested in using computational chemistry to predict and rationalize structures and reactivity of organic molecules....
Achieving the Rare
Robert F Christy's Journey in Physics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Robert F Christy was a legendary physicist, one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century. He was a student of Oppenheimer, who called him “one of the best in the world.” He was a crucial member of Fermi's team when they first unleashed the unheard-of energies...
Self and the Phenomenon of Life
A Biologist Examines Life from Molecules to Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The book describes a common ground between the biology of life and the humanity of life without compromising either discipline. It attempts to bridge the gap between our "two cultures" — the sciences and the humanities, as advocated by C P Snow fifty years ago. This book connects our meager...