World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
Exploring the Invisible Universe
From Black Holes to Superstrings
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
"Why"? Why is the world, the Universe the way it is? Is space infinitely large? How small is small? What happens when one continues to divide matter into ever smaller pieces? Indeed, what is matter? Is there anything else besides what can be seen? Pursuing the questions employing the leading...
Global China
Internal and External Reaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military...
History of Concrete
A Very Old and Modern Material
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Post-war Europe and Asia have seen the rapid development of German and Japan from a war torn countries into two of the most powerful nations in the world. Their achievement is nothing short of miraculous. However, as the two most populated countries; China and India, transform themselves into Asia...
by Jiaxiang Hu
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
The book features an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic style especially the concept of Vitality-Charm (氣韻). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines Vitality-Charm and related topics from the perspectives of aesthetics, stylistics, semiotics, cosmology,...
Intrinsic Capability
Implementing Intrinsic Sustainable Development for an Ecological Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
What would a new approach to tackling urgent global issues like poverty, pollution, habitat loss and climate change look like? How can each of us make the most of the opportunities already present in our rapidly changing world?
With a focus on the roles of knowledge-building and knowledge traditions...
by M Shifman
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch–Austrian–German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear...
World Century Compendium to TCM
Volume 6: Introduction to Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Acupuncture and moxibustion are one of the most important contributions our ancestors have made to humankind. In the narrow sense, acupuncture and moxibustion refer to medical therapy, whilst broadly, they are an integral science consisting of four subdisciplines: the subject of meridians and acupoints,...
by Chen Ning Yang, Mo-Lin Ge, Yang-Hui He
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Since its birth in Poincaré's seminal 1894 'Analysis Situs', topology has become a cornerstone of mathematics. As with all beautiful mathematical concepts, topology inevitably — resonating with that Wignerian principle of the effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences — finds its prominent...
by Mark H A Davis, Sébastien Lleo
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Over the last two decades, risk-sensitive control has evolved into an innovative and successful framework for solving dynamically a wide range of practical investment management problems.
This book shows how to use risk-sensitive investment management to manage portfolios against an investment...
Global School Feeding Sourcebook
Lessons from 14 Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Compiled by the Partnership for Child Development at Imperial College London, the World Food Programme, the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development, this is the first sourcebook of its kind to document government-led school feeding programmes in low and middle income...
Climate Change and Energy
Japanese Perspectives on Climate Change Mitigation Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Within the contexts of the global warming crisis facing the world, climate change mitigation strategies must be developed with a deep understanding of the science behind the impact of climate change and adaptations that must be made. This book discusses the mitigation strategy of climate change from...
Cultural Patterns and Neurocognitive Circuits
EastWest Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about "the others": other people and their cultures by "indirect knowledge" — learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other...
by Ming Gao, Ee-Peng Lim, David Lo
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Online social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, offer millions of members the opportunity to befriend one another, send messages to each other, and post content on the site — actions which generate mind-boggling amounts of data every day.
To make sense of the massive...
The Base Excision Repair Pathway
Molecular Mechanisms and Role in Disease Development and Therapeutic Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book will serve as the preeminent text book on the topic of "base excision repair", a key DNA repair pathway that protects cells from most spontaneous forms of DNA damage, including oxidative lesions that arise both in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes. The book, which includes...