World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Cheng Lian Pang
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Singapore's success story is essentially a "people" story. Singaporeans have good reason to celebrate the nation's golden jubilee with pride. In the short space of five decades the country has moved from Third World to First, and its real GDP has grown by 40 times! For this phenomenal progress,...
Myanmar
Reintegrating into the International Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Located at the junction of East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, Myanmar is one of the most important countries in the world's geopolitical landscape. Its ongoing political and economic reforms arouse growing concern from the international community, especially great powers like the US, Japan,...
by Lei Zou, Zhiping Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Silk Road was once the most important economic-cultural tie connecting the Eurasian countries before the rise of the West. In September 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward the initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, which is abbreviated...
Chinese Politics Illustrated
The Cultural, Social, and Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This unique book offers the readers a ring-side seat to watch the drama of Chinese politics as it is experienced by the players themselves. It provides an opportunity for non-Chinese readers to get a feel of the intricacies of contemporary Chinese politics as they are played out in real-life situations....
by Manhong Mannie Liu, Jiani Wang, Su Chen
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Chinese economy is growing at an unprecedented speed, and one of the emerging trends is angel investment. It is an area with tremendous potential for growth. Compared with the more mature markets in Western countries, however, angel investing in China is still at an early stage, due to a lack...
Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade
Fragmentation, Offshoring of Activities, and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade offers a variety of perspectives on new forms and developments of international trade and related activities for Japan, the United States, China, and some other important trading countries, to develop new methods and data for...
Cities of Love
Roadmap for Sustaining Future Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved. A large part of these are due to ever-growing cities. Despite more efforts made to improve cities, it has been difficult to change cities. One of the fundamental reasons is that people are not motivated to help change their cities. Apathy...
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences
Special Issue for the International Association of Engineers Conferences 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 12–14, 2014, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2014), and in London, UK, 2–4 July, 2014, under the World Congress on Engineering 2014 (WCE 2014)...
Singapore Perspectives 2015
Choices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Singapore reaches an important milestone in its national development in 2015 when it celebrates its 50th year of independence. It has earned many accolades for the progress it has made in governance, the economy and societal development. However, with changing demographics, resource constraints and...
The Soma Puzzle Book
A New Approach to the Classic Pieces
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2019
A NEW TWIST ON A POPULAR PUZZLE CUBE! Invented by Piet Hein, the Soma cube is one of the most famous mechanical puzzles in the world. The traditional challenge and outcome is to build a cube or other structures from all seven pieces.
CHANGE THE RULES, CHANGE THE OUTCOME! The puzzles in this...
Medical Science in the 21st Century
Sunset or New Dawn?
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
This book sets out the unique and paradoxical position biomedical science finds itself in, in the early 21st (superscript st) century. Science has never been stronger in shaping the world we live in; progress in medical science during most of the last century has helped to transform health care and...
Elementary Particles
Building Blocks of Matter
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
This highly readable book uncovers the mysteries of the physics of elementary particles for a broad audience. From the familiar notions of atoms and molecules to the complex ideas of the grand unification of all the basic forces, this book allows the interested lay public to appreciate the fascinating...
by Yasumichi Aoki, Kiyoshi Hayasaka, Toru Iijima;Toshihide Maskawa;Masaharu Tanabashi;Koichi Yamawaki
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) was founded at Nagoya University in 2010 under the directorship of T Maskawa, in celebration of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics for M Kobayashi and T Maskawa, both who are alumni of Nagoya University. In commemoration...
by Árpád Ambrus, Denis Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Pesticides are now accepted as an integral part of modern agricultural production. This book provides analysis of the steps taken by national and international bodies working towards a cohesive global strategy for evaluating the safety of residues in food that result from approved pesticide uses....