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Brains versus Capital
Entrepreneurship for Everyone: Lean, Smart, Simple
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Entrepreneurship is not a calling only for the selected few. Creative work and economic self-realization are goals that anyone can pursue. Learn how to create your own "idea-masterpiece" as a collage or puzzle made from existing pieces, and construct your own company from pre-existing components...
by Chandre Dharma-wardana
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
This is a highly interdisciplinary book straddling physics and complex systems such as living organisms. The presentation is from the perspective of physics, in a manner accessible to those interested in scientific knowledge integrated within its socio-cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Two key...
The Knowledge Enterprise
Innovation Lessons from Industry Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Knowledge Enterprise is a unique second edition about mastering business innovation. Industry-leading companies reveal the secrets and lessons of transition leadership, the importance of customer engagement and the power of open innovation. Building on the success of the first edition, this book...
by China Industrial Map Editorial Committee, China Economic Monitoring & Analysis Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Energy consumption level is a significant indicator in measuring a nation's economic, scientific and technological progress. The energy industry in China is a topic of interest for many researchers, given the rapid industrialization taking place in the country for the past ten years. This book provides...
Aristotle's Laptop
The Discovery of our Informational Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific...
Time, Space, Stars and Man
The Story of the Big Bang
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2009
Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term “Big Bang” as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries. This book brings together...
INTRACO
Blazing a Trail Overseas for Singapore?
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Through the lens of the now-defunct Singapore government-linked company (GLC) called International Trading Company (INTRACO), this book offers a historical analysis of the country's economic development strategy. Since its Independence in 1965, GLCs like INTRACO were introduced by the former Deputy...
From Atomic to Mesoscale
The Role of Quantum Coherence in Systems of Various Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This volume presents the latest advancements and future developments of atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics and its vital role in modern sciences and technologies. The chapters are devoted to studies of a wide range of quantum systems, with an emphasis on understanding of quantum coherence...
History of Mathematical Sciences
Portugal and East Asia IV
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Missionaries, and in particular the Portuguese Assistancy of the Society of Jesus, played a fundamental role in the dissemination of Western scientific knowledge in East Asia. They also brought to Europe a deeper knowledge of Asian countries. This volume brings together a series of essays analyzing...
Ebola
An Evolving Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Selected as CHOICE magazine's Outstanding Academic Title, January 2017.
The book is a narrative of the unfolding of the Ebola virus disease outbreak from a scientific view point. The author provides an analysis of the scientific basis of public health policies that have influenced the public's,...
Circularity
A Common Secret to Paradoxes, Scientific Revolutions and Humor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
"Circularity" is the story of a Janus-faced conceptual structure, that on the one hand led to deep scientific discoveries, and on the other hand is used to trick the mind into believing the impossible. Alongside mathematical revolutions that eventually led to the invention of the computer,...
Theology and Science
From Genesis to Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The age-old debate between science and faith invites more players to the fore in this book. Proponents of the origin of life as a natural process and natural selection as a mechanism of evolution come face to face with advocates for the intervention of a creator, while other scholars believe that...
Resonance
Applications in Physical Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
This book explores a large number of resonance effects that occur both in everyday life and in scientific contexts. It is a topic that provides a cross-link between many branches of science and shows how a single scientific principle can manifest itself in many, apparently disparate, ways.
Resonance...
by Jeremy Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This book of essays in four parts, was written over a decade and full of surprises for the breadth and variety of its subject matter. The first part is about the foundations of the quantum theory which reflects the author's many conversations with the late John Bell who persuaded him that there is...