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Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore
A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore: A Time of Fireflies and Wild Guavas is an autobiography of Maurice Baker's life in Malaya and Singapore from the 1920s to the 1940s. His memoir extends from the earliest of childhood memories with his family and friends up to the defeat of the British during...
Machinery, Materials Science and Energy Engineering (ICMMSEE 2015)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
With the rapid development of machinery, materials science and energy engineering technology in China, new theories and application results constantly appear. Higher and newer requirements in these fields are sought by business enterprises and members of the engineering profession.
This conference...
by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation...
Tang Dynasty Tales
A Guided ReaderVolume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide...
by Michael A Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Incorporating elements from history, science, philosophy and international relations theory, this book takes a fresh look at the life and thought of Robert Oppenheimer.
The author argues that not only are Oppenheimer's ideas important, engaging and relevant, but also more coherent than generally...
by Heng Huat Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This book is written for undergraduates who wish to learn some basic results in analytic number theory. It covers topics such as Bertrand's Postulate, the Prime Number Theorem and Dirichlet's Theorem of primes in arithmetic progression.
The materials in this book are based on A Hildebrand's...
Writing the Modern History of Iraq
Historiographical and Political Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged...
by Alessandro Trovarelli, Paolo Fornasiero
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This book follows the 2002 edition of Catalysis by Ceria and Related Materials, which was the first book entirely devoted to ceria and its catalytic properties. In the ten years since the first edition a massive amount of work has been carried out in the field, and ceria has gained a prominent position...
Photochemical Processes in Continuous-Flow Reactors
From Engineering Principles to Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of flow chemistry with the high energy field density of microscale geometries. Moreover, it provides means to scale photochemical reactions efficiently.
This book gives an overview...
Bergen-Belsen 1945
A Medical Student's Journal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation.
It was at this...
Tan Kah-Kee
The Making of an Overseas Chinese LegendRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy...
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein
Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion...
The Tommy Koh Reader
Favourite Essays and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Professor Tommy Koh is Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
In his distinguished career, Prof Koh...
Who Shall Live?
Health, Economics and Social Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2011
Since the first edition of Who Shall Live? (1974) over 100,000 students, teachers, physicians, and general readers from more than a dozen fields have found this book to be a reader-friendly, authoritative introduction to economic concepts applied to health and medical care. Fuchs provides clear explanations...