Wspc Europe imprint: 169 books
Entrepreneurship in Western Europe
A Contextual Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Entrepreneurship in Western Europe: A Contextual Perspective looks to explain how different local cultural and historical contexts can yield radically different entrepreneurial scenarios in a heterogenous Europe. Over 20 countries are examined providing a comprehensive history of the evolution of...
by Ruggero Bertani
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the form of thermal springs, have been used by populations for heating, cooking and bathing. Modern-day usage has been extended to electricity generation from binary cycle power...
by Stephan Feuchtwang, Hans Steinmüller
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences. It enables readers to develop ways of putting the modern...
China's 19th Party Congress
Start of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book gives an overview of key themes domestically and internationally from the 19th Communist Party Congress held in Beijing in October 2017, setting out the main policy priorities for the Xi government in China as the country moves towards fulfillment of the first Centenary Goal, the hundredth...
Agroecological Practices for Sustainable Agriculture
Principles, Applications, and Making the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Good agroecological practices are indispensable for the development of sustainable agriculture. In this book, principles, diversity and applications of agroecological practices for a range of systems are presented, transforming scientific research and participatory knowledge of production into practical...
Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire
Historical Evolution of the Chemical Communities of the Pacific Rim
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
From the rise of chemical technology in antiquity to the present day, Igniting the Chemical Ring of Fire tracks the development of professional chemistry communities in the countries of the Pacific Rim. Critical in this process was the development of local education and training in chemistry. The...
Crop Biotechnology
Genetic Modification and Genome Editing
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes, coupled with the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants, eventually led to the commercialisation...
Rocks, Radio and Radar
The Extraordinary Scientific, Social and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Many women scientists, particularly those who did crucial work in two world wars, have disappeared from history. Until they are written back in, the history of science will continue to remain unbalanced. This book tells the story of Elizabeth Alexander, a pioneering scientist who changed thinking...
Creative Mobile Media
A Complete Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Creative Mobile Media provides a guide to the creation, production and display of media with mobile technology at its heart. Split into two parts, the first gives a practical how-to guide on producing and exhibiting different forms of mobile art including photographs and films. From taking the perfect...
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...
Camels, Tigers & Unicorns
Rethinking Science & Technology-Enabled Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Check out Dr Uday Phadke’s interview for Advanced Engineering 2017 conference in November 2017, Birmingham, UK.
The commercialisation of science and technology enabled innovation is a serious topic of interest for a wide range of global audiences who share one common objective: to understand...
by Joe Tidd
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Since the pioneering work scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship have evolved to become two separate and distinct disciplines. Schumpeter 1 focused on the contributions of entrepreneurial startups and smaller firms, whereas Schumpeter 2...
The Limits of Mathematical Modeling in the Social Sciences
The Significance of Gödel's Incompleteness Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these...
When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter
Rethinking Democracy in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book explores a radically different alternative. China, it argues, is a one-party-dominated political system whose surprising levels of public support and resilience in the face of serious...