Springer Singapore: 3660 books
Authentic Virtual World Education
Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education. It includes a unique variety of cross disciplinary approaches to research,...
Education in Malaysia
Developments and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This book examines Malaysia’s educational landscape, providing a contemporary study of key themes that have emerged in this multicultural, multi-ethnic society, as it attempts to shift from a middle-income to a high-income nation. Combining contributions by scholars from various fields—such as...
by Patchanee Malikhao
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book features research papers that examine a host of contemporary issues in Thailand. Coverage includes culture, gender violence, tourism, human trafficking, environmental and ecological issues, sustainability and the sufficiency economy, the (mis)handling of elephants, and more. It features...
by Xiaoxi Wang
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book captures the quintessence of the author’s 20-year career, presenting both unique perspectives and logical arguments. Guided by the Marxist concept of historical materialism, it reveals the function and effect of morality by analyzing and defining the moral domain. Further, it argues that...
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy
The Dynamics of Social Values in the East-West Context of Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book employs a unique interdisciplinary approach to analyze different ethical dilemmas in public policy, applying values and concepts to examine substantive policy and public issues that are grounded in practical realities (by integrating philosophy, political science, law, policy studies etc.),...
by Shuying Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book gathers the main research findings on monotonic, cyclic and postcyclic shear behavior of low-plasticity. Drawing on the low-plasticity silt from the Mississippi River Valley, it determines that the silt’s critical state line can be changed due to liquefaction, and thus offers valuable...
Earthquake-Induced Landslides
Initiation and run-out analysis by considering vertical seismic loading, tension failure and the trampoline effect
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book sheds new light on improved methods for the study of the initiation and run-out of earthquake-induced landslides. It includes an initiation study method that considers tension-shear failure mechanism; an improved, rigorous, dynamic sliding-block method based on dynamic critical acceleration;...
Liberal Arts Education and Colleges in East Asia
Possibilities and Challenges in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book discusses liberal arts education and liberal arts colleges in the context of East Asia, specifically focusing on Japan, China and S. Korea where it has become an emerging issue in higher education in recent years. It first explores the development, concepts and challenges of liberal arts...
by Mingyuan Gu, Jiansheng Ma, Jun Teng
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China. By collecting the latest, first-hand empirical data, it outlines a panoramic and vivid portrait of Chinese schools from principals’, teachers’,...
From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City
Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes...
by Sara Laviosa, Adriana Pagano, Hannu Kemppanen
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book presents the state-of-art research in ETS by illustrating useful corpus methodologies in the study of important translational genres such as political texts, literature and media translations. Empirical Translation Studies (ETS) represents one of the most exciting fields of research. It...
by Jamalludin Bin Ab Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This book serves as a practical guide to methods and statistics in medical research. It includes step-by-step instructions on using SPSS software for statistical analysis, as well as relevant examples to help those readers who are new to research in health and medical fields. Simple texts and diagrams...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This volume explores current images of afterlife/afterdeath and the presence of the dead in the imaginations of the living in Indian and European traditions. Specifically, it focuses on the deepest and most fundamental uncertainty of human existence---the awareness of human mortality, on which depends...
by Govind Singh Saharan, Naresh Mehta, Prabhu Dayal Meena
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
The book reviews key developments in downy mildew research, including the disease, its distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment; the pathogen, its taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, survival and perpetuation, spore germination, infection,...