Springer Singapore: 3660 books
by Xinping Zhuo
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book comprehensively examines religious faith in China from the perspective of cultural philosophy and cultural history. It explores the social, political, cultural and spiritual meanings of religions, tracing their historical development and related paradigm shifts. It also analyzes the characteristics...
by Lai Chen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Drawing on the core values of western civilization, the author refines the counterparts in Chinese civilization, summarized as four core principles: duty before freedom, obedience before rights, community before individual, and harmony before conflict. Focusing on guoxue or Sinology as the basis of...
Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues
An exploration into new frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge and practice, scenery and feeling,...
The Ecological Era and Classical Chinese Naturalism
A Case Study of Tao Yuanming
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of “dwelling poetically on earth.” Drawing on Derrida’s specter theory, it interprets...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book includes a series of reports that mainly discuss the Middle Income Trap against the backdrop of population ageing in China. It also offers practical suggestions on how to avoid it properly. Concretely, it argues that the government should accelerate the transition of economic development...
by Ming D. Li
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
This book provides the most recent knowledge on almost all key aspects of the health impact of tobacco smoking. Its 21 chapters focus on both preclinical and clinical studies. The contents are broad, covering the epidemiology of tobacco smoking; genetic epidemiology; identification of susceptibility...
Perspectives in Translational Research in Life Sciences and Biomedicine
Translational Outcomes Research in Life Sciences and Translational Medicine, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The present book addresses the multi-disciplinary nature of Translational Outcomes Research, which is a watershed for nearly all the disciplines of Life and Health Sciences, along with the Materials Sciences including but not limited to Zoology, Botany, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Physiology, Nanotechnology,...
by Robin Kalfat, John Wilson, Graeme Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book describes the multi-axis substructure testing (MAST) system, a simulator developed at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, which provides state-of-the-art technology for large-scale hybrid testing of structures under realistic scenarios depicting extreme events. The book also demonstrates...
by Asanka Rodrigo, Tharangika Bambaravanage, Sisil Kumarawadu
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book highlights the most important aspects of mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and control of medium-scale power systems. It discusses a number of practical examples based on Sri Lanka’s power system, one characterized by comparatively high degrees of variability and uncertainty....
Language Curriculum Innovation in a Chinese Secondary School
A Study of Teacher Cognition and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the changes in foreign language teachers' cognition and practices during a four-year innovation project at a Chinese secondary school, and explores the factors that influenced the trajectory of those changes. It makes a substantial contribution to research...
Research on Translator and Interpreter Training
A Collective Volume of Bibliometric Reviews and Empirical Studies on Learners
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed account of the reasons behind...
Risk-Based Engineering
An Integrated Approach to Complex Systems—Special Reference to Nuclear Plants
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk modeling and analysis in technological contexts. It pursues a systems approach to modeling risk and reliability concerns in engineering, and covers the key concepts of risk analysis and mathematical tools used to assess and account for risk...
Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities
Home, Form and Culture in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This book covers the relationship between societies and their culture in the context of traditional settlement in Indonesia. The focus of the study is on the search for meanings of local concepts. This study reveals and analyzes the concepts concerning home and their sociocultural strategies for maintaining...
India-Thailand Cultural Interactions
Glimpses from the Past to Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This volume looks at facets of cultural interactions between India and Thailand---two historically significant countries of the South East Asian region. For the first time a comprehensive discussion on historical and contemporary cultural interactions between Indian and Thailand has been attempted...