Springer Singapore: 3660 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This volume brings together a range of critical studies that explore diverse ways in which processes of globalization pose new challenges and offer new opportunities for religious groups to propagate their beliefs in contemporary Asian contexts. Proselytizing tests the limits of religious pluralism,...
by Dongfeng Tao, Lei He, Yugao He
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes extensive material examining the relationships...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book presents a collection of research-based narratives exploring the learning of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in a range of international professional experience (IPE) settings. The narratives, based on over 20 years of IPE managed by an Australian faculty of education, capture...
Modeling, Design and Simulation of Systems
17th Asia Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2017, Melaka, Malaysia, August 27 – 29, 2017, Proceedings, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This two-volume set CCIS 751 and CCIS 752 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Asia Simulation Conference, AsiaSim 2017, held in Malacca, Malaysia, in August/September 2017.
The 124 revised full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 267 submissions....
by Sutiyo, Keshav Lall Maharjan
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book integrates the fundamental theories of decentralization and rural development, providing a comprehensive explanation of how they can be successfully implemented to improve the livelihoods of rural communities in Indonesia. The topics addressed in this book include participatory budgeting,...
Behavioral Economics
Toward a New Economics by Integration with Traditional Economics
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioral economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss behavioral...
Textiles and Clothing Sustainability
Implications in Textiles and Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
This book comprehensively covers the topic of sustainability in the clothing and fashion sector. Sustainability is applied under different industrial sectors and there has to be a distinction in every industrial sector when it comes to sustainability in its application. Though the definition is common...
Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices
Select Proceedings of ICNETS2, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book gathers a collection of papers by international experts that were presented at the International Conference on NextGen Electronic Technologies (ICNETS2-2016). ICNETS2 encompassed six symposia covering all aspects of the electronics and communications domains, including relevant nano/micro...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The globally escalating population necessitates production of more goods and services to fulfil the expanding demands of human beings which resulted in urbanization and industrialization. Uncontrolled industrialization caused two major problems – energy crisis and accelerated environmental pollution...
The Geopolitics of Intervention
Asia and the Responsibility to Protect
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book reviews the global dilemma and tensions over whether to intervene or not to intervene in severe civil conflicts which test the validity of the new doctrine of Responsibility to Protect or R2P. It particularly assesses R2P’s relevance for Asia, which is defined broadly in this book to include...
by Angang Hu
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is particularly concerned with China’s path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved. The book provides systematic explanations of the theory of green development, exploring its background,...
Ear Biometrics in 2D and 3D
Localization and Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
This book presents the state-of-the-art techniques and recent research progress on Ear Biometrics. Among the various physiological traits, the reasons for the ear to gain much attention in recent years are many folds. It has been found to be a reliable biometrics for human verification and identification....
by Lianfa Bai, Jing Han, Jiang Yue
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
This book systematically analyses the latest insights into night vision imaging processing and perceptual understanding as well as related theories and methods. The algorithm model and hardware system provided can be used as the reference basis for the general design, algorithm design and hardware...
Improving Schools
Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and the Global
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple...