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Description About the Editors Singapore experienced substantial changes during the 14-year tenure of the country's second Prime Minister, Goh C...

Description About the Author While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked by the detonations of...

Description Dr Wai-Fah Chen – a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanic...

Description The 5th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP2016) was held in Xi'an, China on August 23 – 26, 201...

Description About the Editors Environmental Policies in Asia highlights the environmental challenges Asian planners and policymakers face as th...

Description Based on seven years of original research, this book contains one of the most detailed and comprehensive assessments of 'home-grown...

Description This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asian...

Description About the Author Cyberterrorism in the 21st century is now one of the greatest threats to global security and information. It trans...

Description Since actuarial education was introduced into China in the 1980s, Chinese scholars have paid greater attention to the theoretical r...

Description About the Editor The social context of Singapore is changing rapidly, and understanding how people think, feel and behave in variou...

Description Serious scholarly analyses of the types and roles of accountability in health care first appeared in the late 1980s. That issue, al...

Description About the Editor In conjunction with Singapore's 50th birthday in 2015, 50 Years of Environment: Singapore's Journey Towards Enviro...

Description About the Authors With the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in December 2015, ASEAN is at a crossroads once again. Having bra...

Description This book describes in vivid detail how a newly independent nation with neither a history of technical education nor industry, deve...

Description About the Authors After more than three decades of rapid growth, China is now entering into the New Normal Era, which will be chara...

Description About the Authors This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) presents the inaugural regional competitiveness analysis fo...

Description About the Editors 50 Years of Singapore-Europe Relations: Celebrating Singapore's Connections with Europe is one contribution to th...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asian Competitiveness Institute (ACI), updated annually to analyse Indon...

Description About the Authors There have been broad-based growth in wealth for cities all over the world, albeit increasingly unequal within an...

Description About the Authors This book is a world-class report by the Asia Competitiveness Institute, updated annually to analyse Indonesia's ...

Description The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949–1978) and Deng's Ch...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: American League (432 KB) The book focuses on, identifies, and analyzes various divisions and conference...

Description Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm’s-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We a...

Description About the Authors Malaysia has grown and changed a great deal since it was formed on 16 September 1963. It was then seen as an unli...

Description Since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China had been enjoying a rapid growth in foreign trade, which in turn, ...

Description About the Author By reviewing regulatory initiatives in health financing, service provision, pharmaceutical sector and public healt...

Description This book is a celebration of women in science, technology, medicine and business at Imperial College London. It shows the inspirat...

Description About the Author Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book ...

Description About the Author China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and...

Description About the Author The Merlion and the Ashoka: Singapore-India Strategic Ties examines the historical evolution and future prospects ...

Description Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers submitted by students from the National University of S...

Description About the Authors The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and ...

Description About the Authors Together with the noted Tang dynasty tales, Song dynasty tales have long been highly valued and widely read in th...

Description About the Author Placing the modernization of China in a historical context, Social Construction in Contemporary China provides a p...

Description About the Editors Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, econ...

Description Good biosecurity policy decisions, particularly in relation to plant industry protection, are of ever increasing importance. Growth...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Outline of the Physics (512 KB) The role of physics in our culture is examined from the time of Newton ...

Description The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the for...

Description New conventional wisdom posits that the public in democracies is inattentive but not really ignorant nor easily swayed, and indeed ...

Description About the Editor Contrary to prior expectations, Narendra Modi has expended a significant amount of time, energy and political capi...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Islamic Ethics: Sources, Methodology and Application (382 KB)  Islamic Bioethics presents a wide variet...

Description 2016 International Conference on Humanity and Social Science (ICHSS2016) was successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd – 24...

Description About the Author Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all...

Description About the Authors This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. I...

Description About the Editor This book aims to study China's economic statecraft in the contemporary era in a comprehensive manner. It attempts...

Description About the Authors China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, a...

Description The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of the response of the earth system to global ch...