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

Description About the Author The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) i...

Description About the Author In modern physics, various fundamental problems have become topics of ongoing debate. There was the 20th century c...

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

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Computational Material Science (1,266 KB) The purpose of this book is two fold. First to explain the p...

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

Description About the Author Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social pheno...

Description About the Author In Asia, we are witnessing an era where the pendulum of power seems to be swaying towards the East with the rising...

Description About the Authors Former Head of the Singapore Civil Service Mr Lim Siong Guan now shares his diverse experiences and fresh insight...

Description About the Authors Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Bro...

Description About the Author This book covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering in the recovery of hydrocarbons from underground reserv...

Description This book covers the fundamentals of the earth sciences and examines their role in controlling the global occurrence and distributi...

Description The Grant Writing and Crowdfunding Guide for Young Investigators in Science is a guide that prepares young investigators in Science...

Description About the Authors This unique book overturns our ideas about non-Euclidean geometry and the fine-structure constant, and attempts t...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (354 KB) This book is devoted to the Einstein's field equations of general relativity for...

Description About the Author The main focus of this year's Proceedings of the 53rd Course of the International School of Subnuclear Physics is ...

Description The monumental discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC marked the beginning of a new era in the high energy physics. Although the p...

Description This book provides a clear and mystery-free presentation of the central concepts in thermodynamics — probability, entropy, Helmholt...

Description About the Author The book introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into Eng...

Description About the Author This book tells the story of how financial markets have evolved over time and became increasingly more complex. Th...

Description About the Author “For the life of a diplomat is often a variation of routine boredom and exhilarating crises.” Maurice Baker is an...

Description The Abdus Salam Memorial Meeting was held from the 19th to the 22nd of November, 1997 on the first anniversary of the death of Prof...

Description ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) transporters are a family of integral membrane proteins present in all cells of all species of archaea, ...

This monograph develops chaos theory from properties of the graphs inverse to the parabolic map of the interval [0, 2], where the height at the mid...

Description "Big" science and advanced technology are known to cross-fertilize. This book emphasizes the interplay between particle physics and...

Description This book was developed with the caring and concerned adult in mind and is a one-stop for anyone who would like to help a child dev...

Description About the Author With Foreword by S R Nathan. “A scholar by inclination, a businessman by necessity, a diplomat by duty” those wer...

Description This book is a record of Mr Tan Lark Sye's remarkable contribution to the founding of Nanyang University. Hailing from Jimei, Fujia...

Description For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee’s case is his enormous con...

Description In this book, the synthesis and applications of recent nanomaterials are discussed and reviewed in detail. The scope of the book co...

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 Author Though there are several books on the Singapore economy, none have focused on the time series-based investigations...

Description About the Author This book collects my scholarly research on the behavior of foreign exchange rates conducted over the past twenty-...

Description About the Author This book is a guide for advanced undergraduates, post-graduates and researchers to the fundamental principles in ...

Description About the Author Sample Chapter(s)Introduction (519 KB) This book examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for ...

Description This book presents studies of stock market crashes big and small that occur from bubbles bursting or other reasons. By a bubble we ...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: What is Science? (470 KB) This is the first textbook for psychologists which combines the model compari...

Description This book is the distilled essence of the author teaching statistical mechanics to juniors, seniors and graduate students for over ...

Description About the Author The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced met...

Description About the Authors This is the first book to specify the type of economic system that has arisen in Central Asia, replacing the simp...

Description This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable for graduate students or advanced unde...

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

Description The totality of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a compact Riemannian manifold is called the spectrum. We describe how the spect...

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

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Introduction (8,465 KB) This book investigates the development of sorption enhanced reaction processes ...

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 This new volume of the Mathematical Olympiad Series focuses on the topic of geometry. Basic and advanced theorems commonly seen in ...

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