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Description About the Author & Illustrator A 4-book series that follows Sarah’s experiences growing up in an extended multi-cultural family...

Description About the Author This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the foun...

Description Few people have watched the development of today's Singapore as closely as President S.R. Nathan, who celebrated his 90th birthday ...

Description Winner of Singapore Book Awards 2018, Book of the Year Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But thi...

Description Since its invention in the 1920s, particle accelerators have made tremendous progress in accelerator science, technology and applic...

Description This book aims to provide an overview of the importance of communities to mitigate the threat of terrorism, drawing key lessons and...

Description About the Editors Sample Chapter(s)Introduction — Conflict Mediatization in the Middle East (217 KB) Numerous studies address the f...

Description About the Editors Remembering S R Nathan: A Mentor for All Seasons is a collection of essays commemorating the life of Singapore's ...

Description The development of Reliability and Maintenance theory and applications has become major concerns of engineers and managers engaged ...

Description Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's im...

Description This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or 'Gerry' as he was known to his many students, postdocs...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Foreword (55 KB)Chapter I.1: Schrödinger Equation (214 KB)Chapter II.1: Background on Heterostructures (214 KB)Cha...

Description This book on quantum optics is from the point of view of an experimentalist. It approaches the theory of quantum optics with the la...

Description Shown here is how basic concepts of physics can be used to improve models in finance, economics, psychology and biology. Readers ar...

Description The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons and quarks is described by the Standard M...

Description The complex field of analytical chemistry requires knowledge and application of the fundamental principles of numerical calculation...

Description About the Author The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one ...

Description About the Author Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses ...

Description This book starts from a set of common basic principles to establish the basic formalisms of all disciplines of fundamental physics,...

Description Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies at the university as well as at the po...

Description This descriptive textbook provides a clear look at the theories and process technologies necessary for understanding the modern pow...

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

Description About the Author The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is gaining increasing attention among education a...

Description About the Authors Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): The First Microbiologist (523 KB) Pasteurizatio...

Description About the Author Cooking is an art and baking is a science, and making pies is a combination of both. Who can resist a home-baked p...

Description This book presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and ap...

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 Berry phase has been widely used in condensed matter physics in the past two decades. This volume is a timely collection of essenti...

Description Phototherapy, or the usage of light to treat diseases, is an important modality in a physician's therapeutic armamentarium. It is e...

Description Praise About the Author Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey is a comprehensive attempt to map the emergence and trajectories of...

Description About the Editor Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of ...

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

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Ahmed Zewail: Ultra-Scientist and Citizen (1,519 KB) A compilation of wonderful tributes to the late Ah...

Description About the Author This book gives an introduction to some central results in transcendental number theory with application to period...

Description Patterns of the Future explains the current world using the theory of long-term development waves (Kondratiev waves). Markku Wileni...

Description The volume of these proceedings is devoted to a wide variety of items, both in theory and experiment, of particle physics such as e...

Description About the Editors Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore explores and documents how women's roles, choice...

Description About the Author This book is a completely new edition of the out-of-print Methodist Girls’ School centenary publication of 1987. D...

Description Today's manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to develop new technological and high reliability products in record time. This...

Description About the Editor What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across organizational boundari...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Editor The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general ...

Description About the Authors This remarkable collaboration between a mathematical physicist and a science philosopher concerns foundational an...

Description It is known that nuclear shells play a particularly important role in the collective motion of nuclear matter and, as a consequence...

Description A timely presentation of new results, challenges, and opportunities in the quickly developing field of nuclear cluster physics, pre...

Description About the Author The Peranakan or Baba and Nonya culture is the result of intermarriage, from the 15th century, between Chinese imm...

Description This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity in the thematic year 2015 "Fundame...