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Description When Mahita was 15, her teacher at Catholic school in Singapore said she could see the devil in her eyes. While growing up, then ra...

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 About the Author Centuries ago, the tip of the Malay Peninsula was a forest-covered Garden of Eden, with over 2,500 different speci...

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 Southeast Asia contains some of the world's busiest shipping waters, particularly the Indonesian archipelago, the Straits of Malacc...

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 About the Author The world's population negotiates a multiplicity of naming systems. Some are compatible with the "normative" syste...

Description About the Authors Investing is all about asking the right questions. Everyone asks: how do I invest like the top investors? But her...

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 About the Author This cookbook provides the recipes for the classic and forgotten dishes of Penang, and also reveals the rich influ...

Description About the Authors This book is about the territorial dispute between Malaysia and Singapore over Pedra Branca, a small but strategi...

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

Description About the Editors Singapore's era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and p...

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 Praise ‘I was determined to show the Chinese guerrillas that the British could stand up to anything they could. Communist Lao Lee o...

Description About the Author The story of British Malaya and Singapore, from the days of Victorian pioneers to the denouement of independence, ...

Description Praise About the Author The first and only account that tells the story from the Sepoy's perspective. The other accounts have the w...

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 Author One of Japan’s favourite comfort foods, onigiri or rice balls are quick and easy to put together, nutritious, low ...

Description Get a blast of the past! Savour old-time tastes such as the original roadside laksa and check out the hangouts of the good old days...

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 About the Author Officially established in 1878, the natural history collection originally housed at the Raffles Museum now has mor...

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 Northeast Hinterland captures evocative and thought-provoking night scenes of Punggol – a northeastern suburb that...

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...

Description Kjelstrup, Bedeaux, Johannessen, and Gross describe what non-equilibrium thermodynamics is in a simple and practical way and how it...

Description About the Author No Sugar, Low Carb, No Guilt Japanese- Style Desserts is a collection of Hisae’s healthy, low-sugar recipes that c...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Aspects of the Newtonian Methodology (224 KB) This book looks at how Newton's theories can be linked to...

Description Sample Chapter(s)Chapter 1: Preview (1,034 KB) An Alternative to Morse-Novikov Theory This book is about new topological invariants...