Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by Henry C Lucas <b>Jr</b>
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Universities for years have been the bright spot in our educational system. Today, these institutions are under siege from multiple constituencies including students, parents, legislators, government officials and their own faculties. Education has historically been a way for students to improve their...
Teaching Science in Culturally Relevant Ways
Ideas from Singapore Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book encapsulates the vision of Singapore science educators to bring the local elements of the country to bear in the science curriculum. In experimenting with familiar materials used and consumed in our everyday lives, and applying scientific knowledge to analyse and provide explanations of...
by Wee Khee Seah, Li Yang Ng, Ying Zhen Ang;Reico Ng;Beng Lee Lim
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Shaping character and life skills for our leaders of tomorrow has always been a challenging task. This exciting new book brings a new perspective to educating our young in a fun, exciting and engaging manner. High energy games that bring about both breadth and depth of discussion by the participants...
by Raz Kupferman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book covers the elementary school mathematics curriculum common in most parts of the world. Its aim is to serve educators (teachers and parents) as a guide for teaching mathematics at elementary school level. The book focuses both on content knowledge and on pedagogical content knowledge. It...
Information Communication Technology in Education
Singapore's ICT Masterplans 19972008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
This book seeks to present a comprehensive review of Singapore's ICT Masterplans in education, providing a rare behind-the-scenes look at policy planning, as well as the lessons learnt and insights gained from the past decade of the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Since 1997 (when the First Masterplan...
by Alvin Y So
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Class and Class Conflict in Post-Socialist China traces the origins and the profound changes of the patterns of class conflict in post-socialist China since 1978.
The first of its kind in the field of China Studies that offers comprehensive overviews and traces the historical evolutions of...
Living Digital 2040
Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.
How can people thrive as their lives are disrupted and transformed?
Will jobs be created or destroyed?
Will digital divides narrow or widen in education and healthcare?
Living Digital 2040 provides practical...
First Magnitude
A Book of the Bright Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
“First Magnitude” is an entry-level book for readers with brightly lit skies. Its purpose is to show them that all is not lost, that they can still enjoy personal astronomy and have an appreciation of the heavens no matter where they live. It concentrates on the Sun, Moon, the five bright planets,...
Ranking the Liveability of the World's Major Cities
The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural...
Aristotle's Laptop
The Discovery of our Informational Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific...
Universal Foreigner
The Individual and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960s; and then that individual's reflections and study during...
SinoJapanese Relations
Rivals or Partners in Regional Cooperation?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Sino-Japanese relations have been on the mend since Shinzo Abe assumed the Japanese Prime Minister's office in September 2006. His visit to China in October 2006 and the reciprocal visits of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in April 2007, and President Hu Jintao in May 2008, facilitated the further...
Introduction to Windows® and Graphics Programming with Visual C++®
(with Companion Media Pack)
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
The Companion Media Pack is available in the Supplementary tab.
Introduction to Windows® and Graphics Programming with Visual C++® (2nd Edition) provides an accessible approach to the study of Windows programming. It is intended to be an introduction to Visual C++ for technical people including...
A Central European Olympiad
The Mathematical Duel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book contains the most interesting problems from the first 24 years of the "Mathematical Duel", an annual international mathematics competition between the students of four schools: the Gymnázium Mikuláše Koperníka in Bílovec, Czech Republic, the Akademicki Zespół Szkół Ogólnokształcących...