Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Green Urbanism in Asia
The Emerging Green Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in...
Paradoxes of China's Prosperity
Political Dilemmas and Global Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The world seems divided to either applaud or fear the rise of China, but this book probes deeper by investigating three aspects of the phenomenon in detail: 1) the institutional dilemmas of the prosperity as it integrates Asian authoritarianism with globalizing capitalism to create economic accomplishments;...
by Leiv Lunde, Jian Yang, Iselin Stensdal
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Over the last few years Asian governments have taken a stronger approach to the Arctic, culminating with permanent-observer status to the Arctic Council for China, India, Japan, Singapore and South-Korea in May 2013. This groundbreaking book brings together the latest research in emerging Asian interests...
Indonesia Matters
Asia's Emerging Democratic Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world after China, India and the United States. It is also the world's largest Muslim majority country and the third largest democracy. Its economy is currently the 10th largest on the global scale. Indonesia is recognized as an emerging power,...
Corporate Social Responsibility in China
A Vision, an Assessment and a Blueprint
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Over the years, many corporations have been trying to determine what they can and should do to contribute to the sustainability of the economic, social and ecological environment within which they operate. Corporate social responsibility has become a key senior management issue worldwide and an increasingly...
Independent Innovation in China
Theory and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Using a combination of theoretical analysis and case studies, this book analyses the theoretical issues — concept and type of independent innovation, and the practical issues — construction of institutional system which is in favor of independent innovation. It is written for researchers who are...
Negotiation Excellence
Successful Deal Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Negotiation Excellence: Successful Deal Making is written by leading negotiation experts from top-rated universities in the US and in Asia and its objective is to introduce readers to the theory and best practices of effective negotiation. The book includes chapters ranging from: preparing and planning...
Patterns of the Future
Understanding the Next Wave of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Patterns of the Future explains the current world using the theory of long-term development waves (Kondratiev waves). Markku Wilenius, Professor of Futures Studies, argues that we are now entering the sixth wave: the age of intelligent, integrated technologies, helping to restore the balance between...
2015 Agricultural Total Factor Productivity and Competitiveness Analysis for States and Federal Territories and Five Regions of India
Annual Competitiveness Update and Evidence on the Agricultural Development Models for Selected Indian States
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to competitiveness of states and federal territories in India. The competitiveness framework employed by ACI computes the rankings for the 35 states and federal territories of India by factoring in...
by Mikio Nakahara, Yidun Wan, Yoshitaka Sasaki
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
This book is a collection of lecture notes and contributions in “Summer School on Diversities in Quantum Computation/Information” held on 1–5 August, 2010 at U-Community Hotel, Higashi-Osaka, Japan. Lecturers are world class authorities in respective areas in quantum information and quantum...
by Luigi Accardi, Wolfgang Freudenberg, Masanori Ohya
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
This volume is based on the fifth international conference of quantum bio-informatics held at the QBI Center of Tokyo University of Science.
This volume provides a platform to connect mathematics, physics, information and life sciences, and in particular, research for new paradigm for information...
by Ting-Chung Poon, Taegeun Kim
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This invaluable second edition provides more in-depth discussions and examples in various chapters. Based largely on the authors' own in-class lectures as well as research in the area, the comprehensive textbook serves two purposes. The first introduces some traditional topics such as matrix formalism...
Order, Disorder and Criticality
Advanced Problems of Phase Transition TheoryVolume 3
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
This book is the third volume of review papers on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena, following the success of the first two volumes in 2004 and in 2007. Broadly, the book aims to demonstrate that the phase transition theory, which experienced its ‘golden age’ during...
by Yu Zhu, Lei Liu, Hong Guo
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Computational nanoelectronics is an emerging multi-disciplinary field covering condensed matter physics, applied mathematics, computer science, and electronic engineering. In recent decades, a few state-of-the-art software packages have been developed to carry out first-principle atomistic device...