Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by J William Kamphuis
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
This book is based on the author's 34 years of experience as a teacher/researcher of coastal engineering and management and on recent reflections on newly relevant issues, such as consequences of failure, impacts of rising sea levels, aging infrastructure, real estate development, and contemporary...
"I am the Smartest Man I Know"
A Nobel Laureate's Difficult Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
A unique individual with a fascinating life story, Ivar Giaever is a scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Experimental Physics in 1973. In his own words, Giaever relates an absorbing tale of how important luck and good fortune have been in shaping his life. He narrates the story of an ordinary childhood...
The Road to Scientific Success
Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This is Volume 2 of the book series The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers. Authoritative scientists describe their life experiences in relation to how success was attained, how their careers were developed, how their research was steered, how priorities were...
The Earth as a Cradle for Life
The Origin, Evolution and Future of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
The Earth as a Cradle for Life aims to fill the gap between readers who have a strong and informed scientific interest in the environment (but no access to the journal literature), and their desire for a basic understanding of the environment. It provides a comprehensive account, and requires no advanced...
by V E Borisenko, S V Gaponenko, V S Gurin;C H Kam
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
This book presents invited reviews and original short notes of recent results obtained in studies concerning the fabrication and application of nanostructures, which hold great promise for the next generation of electronic, optoelectronic and energy conversion devices.
Covering exciting and...
The Language of Game Theory
Putting Epistemics into the Mathematics of Games
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
This volume contains eight papers written by Adam Brandenburger and his co-authors over a period of 25 years. These papers are part of a program to reconstruct game theory in order to make how players reason about a game a central feature of the theory. The program — now called epistemic game theory...
The Ocean in a Drop
Singapore: The Next Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in 2014. It is part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore. The Fellowship was set up to fund further research into public policy, with the S R Nathan Fellow, who is appointed annually, delivering...
by Árpád Ambrus, Denis Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Pesticides are now accepted as an integral part of modern agricultural production. This book provides analysis of the steps taken by national and international bodies working towards a cohesive global strategy for evaluating the safety of residues in food that result from approved pesticide uses....
Stem Cell Battles: Proposition 71 and Beyond
How Ordinary People Can Fight Back against the Crushing Burden of Chronic Disease — with a Posthumous Foreword by Christopher Reeve
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This is a one-of-a-kind book: combining easy-to-understand science, in-the-trenches political warfare, and inspirational stories. It aims to give hope to individuals and families who suffer from chronic disease or disability; to point out how ordinary
Medical Philosophy
Conceptual Issues in Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This is the first book that analyzes and systematizes all the general ideas of medicine, in particular the philosophical ones, which are usually tacit. Instead of focusing on one or two points — typically disease and clinical trial — this book examines all the salient aspects of biomedical research...
by Aimaro Sanna, M Mercedes Maroto-Valer
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
To meet human energy needs, the use of fossil fuels is set to continue well into the second half of the 21st century. In order to avoid irreversible climate change, carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) must be integrated into industrial processes. Mineral carbonation (MC) is increasingly seen...
by Karin Moelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
"Her style is chatty, and just when you want to break into the conversation and ask a question, she's thrown in an aside about a spat at a scientific meeting or discussed how we should dispose of our tissues when we have a cold. If this sort of mental gymnastics on top of some heavyweight science...
by Kin Chung Woon, Ya Lee Loo
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
by N Viswanadham, S Kameshwaran
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Over the last two decades, several textbooks, research papers, and best practice cases have been published on supply chain management. However, globalization has created dispersed supply chains which are vulnerable and dependent on entities and factors that are exogenous to the supply chain. Resource...