Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by Alexander K Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
This book teaches you all necessary (problem-independent) tools and techniques needed to implement and perform sophisticated scientific numerical simulations. Thus, it is suited for undergraduate and graduate students who want to become experts in computer simulations in Physics, Chemistry, Biology,...
by Jubaraj Bikash Baruah
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Actions of living beings at any stage of life are of general interest; molecular machines can be a replica of such activities. Stimuli guided movements and shape changes of molecules are one of the rapidly developing areas on which fundamental principles of molecular machine banks. Thus, the understanding...
Dear Professor Dyson
Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
IN THE NEWSExciting News: Book Published From "Science, Technology and Society" ClassThe Echo, 3 November 2016
Freeman Dyson has designed nuclear reactors and bomb-powered spacecraft; he has studied the origins of life and the possibilities for the long-term future; he showed...
by Eric Lee, T W Tan
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Biologists find computing bewildering; yet they are expected to be able to process the voluminous data available from the machines they buy and the datasets that has accumulated in genomic databanks worldwide. It is now increasingly difficult for them to avoid dealing with large volumes of data, that...
by David Linker, Alan Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book is a rare resource consisting of problems and solutions similar to those seen in mathematics contests from around the world. It is an excellent training resource for high school students who plan to participate in mathematics contests, and a wonderful collection of problems that can be used...
by Yuli Starosvetsky, K R Jayaprakash, M Arif Hasan;Alexander F Vakakis
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This research monograph provides a brief overview of the authors' research in the area of ordered granular media over the last decade. The exposition covers one-dimensional homogeneous and dimer chains in great detail incorporating novel analytical tools and experimental results supporting the analytical...
REACH Chronicles
A Community Mental Health Model for Children and Adolescents in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
An easy read with a “how-to” intent, this book provides the insights and process of a practical and viable community mental health team. The authors of the book have produced a book which is as close an account to the reality of making the REACH team a value add to the mental wellness of students....
Singapore and UNICEF
Working for Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
Singapore's well-documented economic progress since independence owes a big debt to the initial investment that the nation made in raising the nutrition, hygiene, health and education standards of its children. In the early days the United Nations Chil
by Natalie K Gordon <b>retired</b>, Richard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
The greatest mystery of life is how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully functioning, sometimes conscious multicellular organism. Embryogenesis Explained offers a new theory of how embryos build themselves, and combines simple physics with the most recent biochemical and genetic breakthroughs,...
Biocommunication
Sign-Mediated Interactions between Cells and Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
All coordination between cells, organs, and organisms depends on successful biocommunicative processes. There are abundant cases of communication in the biological world, both within (intraspecific) and between (interspecific) single-cell and multicellular microorganisms and higher animal forms.
Split...
Theology and Science
From Genesis to Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The age-old debate between science and faith invites more players to the fore in this book. Proponents of the origin of life as a natural process and natural selection as a mechanism of evolution come face to face with advocates for the intervention of a creator, while other scholars believe that...
by Colin G Hales
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book discusses two main cultural problems behind the failure of machine consciousness and artificial general intelligence (AGI) projects over many decades.
The first problem recognizes that building a conscious AGI means building an artificial scientist. The book identifies the responsible...
Western Perspectives on the People's Republic of China
Politics, Economy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
How have Westerners seen the People's Republic of China over the years? The question raises many important issues, which this book aims to present, analyze and explain. The basic conclusion is that Western perspectives are somewhat more complex than simply viewing China's realities. Involved also...
Management of Transboundary Water Resources under Scarcity
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world. Water scarcity is especially critical in regions where water is shared by several riparian states and used for competing purposes (irrigation,...