World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Nicholas Steneck, Melissa Anderson, Sabine Kleinert;Tony Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
With a seeming increase in the number of high-profile cases of research misconduct, there is a need for promoting and upholding the principles for the responsible conduct of research. At the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, convened in Montréal in 2013, vital issues relating to ethics...
Fundamental Forces of Nature
The Story of Gauge Fields
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
Gauge fields are the messengers carrying signals between elementary particles, enabling them to interact with each other. Originating at the level of quarks, these basic interactions percolate upwards, through nuclear and atomic physics, through chemical and solid state physics, to make our everyday...
Saving Ourselves
Interviews with World Leaders on the Sustainable Transition
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah...
by Dick Hess
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles is a wonderful addition to Dr Dick Hess's previous successful books, Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematical Puzzles, Golf on the Moon, (Dover Publishing, 2011 and 2014 respectively) and Number-Crunching Math Puzzles (Puzzlewright, 2013), a...
Here Comes Everyone
Anthropology and World Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down. It looks at world affairs with notable detachment. By taking a cultural anthropological approach, however, it is possible to engage with those involved in a more comprehensive and cogent way. It is possible to provide a deeper understanding...
by Rafael Ramírez, Ulf Mannervik
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
During the 1980s and 1990s, Richard Normann and his colleagues developed an original approach to strategy, based on seeing value as inherently co-produced in systems. Their 'Value Creating Systems' approach was a strong contrast to the idea of 'competitive advantage' that defined strategy at the time....
PISA Ranking
Issues and Effects in Singapore, East Asia and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is gaining increasing attention among education authorities of the world. The number of participating economies almost doubled in the past one and a half decades, increasing from 43 in 2000 when it first started to 74 in 2015. PISA assesses...
Globalization and Localization
The Chinese Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization. In a world where no country is an island isolated from others, globalization is bound to be contested, debated, and de- and re-constructed...
The Large Hadron Collider
The Greatest Adventure in Town and Ten Reasons Why it Matters, as Illustrated by the ATLAS Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
When the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN hit the headlines in 2012, the world was stunned by this achievement of modern science. Less well appreciated, however, were the many ways in which this benefited wider society.
The Large Hadron Collider — The Greatest Adventure in Town charts...
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty
Essays in Applied International Trade Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty is a collection of key articles in three important areas of applied international trade research: measuring non-tariff barriers and their effects, the consequences of regional trading arrangements, especially on the countries excluded from them, and the...
Voyage Through Time
Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2003
From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandria to the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takes us on a voyage through time — his own life and the split-second world of the femtosecond. In this endearing exposé of his life and work until his receipt of...
The Mathematics That Power Our World
How Is It Made?
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
"It appears the best use of the text to be as a resource for educators interested in providing individual case studies of applications of mathematics to their students while diving beyond the why and thoroughly into the how."
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematics...
Pathways to Global Health
Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy(Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Following the publication of Negotiating and Navigating Global Health: Case Studies in Global Health Diplomacy edited by Ellen Rosskam and Ilona Kickbusch, this second volume of case studies will complement the first volume and extends its scope. The new book focuses on health diplomacy negotiations,...
Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance
Selected Public Lectures of Professor Harold Bierman, Jr. from 19602015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Financial Strategies and Topics in Finance is a collection of Professor Emeritus Harold Bierman, Jr.'s public lectures on corporate finance, given on behalf of the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, from 1960 to 2015.
By explaining complex financial strategies in a simplified manner,...