World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Ferdinand E Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book is an up-to-date primer covering the most important subjects in energy economics, with particular attention paid to oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy, and without an excessive amount of mathematics. The first three survey chapters constitute an introductory (and mostly non-technical)...
Univer-Cities: Strategic Implications for Asia
Readings from Cambridge and Berkeley to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Univer-cities: Strategic Implications for Asia aims to redefine the multi-faceted symbiotic relationship between universities and host cities. The four readings in this reader will invite readers to challenge the traditional view of what a university is as a place, and re-define the university as...
Farm Policies and World Markets
Monitoring and Disciplining the International Trade Impacts of Agricultural Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
The aim of the book is to provide interested readers with access to a number of articles that have been written over the years on the subject of the linkages between domestic farm policies (particularly in developed countries) and world markets for agricultural goods. The scope of the book includes...
Adaptation to Climate Change
ASEAN and Comparative Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus on the ASEAN region, both at the regional...
Income Disparity in China
Crisis within Economic Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
China has achieved remarkable economic success in the past three decades and has become the second-largest economy in the world after the United States. However, accompanying this rapid economic growth is an increasing income inequality. In recent years, China's income disparity has reached an alarming...
Economic Freedom
Lessons of Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Hong Kong has been one of the fastest growing East Asian economies since the end of the Second World War. The adoption and practice of economic freedom have been major pillars in its economic success. Indeed, the experience of Hong Kong has served as a reference for other emerging economies in the...
The RMB Exchange Rate
Past, Current, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Over the past two decades, China's robust economic performance has propelled it to the world stage. At the same time, the world has increasingly scrutinized China's economic policies and activities. One of the hotly contested issues is China's foreign exchange rate policy. China's current reform and...
by Daniel Quinn Mills, Steven Rosefielde
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Donald Trump has called for a turnaround in the foreign policy of the United States (US). A key reason is that US foreign engagements have in recent decades proved of little benefit to the US middle and working classes.
Trump's opponents have challenged him to prove that he can offer a better...
The Power of Computational Thinking
Games, Magic and Puzzles to Help You Become a Computational Thinker
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
From the team behind Computer Science for Fun (cs4fn), The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun.
Can you become a computational thinker?
Can machines have brains?
Do computers really see and understand the world?
Can games help us to study nature,...
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...
by James Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with...
The Iraq War and Its Consequences
Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates and Eminent Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
An extraordinary collection of essays by Nobel Peace laureates and leading scholars on the concluded Iraq War, The Iraq War and its Consequences is the First and Only book that brings together more than 30 Nobel Peace laureates and eminent scholars to offer opinions, analyses and insights on the war...
Understanding the Universe
From Quarks to the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and neutrons of atoms did not yet exist, but rather were replaced by a swirling maelstrom of energy, matter...
The Global Economy in Transition
Debt and Resource Scarcities
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book is a collection of essays written by Ambassador, Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller from the middle of 2009 to end of 2012, commenting on global economic and political events, which reflect Moeller's judgment and evaluation on these issues.
Readers get an overview to the collection...