ADVANCE BOOK INFORMATION
May – June 2024
[ PHYSICS ]
STATISTICAL PHYSICS, COMPLEXITY AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
50 YEARS OF THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP
Dedicated to the Memory of Michael E Fisher edited by Amnon Aharony (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Ora Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv University, Israel), David A Huse (Princeton University, USA) & Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado, USA)
The contributions in the book are devoted to the memory of Michael E Fisher, and hence include many personal memories from people whose work was influenced by him. Also, the book is a collection of articles from leaders in the field of phase transitions and critical phenomena, to celebrate 50 years of the renormalization group and the 1972 paper by Wilson and Fisher. Many of the articles review, in tutorial form, the progress in the fields of phase transitions and the renormalization group.
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[ MATHEMATICS ]
GENERAL PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
THE MISCHIEF OF MATH
Short Stories of Clowns, Contortionists and Court-Jesters
by Inavamsi Enaganti (Param Innovation Centre, India), Nivedita Ganesh (New York University, USA) & Bud Mishra (New York University, USA)
Illustrated by: Alexander Lu
Embark on a whimsical odyssey through the realms of logic, game theory, paradoxes, biases, fake data detection, graph theory, AI bots and so much more! Within these pages you will find a collection of fictional short stories that weave together the intriguing, the counterintuitive and the downright quirky, with bold characters from every walk of life. Each chapter is written in a unique style, sprinkled throughout with anecdotes, open questions and fun exercises and to tickle the mind.
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MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
ASPECTS OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS ON LOCALLY COMPACT ABELIAN GROUPS
by Jean Gallier & Jocelyn Quaintance (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
The Fourier transform is a “tool” used in engineering and computer vision to model periodic phenomena. Starting with the basics of measure theory and integration, this book delves into the harmonic analysis of locally compact abelian groups. It provides an in-depth tour of the beautiful theory of the Fourier transform based on the results of Gelfand, Pontrjagin, and Andre Weil in a manner accessible to an undergraduate student who has taken linear algebra and introductory real analysis.
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MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS
TOPICS IN MODEL THEORY
by Anand Pillay (University of Notre Dame, USA)
This book has two chapters. The first is a modern or contemporary account of stability theory. A focus is on the local (formula-byformula) theory, treated a little differently from in the author’s book Geometric Stability Theory. There is also a survey of general and geometric stability theory, as well as applications to combinatorics (stable regularity lemma) using pseudofinite methods.
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POPULAR AND RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS
THE BEAUTY OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
And How to Teach It
by Ron Aharoni (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa,
Israel)
Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as deep and as beautiful as higher mathematics. It includes some of the most important mathematical discoveries ever, for example the concept of the number, and the place-value method of representing numbers. We are so accustomed to this method , that we forget how clever and beautiful it is — resulting in its incredible efficacy.
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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN STOCHASTIC CALCULUS WITH APPLICATIONS
by Patrik Albin (Chalmers University, Sweden), Kais Hamza & Fima C Klebaner (Monash University, Australia)
Problems and Solution in Stochastic Calculus exposes readers to distinct simple ideas and proofs in stochastic calculus and its applications. It is intended as a companion to the successful original title Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications (3rd Edition) by Fima Klebaner. The current book is authored by three active researchers in the fields of probability, stochastic processes, and their applications in financial mathematics, mathematical biology, and more. The book features problems rooted in their ongoing research. Mathematical finance and biology feature pre-eminently, but the ideas and techniques can equally apply to fields such as engineering and economics.
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[ MEDICINE ]
AVIATION MEDICINE / AEROMEDICAL SCIENCE
SYSTEMS MEDICINE FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
edited by Mark Shelhamer (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) & Erik Antonsen (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
“The multiple interacting aspects of human spaceflight make a systems approach essential. A book on this topic will be well received.”
James Best
Former Dean, LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia
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GENERAL MEDICINE
NOBEL LECTURES IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE (2016 – 2020)
edited by Bo Angelin (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Physiology or medicine is the third prize category Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will. Nobel had an active interest in medical research. He came into contact with Swedish physiologist Jöns Johansson through Karolinska Institutet around 1890. Johansson worked for a brief period in Nobel’s laboratory in Sevran, France during the same year. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the Nobel laureates, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches for the period 2016 – 2020. List of Nobel laureates and their award citations:
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[ BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ]
GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
by Guiyao Tang (Shandong University, China) & Li-Qun Wei (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Strategic human resource management (SHRM), as a crucial foundation for the survival and development of a firm, linking human resource management with a firm’s strategic objectives to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Numerous studies and practices have proven that the implementation of SHRM is conducive to acquiring core competitiveness and boosting competitive advantage. In response to the changes that are taking place in HRM practices, it is absolutely necessary for students and managers to learn SHRM systematically.
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[ ASIAN STUDIES ] SINGAPORE COLLECTION
BEHIND THE BANYAN
Ho Kwon Ping on Building a Global Brand by Aaron Low (The Nutgraf, Singapore)
While searching for a new holiday home at the age of 32, Ho Kwon Ping chanced upon an unexpected find during his walk along a beach at Bang Tao Bay on the island of Phuket. He fortuitously stumbled on a piece of land that was pockmarked with craters, desecrated by decades of tin mining.
Unlike most who would only see despair, he saw business potential. And so began the remarkable story of the Banyan Tree Holdings, one of the most iconic hospitality groups in the world.
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NOTABLE TITLES
[ ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ]
ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS
WORLD SCIENTIFIC HANDBOOK OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT (In 4 Volumes)
Science, Economics, Policy and Politics
Volume 1: Pursuing Cooperation Over Shared Freshwater Resources Through International Law
Volume 2: Technologies on Tap: The Role of Technologies in Transboundary Water Management
Volume 3: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Transboundary Basins
Volume 4: Transboundary Water Management Across Scales: Understanding the Domestic-International Interplay
edited by Gabriel Eckstein (Texas A&M University, USA), David Katz (University of Haifa, Israel), Neda A Zawahri (Cleveland State University, USA) & Jeroen Warner (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
Editor-in-chief: Shlomi Dinar (Florida International University, USA)
The impacts of population growth, climate change, and water scarcity and variability on a country’s economy or society, in addition to the sheer need to harness international rivers for domestic and regional purposes, have made the management of transboundary freshwater a subject of great import. Over the past several decades, research in various disciplines utilizing a variety of methodologies has explored these issues, focusing on freshwater’s strategic importance as well as conflict, cooperation, and negotiation over shared water bodies (rivers, lakes, aquifers).
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ELECTROMAGNETISM AND PLASMA PHYSICS
THE CLASSICAL DOUBLE COPY
New Connections in Guage Theory and Gravity by Chris D White (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
This book reviews our current theories of fundamental physics, before describing in detail how the double copy was discovered, how it can be applied to different types of object in gauge or gravity theory, and what its current and future applications are. No prior knowledge of quantum field theory or string theory is assumed, such that the book will be of interest to a broad audience of physicists and mathematicians.
Contents: Introduction; The Theories of Fundamental Physics; The Double Copy for Scattering Amplitudes; The Classical Double Copy: A First Look; Exact Classical Double Copies; Towards a Non-Perturbative Double Copy; Perturbative Classical Solutions; Outlook.
Readership: Academic researchers in physics or mathematics, particularly those in the following fields: astrophysics, high energy physics, theoretical / mathematical physics, cosmology; advanced undergraduates / Masters students who may be pursuing dissertation or project work in related topics, as well as PhD students and above.
250pp
978-1-80061-545-8
QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION
QUANTUM MECHANICS
(2nd Edition)
An Accessible Introduction by Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University, USA)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum mechanics from the ground up. It is designed to be completely self-contained and assumes very little knowledge or mathematical background on the part of students as it takes them through the major topics of quantum mechanics.
This second edition includes expanded and improved coverage of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the use of ladder operators to solve the harmonic oscillator, as well as the treatment of the Lamb shift.
Featured Contents: The Origins of Quantum Mechanics; Complex Numbers and Linear Operators; The Schrodinger Equation; OneDimensional Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation; Linear Algebra; The ThreeDimensional Time-Independent Schrodinger Equation; Matrices, Dirac Notation, and the Dirac Delta Function; Spin Angular Momentum; Time-Independent Perturbation Theory; The Variational Principle; TimeDependent Perturbation Theory; Scattering Theory; and others.
Readership: Undergraduate students, useful for all Physics majors and some Engineering majors; Educators of undergrad students.
384pp
Jun 2024
US$98
£90
May 2024
978-981-128-665-0 US$138 £125 978-981-128-729-9(pbk) US$58 £55
STATISTICAL PHYSICS, COMPLEXITY AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMSS
50 YEARS OF THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP
Dedicated to the Memory of Michael E Fisher edited by Amnon Aharony (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Ora Entin-Wohlman (Tel Aviv University, Israel), David A Huse (Princeton University, USA) & Leo Radzihovsky (University of Colorado, USA)
The contributions in the book are devoted to the memory of Michael E Fisher, and hence include many personal memories from people whose work was influenced by him. Also, the book is a collection of articles from leaders in the field of phase transitions and critical phenomena, to celebrate 50 years of the renormalization group and the 1972 paper by Wilson and Fisher. Many of the articles review, in tutorial form, the progress in the fields of phase transitions and the renormalization group.
Key Features
• Phase transitions, critical phenomena and the renormalization group are studied in diverse fields like condensed matter physics, quantum physics, high-energy physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and more. The field is very active, and reviews by the experts will attract the attention of scientists from all these disciplines
Readership: Condensed matter physicists and in related fields.
700pp
978-981-128-237-9
Jun 2024
US$188 £175
AND RELATED TOPICS
THE NUMERICAL JORDAN FORM
by Petko Petkov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
The Numerical Jordan Form is the first book dedicated to exploring the algorithmic and computational methods for determining the Jordan form of a matrix, as well as addressing the numerical difficulties in finding it. Unlike the “pure” Jordan form, the numerical Jordan form preserves its structure under small perturbations of the matrix elements so that its determination presents a well-posed computational problem. If this structure is well conditioned, it can be determined reliably in the presence of uncertainties and rounding errors.
Contents: Preface; List of Algorithms; Notation; Numerical Matrix Computations; The Eigenvalue Problem; The Eigenvalue Sensitivity Problem; Numerical Solution of the Eigenvalue Problem; Geometry of Jordan Forms; Reduction into Jordan – Schur Form; Reduction into Weyr and Jordan Form; Case Study 1. Eigenvalue Sensitivity Analysis; Case Study 2. Computing the Matrix Exponential; Appendix: Review of Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis; Bibliography; Index.
Readership: Practitioners and researchers, scientists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
560pp
978-981-128-644-5
Jul 2024
US$178 £165
DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
ASYMPTOTIC ISSUES FOR SOME PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
(2nd Edition)
by
Michel Marie Chipot
(University of Zurich, Switzerland)
The primary focus of the book is to explore the asymptotic behavior of problems formulated within cylindrical structures. Various physical applications are discussed, with certain topics such as fluid flows in channels being particularly noteworthy. Additionally, the book delves into the relevance of elasticity in the context of cylindrical bodies.
Since the publication of the first edition, several significant advancements have been made, adding depth and interest to the content. Consequently, new sections have been incorporated into the existing edition, complemented by a comprehensive list of references.
Contents: Introduction; The Dirichlet Problem in Some Unbounded; The Pure Neumann Problem; Periodic Problems; Anisotropic Singular Perturbation Problems; Eigenvalue Problems; Elliptic Systems; The Stokes Problem; Variational Inequalities; Calculus of Variations.
Readership: Academic resource for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics and engineering.
284pp
978-981-129-043-5
Jun 2024
US$98
GENERAL PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
THE MISCHIEF OF MATH
Short Stories of Clowns, Contortionists and Court-Jesters by Inavamsi Enaganti (Param Innovation Centre, India), Nivedita Ganesh (New York University, USA) & Bud Mishra (New York University, USA)
Illustrated by: Alexander Lu
Embark on a whimsical odyssey through the realms of logic, game theory, paradoxes, biases, fake data detection, graph theory, AI bots and so much more! Within these pages you will find a collection of fictional short stories that weave together the intriguing, the counterintuitive and the downright quirky, with bold characters from every walk of life. Each chapter is written in a unique style, sprinkled throughout with anecdotes, open questions and fun exercises and to tickle the mind.
Contents: When Pigs Fly; Ultra-Altruism; Fakebook; Deadly Serious Party; The Forever Virus; Ending the Forever Virus; Explosive Logic; CONcrete Evidence; Existential Overload; Blue Album; Infinity and Beyond.
Readership: All undergraduate and students in the second half of high school, particularly in the fields of mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, business, political science, and social science; General public who are curious about the intricacies and counterintuitive nature of reality.
188pp
£90
Jun 2024
978-981-128-759-6 US$48 £45
978-981-128-802-9(pbk) US$25 £25
ASPECTS OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS ON LOCALLY COMPACT ABELIAN GROUPS
by Jean Gallier & Jocelyn Quaintance (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
The Fourier transform is a “tool” used in engineering and computer vision to model periodic phenomena. Starting with the basics of measure theory and integration, this book delves into the harmonic analysis of locally compact abelian groups. It provides an in-depth tour of the beautiful theory of the Fourier transform based on the results of Gelfand, Pontrjagin, and Andre Weil in a manner accessible to an undergraduate student who has taken linear algebra and introductory real analysis.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Function Spaces Often Encountered; The Riemann Integral; Measure Theory; Basic Notions; Integration; The Fourier Transform and Cotransform on ��n , ℤn , ℝn; Radon Measures on Locally Compact Spaces; The Haar Measure and Convolution; Normed Algebras and Spectral Theory; Analysis on Locally Compact Groups; Appendices: Topology; Vector Norms and Matrix Norms; Basics of Groups and Group Actions; Hilbert Spaces; Well-Ordered Sets, Ordinals, Cardinals, AlephsBibliography; Symbol Index; Index.
Readership: Senior undergraduates or early graduate students, a reference for engineers and computer scientists.
764pp
978-981-129-171-5
MODELLING AND COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES FOR MULTI-SCALE PHENOMENA IN CANCER RESEARCH
From Cancer Evolution to Cancer Treatment edited by Raluca Eftimie (University of Franche-Comté, France) & Dumitru Trucu (University of Dundee, UK)
Jun 2024
US$178
£165
This review volume summarises some of the current state of the art related to the modelling, experimental investigation and data assimilation for multiscale phenomena during cancer development, evolution and treatment, as well as computational and analytical investigation of the multi-scale models developed to reproduce the biological phenomena. The book also identifies the experimental and theoretical open problems that will have to be addressed in the near future in order to advance this field. This book is an excellent resource for both early career and advanced researchers.
Featured Contents: Introduction (R Eftimie, D Trucu) ; Using Mathematical Models to Predict Glioblastoma Growth and Response to Treatment in a Patient-Specific Manner (D L Hutton, K Hossain-Ibrahim); Multi-Scale Aspects of Immune Responses to Cancer: Mathematical and Computational Modelling Perspectives (R Eftimie) ; Modeling and Computational Approaches for Multiscale Phenomena in Cancer Research: From Cancer Evolution to Cancer Treatment Viscoelastic Aspects of Solid Cancers (Ivana Pajic-Lijakovic, Milan Milivojevic); and others.
Readership: P ostgraduate students and researchers.
200pp
978-1-80061-437-6
Jun 2024
US$88 £80
TOPICS IN MODEL THEORY
by Anand Pillay
(University of Notre Dame, USA)
This book has two chapters. The first is a modern or contemporary account of stability theory. A focus is on the local (formula-byformula) theory, treated a little differently from in the author’s book Geometric Stability Theory. There is also a survey of general and geometric stability theory, as well as applications to combinatorics (stable regularity lemma) using pseudofinite methods.
The second is an introduction to “continuous logic” or “continuous model theory, “ drawing on the main texts and papers, but with an independent point of view. This chapter includes some historical background, including some other formalisms for continuous logic and a discussion of hyperimaginaries in classical first order logic.
These chapters are based around notes, written by students, from a couple of advanced graduate courses in the University of Notre Dame, in Autumn 2018, and Spring 2021.
Contents: Stability Theory; Continuous Logic.
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in mathematics and related subjects interested in model theory and its applications.
150pp Jun 2024
978-981-124-380-6
US$58 £55
978-981-124-399-8(pbk) US$28 £25
Essential Textbooks in Mathematics STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD
METHODS
FOR SOLVING
ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA PROBLEMS
by V
G Chirskii & A I Kozko
(Moscow State University, Russia & RANEPA, Russia)
The book takes care to introduce topics with a description of the basic properties of the functions under study, as well as simple, typical tasks necessary for the initial study of the subject. Each topic concludes with problems for readers to solve, some of which may require serious effort to solve. Many of these problems were specifically created for this book and are set at university entrance exam or mathematical Olympiads level, but solutions are provided in all cases.
Contents: Preface; Exponential and Logarithmic Equations and Inequalities; Equations and Inequalities with Polynomials and Rational Functions; Equations and Inequalities with Modulus; Irrational Equations and Inequalities; Trigonometric Equations and Inequalities; Tasks for the Number of Solutions; Problems that Reduce to the Study of a Quadratic Equation and The Selecting of Non-Negative Expressions; Solving Problems Using a Geometric Image; Inequalities.
Readership: This book is useful for preparing for final exams at secondary school level, and for lower undergraduate level courses in algebra and mathematical analysis.
234pp
Jul 2024
978-1-80061-571-7 US$78 £70
978-1-80061-586-1(pbk) US$38 £35
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
ELEMENTARY MECHANICS
(In 2 Volumes) by John G Papastavridis (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
This is a comprehensive and state-of-theart compendium of classical or Newtonian (non relativistic and non quantum) mechanics from an advanced and unified viewpoint, namely, from the continuum, or field, form of the fundamental principles of linear and angular momentum of Euler, Cauchy, Hamel et al. The title adjective “elementary” simply means no Lagrangean and no Hamiltonian theories and methods. Yet, in spite of its high level, this extensive work of more than 1450 dense pages of text, and more than 350 pages of galleries is eminently readable and inclusive. The overall style is informal, all ahistorical and intuition-deadening jargon and formalisms (“epsilonics”) have been intentionally avoided.
Featured Contents: Volume 1: I: A Brief History of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics: Classical Antiquity: Greek (Hellenic + Hellenistic) Science; II: Mathematical Background (Vectors, Tensors, Matrices): Vectors: Geometrical Aspects, and their Applications to Statics; Volume 2: III: General Mechanics, Mechanics of Particles & Systems: Introduction to the Geometrical and Physical Foundations of Mechanics; IV: Rigid Bodies: Rigid Body Kinematics: Geometry of Rotational Motion; i.e. Finite Rotation; V: Elements of Continuum Mechanics: Geometry of Deformation, Strain; and others.
Readership: Teachers, and Researchers in most areas of engineering (especially aerospace, mechanical, and engineering mechanics), physics, and applied mathematics. 1680pp
Jul 2024
978-981-4603-04-1(Set) US$384 £355
POPULAR AND RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS
THE BEAUTY OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS
And How to Teach It by
Ron Aharoni (Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Why is 2 times 3 equal to 3 times 2? One may think this is an axiom, but it has a proof, and a beautiful one at that. Elementary mathematics is as deep and as beautiful as higher mathematics. It includes some of the most important mathematical discoveries ever, for example the concept of the number, and the place-value method of representing numbers. We are so accustomed to this method , that we forget how clever and beautiful it is — resulting in its incredible efficacy.
The book outlines the material from kindergarten to grade 6 (with an excursion into algebra as well). It also discusses teaching principles, and their close relatives — thinking principles. Teachers and parents who imbue these principles are likely to convey the love of mathematics to the child. Contents: What is Mathematics?; How Do Mathematicians Think?; Three Stages — Concrete, Pictorial, Abstract; Words — The Cement of Thought; Asking Why; Reversal; There is No Such Thing as “Too Simple”; The Most Misleading Term in Mathematical Education; “3 Times 4 Equals 4 Times 3” is Not an Axiom; In The Country of One-Fingered Creatures; The New Math; What is a Fraction?.
Readership: Education, for children aged from 6 to 12 years. Parents, teachers, math enthusiasts.
200pp
Jun 2024
978-981-127-815-0 US$88 £80 978-981-127-874-7(pbk) US$48 £45
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PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS IN STOCHASTIC CALCULUS WITH APPLICATIONS
by
Patrik Albin (Chalmers University, Sweden), Kais Hamza & Fima C Klebaner (Monash University, Australia)
Trends in Abstract and Applied Analysis
STOCHASTIC
VERSUS
DETERMINISTIC
SYSTEMS
OF ITERATIVE
PROCESSES by G S Ladde (University of South Florida, USA) & M Sambandham (Morehouse College, USA)
Problems and Solution in Stochastic Calculus exposes readers to distinct simple ideas and proofs in stochastic calculus and its applications. It is intended as a companion to the successful original title Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications (3rd Edition) by Fima Klebaner. The current book is authored by three active researchers in the fields of probability, stochastic processes, and their applications in financial mathematics, mathematical biology, and more. The book features problems rooted in their ongoing research. Mathematical finance and biology feature pre-eminently, but the ideas and techniques can equally apply to fields such as engineering and economics.
Contents: Introduction; Preliminaries from Calculus; Concepts of Probability Theory; Basic Stochastic Processes; Brownian Motion Calculus; Stochastic Differential Equations; Diffusion Processes; Martingales; Semimartingales; Pure Jump processes; Change of Probability Measure; Applications in Finance; Applications in Biology.
Readership: This book is aimed at those seeking to gain a grounding in the fields of probability, stochastic processes, stochastic calculus, mathematical finance, mathematical biology. As such is it suitable for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students in the above fields and is suitable for self-study or course adoption.
394pp
Jul 2024
978-1-80061-557-1 US$138 £125
978-1-80061-560-1(pbk) US$58 £55
Most literature in this subject was developed in the 1950s, and focussed on the theory of systems of continuous and discrete-time deterministic; however, continuous-time and its approximation schemes of stochastic differential equations faced the problems outlined above and made slow progress in developing problems as a result. This monograph addresses these problems by presenting an account of stochastic versus deterministic issues in discrete state dynamic systems in a systematic and unified way.
Featured Contents: Stochastic Systems of Difference Equations with Random Parameters Methods; Stochastic Systems of Difference Equations of Ito-TypeMethods; Stochastic Systems of Difference Equations-Qualitative Analysis; Random Polynomials; Numerical Schemes for Systems of Difference Equations with Random Parameters; Numerical Schemes for Systems of Difference Equations of Ito-Type; Discretetime Probabilistic, Stochastic Dynamic Modeling, and Statistical Conceptual Data Analyses; Appendices; and others.
Readership: Used as a reference book for experimental and applied scientists. It is particularly useful for those in engineering sciences, interdisciplinary researchers, mathematics, and statistics. It can also used as a textbook for a “Special Topics” graduate course.
330pp
978-981-128-747-3
Jun 2024
US$118 £110
NOTES ON THERMODYNAMICS
Hot Oolong Cools
by Hway Chuan Kang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Rather than merely hurrying through the principles and then dealing with applications, the book presents the scientific method by discussing the science of thermodynamics starting from empirical observations that are relatable to students. For example, the book uses everyday experiences, such as a cup of hot tea cooling spontaneously, to arrive at the Second Law and Entropy through the idea of the heat engine. All the fundamentals are covered and illustrated with examples that resonate with the broad concerns and interests of students who take STEM classes today. The book examines the thermodynamics of hydrogen and gasoline engines, fuel cells versus the explosive combustion of hydrogen, how efficiently organisms and Spiderman utilize energy, the fizzing of a can of soda and decompression sickness, and how atmospheric carbon dioxide affects ocean pH and, worryingly, dissolves the calcium carbonate shells of marine animals, and also, what might happen if you inadvertently fall into a salt lake.
Contents: Some Background; Zeroth and First Laws; Applications of the First Law; Heat Engines and the Carnot Cycle; The Second Law; Absolute Zero; Fundamental Equations; Phase Equilibrium; Simple Models; The van der Waals Fluid; Applications of Phase Equilibrium; Chemical Equilibrium; Harnessing Chemical Energy.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Thermodynamics, physical chemistry; engineering science; integrated science.
450pp
Jul 2024
978-981-129-037-4 US$148 £135
978-981-129-158-6(pbk) US$68 £65
THE WONDERS OF SCIENCE
by Nathan Aviezer (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
The Wonders of Science reveals that the physical world is a far more complex and amazing world than it appears to be, so wondrous that it almost defies comprehension. Brilliant scientists have devoted their lives to uncovering these secrets. However, everyone should be able to share the joy of learning about these wonders. These many topics are here described in a clear and accessible presentation that can be enjoyed by everyone.
Even the greatest scientists sometimes make mistakes. Included in the book are some of the blunders made by leading scientists, including Nobel Prize winners.
Featured Contents: The Wonders of Physics: The Submicroscopic Universe; Dark Matter and Dark Energy; Quantum Theory: The Future Does Not Exist; Black Holes; Gravity: Theories of Newton and Einstein; The Wonders of Evolution: Evolution: Denial; Evolution: Religion; Challenges to Evolution; Gradualism versus the Fossil Record; Mass Extinctions: “Bad Genes or Bad Luck?”; Blunders of Great Scientists: Isaac Newton; Albert Einstein; Charles Darwin; Lord Kelvin; Lev Landau; Robert Boyle; Enrico Fermi; Alan Turing; Marie Curie; Niels Bohr; Ernest Rutherford; Henry Fairfield Osborn; and others.
Readership: This book can be enjoyed by anyone who has an interest in science. It is suitable for a science course in a Community College or for a high school honors program.
200pp Jul 2024
978-981-129-198-2 US$58 £55
ISOGEOMETRIC ANALYSIS FOR ENGINEERS VIA MATLAB
by Ed Akin (Rice University, USA)
This unique compendium approaches the relatively new Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) methods at senior undergraduates level in engineering or applied mathematics. It describes the differences between the wellestablished Finite Element Analysis (FEA) methods and why they are being replaced, or enhanced, by the latest developments in IGA.
The useful reference text includes Appendices with Matlab scripts for creating B-spline basis functions, topics in computer aided geometric design (CAGD) from which IGA arose, and matrix operations common to IGA and FEA. It also informs FEA users of the enhancements offered by IGA.
Contents: Comparing IGA and FEA; Knot Vectors and Basis Functions; Parametric Coordinates; PDEs and Boundary Conditions; Methods of Weighted Residuals; Numerical Integration; ODE Applications 2-nd Order; ODE Applications 4-th Order; PDE Applications 2-nd Order; Elasticity, Stress Analysis; EigenProblems; T-splines, Refinements; Bezier Extraction; Appendices; Index.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics and senior undergraduate students in acoustics, dynamic systems and aerospace engineering.
365pp
Jun 2024
978-981-128-853-1 US$108 £100
INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENT HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS
edited by Tongjun Wang (China State Railway Group, China)
In an era where digitalization and intelligence are the driving forces behind railway innovation, Introduction to Intelligent High-Speed Railways introduces a model- and data-driven approach to high-speed rail (HSR) management, combining innovative technology, data architecture, and standard architecture. It presents an intelligent HSR architecture, revolutionizing railway construction and operation.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of China’s Intelligent HSR architecture, management methods, and remarkable achievements. It showcases pioneering research from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.; highlighting their remarkable achievements in designing and constructing the Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Rail — a project that has been highly praised by the world’s leading railway organization, the Union of International Railways.
Contents: Definition and Architecture for Intelligent High-Speed Railways; Management Methods for Complex and Giant Intelligent High-Speed Railway Systems; Intelligent Construction of High-Speed Railways; Intelligent Equipment for High-Speed Railways; Intelligent Operation of High-Speed Railways; Innovative Application Demonstration: Beijing-Zhangjiakou High-Speed Rail.
Readership: Graduate students, researchers and professionals.
340pp
Jul 2024
978-981-128-744-2 US$128 £120
LARGE DIAMETER SHIELD TUNNELING TECHNOLOGY
by Wenbo Zhou & Huiming Wu (Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co., Ltd., China)
This comprehensive guide expertly distills the vast landscape of large-diameter shield tunneling technology. Authored by a team of eminent shield technology experts with hands-on experience, it presents a treasure trove of real-world engineering data and examples, simplifying complex concepts for easy comprehension.
Tailored for professionals in design and construction, researchers in scientific institutes, and those engaged in tunnel and underground engineering, this book serves as an invaluable resource. This book empowers engineers and technicians at the forefront by enhancing their grasp of large-diameter shield tunneling construction technology. It also offers indispensable guidance to design, construction, and technical management personnel in the field.
Contents: Introduction; Shield Machine Selection; Slurry System; Segment Fabrication; Shield Tunneling; Internal Structure and Connection Passage; Information Monitoring; Risk Management; Typical Engineering Cases; Outlook.
Readership: Professional technicians of design and construction units, researchers of scientific research institutes, civil engineers, and other industry professionals specialising in or dealing with tunnel and underground engineering or related fields.
492pp Jun 2024
978-981-128-595-0 US$158 £145
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
HANDBOOK OF ENGINEERING PLASTICITY
(In 2 Volumes)
Volume 1: Theoretical Plasticity
Volume 2: Applications of Plasticity Theory by David
Rees
(Brunel University London, UK)
This book brings together those elements of the mechanics of plasticity most pertinent to engineers. The presentation of the introductory material, the theoretical developments and the use of appropriate experimental data appear within 16 chapters, plus an appendix containing worked solutions to selected exercises. A textbook style has been adopted in which worked examples and exercises illustrate the application of the theoretical material. The latter is provided with appropriate references to journals and other published sources.
Contents: Stress Analysis; Strain Analysis; Yield Criteria; Non-Hardening Plasticity; Elastic-Perfect Plasticity; Slip-Line Fields; Limit Analysis; Crystal Plasticity; The Flow Curve; Plasticity with Hardening; Viscous Plasticity; Limit Analysis; Plastic Instability; Stress Waves in Bars; Production Processes; Applications of Finite Elements; Appendix: Worked Solutions.
Readership: Researcher together with the detail in theory and application expected from a student. The references show that the subject of plasticity in its multiple forms has developed within the last century. The topics presented here are primarily of interest to engineers as undergraduates, postgraduates and practitioners in metal working. The topics chosen should also serve to capture a readership from among applied mathematicians, physicists and materials scientists, again at undergraduate, postgraduate and professional academic levels.
800pp Aug 2024
978-1-80061-994-4(Set) US$640 £590
Introductory Offer US$580 £535 till Jan 31, 2025
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING
DEEP LEARNING FOR 3D VISION
Algorithms and Applications
edited by Xiaoli Li (A*STAR, Singapore), Xulei Yang (A*STAR, Singapore) & Hao Su (University of California San Diego, USA)
Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems - Vol 9 EMERGING TOPICS IN PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
3D deep learning is a rapidly evolving field that has the potential to transform various industries. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current stateof-the-art in 3D deep learning, covering a wide range of research topics and applications. It collates the most recent research advances in 3D deep learning, including algorithms and applications, with a focus on efficient methods to tackle the key technical challenges in current 3D deep learning research and adoption, therefore making 3D deep learning more practical and feasible for real-world applications.
Featured Contents: Introduction to 3D Deep Learning; Masked Autoencoders for 3D Point Cloud Self-supervised Learning; You Only Need One Thing One Click: Self-Training for Weakly Supervised 3D Scene Understanding; Representation Learning for Dynamic 3D Scenes; Extension of Divergence Guided Shape Implicit Neural Representation for Unoriented Point Clouds; Improving Monocular 3D Object Detection using Synthetic Images with Virtual Depth; Robust Structured Declarative Classifiers for Point Clouds; Towards Inference Stage Robust 3D Point Cloud Recognition; and others.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners.
500pp Jun 2024
978-981-128-648-3
US$158
£145
edited by Mounîm A El-Yacoubi (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France), Nicole Vincent & Camille Kurtz (Université Paris Cité, France)
The unique compendium covers a wide range of recent advanced contributions in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, both in theoretical aspects and applications. It highlights the importance of Deep Learning in various domains, from acquisition to Decision Making. Written by world renowned contributors, this high-quality research works presents case studies that can potentially help them find approaches and resources to address their scientific problems.
Featured Contents: Explainable AI: FEM and Multilayered FEM — Feature Explanation Methods with Statistical Filtering of Important Features; Metrics for Saliency Map Evaluation of Deep Learning Explanation Methods; Graphs: Controlling Topology Preserving Graph Pyramids; Graph Augmentation Using Matching-Graphs; Applications: Sentiment and Word Cloud Analysis of Tweets Related to Covid-19 Vaccines Before, During, and After the Second Wave in India; Segmentation: Efficient Segmentation of E-Waste Devices With Deep Learning for Robotic Recycling; and others.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics and graduate students.
300pp
978-981-128-911-8
Jun 2024
US$108 £100
FEDERATED LEARNING TECHNIQUES AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
edited by H L Gururaj (Manipal Institute of Technology, India), Tanuja Kayarga (Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, India), Francesco Flammini (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland) & Dalibor Dobrilovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
This book comprises chapters on applying Federated models in the field of healthcare industry.
Federated Learning mainly concentrates on securing the privacy of data by training local data in a shared global model without putting the training data in a centralized location. The importance of federated learning lies in its innumerable uses in health care that ranges from maintaining the privacy of raw data of the patients, discover clinically alike patients, forecasting hospitalization due to cardiac events impermanence and probable solutions to the same. The goal of this edited book is to provide a reference guide to the theme.
Featured Contents: Fundamental and Technicalities of Federated Learning; Federated Learning and Its Classification; Survey: Various Protocols in Federated Learning; Review: Recent Applications on Federated Learning; Survey: Federated Learning for Healthcare Informatics; Path from Machine Learning to Federated Learning in the Field of Healthcare; and others.
Readership: Academics/Researchers.
202pp Jul 2024
978-981-128-793-0 US$88 £80
PATTERN RECOGNITION / IMAGE ANALYSIS
Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems - Vol 7 IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
State of the Art in the Russian Federation edited by Igor Gurevich & Vera Yashina (Federal Research Centre “Computer Science and Control” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation)
This collective compendium highlights the achievements of Soviet and Russian mathematical and computer science scientific schools in the area of image analysis and understanding, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and adjacent fields of computer sciences and applied mathematics. Contributed by renowned researchers, the materials collated are original papers never published before. This chapters provide good balance between fundamental and applied statements of problems and results.
Featured Contents: Mathematical Theory of Image Analysis; Mathematical Theory of Pattern Recognition: Some Collective Methods in Cluster Analysis and Regressions (Vladimir V Ryazanov); Applications of Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition: Biomedical Applications; Document analysis; Algebraic Approach to Classification, Forcasting and Pattern Recognition Problems: Multilayer Constructions of the Algebraic Approach in Pattern Recognition (Yury I Zhuravlev, Konstantin V Rudakov, Yury G Smetanin); Human Vision and Speech Analysis: Implicit Modeling of Pronunciation Variation in Speech Recognition Systems (Vladimir Ya Chuchupal); and others.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, and graduate students.
950pp
Jun 2024
978-981-126-720-8 US$248 £230
DNA LOGIC DESIGN
Computing with
DNA
by Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
DNA Logic Design: Computing with DNA not only unravels the theoretical intricacies but also navigates the practical challenges, offering a comprehensive exploration of a groundbreaking field at the intersection of biology and computer science. The book starts with the basics of DNA computing, and then describes the fundamental operations of DNA computing. Various kinds of logical designs are then translated into the DNA computing context: arithmetic circuits, combinational circuits, sequential circuits, memory devices, programmable logic devices, and nano processors. Heat and speed calculation techniques round off the book.
Contents: DNA Computing; Fundamental Operations in DNA Computing; DNA Arithmetic Operations; DNA Combinational Circuits; DNA Sequential Circuits; DNA Memory Devices; DNA Programmable Logic Devices; DNA Nano Processor; Heat Calculation Techniques in DNA Computing; Speed Calculation Techniques in DNA Computing; Index.
Readership: Students, faculty members, and researchers specializing in fields related to biology, molecular biology, DNA Computing, reversible logic design, biocomputing, mathematics, computer science, and engineering.
292pp
978-981-128-771-8
LOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
(In 2 volumes) by Peter A Fejer & Dan A Simovici (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
Logic is a foundational mathematical discipline for Computer Science. This unique compendium provides the main ideas and techniques originating from logic. It is divided into two volumes — propositional logic and predicate logic. The volume presents some of the most important concepts starting with a variety of logic formalisms — Hilbert/Frege systems, tableaux, sequents, and natural deduction in both propositional and first-order logic, as well as transformations between these formalisms. Topics like circuit design, resolution, cutting planes, Hintikka sets, paramodulation, and program verification, which do not appear frequently in logic books are discussed in detail.
May 2024
US$98
£90
The useful reference text has close to 800 exercises and supplements to deepen understanding of the subject. It emphasizes proofs and overcomes technical difficulties by providing detailed arguments. Computer scientists and mathematicians will benefit from this volume.
Contents: Preliminaries; Propositional Logic – Syntax and Semantics; Propositional Logic – Formal Systems; First-Order Logic – Syntax and Semantics; First-Order Logic – Formal Systems; Program Verification; Bibliography.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics and graduate students in theoretical comp science and logic & set theory.
1200pp Jul 2024
978-981-128-936-1(Set) US$420 £385
Series on Computers and Operations Research - Vol 11
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS, DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
edited by Themistocles M Rassias (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) & Panos M Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)
This comprehensive volume presents essential mathematical results devoted to topics of mathematical analysis, differential equations and their various applications. It focuses on differential operators, Wardowski maps, low-oscillation functions, Galois and Pataki connections, Hardy-type inequalities, to name just a few.
This work could serve as a useful reference text to benefit professionals, academics and graduate students working in theoretical computer science, computer mathematics, and general applied mathematics.
Contents: Differential Operators; Wardowski Maps; Low-Oscillation Functions; Galois And Pataki Connections; Power Sets; Hardy-Type Inequalities; Catalan-Type Numbers; Functional Equations; Ulam Stability; Chebyshev Polynomials; Hermite-Hadamard Type Integral Inequalities; Biconvex Functions; Variational Inequalities; Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations; Inner Product Spaces; Probabilistic Normed Spaces; Finite Element Method; etc.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics and graduate students.
750pp
978-981-126-703-1
MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
by Esfandiar
Haghverdi (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) & Liugen Zhu (Indiana University Indianapolis, USA)
Jul 2024
US$188 £175
This is a concise book that introduces students to the basics of logical thinking and important mathematical structures that are critical for a solid understanding of logical formalisms themselves as well as for building the necessary background to tackle other fields that are based on these logical principles. Despite its compact and small size, it includes many solved problems and quite a few end-of-section exercises that will help readers consolidate their understanding of the material.
This textbook is essential reading for anyone interested in the logical foundations of Informatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and other related areas. Written with undergraduate students in these disciplines in mind, this book can very well serve the needs of interested and curious readers who wish to get a grasp of the logical principles upon which these fields are built. This book does not require readers to possess math skills beyond those learned in high school.
Contents: Introduction; Propositional Logic; Set Theory; Predicate Logic; Mathematical Induction; Functions and Relations; Graph Theory and its Applications; Appendix A Translation to Propositional Logic; Appendix B Translation to Predicate Logic.
Readership: Undergraduate students.
164pp
Jun 2024
978-981-128-888-3 US$78 £70
978-981-129-025-1(pbk) US$38 £35
GENERAL MEDICINE
AVIATION MEDICINE / AEROMEDICAL SCIENCE
SYSTEMS MEDICINE FOR HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
edited by Mark Shelhamer (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA) & Erik Antonsen (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
NOBEL LECTURES
IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE (2016 – 2020)
edited by Bo Angelin (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
This edited volume makes the case that a systems approach is needed for long-term spaceflight missions. Due to distance from Earth and the impossibility of resupply or rapid return, these flights will entail unprecedented autonomy on the part of the crew. This autonomy includes the need for local clinical decision support and other assistance with urgent medical concerns. The advantage of a systems approach to medical needs in human spaceflight is that it enables a systematic and repeatable methodology for identifying and developing the individual pieces of the spacecraft systems based on the human system needs that are unique to that problem and environment.
Featured Contents: Preface: What is Systems Medicine and Why is it Needed for Spaceflight? (Mark Shelhamer, Erik Antonsen); An Overview of Habitat Systems Supporting Human Spaceflight (David Klaus); Systems Medicine in NASA Medical Operations (Rahul Suresh, Moriah S Thompson); Computational Modeling and Systems Medicine (Lauren McIntyre, Jerry Myers, Karen Ong, Dana Levin); Operational Paradigms: Low Earth Orbit and Beyond (James Reilly, Daniel M Buckland, Erik Antonsen); and others.
Readership: Spaceflight professionals, medical professionals and students.
368pp May 2024 978-981-128-768-8 US$138 £125
Physiology or medicine is the third prize category Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will. Nobel had an active interest in medical research. He came into contact with Swedish physiologist
Jöns Johansson through Karolinska Institutet around 1890. Johansson worked for a brief period in Nobel’s laboratory in Sevran, France during the same year. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. This volume is a collection of the Nobel lectures delivered by the Nobel laureates, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches for the period 2016 – 2020.List of Nobel laureates and their award citations: (2016) Yoshinori Ohsumi “for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy” (2017) Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young “for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm” (2018) James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation” (2019) William G Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J Ratcliffe and Gregg L Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”
(2020) Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”
Readership: Biologists, biochemists and medical scientists.
700pp
978-981-126-063-6
Jul 2024
US$178 £165
PASSING THE FRCPATH PART 1 EXAMINATION
A Practical Guide for Haematology Registrars by Joel McCay (National Health Service, UK)
This book will help registrars develop their learning for the FRCP part 1 exam which all haematology trainees are required to pass during training. The exam is a two-paper exam with multiple choice questions as well as essays. There are over 100+ guidelines for registrars to learn and this book has all of them in one place described in a succinct manner.
There are also multiple gaps and other areas of learning which the guidelines do not cover. Each page of this book accurately summarises a topic in the style of how you would approach an essay. The tips within the book on good ways to approach the exam from the author’s own personal experience.
Contents: Introduction; Exam Tips and Planning/Phrases to Not Forget; Red Cell Haematology; Haem-One; Transfusion.
Readership: As well as a revision aid this book would be useful for new registrars on the ward as a pocket guide and those aspiring to enter a career in haematology who want to gain knowledge on subjects without being overwhelmed.
200pp
978-981-128-020-7
Jul 2024
US$58 £55
GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
The Competitiveness of Nations: Theory and Practice
THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONS 3
Emerging Technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Dong-sung Cho & Hwy-chang Moon (The Institute for Policy & Strategy on National Competitiveness, South Korea & Seoul National University, South Korea)
The analytical tools used in this book can be further utilized for other units of analysis such as industries and firms. As this book provides a series of sophisticated methodologies and specific guidelines for enhancing national competitiveness, both academics and practitioners can derive useful implications from this research.
Alongside the theoretical frameworks and methodologies for national competitiveness presented in this book, the special theme and focus of this third volume is the fourth industrial revolution and the emerging technologies that are relevant to corporate and national competitiveness.
Featured Contents: Theoretical Framework and Highlights for National Competitiveness; Special Topic: The Effects on Firm and National Competitiveness of the Emerging Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; and others.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners.
300pp
978-981-128-222-5
Jun 2024
US$98 £90
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SYSTEMS THINKING, MANAGEMENT & EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
by
Sławomir Wyciślak (Jagiellonian University, Poland) & Michael A Radin (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
This comprehensive book intricately weaves together the disciplines of systems thinking, management, educational leadership, complexity science, and diversity. Unique in its approach, it bridges theoretical concepts with real-world applications providing educators, managers, and leaders with practical tools and strategies for implementing systems thinking in diverse educational and managerial contexts. This book is particularly valuable for those interested in emergent learning, future planning, and decision-making processes.
Contents: Management & Systems Thinking; Fundamentals of Systems Thinking; Systems Thinking Tools; Learning by Deciphering Patterns; Hierarchical vs Agent-Based Systems; Leadership; Leadership Roles; Emotional Intelligence & Cognition; Creativity, Innovations & Dynamics; Appendices; Index; Bibliography.
Readership: Academicians and professionals working on management, leadership, and systems thinking. Students specializing in psychology, pedagogy, management and creative leadership.
350pp Jun 2024
978-981-129-058-9 US$108 £100
978-981-129-161-6(pbk) US$58 £55
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
by Guiyao Tang (Shandong University, China) & Li-Qun Wei (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
The book is divided into two parts. The first part of Strategic Human Resource Management introduces related concepts and the relevant theoretical basis of SHRM. The second part focuses on strategic implementation, examining strategic human resource planning, strategic human resources staffing, strategic human resource training and development, strategic performance management and strategic compensation management. The book not only outlines the basic concepts and main contents of SHRM from a strategic standpoint, but underlines the role of latest business practice development and academic frontier research results.
Contents: Introduction to Strategic Human Resource Management; Strategic Human Resource Planning; Strategic Human Resource Staffing; Strategic Human Resource Training and Development; Strategic Performance Management; Strategic Compensation Management.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, practitioners, managers, CEOs and top management teams, and human resource professionals.
300pp Jul 2024
978-1-80061-564-9 US$98 £90
978-1-80061-575-5(pbk) US$58 £55
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY / KNOWLEDGE / INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Series
on Technology Management MANAGING PRODUCT
INNOVATION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
From Customer Understanding to Product Launch — Uncover the Intrinsic Nature of Developing Non-assembled Products by Thomas Lager (B&L Innovation AB (blinab), Sweden & Mälardalen University, Sweden)
CORPORATE FINANCE
World Scientific Lecture Notes in Finance
This book puts management of product innovation in a corporate strategic perspective and argues that a company’s competitive position is strongly related to an underlying unique and continually renewed product innovation work process, which drives innovation and delivery of new or improved products in the marketplace. The book will take the reader through a systematic examination of the necessary consecutive steps for companies’successful development of non-assembled products in the cluster of process industries.
Featured Contents: The “Family” of Process Industries; Formal Product Innovation Work Processes; Introducing a Novel Generic “Structural Process Model” of the Innovation Work Process for the Development of NonAssembled Products; Utilize the “Structural Process Model” as a Guiding Template in Corporate Development of the Individual Phases of the Work Process and Associated Gates; Integrate Four Supplementary Supportive Perspectives on Work Process Operational Use in the Development and Final Design; and others.
Readership: Scholars and industry professionals.
400pp
Jul 2024
978-1-80061-507-6 US$148 £135
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE
Beyond the Basics
edited by Itzhak Venezia & Rachel Calipha (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel)
This is the fourth volume of edited books constituting an eclectic collection of papers in behavioral finance based on contributions by participants of Israel Behavior Finance conferences. Like its predecessors, this book continues to be edited by Professor Itzhak Venezia (this book with Dr Rachel Calipha), who carefully selected the papers to be included in this volume.
Featured Contents: Anomalies: Changes in Short Positions and Earnings Surprises; Behavioral Explanations for the Preference of Dividends Over Stock Repurchases; Professional Investors and Analysts Behavior: Investor Sophistication and the Effect of Behavioral Biases in Structured Products Investment; Analysts’ Unfavorable Recommendation Initiations; Individuals’ behavior: Annuity or Lump Sum: Getting Retiring Smokers to Make Better Savings Distribution; Innovative Technology-Driven Markets: Non-Fruitful Token? Market Reactions to NFT-related Disclosures; Behavioral Insights in Alternative Meats Investing; and others.
Readership: Professors, researchers, graduates, undergraduate students.
364pp
Jun 2024
978-981-129-062-6 US$138 £125
ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS
WORLD SCIENTIFIC HANDBOOK OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT
(In 4 Volumes)
Science, Economics, Policy and Politics
edited by Gabriel Eckstein (Texas A&M University, USA), David Katz (University of Haifa, Israel), Neda A Zawahri (Cleveland State University, USA) & Jeroen Warner (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
Editor-in-chief: Shlomi Dinar (Florida International University, USA)
This multi-volume set seeks to contribute to this still burgeoning body of literature by focusing on several key themes that can help explain and recognize successes and failures in transboundary freshwater management. In particular, the set seeks to bring together original scholarship focusing on institutions (formal and informal), international water law, technology, and the nexus of domestic and inter-state affairs. Each edited volume in the set aims to build on extant research while also fostering new paths of inquiry.
Featured Contents: Volume 1: Pursuing Cooperation Over Shared Freshwater Resources Through International Law: A Historical Overview of the Evolution and Broadening of International Water Law; International Water Law and Cooperation Over Shared Freshwater Resources: An Introduction; Cooperation in a Transboundary Water Context: The African Experience; Volume 2: Technologies on Tap: The Role of Technologies in Transboundary Water Management: The Technological Transformation of Transboundary Water Management; An Overview of Disruptive Technologies for Transboundary Water Management; Systems Analysis to Inform Transboundary Resource Management; Desalination and the Transformation of Transboundary Water Policy; Wastewater Recycling in Transboundary Nonhumid Settings; Volume 3: The Role of Formal and Informal Institutions in Managing Transboundary Basins: The Role of Institutions in Governing Transboundary Rivers: An Introduction; Changing Values: Trends in International Freshwater Agreements; The Role of Basin Water Treaties and Basin Organizations in Managing Transboundary Water Resources — Taking Stock of Current Practice; Volume 4: Transboundary Water Management Across Scales: Understanding the Domestic-International Interplay: The Domestic-International Interplay in Transboundary Waters; The Politics of Scale Framing in the River Rhine Negotiations: Restoring Migration Routes for Anadromous Fish; and others.
Readership: Academics, scholars, practitioners, professionals and general reader.
1400pp Aug 2024
978-981-129-985-8(Set) US$1200 £1105
Introductory Offer US$950 £875 till Oct 31, 2024
EDUCATION SYSTEMS AND POLICIES
NIGERIA NATIONAL HOMEGROWN SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM SOURCEBOOK
edited by Abimbola Adesanmi (Partnership for Child Development, Nigeria), Samrat Singh (Partnership for Child Development, UK), Donald Bundy (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) & Lesley Drake (Partnership for Child Development, UK)
This sourcebook explores how the Federal government, and the State governments together created this huge program, and how they continue to work together to deliver this support daily to the nation’s schoolchildren.
The editors of this book were part of the growth of this exceptional national programme. The book, launched at the African Union Summit on the Africa School Feeding Day, Addis Ababa, March 1st 2023, is essential reading for researchers, implementing agencies and policy makers.
Featured Contents: Section I: The National Home-Grown School Feeding Program; Design and Implementation; Governance and Institutional Framework; Funding Mechanism; Section II: Case Study 1 Akwa Ibom STATE; Case Study 2 Anambra STATE; Case Study 3 Bauchi STATE; Case Study 4 Benue STATE; Case Study 5 Borno STATE; Case Study 6 Cross River STATE; Case Study 7 Enugu STATE; Case Study 8 Kaduna STATE; Case Study 9 Ogun STATE; Case Study 10 Oyo STATE; Case Study 11 Niger STATE; Case study 12 Sokoto STATE; and others.
Readership: Researchers and practitioners.
230pp
978-1-80061-434-5
WHAT EVERY POSTDOC NEEDS TO KNOW
(2nd Edition)
by Liz Elvidge
(Imperial College London, UK), Carol Spencely (University of Surrey, UK) & Emma Williams (EJW Solutions Ltd, UK)
Jul 2024
US$98
£90
This is a guide to developing, advancing and furthering yourself and your career. In working through exercises, learning from the experience of others (including the trials and tribulations of the authors), and seeking out information, we hope you will consider what success means on your own terms. This Second Edition includes new material exploring the importance of collaborations, enterprise career routes and research impact.
Featured Contents: Choosing a Postdoc; The UK Higher Education Scene; Coming to the UK as a Researcher — With Lessons for Those Going Overseas; How to Get the Most Out of Your Postdoc; The Relationship with Your Principal Investigator; Publish and Prosper; Teaching and Supervising; Transferable Skills Development and Taking Opportunities; Essentials of Effective Networking; Unpredictable Research — Balancing Risk and Reward; More Productivity, Less Stress: Relieving the Pressure; Diversity in Research; Research Integrity and Ethics; Taking Responsibility for Your Career and Decision Making; Careers Beyond Academia; Fellowships; The “Lectureship Leap” (Lectureships: What are They and How to Apply); and others.
Readership: Existing postdocs or those thinking of undertaking a postdoc (PhD students). Researcher developers and career officers.
304pp
Jun 2024
978-1-80061-567-0 US$72 £65
978-1-80061-576-2(pbk) US$34 £30
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINGAPORE COLLECTION
TÜRKIYE’S SOFT POWER RE-IMAGINED ON ITS CENTENNIAL
by Çağatay Özdemir
Using both theoretical and empirical sources to explore the concept of soft power and its associations with other concepts and practices, this study makes a historical analysis and examines contemporary practices of soft power in Türkiye; how it utilizes its soft power elements to overcome diplomatic challenges, build rapport with international audiences and shape its global standing, thereby facilitating mutual comprehension, breaking stereotypes, and encouraging cross-cultural conversation.
BEHIND THE BANYAN
Ho Kwon Ping on Building a Global Brand by Aaron Low (The Nutgraf, Singapore)
Featured Contents: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework of Soft Power: Conceptual Framework of Soft Power; Strategic Communication; Public Diplomacy; Nation Branding; The History of Soft Power from the Ottoman Empire to the Present: The Use of Soft Power During the Foundation (1299–1453) and Rise (1453–1683) of the Ottoman Empire; The Use of Soft Power (1600–1908) During the Periods of Stagnation (1683–1828) and Decline; The Use of Soft Power During the Republican Period; Turkish Public Diplomacy and Soft Power Actors: Türkiye’s Current Resources of Soft Power; Communication Strategies of Türkiye’s Public Diplomacy: Turkish Public Diplomacy in the AK Party Era; COVID-19 Pandemic and Türkiye’s Humanitarian Diplomacy; Erdoğan’s Vision for Public Diplomacy; and others.
Readership: Students, academics, researchers.
284pp
978-981-128-546-2
Jun 2024
US$98 £90
In Behind the Banyan, the company’s founder and executive chairman peels back the layers of the company’s successes and failures. Kwon Ping shares how he and his co-founders built a company from nearly nothing. From constructing a resort in the mountains of Lijiang in China to rebuilding his properties in Phuket after the 2004 tsunami, he opens on the highs and lows over the course of his extraordinary 30-year entrepreneurial journey. In so doing, Kwon Ping delivers powerful insights in how to deal with technological disruptions, build a positive company culture, and handle succession in Asian family businesses.
Contents: Introduction; KP and His Ideals: When Time Stood Still; Rise of a Student Protestor; The Hardest Decision; A New Start and an Epic Failure; A Moonshot KP and His Ideas: How to Build a Brand; The Day My Mother Went Skinny-Dipping; Think Big; Inside Out: Distilling Company Culture; The Courage of Mind; Disruption: Airbnb vs Hotels; Innovate or Die; Beyond Profit; Keeping It in the Family; Pandemic Pains; Somewhere Over the Rainbow; Excuse Me, Are You an Entrepreneur?.
Readership: Aspiring entrepreneurs, business students, resort and spa lovers.
300pp
Jun 2024
978-981-129-049-7 US$72 £65
978-981-129-159-3(pbk) US$36 £35
50 YEARS OF THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP: DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MICHAEL E FISHER
ASPECTS OF HARMONIC ANALYSIS ON LOCALLY COMPACT ABELIAN GROUPS
ASYMPTOTIC ISSUES FOR SOME PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (SECOND EDITION)
BEAUTY OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS, THE: AND HOW TO TEACH IT
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: BEYOND THE BASICS
BEHIND THE BANYAN: HO KWON PING ON BUILDING A GLOBAL BRAND
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