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NOTABLE TITLES PAGE PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 1 GENERAL PHYSICS 1 QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION 3 MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS 3 MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS 4 CHEMISTRY CATALYST CHEMISTRY 4 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 5 MATERIALS SCIENCE GENERAL MATERIALS SCIENCE 5 NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS 6 LIFE SCIENCES / BIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY / VIROLOGY RESEARCH 6 MEDICINE PUBLIC HEALTH 7 BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 7 ECONOMICS AND FINANCE CORPORATE FINANCE 8 ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS 8 HEALTH ECONOMICS 9 ARTS PHILOSOPHY 9 SOCIAL SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY 10 BOOKS PHYSICS ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY 11 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS 11 GENERAL PHYSICS 12 QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION 13 MATHEMATICS ALGEBRA & RELATED TOPICS 14 COMPUTER MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE 16 DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS 16 GENERAL PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS 17 GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY 18 MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS 18 MATHEMATICAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS 19 MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS 19 MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 20 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS 21 CHEMISTRY CATALYST CHEMISTRY 22 GENERAL CHEMISTRY 22 INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY 23 PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 24 THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY / QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 24 MATERIALS SCIENCE POLYMERS 25 GENERAL MATERIALS SCIENCE 26
NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS COMPLEX SYSTEMS NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASES / INFORMATION SCIENCES MACHINE PERCEPTION / COMPUTER VISION NEURAL NETWORKS / NETWORKING PATTERN RECOGNITION / IMAGE ANALYSIS THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT & PLANNING LIFE SCIENCES / BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BIOPHYSICS MICROBIOLOGY / VIROLOGY RESEARCH MEDICINE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE / CHINESE MEDICINE PUBLIC HEALTH BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DECISION SCIENCES GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY / KNOWLEDGE / INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL TRADE / BUSINESS MARKETING ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ACCOUNTING CORPORATE FINANCE ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS FINTECH, CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE HEALTH ECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS / MICROECONOMICS MONEY AND BANKING / INVESTMENTS / FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS EDUCATION CHILDREN FROM 6 TO 12 YEARS ARTS PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY SOCIAL ISSUES / HUMAN SECURITY ASIAN STUDIES ASIAN BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT ASIAN ECONOMIES ASIAN POLITICS / SOCIETY CHINA STUDIES SINGAPORE COLLECTION ORDER FORM
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ PHYSICS ] CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTOR/FERROMAGNET NANOSTRUCTURES An Illustration of the Physics of Hybrid Nanomaterials by Oriol T Valls (University of Minnesota, USA) It used to be difficult to reliably fabricate clean heterostructures using magnetic and superconducting layers. Today this is no longer the case; such reproducible superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures enable the quantitative study of the rich and varied phenomena associated with ferromagnet/superconductor proximity effects. These structures are eminent, suitable candidates for many switching devices, ranging from non-volatile low power memory elements to quantum computing applications involving Josephson junctions. More details on Page 11
GENERAL PHYSICS
DISCOVERING THE NATURE OF LIGHT The Science and the Story by Norval Fortson (University of Washington, USA) This book is a science text about light for the general reader; it is also an adventure story and a detective story revealing how the secrets of light were uncovered. Readers can share in the thrill of each discovery and learn about some of the myriad applications opened up by these fascinating discoveries, including the telescope, fiber optics, the laser, and even the recent optical detection of gravitational waves from space. More details on Page 12
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S I NEVER CALL IT BIG BANG George Gamow: The Extraordinary Story of a Genius of Physics by Alessandro Bottino (University of Turin, Italy) & Cristina Favero This book tells the incredible story of George Gamow, one of the most brilliant and extravagant physicists of the past century. Gamow was born in Russia in 1904 and died in the USA in 1968. He lived his life in a time between the twenties and the sixties, characterized by rapid developments in physics and became a key figure of that time. Gamow’s true merits were seldom fully recognized. Yet his ideas are behind a number of Nobel Prizes for Physics during the past century. His remarkable achievements in Nuclear Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology were the result of a combination of expertise and creativity, intuition and, importantly, of a good sense of humor. Together they craft the image of a true revolutionary scientist. Gamow also had a natural talent for popularization and was throughout his life a successful science communicator. More details on Page 12
TIME AND BEAUTY Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies by Adrian Bejan (Duke University, USA) Time and beauty are two of our most visceral perceptions. Yet, their nature is seldom questioned. In this ground-breaking new work, Adrian Bejan — a true ‘original’ among physicists — explains, in a scholarly yet colorful style, the scientific basis for the perception of time and beauty. More details on Page 13
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION
INVITATION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS by Daniel F Styer (Oberlin College, USA) “I love Dan Styer’s approach! His writing is lucid. He first discusses experiments that elucidate the need for a new quantum framework before introducing the mathematical tools to delve deeper into understanding them. I highly recommend this textbook for sophomore-level undergraduate quantum instruction.” Chandralekha Singh Professor of Physics, University of Pittsburgh and President, American Association of Physics Teachers More details on Page 13
[ MATHEMATICS ] MATHEMATICAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
MATHEMATICAL GAME THEORY by Ulrich Faigle (University of Cologne, Germany) What is a game? Classically, a game is perceived as something played by human beings. Its mathematical analysis is human-centered, explores the structures of particular games, economic or social environments and tries to model supposedly “rational” human behavior in search of appropriate “winning strategies”. This point of view places game theory into a very special scientific corner where mathematics, economics and psychology overlap and mingle. More details on Page 19
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS
SET THEORY AND FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
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Volume II: Foundations of Mathematics by Douglas Cenzer (University of Florida, USA), Jean Larson (University of Florida, USA), Christopher Porter (Drake University, USA) & Jindrich Zapletal (University of Florida, USA) This book provides an introduction to mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. It will help prepare students for advanced study in set theory and mathematical logic as well as other areas of mathematics, such as analysis, topology, and algebra. The presentation of finite state and Turing machines leads to the Halting Problem and Gö del’s Incompleteness Theorem, which have broad academic interest, particularly in computer science and philosophy. More details on Page 19
[ CHEMISTRY ] CATALYST CHEMISTRY Advanced Textbooks in Chemistry
INTRODUCTION TO HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS (2nd Edition)
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by Roel Prins (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Anjie Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China), Xiang Li (Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China) & Foteini Sapountzi (Syngaschem BV, The Netherlands) Catalysis is a multidisciplinary subject. This book introduces the chemical, materials, and engineering principles of catalysis so that both MSc and PhD students with a basic but not extensive knowledge of chemistry and physics and those with a basic understanding of chemical engineering can learn more about catalysis. Examples are taken from catalytic reactions and catalysts used in the energy, petroleum, and base-chemicals industry. More details on Page 22
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
UNIFORM SUPERSONIC FLOWS IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS Chemistry Close to Absolute Zero Studied Using the CRESU Method edited by Bertrand R Rowe, André Canosa (CNRS - University of Rennes 1, France) & Dwayne E Heard (University of Leeds, UK) Radioastronomy has painted an extraordinary picture of the Galactic interstellar medium, which displays an amazing organization and structuring of matter from very hot ultra-diluted media to very cold denser milieus considered as the cradles of stars. In these latter environments, the discovery of a chemical diversity of molecules, including those associated with precursors to life itself, immediately brought to light the question of the mechanisms leading to their formation and persistence at temperatures as low as 10 K. More details on Page 24
[ MATERIALS SCIENCE ] GENERAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
LABORATORY SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWING Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing’s Place in History by Paul Le Pinnet (British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, UK) This book pushes back the boundaries of Scientific Glassblowing, emphasizing the possibilities of the material. In addition to the author’s own chapters, he has invited Scientific Glassblowers from around the world to describe advanced glassblowing techniques in addition to the historical background of its development. More details on Page 26
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ] NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
ELEGANT CIRCUITS Simple Chaotic Oscillators by Julien Clinton Sprott (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) & Wesley Joo-Chen Thio (University of Michigan, USA) Chaos is the study of the underlying determinism in the seemingly random phenomena that occur all around us. One of the best experimental demonstrations of chaos occurs in electrical circuits when the parameters are chosen carefully. We will show you how to construct such chaotic circuits for use in your own studies and demonstrations while teaching you the basics of chaos. More details on Page 27
[ LIFE SCIENCES / BIOLOGY ] MICROBIOLOGY / VIROLOGY RESEARCH
MAN VERSUS MICROBE What Will It Take to Win? by Brian Bremner (Bloomberg LP, UK) The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the world in 2020 and 2021 killed nearly four million people, delivered unimaginable human suffering and $22 trillion in lost global growth. We weren’t prepared and should have been. Unravelling the secrets of microbes, an invisible parallel universe of tiny life forms all around us, is central to managing the big twentyfirst-century challenges of pandemics, bioterrorism, food security and climate change. Scientists, technologists, entrepreneurs and political leaders are racing to decode this biological realm with powerful new tools to extend human lifespans and make the world safer and more prosperous. More details on Page 35
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ MEDICINE ] PUBLIC HEALTH
TEXTBOOK OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE (5th Edition)
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edited by David Koh (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei & National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Wee Hoe Gan (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore & Changi General Hospital, Singapore) Following the success of the fourth edition, which was highly commended in the primary health care category for the 2018 British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Book Awards, this fifth edition has been substantially revised and updated to reflect significant changes in health care practice and to incorporate the explosion of information since the advent of the fourth industrial revolution and the COVID-19 pandemic. More details on Page 37
[ BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ] GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT The Competitiveness of Nations: Theory and Practice - Vol. 1
THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONS 1 Navigating the US – China Trade War and the COVID-19 Global Pandemic by Dong-sung Cho (The Institute for Industrial Policy Studies, South Korea & Seoul National University, South Korea), Hwy-chang Moon (The Institute for Policy & Strategy on National Competitiveness, South Korea & Seoul National University, South Korea) In the existing reports on national competitiveness and rankings such as IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook and WEF Global Competitiveness Report, there are sizable discrepancies in the ranking order for the same countries. As a result, the reader is often confused because such an outcome creates difficulties for government officials when translating these findings into real-world policies. More details on Page 38
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ] CORPORATE FINANCE
STOCK MARKETS AND CORPORATE FINANCE A Primer
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by Michael Dempsey (Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam) Stock Markets and Corporate Finance: A Primer examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for corporate management. In the historical context of financial institutions and business finance, students are stimulated to learn that traditional totems of corporate finance can no longer be presented as dogma, but rather as exceedingly frail models of reality. At the core of this text is the philosophy that financial institutions and corporate/business finance are more satisfactorily understood in relation to one another. More details on Page 41
ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy
LECTURE NOTES IN GLOBAL-LOCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS by Ariel Dinar (University of California, Riverside, USA) Globalization and recent developments in the world suggest strong relationships between local and global decisions, actions and impacts. Global-local relationships are also associated with positive and negative externalities, which necessitate policy interventions. Lecture Notes in Global-Local Policy Interactions discusses the process of building and managing a global public policy and the interaction of public policies at the global and local (national/regional) levels. More details on Page 42
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S HEALTH ECONOMICS World Scientific Series in Health Investment and Financing - Vol 6
GLOBAL HEALTH IN PRACTICE Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial of Evidence, and Neo-dependency by Olusoji Adeyi (Resilient Health Systems, USA & Johns Hopkins University, USA) Foreword by: Dean T Jamison (University of California, San Francisco, USA) The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the world’s vulnerabilities to health and economic ruin from disease outbreaks. But the pandemic merely reveals fundamental weaknesses and contradictions in global health. What are the roots of discontents in global health? How do geo-politics, power dynamics, knowledge gaps, racism, and corruption affect global health? Is foreign aid for health due for a radical overhaul? More details on Page 43
[ ARTS ] PHILOSOPHY
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, PHILOSOPHER OF TIME by Rémy Lestienne (CNRS Paris, France) Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947), a mathematician and logician by training, is the author of highly original works at the crossroads of science and philosophy, exploring the nature of the world around us and its temporal flow. Convinced that everyday terms distort reality, Whitehead invented or borrowed terms more appropriate to his project. The word “Process”, which gives its title to his most famous work Process and Reality (1929), is central to his thinking. Process introduces his vision of nature as a succession of crystallizations, each of which proves the finite granularity of time: the instant does not exist. It also implies a confrontation with the theory of relativity and quantum physics. More details on Page 46
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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ SOCIAL SCIENCES ] POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY
GLOBAL NATIONALISM Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century edited by Pablo de Orellana & Nicholas Michelsen (King’s College London, UK) The twenty-first century is witnessing a truly transnational revival of a very old set of ideas. Despite romantic attachments to old symbols, these late modern nationalism movements are not simply replicas of the previous two waves of nationalism in the 1860s and 1920s. Nor is it true that today’s nationalism movements want simply to return to the past and effect a nationalist 1930s-style retrenchment. From Putin’s macho revivalism, through to Trump’s shocking victory and Xi’s strongman regionalism, nationalists engage with the economic context of our time and address issues born of globalization. Crucially, in their vision for international relations they seek the destruction of key international norms in a drive to restore a vision of sovereignty predicated on a survivalist understanding of state power. More details on Page 48
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CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
SUPERCONDUCTOR/ FERROMAGNET NANOSTRUCTURES
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An Illustration of the Physics of Hybrid Nanomaterials
THE SUN AND THE OTHER STARS OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
by Oriol T Valls (University of Minnesota, USA)
A Cosmographic Journey through the Divina Commedia
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is the story of a journey across the Universe as it was known in the Middle Ages, a work of science fiction ante litteram. Dante had an encyclopedic mind, no doubt, and his poem is the most widely read book after the Bible. He was a master of the astronomical knowledge of his time, and used astronomy in his work to indicate places, to measure time, and to exemplify beauty. Indeed, in the Convivio, he wrote that science is “the ultimate perfection of our soul” and “astronomy — more than any other science — is noble and high for a noble and high subject.”
This is a theory book, but the theory is neither abstruse nor esoteric. Knowledge of only introductory graduate physics has been assumed; a solid undergraduate training and a bit of perseverance would also be enough. This book can easily be read and understood by experimentalists, and just about anybody can grasp the basics by referring to the figures and explanations.
Contents: Introduction; Historical Introduction; Dante’s Biography and Works; Astronomy Before Dante; The Calendar of the Comedy; The Earth of Dante; Atmospheric Phenomena; The Motions of the Heavens; The Moon; The Planets; The Stars; Mysteries of the Milky Way; An Unlimited but Finite Universe; Parallel Universes; Astrology; Conclusions; References.
Featured Contents: The Basic Formalism; Conservation Laws and Triplet conversion; Thermodynamics; Triplet Pairing Generation and Its Consequences; Experiments: Tr a n s i t i o n Te m p e r a t u r e a n d Tr i p l e t Conversion in Spin Valve Structures; Transport: Introduction; Charge Transport; Spin Transport; and others.
Readership: General reader, particularly those interested in Dante and in astronomy. 200pp 978-981-124-549-7 978-981-124-622-7(pbk)
Readership: Graduate students; researchers in spintronics; researchers.
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This book’s main purpose is to explain how the equilibrium and transport properties of these heterostructures can be accurately calculated starting from a standard BCS type Hamiltonian. The main techniques, including both analytical and numerical methods, are discussed in detail. Results obtained from these calculations are shown to be in excellent quantitative agreement with experiment.
by Sperello di Serego Alighieri (INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy) & Massimo Capaccioli (Università Federico Secondo, Italy)
GENERAL PHYSICS I NEVER CALL IT BIG BANG
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George Gamow: The Extraordinary Story of a Genius of Physics
DISCOVERING THE NATURE OF LIGHT
by Alessandro Bottino (University of Turin, Italy) & Cristina Favero
The Science and the Story
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by Norval Fortson (University of Washington, USA)
The figure of Gamow is interesting also from a cultural perspective. His life stretches across a critical period in our history and moves geographically from Russia to the USA, via Europe. His story provides insights into the complex dialogue between historical events and scientific developments during the twentieth century.
With Professor Fortson, distinguished experimental physicist, as your tour guide, follow the journey from the 17th century — when Descartes first calculated the size of the rainbow — to the 20th century, when the quantum theory of light was born. Learn how Huygens, Newton, Planck, Einstein and many other great scientists solved one mystery after another, from the reason underlying the law of refraction to the puzzle of the photoelectric effect. The journey ends with the solution to the most challenging mystery of all: that light is both a wave and a particle — a fascinating finale.
Our book builds on the extensive interview that science historian Charles Weiner did with Gamow shortly before his death. Here Gamow offers a complete survey of his scientific achievements. Tapping onto their dialogue, we have enriched the picture of Gamow’s figure with materials gathered also from other sources. First of all, we discuss his autobiography, in which Gamow mainly focuses on the education he received in Russia and on his experience as a young scientist in Europe.
Contents: Reflection and Refraction of Light; Huygens Found the Wave Theory of Light; Newton Turns His Genius to the Study of Color; The Speed of Light: Timing Jupiter’s Moons; The Speed of Light: The Advent of Precision Astronomy; 1800: Thomas Young Revives the Wave Theory; The Wave Theory Triumphs: Fresnel 1815 – 1825; A Momentous Discovery: Joseph Fraunhofer Observes Spectral Lines; Light is an Electromagnetic Wave; The Entrance of the Photon and the Birth of Quantum Theory.
Featured Contents: First Clues about George Gamow; Just Looking at the Sky; The Next Day the Paper was Ready; If I’d been Smarter; The Heaven’s Glorious Sun; Back to Cambridge and Copenhagen; Nothing Particularly Good; Destination: United States of America; I like to be a Pioneer; If I’d Got 500 Degrees Kelvin, It Would have been Unpleasant; It was very Amusing to Create Codes and Ties; About Mr Tompkins and Other Stories; A Morning Train to Princeton; Things Hang in the Air.
Readership: Students, physicists, and general readers interested in the story about light and its applications. 250pp 978-981-124-959-4 978-981-125-029-3(pbk)
Readership: General. 150pp 978-981-124-230-4
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QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION
TIME AND BEAUTY
Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies by Adrian Bejan (Duke University, USA)
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Organized into three main ideas, the book begins first with the perception of time. The author expounds on why we feel that time flies faster as we get older. Perceived time, also called “mind time, “ is different from clock time. In this context, time is another word for “perceived change”. Next, readers will discover that beauty is appealing because beautifully-shaped images are scanned faster by two eyes. To observe our immediate surroundings and to understand them faster is highly advantageous to survival; hence, there is an underlying evolutionary advantage to our discernment for ideal ratios, shapes, and beauty at large. Finally, time and beauty are jointly understood to explain why the global pandemic had decelerated our mind time. This understanding arms us with techniques to slow down our mind time (which accelerates with age), and to create the conditions for living longer and more creatively.
INVITATION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS
by Daniel F Styer (Oberlin College, USA)
Contents: Welcome; “Something Isn’t Quite Right”; What Is Quantum Mechanics About?; Forging Mathematical Tools; The Quantum Mechanics of Position; Solving the Energy Eigenproblem; Identical Particles; Atoms; The Vistas Open to Us.
Contents: Overview; Speeding Time; Beauty; Contrast; Shape; Idea; Perspective; Art and Science; Slowing Time; Design Science Readership: General audience; laypersons, scientists and professionals who are interested in the connections between perceived time and beauty, derived from a scientific approach. 250pp 978-981-124-546-6 978-981-124-679-1(pbk)
Readership: Textbook for second-year undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, or allied fields, and aimed specifically at the ubiquitous “Modern Physics” course.
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The book builds up the phenomena of the quantum world — quantization, interference, and entanglement — in the simplest possible system, the qubit. Once the phenomena are introduced, it builds mathematical machinery for describing them. It goes on to generalize those concepts and that machinery to more intricate systems. Special attention is paid to identical particles, the source of considerable student confusion. In the last chapter, students get a taste of what is not treated in the book and are invited to continue exploring quantum mechanics. Problems in the book test both conceptual and technical knowledge, and invite students to develop their own questions.
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UNIFIED FIELD THEORY AND OCCAM’S RAZOR
ALGEBRA AND RELATED TOPICS
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Simple Solutions to Deep Questions by Andràs Kovàcs (BroadBit Energy Technologies, Finland), Giorgio Vassallo (University of Palermo, Italy), Paul O’Hara (Sophia University Institute, Italy), Francesco Celani (INFN-LNF, Italy) & Antonino Oscar Di Tommaso (University of Palermo, Italy)
BASIC ABSTRACT ALGEBRA
This book attempts to provide real answers to foundational questions related to this unification and should be of high interest to innovative scientists. A diverse group of contributing authors approach an old problem with an open-mindedness that presents a new and fresh perspective.
This book is mainly intended for first-year University students who undertake a basic abstract algebra course, as well as instructors. It contains the basic notions of abstract algebra through solved exercises as well as a “True or False” section in each chapter. Each chapter also contains an essential background section, which makes the book easier to use.
Study Guide Exercises and Solutions
by Mohammed Hichem Mortad (University of Oran 1, Algeria)
Contents: Logic, sets et al.; Mappings; Binary Relations; Groups; Rings and Fields; Polynomials and Rational Fractions.
This highly original book brings together theoretical researchers and experimentalists specialized in the areas of mathematics and epistemology, theoretical and experimental physics, engineering, and technology. For years they have worked independently on topics related to the foundations and unity of physics and have had numerous overlapping ideas in terms of using Clifford Algebra and spinors. Within the book, new technology applications are outlined and theoretical results are complemented by interpretations of experimental data.
Readership: First and second year mathematics and computer science students interested in abstract algebra. Also good for instructors. 200pp 978-981-125-210-5 978-981-125-249-5(pbk)
Featured Contents: Foundations: Electromagnetism, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics: Maxwell’s Equations and Occam’s Razor; Electromagnetic and QM Waves Without Postulates; The Electron and Occam’s Razor; Experimental Validation and Practical Applications: Superconductivity; Comptonscale Electron-Proton Composite; Electron Mediated Nuclear Fusion; Nuclear Forces and Occam’s Razor; and others.
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Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners. 398pp 978-1-80061-129-0
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FRACTAL ANALYSIS
Basic Concepts and Applications by Carlo Cattani (University of Tuscia, Italy), Anouar Ben Mabrouk (University of Monastir, Tunisia & University of Kairouan, Tunisia & University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia) & Sabrine Arfaoui (University of Monastir, Tunisia & University of Tabuk, Saudi Arabia)
Monographs in Number Theory
RECENT PROGRESS ON TOPICS OF RAMANUJAN SUMS AND COTANGENT SUMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE RIEMANN HYPOTHESIS
The aim of this book is to provide a basic and selfcontained introduction to the ideas underpinning fractal analysis. The book illustrates some important applications issued from real data sets, real physical and natural phenomena as well as real applications in different fields, and consequently, presents to the readers the opportunity to implement fractal analysis in their specialties according to the step-by-step guide found in the book.
by Helmut Maier (University of Ulm, Germany), Michael Th Rassias (Hellenic Military Academy, Greece) & László Tóth (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Contents: Introduction; Basics of Measure Theory; Martingales with Discrete Time; Hausdorff Measure and Dimension; Capacity Dimension of Sets; Packing Measure and Dimension; Multifractal Analysis of Measures; Extensions to Multifractal Cases; Bibliography; Index. Readership: Young researchers at master’s level in sciences; researchers in PhD studies in pure and applied mathematical/physical sciences; and researchers at advanced levels are provided the necessary tools that allow them to understand and adapt fractal analysis to their needs such as supervision and development of research projects. Advanced undergraduate students will gain a clear idea on what fractal analysis is, that will guide them to decide their course on their future scientific research areas. 250pp 978-981-123-943-4
Contents: Ramanujan Sums: A Survey of Recent Results; Cotangent Sums Related to the Estermann Zeta Function and to the Riemann Hypothesis. Readership: Scientists, researchers, and graduate students in Pure and Applied Mathematics. 180pp 978-981-124-688-3
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In this monograph, we study recent results on some categories of trigonometric/ exponential sums along with various of their applications in Mathematical Analysis and Analytic Number Theory. Through the two chapters of this monograph, we wish to highlight the applicability and breadth of techniques of trigonometric/exponential sums in various problems focusing on the interplay of Mathematical Analysis and Analytic Number Theory. We wish to stress the point that the goal is not only to prove the desired results, but also to present a plethora of intermediate Propositions and Corollaries investigating the behaviour of such sums, which can also be applied in completely different problems and settings than the ones treated within this monograph.
COMPUTER MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE
DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS FORMAL AND ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Textbook Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications: Monographs, Expositions and Lecture Notes - Vol 3
edited by Galina Filipuk (University of Warsaw, Poland), Alberto Lastra (University of Alcalá, Spain) & Sławomir Michalik (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland)
INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRAIC CODING THEORY
by Tzuong-Tsieng Moh (Purdue University, USA)
The book provides the reader with an overview of the actual state of research in ordinary and partial differential equations in the complex domain. Topics include summability and asymptotic study of both ordinary and partial differential equations, and also q-difference and differential-difference equations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students who wish to expand their knowledge of these fields. With the latest results and research developments and contributions from experts in their field, Formal and Analytical Solutions of Differential Equations provides a valuable contribution to methods, techniques, different mathematical tools, and study calculations.
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In this age of technology where messages are transmitted in sequences of 0’s and 1’s through space, errors can occur due to noisy channels. Thus, self-correcting code is vital to eradicate these errors when the number of errors is small. It is widely used in industry for a variety of applications including e-mail, telephone, and remote sensing (for example, photographs of Mars). An expert in algebra and algebraic geometry, Tzuong-Tsieng Moh covers many essential aspects of algebraic coding theory in this book, such as elementary algebraic coding theories, the mathematical theory of vector spaces and linear algebras behind them, various rings and associated coding theories, a fast decoding method, useful parts of algebraic geometry and geometric coding theories.
Featured Contents: Families of Periodic Solutions and Invariant Tori of Hamiltonian Systems (Alexander Dmitrievich Bruno); The Algebraic Potentials Having Tri-Hamiltonian Structures of the Reflection Groups of Types D4, F4, H4 (Jiro Sekiguchi); Invariant Coordinate Subspaces of Normal Form of Hamiltonian Systems (Alexander Batkhin); Non-standard Discretisations of a Hamiltonian System Related to the Fourth Painlevé Equation (Galina Filipuk and Thomas Kecker); Notes on the Zeros of the Solutions of the Nonhomogeneous Airy’s Equation (Federico Zullo); and others.
This book is accessible to advanced college students, graduate students, coding theorists and algebraic geometers. Contents: Linear Codes; Rings; Ring Codes; Algebraic Geometry; Algebraic Geometric Code; Decoding the Geometric Goppa Codes. Readership: Advanced college students, graduate students, working coding theorists, working algebraic geometers. 200pp 978-981-122-096-8
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GENERAL PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS World Scientific Series in Information Studies
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TRILOGY OF NUMBERS AND ARITHMETIC
AN INTRODUCTION TO ABSTRACT ALGEBRA
Book 1: History of Numbers and Arithmetic: An Information Perspective
Sets, Groups, Rings, and Fields by Steven H Weintraub (Lehigh University, USA)
by Mark Burgin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
This book is a textbook for a semester-long or year-long introductory course in abstract algebra at the upper undergraduate or beginning graduate level.
The book is the first in the trilogy which will bring you to the fascinating world of numbers and operations with them. Numbers provide information about myriads of things. Together with operations, numbers constitute arithmetic forming in basic intellectual instruments of theoretical and practical activity of people and offering powerful tools for representation, acquisition, transmission, processing, storage, and management of information about the world.
It treats set theory, group theory, ring and ideal theory, and field theory (including Galois theory), and culminates with a treatment of Dedekind rings, including rings of algebraic integers.
This book looks into the chronicle of numbers and arithmetic from ancient times all the way to 21st century. It also includes the developments in these areas in the 20th century and later. A unique aspect of this book is its information orientation of the exposition of the history of numbers and arithmetic.
Each of its chapters concludes with a variety of exercises ranging from the straightforward to the challenging in order to reinforce students’ knowledge of the subject. Some of these are particular examples that illustrate the theory while others are general results that develop the theory further.
Contents: Introduction; The Story About Numbers and Arithmetic from Ancient Times to The Beginning of the Second Millennium; The Chronicle of Numbers and Arithmetic from the Beginning of the Second Millennium to the Beginning of the 20th Century; The Acceleration of the Development in Arithmetic and Numerical Systems in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Discovery of Non-Diophantine Arithmetics and Their Applications; Non-Diophantine Operations with Numbers and Related Constructions in the History of Mathematics and Science; Appendix: Arithmetics Used by People; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Set Theory; Group Theory; Ring Theory; Field Theory; Rings of Algebraic Integers and Dedekind Rings. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. 250pp 978-981-124-666-1 978-981-124-755-2(pbk)
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In addition to treating standard topics, it contains material not often dealt with in books at this level. It provides a fresh perspective on the subjects it covers, with, in particular, distinctive treatments of factorization theory in integral domains and of Galois theory.
GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY
MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
INFINITY OPERADS AND MONOIDAL CATEGORIES WITH GROUP EQUIVARIANCE
Study Guide
SPECIAL TECHNIQUES FOR SOLVING INTEGRALS
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by Donald Yau (The Ohio State University at Newark, USA)
Examples and Problems
by Khristo N Boyadzhiev (Ohio Northern University, USA)
This monograph provides a coherent development of operads, infinity operads, and monoidal categories, equipped with equivariant structures encoded by an action operad. A group operad is a planar operad with an action operad equivariant structure. In the first three parts of this monograph, we establish a foundation for group operads and for their higher coherent analogues called infinity group operads. Examples include planar, symmetric, braided, ribbon, and cactus operads, and their infinity analogues. For example, with the tools developed here, we observe that the coherent ribbon nerve of the universal cover of the framed little 2-disc operad is an infinity ribbon operad. Contents: Operads with Group Equivariance: Introduction; Planar Operads; Symmetric Operads; Group Operads; Braided Operads; Ribbon Operads; Cactus OperadsConstructions of Group Operads: Naturality; Group Operads as Algebras; Group Operads with Varying Colors; Boardman-Vogt Construction for Group OperadsInfinity Group Operads: Category of Group Trees; Contractibility of Group Tree Category; Generalized Reedy Structure; Realization-Nerve Adjunction for Group Operads; Nerve Theorem for Group Operads; Coherent Realization-Nerve and Infinity Group OperadsCoherence for Monoidal Categories with Group Equivariance: Monoidal Categories; G-Monoidal Categories; Coherence for G-Monoidal Categories; Braided and Symmetric Monoidal Categories; Ribbon Monoidal Categories; and others. Readership: Graduate students and researchers with an interest in operads and categories. 488pp 978-981-125-092-7
This volume contains techniques of integration which are not found in standard calculus and advanced calculus books. It can be considered as a map to explore many classical approaches to evaluate integrals. It is intended for students and professionals who need to solve integrals or like to solve integrals and yearn to learn more about the various methods they could apply. Undergraduate and graduate students whose studies include mathematical analysis or mathematical physics will strongly benefit from this material. Mathematicians involved in research and teaching in areas related to calculus, advanced calculus and real analysis will find it invaluable. The volume contains numerous solved examples and problems for the reader. These examples can be used in classwork or for home assignments, as well as a supplement to student projects and student research. Featured Contents: Special Substitutions; Solving Integrals by Differentiation with Respect to a Parameter; Solving Logarithmic Integrals by Using Fourier Series; Various Techniques; List of Solved Integrals; and others. Readership: Graduate and undergraduate students, professors and researchers. 400pp 978-981-123-575-7 978-981-123-625-9(pbk)
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MATHEMATICAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC AND FOUNDATIONS
MATHEMATICAL GAME THEORY
Textbook
by Ulrich Faigle (University of Cologne, Germany) This book takes a novel approach to the subject. Its focus is on mathematical models that apply to game theory in particular but exhibit a universal character and thus extend the scope of game theory considerably. This textbook addresses anyone interested in a general game-theoretic view of the world. The reader should have mathematical knowledge at the level of a first course in real analysis and linear algebra. However, possibly more specialized aspects are further elaborated and pointers to relevant supplementary literature are given. Moreover, many examples invite the reader to participate “actively” when going through the material. The scope of the book can be covered in one course on Mathematical Game Theory at advanced undergraduate or graduate level.
SET THEORY AND FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL LOGIC Volume II: Foundations of Mathematics
This book provides an introduction to mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. It will help prepare students for advanced study in set theory and mathematical logic as well as other areas of mathematics, such as analysis, topology, and algebra. The presentation of finite state and Turing machines leads to the Halting Problem and Gö del’s Incompleteness Theorem, which have broad academic interest, particularly in computer science and philosophy.
Contents: Mathematical Models of the Real Word: Systems and Games; Combinatorial Games: Recursiveness, Winning Strategies, Game Algebra; Zero-Sum Games: Matrix games, Lagrange Games; Investing and Betting: Propor tional Investing, Fair Odds, Betting and Information, Common Knowledge; Potentials, Utilities and Equilibria; n-Person Games: Dynamics, Randomization, Traffic Flows; Potentials and Temperature: Te m p e r a t u r e , M e t r o p o l i s P r o c e s s ; Cooperative Games: TU-Games, Stable Sets, Core, Monge Algorithm, Supermodularity, Values, Coalition Formation; Interaction Systems and Quantum Models: Interaction Systems, Quantum Systems, Quantum Games.
Contents: Propositional Logic; Predicate Logic; Models of Predicate Logic; Boolean Algebras; Computability; Decidable and Undecidable T h e o r i e s ; A l go r i t h m i c R a n d o m n e s s ; Nonstandard Numbers; Foundations of Geometry. Readership: Advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students interested in mathematical logic, mathematics, computer science, and philosophy.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners. 190pp 978-981-124-669-2
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by Douglas Cenzer (University of Florida, USA), Jean Larson (University of Florida, USA), Christopher Porter (Drake University, USA) & Jindrich Zapletal (University of Florida, USA)
MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS ANALYTIC HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY AND ALBERT EINSTEIN’S SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY (2nd Edition)
LECTURES ON QUANTUM MECHANICS AND ATTRACTORS
by Alexander Komech (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia & Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia & Vienna University, Austria)
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by Abraham Albert Ungar (North Dakota State University, USA)
This book gives a concise introduction to Quantum Mechanics with a systematic, coherent, and in-depth explanation of related mathematical methods from the scattering theory and the theory of Partial Differential Equations.
This book presents a powerful way to study Einstein’s special theory of relativity and its underlying hyperbolic geometr y in which analogies with classical results form the right tool. The premise of analogy as a study strategy is to make the u n f a m i l i a r f a m i l i a r. Accordingly, this book introduces the notion of vectors into analytic hyperbolic geometry, where they are called gyrovectors. Gyrovectors turn out to be equivalence classes that add according to the gyroparallelogram law just as vectors are equivalence classes that add according to the parallelogram law. In the gyrolanguage of this book, accordingly, one prefixes a gyro to a classical term to mean the analogous term in hyperbolic geometry. As an example, the relativistic gyrotrigonometry of Einstein’s special relativity is developed and employed to the study of the stellar aberration phenomenon in astronomy.
The book utilizes elementary mathematical derivations. The presentation assumes only basic knowledge of the origin of Hamiltonian mechanics, Maxwell equations, calculus, Ordinary Differential Equations and basic PDEs. Key topics include the Schrö dinger, Pauli, and Dirac equations, the corresponding conservation laws, spin, the hydrogen spectrum, and the Zeeman effect, scattering of light and particles, photoelectric effect, electron diffraction, and relations of quantum postulates with attractors of nonlinear Hamiltonian PDEs. Featuring problem sets and accompanied by extensive contemporary and historical references, this book could be used for the course on Quantum Mechanics and is also suitable for individual study.
Contents: Gyrogroups; Gyrocommutative Gyrogroups; Gyrogroup Extension; Gyrovectors and Cogyrovectors; Gyrovector Spaces; Rudiments of Differential Geometry; Gyrotrigonometry; Bloch Gyrovector of Quantum Information and Computation; Special Theory of Relativity: The Analytic Hyperbolic Geometric Viewpoint; Relativistic Gyrotrigonometry; Stellar and Particle Aberration; Enriched Special Relativity Theory: Special Relativity of Signature (m, n).
Contents: Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics; Scattering of Light and Particles; Atom in Magnetic Field; Relativistic Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Postulates and Attractors; Attractors of Hamiltonian PDEs; Old Quantum Theory; Noether Theory of Invariants; Stationary Perturbation Theory.
Readership: The book is aimed at a large audience. It includes both elementary and advanced topics, and is structured so it can be enjoyed equally by undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and academics.
Readership: Graduate students and advanced undergraduate students physicists, chemists and mathematicians, lecturers in Quantum Mechanics.
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MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NONEXTENSIVE STATISTICAL MECHANICS
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS Textbook
by Sabir Umarov (University of New Haven, USA) & Constantino Tsallis (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Brazil) The book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of nonextensive statistical mechanics. This is the first book containing the systematic presentation of the mathematical theor y and concepts related to nonextensive statistical mechanics, a current generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistical mechanics introduced in 1988 by one of the authors and based on a nonadditive entropic functional extending the usual BoltzmannGibbs-von Neumann-Shannon entropy. Main mathematical tools like the q-exponential function, q-Gaussian distribution, q-Fourier transform, q-central limit theorems, and other related objects are discussed rigorously with detailed mathematical rational. The book also contains recent results obtained in this direction and challenging open problems. Each chapter is accompanied with additional useful notes including the history of development and related bibliographies for further reading.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY With MATHEMATICA®
by Edward P C Kao (University of Houston, USA)
Contents: Combinatorial Analysis; Axiom of Probability; Conditional Probability, Discrete and Continuous Random Variables; Jointly Distributed Random Variables; Dependence; Limit Theorems. R e a d e r s h i p : Undergraduate students specialising in mathematics, engineering, computer science, actuarial science and business.
Contents: Background. q-Generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs Entropy; q-Algebra and q-Generalizations of Some Elementary Functions; q-Fourier Transform and Its Properties; q-Central Limit Theorems; (q, α)-Stable Distributions; Applications and Observations of q-Gaussian Distributions; Some Open Problems.
350pp 978-981-124-543-5 978-981-124-678-4(pbk)
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners. Also interesting for researchers in applied fields like information theory, nonlinear analysis, social and artificial networks, among others. 340pp 978-981-124-515-2
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The main objective of this text is to facilitate a student’s smooth learning transition from a course on probability to its applications in various areas. To achieve this goal, students are encouraged to experiment numerically with problems requiring computer solutions.
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GENERAL CHEMISTRY
CATALYST CHEMISTRY
O MG! HOW CHEMISTRY CAME TO BE
Textbook
by Stephen M Cohen (Gamry Instruments Inc., USA)
Advanced Textbooks in Chemistry
INTRODUCTION TO HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS (2nd Edition)
This book is a graphic introduction to how chemistry developed, from ancient times to now. Led by cartoon host, Ben Zene — with occasional interjections by eccentric Greek philosopher Democritus — readers learn about ancient Greek and Chinese elements, alchemists, and the development of chemistry as we know it today, from Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier, from Elizabeth Fulhame and John Dalton, to Jö ns Jakob Berzelius and Friedrich Wö hler, to Rosalind Franklin, Linus Pauling, and Mario Molina. The book delves into topics like nanochemistry, environmental chemistry, and how the structure of atoms and molecules was uncovered, all with good humor, bright colors, and lively drawings. There are occasional sidebars on chemicalrelated history and the arts, and factoids such as how President of the USA Herbert Hoover and President of Israel Chaim Weizmann influenced chemistry, how personal politics may have denied Gilbert Lewis the Nobel Prize, a Japanese tale of intrigue mingling with chemistry, and which chemist was the first living person to have an element named for him.
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by Roel Prins (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Anjie Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China), Xiang Li (Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China) & Foteini Sapountzi (Syngaschem BV, The Netherlands) The second edition differs from the first edition in the way basic topics are integrated with catalytic applications. The authors introduce two new chapters: “Cleaning of Fuels by Hydrotreating” and “Electrocatalysis”. Hydrotreating is a very important industrial process and offers the opportunity to discuss metal sulfide catalysts. Electrocatalysis gains more and more attention because it can be used to minimize the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Solar, wind, and hydroelectricity can drive water electrolysis and CO2 electroreduction and, therefore, excess renewable electricity can be stored in chemicals. Contents: Introduction; Catalyst Preparation and Characterization; Adsorption; Kinetics; Metal Surfaces; Metal Catalysis; Catalysis by Solid Acids; Cleaning of Fuels by Hydrotreating; Oxidation Catalysis; Electrocatalysis.
Contents: Introduction; Ancient Times; Alchemy; First Chemists; Revolution; Atoms (Again); Rise of Organic Chemistry; The Periodic Table; Molecular Structure; Physical Chemistry; Industrial Chemistry; Chemical Warfare; Electrons and Protons and Neutrons, Oh My!; Atomic Structure & Bonding; Polymers; Isotopes & Artificial Elements; Environmental Chemistry; Nanochemistry; Epilogue.
Readership: Meant for a one-semester course for chemistry, physics, materials science, and chemical engineering students with no former knowledge of catalysis. The course can be given in the first year of a master’s class or in graduate study. It can also be used by scientists entering industries that deal with catalysis. 346pp 978-1-80061-150-4 978-1-80061-161-0(pbk)
Readership: Chemistry students, teachers and general public.
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INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The Roles of Carbon and Bio-Carbon: An Introduction to Molecular Sciences
THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY
by Pierre Vogel (Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
by Duncan Seddon (Duncan Seddon & Associates Pty. Ltd, Australia)
Due to overconsumption of fossil carbon, humanity faces four major problems: global warming, decrease of biodiversity, pollution of the biosphere, and the degradation of agriculture soils. It is not enough to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by stopping the consumption of fossil carbon; it is also urgent to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In order to understand the challenges outlined above, a minimal knowledge of the most important carbon compounds and their transformations is an asset. This textbook is therefore an introduction to the molecular sciences and shows how we depend on carbon compounds, what they are and how they are transformed.
For any given project, there are many alternatives to consider for each stage of making, storing and transporting hydrogen. The book aims to assist proponents, and financiers of hydrogen projects to identify the optimum alternatives and identify hurdles and approaches to overcome them. This book attempts to describe an optimum approach to implement and its cost. It sets out to identify hurdles to implementation which may not be apparent to those entering the field for the first time.
Fundamentals, Technology Economics
Plant biomass, including agricultural, forestry and urban wastes, is the source of bio-carbon that can replace fossil carbon. In addition, we will always need carbon-containing substances for our comfort and health. These important topics are covered in this textbook. Contents: Foreword (Bertrand Piccard); Carbon Around Us; Molecules and Their Structure; Elemental Carbon: Modern Materials; Mineral Carbon; Natural Gas and Biogas; Heat and Reaction Entropy; Fossil Carbon: A Source of Energy and Modern Materials; Fossil Carbon: Source of Medicines; Chirality; Biomass: Our Greatest Asset; Syngas and its Transformations; Epilogue.
Contents: The Market for Hydrogen; Methods of Hydrogen Production; The Cost of Hydrogen Production from Fossil Fuels; The Production of Hydrogen from Renewable Sources; Hydrogen Storage and Transport; The Mass Shipping of Hydrogen; Competitive Position of Hydrogen vs. Fossil Fuels; Case Studies. Readership: Academics, professionals and researchers.
Readership: Students and teachers; preuniversity and undergraduate students. 560pp 978-981-124-048-5
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The book covers the various means and costs of production from fossil fuels (with carbon capture) – blue hydrogen – electrolysis – green hydrogen – or biomass. The book covers hydrogen storage as liquid or compressed gas and transport, through pipelines as liquid or by an intermediary fluid such as ammonia or a hydrocarbon. The book also discusses the production and costs of hydrogen delivery at the user end of a logistics chain. It also compares the relative energy value of energy delivered hydrogen versus the current suite of conventional fuels.
THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY / QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY UNIFORM SUPERSONIC FLOWS IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS
MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & CHEMISTRY WITH THE WOLFRAM LANGUAGE
Chemistry Close to Absolute Zero Studied Using the CRESU Method
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edited by Bertrand R Rowe, AndréCanosa (CNRS - University of Rennes 1, France) & Dwayne E Heard (University of Leeds, UK)
by S M Blinder (University of Michigan, USA & Wolfram Research, USA)
Readership: Primarily academics in chemistry, physics, astronomy and astrophysics including researchers in the field of gas phase processes at low and ultralow temperatures; as well as researchers in the field of chemical physics, physical chemistry, chemical kinetics, astrochemistry, molecular physics and fluid mechanics. Some industrialists may be interested in the technical aspects of uniform flows.
The Wolfram language is the programming language of Mathematica, used increasingly by scientists due to its ease of learning and userfriendliness. This book focuses on applications of the Wolfram language to applied mathematics, physics and chemistry. Topics discussed are broad and comprehensive, from differential equations and special functions to fractals and chess, from electromagnetism and optics to relativity and black holes. There is also extensive coverage of quantum theory and quantum chemistry, and the book is peppered with more than 200 color graphics to aid visualization of these concepts. The program codes are provided in an appendix and online as Mathematica notebooks, allowing readers to modify them and manipulate the graphics in real time. Featured Contents: Introduction to the Wolfram Language: Basic Operations in Mathematica; Manipulate; Other Types of Plots; Mathematics: Some Applications to Applied Mathematics: Complex Variables; The Gamma Function; The Error Function; Physics: Electromagnetism: Electrical Circuits; AC Circuits; AC Circuits (Continued); Physics: Quantum Theory I, Principles: Fundamental Principles; The Harmonic Oscillator; The Hydrogen Atom; Physics: Quantum Theory II, Applications: Exact Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation; Approximate Solutions of the Schrödinger Equation; Physics: Further Topics: Relativity; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Mechanics; Fluid Mechanics; Semiconductors; Superconductivity; Theoretical Chemistry: The Periodic Table; and others. Readership: Researchers, faculty, instructors, graduate and undergraduate students.
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Uniform Supersonic Flows in Chemical Physics reviews 40 years of use of such reactors, the so-called CRESU machines, focusing on major breakthroughs brought to chemical physics, physical chemistry, astrophysics and astrochemistry by the various experiments carried out with such apparatuses. The wealth of kinetic data at very low temperatures provided new targets for the predictions of theory, with new theoretical methods being developed to explain observed behaviour. Featured Contents: Gas Phase Reaction Kinetics at Low and Very Low Temperatures: Fundamentals and Contexts (Bertrand Rowe and André Canosa); Laval Nozzles: Design, Characterization and Applications (André Canosa and Elena Jimé nez); Ion Chemistry in Uniform Supersonic Flows (Ludovic Biennier, Sophie Carles, François Lique and James Brian Mitchell); Study of Electron Attachment Reactions Using the CRESU Technique (Fabien Goulay and Bertrand Rowe); and others.
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[ MATERIALS SCIENCE ]
POLYMERS Handbook Materials and Energy
WORLD SCIENTIFIC HANDBOOK OF ORGANIC OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES (Volumes 3 & 4) Volume 3: OLEDs Volume 4: Flexible Bioelectronics
edited by Dongge Ma (South China University of Technology, China) & Taewoo Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea) Editor-in-chief: Franky So (North Carolina State University, USA)
Featured Contents: Volume 3: OLEDs (Dongge Ma): Efficient Non-doped Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Aggregation-Induced Emission Luminogens (Yinghao Li, Jingjing Guo, Zujin Zhao, and Ben Zhong Tang); Boron-Containing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for High-Efficiency OLEDs (Seob Park and Takuma Yasuda); Exciton Managements of Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Materials for Organic Light-Emitting Devices (Guohua Xie and Chuluo Yang); Volume 4: Flexible Bioelectronics (Taewoo Lee): Introduction to Flexible Bioelectronics (Ying Chen, Yu Yan, Lanlan Liu, Kunwei Zheng, Yizhou Qi, Jun Ai, Qiqi Fu, Qifeng Du, Tao Zhou, Ruitao Tang, Bocheng Zhang, Jianliang Xiao, Haoran Fu, and Xue Feng); Flexible Bioelectronics to Healthcare Monitoring Applications (Ying Chen, Yu Yan, Lanlan Liu, Kunwei Zheng, Yizhou Qi, Jun Ai, Qiqi Fu, Qifeng Du, Tao Zhou, Ruitao Tang, Bocheng Zhang, Jianliang Xiao, Haoran Fu, and Xue Feng); Electronic Skin (Benjamin C-K Tee); and others. Readership: Advanced graduate students and researchers in the field of electrical and electronic engineering specifically in polymers, semiconductors and related areas. 1200pp 978-981-124-029-4(Set)
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Organic (opto)electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their applications in perovskite and flexible electronics, OPVs and OLEDs and many others. Reflecting the rapid growth in research and development of organic (opto)electronic materials over the last few decades, World Scientific Handbook of Organic Optoelectronic Devices provides a comprehensive coverage of the state-of-the-art in an accessible format. It presents the most widely recognized fundamentals, principles, and mechanisms along with representative examples, key experimental data, and over 200 illustrative figures.
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GENERAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
COMPLEX SYSTEMS Topics in System Engineering - Vol 2
MODERN FINANCIAL ENGINEERING Counterparty, Credit, Portfolio and Systemic Risks
by Giuseppe Orlando (University of Bari, Italy), Michele Bufalo (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy), Henry Penikas (Bank of Russia, Russia) & Concetta Zurlo (Accenture, Europe)
LABORATORY SCIENTIFIC GLASSBLOWING
The book offers an overview of credit risk modeling and management. A three-step approach is adopted with the contents, after introducing the essential concepts of both mathematics and finance.
Advanced Techniques and Glassblowing’s Place in History by Paul Le Pinnet (British Society of Scientific Glassblowers, UK)
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This book pushes back the boundaries of Scientific Glassblowing, emphasizing the possibilities of the material.
Initially the focus is on the modeling of credit risk parameters mainly at the level of individual debtor and transaction, after which the book delves into counterparty credit risk, thus providing the link between credit and market risks. The second part is aimed at the portfolio level when multiple loans are pooled and default correlation becomes an important factor to consider and model. In this respect, the book explains how copulas help in modeling. The final stage is the macro perspective when the combination of credit risks related to financial institutions produces systemic risk and affects overall financial stability.
In addition to the author’s own chapters, he has invited Scientific Glassblowers from around the world to describe advanced glassblowing techniques in addition to the historical background of its development. Contents: Lasers and Lathes; Radiometer XXL; Toepler Pump; X Ray Dewar; J Priestly, a Man of the Enlightenment; Ferrous Free Vacuum Cart; Otto Baumbach, Master Glassblower; Bursting Disc Failure Detector Tubes; Ebulliometer: its Discovery and Manufacture; Neon Tube Manufacture; Hydrofluoric Acid Etching; Paris School for Training Glassblowers; Historical Background and the Latest Developments in Glass-Related Research Work.
In summary, the book guides the reader in modeling and managing credit risk by providing both the theoretical framework and the empirical tools necessary for a modern finance professional. In this sense, the book is aimed at a wide audience in all fields of study: from quants who want to engage in finance to economists who want to learn about coding and modern financial engineering.
Readership: Anyone interested in Scientific Glassblowing. 400pp 978-981-124-787-3
Mar 2022 US$108
Readership: Academics and practitioners interested in modern financial engineering.
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[ ENGINEERING ]
NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
COMMUNICATIONS NONLINEAR CHANNEL MODELS AND THEIR SIMULATIONS
ELEGANT CIRCUITS
Simple Chaotic Oscillators
by Yecai Guo (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China & Wuxi University, China)
This book should be of interest to researchers and hobbyists looking for a simple way to produce a chaotic signal. It should also be useful to students and their instructors as an engaging way to learn about chaotic dynamics and electronic circuits. The book assumes only an elementary knowledge of calculus and the ability to understand a schematic diagram and the components that it contains.
This comprehensive compendium highlights the research results of nonlinear channel modeling and simulation. Nonlinear channels include nonlinear satellite channels, nonlinear Volterra channels, molecular MIMO channels, etc. This volume involves wavelet theory, neural network, echo state network, machine learning, support vector machine, chaos calculation, principal component analysis, Markov chain model, correlation entropy, fuzzy theory and other theories for nonlinear channel modeling and equalization.
You will get the most out of this book if you can construct the circuits for yourself. There is no substitute for the thrill and insight of seeing the output of a circuit you built unfold as the trajectory wanders in real time across your oscilloscope screen. A goal of this book is to inspire and delight as well as to teach.
Contents: Introduction; The Theoretical Basis of Satellite Channel Model Establishment; Multi-State Markov Chain Model of Satellite Channel; A Nonlinear Satellite Channel Model Based on Different Background; Blind Equalization Algorithm for Nonlinear Channel Based on Multiwavelet Dual Transform; Blind Equalization Algorithm for Nonlinear Volterra Channel; Markov Chain Model of Satellite MIMO Channel and Machine Learning Model of Molecular MIMO Channel.
Contents: Introduction; Conventional Diode Circuits; Transistor Circuits; Tunnel Diode Circuits; Thyristor Circuits; Saturating Amplifier Circuits; Analog Multiplier Circuits; Nonlinear Inductor Circuits; Memristor Circuits; Bibliography. Readership: This book should appeal to researchers and hobbyists and could be included as recommended reading for any undergraduate or graduate course in electronic circuit theory and applications. 340pp 978-981-123-999-1
Mar 2022 US$128
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, undergraduate and graduate students. 330pp 978-981-124-944-0
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by Julien Clinton Sprott (University of WisconsinMadison, USA) & Wesley Joo-Chen Thio (University of Michigan, USA)
THE WORLD OF 5G (In 5 Volumes)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
by Quan Xue (South China University of
Technology, China), Wenquan Che (South China University of Technology, China), Jishun Guo (GAC Automotive R&D Center, China), Wei Wu (Skyworth Group Co., Ltd, China), Zhiqiang Xu (Guangzhou Hantele Communication Co. Ltd, China), Wenhua Huang (Southern Medical University, China) & Haibin Lin (Affliated Hospital of Putian University, China)
Handbook HANDBOOK ON SMART BATTERY CELL MANUFACTURING The Power of Digitalization
edited by Kai Peter Birke (University of Stuttgart, Germany & Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), Germany), Max Weeber & Michael Oberle (Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA), Germany)
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Editor-in-chief: Quan Xue (South China University of Technology, China) Aim to capture new oppor tunities brought by 5G, this compendium set focuses on the key technologies, requirements, users’ experiences, industry applications, and industrial reforms from the perspective of experts, and comprehensively introduces the related knowledge of 5G. These reference volumes inform readers the essences of 5G, potential changes to the development of public life and society brought by 5G, as well as the potential security and risks such as the legal, moral and ethical aspects.
Readership: Researchers, practitioners and general readers.
This handbook provides a comprehensive and well-structured analysis of every aspect of the manufacturing process of smart battery cell, including upscaling battery cell production, accompanied by many instructive practical examples of the digitalization of battery products and manufacturing systems using an integrated life cycle perspective. Featured Contents: Smart Manufacturing in Battery Cell Manufacturing: Overview of the Battery Manufacturing Process; Current State of Digitalization in Battery Cell Manufacturing; Digital Planning in Battery Cell Manufacturing: A Toolbox for Digital Assisted Factory Planning; Multiscale Simulation of Battery Cell Manufacturing; Operating Battery Cell Manufacturing Lines with Digital Tools: Concepts for full Traceability — Establishing the Foundation for Smart Manufacturing within the Framework of the Digital Shadow; Optimization of Battery Cell Manufacturing Lines with Digital Tools: Optimization of Battery Cell Manufacturing Lines with Digital Tools; Optimization of Battery Cell Manufacturing Lines with Digital Tools: Digitalization — A Driver for Circular Economy Solutions; and others. Readership: Industry Practitioners, Researchers, Advanced Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students.
1050pp 978-981-125-017-0(Set)
587pp 978-981-124-561-9
Featured Contents: Volume 1: Internet of Everything (Quan Xue & Wenquan Che): Welcome the age of 5G Technology: The Internet of Everything Comes True; Volume 2: Intelligent Manufacturing (Jishun Guo): The Call of the Times: Opportunities and Challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Volume 3: Intelligent Home (Wei Wu): Past and Present of Intelligent Home; Volume 4: Intelligent Transportation (Zhiqiang Xu): Empowering Smart Transportation with 5G Technology; Volume 5: Intelligent Medicine (Wenhua Huang & Haibin Lin): 5G Technology and Telemedicine; and others.
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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WAVE DYNAMICS
Textbook
edited by Snehashish Chakraverty (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India) & Perumandla Karunakar (Anurag University, Hyderabad, India)
SIGNALS, INSTRUMENTATION, CONTROL, AND MACHINE LEARNING
An Integrative Introduction
There are various types of waves including water, sound, electromagnetic, seismic and shock etc. These waves need to be analyzed and understood for different practical applications. This book is an attempt to consider the waves in detail to understand the physical and mathematical phenomena. A major challenge is to model waves by experimental studies.
by Joseph Bentsman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) This book stems from a unique and a highly effective approach to introducing signal processing, instrumentation, diagnostics, filtering, control, system integration, and machine learning.
The aim of this book is to address the efficient and recently developed theories along with the basic equations of wave dynamics. The latest development of analytical/semi analytical and numerical methods with respect to wave dynamics are also covered. Further few challenging experimental studies are considered for related problems. This book presents advances in wave dynamics in simple and easy to follow chapters for the benefit of the readers/researchers.
Featured Contents: Overview of Mold Oscillator, Distortion Problem Diagnostics, and Solution; Introduction to Software Testbed; Introduction to Signals and Discrete and Continuous Spectra; Aggregated Linear Time-Invariant System Representation; Effect of Pole-Zero Structure on System Response; Basic Filtering; Loading and System Integration; Sensing and Actuation as System Integration Tools; Basic Instrumentation; Sampling and Data Acquisition; and others.
Featured Contents: Numerical Aspects of Nonlinear Wave — Wave Interactions in Operational Wave Models; Impact of Tropical Cyclones on the Ocean Surface Waves Over the Bay of Bengal; Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Boussinesq Equations for Onshore Shallow Water Waves Propagation; Differential Quadrature Based Advanced Numerical Scheme for Simulation of Solitary Motion of Shallow Water Waves; Seismic Waves and Their Effect on Structures; and others.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, undergraduate and graduate students. 850pp Mar 2022 978-981-125-186-3 US$198 978-981-125-231-0(pbk) US$98
Readership: This book is mainly written for the undergraduates, graduates, researchers, industry, faculties etc. all over the world.
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It presents the interactive industrial grade software testbed of mold oscillator that captures the distortion induced by beam resonance and uses this testbed as a virtual lab to generate input-output data records that permit unravelling complex system behavior, enhancing signal processing, modeling, and simulation background, and testing controller designs.
[ COMPUTER SCIENCE ]
MACHINE PERCEPTION / COMPUTER VISION
DATABASES / INFORMATION SCIENCES
SMART ENERGY MANAGEMENT A Computational Approach
Textbook
by Krithi Ramamritham (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India & Sai University, Chennai, India), Gopinath Karmakar (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Mumbai, India) & Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
EXPLORING BIG HISTORICAL DATA (2nd Edition)
The Historian’s Macroscope
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by Shawn Graham (Carleton University, Canada), Ian Milligan (University of Waterloo, Canada), Scott Weingart (University of Notre Dame, USA) & Kimberley Martin (University of Guelph, Canada)
The focus of this book is smart energy management with the recurring theme being the use of computational and datadriven methods that use requirements/ measurement/monitoring data to drive actuation/control, optimization, and resource management. The computational perspective is applied to manage energy, with an emphasis on smart buildings and the smart electric grids.
This updated and expanded book describes and demonstrates the ways these data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. It helps humanities scholars to grasp Big Data in order to do their work, whether that means understanding the underlying algorithms at work in search engines or designing and using their own tools to process large amounts of information.
The book also presents computational thinking and techniques such as inferencing and learning for energy management. To this end, this book is designed to help understand the recent research trends in energy management, focusing specifically on the efforts to increase energy efficiency of buildings, campuses, and cities.
Demonstrating what digital tools have to offer and also what ‘digital’ does to how we understand the past, the authors introduce the many different tools and developing approaches in Big Data for historical and humanistic scholarship, show how to use them, what to be wary of, and discuss the kinds of questions and new perspectives this new macroscopic perspective opens up.
Contents: Introduction: SMART Systems and Computational Techniques in Smart Energy Management; Smart Electric Grid: Applications and Data Analysis; Building Energy Management Systems; A Systematic Approach to Thermal Comfort; Customized Thermal Comfort; Solar Energy in Buildings; Making the Best of Available Energy; Appendices: Electrical Energy: Some Basic Concepts; Short Introduction to Power System Stability; Thermodynamic Principles and RC-Modeling of Buildings; Excerpts from EC Standard 7730 for Calculation of PMV; More on Grid Applications and Data Dissemination.
Contents: The Joys of Big Data for Historians; The DH Moment; Data Mining Tools: Techniques and Visualizations; Topic Modeling: A Hands-On Adventure in Big Data; Making Your Data Legible: A Basic Introduction to Visualizations; Network Analysis; Networks in Practice. Readership: Researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. 320pp Feb 2022 978-981-124-303-5 US$98 978-981-124-398-1(pbk) US$48
Readership: Graduate students, researchers and practitioners.
£85 £40
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NEURAL NETWORKS / NETWORKING
PATTERN RECOGNITION / IMAGE ANALYSIS
FUTURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES AND CORE TECHNOLOGIES
Textbook 2D COMPUTER VISION
by Ju-long Lan (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center of China (NDSC), China), Yu-xiang Hu (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center of China (NDSC), China), Zhen Zhang (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center of China (NDSC), China), Yi-ming Jiang (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center of China (NDSC), China), Peng Wang (Zhongyuan University of Technology of China, China) & Jiang-xing Wu (National Digital Switching System Engineering & Technological R&D Center of China (NDSC), China)
by Yu-Jin Zhang (Tsinghua University, China) This special compendium introduces the basic principles, typical methods and practical techniques of 2D computer vision. The volume comprehensively covers the introductory content of computer vision and the materials are selected based on courses conducted in the past 20 years. The useful textbook provides numerous examples and self-test questions (including hints and answers) through intuitive explanations to help readers understand abstract concepts. This unique reference text provides the first computer vision course service for undergraduates of related majors in university and colleges. It also allows teachers to carry out online courses and strengthen teacherstudent interaction when teaching. Contents: Computer Vision Fundamentals; 2-D Image Acquisition; Spatial Domain Image Enhancement; Frequency Domain Image Enhancement; Image Restoration; Color Image Enhancement; Image Segmentation; Primitive Detection; Object Representation; Object Description; Texture Description; Shape Description; Object classification; Appendices: Mathematical Morphology; Visual Constancy.
Fe a t u re d C o n t e n t s : Over view of the Future Network Architecture; Open and Programmable Future Network System; Network Virtualization Technology and Future Network System; Future Network System Based on Content Addressing; ServiceOriented Future Network Architecture; Mobility-Oriented Future Network System; and others. Readership: Engineers, researchers and graduate students.
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, undergraduate and graduate students.
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300pp 978-981-124-508-4
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This book introduces the background, basic concepts and evolution of computer network development; by comparing and contrasting with the typical network architectures in the market. The book focuses on the architecture and underpinning technologies towards the future in network designs. It also provides a reconfigurable evolutionary network function innovation platform for researches to run experiments on the networks they designed. The contents of this book are novel, informative, and practical — a reflection of the stateof-art development in network architecture.
[ ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ]
THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
CLIMATE CHANGE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT
Between Science and Economics - Vol 4
New Developments and Multi-Disciplinary Applications
QUANTUM COMPUTING FOR THE BRAIN
edited by Hsien Hui Khoo (A*STAR, Singapore) & Reginald B H Tan (A*STAR, Singapore & National University of Singapore, Singapore)
BOOKS
by Melanie Swan (University College London, UK), Renato P dos Santos (Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil), Mikhail Lebedev (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia) & Frank Witte (University College London, UK)
This book offers multidisciplinary perspectives of new LCA developments and applications, spanning from data variability to ecosystem services, plus the evaluation of the net greenhouse gas from Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) methods and waste management. Perspectives of green chemistry principles via LCA, combined with life cycle atom economy approaches are explored. Industrial symbiosis concepts, LCA as an Entrepreneurial Tool for Business Management and Green Innovations, and blockchain-enabled LCA are also presented.
Quantum computing has emerged as a platform suited to contemporary data processing needs, surpassing classical computing and supercomputing. This book shows how quantum computing’s increased capacity to model classical data with quantum states and the ability to run more complex permutations of problems can be employed in neuroscience applications such as neural signaling and synaptic integration. Featured Contents: Foundations: Neural Signaling Basics; The AdS/Brain Correspondence; Tabletop Experiments; Neuronal Gauge Theory; Substrate: Quantum Information Theory; Quantum Computing 101; Glia Neurotransmitter Synaptome; Connectivity: Quantum Photonics and High-dimensional Entanglement; Optical Machine Learning and Quantum Networks; System Evolution: Quantum Dynamics; Neural Dynamics; Modeling Toolkit: Quantum Machine Learning; Quantum Kernel Learning and Entanglement Design; and others.
Featured Contents: Life Cycle Assessment Methodology: Ongoing Developments and Outlook; LCI Data Variability: Case of THF Manufacture; Feasibility of CO2 Capture and Utilization: Life Cycle Assessment Perspective; Life Cycle Assessment Strategies for Carbon Capture and Utilization Processes; Green Principles in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Manufacturing as Seen Through the Lens of Life Cycle Assessment; Life CycleAtom Economy and Life Cycle Assessment as a Hybrid Sustainability Assessment Tool; Gate to Gate Life Cycle Assessment of Solid Waste Conversion of Black Aluminum Dross to γ-alumina as Catalyst Support for Biofuel Production; and others.
Readership: Thought-leaders, executives, industry strategists, research scientists, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, policy-makers, research funding agencies, private research institutions, government regulators, investors, corporate managers, purchasing agents, and entrepreneurs. 512pp 978-1-80061-061-3
Feb 2022 US$148
Readership: LCA researchers, academics,and Environmental/Resource Policy makers and green entrepreneurs. 250pp 978-981-124-579-4
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Recommended for Bookshops
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
WAKING UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE Five Dimensions of the Crisis and What We Can Do About It
RESEARCH ON MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY OF SEA AREA RECLAMATION
by George Ropes (ClimateYou, USA) This book adds to our collective awareness that climate change is indeed real, by offering a broad overview of the multiple facets of climate change. It provides readers with a timeline of the growing understanding of the climate change issue, explanation of key processes, and innovative solutions. The book covers the full scope of climate change, from how the climate crisis developed and what we can do to ameliorate it.
by Anning Suo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) & Yonghai Yu (National Marine Environment Monitoring Center, China) This compendium is a summary of the research and application of reclamation management technology in China. It makes a thorough study and systematic exposition of the main technical links of reclamation management. This comprehensive reference text provides a window for domestic and abroad reclamation managers, reclamation demonstration and assessment workers, reclamation project owners and even teachers and students keen in reclamation management. Contents: Overview of Management Measures for Coastal Reclamation; Factors Influencing China’s Large-scale Coastal Reclamation Activities; Guideline Indicators for Regional Sea-use Planning for Construction Projects; Coastal Reclamation Plans Management; Total Quantity Control of Coastal Reclamation; Management of Intensive Utilization for Coastal Reclamation; Dynamic Monitoring and Evaluation Methods for Coastal Reclamation; Completion acceptance technology for Coastal reclamation; Post-evaluation Methods for Coastal Reclamation; Prospect of Coastal Reclamation Management in China.
Featured Contents: Energy: Coal, Oil, and Gas; Energy Sources in Transition; Weather and Climate: Extreme Weather; Oceans and Coasts; Climate Consequences for Nature and People: Deforestation and Fires; Species Extinction; Policies, Presidents, and Players: International Action; Ups and Downs: The Role of the United States; Finance and Economics; Conclusion: We’ve Woken Up to Climate Change — Now What?: The Climate Crisis; Heroes; and others. Readership: Advocates, Policymakers, and Government officials. 480pp Mar 2022 978-981-124-623-4 US$128 978-981-124-754-5(pbk) US$48
Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics and graduate students. 245pp 978-981-124-638-8
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Waking Up to Climate Change provides fascinating insights across the broad dimensions of energy; weather and climate; consequences to people and nature; policies, presidents, and players; and finance and economics. Aimed at the general public, the book is highly readable yet scientifically accurate. It inspires hope about climate change because it gives readers key information about the many solutions that either already exist or are in the pipeline.
[ LIFE SCIENCES / BIOLOGY ]
BIOPHYSICS
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
CHAOTIC DNA DYNAMICS
CELL-FREE CIRCULATING DNA
by Amujuri Mary Selvam (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India)
Purification and Analysis Techniques
BOOKS
edited by Kristina Warton (University of New South Wales, Australia) & Goli Samimi (National Cancer Institute, USA)
A general systems theory model predicts quasiperiodic Penrose tiling pattern for the nested coiled structure of the DNA molecule in the chromosome resulting in maximum packing efficiency and unified whole fuzzy logic network architecture with ordered two-way signal transmission between the coding and non-coding (junk DNA) regions.
Circulating cell-free DNA is poised to transform cancer diagnosis and care; however, it carries technical challenges such as low abundance, fragmentation and sensitivity to biospecimen handling. Development of clinically useful assays hinges on understanding the unique technical aspects of working with cell-free DNA as a substrate. This book provides an in-depth summary of the technical issues impacting cell-free DNA purification from blood plasma and analysis in a cancer context, including design of PCR assays, sequencing library preparation and methylation analysis. Emerging fields such as extracellular vesicles and blood nucleases are also covered, as well as basic biology and considerations pertinent to biobanking.
Junk DNA are not redundant. Modification of the DNA base sequence structure at any location may have significant noticeable effects on the function of the DNA molecule as a whole. This book helps us understand the cooperative existence of individual components for optimum performance of the system. Contents: Universal Characteristics of Fractal Fluctuations: General Systems Theory; Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos and SelfOrganized Criticality; Universal Spectrum for DNA Base C+G Frequency Distribution in Human Chromosomes 1 to 24: Data Set I; Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of Bases A, C, G, T in Human Chromosome1 DNA: Data Set II; Universal Spectrum for DNA Base C+G Concentration Variability in Human Chromosome Y: Data Set III; Quantumlike Chaos in the Frequency Distributions of the Bases A, C, G, T in Drosophila DNA: Data Set IV; Universal Spectrum for DNA Base CG Frequency Distribution in Takifugu rubripes (Puffer fish) Genome: Data Set V; Long-Range Correlations in Human Chromosome X DNA Base CG Frequency Distribution: Data Set VI.
Featured Contents: Biology of Circulating DNA in Health and Disease (Ahuva Odenheimer); Preanalytics and Quality Control for Circulating DNA Studies (Wim Ammerlaan); Considerations in Biobanking Blood Samples for Studies of Circulating DNA in Plasma (Kate Mahon, Kristina Warton & Goli Samimi); Maximizing Yield from Plasma Circulating DNA Extraction (Florence Mauger & JeanFrançois); Optimal Design of PCR Assays for Circulating DNA (Rikke Andersen); Blood Nucleases Affecting Circulating DNA in Serum and Plasma (Gustavo Barra); and others. Readership: Graduate students and researchers. 300pp 978-981-124-467-4
Feb 2022 US$118
Readership: Undergraduates, graduate students, academics and researchers. 200pp 978-981-124-285-4
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MICROBIOLOGY / VIROLOGY RESEARCH MAN VERSUS MICROBE
Textbook
What Will It Take to Win?
HUMAN PARASITES
by Brian Bremner (Bloomberg LP, UK)
From Organisms to Molecular Biology
Why does the World Health Organization (WHO) put emphasis on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)? What are the NTDs? Are NTDs found in the United States? Is there any relationship between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and NTDs? These are some of the questions being addressed in the book. The aim of this textbook is to introduce a modern synthesis on human parasites of medical importance. Species of parasitic protozoa and helminths are presented in detail, from history and discovery to aspects of genomes and molecular biology, together with life cycle, therapy, drug resistance, and case studies of parasitic diseases useful to the clinicians.
Contents: Introduction: Man Versus Microbe; The Risks: ; Global System Failure; Surveillance for a Pandemic Age; Hacking Mother Nature; Vaccines Unbound; Rethinking the WHO The Opportunities: ; The Microbiome Inside Us; Food Security One Microbe At a Time; The Tiny Things Clearing Our Seas; Carbon Eaters Might Save the Planet The Deep Future: ; The Synthetic Biology Paradox; Existential Risks: Bioterrorists and Lab Security; Microbial Eve: A Creation Story; Microbes and Space’s Final Frontier; What the Microbial World is Telling Us Acknowledgements; Index.
Featured Contents: Introduction of Parasites and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); Evolution of Parasites and Potential Novel Therapies from Their Genomes; Immunity and Immunopathology of Host-Parasite Interactions; Classification of Eukaryotes and Introduction to Protozoa; Trypanosomiasis and Leishmaniasis by Kinetoplastid Flagellates; Giardiasis and Trichomoniasis by Other Flagellates; Amoebiasis and Other Infections by Amoebae and Amoeboflagellates; Balantidiasis by a Ciliate and Blastocystis Infection by a Stramenopile; and others.
Readership: General readership, businessminded readers, policymakers and university leaders.
Readership: Upper level undergraduates and beginning graduate students. 650pp 978-981-123-626-6
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Man Versus Microbe is about humanity’s competitive, symbiotic and precarious relationship with the microbial world. Brian Bremner (Executive Editor, Bloomberg) offers a book on the exhilarating fields of synthetic biology and genetics, abundant with material on emerging technologies to deepen one’s understanding of how virus hunters chase bugs or how geneticists unlock the workings of a microbe’s constituent DNA. This book is for readers who want to learn more about humanity’s fight to contain future pandemics and better understand the risks and opportunities of living in the world of microbes. After navigating through a disruptive pandemic, we are all amateur epidemiologists now.
by Dunne Fong (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA) & Marion M Chan (Temple University, USA)
[ MEDICINE ]
PUBLIC HEALTH
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE / CHINESE MEDICINE
NAVIGATING THE PANDEMIC Talking Sense and Sensibility about COVID-19
Recommended for Bookshops
by Poh Lian Lim (National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), Singapore)
TREATING ECZEMA WITH TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
In the opening days of 2020, the world learnt of a terrifying outbreak unfolding in China. In Singapore, as in other Asian countries scarred by the 2003 outbreak of SARS, a collective shiver went down the spines of health authorities. The great pandemic of the 21st century turned out to be, not a 1918-like influenza event, but a novel coronavirus, SARS CoV 2.
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by Xiu-Min Li (New York Medical College, USA) & Henry Ehrlich (asthmaallergieschildren.com) This is a book of scholarship. Dr Li, explores the literature of traditional Chinese medicine, which has a long history of describing and treating skin disorders, to find therapies that might benefit current patients. It is a book of science as Dr Li and her team use state-of-theart technology to explore the mechanisms of disease, the therapeutic effects of the herbs, and ways to make them more effective. But it is also a book of compassion as patients and their families recount their experience of illness and the road back, after working with Dr Li’s private practice.
This book is a warm and honest discussion of facts, uncertainties, and experiences by an infectious disease expert working on the frontlines of the COVID pandemic in Singapore. It distills medical, public health and personal insights that may be helpful to anyone trying to understand COVID-19, and how individuals, communities and countries can try to navigate the evolving impact of this pandemic that we are all grappling with.
Featured Contents: “Give-Up Patients” — The Road to Eczema Treatment (conversation with X-M Li); The Allergist’s Dilemma (P Ehrlich); Traditional Chinese Medicine for Food Allergy and Eczema (Xiu-Min Li); Brief Outline of Chinese Medicine’s Understanding and Treatment of Dermatological Disease (M AlKhafaji); Mechanisms of Eczema, Biomarkers, and Perspectives of TCM Therapeutic Targets (K D Srivastava & X-M Li); The Role of Microbiota in Eczema (J Geliebter et al.); Shi Zhen Tea I — Inside Look at a Botanical Formula (N Yang & X-M Li); Computational Approaches to Reveal the Active Compounds and Molecular Targets from TCM Formulas for Eczema (Z-Z Wang); and others.
Featured Contents: A Distant Thunder; Epidemiology; Public Health Response; A World in Pandemonium; Diagnostics; Clinical Course; Treatment; Prevention; Research Trials; Caring for Patients; Immunology; Vaccines; Variants; Herd Immunity; Community; Economics; Politics; Communications; The Way Forward; and others. Readership: Primary market: General readers in Singapore, the US, Europe and Asia. Secondary market: Medical school libraries with a medical humanities section, Policy makers, healthcare workers.
Readership: Primary market: Dermatologists, allergists, general medicine. Secondary market: Patients and patient families. 250pp 978-981-124-592-3 978-981-124-753-8(pbk)
200pp 978-981-124-395-0 978-981-124-571-8(pbk)
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[ BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ]
Textbook
DECISION SCIENCES
TEXTBOOK OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE (5th Edition)
edited by David Koh (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei & National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Wee Hoe Gan (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore & Changi General Hospital, Singapore)
World Scientific Series in Finance
This edition of the book has been updated to include new information a n d r e fe r e n c e s . We have kept some of the previous case studies and illustrations, and introduced several new ones, some of which r e f l e c t t h e c h a n ge s of practice due to the COVID-19 pandemic — for example, in risk communication, recognition and management of the risks of health care and frontline work. We have again asked international experts in occupational medicine and cross-disciplinary medical specialties to jointly author many of the chapters.
This book is a collection of applications of analytic techniques to a number of popular sports including baseball, basketball, hockey, Jai Alai, NFL football and horseracing. We focus on both the statistics of the sporting events and betting strategies on the events. The subject is fascinating as there are many twists and subtle complicated decisions.
SPORTS ANALYTICS
by Leonard C Maclean (Dalhousie University, Canada) & William T Ziemba (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Featured Contents: Clinical Occupational Medicine: Work and Health (D Koh & W H Gan); Diagnosis and Management of Occupational Diseases (W H Gan & D Koh); Respiratory Disorders (D Fishwick & C Barber); Skin Disorders (D Koh & C L Goh); Mental Health Disorders (K Addley & R Kerr); Special Issues in Occupational Medicine: Aviation Medicine (B See et al.); Diving Medicine (J Chng & G Chan); Remote Health Care (J N Norman); Medical Disasters Planning and Response (H Mohamed & A H Samad); Multidisciplinary Occupational Health Practice: The Multidisciplinary Nature of Occupational Health Practice (R-T Lin et al.); Occupational Medicine Practice and the Law (S M Lee & D Koh); and others.
Readership: For Sports fans, coaches, players and sports bettors; and students and users of arbitrage and risk arbitrage strategies.
Readership: The book is targeted at all those who are interested in the interaction between work and health, and how occupational diseases and work-related disorders may present and be managed. 650pp 978-981-124-564-0
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Novel features of the book include: an analysis of who were the greatest baseball batters; analyses of the players most important to team success (and they are not necessarily the best players) in basketball, NFL football and hockey; a tutorial on risk arbitrage and its applications to NFL football and NBA basketball; a discussion of many ad hoc decision rules by coaches and players and what was really optimal; in the racing section we discuss breeding, the analysis of various bets like the Rainbow and ordinary Pick 6, a discussion and betting on the most important races and a visit to the Breeders’ Cup with Ed Thorp to demonstrate the place and show system in action.
GENERAL BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
INNOVATION / TECHNOLOGY / KNOWLEDGE / INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The Competitiveness of Nations: Theory and Practice
THE COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONS 1
ARE THERE LAWS OF INNOVATION?
Navigating the US – China Trade War and the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
by Lawrence J Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) & Yanyan Xiong (Zhejiang University, China)
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by Dong-sung Cho (The Institute for Industrial Policy Studies, South Korea & Seoul National University, South Korea) & Hwy-chang Moon (The Institute for Policy & Strategy on National Competitiveness, South Korea & Seoul National University, South Korea)
B e y o n d r e a l G D P, innovative capacity is an important indicator of the economic strength of a nation. By studying i n n o v a t i ve c a p a c i t y and other indicators of success in innovation across the Group-ofSeven (G7) Countries, the East Asian Newly Industrialised Economies (EANIEs) and Mainland China, this book will systematically establish a positive relationship between innovation outputs and inputs of different economies. In doing so, it seeks to answer the question — are there laws of innovation? It seeks to identify the determinants of innovation at the economy-wide level, ascertain whether these determinants are similar across different economies, and find suitable metrics for comparing relative success in innovation across different economies. It concludes that innovation, rather than being a stroke of good fortune, comes from research and development activities conducted over a long period of time, and sheds light on future trends and areas for further research.
The analy tical 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, timely topics are included such as the COVID-19 global pandemic and the US – China trade war. This book also includes various countryspecific real-world cases that are assessed from the perspective of both developed and developing countries. Contents: Theoretical Framework and Highlights for National Competitiveness of Nations 2021: Introduction; Literature on National Competitiveness; Highlights; Conceptual Framework; Korean Case; Factor-Level Analysis; Snapshot; Special Topics: COVID-19 and Global Value Chains; US – China Relationships; Country-Specific Analysis.
Readership: Economists, technologists, government officials, researchers, inventors, intellectual property specialists, students of innovation, and professionals interested in innovation, intellectual property, and patents.
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of competitiveness and international business. 300pp 978-1-80061-048-4
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Series on Innovation and Operations Management for Chinese Enterprises
Series on Technology Management
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
TOTAL INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
edited by Stoyan Tanev (Carleton University, Canada) & Helena Blackbright (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Theory and Practice
by Qingrui Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Management contributes to the ongoing debate among innovation scholars and practitioners focusing on the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the ways companies and organizations do business, operate and innovate. It considers AI as a source of innovation both in terms of innovation within the field of AI itself (AI innovation) and in terms of how it enables or disrupts innovation in other fields (AI-driven innovation). It is therefore both necessary and timely to explore the different aspects of the relationship between AI and Innovation Management (IM).
The research results are not only the results of a three-year long research but also the reflection of the accumulated experiences of our research center in the field of technology innovation for nearly 40 years. In the field of technology innovation, we have experienced three distinct phases, namely: secondary innovation, portfolio innovation and total innovation.
Featured Contents: Introduction (Stoyan Tanev and Helena Blackbright); What AI Can Do for Innovation Managers and Innovation Managers for AI (Nina Bozic Yams and Galina Esther Shubina); A Knowledge-Based Perspective of Strategic AI Innovation Management (Erich Prem); Addressing AI Traps: Realizing the Potential of AI for Innovation Trend Spotting, Monitoring and Decision Making (Amber Geurts); Social Media Video Analysis for Entrepreneurial O p p o r t u n i t y D i s c o ve r y i n A r t i f i c i a l Intelligence (Mika Westerlund and Maham Aman); AI-Driven Innovation: Towards a Conceptual Framework (Sergey Yablonsky); and others.
Featured Contents: Preface; Practical and Theoretical Background of Total Innovation Management; Main Theoretical Basis of TIM; System Framework of Total Innovation Management; All-Element Innovation; AllInvolvement Innovation; All Time-Space Innovation; Basic Architecture and Formation Process of Total Innovation Management System; Synergy Mechanism of Total Innovation Management; and others.
R e a d e r s h i p : Innovation management researchers, innovation managers, technology entrepreneurs and graduate students. 300pp 978-1-80061-132-0
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This book is the research report of the “Construction of Theory and Formation Mechanism of Total Innovation Management (TIM)” (Program No. 70372018), a program funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. This program aims to discuss and analyze, under the general trend of indigenous innovation, how enterprises construct indigenous innovation capability through total innovation management and to offer enterprises theoretical foundations and practical guidance to develop themselves towards indigenous innovation.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE / BUSINESS
MARKETING Textbook
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON WORLD AVIATION INDUSTRY
MANAGING CUSTOMER VALUE (2nd Edition)
Challenges and Opportunities
One Step at a Time
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edited by Paolo Rizzi (Link to Beijing Consulting Partnership, China), Cristiano Rizzi (Link to Beijing Consulting Partnership, China & Eurasian Development Solution, China) & Mario Tettamanti (Link to Beijing Consulting Partnership, Switzerland – China)
by Dilip Soman (University of Toronto, Canada) & Sara N-Marandi (Google) This book is written for an advanced student of business and the practicing manager. It presents an integrated view of the marketing function. In particular, it focuses on all the activities that a firm engages in to create and manage value - not just the customer-facing activities. It links the traditional views of customer value with the finance, accounting, human resources, organizational behaviour, information technology and operations functions of the organization. It draws on the science of behaviour change and the data sciences to present a contemporary view of the customer value function. The content is meant to be prescriptive — it describes a process for value creation and management, yet analytical; theoretical, yet empirically driven. It urges the reader to think about the customer value function to be organized along activities that the firm would like the customers to engage in, not activities that the firm engages in. It presents a framework that is not only conceptually driven but also has a sound mathematical basis.
This book aims to illustrate the impact of COVID-19 on the global aviation industry and its many facets and disruptive innovations this crisis is bringing to the industry, triggering a new phase of development for air transportation. As a result, there has been increased attention on the green aviation industry using new sustainable fuels (including hydrogen). The aviation industry is also moving towards operating electric aircraft. The book emphasizes a new concept of air travel and an entirely new type of aircraft called eVTOL, which is to say - electric Vertical take-off and landing aircraft. This new reality is already taking place with the development of prototypes. However, the road to its implementation is full of challenges. Featured Contents: The Growing Interdependence Between the Aviation Industry and the Economic Development of Nations; The Responses of the Market Concerning the Impact of COVID-19 on the Different Sectors of the Aviation Industry; The Impact of New Technologies on the Evolution of a Greener Aviation Industry and the Emerging of a New Urban Air Mobility (UAM); and others.
Contents: Preface; Managing Customer Value; Value; The Value Ladder; Loyalty; Customer as Gambles; Behaviour Change; The Data Revolution; The Digital and Social Marketplace; Pricing and Customer Psychology; Aligning the Organization; A Practitioner’s Guide to Managing Customer Value.
Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. 260pp 978-981-124-613-5
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Readership: For graduate students, academics and the general public. 260pp 978-981-124-079-9
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[ ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ]
CORPORATE FINANCE
ACCOUNTING Textbook
DYNAMIC DECISIONS
STOCK MARKETS AND CORPORATE FINANCE
Energy PIVOT, Adaptive Moves, Winning BOUnCE
A Primer
by Ricardo G Barcelona
by Michael Dempsey (Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam) Stock Markets and Corporate Finance: A Primer examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for corporate management. In the historical context of financial institutions and business finance, students are stimulated to learn that traditional totems of corporate finance can no longer be presented as dogma, but rather as exceedingly frail models of reality. At the core of this text is the philosophy that financial institutions and corporate/business finance are more satisfactorily understood in relation to one another. Contents: Introduction: Stock Markets and Corporate Finance; Financial Institutions and A History of Stock Markets; The Time Value of Money and Financial Planning; Market Debt, Interest rates, and Bond Valuation ; The Valuation of Equity Shares and the P/E Ratio; Shareholders’ Required Rate of Return (The Cost of Equity Capital); Statistical Patterns of Stock Market Returns; Financial Leverage; Valuation of Cash Flows; Investment Decision Making: Theory and Practice; Financial Planning and Working Capital: The Firm’s Financial Statements; Ethical Behavior.
Contents: Prologue by Franz Heukamp: Preface; Early PraisesUnderstanding Energy Pivots: From Impasse to PIVOT; Policy and Managerial Actions; Adaptive Moves: Articulate a Purpose; Bounded Possibilities; Calibrate; De-risk; BOUNCE to Win: Cost of Energy; Levers of Value; Price-taker; Oligopolistic Rivalries; Winning Actions: PIVOT and BOUnCE to Profit. Readership: Managers, policymakers and academics.
Readership: Well-designed to accompany an introduction to all standard tertiary degree “finance” programs at the undergraduate level. The textbook also represents an ideal introduction to finance for MBA courses as well as providing a lively first introduction for postgraduate finance courses.
450pp 978-1-80061-196-2 978-1-80061-205-1(pbk)
316pp 978-1-80061-147-4 978-1-80061-160-3(pbk)
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Dynamic Decisions highlights how some managers and policymakers sleepwalk into decision paralysis. Strategically, they partly recognise their world is changing radically as energy systems transition. In deciding what to invest in, they default to rewarding the predictable and proven, often misdiagnosing the ignored risks of innately ambiguous markets. To remedy this, the author frames ambiguity as a source of opportunity. As extant advantages obsolesce, new entrants could disrupt to gain dominance. Some managers could repurpose, reframe, and reconfigure their resources and processes to create tomorrow’s profitable niches today. To profit from these emerging business landscapes, managers can PIVOT and BOUnCE to win by transitioning into a dynamic mindset. Endowed with a creative mind to innovate, humans could reshape their firms and their societies. Armed with these capabilities, albeit partial, managers could choose to adapt responsive strategic actions that are tangible, actionable, and achievable, with policy sustaining societal benefits by expanding people’s access to opportunities.
FINTECH, CRYPTOCURRENCY, BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
ENVIRONMENTAL / ENERGY ECONOMICS World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy
THE CONVERGENCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES
LECTURE NOTES IN GLOBALLOCAL POLICY INTERACTIONS
Challenges and Opportunities
by Ariel Dinar (University of California, Riverside, USA)
edited by Sam Goundar (British University Vietnam, Vietnam), G Suseendran (Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies, India) & R Anandan (Vels Institute of Science, Technology & Advanced Studies, India)
Lecture Notes in Global-Local Policy Interactions discusses the process of building and managing a global public policy and the interaction of public policies at the global and local (national/regional) levels. This book demonstrates the global negative externalities from under-regulation of various activities by one agent/country that affect the well-being of other agents/countries, and the design of policies (agreements) to reduce the impacts of such externalities. Possible opposed interests to global policies of local stakeholders and the (local) policies they established to tackle such externalities in their jurisdictions are included as well.
This book covers the growing convergence between Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence for Big Data, Multi-Agent systems, the Internet of Things and 5G technologies. Using real case studies and project outcomes, it illustrates the intricate details of blockchain in these real-life scenarios. The contributions from this volume bring a stateof-the-art assessment of these rapidly evolving trends in a creative way and provide a key resource for all those involved in the study and practice of AI and Blockchain. Featured Contents: Blockchain and AI for Big Data: Blockchain Energy Consumption Issues; Blockchain Network Security Architectures and Protocols; Blockchain Scalability; Blockchain and AI for Multi-Agent Systems: Big Data Management in Highly Distributed Environments; Distributed Energy Grids; Collaborative Governance; Distributed Artificial Intelligence; Blockchain and AI for the Internet of Things: Blockchain and AI for Supply Chain Management; Blockchain and AI for Product Life Cycle Management; Blockchain and AI for Knowledge and Innovation Management; Blockchain and AI in 5G: Blockchain and AI-Oriented B5G Networks Infrastructure; High Throughput Blockchain Architecture with AI for B5G Networks; and others. Readership: Academics, researchers, students and practitioners.
The book introduces concepts and principles associated with conflict, negotiation and cooperation, all of which are part of policy reform and design. It explores to various extents the global-local interactions that are related to selected global policies. Contents: Introduction; Globalization and Global Policies; Concepts and Principles of Conflict; Concepts and Principles of Negotiation; Domestic Interests and International Negotiation; Concepts and Principles of Cooperation; Climate Change Policy; The CDM as a Cooperative Mechanism; Shaping Global Policies by International Organizations; Annex of Case Studies. Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students interested in global policies, researchers and practitioners. 300pp 978-981-124-816-0 978-981-124-931-0(pbk)
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MACROECONOMICS / MICROECONOMICS
HEALTH ECONOMICS World Scientific Series in Health Investment and Financing - Vol 6
BEYOND BARTER
GLOBAL HEALTH IN PRACTICE
Lectures in Monetary Economics After ‘Rethinking’
Investing Amidst Pandemics, Denial of Evidence, and Neo-dependency
by John Smithin (York University, Canada)
by Olusoji Adeyi (Resilient Health Systems, USA & Johns Hopkins University, USA) Foreword by: Dean T Jamison (University of California, San Francisco, USA) This book is an incisive guide to the practice of global health in real life. Global health policy is at a crossroads. It is on trial at the interface between the Global North and the Global South. There has been remarkable progress in health outcomes over the past century. Yet, countries face a complex landscape of lofty ambitions in the form of political commitments to Universal Health Coverage, Human Capital, and Global Health Security. These ambitions are tempered by multiple constraints. Investors in global health must navigate a minefield of uneven progress, great expectations, and denials of scientific evidence by entrenched interests. That terrain is further complicated by the hegemonic suppression of innovation that threatens the status quo and by selfperpetuating cycles of dependency of the Global South on the Global North.
Featured Contents: An Introduction to Money; Money, Capitalism and Enterprise; A Teachable Macroeconomic Model of ‘Modern Capitalism’ (aka ‘The Method of Enterprise’); Comparing Textbook Macroeconomics and the Alternative Monetary Model (AMM); The International Economy, the Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates; Interest Rates, Inflation and Economic Instability; and others.
Featured Contents: Global Health and Its Congenital Discontents; Strategic and Geopolitical Lessons from COVID-19; Markets, Governments, and Global Health; Malaria Medicines, Markets, and Public Policy; Capitalism, Mining, and Restorative Justice in Southern Africa; Investing, Transitions, and Disease Control in Russia; Health System in Nigeria: Investors’ Dream or Nightmare?; and others. Readership: Policy makers, investors, donors, undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and practitioners.
Readership: Academics, practitioners and policy-makers; graduate and undergraduate students, and general public.
320pp 978-981-124-595-4
200pp 978-981-124-442-1
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The conventional macroeconomic theory of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, based on the assumption that the working of complex monetary economy could be analysed on the same principles as those of barter exchange, has demonstrably failed. This book provides a thorough rethinking of the nature of a monetary economy. It builds upon a complete theory of the domestic and international monetary macro-economy, and of macroeconomic policy for the modern age. Central to the analysis is the idea that a successful market economy requires an endogenous supply of money via the banking system. Therefore to achieve macroeconomic stability, the book proposes the targeting of real interest rates under a regime of flexible exchange rates or ‘fixed but adjustable exchange rates’ as the main goal of monetary policy, along with a range of innovative fiscal and trade policies to promote economic growth, and thereby achieve full employment and a fair distribution of income.
MONEY AND BANKING / INVESTMENTS / FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS Textbook INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE
Financial Management and Investment Management by Pamela P Drake (James Madison University, USA), Frank J Fabozzi (Johns Hopkins University, USA) & Francesco A Fabozzi (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
LIMITLESS SUPPLY
New Economy in the Digital Era by Chunsheng Zhou (Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China) & Xiuhai Hu (Peking University, China)
This book covers the fundamentals of financial management and investment management without getting into the highly technical topics and mathematical rigor. It also provides a practitioner-oriented approach to financial and investment management.
This book is mainly written to construct a preliminary, simple, yet relatively comprehensive economic theory framework for limitless supply, and to interpret the phenomena and corporate behaviour. It further explores how enterprises providing limitless supply products grow financially. It also proposes the fundamental difference in growth models between enterprises providing limitless supply products and those providing limited supply products. The book also looks at how growth models can achieve fission growth.
Contents: What Is Finance?; Financial System and The Players: Financial Instruments, Markets, and Intermediaries; The Financial System’s Cast of Characters; Fundamental Concepts: Financial Statements; Mathematics of Finance; Financial Management: Business Finance; Financial Strategy and Financial Planning; Dividend and Dividend Policies; The Corporate Financing Decision; Entrepreneurial Finance; Financial Risk Management; Capital Budgeting: Estimating Cash Flows; Capital Budgeting Evaluation Techniques; Investment Management: Overview of Investment Management; The Different Types of Risk in Investing; Company Analysis; Valuing Common Stock; The Theory of Portfolio Selection; Asset Pricing Theory; Investing in the Common Stock Market; Interest Rates and the Structure of Interest Rates; Investing in the Bond Market; Derivatives: Derivatives for Controlling Risk; and others.
Contents: New Economy Driven by Innovation and Digitalization; Limitless Supply Triggered by Innovation, Digitalization, and Technology; Influence of Limitless Supply and Technological Development on GDP; Unique Features of How Limitless Supply Products Generate Profit; How Enterprises Grow with Limitless Supply; Positive Feedback and Fission-Type Growth; From Product Competition to Ecosystem Strategy; Reflecting on New Policies in the Era of New Economy. Readership: Professors, researchers and students interested in the field of economics, finance and business management, the internet and digital economy companies. 230pp 978-981-124-715-6
Feb 2022 US$88
Readership: For individuals who would like to understand the fundamentals of finance as well as college professors. 828pp 978-981-123-965-6
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[ EDUCATION ]
CHILDREN FROM 6 TO 12 YEARS Recommended for Bookshops Who Me? - Vol 3
I’M A BIOARCHAEOLOGIST NOW! by Tiffiny A Tung
Edited by: Kevin B Johnson, David A Weintraub & Ann M Neely What is a bioarchaeologist? What does he or she do? Meet Tiffiny, a kid like you and me, who grew up and became a bioarchaeologist! Tiffiny’s father emigrated from China to the United States before she was born. She grew up exploring museums and the outdoors with her father, and discovered her passion for understanding different peoples and cultures. Learn about how she uses archaeology and biology to understand how people in the past lived and why they moved from one part of the Earth to another.
Recommended for Bookshops I’m a Math Star
I’M A MATH STAR! (SET 1)
by Boaz Illustrated by: Nicodemus Loh, Yit Wah Chang The I’m a Math Star! series comprises challenging Math puzzles, presented in story form. Puzzles are described and then solved, step-by-step, through an engaging storyline, and using various Math heuristic techniques that are also taught as part of the world renowned Singapore Math curriculum. Through illustrations and an engaging storyline, children will learn Math heuristics, and be inspired to persevere in understanding, representing, and solving fun and intriguing Math problems!
The Who Me? series features inspirational biographies of scientists who young readers will be able to identify with as people like themselves. Written by the scientists themselves and co-authors from Vanderbilt University, the books are designed to help young readers understand that scientists are regular people like themselves who are excited about learning and discovering new things and who decided to work hard in school in order to create for themselves the opportunity to become scientists. As they learn the stories of these scientists, readers will also learn some basic science ideas, that are well-explained and easily understood, and be introduced to the cutting-edge science these scientists are working on today.
Readership: 6 – 12 years old. 168pp Mar 2022 978-981-125-083-5(Set) US$49.95 £45 978-981-125-250-1(Set)(pbk) US$24.95 £20
Readership: Children from 6 to 12 years old. 40pp 978-981-125-086-6
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The Girl and the Birthday Problem The Boy and the Ants The Girl and the Princess
[ ARTS ]
Recommended for Bookshops
SCIENCE DISCOVERY FILES
PHILOSOPHY
10 Forgotten Stories of Incredible Scientists
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, PHILOSOPHER OF TIME
BOOKS
by Diane Lincoln (Aurora University, USA)
by Rémy Lestienne (CNRS Paris, France)
Science Discovery Files: 10 Forgotten Stories of Incredible Scientists tells real stories of scientific discoveries that you cannot find in textbooks or popular science books. The scientists featured are a diverse g r o u p , f r o m fe m a l e Chinese chemist Tu Youyou to William Beaumont and his handicapped assistant Alexis St. Martin, who helped pioneer studies into the human digestive system. Going beyond history, readers can also learn about the science principles behind each discovery! The backmatter includes additional information and further reading for curious readers.
In Alfred North Whitehead, Philosopher of Time, author Rémy Lestienne mixes biographical elements and intellectual advances, from logicism to philosophies of nature. A compelling introduction to Whitehead’s demanding work, this book deciphers a metaphysical landscape often considered too abstract to be approachable, but points out the philosopher’s imperfections with respect to the scientific advances of our time. Contents: Preface; A Brilliant Mathematician; The Point is an Abstraction: The Method of Extensive Abstraction; Whitehead in London: Philosophical Encounters; The Moment Does Not Exist: Rebuttal of Descartes and Newton’s Time; The Successive Crystallizations or “Concrescences” of the Real; Permanence of Objects, Causality, Bifurcations of the Becoming; World Solidarity and Quantum Entanglement; The Space-Time of Relativity and Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum; Process and Time; Free Will Saved from Determinism?; The Whitehead’s God; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index of Names; Glossary and Thematic Index.
Scientists featured: • Walter & Luis Alvarez • Alfred Wegener • Mario Molina & Sherwood Rowland • Tu Youyou • Henri Becquerel • Florence Nightingale • William Beaumont & Alexis St. Martin • Daniel Hale Williams • Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson • Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Readership: Students and scholars in philosophy of science, metaphysics, history of science, and general philosophers. Suitable for a general audience with some training in science and interest in metaphysical questions, particularly about time.
Readership: Readers 7-12 years old. Students, parents, teachers, and homeschoolers will see it as a fresh alternative for teaching and learning science. 108pp Apr 2022 978-981-124-357-8 US$18.95 978-981-124-402-5(pbk) US$9.95
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[ SOCIAL SCIENCES ]
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS REFLECTIONS ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION
CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES
Newest Developments in Japan and the UK edited by Yumiko Hada (Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Japan)
In the Middle East and Beyond
This book brings together contributions from leading authors in a range of fields related to Japan and the United Kingdom. Adopting a comparative perspective, it tackles topics ranging from the politics of opposition, democracy, immigration and citizenship, to education, sportsmanship and popular culture, as well as issues of immigration and identity. Each chapter presents and clarifies the differences, similarities and exchanges between the two countries to emphasise that, though little exists in isolation in this global age, in-depth knowledge of particular regions remains vital. This book argues for a deeper understanding of the UK and Japan in pursuit of hope, and as a reflection on the self and one’s own sense of place and identity. It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in cross-cultural theory and comparisons between Japan and the United Kingdom.
Reflections on Conflict Resolution offers hope that there might be ways to resolve, or at least mitigate, even complex, violent, and protracted conflicts between communities and nations. This volume presents the state of the art in a decade-long analysis of conflict resolution in the Middle East and beyond.
by Gilead Sher (Gilead Sher & Co., Israel)
Readership: Scholars, teachers, researchers and undergraduate and postgraduate students in area studies, education, politics, cross-cultural theory, and international relations; government officials; readers interested in learning more about Japan and the United Kingdom.
Featured Contents: Conflict Resolution: Social Media and Peacebuilding: Could Mindsets be Positively Affected? (Gilead Sher and Elias Sturm); Israeli-Palestinian Outlook: The Partition Plan (Gilead Sher); Arab-Israeli Perspective: The Grand Bargain that is the Mideast’s Best Hope (Shai Feldman and Gilead Sher); United StatesIsrael-Iran Context: Diplomacy or Driving a Hard Bargain? Lessons from the Negotiation that Led to the Iran Nuclear Deal (Emily B Landau and Gilead Sher); Reflections on Conflict Resolution in the Absence of Negotiations: Peace Without Partners (Ami Ayalon, Orni Petruschka and Gilead Sher); and others. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, lecturers, officials, diplomats, national security experts, and practitioners.
276pp 978-981-124-441-4
150pp 978-981-125-158-0
Featured Contents: Foreword (Sir Ivor Crewe); History; Politics; Culture; Internationalisation; Sports and Sportsmanship; Education; Personal Growth; Language; The Commonwealth; Women; Conclusion (Sam Bamkin); and others.
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The 15 articles by the author and his coauthors contain policy ideas, dilemmas, research, and analysis: dealing with social media and peacemaking as well as with negotiating climate politics; transcending from grappling with Anti-Semitism to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resolution; and analyzing the negotiations that led to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as well as Israeli-Arab peacemaking.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY
SOCIAL ISSUES / HUMAN SECURITY
GLOBAL NATIONALISM
BEYOND COVID-19
edited by Pablo de Orellana & Nicholas Michelsen (King’s College London, UK)
edited by Şefika Şule Erçetin (Hacettepe University, Turkey), Nihan Potas & Şuay Nilhan Açikalin (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, Turkey)
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Ideas, Movements and Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Effects on Diverse Fields
Global Nationalism, edited and framed by Pablo de Orellana and Nicholas Michelsen, brings together the latest research by upand-coming early career researchers and scholars. Beginning with a succinct history and typology of contemporary nationalism and its predecessors, this book offers analysis of several cases of contemporary nationalism, examining how specific movements define identity, address grievances and propose identity-based solutions. Key themes and lessons emerge from the study of a variety of cases, from the very ideas animating nationalist thought, to their expression in a wide variety of nationalist movements around the world. The reflections on the ecosystem of nationalist ideas and movements offered in this volume are a vital starting point in the study of contemporary nationalism as a global twenty-first century phenomenon.
While humanity continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its ramifications, Beyond COVID-19: Effects on Diverse Fields provides a unique opportunity to foresee the repercussions of the pandemic across a range of fields through the lens of chaos and complexity theory. This book takes COVID-19 as a holistic event, providing an interesting analysis of this chaotic phenomenon with the contributions of multi-disciplinary scholars. The expert views within this book come from a wide range of fields, from international relations to education and from sociology to law.
Featured Contents: Nationalist Theories and Concepts: The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance (Moran M Mandelbaum); Materialising the Nation (Joel Chong); Nationalist Dynamics: Bringing the Armageddon: Carl Schmitt and surging nationalism in South Asia (Hassan Zaheer); Nationalism as a Site of Contestation for Political Legitimacy in Thailand (Bavo Stevens); Liminality and Identity in Late Modern Nationalism: Minority Groups and Nationalism: A Sociological Perspective on How Ethiopian Jews Construct and Configure Identity (Abrham Yohannes Gebremichael); and others.
Featured Contents: Preface; Understanding COVID-19 with Chaos Theory: Dynamics and Implications for Societies (Şuay Nilhan Açikalin and Şefika Şule Erçetin); COVID-19 and the Infodemic: A Typology of Government Measures to Condemn False Information (André Olbrich); A Social Change Theorist Recalled by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ulrich Beck and the Risk Society (Mehmet Cem Şahin); The Impacts of the Pandemic Crisis on International Politics (Luis Tomé); Effects of COVID-19 on Healthcare Service Delivery: Focus on Otolaryngology and Speech and Language Pathology Services (Mariam Kavakci); International Law During and After the COVID-19 Crisis: Is Achieving True International Cooperation Impossible Without a Structural Shift (Onur Uraz); and others.
Readership: Beginner, undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Readership: Researchers, postgraduate students, practitioners, and policymakers.
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ASIAN BUSINESS / MANAGEMENT World Scientific Series in Asian Business and Management Studies
INNOVATION IN CHINA
CHANGING FACE OF E-COMMERCE IN ASIA
by Hugh Thomas (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
A Strategic Management Casebook
edited by Abhishek Behl (O P Jindal Global University, India), Pankaj Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India), Pratima Sheorey (Symbiosis International University, India) & Chris Rowley (University of Oxford, UK) This book aims to unwrap the stories of ecommerce companies in Asia and how they have contributed to the society. It discusses the growth and failures of some e-commerce giants and looks at both theoretical and practical aspects of e-commerce by presenting the issues, challenges and successes of e-commerce businesses. It examines interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary aspects from micro and macro perspectives and links disciplines like strategy, management, entrepreneurship, competitiveness, finance, technology and operations.
Contents: Introduction; Acknowledgements; The Rules of the Old Game; Communism, Government and Innovation; Intellectual Property; High Speed Rail — State Planning for Innovation; Incubation and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation; Cisco and Cloud-based Education in China; Two Chinese Entrepreneurs: Zhang Ruimin and Ren Zhengfei; Fuyao Glass: Global Strategy for American Risk; Ofo: Innovation and the Little Yellow Bike; Sensetime Group Limited: Business Model and Expansion; Redhill Capital: Strategy in a Pandemic: Hugh Thomas; 12 China Merchants Bank: Light Banking, Payments and Blockchain; Conclusion.
Featured Contents: Past, Present and Future of E-commerce: Economies of Scale in E-commerce Firms; Industry 4.0 and Growth of E-commerce; Aligning Marketing Activities for E-commerce: Branding and Advertisement in E-commerce Websites; Managing Human Resource in E-commerce: HR practices in E-commerce Industry; Innovation in HR Practices in E-Commerce: A Case Study on Alibaba; Business Operations in E-commerce Firms: Forward and Reverse Logistics in E-Commerce Firms; Warehousing and Facility Location in E-commerce; Information Technology and Analytics in E-commerce: Role of Database Management in E-Commerce Firms; Role of Big Data Analytics in E-Commerce; and others. Readership: Undergraduate and post graduate management and scholars.
Readership: Professors in universities; China studies instructors; Senior undergraduate and post graduate students; General public.
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This book presents cases where managers determine policy in China’s increasingly innovative society. Readers take the roles of decisionmakers to make strategy decisions. The cases in this volume showcase China’s traditional three teachings, socialist market institutions, and modern management using studies on current Chinese companies and their leaders, among them big names such as Haier and Huawei. Each case stands alone as teaching material for instructors. Taken together, the book presents evolving models of innovation. Their subtle differences from western constructs critically impact the development of our global society.
ASIAN ECONOMIES
ASIAN POLITICS / SOCIETY
REVITALISING ASEAN ECONOMIES IN A POST-COVID-19 WORLD
FROM OPIUM TO METHAMPHETAMINES
Socioeconomic Issues in the New Normal
The Nine Lives of the Drug Industry in Southeast Asia
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edited by Hooi Hooi Lean (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia)
by Wolfgang Sachsenröder (Political Party Forum Southeast Asia, Singapore)
Beyond the efforts of preventing and containing the spread of the virus, ASEAN’s most significant challenges are the social and economic crisis of historic proportions that are beginning to unfold. COVID-19 pandemic has brought interruptions in all sectors of ASEAN economies. It is, therefore, imperative to assess the extent to which the pandemic has impacted the social and economic aspects of the region. This book intends to highlight the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in ASEAN and suggest ways on how to mitigate them. It covers how the shocks from COVID-19 have impacted production, supply chains, demand, commodity prices, consumer behaviour, financial markets, employment, services, transportation and community, and the various policies that ASEAN authorities should put in place to mitigate the effects of the pandemic.
This book analyses the detrimental impact of the drug industry on the political economy and the social developments in Southeast Asia. Shortcomings and lasting damages can be traced in the political structures, in the rampant corruption, and the secretive links between customs, armies, police organisations, and organised crime. Contents: Introduction; Opium and Its Derivatives; Southeast Asia Between Cohesion and Diversity; Europe Comes to Asia; The US Participation in The Far East Opium Trade and the Ongoing American Interest in Southeast Asia; China and Southeast Asia After the Opium Wars; The Expanding Opium Market in Southeast Asia; Poppy Cultivation in The Golden Triangle After 1950; The British Colonies in Southeast Asia: Burma, Malaya, and the Straits Settlements; French Indochina; From the Dutch East Indies to Modern Indonesia; The Philippines After Spanish and American Colonial Rule; The Heritage and Lasting Burden of the Drug Culture for the Political and Social Development of Southeast Asia; The Trillion Dollar Question: War Against Drugs or Control Through Legalisation; Annex 1: The Main Drugs Used in Southeast Asia.
Contents: Impacts and challenges in Malaysia; Impacts and challenges in Singapore; Impacts and challenges in Indonesia; Impacts and challenges in Thailand; Impacts and challenges in Brunei; Impacts and challenges in Philippines; Impacts and challenges in Vietnam; Impacts and challenges in Cambodia; Impacts and challenges in Laos; Impacts and challenges in Myanmar. Readership: Academic, researchers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students, industry and government agencies interested in Asian economies and its development and international relations.
Readership: Students, teachers and researchers interested in the history of the illicit drug trade in Southeast Asia. This volume may also be of interest to lawyers, politicians and other professionals with a similar interest.
500pp 978-981-122-846-9
200pp 978-981-124-723-1
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CHINA STUDIES
PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY, PEACEBUILDING AND SECURITY IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 5
CHINA’S PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
Evolving Norms, Agenda and Practices
Rediscovery of Chinese Spiritual Essence
edited by Yanjun Guo & Ji Miao (China Foreign Affairs University, China)
edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu (East China Normal University, China)
Preventive diplomacy constitutes an important part of international conflict resolution mechanisms. This book presents the latest research trends in ideations, institutions and practices in preventive diplomacy and other peacebuilding measures of Asia-Pacific countries to ensure traditional and non-traditional security within and beyond the region. It studies peacebuilding issues range from North Korea nuclear issue in Northeast Asia, disputes in the South China Sea, Afghanistan peace process and China-India-Pakistan interaction in South Asia, UN peacebuilding in Central Asia, etc. It explores general security issues at the state, international, regional and global levels by experts from the Asia-Pacific.
China’s Philosophical S t u d i e s : Re d i s c ove r y of Chinese Spiritual Essence collects essential research findings of China’s philosophical studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including thoughts in China’s Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese virtue of trust, establishing morals, historical studies of Chinese philosophy, etc.
Featured Contents: Regime and Ideation: The ASEAN Regional Forum at 25: Moving Forward or Standing Still?; The Interconnection between Religion and Peace from the Perspective of Peace Studies; Approaches and Practices: The North Korean Nuclear Crisis Response from the Perspective of the US Preventive Diplomacy; China’s International Cooperation on Environmental Protection with Opportunities and Challenges under the New Normal; Pakistan’s Attitudes towards China’s Involvement in Regional Conflicts Resolution; Issues and Cases: Practice Mode and Action Dilemma of United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia; and others. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students.
Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in philosophical studies in China.
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Contents: A Computational Interpretation of Intentionality; One Hundred Years of Philosophy of Science in China; Freedom of Mind: The Source of Feng Qi’s Philosophical Creation; The Theoretical Charm of Marxism; “Dr Hunters” in the Capital; Rebuilding the Virtue of Trust: An Examination of Xin from the Perspective of the History of Ideas; The Tension and Prospect in the World of Thought in China’s Spring and Autumn Period; The Interpretation of Classics and “Establishing Morals”; The Confucian Way as a Philosophical System; Knowledge and Action in a Deweyian Perspective; A Concise History of Chinese Philosophy; A Critical Theorist’s Work Is Never Finished: A Review of Stefan Müller Doohm’s Jürgen Habermas: Eine Biographie; Elusive Understanding-why; Some Fundamental Problems in Buddhology.
CHINESE CULTURE AND ITS IMPACT ON CHINA’S DEVELOPMENT
WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 6
Translated by: Dongyun Sun (Fudan University, China)
edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu (East China Normal University, China)
This book analyzes the importance of culture and the impact of culture on China’s development. It studies strategic and cuttingedge theoretical topics on civilization revival, cultural development and cultural (re)construction in the Chinese context. Topics covered in the book include the position of Chinese culture in the history of world civilizations, the cultural revival in contemporary China, the function of Confucian culture in modern society, the rightful rule of the construction of Chinese cultural identity in transitional China, the pluralistic symbiosis of contemporary Chinese cultures, reconstruction of national ideology, the development of the cultural soft power and the cultural industry in contemporary China, the establishment of China’s international image, among others.
This book collects important researches on social sciences and humanities conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including emotions of homeland, special events in Chinese literary and art history, Chinese population studies, media research, democracy at grass-root level, elderly people situation, etc.
CHINESE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES STUDIES Collection of Important Topics
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edited by Guodong Sun (Fudan University, China)
Featured Contents: An Exploration of the Spiritual “Original Homeland” of Chinese Ethics: A Review of the Conceptual History of “Emotion”; Contemporary Full-Length Novels: A Literary Symbol; The Novel Monthly and Chinese Literature in the 1920s; Cultural Warfare: The Context and Situation of Chinese Literary Criticism in the 20th Century; To Transform Knowledge into Wisdom: On the Logical Starting Point for Literary and Art Theories; On the Momentariness of Image Creation; Lu Xun’s Theories on New Fine Art; Hu Huanyong’s Contributions to Chinese Population Geography: In Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of Discovery of the “Hu Huanyong Line”; Money in the Social Sciences: The Individual, Society, the State and Beyond; An Empirical Study of English Translations of Popular Chinese Neologisms and Their Acceptability; Exploring the Accountability Linkage between Local Congress Deputies and Constituents in China; and others.
Featured Contents: How Culture Can Contribute to State Quality; China Changing the World: Exploring the Origin of World Civilization from the Perspective of Chinese Culture; New Mandates in an Old Country: Cultural Revival as Extension of a Nation’s Lifeblood; On the Contemporary Significance of “The Rule of Ritual”; Overview of the “New Cardinal Guides and Constant Virtues”; Confucianism and the Shaping of Modern Social Order in China; State Neutrality under the Regulation of the Common Political Culture: A Fundamental Law for the Construction of Cultural Identity in Transitional China; and others. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Chinese culture and its impact on China’s development.
Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Chinese social sciences and humanities.
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300pp 978-981-124-657-9
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WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 8
MODERNIZATION OF CHINA’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ORGANIZATION
POLICY REVIEW OF CHINA’S EDUCATION
edited by Zhenguo Yuan, Shuangye Chen & Li You (East China Normal University, China)
by Yang Cao (Central China Normal University, China)
Policy Review of China’s Education collects important researches of China’s education policies mainly conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers various aspects of educational policy studies in China including Regulatory Policies on Private Supplementary Tutoring in China, Accelerated Move for AI Education in China, New Higher Education Policy, nongovernmental education, etc. It showcases the significant contributions to scholarship in education policies studies in China.
Translated by: Ming Dong (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China) & Xue Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China)
Featured Contents: The “Double First Class” Initiative under Top-Level Design; Making Teaching an Enviable Profession: New Epoch-Making Teacher Policy in China and Challenges; Review of Regulatory Policies on Private Supplementary Tutoring in China; School Choice in China: Past, Present, and Future; The Composition and Evolution of China’s High Level Talent Programs in Higher Education; Competence for Students’ Future: Curriculum Change and Policy Redesign in China; Accelerated Move for AI Education in China; New National Initiatives of Modernizing Education in China; Refreshing China’s Labor Education in the New Era: Policy Review on Education Through Physical Labor; China’s New Laws and Policies on Nongovernmental Education: Background, Characteristics, and Impact Analysis; and others.
Featured Contents: Introduction; Analytical Framework: Freedom and Organization; The Historical Context and Inherent Logic of the Transition of Agricultural Production Organization in Contemporary China: Interpretation Based on Peasants’ Freedom; Pluralism and Symbiosis: The Basic Framework of the Agricultural Production Organization in Contemporary China; Transforming Small Farming: The Key to the Modernization of Agricultural Production Organizations in Contemporary China; Who Organizes Peasant Cooperative Organizations and Whom to Organize; and others. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students. 500pp 978-981-124-226-7
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This book constructs a new theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Chinese agricultural production organizations from the perspective of promoting farmers’ realization of “substantial freedom” and “feasible ability”. The new theoretical framework deepens and expands the theory of agricultural modernization and production organization. The book discusses the “multi-symbiosis” pattern of agricultural production organizations in contemporary China from macro and micro economics perspectives. Based on the peasant household economy, this multi-symbiosis organizational structure co-exists and interweaves with various forms of economic organizations.
WSPC-ECNU Series on China - Vol 7
SINGAPORE COLLECTION
STUDIES ON CHINESE MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS
SOCIAL CONTEXT, POLICIES, AND CHANGES IN SINGAPORE
edited by Ruiquan Gao & Guanjun Wu (East China Normal University, China)
Beyond the First 50 Years
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Studies on Chinese Modern Histor y and Politics collects important research findings of China’s social sciences studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the studies of Chen Xulu (a famous Chinese historian), the institutional advantage and governance efficiency in China, latest research on western political science, etc.
edited by Intan Azura Mokhtar & Yaacob Ibrahim (Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore) This book is a collection of essays by thought and advocacy leaders, policymakers, and academics in Singapore who have been and are in positions of influence in shaping social policies, and hence the social context, in the country. These essays are meant to initiate discussion, promote debate and broaden understanding of the social issues at play, the challenges faced, and the trade-offs involved in enhancing social policies, strengthening the social compact, and shaping the social context in Singapore.
Featured Contents: Debord contra Lacan: Two Critical Theorizations of Image in 20thCentury French Thought; Can the Oriental Know Justice? Can the Subaltern Tell Stories?; Liberty and Its Abuse: Isaiah Berlin’s Thesis on Liberty Revisited; Institutional Advantage and Governance Efficiency: On the Essential Features of China’s State Governance System in the New Era; “Reform Apocamnosis” and Its Countermeasures from the Perspective of Social Differentiation; Debates on Public History in Weimar Germany: The “Controversy of Historical Belles-Lettres” in 1928 as a Case Study; Never Gone with the Wind: On Chen Xulu’s Records of Free Thoughts; The “History” and “Thinking” of the Change of Concept: Rereading The Metabolism of Modern Chinese Society Money in the Social Sciences: The Individual, Society, the State and Beyond; and others.
Featured Contents: Government and Civil Society: Social Movements: Civil Societies and Advocacy Groups (Anthea Ong); Education: School Leadership and Teacher Professional Development (Hairon Salleh); Employment and Employability: SkillsFuture and Applied Learning: The Need for Continual Upskilling and Reskilling (Tan Thiam Soon, Chua Kee Chaing, Foo Yong Lim, May Lim Sok Mui, Arthur Poh Heo Tat & Yeo May-Fung); Social and Family Development: Social Welfare Spending, Programmes and Development in Singapore (Walter Theseira); Demographics and Social Spending: Financing Social Spending (Randolph Tan Gee Kwang); Healthcare and Healthcare Financing: Innovations in Healthcare Financing (Phua Kai Hong); Urban Planning and the Environment: Housing, Urbanisation and Gentrification (Intan Azura Mokhtar); Disruptions, New Technologies and Smart Nation: New Technologies (Inderjit Singh Dhaliwal); and others.
Readership: Policymakers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Chinese literature and art. 300pp 978-981-124-660-9
Mar 2022 US$88
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£75
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STUDIES ON CHINESE MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS SUN AND THE OTHER STARS OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, THE: A COSMOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE DIVINA COMMEDIA SUPERCONDUCTOR/FERROMAGNET NANOSTRUCTURES: AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE PHYSICS OF HYBRID NANOMATERIALS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTTHE ROLES OF CARBON AND BIO-CARBON: AN INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR SCIENCES TEXTBOOK OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE PRACTICE (FIFTH ED.) TIME AND BEAUTY: WHY TIME FLIES AND BEAUTY NEVER DIES TOTAL INNOVATION MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE TREATING ECZEMA WITH TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE TRILOGY OF NUMBERS AND ARITHMETIC - BOOK 1: HISTORY OF NUMBERS AND ARITHMETIC: AN INFORMATION PERSPECTIVE UNIFIED FIELD THEORY AND OCCAM’S RAZOR: SIMPLE SOLUTIONS TO DEEP QUESTIONS UNIFORM SUPERSONIC FLOWS IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS: CHEMISTRY CLOSE TO ABSOLUTE ZERO STUDIED USING THE CRESU METHOD WAKING UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE: FIVE DIMENSIONS OF THE CRISIS AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT WAVE DYNAMICS
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