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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ PHYSICS ] ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

World Scientific Series in Astrophysics

THE WSPC HANDBOOK OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION (In 5 Volumes) edited by David N Burrows (The Pennsylvania State University, USA) Our goal is to produce a comprehensive handbook of the current state of the art of astronomical instrumentation with a forward view encompassing the next decade. The target audience is graduate students with an interest in astronomical instrumentation, as well as practitioners interested in learning about the state of the art in another wavelength band or field closely related to the one in which they currently work. We assume a working knowledge of the fundamental theory: optics, semiconductor physics, etc.

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DIRAC AND WEYL SEMIMETALS by Eduard V Gorbar (Taras Shevchenko National Kiev University, Ukraine & Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukraine), Vladimir A Miransky (Western University, Canada), Igor A Shovkovy (Arizona State University, USA) & Pavlo O Sukhachov (Western University, Canada & Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden) The monograph reviews various aspects of electronic properties of Dirac and Weyl semimetals. After a brief discussion of 2D Dirac semimetals, a comprehensive review of 3D materials is given. The description starts from an overview of the topological properties and symmetries of Dirac and Weyl semimetals. In addition, several low-energy models of Dirac and Weyl quasiparticles are presented. The key ab initio approaches and material realizations are given. The monograph includes detailed discussions of the surface Fermi arcs, anomalous transport properties, and collective modes of Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Superconductivity in these materials is briefly addressed. More details on Page 11

OPTOMAGNONIC STRUCTURES Novel Architectures for Simultaneous Control of Light and Spin Waves edited by Evangelos Almpanis (NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) Understanding, controlling and, more importantly, enhancing the interaction between light (photons) and spin waves (magnons) can be, among others, a step towards the realization of magnonmediated microwave-to-optical transducers for quantum computing applications or hybrid solid-state spintronic-photonic interconnections. In this respect, the development of novel composite multifunctional micro/nanostructures — so-called optomagnonic — which simultaneously control optical and spin waves and enhance their interaction, is particularly attractive. More details on Page 12

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

MICRO-PATTERN GASEOUS DETECTORS Principles of Operation and Applications by Fabio Sauli (CERN, Switzerland) As a continuation of the author’s earlier work (Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamental and Applications, Cambridge University Press 2014), this book describes in detail the recent developments and applications of advanced micro-pattern gaseous devices. Across different chapters, readers will learn of the most basic observations, measurements and applications of this novel technology within particle physics, astrophysics, medicine, cultural heritage studies and more. The content is based richly on a pool of information distilled from a large number of papers and reports on the subject, as well as presentations at topical Conferences and Symposia. More details on Page 13

[ MATHEMATICS ] OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL Fractals and Dynamics in Mathematics, Science, and the Arts: Theory and Applications

EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS Time-Quantitative Second Law by Jozsef Beck (Rutgers University, USA) We know very little about the time-evolution of many-particle dynamical systems, the subject of our book. Even the 3-body problem has no explicit solution (we cannot solve the corresponding system of differential equations, and computer simulation indicates hopelessly chaotic behaviour). For example, what can we say about the typical time evolution of a large system starting from a stage far from equilibrium? What happens in a realistic time scale? The reader’s first reaction is probably: What about the famous Second Law (of thermodynamics)? More details on Page 17

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S POPULAR & RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond - Vol 21

ADVENTURES IN RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS Selected Writings on Recreational Mathematics and its History (In 2 Volumes) by David Singmaster (University College London, UK) The author believes in the presentation and teaching of mathematics as recreation. When the Rubik’s Cube took off in 1978, based on thinly disguised mathematics, he became seriously interested in mathematical puzzles which would provide mental stimulation for students and professional mathematicians. More details on Page 17

Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond

X GAMES Training in Sports to Play in Mathematics by Tim Chartier (Davidson College, USA) Sports analytics has gathered tremendous momentum as one of the most dynamic fields. Diving deep into the numbers of sports can be game changing or simply a fun exercise for fans. How do you get in the game with numbers? What questions can be explored? What actionable insights can be gleaned? More details on Page 18

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S [ GENERAL ] HISTORY OF SCIENCE World Scientific Series on Science Communication

NEWTON’S CHICKEN Science in the Kitchen by Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento, Italy) Reviews of Foreign Language Editions: “A clever and amusing book.” Il Corriere della Sera

“A treasure of curiosities.” Panorama More details on Page 19

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS / CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S MACROECONOMICS / MICROECONOMICS

ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS An Introduction for Undergraduates

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by Angus Chu (University of Liverpool, UK) Advanced Macroeconomics covers selected topics in advanced macroeconomics at the undergraduate level and bridges the gap between intermediate macroeconomics for undergraduates and advanced macroeconomics for postgraduates. By building on materials in intermediate macroeconomics textbooks and covering the mathematics of some classic dynamic generalequilibrium models, this book will give undergraduate students a firm appreciation of modern developments in macroeconomics. This book examines the implications of government policies (such as fiscal policy, monetary policy and innovation policy) and devotes several chapters to economic growth, covering the ideas for which Paul Romer was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018. More details on Page 31

MATHEMATICAL / QUANTITATIVE FINANCE Advanced Textbooks in Mathematics

AN INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE by Hao Ni (University College London, UK), Xin Dong (Citadel Securities LLC, UK), Jinsong Zheng (Huatai Securities, China) & Guangxi Yu (SWS Research, China) In today’s world, we are increasingly exposed to the words “machine learning” (ML), a term which sounds like a panacea designed to cure all problems ranging from image recognition to machine language translation. Over the past few years, ML has gradually permeated the financial sector, reshaping the landscape of quantitative finance as we know it. More details on Page 32

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N OTA B L E T I T L E S SOCIAL SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY

RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN WORLD SINCE WORLD WAR II by Leonard Weinberg (University of Nevada, USA) Right-wing violence is undergoing a revival on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, much of this violence has been a backlash against migrants and their offspring carried out by ‘lone-wolves’ and organized groups. In the United States, race, gender, and religious hatreds have triggered far more than ‘normal’ levels of violence, including a resurgence of attacks on Jews and other anti-Semitic behavior. Examining the contours of the current violence, this book traces the development of the right-wing in the decades following the end of World War II. More details on Page 35

[ ASIAN STUDIES ] CHINA STUDIES

CHINA’S ENERGY SECURITY Analysis, Assessment and Improvement edited by Jingzheng Ren (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) China is the second-largest economy in the world yet it faces serious energy security challenges due to the country’s reliance on coal, a fuel with multiple environmental and social problems. Moreover, since 2017 China has become the world’s largest crude oil importer, greatly increasing its reliance on imported energy. More details on Page 37

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ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

APPLIED AND TECHNICAL PHYSICS KELVIN – HELMHOLTZ INSTABILITY IN SOLAR ATMOSPHERIC JETS

CHINESE ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY An Outside History

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by Ivan Zhelyazkov (Sofia University, Bulgaria) & Ramesh Chandra (Kumaun University, India)

by Xiaoyuan Jiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China) Translated by: Wenan Chen (Ningbo Univ., China)

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the eruptive and wave phenomena in the solar atmosphere. One of the ongoing problems in solar physics is the heating of the solar corona. Currently there is a competition between two mechanisms in explaining the heating, i.e., dissipation of energy by waves and small scale frequent coronal magnetic reconnection. However, some studies indicate this may be a joint effect of these two possible mechanisms. Kelvin – Helmholtz Instability (KHI) of propagating magnetohydrodynamic modes in solar flowing structures plays an important role in the solar atmosphere. It can trigger the onset of wave turbulence leading to effective plasma heating and particle acceleration. KHI is a multifaceted phenomenon and the purpose of this book is to illuminate its (instability) manifestation in various solar jets like spicules, dark mottles, surges, macrospicules, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) and X-ray jets, as well as rotating, tornado-like, jets, solar wind, and coronal mass ejections.

Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese’s needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, as well as its difference from the western modern astronomy of today, exploring on new issues in a bold but logical fashion, and offering arguments that challenge even the views of authority. This book stands as a translated version, by Chen Wenan, an associate professor of Ningbo University, of the original Chinese publication Tianxue Waishi by Jiang Xiaoyuan. Contents: Introduction; What Kind of People in Ancient China Needed Tianxue?; What Kind of People Were Engaged in Tianxue in Ancient China?; Government-run Tianxue: Tradition and Exception; Astronomical Phenomena and Tianxue Literature (1); Astronomical Phenomena and Tianxue Literature (2); Universe in the Eye of Ancient Chinese; Sino-foreign Exchanges in Ancient Tianxue (1); Sino-foreign Exchanges in Ancient Tianxue (2); Western Astronomy Finds its Way to the Orient in Modern Times (1); Western Astronomy Finds its Way to the Orient in Modern Times (2); Collision between the East and the West during the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Legacies of Chinese Tianxue; Index; Postscript.

Featured Contents: The Sun: General Introduction; Solar Jets: Origin, Classification and Basic Physical Parameters; Magnetohydrodynamic Waves and Instabilities; Normal Magnetohydrodynamic Modes in Solar Jets; Kelvin – Helmholtz Instability in Solar Spicules; Kelvin – Helmholtz Instability in Solar Photospheric Twisted Flux Tubes; Kelvin – Helmholtz Instability in Solar Surges and Dark Mottles; and others. Readership: Academia, researchers in astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics.

Readership: Readers interested in the history of astronomy in Ancient China and its differences from modern astronomy.

250pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-374-7 US$98 £85

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COSMIC PINWHEELS Spiral Galaxies and the Universe by Ronald James Buta (University of Alabama, USA) The main goal of the book is to introduce the reader to the world of spiral galaxies, how spirals were discovered, what they represent from a physical point of view, and what people have learned about the universe and the nature of galaxies in general from the study of spirals. Topics include early discoveries of nebulae, the island universe concept, the structure of spirals as seen both visually with telescopes and in images obtained with different filters, the role of spirals in the discovery of interstellar dust and dark matter, the different kinds of spiral galaxies and the importance of bars and rings, how different non-spiral galaxy types such as elliptical galaxies and S0 galaxies connect to spirals, and how spirals have contributed to our understanding of star formation and evolution, galaxy formation and evolution, the cosmological distance scale, and the universal expansion. The Milky Way as a spiral galaxy is also discussed.

World Scientific Series in Astrophysics

THE WSPC HANDBOOK OF ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION (In 5 Volumes) edited by David N Burrows (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

The purpose of this handbook is to bring together some of the leading experts in the world to discuss the frontier of astronomical instrumentation across the electromagnetic spectrum and extending into multimessenger astronomy.

The book is profusely illustrated and not only a discourse on the spirals, but is also a personal reminiscence based on the author’s studies of spiral galaxies over the past 45 years. Featured Contents: Preface; Visions of Delight; Island Universes; The Luck of an Irishman; Enter the Photographic Era; From Nebulae to Galaxies; Discovery of the Expanding Universe; The Look of the Nebulae; The Dustiness Within; The Structure of the Milky Way; Anatomy of a Cosmic Pinwheel; The Lure of the Rings; Rotating Disks; and others. Readership: For readers interested in galaxies/ universe.

Readership: Graduate students and practitioners in the field of astronomical instrumentation.

300pp Jan 2021 978-981-121-668-8 US$88 £75 978-981-121-747-0(pbk) US$35 £30

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Fe a t u re d C o n t e n t s : Vo l u m e 1 : R a d i o Astronomical Instrumentation: Single Dish Radio Telescopes (Christopher J Salter); Interferometry, Aperture Synthesis, and VLBI (B Fomalont and Melvyn Wright); Volume 2: UV, Optical & IR Instrumentation: Part 1: Astronomical Filters (Michael Bessell and Gabe Bloxham); Dispersive Elements (Cynthia S Froning and J C Clemens); Volume 3: UV, Optical & IR Instrumentation: Part 2: Speckle Interferometers (Elliott P Horch); Amplitude Interferometry (William J Tango); Intensity Interferometry (Dainis Dravins); Volume 4: X-ray Astronomical Instrumentation: X-ray telescopes based on Wolter I optics (Giovanni Pareschi, Daniele Spiga, and Carlo Pelliciari); Silicon Pore Optics (Maximilien J Collon); Volume 5: Gamma-Ray and Multimessenger Astronomical Instrumentation: Laue Lenses in Hard X-ray Astronomy (Enrico Virgilli); Compton Telescopes (James M Ryan); and others.

CLASSICAL MECHANICS, CONTINUUM PHYSICS AND ACOUSTICS WAVEFRONTS AND RAYS AS CHARACTERISTICS AND ASYMPTOTICS (3rd Edition)

WAVES AND RAYS IN ELASTIC CONTINUA (4th Edition) by Michael A Slawinski (Memorial University, Canada)

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by Andrej Bóna (Curtin University, Australia) & Michael A Slawinski (Memorial University, Canada)

Seismology, as a branch of mathematical physics, is an active subject of both research and development. Its reliance on computational and technological advances continuously motivates the developments of its underlying theory. The fourth edition of Waves and Rays in Elastic Continua responds to these needs.

Characteristics and asymptotics of partial differential equations play an important role in mathematical physics since they lead to insightful solutions of complex problems that might not be solvable otherwise. They constitute, however, a difficult subject, and the purpose of this book, with its additions and refinements that led to its third edition, is to present this subject in an accessible manner, without decreasing the rigor. As any method, characteristics and asymptotics have their limitations. This important issue is addressed in the last chapter, where we discuss caustics, which must be understood in applications of the method, and which constitute a fertile ground for further mathematical research.

The book is both a research reference and a textbook. Its careful and explanatory style, which includes numerous exercises with detailed solutions, makes it an excellent textbook for the senior undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for an independent study. Used in its entirety, the book could serve as a sole textbook for a year-long course in quantitative seismology. Its parts, however, are designed to be used independently for shorter courses with different emphases.

Fe a t u re d C o n t e n t s : E l a s t i c Co n t i n u a : Deformations; Forces and Balance Principles; Stress-Strain Equations; Strain Energy; Material Symmetry; Waves and Rays: Equations o f M o t i o n : I s o t r o p i c H o m o ge n e o u s Continua; Equations of Motion: Anisotropic Inhomogeneous Continua; Hamilton’s Ray Equations; Christoffel’s Equations; Reflection and Transmission; Lagrange’s Ray Equations; Variational Formulation of Rays: Euler’s Equations; Variational Principles; Ray Parameters; and others.

Featured Contents: Characteristic Equations of First-Order Linear Partial Differential Equations; Characteristic Equations of Second-Order Linear Partial Differential Equations; Characteristic Equations of First-Order Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations; Propagation of Discontinuities for Linear Partial Differential Equations; Caustics; and others. Readership: Students and researchers in continuum mechanics and mathematical physics.

Readership: Students and researchers in continuum mechanics and mathematical physics.

356pp 978-981-122-646-5

680pp 978-981-122-640-3

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WAVES AND RAYS IN SEISMOLOGY (3rd Edition)

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

Answers to Unasked Questions

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DIRAC AND WEYL SEMIMETALS

by Michael A Slawinski (Memorial University, Canada)

by Eduard V Gorbar (Taras Shevchenko National Kiev University, Ukraine & Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukraine), Vladimir A Miransky (Western University, Canada), Igor A Shovkovy (Arizona State University, USA) & Pavlo O Sukhachov (Western University, Canada & Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden)

This is a book on seismology dealing with advanced aspects of wave propagation in complex media. It can also be viewed as a book on mathematical modelling, wherein the accuracy of describing seismic phenomena exemplifies the modelling itself. The book gives an insight into the power of abstractness by applying the same mathematical methods and strategies to solve a variety of different physical problems. This book covers a broad range of topics in an advanced yet accessible manner. Each chapter is accompanied by a number of solved exercises, which render the book convenient for a lecturer and facilitate its use for an independent study. The details of mathematical methods are discussed in the appendices, which form a substantial portion of the book. Contents: Science of Seismology; Seismology and Continuum Mechanics; Hookean S o l i d : M a t e r i a l S y m m e t r y ; H o o ke a n Solid: Effective Symmetry and Equivalent Medium; Body Waves; Surface, Guided and Interface Waves; Variational Principles in Seismology; Gravitational and Thermal Effects in Seismology; Seismology as Science; Appendices: On Strains; On Stresses; On Thermoelasticity; On Hyperelasticity; On Covariant and Contravariant Transformations; On Covariant Derivatives; List of Symbols.

Contents: 2D Dirac Semimetals; Topological Proper ties and Ef fective Low-Energy Models; Ab Initio Calculations and Materials Realizations; Surface Fermi Arcs; Anomalous Transport Properties; Electronic Transport Properties; Collective Modes; Topological Superconductive Phases. Readership: Condensed Matter Physics, Solid State Physics, Theoretical Physics, Quantum Physics, High Energy Physics, Particle Physics graduate and research students as well as research fellows and professionals in the aforementioned fields.

Readership: Students and researchers in continuum mechanics and mathematical physics. 650pp 978-981-122-643-4

Dec 2020 US$188 £165

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This book deals with the subject of secondary energy spectroscopy in the scanning electron microscope (SEM). The SEM is a widely used research instrument for scientific and engineering research and its low energy scattered electrons, known as secondary electrons, are used mainly for the purpose of nanoscale topographic imaging. This book demonstrates the advantages of carrying out precision electron energy spectroscopy of its secondary electrons, in addition to them being used for imaging. The book will demonstrate how secondary electron energy spectroscopy can transform the SEM into a powerful analytical tool that can map valuable material science information to the nanoscale, superimposing it onto the instrument’s normal topographic mode imaging. The book demonstrates how the SEM can then be used to quantify/ identify materials, acquire bulk density of states information, capture dopant density distributions in semiconductor specimens, and map surface charge distributions

FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM MATERIALS

OPTOMAGNONIC STRUCTURES Novel Architectures for Simultaneous Control of Light and Spin Waves

A Practical Guide to Synthesis and Exploration

edited by Evangelos Almpanis (NCSR “Demokritos”, Greece & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)

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edited by Johnpierre Paglione (University of Maryland, College Park, USA), Nicholas P Butch (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) & Efrain Rodriguez (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

This book constitutes a collective work, comprising seven chapters from leading researchers in the field of optomagnonics and related areas. Apart from exciting recent developments, it provides the necessary fundamental knowledge in an explanatory manner and, therefore, it is accessible to non-experts. It is suitable for PhD students, post-docs, and researchers who are willing to get engaged in optomagnonics, while selected parts could also serve as lecture material for advanced courses. With increasing demand for miniaturized optomagnonic devices, this book will be an important resource to researchers working on optomagnonics, magneto-optics, spintronics, as well as on hybrid micro/nano devices for information processing.

Despite a long tradition of sophisticated, creative materials synthesis among quantum materials researchers, a sense of broader community has been lacking. In initiating the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School held annually at the University of Maryland, we wanted to bring together the next generation of growers to learn techniques and pointers directly from senior scientists, and it turns out that we were not alone. The enthusiasm from both students and teachers has been both gratifying and invigorating. Four schools later, we can confidently say that physicists, chemists, and materials scientists, experimentalists and theorists alike, all want to know how to make a good sample. With this in mind, we asked our lecturers to record their most important ideas and share their expertise with a broader audience. This resource is a compilation of fundamental and practical guides on the modern methods of materials synthesis utilized by these experts.

Featured Contents: Tailoring the Interaction of Light with Magnetization in Stratified Nanostructures (P A Pantazopoulos and N Stefanou); Magnonics and Confinement of Light in Photonic-Magnonic Crystals (J W Kłos, I L Lyubchanskii, M Krawczyk, P Gruszecki, S Mieszczak, J Rychły, Y S Dadoenkova, and N N Dadoenkova); Tunable Generation of Spin Waves by Ultrashort Optical Pulses in Magnetic Dielectric Thin Films (A I Chernov, M A Kozhaev, and V I Belotelov); Inelastic Scattering of Light by Spin Waves (M Benjamin Jungfleisch); Driving Magnons with Microwave Photons (Guo-Qiang Zhang, Yi-Pu Wang, and J Q You); and others.

Featured Contents: Introduction to the Synthesis of Quantum Materials — Some General Guidelines and a Few Tricks; Chemical Bonding and Structural Relationships in Extended Solids; Solution Growth of Intermetallic Single Crystals; Vapor Transport Growth of Van der Waals Magnets; Induction Furnace Heating for Growth of Intermetallic Quantum Materials; Hydrothermal Synthesis and Crystal Growth; Floating Zone Crystal Growth; High-throughput Methods in Superconductivity Research; and others. Readership: Junior and senior research professionals.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate, graduate/PhD students, post-docs, and researchers.

200pp Dec 2020 978-981-121-936-8 US$88 £75

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OPTICS AND LASER PHYSICS

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS MICRO-PATTERN GASEOUS DETECTORS

SECONDARY ELECTRON ENERGY SPECTROSCOPY IN THE SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE

Principles of Operation and Applications by Fabio Sauli (CERN, Switzerland)

by Anjam Khursheed (National University of Singapore, Singapore) This book deals with the subject of secondary energy spectroscopy in the scanning electron microscope (SEM). The SEM is a widely used research instrument for scientific and engineering research and its low energy scattered electrons, known as secondary electrons, are used mainly for the purpose of nanoscale topographic imaging. This book demonstrates the advantages of carrying out precision electron energy spectroscopy of its secondary electrons, in addition to them being used for imaging. The book will demonstrate how secondary electron energy spectroscopy can transform the SEM into a powerful analytical tool that can map valuable material science information to the nanoscale, superimposing it onto the instrument’s normal topographic mode imaging. The book demonstrates how the SEM can then be used to quantify/ identify materials, acquire bulk density of states information, capture dopant density distributions in semiconductor specimens, and map surface charge distributions.

The author, Fabio Sauli, is an expert with several hundreds of publications in the field. He is also the inventor of one of the major technologies described — the Gas Electron Multiplier — widely used in particle physics and other applied fields.

Contents: SE Energy Spectrometers Design; The Wide-angle Toroidal Energy Analyzer Attachment; Quantitative Material Contrast; Dopant Profiling and Semiconductor Characterization; Probing and Mapping Charge Distributions; Conclusions and Future Work.

Featured Contents: One Century of Gaseous Detectors; Microstrip Gas Counter (MSGC); Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD); Micromegas; Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM); MPGD readout of Time Projection Chambers; UV Photon Detection and Localization; and others.

Readership: Physicists, Chemists, Materials Scientists, advanced graduate students, professional scientists looking to change specialties.

Readership: Professors, researchers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students; developers of detector technologies. 350pp 978-981-122-221-4

320pp 978-981-122-702-8

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As a continuation of the author’s earlier work (Gaseous Radiation Detectors: Fundamental and Applications, Cambridge University Press 2014), this book describes in detail the recent developments and applications of advanced micro-pattern gaseous devices. Across different chapters, readers will learn of the most basic observations, measurements and applications of this novel technology within particle physics, astrophysics, medicine, cultural heritage studies and more. The content is based richly on a pool of information distilled from a large number of papers and reports on the subject, as well as presentations at topical Conferences and Symposia.

[ MATHEMATICS ]

QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION

ALGEBRA AND RELATED TOPICS ELEMENTS OF LINEAR AND MULTILINEAR ALGEBRA

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by John M Erdman ( Portland State University, USA)

This set of notes is Textbook an activity-oriented introduction to linear and multilinear algebra. The great majority of the most elementary results in these subjects are straightforward and can be verified by the thoughtful student. Indeed, that is the main point of these notes — to convince the beginner that the subject is accessible. In the material that follows there are numerous indicators that suggest activity on the part of the reader: words such as “proposition”, “example”, “theorem”, “exercise”, and “corollary”, if not followed by a proof or a reference to a proof, are invitations to verify the assertions made.

ESSENTIALS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY

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by Shangwu Qian (Peking University, China) Quantum mechanics and relativity are two important topics of modern physics. This book serves as an introduction to the essential topics in the fields. It is suitable for a one-semester course for undergraduate students. The book is concise and the discussions are easy to follow. Interested students can also used this as a study guide for self-learning.

This book has tried to keep the facts about vector spaces and those about inner product spaces separate. Many beginning linear algebra texts conflate the material on these two vastly different subjects.

Contents: Quantum Mechanics: Preliminaries; Postulates and One-Dimensional Problems; Matrix Mechanics; Central Forces and Angular Momentum; Summary, Problems and Solutions; Relativity: Preliminaries; Special Relativity: Kinematics; Relativistic Electrodynamics; Relativistic Dynamics; More About Tensors; General Relativity.

Contents: Vector Spaces; Linear Transformations; The Language of Categories; The Spectral Theorem for Vector Spaces; The Spectral Theorem for Inner Product Spaces; A Brief Review of Differential Calculus; Multilinear Maps and Determinants; Tensor Algebras; Differential Manifolds; Differential Forms on Manifolds; Homology and Cohomology; Stokes’ Theorem; Geometric Algebra; Clifford Algebras.

Key Features • Concise, easy to follow Readership: Undergraduate physics students. 240pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-118-7 US$58 £50

Readership: Upper division undergraduates, beginning graduate students, instructors. 160pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-272-6 US$68 £60 14

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GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY

DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS

METACYCLIC GROUPS AND THE D(2) PROBLEM

Trends in Abstract and Applied Analysis - Vol 10

by Francis E A Johnson (University College London, UK)

NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL COUPLED SYSTEMS

The D(2) problem is a fundamental problem in low dimensional topology. In broad terms, it asks when a three-dimensional space can be continuously deformed into a two-dimensional space without changing the essential algebraic properties of the spaces involved.

Impulsive and Integral Equations on Bounded and Unbounded Domains by Feliz Manuel Minhós (Universidade de Évora, Portugal) & Robert de Sousa (Universidade de Cabo Verde, Cape Verde)

The problem is parametrized by the fundamental group of the spaces involved; that is, each group G has its own D(2) problem whose difficulty varies considerably with the individual nature of G. This book solves the D(2) problem for a large, possibly infinite, number of finite metacyclic groups G(p, q). Prior to this the author had solved the D(2) problem for the groups G(p, 2). However, for q > 2, the only previously known solutions were for the groups G(7, 3), G(5, 4) and G(7, 6), all done by difficult direct calculation by two of the author’s students, Jonathan Remez (2011) and Jason Vittis (2019).

The systems covered here include differential and integral equations of Hammerstein-type with boundary constraints, on bounded or unbounded intervals. These are presented in several forms and conditions (three points, mixed, with functional dependence, homoclinic and heteroclinic, amongst others). This would be the first time that differential and integral coupled systems are studied systematically. Featured Contents: Boundary Value Problems on Bounded Domains: Third-Order ThreePoint Systems with Dependence on the First Derivative; Coupled Systems on Unbounded Domains: Second-Order Coupled Systems on the Half-Line; Coupled Impulsive Systems: Impulsive Coupled Systems with Generalized Jump Conditions; Coupled Systems of Integral Equations: Coupled Systems of Hammerstein Integral Equations; and others.

Contents: Projective Modules and Class Groups; Homological Algebra; The Derived Module Category; Extension and Restriction of Scalars; Swan Homomorphisms; Modules Over Quasi-Triangular Algebras; A Fibre Product Decomposition; Galois Modules; The Sequencing Theorem; A Cancellation Theorem for Extensions; Cancellation of Quasi-Swan Modules; Swan Homomorphisms for Metacyclic Groups; An Obstruction to Monogenicity; The D(2) Property.

Readership: Academics, researchers and graduate students.

Readership: Academic mathematicians; postgraduate and higher.

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Boundary value problems on bounded or unbounded intervals, involving two or more coupled systems of nonlinear differential and integral equations with full nonlinearities, are scarce in the literature. The present work by the authors desires to fill this gap.

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS AND APPROXIMATION

MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS A Concise Introduction

NONSTANDARD FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEMES

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by Jiongmin Yong (University of Central Florida, USA)

Methodology and Applications by Ronald E Mickens (Clark Atlanta University, USA)

Mathematical analysis Textbook serves as a common foundation for many research areas of pure and applied mathematics. It is also an important and powerful tool used in many other fields of science, including physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, finance, and economics. In this book, some basic theory of analysis is presented, including metric spaces and their properties, limit of sequences, continuous function, differentiation, Riemann integral, uniform convergence, and series.

This second edition of Nonstandard Finite Difference Models of Differential Equations provides an update on the progress made in both the theory and application of the NSFD methodology during the past two and a half decades. In addition to discussing details related to the determination of the denominator functions and the nonlocal discrete representations of functions of dependent variables, we include many examples illustrating just how this should be done. Of real value to the reader is the inclusion of a chapter listing many exact difference schemes, and a chapter giving NSFD schemes from the research literature. The book emphasizes the critical roles played by the “principle of dynamic consistency” and the use of sub-equations for the construction of valid NSFD discretizations of differential equations.

After going through a sequence of courses on basic calculus and linear algebra, it is desirable for one to spend a reasonable length of time (ideally, say, one semester) to build an advanced base of analysis sufficient for getting into various research fields other than analysis itself, and/or stepping into more advanced levels of analysis courses (such as real analysis, complex analysis, differential equations, functional analysis, stochastic analysis, amongst others). This book is written to meet such a demand. Readers will find the treatment of the material is as concise as possible, but still maintaining all the necessary details.

Contents: A Second Edition ... Why?; Introduction; Numerical Instabilities; Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes; First-Order ODE’s; Second-Order, Nonlinear Oscillator Equations; Two FirstOrder, Coupled Ordinary Differential Equations; Partial Differential Equations; Schrodinger Differential Equations; The NSFD Methodology; Some Exact Finite Difference Schemes; Applications and Related Topics; Appendices: Difference Equations; Linear Stability Analysis; Discrete WKB Method.

Contents: Metric Spaces and Limits for Sequences; Functions on Metric Spaces; Differentiation; Riemann Integrals; Uniform Convergence; Series; Appendix: The Real Number Systems. Readership: Upper-level undergraduate students and first-year graduate students; Students from other areas who are interested.

Readership: Anyone interested; advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and practitioners in the field of numercial analysis.

260pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-163-7 US$78 £70

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OPTIMIZATION AND CONTROL

POPULAR AND RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS

Fractals and Dynamics in Mathematics, Science, and the Arts: Theory and Applications

Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond - Vol 21

EQUIDISTRIBUTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

ADVENTURES IN RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS

Time-Quantitative Second Law by Jozsef Beck (Rutgers University, USA)

Selected Writings on Recreational Mathematics and its History (In 2 Volumes)

We know very little about the time-evolution of many-particle dynamical systems, the subject of our book. Even the 3-body problem has no explicit solution. For example, what can we say about the typical time evolution of a large system starting from a stage far from equilibrium? What happens in a realistic time scale? The reader’s first reaction is probably: What about the famous Second Law (of thermodynamics)?

by David Singmaster (University College London, UK) In these 2-volume books, the readers shall have an adventure into previously unknown origins of ancient puzzles, which could be traced back to their Medieval, Chinese, Arabic and Indian sources. The puzzles are fully described, many with illustrations, adding interest to their history and relevance to contemporary mathematical concepts.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of notorious mathematical problems surrounding the Second Law. (1) How to rigorously define entropy? How to convert the well known intuitions (like “disorder” and “energy spreading”) into precise mathematical definitions? (2) How to express the Second Law in forms of a rigorous mathematical theorem? (3) The Second Law is a “soft” qualitative statement about entropy increase, but does not say anything about the necessary time to reach equilibrium.

Readership: Students and scholars of mathematics and its history, Maths teachers, general public.

The object of this book is to answer questions (1)-(2)-(3). We rigorously prove a TimeQuantitative Second Law that works on a realistic time scale. As a by product, we clarify the Loschmidt-paradox and the related reversibility/irreversibility paradox.

Vol. 1 300pp 978-981-122-600-7 978-981-122-650-2(pbk) Vol. 2 200pp 978-981-122-603-8 978-981-122-651-9(pbk)

Contents: Formulating a Time-Quantitative Second Law for Large Systems; Starting the Proofs: Applying Fourier Analysis; Proving Our Time-Quantitative Second Law.

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Readership: Mathematician including the PhD students and post-docs. Any physicist who is interested.

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Featured Contents: Volume 1: What is Recreational Mathematics?; The Utility of Recreational Mathematics; Ancient Puzzles; Puzzles from The Greek Anthology; Aryabhata and Other Early Indian Mathematicians; Alcuin and his Propositiones; Volume 2: New Ideas about Old Puzzles; A Legacy of Camels; Heronian Triangles; The Ass and Mule Problem; How to Count Your Chickens; The Monkey and the Coconuts; and others.

[ CHEMISTRY ]

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF DIAZO COMPOUNDS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS

by Di Qiu (Tianjin Normal University, China) & Jianbo Wang (Peking University, China) In this comprehensive book, the authors cover the most recent advances in the fields related to diazo compounds, including the application of donora c cept or ca rb en e s, carbene-based crosscoupling reactions and polymerizations, as well as the breakthrough in catalytic asymmetric carbene O-H, S-H, and N-H bond insertions. They also cover the application of flow chemistry in diazo reactions. The authors aim to provide a contemporary and comprehensive review for investigators engaged in or with interest in diazo compounds to boost further developments in this fascinating field.

Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond

X GAMES Training in Sports to Play in Mathematics by Tim Chartier (Davidson College, USA)

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Do you like sports? This book will detail ways to analyze athletics to gain insight that can otherwise be obscured. Like math? You’ll find many mathematical topics not involving sports. You’ll also see how sports analytics can train you broadly in mathematics. From coaching at the highest levels to national media broadcasts, analytics are becoming increasingly indispensable. Dive into the numbers behind soccer to basketball to baseball to boxing to swimming, dive into the numbers Learn how to get in the game with sports and mathematics.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; New Developments in the Synthesis of Diazo Compounds; Development of New Catalysts for Metal Carbene Transformations; Cyclopropanation and Related Reactions; Insertion Reactions; Ylide Formation and Related Reactions; Wolff Rearrangement and Related 1, 2-Shift Reactions; Olefination with Diazocarbonyl Compounds; Vinyl Diazoacetate Transformations; Diazo Compounds as 1, 3-Dipoles in [3+2] Cycloaddition; Reactions with Diazo Compounds as Nucleophiles or Electrophiles; Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling with Diazo Compounds; Polymerization with Diazo Compounds; Diazo Compounds in Flow Chemistry; Application of Diazo Compounds in Total Synthesis; Miscellaneous Reactions.

Contents: Game on!; Trick Plays; Finding Hall of Famers; Fan Excitement; Predicting the Future; Your Number One; Pigeonholing an Athlete; Being Average; Games of Chance; Sporting Lessons; Thinking in Angles; Calculus — Just Do It!; Passing Secret Notes; Measuring the Probable; Robot Reporters; It’s Only a Game; Playing in a Higher Dimension; Tied in Knots; More Sporting Lessons; Getting in the Game. Readership: General public, youth, secondary Mathematics teachers, professors. 220pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-383-9 US$78 £70 978-981-122-487-4(pbk) US$38 £35

Readership: Graduate students and researchers. 560pp 978-1-78634-889-0 18

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[ GENERAL ]

HISTORY OF SCIENCE

GENERAL SCIENCE

Recommended for Bookshops

World Scientific Series on Science Communication

SCIENTIFIC WRITING 3.0

NEWTON’S CHICKEN

A Reader and Writer’s Guide by Jean-Luc Lebrun & Justin Lebrun (Scientific Reach, USA)

Science in the Kitchen by Massimiano Bucchi (University of Trento, Italy)

The third edition of this book aims to equip both young and experienced researchers with all the tools and strategy they will need for their papers to not just be accepted, but stand out in the crowded field of academic publishing. It seeks to question and deconstruct the legacy of existing science writing, replacing or supporting historically existing practices with principle- and evidence-driven styles of effective writing. It encourages a reader-centric approach to writing, satisfying reader-scientists at large, but also the paper’s most powerful readers, the reviewer and editor. Going beyond the baseline of well-structured scientific writing, this book leverages an understanding of human physiological limitations (memory, attention, time) to help the author craft a document that is optimized for readability.

A h i g h l y r i go r o u s , yet original and entertaining book that explores the connection between food and science. Why has science forcefully entered the kitchen from a certain moment in history? Why do scientists often use images and metaphors drawn from gastronomy?

What has futurist cooking got in common with molecular gastronomy?

Through real and fictional examples, handson exercises, and entertaining stories, this book breaks down the critical parts of a typical scientific paper (Title, Abstract, Introduction, Visuals, Structure, and Conclusions). It shows at great depth how to achieve the essential qualities required in scientific writing, namely being clear, concise, convincing, fluid, interesting, and organized. To enable the writer to assess whether these parts are well written from a reader’s perspective, the book also offers practical metrics in the form of six checklists, and even an original Java application to assist in the evaluation.

Experiments with coffee, controversies over beer and chocolate recipes guarded as if they were secret patents are the ingredients of this original, surprising account of the intersections between gastronomy and research, between laboratories and kitchens. Contents: Cookery as Science, and Science as Cookery: From Socrates to Cold Fusion; Chicken Science; Beer, Wine, Coffee, Tea, Chocolate and ... Many Controversies; A Taste of Science (and Society): From Brillat-Savarin to Molecular Cooking via Futuristic Cooking. Readership: General.

Readership: Doctoral students, PhDs, postdocs, associate professors, principal investigators, junior faculty, research scientists, clinicians.

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What is the common thread that connects scientific experiments to mouth-watering recipes?

[ NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ]

[ ENGINEERING ]

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

NONLINEAR SCIENCE, CHAOS AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA Fundamentals and Applications

Series on Complexity Science - Vol 6

by Liang Xue, Xiaozhe Guo & Hao Chen (China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China)

A GUIDE TO TEMPORAL NETWORKS (2nd Edition)

Processes of flow and Textbook displacement of multiphase fluids through porous media occur in many subsurface systems and have found wide applications in many scientific, technical, and engineering fields. This book focuses on the fundamental theory of fluid flow in porous media, covering fluid flow theory in classical and complex porous media, such as fractured porous media and physicochemical fluid flow theory. Key concepts are introduced concisely and derivations of equations are presented logically. Solutions of some practical problems are given so that the reader can understand how to apply these abstract equations to real world situations. The content has been extended to cover fluid flow in unconventional reservoirs. This book is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students as a textbook in petroleum engineering, hydrogeology, groundwater hydrology, soil sciences, and other related engineering fields.

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by Naoki Masuda (University of Buffalo, USA) & Renaud Lambiotte (University of Oxford, UK) Network science offers a powerful language to represent and study complex systems composed of interacting elements — from the Internet to social and biological systems. A Guide to Temporal Networks presents recent theoretical and modelling progress in the emerging field of temporally varying networks and provides connections between the different areas of knowledge required to address this multidisciplinary subject. After an introduction to key concepts on networks and stochastic dynamics, the authors guide the reader through a coherent selection of mathematical and computational tools for network dynamics. Perfect for students and professionals, this book is a gateway to an active field of research developing between the disciplines of applied mathematics, physics and computer science, with applications in others including social sciences, neuroscience and biology. This second edition extensively expands upon the coverage of the first addition as the authors expertly present recent theoretical and modelling progress in the emerging field of temporal networks, providing the keys to (and connections between) the different areas of knowledge required to address this multi-disciplinary problem. Contents: Introduction; Mathematical Toolbox; Static Networks; Analysis of Temporal Networks; Models of Temporal Networks; Dynamics on Temporal Networks; Appendices; Bibliography. Readership: Graduates and academics.

Contents: Introduction; Fundamental Concepts; Fundamental Theories; Classical Fluid Flow in Porous Media; Fluid Flow in Complex Porous Media; Physicochemical Fluid Flow in Porous Media; Fluid Flow in Unconventional Reservoirs; Applications. Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students. 408pp 978-981-121-952-8

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

CIVIL ENGINEERING

APPLYING ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

Environmental Fluid Mechanics - Vol 1

GRAVITY CURRENTS AND INTRUSIONS

A Case Study Approach by Francis A Di Bella (Boston University, USA)

Analysis and Prediction by Marius Ungarish (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

This textbook provides a strong foundation in the basic thermodynamics needed to analyze real-world engineering applications of thermodynamics in the field of energy systems.

600pp 978-981-122-594-9

This book presents the basic theories of thermodynamics by focusing on the application of the subject matter to the most common applications of thermodynamics. It takes real-world problems from the author’s over 40 years of experience as a practical, professional engineer and provides indepth solutions to each problem using concepts the student has learned from earlier chapters. The case studies provide both examples of how thermodynamics is used in state-of-the-art tools to solve the case studies’ problems, as well as ideas for future energy-efficient systems. Featured Contents: Introduction; A Panoramic Tour of Thermodynamics and this Textbook Treatment; Thermodynamic Units, Energy, the Property of Fluids, and the Thermodynamic Process; Thermodynamics First Law Applications to Closed Mass and Open Flow Analysis; Entropy and Thermodynamic Analysis using the Second law of Thermodynamics; Heat Engines Thermodynamic Cycles; Thermodynamics of Reacting and Non-Reacting Mixtures; The Thermodynamics of an Espresso Coffee Pot; and others. Readership: Written for students who are new to the subject, it will also be useful for entrepreneurs and Political Constituents. 450pp Jan 2021 978-981-120-523-1 US$98 £85

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The flow of gravity currents and intrusions is a subject o f a c t i ve r e s e a r c h and engineering application. Currently, there are no formal teaching courses for this topic. Materials and information available in the market are scattered and dated. Researchers and engineers face difficulties in acquiring the “state-of-the-art” knowledge. The book bridges this gap between the need and supply of the relevant insight and know-how. Written by a renowned author who is a recognized authority in the field, this unique compendium assembles the relevant knowledge into a systematic and unified framework. The presentation is gradual from the elementary to the frontier, and accessible to readers with only a basic background in fluid mechanics and applied mathematics. This will facilitate the systematic acquirement and application of available knowledge to both practical problems and further research. Featured Contents: Non-Stratified Ambient: Shallow-Water (SW) Analysis of the Inertial GC, The One-Layer Model; Jumps in SteadyState Streams and Control-Volume Matching Conditions; Box Models for 2D Geometry; Two-Layer SW Model; Stratified Ambient Currents and Intrusions: Continuous Density Transition; Axisymmetric and Rotating Cases; The Steady-State Current; Intrusions in 2D Geometry; Intrusions in Axisymmetric Geometry; Extensions: Non-Rectangular Cross-Section Area; SW Model Extensions: Flux and Open Top; and others. Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, and graduate students.

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[ LIFE SCIENCES / BIOLOGY ]

[ ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ]

BIOPHYSICS

PLANETARY SCIENCE Advances in Planetary Science

THE PHYSICS OF CANCER

MARS ON EARTH

Research Advances

A Study of the Qaidam Basin

edited by Bernard S Gerstman (Florida International University, USA)

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edited by Long Xiao (China University of Geosciences, China & Macau University of Science and Technology, China)

This interdisciplinary book presents recent advancements in physicists’ research on cancer. The work presented in this volume uses a variety of physical, biochemical, mathematical, theoretical, and computational techniques to gain a deeper molecular and cellular understanding of the horrific disease that is cancer.

Mars has been extensively photographed by cameras and compositionally detected by spectrometers onboard orbiters on a global scale, and explored in-situ by landers and rovers at both local and outcrop scales in different locations. The results have proved that the Martian surface is rich in Earth-like geomorphologies, and the study of terrestrial analogs to Mars has been listed as one of the highest priorities of Martian science. With increasing new discoveries by in-situ explorations, Mars exploration has begun to enter the era of focusing on detailed analyses at regional to outcrop levels, rather than global mapping. Analog studies are playing a crucial role in this transition, making this book, which introduces the methodology and provides cases for readers, essentially important. This book contains first-hand information and on-site images obtained by the work’s contributing authors, and is an essential read for anyone interested in Martian geomorphology and its evolution processes and history.

Fe a t u re d C o n t e n t s : Uncer tainty and Sensitivity Analyses Methods for AgentBased Mathematical Models: An Introductory Review; Game Theory Cancer Models of Cancer Cell-Stromal Cell Dynamics Using Interacting Particle Systems; Occupancy and Fractal Dimension Analyses of the Spatial Distribution of Cytotoxic (CD8+) T Cells Infiltrating the Tumor Microenvironment in Triple Negative Breast Cancer; Cooperation among Tumor Cell Subpopulations Leads to Intratumor Heterogeneity; Cell Mechanics Drives Migration Modes; Physics of the Extracellular Matrix and Biology of Tumors — a Close Relationship; Computational Modeling and Experimental Investigations to Enhance the Successful Response of anti-PD-1 Cancer Immunotherapies; The Physical Microenvironment of Tumors: Characterization and Clinical Impact; The Architecture of Co-Culture Spheroids Regulates Tumor Invasion Within a 3D Extracellular Matrix; and others.

Featured Contents: Ways to Study Mars; The Surface of Mars: A Brief Review; The Qaidam Basin, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau; Lakes; Aeolian Landforms; and others. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners.

Readership: Cancer researchers, biophysicists, computational biologists, scientists with an interest in cancer research.

250pp 978-981-122-401-0

300pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-348-8 US$88 £75

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[ MEDICINE ]

EVOLUTION BIOLOGY

EAR, NOSE AND THROAT

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Medical Handbook

HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS

PNEUMOPEDICS AND CRANIOFACIAL EPIGENETICS

The Evolution of Our Sensor of Society by Irving C Statler (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)

Biomimetic Oral Appliance Therapy for Pediatric and Adult Sleep Disordered Breathing

This book is about the evolution of human consciousness, but the evolutionary path that the author describes is not precisely in accordance with Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection of biological adaptation mechanisms. A biological adaptation entails the accumulation of a progression of genetic changes in multiple systems before the next step in an evolution of life forms. The likelihood of all the required random mutations occurring simultaneously in all the systems is infinitesimally small, so something else had to have influenced the evolutionary process. The author maintains that there is more to evolution than the traditional Darwinian concept of natural selection of random genetic mutations. The author describes a broadened version of Darwin’s concept of evolution supported by recent research, that says, ‘learning’ brought intelligent design to the evolution of both biological and behavioral adaptations.

by G Dave Singh (Vivos Therapeutics Inc., USA)

Additionally, since the days of Hippocrates, consciousness remains an elusive enigma and the subject of controversy. Hundreds of studies have not brought consensus on what consciousness is, what it does, why we have it, and how the subjective experience can be explained in terms of brain activity.

Contents: Introduction; Genetics and Epigenetics of Craniofacial Development; Growth and Development of the Craniofacial Complex; Biomimetic Tooth Movement: Epigenetic Orthodontics; Clinical Craniofacial Diagnostics and Treatment Planning; Biomimetic Device Designs; and others.

Contents: Introduction; The Evolution of Sensory Systems and Awareness; The Evolution of Human Society; Acquiring Social Intelligence; Human consciousness; The Development of Sociocultures; Agriculture; The Continuing Evolution of Sociocultures; Quo Vadis?; Conclusions. Readership: Researchers and students in consciousness; suitable for university courses.

Readership: The book is primarily aimed at medical and healthcare professionals as well as undergraduates, researchers and investigators.

260pp Jan 2021 978-981-121-832-3 US$88 £75

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This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the novel concepts of pneumopedics and craniofacial epigenetics. Clinically, these mechanisms are delivered through biomimetic oral appliance therapy. Despite being complex subjects, the style of writing allows the general reader to assimilate this information and sets the scene for how these principles might best be utilized. Next, the book goes over the practicalities of clinical adjustments of oral biomimetic devices. Moving onto patient selection and management, the book also provides an overview and introduction to pediatric craniofacial epigenetics, which touches upon the preventive aspects of healthcare, including nutrition. This section is followed by an introduction to sleep and sleep disordered breathing in both children and adults, which includes a comprehensive approach to the potential elimination of obstructive sleep apnea. Finally, clinical biomimetic correction is illustrated with examples of non-surgical upper airway remodeling using various cases.

FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

MEDICAL LAW AND MEDICAL ETHICS Intercultural Dialogue in Bioethics - Vol 3

INTRODUCTION TO BREWING AND FERMENTATION SCIENCE

INDIGENOUS HEALTH ETHICS An Appeal to Human Rights

Essential Knowledge for Those Dedicated to Brewing Better Beer

edited by Deborah Zion (Victoria University, Australia), Linda Briskman (Western Sydney University, Australia) & Alireza Bagheri (Lakehead University, Canada)

by John D Sheppard (North Carolina State University, USA)

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Written as an introduction to the science of brewing and beer fermentation, this book provides an up-to-date overview of the science behind the various operations involved in the making of beer. Various subject-matter experts contribute their knowledge and unique perspectives on the most important topics in brewing, appealing to all readers wishing to expand their understanding of the chemical, microbiological and business aspects of brewery operation, with particular emphasis on the craft industry.

This book examines the intersections of bioethics, human rights and health equity. It does so through the contextual lenses of nation states while presenting global themes on rights, colonialism and bioethics. The book is framed by the following propositions on indigenous health: it is a human rights issue; it is located within the politics of colonization; and subjugated indigenous knowledges require restoring.

Key Features • Multiple authors, all subject matter experts from industry and academia

Featured Contents: Indigenous Healthcare: A Broken Promise (D Zion et al.); Indigenous Bioethics and Indigenous Rights (L Briskman et al.); Narrative Ethics in Indigenous Health (A Bagheri et al.); Indigenous Bioethics in Brazil: Promoting and Protection of Indigenous Peoples (L Pessini et al.); Bioethics and Human Rights Issues of Indigenous Peoples in Japan, with Particular Focus on the Ainu (T Okita et al.); Legacies of Eugenics, Race, Education and Colonization: Reflections on San Carlos Apache Nation (D Macer); and others.

• A unique blend of background scientific principles and best practices • Primarily focusses on those in the craft beer industry Readership: Science students enrolled in either university or community college brewing courses, employees of craft breweries, serious home brewers with a science background. 250pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-531-4 US$88 £75

Readership: Primary Market: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields Bioethics/Healthcare Ethics/Health Sciences/ Social Sciences/Law/ Human Rights/ Indigenous Studies/Anthropology and Medicine. Secondary Market: Health policy makers involved in human rights, international law or public health.

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ORTHOPAEDICS / BIOMECHANICS World Scientific Series: From Biomaterials Towards Medical Devices

OSTEOPOROSIS OF THE SPINE

LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTIONS

edited by Po-Quang Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Ruey-Mo Lin (China Medical University, Taiwan) & Keh-Sung Tsai (Far Eastern Polyclinic, Taiwan)

Asian Perspectives

edited by L’Hocine Yahia (Université de Montréal, Canada)

This edited volume comprises chapters written by experts in Asia, where osteoporosis and the related fractures have created an enormous burden on the healthcare system due to increase in aging population. The topics covered include the epidemiology, diagnosis and both medical as well as surgical treatment of osteoporosis, particularly of the spine. This book provides practical diagnostic methods and useful treatments for this important medical issue. The multi-faceted and evidence-based approaches make it a very helpful reference for doctors to decide the best methods of treatment for patients with osteoporosis of the spine.

Contents: A Review of Cruciate Ligaments: A New Look at the Reconstruction (L’H Yahia et al.); History of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Prosthesis (V Migonney); Recent Evolution of the ACL Reconstruction (L’H Yahia et al.); Animal Models for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Using Ex-Vivo and In-Vivo Models (B Lussier); The Fibrocartilaginous Ligament Enthesis (N Shrive et al.); Italian Experience of the Use of LARS Synthetic Ligament for ACL Reconstruction: 15 Years Follow-Up (G Placella st al.); and others.

Featured Contents: Epidemiology: Epidemiology of Osteoporosis in Taiwan (Jawl-Shan Hwang, Jung-Fu Chen & Keh-Sung Tsai); Medications for Osteoporosis Prevention, Treatment & Complications: Medication for Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment (Chung-Hwan Chen, Sung-Yen Lin, Yen-Mou Lu, Shih-Hsiang Chou, Tien-Ching Lee); Surgical Management of Osteoporotic Compression Fractures: Bone Cement: Treatment Strategy of Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture in Japan (Shinji Takahashi); Non-Cemented Procedures: Spinal Osteotomy for Osteoporotic Vertebral Compression Fractures (Song-Kyu Kim and Jae-Yoon Chung); Surgical Complications: Parathyroid Hormone Therapy in Management of Osteoporosis Spine Before and After Surgery (Arun-Kumar Kaliya-Perumal & Jacob Yoong Leong Oh); and others.

Readership: Orthopaedic surgeons, medical students, biomedical science students, biomedical engineering students, biomedical science/engineering teachers, Spor ts medicine students/teachers, School of Health and Rehabilitation Science, Physician for the Athletic Department, Biology and biomecAthletic Department, Biology and biomechanics teachers/students. 400pp 978-981-120-462-3

Readership: Clinicians, medical students and other healthcare professionals. 750pp 978-981-122-080-7

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The ACL or anterior cruciate ligament is the most important ligament in the knee. When it is completely torn, it can lead to instability or buckling of the knee. There are several options to choose from when selecting a graft for ACL reconstruction such as using autografts including patellar tendon, hamstring tendon, and quadriceps tendon, and allografts (also known as donor tissue or cadaver tissue). Artificial ligaments are also discussed since they are still used in Europe and Asia. This book summarizes the pros and cons of each graft option in detail.

[ BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ]

PHARMACOLOGY / DRUG DISCOVERY / PHARMACEUTICALS

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

THAT HIGH DESIGN OF PUREST GOLD

Recommended for Bookshops

LIVING THE CORPORATE PURPOSE

A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1880 – 2020

Insights from Companies in Asia by Mark Chong & Flocy Joseph (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

BOOKS

by Graham Dutfield (University of Leeds, UK) This book is a history of medicines and the commercial actors that make and sell them, covering the 140 years since the modern pharmaceutical industry came into being. It is written in a lively and accessible way, aiming at a general audience that combines historical narrative with fascinating case studies on drug discovery and commercialization, from the rat poison that became warfarin, to a cardiovascular treatment that was turned into Viagra. In a non-partisan way it also examines some of the less noble manifestations of corporate behavior, concluding with an agenda for reform.

Corporate purpose has become a global phenomenon in recent years. Increasingly, businesses are expected to “produce profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet, and not to profit from producing problems for people or planet” (World Economic Forum). However, the literature on how companies can build purpose into their corporate DNA is still very nascent. This book, first of its kind, focuses on how companies in Asia are building purpose into their journey. It contains case studies of companies and their current journey to become more purpose driven, why they do it, and how they did it.

Contents: Introduction; The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry: What is the Pharmaceutical Industr y?; Regulating Corporate Medicine; Antecedents, Origins, and the Emergence of a New Industry: Antecedents, Origins, and the Emergence of a New Industry; From the Dyeing Arts to Drugs: Dye-making, Pharmacy and the new Research Corporation; Science, Business Strategy, and Growth: Making Hormones; The Antiinfectives: Sulphonamide, Penicillin and the Antibiotics; Biotechnology, Personalisation, Precision, and the Digital Turn; Intellectual Property in Biomedicine; The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Public Interest: Prescriptions for a Healthier Pharmaceutical Industry.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; The Framework; DBS; LIXIL; Kova Paint; Mars; Red Hat; Becton Dickenson; BHP Billiton; Prudential; Media Corp; Red Hat; Singapore Pools; International SOS; Tata Group; Conclusion; Appendix: Worksheets. Readership: C-suite executives, general business audience, post-graduate students doing MBA/Masters in Communication or corporate social responsibility (CSR). Professionals interested in corporate purpose. Business leaders interested in Asian corporations and improving corporate purpose.

Readership: The educated general public; students and academics and various history sub-disciplines; biologists, life scientists, and biotechnologists; medical practitioners; and those concerned with access to medicines. 420pp 978-981-122-247-4

200pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-121-7 US$58 £50

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INNOVATION

Recommended for Bookshops

THE BUSINESS OF FREELANCING

NAVIGATING ASEANNOVATION

How to Thrive as Freelancer

The Reservoir Principle and Other Essays on Startups and Innovation in Southeast Asia

by CreativesAtWork, Singapore

edited by Yinglan Tan (Insignia Ventures Partners, Singapore) & Paulo Joquiño (Insignia Business Review, Singapore)

Readership: Freelancers and general readers.

Southeast Asia has been an emerging frontier for internet technology startups, with talent and capital flooding into the region’s technology markets in recent years. This book is a collection of essays and interviews with founders and investors on what it takes to thrive and win in the region as a tech startup. From topics such as bringing together a founding team to exiting a company, the collection covers various aspects of startup growth, digging deep into the critical strategies tech founders and business leaders of different countries and industries can adopt, while embracing the diversity critical to understanding the region. Featured Contents: Mapping Southeast Asia: Moving the Needle; Chinnovation in Southeast Asia; Setting Sail with the Captains of Innovation: Understanding Founders in Southeast Asia; The Making of a Startup Founder; Getting a Crew: Hiring to Disrupt; Going International; Boarding the Technology Platforms: The Reservoir Principle; E-Commerce: Driving Logistics Digitalization; Dropping the Anchor on the Market: Tech-Driven Personalization; Irreplaceability Factor; Settling in the Reservoir: The Supply Chain Reservoir; The Gamer Reservoir/ the Esports Talent Reservoir; Unlocking the Treasure Chests: Through the Lens of a Venture Capitalist; Through the Lens of LP – GP Relationships; Weathering the Storm: Crisis Response 101 for Startups; Preparing for the Upturn; Exit Ahoy!: The Decisions Behind Success; The Bigger Picture; Conclusion: Looking Through Telescopes and Satellites: The Future of Southeast Asia; Reservoir Engineering 101; and others. Readership: Students, practitioners, venture.

150pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-265-8 US$58 £50 978-981-122-420-1(pbk) US$28 £25

250pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-774-5 US$68 £60 978-981-4518-72-7(pbk) US$38 £35

Contents: Introduction to Freelancing: Introduction (Why we made this book); What is Freelancing all about?; Types of Freelancers; Pros & Cons of Freelancing; Starting Out: Be Your Own Boss; Finding Your Niche; Get in the Frame of Mind; Build Your Community; Keeping Your Financial Stats Stable; Time Management; Marketing Yourself & Getting Clients: How to Market Yourself; Building Online Reputation; Networking; Protecting Yourself: Basic Contracting; Key Terms to be Included; Insurance; Taking Care of Your Mind and Body.

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T h e COV I D - 1 9 e r a has shown us that the future of work is here. More projects and fewer budgets mean that selecting the right person for the right project is imperative to success. Companies — from large MNCs to SMEs — have less wiggle room than ever before. We believe creative freelancers will play a pivotal role in helping large corporations, SMEs, or start-up companies to manage their internal resources and enable the use of exceptional projectbased talent that would otherwise not be economically feasible to bring on board. Most importantly, during times of uncertain market conditions, they enable businesses to maximise performance across peaks and troughs in demand. This book aims to bring about more awareness of the lesser known profession called “freelancing” and generate the next wave of “Future Leaders” with entrepreneurial and self-employed mindsets.

WHEN ENTREPRENEURS MEET

INTERNATIONAL TRADE / BUSINESS

The Collective Governance of New Ideas by Darcy W E Allen (RMIT University, Australia)

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This book challenges our understanding of how entrepreneurs crystallize opportunities surrounding new technologies. While innovation is the fundamental driver of growth and prosperity, how the earliest stages of entrepreneurship are governed remains elusive. This book creates a new, institutional approach to understanding entrepreneurship before emphasizing how entrepreneurs create governance structures to coordinate new knowledge resources.

World Scientific Series in Multinational Investment and Business

GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA The Impact of the West and China by Lynne Ciochetto (Massey University, New Zealand) This timely book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the issues and challenges of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa. An interdisciplinary perspective is driven by an emphasis on development issues and the four pillars of sustainability: social, cultural, economic and environmental. An audit approach is used to evaluate the experiences of Sub-Saharan Africa since the mercantile and colonial eras through the era of independence and development, the structural adjustment decades and the contemporary resource boom. Stimulated by an abundance of reports in the media criticizing China’s presence in Sub-Saharan Africa, a comparison is made between China’s 50 years of involvement in the region and the 500 years of Western colonialism.

Rather than the conventional view that entrepreneurship happens inside firms, this unique transaction-cost economics analysis of entrepreneurship suggests it might begin earlier in hybrid, polycentric self-governance structures, including the innovation commons. Allen explores and analyses various examples of these structures, including hackerspaces and the institutions coalescing around the development of the blockchain economy, along with the dynamics of how those institutions might collapse into firms. This new understanding of the entrepreneurial governance problem is also connected to contemporary questions about the purpose, scope, and application of innovation policy.

Globalization and Sustainability in SubSaharan Africa is an important reference for academics, researchers and students. It is also written in an accessible style that is suitable for the general reader. Contents: Theories of Development; Mercantilism and Colonialism; The Development Decades; Sub-Saharan Africa since 2000; The West since 1945; China since the 1950s; the West and China in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Contents: Governing Entrepreneurial Discovery; The Early Stage Entrepreneurial Problem; Beyond Entrepreneurial Firms and Markets; The Private Governance of Hackerspaces; Developing the Blockchain Cryptoeconomy; Rethinking Innovation Policy; Conclusion.

Readership: Academics, researchers, students and general readers interested in the history of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa.

R e a d e r s h i p : S c h o l a r s , p o l i c y m a ke r s , regulators, think tanks and industr y associations.

250pp 978-1-78326-667-8

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May 2021 US$118 £98

[ ECONOMICS AND FINANCE ]

MARKETING

CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS / CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY

PRICING OF PRODUCTS & SERVICES by Tridib Mazumdar (Syracuse University, USA)

The price of a product Textbook or a service is a critical element of the marketing mix. Price influences product demand, and the firm’s revenue and profits. Prices also signal product quality and value, customer selfimage, and the seller’s pricing practices. With appropriate balance of theory, applications, and analytics, this book provides business students and practitioners the tools to make profitable pricing decisions under a variety of real-life contexts — current and emerging.

THE FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL ORDER The Six Paradigm Changes That Will Define 2050 by Vincent Petit (Schneider Electric, Hong Kong) Where is the world heading? What choices need to be made to help humanity to thrive? These questions are more acute than ever in a context of growing inequalities, populism, social disorder, environmental challenges, and global health threats. The Future of the Global Order explores the six fundamental transformations ahead that will define the future of the world in the next three decades. Each chapter provides a unique and fact-based analysis of the situation at hand, reviews underlying uncertainties, and studies their inter-dependencies. As a tool to trigger debate, the book provides possible evolutions in global activity with four baseline scenarios, grasping the key issues which will shape the global order to 2050.

Featured Contents: Theoretical and Analytical Foundations of Pricing: Price, Revenue, and Profits: The Basics; Effects of Price on Demand; Developing a Demand Function with Surveys and Experiments; Considerations in Pricing Decisions by Firms: The Pricing Environment; Value-Based Strategies; Cost Considerations in Pricing; Pricing When Cost Varies across Customers; Pricing Strategy Applications: Price Discrimination Strategy; Product Bundling Strategies; Establishing a Pricing Structure; Dynamic Pricing Strategies; and others.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: Why This Book Is Important; 3 Billion People Reaching Middle-Class by 2050; Global Supremacy Competition; A World of Resource Scarcity; Climate Change Kicks In; Sustainable Global Economy; Rise of a Digital Economy?; A View to the Future: Scenarios for a New Global Order; List of Figures; List of Countries and Regions. R e a d e r s h i p : General readership and students in international relations, as well as government, business and finance bodies.

Readership: Students and faculty.

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As a practical step-by-step guide for firms, the book presents a comprehensive framework for pricing decisions. The framework illustrates how firms’ pricing decisions are shaped by customer valuation of the product or service, firm cost, and competition within the category. Additional considerations include: channel arrangements, legal and regulatory limits, public sentiments, and the overriding strategy for the firm. Short cases and numerical examples help illustrate how these factors can be incorporated in firm making decisions.

DEVELOPMENTAL ECONOMICS

GENERAL ECONOMICS

CONCEPTUAL ECONOMICS The Liaising Role in Politics and Social Sciences

BOOKS

by Kui Wai Li (The Kui-Wai consultancy for Economic Development, Canada) Given that there is no shortage of economic theories while economic problems are growing periodically, Conceptual Economics boldly attempts to initiate a new approach by employing conceptual and intuitive tools to examine the intra-relationship between microeconomics and macroeconomics as well as the inter-relationship between economic analysis and other social science studies, especially the relationship with political science. The few intuitive ideas include the separation between ex-ante situations and ex-post outcomes, the difference between endowment differences and unequal outcomes, and the role of economics as a vehicle in the delivery of numerous social and political activities. The discussion extends to cover an analysis on human values and concludes with a recommendation on the functionality of civic capitalism. With intuition and analytical reasoning within economics and with other social sciences, Conceptual Economics can become a new branch in economic study where scholars, analysts and intellectuals could “think outside the box” by liaising a wider economic perspective and/or amalgamating non-economic aspects into their analysis. This shall provide a new dimension to solving human economic problems and possibly area of intellectuality. Featured Contents: The Making of Conceptual Economics: The Ingredients in Economics; The Liaison Role of Economics; The Extensity Dimension: The Intra-Connectedness among Economic Theories; The Intensity Dimension: Measurement of Values in Humanity Sciences; and others. Readership: Senior year undergraduate, post-graduate and research degree students. Researchers, analysts, think tanks, international economic organizations, political parties, policy decision makers, business strategists, chamber of commerce, foreign ministries, investors and bankers.

World Scientific Series in Finance

CULTURAL FINANCE A World Map of Risk, Time and Money by Thorsten Hens (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Marc Oliver Rieger (University of Trier, Germany) & Mei Wang (Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany) This book provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of cultural finance. It summarizes research results of cultural differences in financial decision making and on financial markets. Many of the results have been published in leading academic journals over the last ten years but some are presented here for the first time. The book is based on an international survey on risk and time preferences — the INTRA study (International Test of Risk Attitudes), conducted in 53 countries worldwide. Applications to financial markets include the equity premium puzzle, the value premium, dividend payout policies and asset allocations. Contents: Experiences from a Global Survey; Culture and Time; Culture and Risk; Culture and Financial Markets; Applications; Alternative Measurements. Readership: For researchers and students who are interested in behavioural economics, behavioural finance, culture and business, and decision theory. 572pp 978-981-121-976-4

280pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-218-4 US$98 £85 30

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Dec 2020 US$158 £140

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

MACROECONOMICS / MICROECONOMICS

Vietnam and the Global Economy - Vol 1

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN VIETNAMESE BUSINESS AND FINANCE

ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS An Introduction for Undergraduates

edited by Dong Phong Nguyen, Xuan Vinh Vo, Viet Tien Ho & Mai Dong Tran (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), Vietnam)

by Angus C Chu (University of Liverpool, UK)

Recent Developments in Vietnamese Business and Finance, is the first volume in the series titled Vietnam and the Global Economy. This edited volume is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Business and Finance (ICBF) 2019, organized by the Institute of Business Research (IBR), University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and focuses on recent issues in business and finance with Vietnam as the main focus of study. The book covers various issues from innovation to gender equality and the banking sector, with analyses on the policies and managerial implications. Featured Contents: Corporate Finance and International Finance 1: Base Erosion, Profit Shifting, and Tax Revenue Nexus: Empirical Evidence in Southeast Asian Countries (Trung Kien Tran); Financial Markets: Value Creation in Vietnamese Bank Mergers and Acquisitions (Tan Khoa Duong); Accounting: Value Relevance of Biological Assets Under IFRS in Asian Nations (Thi Phuong Thanh Tran); Business Administration and Management: Determinants of Gender Diversity and Nationality Diversity of the Boards in Vietnamese Listed Firms (My Tran Ngo and Hong My Ai Le); Marketing: How does CSR Influence Customer Loyalty in the Banking Sector? Evidence from Vietnam (Dang Khoa Tran); Economic Development: The Impact of Public Spending for Education on Sustainable Economic Growth in Asian Countries (Minh Tuan Truong); Business and Law: Factors Associated with Economic Growth: An Investigation into Government Spending on R&D (Nhat Thien Tran); and others.

Contents: A Static General-Equilibrium Model; The Neoclassical Growth Model; Dynamics of the Neoclassical Growth Model; The Neoclassical Growth Model with Elastic Labour Supply; Fiscal Policy: Government Spending; Fiscal Policy: Labour Income Tax; Fiscal Policy: Capital Income Tax; Monetary Policy in the New Keynesian Model; The Solow Growth Model; The Ramsey Model; The Ramsey Model with a Perfectly Competitive Market; The Ramsey Model with a Monopolistically Competitive Market; and others.

Readership: Students and practitioners interested in the Vietnam economy, Vietnamese business and Vietnamese finance industries.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate students studying advanced macroeconomics or economic growth and innovation. Also suitable for master’s level courses on macroeconomics and economic growth.

300pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-714-1 US$98 £85

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Advanced MacroecoTextbook nomics covers selected topics in advanced macroeconomics at undergraduate level and bridges the gap between intermediate macroeconomics for undergraduates and advanced macroeconomics for postgraduates. By building on materials in intermediate macroeconomics textbooks and covering the mathematics of some classic dynamic general-equilibrium models, this book will give undergraduate students a firm appreciation of modern developments in macroeconomics. This book examines the implications of government policies (such as fiscal policy, monetary policy and innovation policy) and devotes several chapters to economic growth, covering the ideas for which Paul Romer was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018.

MATHEMATICAL / QUANTITATIVE FINANCE

MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS / GAME THEORY

Advanced Textbooks in Mathematics

World Scientific Series in Economic Theory

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AN INTRODUCTION TO MACHINE LEARNING IN QUANTITATIVE FINANCE

INTERACTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY

by Robert J Aumann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

by Hao Ni (University College London, UK), Xin Dong (Citadel Securities LLC, UK), Jinsong Zheng (Huatai Securities, China) & Guangxi Yu (SWS Research, China) The book aims to deTextbook mystify ML by uncovering its underlying mathematics and showing how to apply ML methods to real-world financial data. In this book the authors • Provide A Systematic And Rigorous Introduction To Supervised, Unsupervised And Reinforcement Learning By Establishing Essential Definitions And Theorems. • Dive Into Various Types Of Neural Networks, Including Artificial Nets, Convolutional Nets, Recurrent Nets And Recurrent Reinforcement Learning. • Summarize Key Contents Of Each Section In The Tables As A Cheat Sheet. • Include Ample Examples Of Financial Applications. • Showcase How To Tackle An Exemplar Ml Project On Financial Data End-To-End. Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Overview of Machine Learning and Financial Applications; Supervised Learning; Linear Regression and Regularization; Treebased Models; Neural Network; Cluster Analysis; Principal Component Analysis; Reinforcement Learning; Case Study in Finance: Home Credit Default Risk; Bibliography. Readership: MSc students or final year undergraduate students and those interested in pursuing a career in quantitative finance or for practitioners.

Robert J Aumann has received numerous prizes, including the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for 2005. With his 1976 paper, “Agreeing to Disagree”, Robert Aumann pioneered the subject of interactive epistemology: the study of what people know, and what they know about what others know. Since then, the discipline has burgeoned enormously. This book documents Aumann’s work leading to the 1976 paper and his subsequent contributions to the discipline. The scientific controversies emanating from his work are also included. Featured Contents: Fundamentals: Subjectivity and Correlation in Randomized Strategies; Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality; Rational Expectations in Games; Games in Strategic Form: Agreeing to Disagree; Interactive Epistemology I: Knowledge; Interactive Epistemology II: Probability; Incomplete Information; Musings on Information and Knowledge; Games in Extensive Form: Irrationality in Game Theory; On the Centipede Game; Backward Induction and Common Knowledge of Rationality; The Logic of Backward Induction; Part IV: “A Note on Backward Induction” by Binmore, K; Reply to Binmore; “Rationalizing Backward Induction?” by Binmore, K. and Samuelson, L; and others. Readership: Senior year undergraduate, post-graduate and research degree students in economics, business economics, policy studies, political science, development studies, philosophy and social sciences. Researchers, analysts, think tanks, international economic organizations, political parties, policy decision makers, business strategists, chamber of commerce, foreign ministries, investors and bankers.

265pp Jan 2021 978-1-78634-936-1 US$88 £75 978-1-78634-964-4(pbk) US$48 £40

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MONEY AND BANKING / INVESTMENTS / FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS ASSET MANAGEMENT

BEYOND FINTECH

Tools and Issues

Technology Applications for the Islamic Economy

by Frank J Fabozzi (EDHEC Business School, France), Francesco A Fabozzi (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA), Marcos López de Prado (Cornell University, USA) & Stoyan V Stoyanov (Charles Schwab, USA)

by Hazik Mohamed (Stellar Consulting Group, Singapore)

460pp 978-981-122-293-1

200pp Dec 2020 978-981-122-230-6 US$68 £60

This book provides a Textbook description of the tools used in asset management as well as a more in-depth explanation of specialized topics and issues covered in the companion book, Fundamentals of Institutional Asset Management. The topics covered include the asset management business and its challenges, the basics of financial accounting, securitization technology, analytical tools, alternative risk measures for asset allocation, securities finance, implementing quantitative research, quantitative equity strategies, transaction costs, multifactor models applied to equity and bond portfolio management, and backtesting methodologies. This pedagogic approach exposes the reader to the set of interdisciplinary tools that modern asset managers require in order to extract profits from data and processes. Featured Contents: Asset Management C o m p a n i e s ; T h e B a s i c s o f Fi n a n c i a l Accounting; Securitization and the Creation of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities; Financial Econometric Tools for Asset Management; Monte Carlo Simulation for Asset Management; Optimization Models for Asset Management; Machine Learning and Its Applications to Asset Management; Risk Measures and Asset Allocation Problem; Securities Lending and Its Alternatives in the Equity Market; and others.

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Readership: Suitable for professional portfolio managers, security analysts as well as students.

This book is a follow-up to the first-ever Islamic Fintech book by the author (published in 2018) that provided linkages between Islamic Finance and disruptive technologies like the blockchain. In the wake of fintech as a new trend in financial markets, the groundbreaking book stressed the relevance of Islamic finance and its implications, when enabled by fintech, towards the development of the Islamic digital economy. While the earlier work discussed the crucial innovation, structural, and institutional development for financial technologies in Islamic Finance, this new research explores the multiple applications possible in the various sectors of the economy, within and beyond finance, that can be significantly transformed. These revolutionary applications involve the integration of AI, blockchain, data analytics, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices for a holistic solution to tackle the bottlenecks and other issues in existing processes of traditional systems. Featured Contents: AI-Driven and BlockchainBased Islamic Capital Markets; Digital Sukuk Issuance for Business Financing; Advancing Islamic Asset and Wealth Management; Digitalized Takäful Claims Processing; Medical Records-Keeping and Healthcare; and others. Readership: Innovation-minded Islamic Economics and Finance specialists. Fund managers and financial product developers working with Islamic investments. Textbook for MBA students, post-graduates, undergraduates and members of innovation and entrepreneurship centers.

FIXED COUPON NOTE

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THE CME VULNERABILITY The Impact of Negative Oil Futures Trading

High Returns and Low Risk

edited by George Xianzhi Yuan (Sun Yat-sen University, China & Soochow University, China & Shanghai Lixin University of Accounting and Finance, China)

by Rajiv Aggarwal (Pictet, Singapore) Equities are generally perceived to be more vo l a t i l e t h a n f i xe d income investments. Many risk averse investors are unable to digest the daily ups and downs in the prices of equities. They also feel that, from a historical perspective, equities are overpriced and thus are not comfortable taking equity positions at current valuations.

The scope of this book is limited to covering the impact of the negative oil futures derivatives’ trading between April 20 and 21, 2020. This book focuses on exploring the issues, challenges, and possible impacts on global financial markets due to the negative clearing prices of WTI Oil futures contracts and related problems from different perspectives. Topics covered include the responsibilities and liabilities of the CME; critique to the fundamental theory of economics and the modern understanding of value and labor; and challenges to the global financial systems and businesses and introduction to new methods of application.

On the other hand, global interest rates have been on a decline from the 1970s when inflation was finally under control by central banks. This decline in interest rates means that investors have to live with lower nominal returns. Since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, many investors have been feeling left out of the equity markets. Fixed Coupon Notes (FCNs) are quasi-equity and quasi-bond structures which aim to provide higher returns than bonds with lower risks compared to equities. Moreover, they also provide an avenue to enter equities at reasonable prices and acceptable valuations. Being the most popular structured product in Asia, there is sufficient institutional experience about the product. This book aims to provide the basics as well as the nuances of investing in FCNs so that an investor not only understands the concepts behind the product, but is also able to avoid common pitfalls.

Featured Contents: The Fundamental Challenge Caused by CME’s Negative Trading Price for WTI Oil Future (George Yuan); The CME Vulnerability: The Best Practice and the Impact of Negative Oil Futures Trading Price: The Overview of WTI Crude Oil Futures’ Epic Fall (Chern Lu); Why Oil Prices Plunged and Settled Negative: Why Oil Prices Plunged and Settled Negative: A Game-Theoretical Perspective (Chenghu Ma and Xianzhen Wang); To Meet the Challenge with Negative Price and Management in Practice: The Challenges of Negative Oil Future Price Posed to Risk Managers and Quants (Michael Peng); and others.

Contents: What is FCN; Option Basics; How to Construct an FCN; Performance Evaluation and Risk Management; Options — A Deeper Dive; Perspective of the Issuer; Variants of FCNs.

Readership: Professors and students of finance and economics, and professionals working in government, financial industries, trading businesses, management, experts, and related readers. 300pp 978-981-122-319-8

Readership: Investors; Wealth Managers and Bankers. 200pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-503-1 US$48 £40

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[ SOCIAL SCIENCES ]

POLITICAL SCIENCE / POLICY STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY RIGHT-WING VIOLENCE IN THE WESTERN WORLD SINCE WORLD WAR II

Recommended for Bookshops

LIBERALISM UNVEILED Forging a New Third Way in Singapore

by Leonard Weinberg (Univ. of Nevada, USA)

by Bryan Cheang & Donovan Choy (Adam Smith Centre, Singapore)

Right-Wing Violence in the Western World Since World War II considers right-wing violence during the postwar era, from the collapse of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to the mid-1950s alongside the right-wing sociological and political influences inherited before WWII. This chapter is followed by an overview of the right-wing in North America and Europe from the ‘60s onwards into the digital age. The book concludes with a timely and balanced assessment of ‘the canary in the coal-mine’ for liberal democracy. Contents: Introduction; Postwar and Before; The ‘60s and After — North America; The ‘60s and After — Europe; The Digital Age; Conclusions. Readership: Students in social sciences with a particular focus on political science and political sociology. Also appropriate for those interested in political terrorism and politically-motivated violence. 190pp Dec 2020 978-1-78634-906-4 US$48 £40

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Right-wing violence is Textbook undergoing a revival on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, much of this violence has been a backlash against migrants and their offspring carried out by ‘lone-wolves’ and organized groups. In the United States, r a c e , g e n d e r, a n d religious hatreds have triggered far more than ‘normal’ levels of violence, including a resurgence of attacks on Jews and other anti-Semitic behavior. Examining the contours of the current violence, this book traces the development of the right-wing in the decades following the end of World War II.

B r ya n C h e a n g a n d Donovan Choy break this traditional proPAP versus anti-PAP dichotomy by providing a fresh classical liberal perspective. The authors contend that both sides discern only parts of the political puzzle correctly. This book envisions a new path forward for Singapore’s policymaking, one characterised by greater competition & freedom. It critiques the conservative-right through a fresh take on the philosophical underpinnings of the “Singapore Consensus”: communitarianism, meritocracy and technocracy. The authors also engage with the new social democratic orthodoxy, demonstrating the dangers of egalitarian interventions & state-based environmentalism. Applying the interdisciplinary insights of political philosophy and political economy, this novel account recommends epistemic liberalism, a system of governance based on intellectual humility, limited government, and decentralisation. Featured Contents: Foreword by Professor Razeen Sally; Classical Liberalism as a New Third Way; Asian Values and Classical Liberalism; Meritocracy and Elitism in Singapore: What Both Sides Get Wrong About the Debate on Meritocracy; Singapore’s Technocratic Paternalism and How Behavioural Economics Justifies More of the Same; and others. Readership: Graduate students and academics; non-academic audience will find the book insightful, such as the youth, media, government officials, and civil servants.

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NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY IN THE INDO-PACIFIC

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DECIPHERING CHINA’S MICROCHIP INDUSTRY

A Decade of Perspectives edited by Alistair D B Cook & Tamara Nair (S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

by Fang Chen, Ruifeng Dong

The ban on sales of ZTE, imposed by the US, made China feel the weight of a small chip. The ban is termed as a trade war. What is the truth behind this trade friction? Why did the Chinese microchip industr y encounter such a predicament? What is the future of the microchip industry in China? This book tried to answer these questions, uncovers the secrets of China’s microchip industry, and traces its development. It looks at bridging the gap between the chip technology and public perception, and predicts how China can make a breakthrough in this industry. The book takes a “macro-history view” to describe the race among superpowers in the microchip industry and records people’s constant explorations into the industry in the past six decades. It also compares the microchip industry in China to that of United States, Japan, and South Korea.

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Non-Traditional Security in the Indo-Pacific: A Decade of Perspectives, an interdisciplinary collection, is essential reading for anyone interested in the developments of security with a focus on the dominant non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific over the last decade — from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, to policymakers at the local, national, regional, and international levels. Featured Contents: Non-Traditional Security: Non-Traditional Security 20 Years On: Assessing the Place of the Field; Advancing Non-Traditional Security Studies; NonTraditional Security: An Evolving Solution to New Challenges; Energy Security: The Energy Sector: Vulnerabilities and Prospects; The Search for Energy Security; Food Security: Addressing Food Security from Farm to Plate; New Norms, New Challenges in Food Security; Health Security: Towards a More Comprehensive Global Health Agenda; Revitalising Global Health Governance; Migration: Comprehensively Tackling Trafficking in Persons; Migration: Perilous Passage for Better Futures; Peace And Conflict: Navigating the Path to Peace and Prosperity; Watershed Year for Myanmar, but What Next?; Humanitarian Affairs: The New Realities and Changing Landscape of Humanitarian Action; and others.

Contents: The US Wants a High-tech Cold War?; Microchips in Global Power Game; A Close-up on Microchips; Stars on the Stage of Microchips; The Journey of China’s Microchips; China’s Series of Breakthroughs.

Readership: This interdisciplinary collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the developments of security with a focus on the dominant non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific over the last decade: from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars to policymakers at the local, national, regional, and international levels. 150pp 978-981-122-442-3

Readership: General public interested in China’s microchip industry. 200pp Jan 2021 978-981-121-721-0 US$58 £50 978-981-121-841-5(pbk) US$28 £25

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CHINA STUDIES CHINA’S ENERGY SECURITY

CHINA INTERNATIONAL IMPORT EXPO

Analysis, Assessment and Improvement edited by Jingzheng Ren (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Shared Future in a New Era by Lei Zou (Shanghai Administration Inst., China) Translated by: Zhiping Zhang (Navy Medical University, China) & Jian Zhu (Navy University of Engineering, China)

The International Energy Agency has defined energy security as “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price, “ employing metrics in various dimensions such as availability, affordability, accessibility and acceptability to measure the energy security of different nations. Accordingly, the assessment, analysis and improvement of energy security is a complex problem. China’s Energy Security aims to resolve this problem by answering three important questions: • What are the difficulties and possibilities for China’s energy security? • How can we assess China’s energy security in a qualitative or quantitative way? • How can China’s energy security be improved? Featured Contents: China’s Energy Supply: S t a t u s Q u o , Po l i c i e s a n d Pa t h wa y s ; Conceptualizing and Redefining Energy Security: A Comprehensive Review; Prospects for China-EU Cooperation on Energy Security: Still Alive, or Dead in the Water?; Historical Energy Security Performances of China: A Bi-Level Analysis; Measuring Energy Security for China: A Multi-Dimensional Approach; Evaluating Energy Security in China: A Subnational Analysis; and others.

Contents: Introduction; Background of China International Import Expo; Contents of China International Import Expo; Multiple Opportunities of China’s Expanding Import; International Effects of China’s Expanding Import; Conclusion.

Readership: Researchers, postgraduates and undergraduates studying energy security, energy policy, energy economics and China studies. Administrators, policymakers, decision makers and consultants in government, consultancies and think tanks.

Readership: Readers interested in China’s development, economy, market, and business opportunities, and China International Import Expo. 176pp Jan 2021 978-981-122-386-0 US$88 £75

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China has been holding its annual China International Import Expo (CIIE), starting from 2018 in Shanghai. This is a significant move for China to actively open the Chinese market to the rest of the world as this supports trade liberalization and economic globalization This book systematically expounds the background and content of CIIE, and studies the opportunities that China’s expansion of imports brings to its economy, enterprises, consumers and to that of other countries. It elaborates on how the CIIE facilitates countries and regions from different parts of the world to strengthen their economic cooperation and trade, and promote global trade and world economic growth. The book helps readers understand China’s reform and opening-up, as well as the the latest trends and policies of the country’s expansion of import.

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CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL POLICY TRANSFORMATION

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IN TRANSFORMATION The Crisis of Identity and Possibility for Renewal

Theory and Practice by Hanquan Huang (National Development and Reform Commission, China)

edited by Lance L P Gore (East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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The debate on industrial policy has been in full swing among the academic circles in the recent years. The crux of this debate is not whether China needs industrial policies, but rather, the kind of industrial policies it wants. Given the profound changes to the domestic and international environments, and institutional background during China’s industrial development, industrial policies must be able to make up for “market failures, “ while avoiding “government failures”. To this end, it is suggested to establish a “market-friendly” industrial policy system dominated by functional industrial policies, in accordance with the requirements of building an “interactive and cooperative” government-market relationship to help transform and upgrade China’s industries.

The book is part of the recent effort to catch up with the research on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Despite its omnipresence and pivotal role in running the country, there has been a conspicuous shortage of references to the Party in most studies related to China. In its stead, the academic literature as well as popular discussions has too often treated the CCP as a type of regime destined to the dustbin of history. The inadequacy of research in this area is understandable because CCP is a tightly organised Leninist party which has kept much of its internal affairs confidential. This book examines the key aspects of the transformation of CCP in the rapidly changing national and global context. It highlights the problems faced by the ruling Leninist party in adapting to a capitalistic environment that its organisations cannot fully control and its ideology cannot effectively rationalise.

Contents: Theory and Practice of Industrial Policy Transformation in the New Period; Review on the Research of Industrial Policy Theory and Practice; Theoretical Argument and Enlightenment on Industrial Policy; Review and Theoretical Reflection on China’s Industrial Policy since the Reform and Opening Up; Basis and Direction of China’s Industrial Policy Transformation in the New Period; Establishing and Improving the Research on the Governance System of China’s Industrial Policy; Evaluation of China’s Coal Industry Policy and Improvement Suggestion; Ideas on Evolution and Improvement for Logistics Industry Policies in China; Characteristics of Industry Policy on New Energy Vehicles and the Practice Research; Local Exploration and Suggestions for Transformation of Industrial Policies; Experience and Enlightenment of Industrial Policies in Different Types of Countries.

Contents: Introduction: Can Xi Jinping Revive the Leninist Party? (Lance L P GORE); Governing by Words: Rhetoric, Emotion and Narrative in the Modern People’s Republic of China (Kerry BROWN); Ideological Poverty and Chronological Crisis of the Communist Party Leadership at the Grass-roots Level (TONG Yanqi); The Erosion and the Resurrection of Micro-Rule: The Chinese Communist Party Adapting Its Rule to the Market (Lance L P GORE); Regime Support in China: Who Are Loyal and Who Are Sceptical? (SHAN Wei and TANG Wenfang ); The Bureaucratisation of Loyalty: The Communist Youth League as a Political Springboard in Post-Mao China (Jé rôme DOYON); Contemporary Perceptions of the Role of the Party in Hong Kong (LIM Tai Wei).

Readership: Postgraduates, academic researchers, industry policy researchers.

Readership: Academics, professionals, policymakers and students interested in Chinese Communist Party.

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THE CONSTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY

Textbook CHINESE CULTURE

China’s Theory, Strategy and Agenda

Its Humanity and Modernity

by Shangli Lin (Fudan University, China)

by Suoqiao Qian (Newcastle University, UK)

The book expounds on the role played by democracy in China’s revolution and modernization led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and how the CPC, in both its party building and state building, has constantly sought to leverage democracy’s positive functions while avoiding its shortcomings.

This book offers a critical overview of Chinese culture intended for college students as well as for general readers interested in the topic. While ‘Chinese culture’ is often deployed in terms of kung fu, Confucius or calligraphy, this book refers to the traditional and modern experiences out of which contemporary Chinese people have grown. Internationally renowned scholar in China Studies, Professor Qian Suoqiao invites readers to join him on an exciting intellectual journey to critically explore important issues including history, language, governmentality, self-cultivation, aesthetics of life, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, communism, the rise of China and her soft power which contribute to the formation of what we call ‘Chinese’.

Special attention is paid to reconstructing and explaining the historical contexts from which the Party’s theoretical innovations have emerged, thus offering readers insights into the inner political logic that has shaped China’s development. The author, a member of the Party’s senior policy panel, offers a perceptive analysis of the modernization of the country and its governing capacity, and provides a clear assessment of how democracy in China has developed with the times. Featured Contents: Political Logic of Democracy Construction; Construct Democracy from Theory; Build Chinese Democracy with People as the Center; State and Society Construct Party System Together; Socialism and State Building; Effective Governance and Big Country Growth; Accumulate Legitimacy in Validity; State Response to Democratization; Party Institutions and China’s Democracy; Operation of Democratic Centralism; Consultative Politics and China’s Polity; From Consultative Politics to a Harmonious Society; and others.

Readership: This book is designed to serve as a textbook for undergraduate survey modules on Chinese culture, civilization and history on college campuses worldwide. It will appeal to general readers who are eager to gain a better understanding of China and its people. 200pp Dec 2020 978-1-78634-899-9 US$98 £85 978-1-78634-905-7(pbk) US$22 £20

Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, graduate and undergrate students.

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Contents: Dedication; Preface; Chinese Cultural Identity: History and Language; Pax Sinica: The Chinese Model of Government; Three Religions As One: Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; A Poetic Culture: An Aesthetics of Life; The Rise of Modern Chinese Nationalism; Embracing the World: Cosmopolitan Visions; Radical Revolutions to a SuperState; The Rise of China and Its Cultural Challenge; Appendix; Chinese Character List; Suggested Readings.

Series on Innovation and Operations Management for Chinese Enterprises

THE LEGEND OF CHINA

GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND SECONDARY INNOVATION IN CHINA

by Guoping Xie

The History of Pudong Development Translated by: Li Zhang Pudong is a district located at east of the Huangpu River and is opposite to Puxi, west of the Huangpu River and the historic city center of Shanghai. Since the establishment of Pudong New Area in early 1990s, the backward Pudong has become a thriving financial hub of modern China and home to the Lujiazui Finance and the Pilot Free-Trade Zone, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. This book sets Pudong in a broad historical background and records the historical changes and various details and legends in the Pudong’s development process. It reflects the tortuous process of China’s reform and is the first book detailing the complete history of Pudong. It offers suggestions that can be popularized and emulated to achieve significant development across China.

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by Xiaobo Wu (Zhejiang University, China) Innovation studies have long been confined to the theoretical system e s t a b l i s h e d by t h e scholars of developed countries in the West. It is difficult to use these studies to understand the real nature and law of technological innovation in developing countries. This book, in an innovative manner, studies the theoretical system of secondary innovation, and reveals the evolution law and dynamic innovation mode of the activities carried out by technologically backward countries. It does so by laying an important foundation for the development of management science theory on the basis of the standpoint and characteristics of developing countries.

Contents: From Water to Land: Where Pudong Comes from and Where Pudong Goes to; Development Initiative: Civil and Government Efforts; The Widened Gap: Outbreak of Shanghai’s “Urban Disease”; Mission to Assume: A Trump Card to the World Played by the Chief Designer; Seizing Every Minute: Big Experiment in Specific Areas; Little Experience and Much Thinking: Meditation on the Development of Pudong by Standing Beside a Globe; The Uphill Battle: Pudong Wearing a Helmet to Withstand; Big Experiment: Holding High the Banner of Pioneering; Economic Transformation: Big Airplane and Disney; New Pudong: “Two Centers” and the Merging of Two Districts; Prying up the Fulcrum: Pilot Reform Zone (Version 3.0); Fulfillment of Dream: 500 Meters Up and Down, 100 Years To and Fro.

Contents: Introduction; Theoretical and Practical Background for Constructing Secondary Innovation Theory; Secondary Innovation Dynamic Process Model; E vo l u t i o n a n d D e ve l o p m e n t o f t h e Secondary Innovation Theoretical Model; Secondary Innovation and Dynamic Mode of Organizational Learning; Cultivation of Technology Innovation Capability in the Dynamic Process of Secondary Innovation; Conclusion; Summary and Prospects. Readership: Readers who are interested in technological innovation in developing countries. 304pp 978-981-122-215-3

Readership: General public; Undergraduate and graduate Asian studies students; Academics and scholars; Policymakers.

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REFORM OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY SYSTEM

SINGAPORE COLLECTION

Chinese Perspectives and Strategies

Recommended for Bookshops

by Xiao Li (Jilin University, China)

CHAM TAO SOON: LIFE AT SPEED

Translated by: Yong Jiang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China)

by Tao Soon Cham (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

My autobiography is a record of my life and interactions with many interesting people over the course of my work. This involved key industries and organisations like Keppel Corp, We a r n e s , N a t s t e e l , SPH, UOB, LTA, JTC, and SSO. Having the good fortune to meet many prominent Singaporeans such as Tan Chin Tuan, Wee Cho Yaw as well as Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Dr Goh Keng Swee, Dr Toh Chin Chye, Mr Lim Kim San and SR Nathan, allowed me not only a good perspective of various industries and businesses but also how some of these eminent statesmen think. They moulded my view of life. Featured Contents: My Family: Family; My Education: Primary School; Goh Chok Tong; Raffles Institution; University of Malaya; Cambridge; Educational Institutions: University of Singapore; A New Path for Engineering; NTU/NTI; Doing Good (Societies & NGOs): Rhodes Scholarship; The Head Foundation; Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Engineering Institutions: Institution of Engineers, Singapore; Government Bodies: Science Council; NSTB; A*STAR; Industries: NSL (NatSteel, National Iron & Steel Mill); Singapore Press Holdings (SPH); Formula One (F1); Looking Forward: The Impact of Automation and AI in Everyday Life; Education in the Era of Disruptive Technology; Significant Personalities: Lee Kuan Yew; Dr Goh Keng Swee; Dr Toh Chin Chye; Reflections: Technology and Impact on Our Life; and others.

Featured Contents: The Main Problems and Sustainability of the Current International Monetary System; Reform Objectives, Plans and Progress of the Current International Monetary System; Prospects for the Future of the International Monetary System Reform: China’s Vision; The Necessity for China to Actively Participate in the International Monetary System Reform; and others. Readership: Academics, policymakers, professionals, industr y researchers, undergraduate and graduate students. 520pp 978-981-121-886-6

Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, students and general layman.

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This book proposes that the short-term goal of the current reform of the international monetary system should be a combination of controlling “imbalances” and “the risk of the dollar”, namely using the balance of payments coordination mechanism to suppress risks by exchange rate cooperation. The reforms of international reserve currencies, international financial institutions, and international financial regulation provide a good external environment for the stable development of the world economy. The book discusses the mechanisms that will continue to support the hegemony of the US dollar and the US dollar system in the future, including the commodity dollar return mechanism, the international debt repayment mechanism, the petroleum dollar pricing mechanism and the dollar rescue mechanism in financial crisis.

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MONEY AND BANKING / INVESTMENTS

EDUCATION SYSTEMS AND POLICIES

DIGITAL CURRENCY ECONOMICS AND POLICY

EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF SUSTAINABILITY

PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the Workshop on Digital Currency Economics and Policy Singapore EXPO Convention & Exhibition Centre and Monetary Authority of Singapore, 14 – 16 November 2018 edited by Bernard Yeung (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Proceedings of the 3rd Eurasian Conference on Educational Innovation 2020 (ECEI 2020) Hanoi, Vietnam, 5 – 7 February 2020 edited by Charles Tijus (University Paris 8, France), Teen-Hang Meen (National Formosa University, Taiwan) & Chun-Yen Chang (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)

This volume suggests that central banks will most likely issue digital currencies. There are many positive considerations. A central bank digital currency can generate useful information for the monetary authority, can enhance the effectiveness and flexibility of monetary policy, and may raise financial inclusion. Central bank digital currency, however, can have a significant impact on the banking and financial sector and could change a central bank’s role in the economy.

ECEI 2020 provides a unified communication platform for researchers in a range of topics in education innovation and other related fields. This proceedings volume enables interdisciplinary collaboration of science and engineering technologists. It is a fine starting point for establishing an international network in the academic and industrial fields. Featured Contents: K-12 Education; University/ College Education; Cognitive, Affective, and Social Aspects of Teaching and Learning; Teacher Training/Education; Professional Development; Curriculum Development; Educational Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment; Cooperative/Collaborative Learning and Environments; Problem/ Project Based Learning; Didactic/Pedagogical Issues; STEM Education; Teaching/Learning Strategies; Other Fields About Education; Educational Innovation: Ethics and Values; Educational Innovation: Literature and Media; Educational Innovation: Philosophical Investigations; and others.

This volume also explains crucial differences between distributed ledger and centralized ledger, which is the basis of currency payment systems. Continuous innovations have made the distributed ledger technology more resilient, auditable and scalable, giving it far-reaching applications and potential contributions. Featured Contents: Private Digital Currencies as Money and Their Impact on Monetary Policy and International Monetary System; Central Bank Digital Currency; and others.

Readership: This provides a starting point for establishing an international network to facilitate future science and engineering technologists in the academic and industrial fields.

Readership: Readers and students. 300pp 978-981-122-377-8

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ADVANCED MACROECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTION FOR UNDERGRADUATES

CHU ANGUS

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ADVENTURES IN RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS: SELECTED WRITINGS ON RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS AND ITS HISTORY - VOLUME I

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DI BELLA FRANK A

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ASSET MANAGEMENT: TOOLS AND ISSUES

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BEYOND FINTECH: TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS FOR THE ISLAMIC ECONOMY

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BUSINESS OF FREELANCING, THE: HOW TO THRIVE AS FREELANCER

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CHINA’S INDUSTRIAL POLICY TRANSFORMATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

HANQUAN HUANG

NOV/20

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CHINESE ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY: AN OUTSIDE HISTORY

JIANG XIAOYUAN

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CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY IN TRANSFORMATION, THE: THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY AND POSSIBILITY FOR RENEWAL

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CHINESE CULTURE: ITS HUMANITY AND MODERNITY

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CME VULNERABILITY, THE: THE IMPACT OF NEGATIVE OIL FUTURES TRADING

YUAN GEORGE XIANZHI

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105 155

CONCEPTUAL ECONOMICS: THE LIAISING ROLE IN POLITICS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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COSMIC PINWHEELS: SPIRAL GALAXIES AND THE UNIVERSE

BUTA RONALD JAMES

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CULTURAL FINANCE: A WORLD MAP OF RISK, TIME AND MONEY

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DECIPHERING CHINA’S MICROCHIP INDUSTRY

CHEN FANG & DONG RUIFEN

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EDUCATION AND AWARENESS OF SUSTAINABILITY PROCEEDINGS OF THE 3RD EURASIAN CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION 2020 (ECEI 2020)

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ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF DIRAC AND WEYL SEMIMETALS

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ESSENTIALS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS AND RELATIVITY

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FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS

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FUNDAMENTALS OF QUANTUM MATERIALS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTHESIS AND EXPLORATION

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FUTURE OF THE GLOBAL ORDER, THE: THE SIX PARADIGM CHANGES THAT WILL DEFINE 2050

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GLOBAL MANUFACTURING AND SECONDARY INNOVATION IN CHINA: LATECOMER’S ADVANTAGES

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98 147

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188 282

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DEC/20

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