Beng: 111 books
by Beng-Huat Chua
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
The economic success of Singapore has established the country as a model for other nations. Yet until now the ideas behind this accomplishment have not been critically examined.
Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore fills this gap. The book outlines the policies the ruling party has adopted...
Life Is Not Complete Without Shopping
Consumption Culture in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
One of the cliches that Singaporeans hold most dear is that their lives are a pursuit of the five c's: cash, cars, condominiums, credit cards, and club memberships. Over the last thirty years, Singaporeans have become accustomed to ever-increasing levels of consumption. Singapore's PAP government has...
Labour Economics and Public Policy
Managing the Labour Markets for Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book serves as a textbook on labour economics and public policy in labour markets.
It also shows how Singapore has been successful in establishing a world class labour market. One attribute of such a labour market is the high purchasing power of wages for the average worker for essentials...
by Edmund Lai, PhD, BEng
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The aim of this book is to introduce the general area of Digital Signal Processing from a practical point of view with a working minimum of mathematics. The emphasis is placed on the practical applications of DSP: implementation issues, tricks and pitfalls. Intuitive explanations and appropriate examples...
Building Resilient IP Networks
Building Resilient IP Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
The practical guide to building resilient and highly available IP networks
Learn from an all-in-one introduction to new features and developments in building a resilient IP network
Enable your organization to meet internal service-level agreements (SLAs) for mission-critical resources
Understand...
The Trials of Evidence-based Education
The Promises, Opportunities and Problems of Trials in Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
The Trials of Evidence-based Education explores the promise, limitations and achievements of evidence-based policy and practice, as the attention of funders moves from a sole focus on attainment outcomes to political concern about character-building and wider educational impacts.
Providing a detailed...
Managing Social Purpose Driven Organizations
Looking at the Third Sector
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The book examines the management of social purpose driven organizations in an Asian context, using the case study approach. It looks at these organizations during a period of major changes in the regulatory and governance environment for charities in Singapore. The focus is on how these changes impact...
Compiler Technology
Tools, Translators and Language Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Compiler technology is fundamental to computer science since it provides the means to implement many other tools. It is interesting that, in fact, many tools have a compiler framework - they accept input in a particular format, perform some processing and present output in another format. Such tools...
The Comprehensive Textbook of Biomechanics - E-Book
with access to e-learning course [formerly Biomechanics in Clinic and Research]
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
ALL-ENCOMPASSING and EXPANDED, now covering the WHOLE BODY (lower quadrant PLUS upper quadrant and spine) – The Comprehensive Textbook of Clinical Biomechanics (formerly Biomechanics in Clinic and Research) presents the latest research in a form which is accessible, practical, thorough and up-to-the...
by David Machin, Michael J. Campbell, Say Beng Tan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
An authoritative resource that offers the statistical tools and software needed to design and plan valid clinical studies
Now in its fourth and extended edition, Sample Sizes for Clinical, Laboratory and Epidemiology Studiesincludes the sample size software (SSS) and formulae and numerical...
by Beng-huat Chua, Chyong-Fan Ko, Kyeung-Mi Oh
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia adopts a unique and critical perspective on contemporary social welfare policies in East Asia. This edited volume reflects on current welfare theories and challenges the dominant productivist ideology that overemphasizes the influence of work and family. James Lee...
by Beng Yeong Ng, Daniel Fung
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This book is a compilation by local mental health experts on the development of mental health services in Singapore after 1993. The year was the end point of an earlier book "Till the Break of Dawn — A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore (1841–1993)" that had been written...
by Dr. Tan Seng Beng
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Mindfulness is a ticket to go home. It is a ticket to a place where our heart is. It can bring us to a place beyond the limits of our mind. The place is our source, our origin, our root. When we arrive, we feel completely peaceful and truly relaxed. We dont have to do anything. We just be, resting...