World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
PISA and PIRLS
The Effects of Culture and School Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
International comparative studies of student achievement have caught the attention of governments, policy-makers, school leaders and educational researchers globally. They have become benchmarks of education for countries in the world and provide a broad perspective for countries to evaluate their...
Patent Portfolio Deployment
Bridging the R&D, Patent and Product Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Patents are powerful weapons in a company's legal arsenal, with both defensive and offensive capabilities. Patents protect a company's innovation from potential infringers, while at the same time support the company's efforts to exploit their innovation commercially in the global marketplace. This...
Singapore's Real Estate
50 Years of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation documents the transformation and development of the real estate market in Singapore over the past 50 years. This volume is organised around two major themes, and covers issues from the "bricks and mortar" to the capital markets; and from...
by Richie L C Chen
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book is a brief introductory text of the fundamental electrochemistry that is essential for important biomedical areas including electrophysiology, biosensors and even gene technology. The book targets readers who generally lack a substantial background knowledge in physical chemistry or the...
by Congbin Fu, Huiting Mao
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of the response of the earth system to global change. It hinders severely the sustainable development of these regions. Northern China is one of the largest and most affected regions in the world. This book documents...
The Business Mindframe
The General Truth of Business Redefining Business Management Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Business knowledge has been evolving ever since the emergence of the first economic book, The Wealth of Nations, written by Adam Smith. A profound load of business management theories, concepts, notions, techniques and tools have been developed. However, pragmatic applications of those “good stuffs”...
Shu Chien
An Autobiography and Tributes at His 80th Birthday and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This book celebrates Professor Shu Chien's contributions and achievements in his eight decades of learning, servicing, innovation and creation. The book is composed of tributes written by family, friends, colleagues, students, and trainees, as well as an autobiography by Professor Chien.
Professor...
by Ruiquan Gao, Guanjun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Studies on Contemporary China collects important research findings of China's contemporary political, economic and social studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. This book covers topics including rural-urban integration, reflection on the future of...
China's Education Reform
Current Issues and New Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
China's Education Reform: Current Issues and New Horizons collects important research findings of education studies on China conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. The book covers topics including the rebuilding of contemporary Chinese education reform,...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Choice and Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book discusses practical issues of innovation and entrepreneurship. It first outlines the basic factors contributing to economic growth in the knowledge-based economy. Portraying wealth creation as taking scientific research results from lab to market, it identifies two interlinking components...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
by Hideki Yukawa, L M Brown, R Yoshida;0
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experience, both social and intellectual, that helped to form his character and direct his career. Especially valuable to the historian of science...
by John Scales Avery
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
IN THE NEWSInterview with John Scales Avery, One of the Greatest Living Intellectuals on EarthCountercurrents.org, March 2017
The latest advances and discoveries in science have made, and continue to make, a huge impact on our lives. This book is a history of the social impact...
by Gerard 't Hooft
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
If you think the future is a mystery, think again. With a solid foothold in realism, an extraordinary insight into scientific and technological developments, and a dry sense of humor, Nobel laureate Professor Gerard 't Hooft confidently dissects fact from fiction and shows us what our future might...