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Advances in Geosciences
Volume 29: Hydrological Science (HS)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Case Studies for Corporate Finance
From A (Anheuser) to Z (Zyps)(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Case StudiesVolume 2: Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Case Studies for Corporate Finance: From A (Anheuser) to Z (Zyps) (In 2 Volumes) provides a distinctive collection of 51 real business cases dealing with corporate finance issues over the period of 1985–2014. Written by Harold Bierman Jr, world-renowned author in the field of corporate finance,...
Making Mathematics More Practical
Implementation in the Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The book Making Mathematics Practical (published by World Scientific in 2011) proposes a new paradigm in teaching problem solving in secondary school mathematics classrooms. It is a report of the research project “Mathematical Problem Solving for Everyone” (MProSE), which attempts to provide all...
by Daniel Holtom, Elizabeth Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 1999
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Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation! is a complete guide to good dissertation and thesis writing. It is written in an accessible style with cartoons and real-life anecdotes to liven up the text. It outlines the rules and conventions of scientific...
What Makes You Clever
The Puzzle of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception — intelligence. Intelligence still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in science.
How do you chat so effortlessly?...
Pursuing the Elixir of Life
Chinese Medicine for Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Since time immemorial Man has pursued the elusive elixir of life. The wisdom of ancient Chinese medicine declared immortality unattainable, but offered the elixir of longevity through lifestyle, diet, the judicious use of herbal tonics and the practice of subtle but powerful exercises of qigong and...
Centennial of General Relativity
A Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
It has been over 100 years since the presentation of the Theory of General Relativity by Albert Einstein, in its final formulation, to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. To celebrate 100 years of general relativity, World Scientific publishes this volume with a dual goal: to assess the current...
International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies 46th Session
The Role of Science in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Proceedings of the 46th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This Seminar has again gathered, in 2013, over 100 scientists from 43 countries in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 32 years, to examine and...
Leptons and Quarks
(Special Edition Commemorating the Discovery of the Higgs Boson)
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
The book “Leptons and Quarks” was first published in the early 1980s, when the program of the experimental search for the intermediate bosons W and Z and Higgs boson H was formulated. The aim and scope of the present extended edition of the book, written after the experimental discovery of the...
by K K Phua, L C Kwek, N P Chang;A H Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Professor Freeman Dyson, a great physicist, thinker and futurist, has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. As a tribute to him on the occasion of his 90th birthday and to celebrate his lifelong contributions in physics, mathematics, astronomy,...
Nanodesign
Some Basic Questions
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
There is no doubt that nanoscience will be the dominant direction for technology in this century, and that this science will influence our lives to a large extent as well as open completely new perspectives on all scientific and technological disciplines. To be able to produce optimal nanosystems...
Mathemusical Conversations
Mathematics and Computation in Music Performance and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Mathemusical Conversations celebrates the understanding of music through mathematics, and the appreciation of mathematics through music. This volume is a compilation of the invited talks given at the Mathemusical Conversations workshop that took place in Singapore from 13–15 February 2015, organized...
A Lesson for the Future of Our Science
My Testimony on Lord Patrick M S Blackett
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This unique volume contains a tribute to Lord Patrick M S Blackett through the testimony of Professor Antonino Zichichi, who was one of Blackett's pupils in the experiment at the Sphinx Observatory, Europe's highest lab (3580 meters a.s.l.), at Jungfraujoch. The book presents an overview of Blackett's...
4D Visualization of Matter
Recent Collected Works of Ahmed H Zewail, Nobel Laureate
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Ever since the beginning of mankind's efforts to pursue scientific inquiry into the laws of nature, visualization of the very distant and the very small has been paramount. The examples are numerous. A century ago, the atom appeared mysterious, a “raisin or plum pie of no structure,” until it...