World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Ai Jing, Gangliu Wang, Aimee Yiran Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The Great Wall of China is the world's largest military defense structure. It towers and meanders along mountain ranges, constructed more than 2,000 years ago. It was made more brilliant by the numerous wars, power struggles, successive dynasties, political and economic historical events influencing...
by Yi Wang, Rioux Yu Luo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Gardens are a type of landscape art created by the hands of human beings. Chinese gardens are not only one of China's traditional cultural treasures, but they are also a unique charm of human cultural heritage.
Literati gardens occupy an essential position among Chinese gardens — one of the...
Malaria Vaccines
The Continuing Quest
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
In 2013, 200 million people were infected with malaria, resulting in over 584,000 deaths, with the potential to affect over half the world's population. Such is the widespread nature of malaria that it is increasingly believed only a vaccine will lead to its eradication.
Although the first...
by Chandra Wickramasinghe, Kamala Wickramasinghe
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
This is the story of the author's unique scientific journey with one of the most remarkable men of 20th century science. The journey begins in Sri Lanka, the author's native country, with his childhood acquaintance with Fred Hoyle's writings. The action then moves to Cambridge, where the famous Hoyle–Wickramasinghe...
by Colin G Hales
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book discusses two main cultural problems behind the failure of machine consciousness and artificial general intelligence (AGI) projects over many decades.
The first problem recognizes that building a conscious AGI means building an artificial scientist. The book identifies the responsible...
by Melanie Chew
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Singapore is a unique city-state, an economic miracle, a political phenomenon. Many marvel at her very existence. How did Singapore survive? Who built this country? What is the secret of her success?
Leaders of Singapore is a fascinating account of the history and development of Singapore from...
by Michael Stoddart
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book is about the evolution of the sense of smell, from its bacterial origin 3.4 billion years ago, to today's modern, sophisticated humans with an insatiable appetite for perfumes and fragrances. It explains how smell works and how animals sense the environment. The relationship between sex...
Lost in Translation
Barriers to Incentives for Translational Research in Medical Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
This book is all about the definition and finding ways to prioritize and accelerate translation research in biomedical sciences and rapidly turning new knowledge into first-in-human studies. It represents an effort to bring together scientists active in various areas of translational research to share...
Sustainability Matters
Environmental and Climate Changes in the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Sustainability Matters is a compilation of some of the best research papers by students from the National University of Singapore's multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary graduate programme in environmental studies, the M.Sc. in Environmental Management [MEM]. This collection is for the period...
World Scientific Reference on Innovation
(In 4 Volumes)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
This multi-volume set covers a wide range of topics on innovation, which are all of great interest to academics, policymakers, university administrators, state and regional economic development officials, and students. Two unique features of the volume are the large body of global evidence on innovation...
Atmospheric Chemistry
From the Surface to the Stratosphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Understanding the composition and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere is essential to global ecological and environmental policy making and research. Atmospheric changes as a result of both natural and anthropogenic activity have affected many of the Earth's natural systems throughout history, some...
The World Scientific Encyclopedia of Nanomedicine and Bioengineering II
Bioimplants, Regenerative Medicine, and Nano-Cancer Diagnosis and Phototherapy.(A 3-Volume Set)V
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements in biomedical applications of nanotechnology, including stem cell based regenerative medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic cancer therapy. New approaches in early...
Astrochemistry
From the Big Bang to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
The rapidly growing field of astrochemistry focuses on the chemistry occurring in stars, planets, and the interstellar medium, bringing together elements of chemistry, physics, astrophysics, and biology. Astrochemistry describes the chemical history of the Universe, our solar system, and our planet....
CERN
How We Found the Higgs Boson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
This informative and entertaining book provides a broad look at the fascinating history of CERN, and the physicists working in different areas at CERN who were active in the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Profound and well-structured, the contents combine present day interviews with the scientists...