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ANNUAL CATALOGUE 2020 Foreign RightsAnnualCatalogue2020 eesn lmt hne o abnRmvl a eov lmt hneadFxteEooy25 theEconomy ClimateChange:HowCarbon RemovalsReversing canResolveClimateChange andFix FundingtheFutureofEnergy,Renewable Finance: Energy 2ndEd Introduction toDerivativeSecurities, Markets, Financial andRiskManagement Economics Primer Economics GoneAstray ECONOMICS ANDFINANCE Transhumanism: ARealisticFuture? 19 Toward Cities Mobility:Shaping theFutureofSmart SustainableandEconomicSmart 18 Intelligence:QuantumProblemSolvingandMachineLearning, 2ndEd Principles ofQuantumArtificial Intelligence?AConversation between anAIEngineerandaHumanitiesResearcher What isArtificial Cognitive SatelliteSystem andApplication Biological LanguageModel:Theory Algorithms forBigData COMPUTER SCIENCE Women inTheirElement:SelectedWomen’s ContributionstothePeriodic System Voltammetry: SimulationofElectrodeProcesses,Understanding 2ndEd The Periodic Table: Past, Present, Future Spinach ontheCeiling:TheMultifacetedLifeofaTheoreticalChemist Orbitals: WithApplicationsinAtomicSpectra:(Revised Edition) CHEMISTRY Want:What Sponsors AnInspirationalGuideforEventMarketers Prevail The Racefor5GSupremacy:Why ChinaIsSurging, WhereMillennialsStruggle, &HowAmericaCan The World Technology ITProject:GlobalIssues inInformation The EmergingBusinessModels Journey Thailand:TheEntrepreneurs’ Start-up EconomyEnd ofCompetition:TheImpacttheNetwork Design Thinking:TheHandbook Customer RelationshipMarketing: TheoreticalandManagerialPerspectives Blockchain Technologies, PracticeandFutureTrends Current ApplicationsandCryptocurrencies: Intelligence,Artificial DataandBlockchaininaDigitalEconomy, 1stEd BUSINESS ANDMANAGEMENT China Weapons inContemporary oftheRich:StrategicActionPrivateEntrepreneurs Shadows AcrosstheGoldenLand:Myanmar’s Opening, Foreign InfluenceandInvestment China Reconnects:JoiningaDeep-rootedPast toaNew World Order ASIAN STUDIES TITLE

PAGE 24 23 23 21 20 20 18 17 17 15 14 14 13 12 11 8 8 7 6 6 5 4 3 3 2 2 1 CONTENTS Foreign RightsAnnualCatalogue2020 TITLE Coming Home to Math: Become Comfortable with the Numbers thatRule Your withthe Numbers Coming Hometo Math:BecomeComfortable Life An IntroductiontoDifferential Equations withApplications inGameTheory A Course MATHEMATICS Composites andMetamaterials MATERIALS SCIENCE Complexes A Textbook Perspectives ofBioengineering andBiological Information-theoretic ofBioinformatics: 41 Stem Cells:From HypetoHope Replicating andRepairingtheGenome:From GeneticTechnologies BasicMechanismstoModern Nobel Prizes:Cancer, andtheGeneticCode Vision Nanopore Sequencing:AnIntroduction Medical Statistics:APracticalApproach The FutureofHomo SeparatingtheFactsThe ABCsofCancer: fromtheMyths From asOrderHiddenWithinChance Fractals Information andCellularAutomatatoBiology: Cultures:“FakeCorrupt News” andCheatinginScience LIFE SCIENCES Revolution TheNanotechnology Size ReallyDoesMatter: Science ResearchWriting, 2ndEdition Rebel City:HongKong’s Year ofWater andFire How toBuildaDragonorDieTrying: ASatiricalLookatCutting-edgeScience at Home The Happy BookforSiblings:50Awesome Learning andPlay ActivitiesforSiblingstoLearn Together GENERAL ANDPOPULARSCIENCE The GoldilocksPolicy: Bargain TheBasisforaGrandEnergy Society andClimate:Transformations andChallenges Efficiency:Innovations: DrivingProsperity,Energy SlashingEmissions andTechnologyChemistry Fuels ofAlternate ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE fromGraphene The New ArchitectureofScience:Learning Introduction toCoastalEngineeringandManagement, 3rdEdition Difficult EngineeringConceptsBetterExplained:StaticsandApplications forRisingSeas Design ofCoastalHazardMitigationAlternatives ENGINEERING Turkish Economy attheCrossroads:Facing the ChallengesAhead Solar Power WithouttheJargon Finance

PAGE 46 45 45 44 43 42 40 40 39 38 37 37 36 36 35 34 33 32 32 31 30 30 29 29 28 28 27 26 CONTENTS Foreign RightsAnnualCatalogue2020 TITLE Triple-Negative BreastCancer Stalin andMedicine:UntoldStories Remote Medicine:ATextbook forTrainee andEstablishedRemoteHealthcarePractitioners Pocket Anatomy of Cerebrovascular ImagingandTopography andRe-ShapingoftheBreast Multi-Level Mammaplasty:AnatomicalSupport Human Edge:LimitsofPhysiology andPerformance (2ndEdition) ACoreCurriculum Haematology: Orthoptists Practitioners,Fundamentals ofGlaucoma:AGuideforOphthalmicNurse Optometristsand ForEssentials ofOphthalmology: MedicalSchoolandBeyond Cobert’s SafetyandPharmacovigilance: 3rdEdition ManualofDrug 6thEdition Constable &LimColourAtlasofOphthalmology: The AtlasofAnkleReplacements Hydrogen-Oxygen InhalationforTreatment ofCOVID-19: fromZhongNanshan WithCommentary andthePracticeofTraditionalBridging theGap:IntegrativeOncology ChineseMedicine Aerosols andtheHumanLung:AnIntroduction Patients, forMedicalStudentsandJuniorDoctors Algorithms inDifferentialDiagnosis:HowtoApproachCommonPresenting ComplaintsinAdult MEDICINE Two-Minute PuzzleBook: PuzzlestoTrain Your Brain Parents andChildren Tools toHelpYour Math:Strategies, ChildrenLearn Curiosities, andStoriestoMake MathFunfor and Cooperation, 2ndEd IntroductiontotheAnalysisofMany AgentSystemswithCompetition GameTheory: Understanding ModuleICriticalThinkingasCreativeProblemSolving Thinking Matters: The Fate ofSchrodinger’s toExploretheCounterintuitive Cat:UsingMathandComputers Tricks toHigh-Level Math Mathemagics: AMagicalJourney ThroughAdvancedMathematics:Connecting More Than60Magic NobodyWantsMathematical MuffinMorsels: aSmallPiece Mathematics Competitions School Mathematical NuggetsfromAustria:SelectedProblemstheStyrian Mid-Secondary fortheMillions Mathematics Entertainment KENKEN: APuzzleDay!: 365PuzzlesThatMake You Smarter KENKEN: Lim-Ops, No-OpsandTwist!: 1806xPuzzlesThatMake You Smarter Global SolutionforSudoku Geometric Foundations ofDesign: Old andNew Foundations Econometrics:AUnifiedApproach ofModern LookatStochasticProcesses A First

PAGE 66 65 64 62 62 61 61 60 60 59 58 58 57 57 56 55 54 54 53 52 52 51 51 50 50 49 49 48 48 47 47 CONTENTS Foreign RightsAnnualCatalogue2020 TITLE Putin’s Russia:Economy, DefenseandForeign Policy Populists andProgressives:TheNew Forces inAmericanPolitics Tun DrSitiHasmahMohdAli:TheAccidentalDoctor theUS:WhoWillPrevail? China versus SOCIAL SCIENCES Quantum Computing:Physics, Networks Blockchains, Smart andDeepLearning You CanBetheNextEinstein andStatisticalMechanics Thermodynamics The MajoranaCase:Letters, Documents, Testimonies ofaCosmologicalExperiment TheStory Survey: Energy The Dark understood,both properly Superconductivitybasicsrethought andmisunderstood: Superconductivity BeginswithH Theory,Quantum LeapinInformation A FromOrigin andEvolutionoftheUniverse: BigBangtoExoBiology, 2ndEd Problems andSolutionsonMechanics:2ndEdition Theory Mathematical Foundations ofQuantumField Loop QuantumGravity forEveryone Level Lecture NotesonMechanics:Intermediate Introduction toClassicalMechanics Examination,General Relativity:AFirst 2ndEd Fundamental Physics ofSound Diseases fromOuterSpace—OurCosmicDestiny: 2ndEdition Basic Physics ofQuantumTheory As theWorld Turns: Rotates ofProving theEarth TheHistory Engineers forFutureScientistsand Course Application-Driven QuantumandStatisticalPhysics: AShort A Tale ofTwo Twins: TheLangevin ExperimentofaTraveller toaStar Foreword Kac by Victor inIntegrability Algebraic Structures A Day atCERN:GuidedTour Physics ofParticle ThroughtheHeart PHYSICS 500 Years Machines:Towards AfterLeonardodaVinci Innovation andControl NONLINEAR SCIENCE MoreFriends ThanFoes,Viruses: Revised Edition

PAGE 84 83 83 82 80 80 79 79 78 77 76 75 75 74 74 73 73 72 72 71 71 70 69 69 68 68 67 66 CONTENTS Asian Studies China Reconnects Editor’s Choice Joining a Deep-rooted Past to a New World Order By (author): Gungwu Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) “Professor Wang Gungwu, a distinguished historian and sinologist, writes about how the China Dream relates to China’s reconnection and potential assimilation into a new world order. He brings to bear a unique combination of perspectives as both a cultural insider and a political outsider. He portrays present-day China as a centralised bureaucratic state not dissimilar from the emperor states of the old Chinese dynasties, but still in active search of a guiding ideology to replace the millennia-old Confucianism, an ideology that can be based on an integration of a new ‘socialist spiritual civilization’ and selected traditional Chinese values. This book makes a fascinating reading for anyone interested in how China may be made great once again, in the global context.” Lawrence J Lau Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

“In this remarkable book, Wang Gungwu illuminates the complicated processes by which China, in the course of becoming an influential actor in a new global order, has drawn on and adapted, rather than totally discarding, core aspects of the Chinese past.” Paul A Cohen Rights Information: Professor, Harvard University All language (except “In this slim volume, China Reconnects: Joining a Deep-Rooted Past to a New World Order, the Simplified Chinese) distinguished historian and academic Gungwu Wang achieves, within an amazingly compact, rights available. highly readable compass, a remarkable synthesis of many strands. On the one hand, there is of course the antithesis between a backward-looking culture of Confucianism and a revolutionary 208pp movement initially dedicated to its overthrow. Then there is the strain between self-sufficient land power and an outgoing, sometimes ‘assertive’ maritime trading state responsible for the world’s Pub. date: Jul 2019 most visionary infrastructure building scheme. There is the contradiction between Westphalian 978-981-3278-12-7 constitutionalism built in principle upon universalizable laws and a concept of sovereignty in which US$58 / £50 law was but a tool (among others) to be pragmatically applied to govern subordinates. Only a historian of Professor Wang’s stature and erudition could successfully envisage how modern 978-981-120-360-2(pbk) China has striven to bridge these disparate aspirations.” US$28 / £25 Lowell Dittmer Professor, University of California

“Wang Gungwu is one of the most eminent historians studying China. In this concise and very readable book, he repeatedly draws conceptual insights from Chinese history and from traditional and modern Chinese thought. This enables us to better understand the perceptions and frame of mind of China’s current leadership.” Jonathan Unger Professor, Australian National University

“I am very fortunate to have worked with Professor Wang Gungwu since the fall of 1996. My appreciation of Professor Wang’s guidance in my career and his contribution to East Asian Institute are beyond words. This book is not only about Professor Wang’s unique and insightful interpretation of China’s rise, but also his deep reflections on China studies as an important field in contemporary social sciences. Everyone who is interested in China and world affairs should read this book, and benefit from it significantly.” Zheng Yongnian Professor, East Asian Institute

The book shows how the Chinese are now confident of their capacity to learn all they need from the developed world and are keen to know which parts of the past they would need to build a modern Chinese civilization. They are very conscious of the challenges coming from the United States, and are looking for ways and means to respond to a superpower that wants to preserve its dominant position in the international status quo. The book seeks to explain what China is doing and what its immediate and long-term interests are. It is not to defend or judge China. It does not employ theoretical frameworks that are not appropriate for describing Chinese conditions. It calls for understanding why history is particularly relevant to the Chinese state and most of its people. That way, we also see how the present and hopes for the future changes our perspectives of the past. Contents: Studying China: History in the Contemporary; China Dream: Fall and Rise: A Maritime Perspective; Behind the Dream; Navigating a Divisive Heritage; A System for Progress; Dreaming Beyond: Old World and New Global; China’s South. Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students interested in how China might see its future.

About the Author Wang Gungwu is University Professor at the National University of Singapore and Professor Emeritus of the Australian National University. He is Foreign Honorary Member of the History Division of the American Academy of Arts and Science and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1986 to 1995. His recent books include Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History (2013); The Eurasian Core and Its Edges (2015); Nanyang: Essays on Heritage (2018); and Home is Not Here (2018).

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 1 Shadows Across the Golden Land Myanmar’s Opening, Foreign Influence and Investment By (author): Simon S C Tay (Singapore Institute of International Affairs, Singapore)

What are the political and economic challenges facing Myanmar as it opens to the world? And what are the opportunities and responsibilities for the international community to influence and also invest in the country? Asian Studies This book aims to provide readers with an assessment that integrates analysis with on-the-ground experience and insights, drawn from closely engaging with Myanmar since the country began to move toward democracy and open to the world. In order for readers to appreciate emerging trends and developments, the book evaluates the efforts of the recent Thein Sein administration and current National League of Democracy government up to the present day. It also identifies key events from the colonial period through to the decades when the country was under military rule, cut off from much of the international community. The on-going crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and the controversial situation of the Rohingya are examined at length, with an effort to Rights Information: contextualize these events in wider challenges of geo-politics and national reforms to rehabilitate All language rights the government and the economy. available. The book presents readers with a clear view of how the country might progress beyond current obstacles, and highlights the opportunities that remain for those willing to engage constructively for 150pp the longer term in the opening of this frontier economy and once-pariah state. As Myanmar moves Pub. date: Sep 2020 ahead with its transition to democracy and with economic development, this book is recommended 978-981-3273-54-2 for both those who watch the country with interest and those who consider the ways in which the international community interacts with the region and Myanmar. US$45 / £40 Contents: Introduction — Myanmar and the Outside World; Opening — From Pariah to Frontier Economy; Shifting Images of the Golden Land; Democratic Victory and the Realities of Governing; Challenges for Business and New Paradigms for the Economy; Controversy and Wider Politics; Conclusion — Winning and Losing, Opening and Closing;Readership: Myanmar watchers and those with a casual interest in the region.

Readership: Myanmar watchers and those with a casual interest in the region.

Key Features: ○ Looks past recent controversial headlines to examine issues that are of direct relevance to the investment and business environment of Myanmar ○ Combines an outsider’s point of view with insider knowledge accrued from extensive on-the-ground experience in Myanmar since the country’s opening in 2011 ○ Weaves into its analysis a concise but informative summary of relevant historical factors dating back to the Colonial period in Myanmar’s history

Editor’s Choice Weapons of the Rich Strategic Action of Private Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China By (author): Thomas Heberer (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany) & Gunter Schubert (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany)

This book provides a fresh perspective on the political agency of private entrepreneurs in contemporary China. Most Chinese scholarship describes this group as being politically acquiescent due to systematic co-optation by the party state. This book, however, argues that private entrepreneurs should be understood, and analytically conceptualized, as a ‘strategic group’ that makes use of different formal and informal channels to safeguard and expand its interests, though so far it has not challenged the current regime.

State-business relations in contemporary China should thus be understood not in terms of mere clientelism, but as a dynamic symbiosis in which private entrepreneurs contribute substantially to policy and institutional change. This book is based on several years of comparative empirical fieldwork across China. With its rich and unique qualitative data and insights, this volume contributes significantly to our understanding of the political behaviour and impact of private Rights Information: entrepreneurs in contemporary China. All language (except Contents: About the Authors; Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; Simplified Chinese) The Rise and Current State of China›s Private Sector; Private Sector Development and State– rights available. Business Relations in Post-Mao China: The State of the Field; Conceptual Framework: Private Entrepreneurs as a ‘Strategic Group’; Investigating Strategic Action via Formal Channels; Informal and ‘Connective’ Strategic Action; Conclusion; Appendix; Index. 276pp Pub. date: Apr 2020 Readership: Undergraduate students of Chinese studies, Asian politics and society, and economics, as well as entrepreneurs. 978-981-121-279-6 US$88 / £75 Key Features: ○ Utmost empirical ○ Utmost comparative ○ Rich in primary sources

2 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Business and Management Artificial Intelligence, Data and Blockchain in a Digital Economy (1st Edition) By (author): Infocomm Media Development Authority Edited by: David Kuo Chuen Lee (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore)

Digital transformation continues to create new growth opportunities for businesses and improve the lives of citizens. To help businesses seize these opportunities, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) launched the Digital Economy Framework for Action in 2018. This living document aims to enhance Singapore’s digital competitiveness and become a global node in Asia.

As part of Singapore’s push for a Digital Economy, IMDA and the Singapore University of Social Sciences have collaborated to jointly publish the Artificial Intelligence, Data and Blockchain in a Digital Economy, First Edition. This book explains how frontier technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence can empower Singapore’s digital transformation. It also highlights and provides insights on transformative services and how frontier technology can impact the nation’s Rights Information: digitalisation journey. Only Chinese language rights available. Contents: Introduction — Singapore as a Smart Nation; Technology Study on Artificial Intelligence, Data and Blockchain; Convergence of AI, Data and Blockchain 1; The Impact and Implications of 216pp AI, Data and Blockchain; Model AI Governance Framework. Pub. date: Jun 2020

Readership: Graduate, postgraduate and executive students, professionals and policy makers 978-981-121-895-8 with an interest in technology and its impact. US$138 / £120

Key Features: 978-981-121-994-8(pbk) ○ Structured and systematic introduction to technologies in artificial intelligence (AI), US$58 / £50 data and blockchain ○ Analysis of technology roadmap and application to the Singapore’s digitalisation journey ○ Insightful analysis of services and digital economy as well as technology convergence

Blockchain Technologies, Applications and Cryptocurrencies Current Practice and Future Trends Edited by: Sam Goundar (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

This book serves as a reference for scholars, researchers and practitioners to update their knowledge on methodologies, theoretical analyses, modeling, simulation and empirical studies on blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. Chapters on the evolving theory and practice related to distributed ledger technologies and peer-to-peer digital currencies are intended to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of their uses within the technological, business, and organizational domains.

The contributions from this volume also provide a thorough examination of blockchains and cryptocurrencies with respect to issues of management, governance, trust and privacy, and interoperability. Rights Information: Contributed by a diverse range of authors from both academia and professional fields, this All language rights reference book presents frontier research in the fields of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. available.

Contents: Blockchain Means More Than a Software to Democracy: Access to Fundamental 150pp Rights of 6th Dimension; Cryptocurrencies: An Assessment of Global Adoption Trends; Blockchain Pub. date: Aug 2020 Application in Aviation Industry; Comparison of Three Darknet Cryptocurrencies; E-Voting Application Based on Blockchain; Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Must be Secured in Our Day-to- 978-981-120-526-2 Day Life; A Taxonomy of Blockchain Applications; Blockchain in Agriculture: The Sugar Industry; US$68 / £60 Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain Management with Blockchains.

Readership: Scholars, researchers and practitioners involved in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies.

Key Features: ○ A comprehensive reference guide covering different aspects of blockchains and cryptocurrencies ○ Contributed by a diverse range of authors from both academia and professional fields

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 3 Customer Relationship Marketing Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives By (author): Naresh K Malhotra (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) & James Agarwal (University of Calgary, Canada)

Customer relationship marketing (CRM) opportunities are embedded in the entire customer journey spanning several touch points across all stages including prepurchase, purchase, and postpurchase stage. Customer relationship marketing evolved from traditional marketing concept and has broadened its scope today, intersecting with the following domains, namely customer buying behavior process models, customer satisfaction and loyalty, service quality, customer relationship management tools and strategies, customer centricity, and customer engagement activities. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art textbook, Customer Relationship Marketing: Theoretical and Managerial Perspectives is organized as follows: ○ In Chapter 1, we provide a formal definition of marketing followed by several definitions of relationship marketing highlighting the key aspects of this concept Business and Management Rights Information: ○ In Chapter 2, we map the evolution of customer relationship marketing, examining its All language rights lifecycle stages of adoption, development, and expansion in business-to-customer available. (B2C) marketing over the last three decades ○ In Chapter 3, we focus our attention exclusively to business-to-business (B2B) 350pp relationships Pub. date: Sep 2020 ○ In Chapter 4, we first discuss how firms build and sustain business-to-customer (B2C) relationships by stimulating customer purchase behavior via loyalty programs. 978-1-944659-71-4 Then we discuss how firms build and sustain B2C relationships by stimulating US$118 / £105 customer non-purchase behavior via engagement strategies 978-1-944659-74-5(pbk) ○ In Chapter 5, we first examine relationship quality from a stakeholder perspective US$58 / £50 followed by employee–customer engagement theories and strategies ○ In Chapter 6, we discuss CRM-based analytical models, both for purchase and non- purchase customer behavior including CLV, CRV, and CIV models ○ In Chapter 7, we first discuss brand equity from the firm’s perspective, followed by customer-based brand equity — its definition and dimensions, namely brand awareness, brand association, perceived quality, and brand loyalty ○ In Chapter 8, we discuss the linkage between corporate reputation and customer– brand relationship ○ In Chapter 9, we discuss the ethical foundations of customer relationship marketing ○ In Chapter 10, we examine the intricate relationship between digital and social media marketing and customer brand relationship ○ In Chapter 11, we discuss several important research directions that seem promising as a result of access to big data, availability of computing power, and emerging models of estimating customer lifetime value for both transaction and engagement- based activities

Readership: MBA Students; undergraduate management students (upper level); executives; courses in marketing management, customer relationship marketing, services marketing, marketing analytics.

Key Features: ○ The book is comprehensive as it covers all aspects of Relationship Marketing in the B2C and B2B spaces ○ It is a state-of-the-art textbook that includes the latest theoretical developments in the field ○ The book uses applied and managerial approaches, i.e., several actual examples and applications in the current marketing and business environment

About the Authors Dr Naresh K Malhotra is Senior Fellow, Georgia Tech CIBER, and Regents› Professor Emeritus, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. In 2010, he was selected as a Marketing Legend, and his refereed journal articles were published in nine volumes by Sage with tributes by other leading scholars in the field. He is listed in Marquis Who›s Who in America continuously since the 51st Edition (1997), and in Who›s Who in the World since 2000. In 2017, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who›s Who. In 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Prestige Institute of Management, Gwalior, India. He received the prestigious Academy of Marketing Science CUTCO/Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator Award in 2005. In 2011, he received the Best Professor in Marketing Management, Asia Best B-School Award. He has several top (number one) research rankings that have been published. His book entitled Marketing Research: An Applied Orientation, seventh edition, published by Pearson Education, has been translated into several languages and is the global leader. Likewise, his books, Basic Marketing Research: Integration of Social Media, fourth edition, and Essentials of Marketing Research are widely used globally. He is the winner of numerous awards and honors for research, teaching, and service to the profession, including the Academy of Marketing Science Distinguished Educator Award for 2005. He also has received several Best Paper awards. He has an active consulting practice.

4 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Business and Management Dr James Agarwal (PhD, Georgia Tech) is Haskayne Research Professor and Full Professor of Marketing at the Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Canada. He served as the CCAL Research Fellow (2013–2016), Research Director (2013–2015), and Area Chair of Marketing (2002–2005) at the Haskayne School of Business. He is listed in Canadian Who’s Who, University of Toronto Press, and Marquis Who’s Who in America. In 2017, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. His research interests are in International Marketing, Relationship Marketing, Consumer Psychology, Ethical Issues in Marketing, and Statistical Methods. He has published 55 papers in major refereed journals, proceedings, and book chapters, and presented research papers in more than 80 national and international conferences. He has edited two books: Research Methodology: Conjoint Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling & Related Techniques (Sage Publication, 2011); and Emerging Issues in Global Marketing: A Shifting Paradigm (Springer, 2018). He has received several Best Paper awards and recognitions, including William R Darden Best Paper Award, Hans B Thorelli Best Paper Award, Temple/AIB Best Paper Award (Finalist), Most Prolific Scholar in IB Research (MSU 2005), and Best Paper Awards in Customer Relationship Management and Branding & Brand Management Tracks granted by the American Marketing Association. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, Academy of International Business, and the Academy of Marketing Science.

Design Thinking Editor’s Choice The Handbook By (author): Falk Uebernickel (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Li Jiang (Stanford University, USA), Walter Brenner (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland), Britta Pukall (Milani Design & Consulting, Switzerland), Therese Naef (Milani Design & Consulting, Switzerland) & Bernhard Schindlholzer (Google, Switzerland)

“Design Thinking is a very timely addition to the growing body of literature regarding the ‘Design Mind-Set’ that is increasing needed to compensate for some excesses due to the ‘Science/ Efficiency Mind-Set’. Rights Information: It is a comprehensive hands-on guide to unleashing your creativity and to address wicked problems even before they arrive on your company’s bottom-line. All language (except German) rights available. The book is richly endowed with real-life experiences and images from corporate case studies 308pp I strongly recommend Design Thinking to all manner of practitioners and students in any Pub. date: Jun 2020 discipline.» 978-981-120-214-8 Prof. Larry Leifer, PhD US$108 / £95 Director at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University

Design thinking is more than just a new, one-off method of innovation. Its focus is on establishing an innovation-friendly climate in companies and organizations for the long-term. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary team of authors has composed this “recipe book” that can be practically applied to your everyday business life. This book is for all who intend to understand and practice the design thinking method in the most rapid and uncomplicated way.

The first part describes in depth what this method is all about. The second part of this comprehensive book offers you a step-by-step guide to practically apply design thinking. The subsequent sample cases show how to put theory into practice.

The authors have gained their expertise in design thinking from both academic and scientific theory, and from countless long-term implementations at companies in various industries.

So, benefit from this rich knowledge and start becoming innovative today. This book will show you how it’s done.

Contents: Methodical Overview; Toolkit; The Design Thinking Lab; Application in Organizations; Case Studies.

Readership: Business owners, lecturers, students and employees interested in design thinking and its implementation.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 5 The End of Competition The Impact of the Network Economy By (author): Cor Molenaar (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

The frictions that we experience when doing business, and in fact also in society, result from the impact of technology. There is a transition period from “doing digital” to “being digital”. This affects every aspect of our lives, both private and professional. Merely observing the changes, reading about conflicts of the old model in relation to the new model, is confusing. The current developments and frictions require more in-depth examination. Insights into these developments will be necessary in order to achieve success. Many more partnerships will develop; organisations will come together and combine forces and borders will disappear. This will lead to the changes from order entry to new digital business ecosystems, or rather from “doing digital to “being digital”.

In the book, The End of Competition: The Impact of the Network Economy, the author explores the indicators of change, the motives for change, and the changes that are yet to come. Concrete Business and Management Rights Information: plans provide clarity regarding the steps that can be taken, and they indicate who is already All language (except going down that road. This book will cover the similarities and differences in the approach and Dutch) rights available. developments in both the Western and Asian worlds. We are at the beginning of a new age: the age of “being digital”, and closing our eyes to this is to deny ourselves a future. 250pp Pub. date: May 2020 Readership: Practitioners and researchers in the field of marketing, graduates and researchers in marketing. 978-981-121-231-4 US$56 / £50 About the Author Professor Cor Molenaar is one of Holland›s foremost business speakers and writers on the intersection of marketing and technology. He has been Professor in the department of Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management since 1999, and extended his fields to include e-Marketing and Distance Selling in 2007. Alongside his academic work, Cor Molenaar has been active as Founder and Director of consulting firm eXQuo, as Chairman of the Dutch RFID platform and of the Dutch foundation regulating security and warrantee systems for online retailers. Previously he has worked for companies including Ogilvy and Mather Dataconsult and Peppers and Rogers. He is the author of a number of books in English and Dutch, including e-Strategy (2000), Interactive Marketing (1996), and Shopping 3.0 (2011). The Dutch edition of The End of Shops sold 5,000 copies within the first few months of publication.

Start-up Thailand The Entrepreneurs’ Journey By (author): Philip C Zerrillo (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Havovi Joshi (Singapore Management University, Singapore) & Pannapachr Itthiopassagul (Thammasat University, Thailand)

This book is intended to showcase some of Thailand’s most vibrant start-ups. It contains a series of stories about these first-generation entrepreneurs and their commercial journeys. The book is intended to serve as both an inspiration and a source of insights for would be entrepreneurs and potential Thailand investors. Each story covers the initial start-up plan, the steps taken by the entrepreneurs and the twists and turns they have taken.

Contents: An Introduction to Thai Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship: A Family Businesses: Jubilee: Passion and the Entrepreneurial Spirit; Vichaivej International Hospital Group: The Challenges of Beginning The Second Generation; Drinking It In: Sappe›s Success Rights Information: Emphasises Innovation and Shaping Its Inno Culture; The Female Founders: Lamoon: When All language rights Caring Moms Innovate; The Power of Mom: The Kitchen at Waraporn Salapao as an Engine of available. Economic Growth; Start-Up Entrepreneurs: Priceza: Bargain Hunting #2.1; Wongnai: In the Mood for More Than Food; At Vantage Marketing Research: Taking on the Global Research Goliaths; 150pp Alto Coffee: Brewing the Premium Coffee Proposition; Thai Habel Industrial Co. Ltd: When a Fire Pub. date: Jun 2020 Ignites a Change of Direction and Underpins Expansion; Making It Big: Success Against All Odds: Minor International: Competing on the World Stage. 978-981-121-618-3 US$38 / £35 Readership: Entrepreneurs, students studying Entrepreneurship, business schools, general public interested in knowing about journey of start-up entrepreneurs in Thailand.

6 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Business and Management Key Features: ○ This book provides an insight into the entrepreneur’s insights, plans, dreams and execution of their vision ○ All of the companies in this book have been successful in that they have been profitable and continue as on-going businesses ○ These companies and the entrepreneur’s recounting of the steps they took and the results they achieved would provide entrepreneurs with great insights on how to achieve success in a start-up

About the Author Philip Zerrillo is a Professor of Marketing and the former Dean of Post Graduate Professional Programmes at Singapore Management University. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Help University (Malaysia), the Dr Bienvenido Tantoco Chaired professor of Retailing at Jose Rizal University, and the former Chairman of the Board of the Thammasat University MIM programme and Sharps Compliance Corp (NASDAQ-SMED).

Dr Zerrillo has been the Editor of Asian Management Insights. He is a member of the editorial board of numerous journals in areas such as agriculture, case writing and business management. Dr Zerrillo has written or co-authored more than 25 cases and teaching notes, won numerous teaching awards, supervised over 25 Doctoral students and consulted with over 200 companies.

The Emerging Business Models By (author): Chong Guan (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore), Zhiying Jiang (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore) & Ding Ding (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore)

The Emerging Business Models describes current issues that the business leaders and professionals are facing, as well as developments in digitalization. This book consisting of 10 chapters introduces the new technology trends and challenges that businesses today face. The authors cover several increasingly important new areas such as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Internet of Things (IoT), financial technology (FinTech), social media, platform strategy, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and many other forces of disruption and innovation that shape today›s realities of the world.

These digital transformations are taking place at an exponential rate. The speed of innovations and breakthroughs is disrupting the traditional businesses. A better understanding of the changing environment in the new economy can enable business professionals and leaders to recognize Rights Information: realities, embrace changes, and create new opportunities — locally and globally — in this All language rights inevitable digital age. available.

Contents: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0); Internet of Things; Artificial Intelligence 220pp and Cloud Computing (Lee Zhan Xiong Sean and Lau Jing Feng); Introduction to Financial Pub. date: May 2020 Technology; Platform Strategy and Sharing Economy; Digital Transformation and the “New Marketing Normal”; From E-commerce to New Retail; Web Analytics (Written jointly with Wang 978-981-120-392-3 Yue); Business Analytics; The Power of Digital Inclusion. US$88 / £75 978-981-120-440-1(pbk) Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in business management, and entrepreneurs US$48 / £40 involved in startups.

Key Features: ○ The ability to identify and navigate the technologies and emerging business models disrupting the various industries ○ An opportunity to explore and incorporate key principles of transformative technology into new or existing business models ○ Recognition of digital economics in context, and how the digital economy influences societies, environment, poverty, privacy, strategy, financial operations and city development

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 7 The World IT Project Global Issues in Information Technology Edited by: Prashant Palvia (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA), Jaideep Ghosh (Shiv Nadar University, India), Tim Jacks (Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, USA), Alexander Serenko (Ontario Tech University, Canada & University of Toronto, Canada) & Aykut Hamit Turan (University of Nizwa, Oman & Sakarya University, Turkey)

Understanding the key IT issues facing firms within their surrounding contexts is critical for the firm, government, and their international counterparts.

In response to the dominant and pervasive bias in Information Systems (IS) research towards American and Western views, the World IT Project was launched and is the largest study of its kind in the field. This book captures the organizational, technological, and individual issues of IT employees across 37 countries. Business and Management Rights Information: All language rights The book enables management and staff to formulate business and IT-related policies and available. strategies. Likewise, it allows policymakers, governments and vendors to address important issues at the national level as well as to respond to the needs of partners and stakeholders in 552pp other countries. It also offers current and future academic scholars a grounded understanding of Pub. date: Apr 2020 the international IT environment and provides a sound foundation to launch many international IT studies. 978-981-120-863-8 US$168 / £150 Readership: Students in International Business and International Informations Systems; relevant to MNCs, international agenices as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations, especially for senior managers, IT managers, and HR managers in the 37 countries covered in the book.

Key Features: ○ There is no book currently in the market which describes and interprets the important information technology issues in different parts of the world ○ In order to get a world view, readers will have to consult different sources such as journals, magazines, books and newspapers and yet the information will be grossly incomplete as well as outdated

Editor’s Choice The Race for 5G Supremacy Why China Is Surging, Where Millennials Struggle, & How America Can Prevail By (author): Austin Groves (Gao Shan Enterprises, China) & Paul Schulte (Schulte Research, Singapore)

Praise from the “Over 40’s”: “This book offers an insightful explanation of the key technological differences between the US and China and their future innovative potential. Paul’s introductory chapters provide a good background with his keen observation of history and numbers. Austin’s personal story of his own struggle is fascinating and I believe there is much we can learn from it.” Tipsuda Thavaramara, Bangkok President, Thai Fintech Association

“Outstanding analysis that focuses on the ideological and cultural differences between millennials of both superpowers, which will be pivotal to the geopolitical dynamics in the future, especially in Rights Information: technological and digital realms.” All language rights Chia Hock Lai, Singapore President, Singapore Fintech Association available. “Paul looks at how technology is shaping our world through two defining lenses. The first is the 260pp generational shift in the adoption of technology and the second is the geo-political machinations Pub. date: Jun 2020 between China and the US. How this plays out will define the world we live in!” Rob Jesudason, Hong Kong 978-981-121-870-5 CIO, Serendipity Capital (former President of Block.one) US$98 / £85 “No person can tie the sociological, political, financial and technical issues at hand better than 978-981-122-271-9(pbk) Paul. He once again tells of revolutionary and evolutionary changes that can only be ignored at US$36 / £30 one’s peril. If you don’t think that Paul is accurate in his assessments, then reread this book 18 months from now.” Frank Wang, Hong Kong Former Co-CEO of OCBC Wing Hang Bank

8 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Business and Management “Rapid advances in financial technology are causing us to re-think how to deliver financial services in a modern, digital way with multiple services across a common data architecture. Paul is not only one of the foremost students of this phenomena but has also contextualized these lessons to become a sought-after commentator on how these changes are affecting modern finance. Paul’s perspective as an American living in Asia adds another dimension that makes this book a must-read.” Peter Early, New York Partner, Business Development, Exos

“To get a clear picture of today’s winner in the tech space, this book is a must-read. It succinctly clarifies the differences in the current state of affairs in technology, social affairs and economic conditions between China and the US. It brings great case studies that will spark much needed conversation.” Barbara Thole, Hong Kong Founder, The Executive Forum

“The authors strike at the heart of the issue of why America is falling behind in the technological and economic race. Fascinating read and insight on some of the factors and drivers for the increasing disparity between these two rising superpowers.” Kenneth Ng, Bangkok Founder, NT Asset

Praise from Millennials: “This treatise on an IoT-driven world by Austin Groves and Paul Schulte flips the conversation on the US–China technological race, unveiling the overlooked socio-cultural and demographic assets accelerating the latter’s tech progress way ahead of its peers. This book is a timely and provocative read for decision makers on winning amidst the rapid pace of technological change and the globally decisive race between two superpowers.” Tan Yinglan, Singapore Founding Managing Partner, Insignia Ventures Partners

“Perhaps the most valuable aspect of Schulte and Groves’ research is not just the emphasis they place on powerful novel technologies, but the way in which this technology is placed in conversation with larger cultural and policy challenges that stifle US progress in the international community. Millennials have experienced America in the midst of one of her greatest failures, and the need to remedy and rebuild this divisive generational rift is paramount for the success of her future.” Jason Kang, Cambridge, Mass Fellow, Narang Labs, Harvard University

“This book crackles with the familiar electricity of unspoken truths about China and its relationship with the US. Its many keen observations and insights surge forward at an irrepressible pace, as if mirroring the rapid change it is describing. It is a prophetic window into the future and a sound handbook for what to do when we get there.” Hu Maomao, Beijing Partner, Eigen Capital

“This book encapsulates how society and culture of the last few decades have shaped the millennials, how that in return is shaping the future. The book specifies how China has raced ahead, and what the US can do to revitalize its innovation culture. Highly recommend the book for those who want to understand not only how the current geopolitical landscape is playing out, but also how they came to be.” Hussain M Elius, Dhaka CEO, Pathao

“A very tough subject to encapsulate, but the authors did a great job of condensing and framing it. US millennials are deeply concerned about their future, and the political infighting is hurting the US more than we think. Big changes need to be made for the US to keep up.” Diego Graterol, San Francisco Account Executive, Samsara

“This book offers insight into today’s most important issue: the tech race, and why the West is losing. Schulte’s unique position at the intersection of tech, mental health, and where East meets West gives him an unparalleled understanding of why the West is losing the tech race, and what to do about it. As a Western millennial living in China, I witness the accuracy of Paul’s thesis every day. My only hope is that all Western business and political leaders read this before it’s too late.” Corentin Trebaol, Paris CEO, Aconia Group

“This book is a story of American decline and China’s entrance into the world of hegemons. Millennials across the US have been generationally doomed by the opioid crisis, classroom gun violence, onerous student debt, toxic bipartisanship, and impending climate catastrophe. As Schulte artfully argues, without serious political action, these problems will not soon end. The result is a chronic anxiety among millennials which psychiatrists and doctors are happy to treat even more opioids, benzos or SSRI’s.” Roman Shemakov, Philadelphia Henry Luce Foundation Fellow

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 9 “An eye opener ... With considerable detail and rigour, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the two global geopolitical powers tussling for supremacy. Schulte makes a compelling narrative that analyzes the prevailing mainstream opinions of China’s impressive economic rise. A wonderful book for a broad audience.” Galen Law, Hong Kong Chairman, Velcron

“Paul is fantastic at taking in the myriad of events occurring simultaneously all over the world and processing it into a clear and cohesive picture of what is happening in the world, and where we are going. As we are moving toward a world of higher uncertainty, we should all take the time out of our busy days to stop, and reflect upon what is happening around us. Reading this book has provided not only an entertaining read, but also provided key insight into the fast-paced political, technological, and societal changes around the world.” Benedict Prinz, Hong Kong Associate, Data Analytics, UBS

“Paul Schulte masterfully explains the systemic issues causing millennials to burn out before Business and Management they can ever take off. With limited opportunities and unlimited obligations, millennials no longer believe in the American Dream and feel resentment toward a generation that never taught them how to succeed. Paul extracts the seven primary drivers from a colossal amount of terrifying and depressing sociological data and instils a sense of urgency in the reader to support the change that must be made going forward.” William Stuart, Atlanta Sales Executive, Precision Medicine Group

“American millennials need a clear understanding of the domestic and international landscape to effectively take on the mantle of leadership and carry our society’s values into the future. Paul and Austin offer a clear-eyed, compassionate, and unflinching perspective that belongs in the center of American discourse.” Abraham Sorock, Beijing Outgoing Curator, Global Shapers Beijing II Hub

Praise from Academia: “Finally! A book on the current affairs of China and the US that takes a multi-disciplinary approach: economics, policy, social science, technology, and philosophy. This is a must-read book for readers interested in a holistic view of the underlying differences between the US and China, the millennials and the old generation in the two countries. A cogent read with great insights on the four sub-cultures.” Virginia Cha, Singapore Adjunct Professor, INSEAD and NUS Business School

“Few people can bridge the east and the west, the millennials and the older generations better than Paul Schulte. Well-written, brilliant and balanced, this book offers a timely insight into the frontiers of technology and the two leading countries: US and China in their quest for global leadership in the age of new technologies.” Ben Shenglin, Hangzhou Professor & Dean, International Business School & Academy of Internet Finance, Zhejiang University

“Groves and Schulte weave together incisive cultural insight and analysis of the digital economies in China and the US. They set out the root causes of the anxiety-ridden and alienating millennial experience in the US ecosystem, and of the more hopeful and motivating one in China. In doing so, they map America’s innovation deficit and short-sighted responses to Chinese competitiveness — as well as the challenging but pragmatic path to take before it’s too late. A must-read for anyone concerned with the digital — as well as the inter-generational — divide.” Brian Ganson, Stellenbosch Professor, Stellenbosch University Director, Africa Center for Dispute Settlement

“This is another thought-provoking book by Paul Schulte since the last book on AI and Quantum Computing. With similar rigorous style, Paul and his co-author have researched deeply into the topic and uncovered facts that are changing society, technology and labor in both the US and China. This book discusses latent trends that will revolutionize the global economy. This is a book for anyone who wishes to understand the latest ideas and thoughts in finance and technology.” David Lee, Singapore Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences

“Few people are as up-to-date with global techno-economic developments and at the same time as thought-provoking as Mr Schulte. The book is a clear articulation of challenges and opportunities millennials in the US and China face. The case studies will be great tools to reflect with students and executives alike on how to manage life and business as exponential change occurs in technologies.” Daniel Liebau, Singapore Founder, Lightbulb Capital Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University and Erasmus University

10 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Business and Management China is surging in the tech race — and will continue to outperform the United States. The rising power has done exceptionally in Super Apps, bullet trains, 5G, electric vehicles, digital currency, smart cities, blockchain applications, and quantum communications in space, among others. Its payment platforms are increasingly adopted along the entire Silk Road.

The genesis of this book was to discover an “Apollo Program” for the US to catch up in these areas, but we discovered a much deeper need for a social/mental health Apollo Program for millennials who are bogged down by a host of under-appreciated and intertwined issues which cause anxiety and alienation and lead to massive losses in workplace productivity. This book proposes two Apollo programs — one for tech and one for millennials — by a millennial. Strategies for cracking the highly competitive Chinese Super App ecommerce market are also revealed.

Contents: Comparing the US and China in Economic Progress and Millennial Mental Health: Where Did It All Go Wrong with the US and China?; US vs. China by the Numbers; A Millennial’s Journey from Obedient Soldier to Disillusioned Renegade to Shanghai Entrepreneur: While America Was Fighting Wars, Chinese Tiger Moms Were Drilling Their Millennials; The Journey into IoT and the Cloud with Coca-Cola; Accenture and IoT: Long on PowerPoint, Short on Solutions; IoT in Vietnam and Cambodia; AT&T and Huawei in Mexico City; Verizon; Building an IOT E-commerce Business in Shanghai; A 25-Step Approach on How to Crack the Chinese E-commerce Market; Will the US Militarize Technology like the Cold War Years of 1960–1990?: Conclusion and Recommendations.

Readership: Students and entrepreneurs who are interested in technology and the Sino–US economic developments.

What Sponsors Want An Inspirational Guide for Event Marketers By (author): Mark Harrison (The T1 Agency, Canada)

This book offers a practical but conceptually grounded view of the future of sponsorship. It is based on the reality that the world of sponsorship marketing is far too focused on impressions, logos, and ‘money can’t buy experiences’ — experiences which are miraculously secured with money. The author asks questions such as: “Do any corporate sponsors really believe that more logos are what their consumers want?” and, “do organizations selling sponsorship believe they have nothing more valuable to sell than digital and physical signage?”

In a culmination of real-life experiences, industry learnings and third-party professional research, the book provides expert-supported arguments to show that the traditional bronze, silver and gold packages of sponsorship belong to a model of the past. In outlining the conceptual model for successful sponsorship, the book provides five key principles of what sponsors want for you to take on your next sponsorship challenge. Rights Information: Contents: The Business of Sponsorship (It›s the Greatest Magic in Marketing); What Sponsors All language rights Want (From You and Your Property); To Borrow Equity (The Definition of Sponsorship); To Engage available. Stakeholders (Activate. Activate. Activate); To See Proof (Don›t be Afraid of the Truth); To Get Promoted (... Not Fired); Building a Strategy (Planning for Success); The Future of Sponsorship 250pp (Is it Already Here?); Scenarios; Appendix. Pub. date: Aug 2020

Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students, researchers and practitioners and researchers 978-981-121-901-6 in the field of sponsorship. US$58 / £50

Key Features: ○ The book is written by a knowledgeable and well-regarded member of the industry who has successfully utilized the book’s detailed approach to Sponsorship Marketing for over 10 years. The author’s personal experiences are detailed throughout for a real-world, enlightening look into the evolution of the world of Sponsorship Marketing ○ The book includes illustrative examples and implementable ideas that have had proven success in Mark’s own 30-year career. The book contains up to 12 graphs, visuals and charts that have contributed to the success of his 25-year old marketing agency and are supported with third-party, professional research ○ The book also details commentary from a global panel of successful sponsorship professionals to add context to the discussion. Multiple interviews per chapter are included to portray the teachings of each chapter in a practical way

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 11 Orbitals With Applications in Atomic Spectra (Revised Edition) By (author): Charles S McCaw (Winchester College, UK) Chemistry Review of the First Edition: “This clearly written and elegantly presented short textbook will meet essential needs in diverse undergraduate Chemistry courses, covering orbitals in simple hydrogen – like atoms, multi-electron atoms and in molecules in a mathematically rigorous yet simultaneously physically insightful manner. I will certainly recommend the text to my undergraduates. In excess of 100 problems with full worked answers at all levels are provided and will certainly become a major teaching resource.” Richard G Compton Tutor in Chemistry St John’s College Rights Information: Oxford University, UK All language rights available. Orbitals: With Applications in Atomic Spectra describes atomic orbitals at a level suitable for undergraduates in chemistry. The mathematical treatment is brought to life by many illustrations 280pp rendered from mathematical functions (no artists’ impressions), including three-dimensional plots Pub. date: Apr 2020 of angular functions, showing orbital phase, and contour plots of the wavefunctions that result 978-1-78634-872-2 from orbital hybridisation. US$98 / £85 This revised edition includes new discussion of the origins of the colour of gold and the “accidental 978-1-78634-885-2(pbk) degeneracy” of the hydrogen atom subshells, a new figure, a new exercise and worked solution, US$48 / £40 as well as several new references. It also contains current and accurate updates to the old edition. Orbitals extends the key fundamental quantum properties to many-electron atoms, linear combinations of atomic orbitals, simple molecules, delocalised systems and atomic spectroscopy. By focusing on simple model systems, use of analogies and avoiding group theory, results are obtained from initial postulates without the need for sophisticated mathematics. The book explains topics from first principles and guides the reader carefully through the necessary mathematics, supplemented by worked solutions to problems.

Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface; Fundamentals; Orbitals in the Hydrogen Atom; Multi-Electron Atoms; Wavefunctions in Multi-Electron Atoms; Orbitals in Molecules; Atomic Spectroscopy; Appendix A: Worked Solutions to Exercises; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: This book is aimed at undergraduates with chemistry.

Key Features: ○ The book incorporates the results of recent research and pedagogical progress in the relative energies of subshells in transition metals ○ A mathematical approach that is comprehensible and supported by worked solutions to problems fully illustrated ○ The g orbitals are examined in detail as an extension of treatment of the s, p, d and f shells, and as recognition of how the new heavy elements in the Periodic Table are approaching a putative g block

12 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Chemistry Spinach on the Ceiling The Multifaceted Life of a Theoretical Chemist By (author): Martin Karplus (Harvard University, USA & Université de Strasbourg, France) “In this inspiring book, Martin Karplus masterfully celebrates a saga of awesome science and challenges future prospects.” Dudley Herschbach Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1986

“The author is very well known for many important scientific contributions, such as the famous Karplus equation, which was of importance early on in my own activities. In the present autobiographical book, scientists will find the names of many colleagues and peers they may have encountered in their career. Most fascinating, however, is to read and learn about how the author established his particularly rich equation of life!” Jean-Marie Lehn Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1987 Rights Information: “Martin Karplus’ memoir is a treasure, on two related levels. One is that it describes his rise from being a refugee at age 8 from Nazi tyranny, to becoming a great scientist rewarded with a Nobel All language rights Prize. On the other level the book offers the wider story of how modern science at the highest is available. being done, with, in Karplus’ case, a humanist’s world view.” Gerald Holton 312pp Harvard University, USA Pub. date: Jun 2020 “This engaging life story of an accomplished ornithologist, photographer, chef, political ‘subversive’, 978-1-78634-802-9 Nobel Prize-winning chemist, and humanitarian is rich in words and images. Martin shows us the world through his eyes, with an exceptional clarity of thought and ability to see the essence of US$88 / £75 things. His account of people, places, and achievements, and his vision of what the future holds, 978-1-78634-806-7(pbk) convey an optimistic and compassionate view of our world.” US$38 / £25 John Straub Boston University, USA

“Karplus’s tales of a turbulent graduate school experience at Caltech will inspire readers to muster fortitude when everything seems to be spinning out of control. Karplus balances rigorous scientific discussions with refreshing chapters expounding his passion for photography and gastronomy.” Alfred Chin Nature Chemistry, May 2020

Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus was eight when his family fled Nazi-occupied Austria via Switzerland and France for the United States. He would later credit his life as a refugee as a decisive influence on his world view and approach to science. Spinach on the Ceiling is an autobiographical telling of Karplus› life story, and how it led him to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013. The book captures pivotal moments in Martin›s life — from his escape to Switzerland in 1938 shortly after Hitler›s entrance into Austria; to memorable moments like when his parents gave him a microscope which opened his eyes to the wonders of science; to his education in New England and California; and his eventual scientific career which took him to England, Illinois, Columbia, Strasbourg, and Harvard. It relates how Martin›s optimistic outlook and belief in his vision made it possible for him to overcome setbacks in his life, and turn a subject of study his colleagues considered a waste of time into a central part of chemistry and structural biology. It is his hope to inspire and aid young readers, in particular, to have a successful trajectory in their own lives. Although research and teaching have been his primary focus, he has traveled the world photographing people and places with a Leica IIIC and has had numerous exhibitions of the photographs. He has also enjoyed a lifelong interest in cooking and worked in some of the best restaurants in France and Spain.

Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; My Ancestors; Childhood Years in Europe; Final Days in Europe; A New Life in America; Beginning of Scientific Interests; College Years; Graduate School; Postdoctoral Sojourn in Oxford and Europe; University of Illinois: NMR and Coupling Constants; Move to Columbia and Focus on Reaction Kinetics; The FBI and I; Return to Harvard University and Biology; Move to Paris; Protein Folding, Hemoglobin and the CHARMM Program; The First Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Biomolecule; Early Applications of Molecular Dynamics; My Career as a Photographer; How We Came to Move to Strasbourg; My Life as a Chef; Announcement of the Nobel Prize; After the Announcement; The Nobel Prize Event; Science After the Nobel Prize Simulation; Life After the Nobel Prize; References; Appendices: Karplusians: 1955–2019; Martin Karplus: LIFE IN COLOR — From the 1940s to 2019; Nobel Lecture; Haaretz Article; Supplementary Material; Index. Readership: A wide range of readers including students, scientists, historians, science enthusiasts, people interested in the Nobel Prize, Nobel Laureates, and the lives of people who escaped from Nazi Austria.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 13 The Periodic Table Past, Present, Future By (author): Geoff Rayner-Canham (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

That fossilized chart on every classroom wall — isn’t that The Periodic Table? Isn’t that what Chemistry Mendeléev devised about a century ago? No and No. There are many ways of organizing the chemical elements, some of which are thought-provoking, and which reveal philosophical challenges. Where does hydrogen ‘belong’? Can an element occupy more than one location on the chart? Which are the Group 3 elements? Is aluminum in the wrong place? Why is silver(I) like thallium(I)? Why is vanadium like molybdenum? Why does gold form an auride ion like a halide ion? Does an atom ‘know’ if it is a non-metal or metal? Which elements are the ‘metalloids’? Which are the triels? So many questions! In this stimulating and innovative book, the Reader will be taken on a voyage from the past to the present to the future of the Periodic Table. This book is unique. This book is readable. This book is thought-provoking. It is a multi-dimensional examination of Rights Information: patterns and trends among the chemical elements. Every reader will discover something about All language rights the chemical elements which will provoke thought and a new appreciation as to how the elements available. relate together.

Contents: Introduction; The Periodic Table Exploration Begins!; Isotopes and Nuclear Patterns; 300pp Periodic Properties of Atoms; First Period Problems; The Group 3 Problem; Categorizations of the Pub. date: Jul 2020 Elements; Isoelectronicity; Group and Period Patterns among the Main Group Elements; Patterns 978-981-121-848-4 among the Transition Metals; Group (n) and (n+10) Relationships; Chemical ‘Knight’s Move’ US$88 / £75 Relationships; Isodiagonality; Lanthanoid Relationships; Actinoid Relationships; Pseudo-Elements.

Readership: Chemistry students, science educators, chemists.

Key Features: ○ This book provides a unique, multi-perspective approach to the patterns and trends among the chemical elements ○ This book introduces different ways in which individual chemical elements are related to another element or elements ○ This book uses fragments of the Periodic Table to highlight unexpected linkages and the individuals who identified them

Editor’s Choice Understanding Voltammetry Simulation of Electrode Processes 2nd Edition By (author): Richard G Compton (Oxford University, UK), Enno Kätelhön (Oxford University, UK), Kristopher R Ward (Oxford University, UK) & Eduardo Laborda (University of Murcia, Spain)

This is the first textbook in the field of electrochemistry that will teach experimental electrochemists how to carry out simulation of electrode processes. Processes at both macro- and micro-electrodes are examined and the simulation of both diffusion-only and diffusion–convection processes are addressed. The simulation of processes with coupled homogeneous kinetics and at microelectrode arrays are further discussed.

Over the course of the book the reader’s understanding is developed to the point where they will be able to undertake and solve research-level problems. The book leads the reader through from a basic understanding of the principles underlying Rights Information: electrochemical simulation to the development of computer programs which describe All language rights the complex processes found in voltammetry. available. This second edition has been revised throughout, and contains new material relating to random 324pp walks in electrochemistry, as well as expanded materials on the checking and validation of Pub. date: Feb 2020 simulations, pulse techniques, and square wave voltammetry.

978-1-78634-830-2 Contents: Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Mathematical US$98 / £85 Model of an Electrochemical System; Numerical Solution of the Model System; Diffusion- Only Electrochemical Problems in One-Dimensional Systems; First-Order Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms; Second-Order Chemical Kinetic Mechanisms; Electrochemical Simulation in Weakly Supported Media; Hydrodynamic Voltammetry; Two-Dimensional Systems: Microdisc Electrodes; Heterogeneous Surfaces; Stochastic Electrochemistry; Appendices: Review of C++; Microdisc Program.

14 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Chemistry Readership: Graduate students pursuing electrochemistry and electroanalytical studies, as well as researchers and professionals working in the area.

Key Features: ○ The first ever textbook teaching experimental electrochemists how to simulate ○ Shows how to quantitatively model voltammetry ○ Written from the Compton Group (Oxford University) with ample experience of electrochemical simulation

About the Author Richard G Compton is Professor of Chemistry and Aldrichian Praelector at Oxford University, United Kingdom where he is also Tutor in Chemistry at St John’s College. He received his PhD in 1980 at Imperial College, London.

Compton has broad interests in both fundamental and applied electrochemistry and electroanalysis including nanochemical aspects. He has published in excess of 1500 papers (h = 102; with more than 44,000 citations excluding self-cites) and 7 books.

Patents have been filed on 25 different topics including novel pH sensors including calibration free pH measurement, gas sensing, electrochemical bacteria quantification and the detection of garlic strength and chilli heat in foodstuffs.

Compton holds Honorary Doctorates from the Estonian University of Life Sciences and Kharkov National University of Radio-electronics (Ukraine), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, of IUPAC and of the International Society of Electrochemistry and a Member of the Academy of Europe (MEA).

He is the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Electrochemistry Communications published by Elsevier and is the joint Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Electrochemistry launched in 2017.

Women in Their Element Selected Women’s Contributions to the Periodic System Editor’s Choice Edited by: Annette Lykknes (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) & Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Science History Institute, USA)

“The book is undeniably a work of scholarship with detailed research, substantial references and footnotes, and academics’ characteristic dry and detached style. Most of the essays felt similar in tone despite the wide range of authors. The academic nature of the book means it isn’t a casual read but it’s accessible enough for non-scientists who want to gain insight in the history of women and science.” Chemistry World

“Organized within its solid introduction and followed by 38 biographical chapters, this thoroughly documented book for the first time offers a broad account of the chemical elements from the perspective of gender history. The scholarly yet eminently readable volume uncovers the works of women scientists who for the most part are absent in standard histories of the chemical elements. While some of them were active researchers, others worked more modestly as assistants, Rights Information: instrument operators, chemical authors or popularisers.” All language rights Helge Kragh available. Niels Bohr Institute University of Copenhagen 556pp Pub. date: Aug 2019 “The 38 stories of women’s engagement with elements gathered by Annette Lykknes and Brigitte Van Tiggelen do not replace heroes with heroines. They rather emphasize the human aspects of 978-981-120-628-3 scientific endeavours and the obscure figures, males and females, who collectively contribute to US$128 / £115 the advancement of science. As a result, the periodic system usually known as ‘Mendeleev’s table’ 978-981-120-768-6(pbk) appears as a communal enterprise.” US$45 / £40 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 15 “The Editors of the book have succeeded in engaging a large group of first-rank authors, all experts in their specific fields. The book stands out by presenting a very broad, truly international overview of the role of women in the development of chemistry, and in particular on their roles in the discovery and mastery of chemical elements. This book is both an important publication for professional historians of science and an attractive

Chemistry read for a much larger historically interested audience. It is a convincing tribute to the important roles played by the numerous women discussed in the book, which shows that future histories of chemistry must be considered incomplete if a discussion of those roles is left out.” Ernst Homburg Maastricht University

“The editors are to be congratulated on finding 40 erudite authors to have made this possible and so produced a book which I can thoroughly recommend.” Chemistry and Industry

“As with the discoveries themselves, bringing these tales of female scientists to light has taken much teamwork, including by contributors Gisela Boeck, John Hudson, Claire Murray, Jessica Wade, Mary Mark Ockerbloom, Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, Xavier Roqué, Matt Shindell and Ignacio Suay-Matallana.

Tracing women in the history of chemistry unveils a fuller picture of all the people working on scientific discoveries, from unpaid assistants and technicians to leaders of great labs. In this celebratory year of the periodic table, it is crucial to recognize how it has been built — and continues to be shaped — by these individual efforts and broad collaborations.” Nature 565, 559–561 (2019)

This year we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s first publication of the Periodic Table of Elements. This book offers an original viewpoint on the history of the Periodic Table: a collective volume with short illustrated papers on women and their contribution to the building and the understanding of the Periodic Table and of the elements themselves.

Few existing texts deal with women’s contributions to the Periodic Table. A book on women’s work will help make historical women chemists more visible, as well as shed light on the multifaceted character of the work on the chemical elements and their periodic relationships. Stories of female input, the editors believe, will contribute to the understanding of the nature of science, of collaboration as opposed to the traditional depiction of the lone genius.

While the discovery of elements will be a natural part of this collective work, the editors aim to go beyond discovery histories. Stories of women contributors to the chemistry of the elements will also include understanding the concept of element, identifying properties, developing analytical methods, mapping the radioactive series, finding applications of elements, and the participation of women as audiences when new elements were presented at lectures.

As for the selection of women, the chapters include pre-periodic table contributions as well as recent discoveries, unknown stories as well as more famous ones. The main emphasis will be on work conducted in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Furthermore, the book includes elements from different groups in the periodic table, so as to represent a variety of chemical contexts.

Contents: Old and New Understandings of the Elements; The Glory of Analytical Chemistry: The Elements Multiply; New Fields and Instrumental Methods; Clusters of Women in Radioactivity; Manufacturing Elements: From Artificial Radioactivity to Big Science; Instrumental Revolution and Interface Between Chemistry and Industry; Social Activism, Sisters in Arms.

Readership: Public and students interested in women’s contribution to chemistry and science, chemistry students and academics.

16 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Computer Science Algorithms for Big Data By (author): Moran Feldman (The Open University of Israel, Israel)

This unique volume is an introduction for computer scientists, including a formal study of theoretical algorithms for Big Data applications, which allows them to work on such algorithms in the future. It also serves as a useful reference guide for the general computer science population, providing a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of such algorithms.

To achieve these goals, the algorithmic results presented have been carefully chosen so that they demonstrate the important techniques and tools used in Big Data algorithms, and yet do not require tedious calculations or a very deep mathematical background.

Contents: Preface; About the Author; Data Stream Algorithms: Introduction to Data Stream Algorithms; Basic Probability and Tail Bounds; Estimation Algorithms; Reservoir Sampling; Pairwise Independent Hashing; Counting Distinct Tokens; Sketches; Graph Data Stream Algorithms; The Sliding Window Model; Sublinear Time Algorithms: Introduction to Sublinear Time Algorithms; Rights Information: Property Testing; Algorithms for Bounded Degree Graphs; An Algorithm for Dense Graphs; All language (except Algorithms for Boolean Functions; Map-Reduce: Introduction to Map-Reduce; Algorithms for Lists; Hebrew) rights available. Graph Algorithms; Locality-Sensitive Hashing; Index;. 460pp Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer Pub. date: Jul 2020 science and big data. 978-981-120-473-9 US$148 / £130

Biological Language Model Theory and Application By (author): Qiwen Dong (East China Normal University, China), Xiaoyang Jing (East China Normal University, China), Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University, China) & Xiuzhen Hu (East China Normal University, China)

Conceived as a cross between natural language processing methods and biological sequences in DNA, RNA and protein, biological language model is a new scientific research topic in bioinformatics that has been extensively studied by the authors. The basic theory and applications of this model are presented in this book to serve as an reference for graduate students and researchers.

Contents: East China Normal University Scientific Reports; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Linguistic Feature Analysis of Protein Sequences; Amino Acid Encoding for Protein Sequence; Remote Homology Detection; Structure Prediction; Function Prediction; Summary and Rights Information: Future Perspectives; Index. All language rights Readership: Graduate and research level students in the cross disciplines of bioinformatics/ available. computational biology. 264pp Key Features: Pub. date: Jun 2020 ○ To the best of our knowledge, this is the first book about biological language model 978-981-121-294-9 US$98 / £85

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 17 Cognitive Satellite System By (author): Jianjun Zhang (China Academy of Space Technology, China) & Jing Li (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

How can cognition, a concept traditionally associated with the human brain, be applied to satellite systems? For the first time, cognitive system meanings and models are applied to the uncertain environmental processes of satellite systems. The authors of this book go beyond defining “cognitive satellite systems” to design a cognitive satellite communication system architecture with satellite-to-ground coordination, which has uses in emergency response spacecraft and prediction technology. Computer Science In this book, the optimal utilization of cognitive satellite system resources is discussed in four aspects: ○ Individual utilization rate of cognitive satellite systems ○ Synchronization of spatial information interaction Rights Information: ○ Intelligence of cognitive satellite systems All language rights ○ Improving the robustness of the system

available. Contents: Cognitive Satellite System; Environmental Characteristics; Spectrum Sensing of Satellite System; Estimation of the Environmental State of Satellite Systems; Satellite 328pp Communication System; Information Planning and Processing; Intelligent and Decision-Making; Pub. date: Jul 2020 Typical Application Scenarios.

978-981-121-434-9 Readership: This is an advanced text that applies cognitive systems to satellite technologies. US$128 / £115 It will be useful to scientists and researchers working on spacecraft technology and intelligent decision making.

Key Features: ○ For the first time, the book applies cognitive concept to the design of satellite systems ○ This book introduces cognitive radio theory into satellite communication systems, and realizes the concept of dynamic spectrum access of satellite cognitive wireless networks, to overcome current shortage of spectrum resources available in satellite communication systems

Editor’s Choice What is Artificial Intelligence? A Conversation between an AI Engineer and a Humanities Researcher By (author): Suman Gupta (The Open University, UK) & Peter H Tu (General Electric Research, USA)

This book engages with the title question: what is artificial intelligence (AI)? Instead of reiterating received definitions or surveying the field from a disciplinary perspective, the question is engaged here by putting two standpoints into conversation. The standpoints are different in their disciplinary groundings — i.e. technology and the humanities — and also in their approaches — i.e. applied and conceptual. Peter is an AI engineer: his approach is in terms of how to make AI work. Suman is a humanities researcher: his approach is in terms of what people and academics mean when they say ‘AI’.

A coherent argument, if not a consensus, develops by putting the two standpoints into conversation. The conversation is presented in 32 short chapters, in turn by Suman and Peter. There are two parts: Part 1, Questioning AI, and Part 2, AI and Government Policy. The first part covers issues such as the meaning of intelligence, automation, evolution, artificial and language. Rights Information: It outlines some of the processes through which these concepts may be technologically grounded All language rights as AI. The second part addresses policy considerations that underpin the development of AI and available. responds to the consequences. Themes taken up here include: rights and responsibilities; data usage and state-level strategies in the USA, UK and China; unemployment and policy futures. 300pp Pub. date: Jun 2020 Contents: Part 1: Questioning AI: Setting Terms; More Terms; Questioning Terms, and a Provisional Concept of Intelligence; Elaborating Terms; Methods and Approaches; Methods and 978-1-78634-863-0 Field; Discerning the Intelligent Agent; Realising the Intelligent Agent; Recognising the Intelligent US$98 / £85 Agent; The Intelligent Agent in the Prospect; Devolving Evolution; Evolution as a Creativity Engine; Evolution and Articles of Faith; On Evolution: Ungrounded Hardwired Knowledge Short Circuits Intelligence; On Evolution: Intelligence Short Circuits Ungrounded Hardwired Knowledge; Reflections on the Artificial in AI; Parameters of the Artificial in AI; Limits of the Artificial in AI; Restrictions on AI Research; Expectations of AI Research; Part 2: AI and Government Policy: Policy and Legal Autonomy; Autonomy and Grounding Responsibility; Legal Autonomy: Rights and Responsibilities; Autonomy: Limiting and Conferring Rights; Note on Rights and Data Matters; Note on Qualia and Using Data; Doubting Qualia and Social Data; Data Users and Data Doubters; Data Distinctions and Data Nations; Data Doubters and Data Owners; Populism, Jobs and Policy Futures; Jobs, Futures and AI Engineers.

18 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Computer Science Readership: General informed readers. Readers with knowledge of AI and its underpinning principles will be interested. In particular, those with a disciplinary background in computing and technological development, policy studies, current affairs, philosophy and discourse analysis. Appropriate for undergraduate students and upwards, or those whose interest is more conceptual than the general user of technology.

Key Features: ○ Engages with the field of AI research and policy as a conversation between two distinct standpoints: science/technology and humanities/social studies; instrumental (applied) and conceptual (clarificatory); inductive and deductive reasoning. Genuinely interdisciplinary ○ The focus throughout is on contested concepts and unresolved questions in the field. The book therefore offers a front-line sense of the field ○ Attention is given both to the content of the field and to the manner in which (preconceptions with which) it is expressed. This is extremely rare in existing publications on AI ○ The presentation of the book as a conversation will engage readers. This instils a dramatic interest in the development of the argument ○ Attempts are made to provide points of view that are based not only on deliberation but also on personal experiences that allowing for unique insights that may be of use for further contemplation ○ The meandering nature of the book is a consequence of the dyadic structure of conversation. This results in a wide-ranging set of topics that are both considered and explored

Principles of Quantum Artificial Intelligence Quantum Problem Solving and Machine Learning 2nd Edition By (author): Andreas Wichert (Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal & INESC-ID, Portugal)

This unique compendium presents an introduction to problem solving, information theory, statistical machine learning, stochastic methods and quantum computation. It indicates how to apply quantum computation to problem solving, machine learning and quantum-like models to decision making — the core disciplines of artificial intelligence.

Most of the chapters were rewritten and extensive new materials were updated. New topics include quantum machine learning, quantum-like Bayesian networks and mind in Everett many-worlds.

Contents: Introduction; Computation; Problem Solving; Information; Reversible Algorithms; Rights Information: Probability; Introduction to Quantum Physics; Computation with Qubits; Periodicity; Search; All language rights Quantum Problem-Solving; Grover›s Algorithm and the Input Problem; Statistical Machine available. Learning; Linear-Algebra Based Quantum Machine Learning; Stochastic Methods; Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing; Quantum Cognition; Quantum like-Evolution; 496pp Quantum Computation and the Multiverse; Conclusion. Pub. date: Jul 2020 Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, and graduate students in databases, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and neural networks. 978-981-122-430-0 US$168 / £150

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 19 Toward Sustainable and Economic Smart Mobility Shaping the Future of Smart Cities Edited by: Max Eiza (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Yue Cao (Lancaster University, UK) & Lexi Xu (China Unicom, China & Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China) During the last decade, developments in smart cars, mobile devices, internet of things and vehicular communications are revolutionizing the future of smart cities. With the rapid integration of these smart devices into our surroundings, we are heading to a new era of a highly connected and environmentally friendly ecosystem.

Computer Science This book offers a unique opportunity for the reader to explore state-of-the-art developments in applications, technologies (e.g., Big Data and artificial intelligence), services and research trends in smart mobility for smart cities. It also provides a reference for professionals and researchers in the areas of smart mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, passenger trajectory data, smart traffic control systems) and recent technical trends on their enabling technologies. The materials have been carefully selected to reflect the latest developments in the field with many novel contributions from academics and industry experts from around the world. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: Preface; About the Editors; Acknowledgments; Smart Mobility: Challenges and Trends (Ruizhi Liao); Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Communications in Smart available. Mobility (Liang Zhao, Lexi Xu and Jiaxing Shang); Adapting Future Vehicle Technologies for Smart Traffic Control Systems (Dominic J Hodgkiss and Vinh Thong Ta); Application 212pp of Mobile Signaling in Highway Traffic Network Monitoring (Hongrun Gang, Li Fu and Pub. date: Jun 2020 Yuting Luan); Passenger Trajectory Generation Using Modern Datasets (Xiaoyan Xie and Fabien Leurent); Towards Autonomous Valet Parking: A Broader Prospective (Muhammad Khalid, Yue Cao, Kezhi Wang, Piyush Dhawankar and Mohsin Raza); Mobile Data 978-1-78634-785-5 Offloading for Smart Mobility in Heterogeneous Network (Tong Wang, Xibo Wang, Guang US$88 / £75 Xin Yang and Yue Cao); Exploring the Scalable Event-driven Load Balancer Using Hybrid Intelligence for Smart Paradigms (Soumya Banerjee, Philipp Brune and Youakim Badr); A User-Demand Privacy-Preserving Framework Based on Association Rules and Differential Privacy in Social Networks (Chunliu Yan, Ziyi Ni, Bin Cao, Rongxing Lu, Shaohua Wu and Qinyu Zhang); Index. Readership: Professionals and researchers in the areas of Smart Mobility (e.g., autonomous valet parking, passenger trajectory data, smart traffic control systems), general public interested in technological advances. Key Features: ○ This book is brought to you by authors from different backgrounds in academia and industry from around the world ○ The materials have been carefully selected to reflect the latest developments in the field with many novel contributions from the contributors

Editor’s Choice Transhumanism A Realistic Future? By (author): Jean-Pierre Fillard

Transhuman, or trans-human, is the concept of an intermediary form between human and posthuman. In other words, a transhuman is a being that resembles a human in most respects but who has powers and abilities beyond those of standard humans. These abilities might include improved intelligence, awareness, strength, or durability. Transhumans sometimes appear in science-fiction as cyborgs or genetically-enhanced humans. This book will look into the question “Can machines think?” followed by “Can humans extend their lifespan and keep up with machines?” In other words, do we (humans) have to modify ourselves to be bionic humans, to co-exist and make the most of machines in future? Contents: About the Author; Introduction; The Origins and Further; The Theories; About The New Ways of Life; The Favorite Goals of Transhumanism; Present Achievements and Transhumanism; Information, Communication and Artificial Intelligence; Energy and Civilizations; Man and Men; Issues to be Faced; Robots & Co.; What About Space?; Conclusion; Index. Rights Information: Readership: This book is intended for the general public as an introduction to a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence. All language rights available. Key Features: ○ This book is the culmination of the author’s arguments from previous titles, Is Man to Survive Science?, Brain vs Computer, and Longevity in the 2.0 World 270pp ○ It explores the futuristic topic of a successful co-existence of man and machine, not Pub. date: Mar 2020 as separate entitles, but integrated ○ It will be a welcome addition to the handful of titles on the subject of transhumanism 978-981-121-138-6 US$68 / £60

978-981-121-210-9(pbk) About the Author US$38 / £35 Jean-Pierre Fillard, came from the University of Algiers when Algeria was a full French territory. He initially specialized in nuclear physics but soon turned to the study of solid state electronics in the era of transistor, which motivated his research for three decades. He was elected a fellow of the British Institute of Physics in 1978. He retired in 1998, and became interested in the evolution and the new prospects of Science and Technology 2.0. This book in collaboration with World Scientific and Transhumanism: A Realistic Future? is his fourth book.

20 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Economics and Finance Economics Gone Astray By (author): Bluford H Putnam (CME Group, USA), Erik Norland (CME Group, USA) & K T Arasu (CME Group, USA)

“Economics Gone Astray is a major contribution for economic forecasters and researchers in helping them recognize and measure the costs of simplifying assumptions, models or global contexts. The stakes of ignoring these costs and their effects have grown exponentially in recent years with globalization, increased trade, risk management techniques and instruments, improved communications, technology and new payment systems.» Susan M Phillips Former Governor of Federal Reserve Board Former Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Retired as Dean and Professor of Finance Emeritus of the School of Business, George Washington University Rights Information: “This book is worth reading — whether you’re a sophisticated advocate of certain economic All language (except theories or a consumer or businessperson trying to make plans around what might happen next in the economy and the markets. Whether the discussion revolves around the efficacy of tax cuts, Simplified Chinese) the impact of interest rates, the significance of regulation or simply the vagaries of human nature, rights available. you’ll get the arguments on both sides of the coin. And at the end, even if you don’t agree with all the authors’ conclusions, you’ll have a much better perspective on the dangers and opportunities 272pp ahead.” Pub. date: Jan 2019 Terry Savage 978-1-944659-58-5 Author of The Savage Truth on Money and US$58 / £50 nationally syndicated Tribune financial columnist

“Just brilliant! Finally, a fun read that describes the financial world we live in with clear coherent 978-1-944659-61-5(pbk) thought and wonderfully crafted charts rather than linear equations based on unrealistic US$28 / £25 assumptions. This book should be required reading for any economics or finance major.” Clemens Kownatzki, PhD, MBA Academic Director MS Applied Finance Practitioner Faculty of Finance, Pepperdine University

“Those of us who are reductionists appreciate the relative simplicity mathematics can bring to increasingly complex situations. Those of us who are human appreciate that the complexities of the systems that are inherently part of life and living cannot be reduced simply to a series of mathematical equations. Putnam and Norland’s take on economics is thought-provoking, sometimes irreverent, and written in good old English. Well done!” Tuajuanda C Jordan, PhD President, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

“This insightful volume provides readers with a thorough, systemic explanation of modern macroeconomic policies responding to recent social and economic trends. It is required reading supplementing standard college-level macroeconomics textbooks as well as an essential resource in courses examining current issues in economics and finance. This thought-provoking book helps college instructors educate well-informed engaged citizens.” Lucjan T Orlowski, PhD Professor of Economics and Finance DBA in Finance Program Director, Department of Economics and Finance Jack Welch College of Business, Sacred Heart University

“How do economic policies, financial market vacillations, new technologies and disruption affect our prosperity and our future? Two great economists, Blu Putnam and Erik Norland, help us by bringing unprecedented clarity to our complex, fast-changing world. With their analyses and insights in Economics Gone Astray, we can plan, adjust and get better outcomes in our business and personal lives.” The Honorable Mary K Bush President of Bush International, LLC, member, board of directors of Mariott International Discover Financial Services, ManTech International Corporation, and T Rowe Price Group, Inc., and formerly the US representative on the IMF Board

“Grounded in research and stripped of the traditional jargon, Economics Gone Astray is a unique perspective on the economic patterns of the past, present, and future. From interest rates to Bitcoin, Economics Gone Astray boldly challenges why traditional economics misses the mark in an ever-evolving landscape. The book challenges us to consider — if the economic landscape is constantly evolving — why have we not adapted our traditional assumptions and interpretations? Before you invest in the next sexy trend, read Economics Gone Astray.” Karen Natkin Founder and President, Moonstone Asset Management

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 21 “This collection of essays on some of the most pressing topics of our time brings to light the shortcomings of blindly applying empirical models. In a straightforward and entertaining way, the authors lay out the questions that need to be addressed in comprehensive ways without assuming away the inconvenient bits. Of course, no coverage of economics and markets today would be complete without the obligatory chapter on Bitcoin and here too, the authors have taken a market- based approach to analyzing the topic. Definitely worth reading.” Matthew McMaster, Director, The Rock Creek Group

“Do economists lead us down a hazy financial path because their ‘assumptions’ mean we make decisions based on unrealistic concepts? With a mixture of history, pragmatic prose and pertinent examples, Blu Putnam and Erik Norland answer the above with fascinating how’s, why’s and a few really’s in this easy-to-read Economics Gone Astray. With key macroeconomic essays, they re- write a variety of economic wrongs with relevant material ranging from Yield Curve Recessions to

Economics and Finance Death by Simulation. There is potential here to encourage a range of financially-inclined average Joes and Joannes like myself, (with maybe a president or central bank or two) to reassess generally accepted economic sound bites.” Peta Adams, Managing Director, Liquiditv Limited

“Bravo! Tight logic, deep expertise and original thinking make this the new economics’ book every marketer must read. Enlightening content/thought starters for my class lectures and business practice.” Judy Galloway Managing Partner, G-group Marketing & Adjunct at New York University

“A unique and smart way to look at things, deconstruct and decipher them and challenge our current thinking. A must-read!” Zoé Charny Executive Director and Head of Marketing, TOBAM

“One of the contributions this book makes is to link essays on economic topics with essays on the types of computational and statistical methods needed to turn economic theories into practical prediction models. The chapters on machine learning, portfolio optimization, quantitative simulations, and implied volatility are a most welcome addition and will be extremely helpful to those wanting to make the transition from theory to practice.” Professor Simon Scheidegger Department of Finance, HEC, University of Lausanne

“Investment professionals are diving into new quantitative tools, from machine learning to artificial intelligence. Economics Gone Astray provides some great insights into how to use these new tools, while staying firmly grounded in solid economic analysis. This book will be a great read for the hedge fund community.» Molly Hall Founding Partner, Miramar Alternatives LLC

Economics Gone Astray is a collection of essays on critical topics in macroeconomics that frame the issues in terms of clearly stated assumptions, highlighting the errors often made by professional economists, and allowing readers to better analyze market behavior and the economic consequences of policy decisions.

The book differs from textbook economics, as it tackles sophisticated topics without using mathematics or technical jargon. This makes the book highly accessible to all types of readers, from investors and investment professionals, to professors and their students.

The book’s style integrates a large quantity of clearly drawn charts which help anchor the readers’ perceptions of the topics being examined, from inflation to taxes, to demographics.

Readership: Investors and Investment Management professionals, Financial Risk managers, and students.

Key Features: ○ Economics Gone Astray is a collection of essays on critical topics in macroeconomics that frame the issues in terms of clearly stated assumptions, highlighting the errors often made by professional economists, and allowing readers to better analyze market behavior and the economic consequences of policy decisions ○ The book differs from textbook economics, as tackles sophisticated topics without using mathematics or technical jargon. This makes the book highly accessible to all types of readers, from investors and investment professionals, to professors and their students ○ The book’s style integrates a large quantity of clearly drawn charts which help anchor the readers’ perceptions of the topics being examined, from inflation to taxes, to demographics

22 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Economics and Finance Economics Primer By (author): Linda Low (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore)

Economics Primer is a simplified, illustrated text for non-economics and economics readers alike. It introduces fundamental concepts and demonstrates their applications to day-to-day use for employers and employees in the private and public sectors. The aim is to enable all in society, at home and abroad to understand economic relationships as affecting all at large. While politics remains the primary driver of international affairs, the economics grounding including technology is as purposeful.

This primer serves as a stepping stone to branch out into other fields of economics and business to understand how world events work based on the economic concepts of efficiency and equality to the extent possible including the emerging issues of health, environment and security in a globalised world.

Contents: Introduction; Production Theory; Market Structure; Consumer Theory; Labour Market; Rights Information: Government; International Economy; Macroeconomics; Geoeconomics and Geopolitics. All language rights available. Readership: Students, professionals and general readers interested in economics. 140pp Key Features: Pub. date: May 2020 ○ Simplified explanations with the more technical terms for further reading and reference 978-981-121-792-0 ○ Wide, updated coverage on economic trends like globalisation and technological US$68 / £60 disruption ○ Some political economy dimensions built in as the US–China trade war is as topical 978-981-121-843-9(pbk) as increasingly relevant as the global order changes US$28 / £25

An Introduction to Derivative Securities, Editor’s Choice Financial Markets, and Risk Management (2nd Edition) By (author): Robert Jarrow (Cornell University, USA) & Arkadev Chatterjea (Indiana University, USA)

“The text is pleasantly different from others in the market, especially the clarity of the explanations provided for the concepts involved. The teaching slides provided are the best I have encountered to-date.” Dr Nagaratnam Jeyasreedharan University of Tasmania, Australia

“I have read the whole book and I find it excellent. It’s a great blend of theory and the ‘institutional’ aspects of derivatives trading.” Professor Rafael de Santiago IESE Business School, Spain Rights Information: All language rights “This book is a great resource for a rigorous introduction to derivatives, both pricing and markets. available. Thanks to an elaborate set of detailed examples, references to relevant case studies, a full set of worked solutions to problem sets and slides, using this book means reduced prep time without 724pp sacrificing the students’ learning experience.” Pub. date: Mar 2019 Dr Thijs van der Heijden University of Melbourne, Australia 978-1-944659-55-4 US$138 / £120 “My understanding of derivatives has been purely mathematical, so it’s great to learn about all the historical developments, the background material, and all the interesting anecdotes the authors have included.” Professor Kevin Aretz University of Manchester, UK

“This book’s interest rate derivatives chapters are some of the best chapters I have read, because the authors have provided an outstanding and distinctive work in teaching the basics, examples, and practical applications of interest rate derivatives and the Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) model.” Professor Scott Fung California State University, East Bay, USA

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 23 Written by two of the most distinguished finance scholars in the industry, this introductory textbook on derivatives and risk management is highly accessible in terms of the concepts as well as the mathematics.

With its economics perspective, this rewritten and streamlined second edition textbook, is closely connected to real markets, and: ○ Shows how macroeconomic forces have shaped the markets ○ Explains the major derivative pricing models using algebra and introductory calculus ○ Shows students how to implement these models using basic statistics and elementary Excel spreadsheet skills ○ Discusses the uses of derivatives while warning against their abuses

Economics and Finance ○ Presents hard-to-teach interest rate derivatives in an intuitive manner ○ Presents the Heath–Jarrow–Morton model, which is the most advanced derivatives pricing model, in an accessible manner by presenting it side-by-side with classical option pricing theory

Beginning at a level that is comfortable to lower division college students, the book gradually develops the content so that its lessons can be profitably used by business majors, arts, science, and engineering graduates as well as MBAs who would work in the finance industry.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of economics, business, arts, science and engineering, and MBAs who would work in the finance industry.

Renewable Energy Finance Funding the Future of Energy 2nd Edition Edited by: Charles W Donovan (Imperial College Business School, UK) Foreword by: Lord Browne of Madingley

Reviews of the First Edition: “The entire text is quite readable and can be moved through with relative ease. This reviewer heartily recommends that, regardless of your background, you read this book to really get a grasp of the cutting-edge of climate finance.” LSE Review of Books

“This book provides the missing link to the next level of development in the energy transition to a lower carbon economy. Renewable Energy Finance covers the ABC ... to Z of energy and finance.” Rights Information: Roberto Bocca All language rights Senior Director, Head of Energy Industries, World Economic Forum available. “This authoritative and well-researched book provides a comprehensive review of the challenge in financing renewable energy at scale. The analysis will be valuable to anyone interested in that 376pp opportunity, whether as policy maker, investor or as a participant in the energy markets.” Pub. date: May 2020 Vivienne Cox Chairman, Vallourec; Senior Independent Director, Pearson 978-1-78634-859-3 US$148 / £130 “The unique and challenging aspects of financing renewable energy technologies have been comprehensively addressed in this book. As a renewable energy developer, I am delighted that a 978-1-78634-862-3(pbk) long felt need for a comprehensive treatise on financing has been finally achieved.” US$58 / £50 Shantanu Bagchi Chief Operating Officer, Indian Energy

“Renewable Energy Finance describes in great detail the successes, failures, and lessons from the billions of dollars invested over the past two decades. Trillions of dollars will follow, and this book is perfectly timed for investors and policymakers to make the most of it.” Brooks Preston Vice President, Head of Investment Funds US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

“A must read for all practitioners.” Shaun Kingsbury CEO, UK Green Investment Bank

24 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Economics and Finance Renewable Energy Finance (Second Edition) describes in rich detail current best practices and evolving trends in clean energy investing. With contributions by some of the world›s leading experts in energy finance, the book documents how investors are spending over $300 billion each year on financing renewable energy and positioning themselves in a growing global investment market. This second edition documents, with practical examples, the ways in which investors have funded over $2.6 trillion in solar, wind, and other renewable energy projects over the past decade. The book will be a go-to reference manual for understanding the factors that shape risk and return in renewable energy, the world›s fastest growing industrial sector. The book is suitable for executives new to the field, as well as advanced business students.

Edited by Dr Charles Donovan, Principal Teaching Fellow at Imperial College Business School and formerly Head of Structuring and Valuation for Global Power at BP, the book will give readers a unique insiders’ perspective on how renewable energy deals actually get done.

Contents: About the Editor; About the Contributors; Introduction (Charles Donovan); The Clean Energy Imperative (Adithya Bhashyam, James Hindle, and Charles Donovan); Markets, Governments, and Renewable Electricity (Richard Green); Instruments to Mitigate Financial Risk in Indian Renewable Energy Investments (Gireesh Shrimali and Dan Reicher); Investor- Specific Cost of Capital and Renewable Energy Investment Decisions (Thorsten Helms, Sarah Salm, and Rolf Wüstenhagen); Improving Renewable Energy Governance: Insights from Low- Carbon Investment Community Stakeholders (Joel Krupa and Danny Harvey); Measuring the Carbon Delta in Financial Performance (Celine McInerney and Derek W Bunn); Mobilizing Private Sector Capital for Low-Carbon Investments in Developing Countries (Alexandre Chavarot and Matthew Konieczny); The Role of Public Banks in Catalyzing Private Renewable Energy Finance (Bjarne Steffen, Florian Egli, and Tobias S Schmidt); The Role of the Commercial Banks in the Financing of the Renewable Energy Industry (Alejandro C Alonso); Achieving Growth with Private Equity (Brian Potskowski and Chris Hunt); Institutional Investors (David Nelson); Solar Leasing: Innovative Financing of Residential Solar (Bruce Usher and Albert Gore III); Crowdfunding: Ready for the Big League? (Sam Friggens and Karl Harder); Index;

Readership: The book should be used as an introduction into investing in renewable energy assets and can be used by corporate managers, policymakers, and advanced business students.

Reversing Climate Change Editor’s Choice How Carbon Removals can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy By (author): Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University, USA) & Peter Bal (Millemont Institute, USA)

The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created a price for carbon for the first time, is now used in four continents, is promoted by the World Bank, and is recommended even by leading oil and gas companies. However, one critical problem for the future of the Kyoto Protocol is the continuing impasse between the rich and the poor nations.

Who should reduce emissions — the rich or the poor countries?

This book is about the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Rights Information: Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP21, held from 30 November to All language rights 11 December 2015 in Paris, which brought together around 40,000 participants in total — with available. delegates representing each country, observers, and civil society members. It is one of the largest climate conferences ever organized. Co-written by Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed and 200pp designed the carbon credit emissions trading market, this book is a must read for academics and Pub. date: Jun 2020 professionals studying, implementing and analyzing global climate change policies; interested 978-981-4719-34-6 advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and US$98 / £81 UNFCCC 1992 founding. 978-981-4719-35-3(pbk) Readership: A must read for academics and professionals studying, implementing and analyzing US$48 / £40 global climate change policies; interested advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC 1992 founding.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 25 Editor’s Choice Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon By (author): Jenny Chase (BloombergNEF, Switzerland)

“This is an essential book for anyone aiming to start a career in solar power or just seeking a deeper understanding. It’s also an entertaining read, salted with personal anecdotes and, in places, wry humour. Jenny Chase gives a lively account of how she rose through a precarious startup to become the head of solar analysis at Bloomberg. There is helpful career advice. At its core the book contains detailed analysis of the history, technology, economics, finance, and business practices of the photovoltaics industry and her views on its prospects. The style is relaxed and discursive, and the reader feels privileged to be enjoying a coffee and a friendly chat with someone who is uniquely well informed about this industry so vital for our future.” Neil Hirst, Imperial College London Economics and Finance

Rights Information: “This book is good for getting — and keeping — a job as a solar analyst.” All language rights Francesco d’Avack, Solar Analyst, IHS Markits available. “A must-read for anyone interested in renewable energy and the energy transition.” Read Full 208pp Review Pub. date: Jul 2019 Jason Deign, Jason Deign Associates S.L.

978-1-78634-739-8 US$78 / £70 Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit costs fell. New installed capacity grew from 978-1-78634-745-9(pbk) 1.1GW in 2004 to about 107GW in 2018, a steady rise as solar begins to compete with fossil fuels US$38 / £28 on cost and to be built in nearly every country.

This is a book for the solar workers of the future, a business book for those without a business or economics background and those simply curious about major shifts happening in the world energy economy. Key financial, economic and technical concepts are interspersed with the history of the first decade of cheap solar power, and the author’s experience of being part of a successful startup in the clean energy sector.

Contents: Introduction; Solar Technologies — The Basics; Startups; Startups: Case Study of a Startup (BloombergNEF); Timeline of Relevant Milestones for Solar; 2005–2008: The First Big Solar, Supply Constraints; The Magic of the Experience Curve; September 29, 2008: When the Solar Boom Went Bust; Forecasting Methods: Difficulties and Discontinuities; How Markets Set Power Prices; Networking and Other Stuff Not Taught at State Schools; Solar After the 2008 Crash: Finding a New Normal; Solar Failures 2009–2013: Case Studies; Project Finance and Calculating the Cost of Energy; 2014 and 2015: Solar Auctions, Auto-Consumption and Sun Taxes; 2016–2018: Solar Is Cheap, But What Does It Mean?; Technology Focus: Solar Thermal Electricity Generation; Technology Focus: Photovoltaics; Operating Solar Plants, and How Big Data Can Help; Trade Wars; Will Offgrid Solar Leapfrog in the Developing World?; Can Solar Save the World?; The Challenges of Intermittency, and Possible Solutions; What Next for Solar?.

Readership: A business book written for people with an interest in energy, who do not necessarily have a finance or economics background; energy professionals, people considering a career in energy and those who simply want to be informed about major shifts happening in the world economy; general public.

26 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Economics and Finance Turkish Economy at the Crossroads Facing the Challenges Ahead

Edited by: Asaf Savaş Akat (Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey) & Seyfettin Gürsel (Bahçeşehir University, Turkey)

Turkish Economy at the Crossroads: Facing the Challenges Ahead is an exciting new volume of articles from prominent experts, edited by two distinguished economists. Despite its international stature and its diversified open-market economy, the global literature on Turkey is dispersed and sparse. The book aims to remedy this shortcoming by providing readers interested in Turkey with a balanced and up-to-date overview of the economy.

Topics discussed include trends in long-term political economy, post-2001 macroeconomic policies, tradable and non-tradable sectors and their impact on income distribution, capital flows and financial imbalances, success and problems of structural transformation at the micro level, Rights Information: characteristics of the labor markets with special emphasis on female employment, Turkey’s long All language rights lasting but difficult relations with the European Union and possible scenarios for the near future. available. This unified approach permits to highlight and tackle effectively the challenges and risks Turkey faces in the final and critical stage of transition to a modern developed society. 300pp Pub. date: Sep 2020 About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction (Asaf S Akat and Seyfettin Contents: 978-981-121-488-2 Gürsel); Economic Policies, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth since 1980 (Şevket US$98 / £85 Pamuk); High-Quality Versus Low-Quality Growth in Turkey: Causes and Consequences (Daron Acemoğlu and E Murat Üçer); Productivity, Reallocation, and Structural Change: An Assessment (Izak Atiyas and Ozan Bakıs); Financial Cycles of the Turkish Economy: How Will It End This Time? (M Ege Yazgan); Structural Transformation and Income Distribution in Turkey (Öner Günçavdı and Ayşe Aylin Bayar); Labor Market Challenges in Turkey (Gökçe Uysal, Hande Paker, and Selin Pelek); European Union and Turkey: Why It Failed? What is Next? (Cengiz Aktar); Turkey’s Development Conundrum: Three Scenarios for the Next 10 Years (Atilla Yeşilada).

Readership: Post-graduate students, academic researchers and think-tanks dealing with the region, as well as international organizations, financial sector research units and multinational corporations.

Key Features: ○ Very prominent contributors, known domestically and internationally: e.g. D Acemoglu, Ş Pamuk, I Atiyas, C Aktar, M Ucer, E Yazgan, A Yesilada, etc. ○ A realistic and balanced framework of analysis ○ Chapters are aligned to a guiding theme and a consistent approach to the Turkish economy and the political background

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 27 Design of Coastal Hazard Mitigation Alternatives for Rising Seas By (author): David Basco (Old Dominion University, USA)

This timely book is about how to design alternatives to reduce coastal flood and wave damage, erosion, and loss of ecosystems facing an unknown future of sea level rise. The latest theories are Engineering interlaced with applied examples from the authors’ 48 years of experience in teaching, research, and as a practicing, professional engineer in coastal engineering. The design process takes into consideration all the design constraints (scientific, engineering, economic, environmental, social/ political/institutional, aesthetic, and media) to meet today’s client needs, expectations, and budgets for an uncertain future.

The book is organized as a textbook for graduate students. And, it is a self-contained reference for government and consulting engineers responsible for finding solutions to coastal hazards Rights Information: facing the world’s coastal populations. New solutions are included in the book that help people of all socio-economic levels living at the coast. Both risk reduction metrics quantified in monetary All language rights terms, and increased resilience metrics quantified as vulnerability reduction must now be taken available. into consideration to make equitable design decisions on hazard mitigation alternatives.

1032pp In the Anthropocene Era, under “deep uncertainty” in global mean sea level predictions for Pub. date: Jul 2020 the future, today’s designs must mitigate today’s storm damages, and be adaptable for the unpredictable water levels and storms of the future. This book includes a design “philosophy” for 978-981-120-693-1 water levels to year 2050 and for the long term from 2050 to 2100. Multiple spreadsheets are US$198 / £175 provided and organized to aid the design process.

This is an exciting time to be “thinkers” as Civil/Coastal engineers.

Contents: Introduction; Design Criteria; Alternatives for Hazard Mitigation; Probabilistic Design; Functional Design; Structural Design; Beach Engineering; Economics, Risk, and Resilience; Pile Supported Structures; Environmental Impacts; Sea Level Rise.

Readership: This textbook is targeted at universities and is based on the author’s pioneering online course on Coastal Engineering. It is also an essential reference for oceanographers, social scientists, urban planners and city managers.

Difficult Engineering Concepts Better Explained Statics and Applications By (author): Jay F Tu (North Carolina State University, USA)

Engineering statics discusses proper ways of conducting force analysis. This unique compendium treats fundamental force analysis in a systematic and comprehensive manner.

The indispensable volume is suitable for undergraduate students to learn the subject in greater depth, for graduate students to review essential skills in force analysis correctly, and for practicing engineers to review and refresh key concepts. This useful reference text also presented numerous application examples for readers in solving daily practical problems.

Contents: Introduction; What is a Force?; How do We Quantify a Force?; How is a Force Applied to an Object?; How to Conduct Force Analysis Correctly Most of the Time?; How do We Set a Free-Body Free?; Is Free-Body Diagram Analysis Really Useful? Practical Applications; What If the Rights Information: Free-Body Diagram is Not Enough?; Are All Equilibrium Conditions Created Equal?; Case Study: All language rights Practical Sensor Design for Machining Force Monitoring; Difficult Statics Problems Better Solved. available. Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, and graduate students in mechanical 332pp engineering and engineering mechanics. Pub. date: Jul 2020

978-981-121-378-6 US$98 / £85

28 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Engineering Introduction to Coastal Engineering and Management (3rd Edition) By (author): J William Kamphuis (Queen’s University, Canada) This book is based on the author’s 49 years of experience as a practicing coastal engineer and 34 years as professor of coastal engineering and management at Queen’s University. The book is therefore thoroughly practical in nature, but it also reflects newly relevant issues, such as consequences of failure, impacts of rising sea levels, aging infrastructure, real estate development, and contemporary decision making, design and education. This textbook is useful for undergraduate students, postgraduate students and practicing engineers. It covers waves, structures, sediment movement, coastal management, and contemporary coastal design and decision making. It presents both basic principles and engineering solutions. It discusses the traditional methods of analysis and synthesis (design), but also contemporary design methodologies, such as working with environmental impacts. The second edition expanded greatly on the topics of failure and resilience that surfaced as a result of recent disasters from hurricane surges and tsunamis. It updated the discussion of design and decision making for the 21st century, with many new examples. Rights Information: This third edition develops some of these topics further, but its largest new changes is the chapter on climate change. This chapter presents the basics of climate change and then goes on to stress All language rights the practical implications of the impacts of climate change, focusing on what is of importance to available. coastal and fluvial specialists. 544pp Contents: Introduction; Water Waves; Short-Term Wave Analysis; Long-Term Wave Analysis; Wave Generation; Wave Transformation and Breaking; Tides and Water Levels; Rare Extraneous Pub. date: Jun 2020 Events; Design of Structures; Breakwaters; Introduction to Coastal Management; Coastal Sediment Transport; Basic Shore Processes; Coastal Design; One-Dimensional Modeling of 978-981-120-799-0 Coastal Morphology; Shore Protection; Contemporary Concepts; Climate, Climate Change and US$108 / £95 Climate Change Impacts; Problems. 978-981-120-898-0(pbk) Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and academics in coastal US$58 / £50 engineering and management.

The New Architecture of Science Editor’s Choice Learning from Graphene By (author): Kostya S Novoselov (University of Manchester, UK & National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Albena Yaneva (University of Manchester, UK) The New Architecture of Science explores how the architecture of advanced nanoscience labs affects the way scientists think, conduct experiments, interact and collaborate. The unique design of the National Graphene Institute in Manchester, UK sheds light on the new generation of 21st century science laboratories. Weaving together two tales of this building, lead scientist and one of the designers, Kostya Novoselov, and architectural anthropologist, Albena Yaneva, combine an analysis of its distinctive design features with ethnographic observation of the practices of scientists, facility managers, technicians, administrators and house service staff. Capturing simultaneously the complex technical infrastructure and the variability of human experiences that it facilitates, contemporary laboratory buildings are shown to be vital settings for the active shaping of new research habits and ways of thinking, ultimately leading to discovery and socio-technical innovations. Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preamble; [M] Introduction: The Making of the Graphene Building + [E] Experience of Design; [M] Location, Location, Location + [E] Experiencing Movement; [M] Square Shape; [M] Vibration; [M] Two for the Price of One + [E] Experiencing the Rights Information: Hidden Building; [M] Solutions Dictated by the Process; [M] Design of the Storage Rooms + [E] All language rights Experiencing the Flows; [M] The Key Lab: Clean Room + [E] Experiencing Clean Lab Work; [M] Variety of Labs; [M] Transportation Routes + [E] Experiencing Circulation; [M] Other Functions: available. Meetings, Conferences, Events + [E] Experiencing Communication; [M] How We Ended Up with the Roof Garden + [E] Experiencing Breakout; [M] Atria, Coffee and Writable Walls + [E] 252pp Experiencing the Social Life of Science; [M] Veil Design + [E] Experiencing the Building Envelope; Pub. date: Jun 2020 [M] Future Services + [E] Experiencing Growth; Conclusions: A New Approach to Science Architecture; NGI Floor Plans; Index. 978-981-122-067-8 Readership: Academics, professionals and students from architecture, urban studies, science US$49 / £45 and technology studies (STS) programs, and the sciences; general public. Key Features: ○ The book captures an array of participants in design and in the use of scientific buildings. In addition to the “usual suspects” featured in studies of scientific design (the scientists and the architects), we encounter lab technicians, facility managers, gas room and storage room technicians, porters, admin people, experimental officers, house attendants, events managers. Picturing the world of the graphene building as inhabited by all these “unsung heroes” provides a novel (more inclusive) understanding of how science architecture functions. ○ The study of the NGI help us to successfully redefine the very meaning of multidisciplinarity. Far from being a discursive exchange of ideas, multidisciplinarity, we witness in this book, emerges while sharing spaces and equipment, rubbing shoulders at the lab benches, reading results together or writing on the black walls. This is a novel aspect compared to the many accounts that focus on communication and collaboration as based on purely subjective interactions ○ The book illustrates a new methodological approach for understanding the architecture of the new generation of scientific buildings (that is, a slow ethnography that pays equal attention to human and nonhuman participants in science labs). It advocates an equal attention to the intricate design and technical infrastructure and to the variability of human experience that it facilitates

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 29 Chemistry and Technology of Alternate Fuels By (author): James G Speight (CD & W Inc., USA)

This compendium covers unconventional fuel sources, i.e., sources other than crude oil and natural gas with the aim of presenting these sources as future alternates to fossil fuels. The contents of this must-have volume are important aspects of the non-fossil fuel sources of availability of alternate sources of fuels. The properties of these fuels are well documented and compared to other fuels from non-petroleum sources (such as tar sand, coal, and oil shale). The environmental effects of non-petroleum fuels will also be compared to other fuels in terms with current environmental regulations.

Contents: Fuel Sources; Fuels from Synthesis Gas; Fuels from Biomass; Fuels from Biogas

Environmental Science Environmental (including Landfill Gas).

Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, and graduate students in energy studies Rights Information: and earth studies. All language rights available.

400pp Pub. date: Sep 2020

978-981-120-364-0 US$148 / £130

Energy Efficiency Innovations: Driving Prosperity, Slashing Emissions Edited by: Henry Kelly (Boston University, USA)

Energy efficiency touches all parts of the economy and lies at the heart of all plausible strategies for addressing climate change. A fascinating range of new technologies and new business models have emerged in the past few years and are rapidly reshaping the field and driving efficiency improvements — many of them completely unexpected.

This book provides a fresh look at energy efficiency written in a way that can be interesting to experts and serve as an entry point for novices. With chapters written by recognized experts in their fields of expertise, the book provides readers with a clear perspective on the state-of-the art developments of both new technologies and new approaches to system design and operations in buildings, industry, transportation, and urban design. Strategies for electrification and optimization Rights Information: based on data and powerful algorithms are also explored in depth. The discussion includes new mobility systems, smart buildings, reimagined industrial processes, new materials, and smart grid All language rights integration. available. Contents: Energy Efficiency: An Introduction; Global Opportunities and Challenges in Energy 325pp and Environmental Issues in the Buildings Sector; Industrial Energy Efficiency; Next Generation Pub. date: Sep 2020 Mobility Systems; Urban Energy Systems Design; Energy and Air Travel; Energy Demand Futures 978-981-121-785-2 by Global Models. US$138 / £120 Readership: Beginning and advanced students in energy and the environment, researchers and practitioners in energy-related fields, policymakers.

30 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Environmental Science Society and Climate Transformations and Challenges By (author): Nico Stehr (Zeppelin University, Germany) & Amanda Machin (Zeppelin University, Germany)

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental conditions.

In a comprehensive and accessible way, this book: ○ Provides a broad account of the various conceptions and constructions of climate and its shifting interconnections with society, science and politics ○ Incorporates both natural and social scientific perspectives Rights Information: Situates contemporary climate change research in an historical context ○ All language (except Drawing on the insights of various disciplines and citing numerous examples, Society and Simplified Chinese) Climate probes the interplay between society, science and climate, and warns against making rights available. any easy assumptions. 220pp Contents: Introduction: Society, Nature, Climate: The Nature of Weather; The Climate of Pub. date: Aug 2019 Science; The Climate of Society; Climates of Disagreement; Climate as Scientific Object: Climate as Average Weather; Measuring the Climate; The Emergence of a New Paradigm; The 978-981-3272-42-2 Discovery of the “Greenhouse Effect”; Modelling the Climate; Climate as Possible Weather; US$98 / £85 Climate as Cycle and Change: The History of the Science of Climate Change; Natural Climate Variability; Anthropogenic Climate Change; Measuring and Modelling Climate Change; The Impact and Inequality of Climate Change; Understanding Change?; Climate as Determinant: Climate Works?; Ellsworth Huntington; Climate Determinism: A Critique; Climate Determinism: A Revival?; Climate Matters; Climate as Public Perception: Trusting the Climate; Mistrusting the Climate; Distrusting the Science; Social Change?; Climate as a Policy Issue: Scientific Policy; Economic Policy; Regulatory Policy; Climate Policy: Who Decides?; Summary and Prospects.

Readership: Undergraduate students studying or contemplating the study of environmental science, and readers interested in understanding the relationship between climate, society, and science, and the potential socio-political implications of these processes.

About the Authors Nico Stehr is Karl Mannheim Professor of Cultural Studies at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is a fellow of the Royal Society (Canada) and a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is one of the authors of the set of Hartwell Papers on climate policy. His books have been translated into many languages, including Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hungarian, Italian, French. Recent book publications: The Power of Scientific Knowledge (with Reiner Grundmann, Cambridge University Press, 2012), Knowledge (with Marian Adolf; Routledge, 2014), Understanding Inequality: Social Costs and Benefits (with Amanda Machin, Springer 2016), Information, Power and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Is Knowledge Power? (with Marian Adolf, Routledge, 2017), and Money: A Social Theory of Modernity (with Dustin Voss, Routledge, 2018).

Amanda Machin is a post-doctoral researcher at Zeppelin University, where she works on citizenship, agonism, democracy, nationalism, embodiment, knowledge and environmental politics. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Environmental Politics and Democratic Theory. Her books are Negotiating Climate Change: Radical Democracy and the Illusion of Consensus (Zed Books, 2013); Nations and Democracy: New Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and Against Political Compromise: Sustaining Democratic Debate (Routledge, 2017 with Alexander Ruser).

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 31 Editor’s Choice The Goldilocks Policy The Basis for a Grand Energy Bargain By (author): John R Fanchi (Texas Christian University, USA)

This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.

Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend toward decarbonization: the reduction in the relative amount of carbon in combustible fuels. The 21st century energy mix will depend on technological advances, including some advances that cannot be anticipated, and on choices made by society. Environmental Science Environmental There are competing visions for reaching a sustainable energy mix. If the energy transition is too fast, it could significantly damage the global economy. If the energy transition is too slow, damage Rights Information: to the environment could be irreversible. All language rights The “Goldilocks Policy for Energy Transition” is designed to establish a middle ground between available. these competing visions. We need the duration of the energy transition to be just right; we need to adopt a reasonable plan of action that reduces uncertainty for businesses and innovators with 228pp predictable public policy while simultaneously minimizing environmental impact. Pub. date: Feb 2019 The question of climate change is still unsettled, but enough is known to motivate a transition away 978-981-3276-39-0 from fossil fuels. The transition does not have to be abrupt and catastrophic, however. Historical US$88 / £75 energy transitions can be a guide to a reasonable duration for making an orderly transition. If we 978-981-3277-44-1(pbk) exercise discipline and patience, we can overcome the obstacles to successful implementation US$38 / £35 of a grand energy bargain.

Readership: General, also supplementary text for students.

Editor’s Choice The Happy Learning Book for Siblings 50 Awesome Activities for Siblings to Learn and Play Together at Home By (author): Fynn Sor

Your home is the perfect place for learning, fun, and sibling bonding!

The Happy Learning Book for Siblings features 50 hands-on activities you can conduct in the comfort of your home. They are divided into five learning areas (Literacy, Numeracy, Discovery of the World, Motor Skills and Sensory Play, Arts and Crafts), and are scaled for children of different ages to experience together. Spark hours of joyful learning and playful moments for your children, from toddlers to preschoolers and school-aged kids!

Contents: Introduction; The Benefits of Positive Sibling Relationships; The Basics of a Good Multi-age Learning Activity; More Tips for Learning and Playing with Siblings; Literacy; Numeracy; Discovery of the World; Motor Skills; Sensory Play, Arts and Crafts; About the Author; General and Popular Science General and Popular Rights Information: Acknowledgements; Printables. All language rights available. Readership: Parents with young children; parents with multiple children.

144pp Key Features: Pub. date: Jun 2020 ○ 50 Hands-on activities — Engage your children through playful activities from five learning areas: Literacy, Numeracy, Discovery of the World, Motor Skills, and Sensory 978-981-122-416-4 Play, Arts and Crafts US$95 / £25 ○ Perfect for Siblings 2 to 9 years old — Easy to follow instructions for parents to adapt the activities for your toddler, preschooler and school-aged kids! 978-981-122-434-8(pbk) ○ Easy and low prep — The activities are perfect for busy parents who want to nurture US$19.95 / £15 happy learning siblings. Use materials you have lying at home and set up the activities in minutes!

32 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice General and Popular Science How to Build a Dragon or Die Trying A Satirical Look at Cutting-Edge Science By (author): Paul Knoepfler (University of California, Davis, USA) & Julie Knoepfler (Davis High School, California, USA)

What if you could have your own real dragon? While that might seem like just a fantasy, today cutting-edge science has brought us to the point where it might really be possible. This book looks into the possibilities of making living, fire-breathing dragons. The world has been fascinated with dragons for thousands of years. Fictional dragons still have a firm place in pop culture, such as Smaug from The Hobbit as well as the dragons in Game of Thrones and in the How to Train Your Dragon movies. This new book discusses using powerful technologies such as CRISPR gene editing, stem cells, and bioengineering to make real dragons. It also goes through what useful information we can learn from animals such as Pteranodons and amazing present-day creatures in our quest to build actual dragons. The book goes on to discuss the possibility of building other mythical creatures such as unicorns and mermaids. Overall, How to Build A Dragon is also Rights Information: meant as a satirical look at cutting-edge science, and it pokes fun at science hype. Anyone who All language (except is interested in dragons or cutting-edge science will enjoy this book! It is written in a humorous, German and Korean) approachable way making science fun and easy to understand, including for young adults. rights available. The author is well-known scientist Paul Knoepfler who is familiar to the public for his science, his blog The Niche, and his frequent contributions to lay stories on new science concepts such as 252pp stem cells and CRISPR. He also is known for his TED talk on designer babies with more than Pub. date: Jun 2019 1.3 million views, and his two books — Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide and GMO Sapiens: The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies. The co-author, his daughter Julie Knoepfler, is a high 978-981-3274-46-4 school student interested in science and writing. She has her own blog on literary and film analysis, US$68 / £60 and enjoys taking a humorous look at culture through writing.

Contents: So, You want a Dragon?; Let There Be Flight; Fire!; Dragons on the Brain; From Head to Tail, Other Dragon Features and Power-Ups; Sex, Dragons, and CRISPR; After a Dragon: Building Unicorns and Other Mythical Creatures; The Ethics and Future of Engineering Dragons and Other New Beasts.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate biology students, general public and students who are interested in human biology, bioengineering, stem cells research, genetics and genomics

Key Features: ○ People love dragons and we aren’t aware of any other book on how to build a dragon so it’s unique. The author is well-known scientist Paul Knoepfler who is familiar to the public for his science, his blog The Niche, and his frequent contributions to lay stories on new science such as stem cells and CRISPR. He also is known from his TED talk with almost 1.2 million views and his 2 previous books. His co-author, Julie Knoepfler, is just 16 years old and may broaden the appeal of the book to a younger audience. The book also focuses on hot scientific topics including stem cells, CRISPR, de-extinction, bio-hackers, and bioengineering. The book will also contain many compelling illustrations by the authors and other pictures of interest including of conceptions of dragons, pictures of pterosaur skeletons, and more .

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 33 Editor’s Choice Rebel City Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire Edited by: Zuraidah Ibrahim (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong) & Jeffie Lam (South China Morning Post, Hong Kong) By (author): South China Morning Post Team “This excellent book is an inspiring reminder of the vital importance of a free press in any society that is struggling with difficult social and political problems. Throughout 2019, international observers relied on the South China Morning Post to reveal the full complexity of the Hong Kong situation. This book provides a chance for readers to reflect on what happened, and draw lessons for the future.» Kurt Tong former United States Consul General to Hong Kong and Partner at The Asia Group

“One of the British Prime Ministers once complained of bias in the media and he was asked in which direction, and he said it’s biased in every direction.’ — Chris Patten. The events in 2019 Rights Information: shocked and polarized Hong Kong. A fearless and vibrant press is indispensable in such times. It All language rights General and Popular Science General and Popular is the price to pay for a free and pluralistic society that the press provokes disagreement, irritates, available. or even occasionally gets it wrong. The pieces in this volume will not — and are not designed to — please everybody. This is in the best traditions of the Post — long may it continue. I congratulate 512pp the Post for a job well done.» Pub. date: May 2020 Paul Shieh SC former Chairman, Hong Kong Bar Association

978-981-121-859-0 “As mentioned in this book, the protests in Hong Kong against the extradition bill of 2019 were US$68 / £60 ‘among the world’s most visible political events in history’. Like the 2003 protest against the national security bill and the ‘umbrella movement’ of 2014, the 2019 movement was a watershed 978-981-121-860-6(pbk) moment that raised fundamental questions about the future of ‘one country, two systems’. This US$28 / £22 book, written by South China Morning Post journalists who eyewitnessed the turmoil is an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to know what happened and to understand why.» Albert H Y Chen Cheng Chan Lan Yue Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Hong Kong and member of the Basic Law Committee

“2019 was a turbulent and tumultuous year for Hong Kong. Events followed fast upon each other. This collection of stories, interviews and analysis by seasoned reporters from the South China Morning Post performs the crucial service of recording what happened, asking why it happened, and, most important of all, not rushing to any quick conclusions. A powerful, and at times moving, account of a city under siege, but trying to find its way.» Kerry Brown Director, Lau China Institute, King’s College London

“The topics covered in this book are quite extensive. Most of the essays consist of detailed and accurate reports. SCMP also tries to uphold neutrality and non-partisanship in their testimony to the history of social movement in Hong Kong.” Professor Ming-Sho Ho Department & Graduate Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University

SCMP’s reporting team looks back at Hong Kong’s most wrenching political crisis since its return to Chinese rule in 1997. Anti-extradition bill protests that morphed rapidly into a wider anti-government movement in 2019 left no aspect of the city untouched, from its social compact to its body politic to its open economy. The demonstrations which continued well into 2020 have tested every institution of the city, from the civil service to the police to the courts and even its rail transport operator, and from offices and businesses to universities and schools, and from churches to families and even friends. This book is for anyone seeking to understand not just what Hong Kong has gone through but also the global phenomenon of increasingly leaderless protest movements. Fueled by profound angst about the place of millennial youth in society, widening income inequality, and the speed of digital communications, Hong Kong was in retrospect ripe to be the laboratory for a new-age protest movement, nearly a decade after the Middle East’s Arab spring. The essays in the book collectively compose a picture of a society in trauma, bent and broken, but showing signs of an uncanny ability to bounce back. What shape it will be in a few years from now, however, is much harder to predict.

Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Path to a Firestorm; Water and Fire; The Mobilized and the Marginalized; In the Crossfire; Law and Disorder; Beyond Borders; Reflections; Scanning the Horizon; Recommended Videos; Glossary; Index.

Readership: The general public, sociologists, political scientists, and pundits with an interest in the Hong Kong unrest, what it means for Hong Kong society, and its impact in international politics, social movements, and possibly the economy.

Key Features: ○ Regional and global reach; political and social impact ○ Great story telling ○ Appealing to young readers

34 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice General and Popular Science Science Research Writing (2nd Edition) By (author): Hilary Glasman-Deal (Imperial College London, UK) “This book should be on every STEMM academic’s bookshelf. In an academic world concerned with the quantity and quality of scientific publishing, this new edition of Science Research Writing is essential and timely. Writing enthusiastically and clearly, Glasman-Deal forensically deconstructs published texts to generate a series of robust, flexible models that help make writing less daunting. The content, tone, and language choice required to guide the reader through the main building blocks of STEMM writing (i.e. Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions) are clearly outlined; this helps the author communicate the intended meaning of every sentence, paragraph and section, clearly and unambiguously. This book is essential reading for academics at all experience levels; it will not only benefit students taking their first steps into scientific writing but also publishing ‘veterans’ who are still looking for ways to improve their skills.” Christopher Jackson Imperial College London Rights Information: “Science Research Writing is an accessible, insightful guide for those who are writing science All language (except research for publication, based on the author›s extensive experience supporting science Simplified Chinese) researchers to write more effective research papers. A key point of difference is that this guide rights available. focuses not only on what to do in writing the different sections of a research article or dissertation, but, crucially, how to do what is required and why. This timely book offers an informative model and practical tools for science research writing. As well as providing an enormously useful approach to 300pp areas that often seem opaque to novice writers, it also supplies a depth of analysis and practical Pub. date: Aug 2020 support that will engage experienced STEMM researchers. It will be highly valued by science writers, postgraduate students, researchers and teachers for its lucid approach to science research 978-1-78634-783-1 writing and as a resource for researchers to communicate their work effectively and coherently.» US$58 / £50 Cynthia White Pro Vice-Chancellor, Massey University 978-1-78634-784-8(pbk) US$25 / £20 This book enables STEMM researchers to write effective papers for publication as well as other research-related texts such as a doctoral thesis, technical report, or conference abstract.

Science Research Writing uses a reverse-engineering approach to writing developed from extensive work with STEMM researchers at Imperial College London. This approach unpacks current models of STEMM research writing and helps writers to generate the writing tools needed to operate those models effectively in their own field. The reverse-engineering approach also ensures that writers develop future-proof strategies that will evolve alongside the coming changes in research communication platforms.

The Second Edition has been extensively revised and updated to represent current practice and focuses on the writing needs of both early-stage doctoral STEMM researchers and experienced professional researchers at the highest level, whether or not they are native speakers of English. The book retains the practical, user-friendly format of the First Edition, and now contains seven units that deal separately with the components of written STEMM research communication: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, Abstract and Title, as well as extensive FAQ responses and a new Checklist and Tips section. Each unit analyses extracts from recent published STEMM journal papers to enable researchers to discover not only what to write, but, crucially, how to write it.

The global nature of science research requires fast, accurate communication of highly complex information that can be understood by all participants. Like the First Edition, the Second Edition is intended as a clear, do-it-yourself guide to make both the process and the product of STEMM research writing more effective.

Contents: Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; How to Write the Introduction; How to Write about Methods; How to Write about Results; How to Write the Discussion; How to Write the Conclusion Section; How to Write an Abstract; Creating a Title; Checklist and Tips; Writing Skills Index; Language Index; Sources and Credits.

Readership: Both native and non-native speakers of English including science writers, postgraduate students, researchers and teachers.

About the Author Hilary Glasman-Deal teaches academic STEMM communication at Imperial College London. Her primary focus is on research writing for native and non-native speaking doctoral students, postdocs and academic staff. She consults on scientific research publication at the highest level in all areas of STEMM, working with researchers to communicate complex content effectively across a range of fast-changing communication platforms. Hilary also delivers workshops and short courses on writing for journal publication around the world.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 35 Editor’s Choice Size Really Does Matter The Nanotechnology Revolution By (author): Colm Durkan (University of Cambridge, UK)

Nanotechnology is a buzz word many of us have heard but are uncertain what it really means. This book works to dispel the myths and unravel the truth about this branch of science and technology that has already touched many aspects of our lives, from cheaper and faster medical diagnostic tools and more effective ways to deliver existing ones to helping to create new medicines and electronic devices.

Size Really Does Matter starts by looking at the science and history of nanotechnology, followed by real-life examples of how it is used, what cutting-edge research is being carried out and why, and potential risks of this exciting new technology.

It is written in an accessible style with genuine enthusiasm for the topics it addresses, including Rights Information: how nanotechnology hopes to address problems in several fields, such as cancer research, novel devices, new materials and improved manufacturing methods for existing products.

General and Popular Science General and Popular All language rights available. Contents: Preface; About the Author; Introduction; There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom; The Science Bit; Nanomaterials; Seeing at the Nanoscale; Nanotechnology in Electronics; 236pp Nanotechnology in Healthcare; Concluding Remarks; Index. Pub. date: Feb 2019 Readership: General audience interested in nanotechnology and its relation to everyday life.

978-1-78634-661-2 Key Features: US$58 / £38 ○ Written in an accessible style ○ Full of color figures and graphs illustrating key points ○ Refers to everyday issues as much as possible

Editor’s Choice Corrupt Cultures “Fake News” and Cheating in Science By (author): Roy Y Calne (Cambridge)

This book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on three disasters in cell culture, which caused international concern and personal tragedy for the perpetrators. There is an overview of plant, animal and human cheating, providing a background to Life Sciences the focus on Science. This demands a special form of truth in that claims need to be substantiated by repetition in independent laboratories to confirm that the claims work. The nature of originality is examined in art and Science.

An attempt has been made to determine the background and motives for cheating in Science in the certain knowledge that it will be unmasked leading to scandal.

Advice is given to the young Scientist and suggestions have been made as to how fraud in Science could be reduced by more regulated supervision. There is a need to revise the regulations and assessment of claims of originality and the whole review process of journals to avoid Rights Information: publishing fake data. All language rights This text is unusual in focusing on three well-documented cases. The data should not have been available. published in high impact journals if more rigorous review had been made. Journals should require independent repetition of claims that seem to be “too good to be true”. This little book should be 140pp of considerable interest to young scientists, historians of science and editors of scientific journals. Pub. date: Nov 2020 The general reader might find it fascinating to learn how science works or does not work.

978-1-78634-560-8 Contents: Introduction and Outline; The Instinct to Deceive is a Successful Evolutionary US$48 / £40 Stratagem in Some Species of Plants and Animals, With No Moral or Ethical Baggage; Human Cheating; Originality; The Nature of Truth. Ethics in Medicine and Science; The Scientific Tower of Babel. Deception in Science. The Peter Principle; Cheating in Physics; The Cell, Cloning, Gene Editing Crispr/Cas9; What a Young Scientist Should Expect in Career Choice; Fake Science Does Not Work — Walter Mitty in Cloud Cuckoo Land. The Strange Fantasy World of Hubris Inhabited by the Scientific Cheat; Three Serious Cheating Scandals involving Cell and Tissue Cultures; What Can Be Done? — A Few Suggestions as to How Cheating in Science Might be Curtailed.

Readership: Young scientists, historians of science, editors of scientific journals, lay readers.

Key Features: ○ This is a fresh analysis of how the bindweed of deceit can be sown in the minds of young Scientists ○ How more rigorous mentoring might avoid the temptation to adopt and publish fake data ○ The current methods of Science publishing are not fit for purpose and require urgent revision to be fair to the Scientist and to exclude fraud

36 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Life Sciences From Fractals and Cellular Automata to Biology Information as Order Hidden Within Chance By (author): Alberto Strumia (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica “Francesco Severi”, Italy) The didactical level of exposition, together with many astonishing images and animations, accompanied by the related simple computer programming codes (in Python and POV-Ray languages) make this book an extremely and unique useful tool to test the power of algorithmic information in generating ordered structure models (2D and 3D) like regular geometric shapes, complex shapes like fractals and cellular automata, and biological systems as the organs of a living body. Informational biologists besides mathematicians and physicists of complexity may learn to test their own capabilities in programming and modelling ordered structures starting from random initial conditions at different scale of each system: from elementary particles, to biological systems, to galaxies and the whole universe. Moreover the philosophical comments comparing some aspects of modern information theory to the Aristotelian notion of “form are very appealing also for the epistemologist and the philosopher involved in complexity matters.

Contents: Information Towards Aristotelian Form; Two-Dimensional Structures from Algorithms; Rights Information: Three-Dimensional Structures from Algorithms; 3D Fractal Landscapes; 3D Fractals with All language rights Cylindrical Symmetry; Three-Dimensional Fractals from Quaternions and Double Complex available. Numbers; Fractal Structures from Cellular Automata; Heart Structure Models from Cellular Automata; A More Realistic Model of Heart Structure. 328pp Readership: Mathematicians, Physicists, Biologists, Bioengineers, Computer Programmers, Pub. date: Jul 2020 Science philosophers (of all graduate level).

Key Features: 978-981-121-715-9 ○ Regional and global reach; political and social impact US$138 / £120 ○ Great story telling ○ Appealing to young readers

The ABCs of Cancer Separating the Facts from the Myths By (author): Meshach Asare-Werehene (The University of Ottawa, Canada) This exciting reader-friendly book addresses the general perspectives of cancer in diverse ways — everyday lifestyle, nutrition, environmental factors as well as genetics. The author, an expert in Immuno-Oncology, makes conscious efforts to break down the complexities of cancer development through the use of scientific evidences and everyday activities. There are so many myths about cancer out there. This book employs scientific basis to separate the facts from the myths while making it comprehensible to all readers irrespective of their scientific background. Readers are also introduced to the modern trends in cancer therapeutics.

Contents: Introduction to Cancer; Your Genes are Big Players in Cancer Development; African Diets Have Lower Cancer Risk; Alcohol Intake: A Simple Way to the Cancer Kingdom; Caution to Egg Lovers; Coffee Protects Against Cancer Risk and Recurrence; The Sweet Poison: Sugar, a Risk Factor for Cancer Development; Obesity: Pamper Your Weight and Increase Your Cancer Risk by 40%; Super Foods that Offer Anticancer Benefits; The Vegetarianism Cancer Prevention Rights Information: Formulae: Seafoods + Vegetables > Only Vegetables; The Anticancer Properties of Chocolate: All language rights More Than LOVE; Physical Activity: A Crucial Factor in Reducing Cancer Risk; NaNose: A «Nose» available. that Detects Early-Stage Cancer in Human Breath; Cancer Myths and Misconceptions; «Sensible Use» of the Sun Can Heal; Big Headed People at Risk of Cancer; Increased Cancer Risk for Tall People; Do Snorers Have Increased Risk of Cancer Death?; Dogs: The New Era of «Oncologists»; 200pp Is Cannabis (CBD) an Alternative Cancer Treatment Agent?; Vaping: An Emerging Concern for Pub. date: Jul 2020 Increased Cancer Risk; Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer Prevention; Birth Control and Cancer Risk; Do Viruses, Parasites, and Bacteria Cause Cancer?; Tobacco Smoking Increases Your 978-981-121-225-3 Risk of Cancer; Do Food Supplements Treat Cancer?; Ink with Care; Modern Trends in Cancer US$58 / £50 Therapeutics; Conclusion.

Readership: Professionals, students, general public, science and non-science enthusiasts; School libraries, society, youth camp meetings, conferences, working environment, hospital libraries, book shops and prize gifts for deserving students.

Key Features: ○ The author has cutting-edge skills in scientific communication and has spoken and chaired at international conferences across the world presenting complex cancer research findings to both scientific and non-scientific audiences ○ The topics addressed in this book relate with everyday lifestyles such as race-specific diets, exercise, sunlight. This book carefully seizes the facts from the myths using scientifically proven evidence, squashing most of the debates about these topics ○ This book covers a wide readership audience which makes it very unique - professionals, students, general public, science and non-science enthusiasts as well as children who aspire to know more about cancer medicine. Thus, getting a copy could be beneficial to everyone in the family, school libraries, society, youth camp meetings, conferences, working environment, hospital libraries, book shops and prize gifts for deserving students

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 37 Editor’s Choice The Future of Homo By (author): Michel Odent (Primal Health Research Centre, UK)

Since the advent of “ecological awareness” in the 1970s, Michel Odent has continuously claimed that it is commonplace to anticipate the effects of human activities on the ecosystems without considering the probable transformations of Homo induced by multiple aspects of modern lifestyle. In 1979, in “Genèse de l’homme écologique”, he raised questions such as: “How does respect for Life Sciences Mother Earth develop?” It is significant that, forty years later, a Paris publisher suddenly took the initiative to present a 2019 edition.

Today the chosen “springboard” for “The Future of Homo” is, once more, the perinatal period, the critical phase of human development that has been radically transformed over some decades. Present-day questions are raised about “birth preparation”, a little-known phase of physiological changes in late pregnancy: the importance of the topic is perceptible at a time when widespread medical practices, namely labour induction and prelabour caesarean sections, are powerful Rights Information: interferences. All language (except French, Italian and The book offers an antithesis to countless published documents about “natural childbirth”. It Spanish) rights available. is challenging the dominant ways of thinking through radically new ways of interpreting the physiological processes. 200pp Pub. date: Sep 2019 More than ever, Michel Odent is pushing the explorers of the future to consider the probable transformations of Homo as a central and necessary issue. 978-981-120-680-1 US$78 / £70 The matter is enlarged with considerations about long-term thinking, the “future of futurology” and 978-981-120-754-9(pbk) “the evolution of evolutionary thinking”. US$28 / £19 The endpoint of the book is related to the limits of the domination of nature: how can childbirth be desocialised?

Contents: Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Overspecialization; Birth Physiology from Radically New Perspectives; Cultural Interference in the Perinatal Period, as a Facet of the Domination of Nature4; Lessons from Eclampsia, as a Specifically Human Disease; Interpreting the Concept of «Homo Navigator»; Learning from the Primal Health Research Database; The Future of ... (Evolutionary Thinking, Futurology, Socialised Birth, Lullabies, Transcendent Emotional States, Psychotherapy, Abbreviations, Epigenetic Clock, etc.).

Readership: Lay readers, general public.

Key Features: ○ The Future of Homo is the first book that is seriously challenging the clichés transmitted by the “natural childbirth establishment” ○ It is the first book that is pushing futurologists to consider human birth as a central and obligatory issue.3

○ In the age of overspecialization, it is an unprecedented illustration of the concept of interdisciplinarity

38 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Life Sciences Medical Statistics Editor’s Choice A Practical Approach Rights Information: By (author): Tze-San Lee (Western Ilinois University, USA) All language rights This book is suitable to be used as a textbook for all levels of students in medical school. It is also available. useful as a reference book for students interested in the application of biostatistics in medicine. Materials from the Introduction to Chapter 6 are similar to those of an elementary statistical 300pp textbook. Pub. date: Aug 2020

This book is more modern than the current textbook in medical statistics. In this book, biostatistics 978-981-121-751-7 and epidemiologic concepts are nicely blended. In contrast to the fallacy of the p-value, it US$98 / £85 introduces the Bayes factor as a measure of the evidence hidden in the sample data. It illustrates 978-981-121-842-2(pbk) the application of the regression to the mean in medicine. Many epidemiologic concepts such as US$48 / £40 sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic test, classification and discrimination, types of bias, etc. are discussed in the book.

Chapter 7 on “Correlation and Regression” includes the concept of regression to the mean, generalized linear (Poisson and Logistic) regression models, and discrimination of new data to belong to which sample data sets. Chapter 8 covers the nonparametric inference, including Kolmogorov and Smirnov test. Via the estimation and hypothesis testing, sample sizes are determined in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 discusses the study of design for collecting sample data, including cohort, cross-sectional, case-control, and clinical trial. In addition, types of bias are expounded as a last section in Chapter 10.

Chapter 11 covers in detail the inference on contingency tables, including 2 x 2, two-way, and three-way. Five tests (Pearson, log-odds-ratio, Fisher-Irwin, McNemar, and Ejigou-McHugh) are listed in Section 11.1. Six tests (Pearson, First-order interaction, Yate’s linear trend, Stuart’s marginal homogeneity, Kendall, and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney) are described in Section 11.2. Three tests (Pearson, log-odds-ratio on first-order interaction, Barlett’s on second-order interaction) and Simpson’s paradox are covered in Section 11.3.

Chapter 12 covers analysis of survival data. Two methods (life-table and Kaplan-Meier) are introduced for estimating the survivor function in Section 12.2. Four methods (maximum likelihood, Armitage’s preference, Wald’s sequential sign, and Armitage’s restricted sequential) for comparing two survival curves are covered in Section 12.3. Proportional hazard model and the log-rank test are discussed, respectively, in Section 12.4 and 12.5.

In addition, advanced techniques in comparing two survival curves are included in the book such as Armitage’s preference method, Armitage’s restricted sequential test and Wald’s sequential sign test. Also, inference on contingency tables are treated in more detail than other books.

Contents: Introduction; Descriptive Statistics; Probability; Classic Random Variables; Inferential Statistics; Inference on Means/Variances; Inference on Proportions; Inference on Correlation and Regression; Nonparametric Inference; Determination of Sample Size; Design of Observational/ Experimental Studies; Inference on Contingency Tables; Survival Analysis.

Readership: Undergraduates and graduates in medicine, all practising physicians.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 39 Nanopore Sequencing An Introduction (With DVD-ROM) By (author): Daniel Branton (Harvard University, USA) & David Deamer (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)

Life Sciences This is an introductory text and laboratory manual to be used primarily in undergraduate courses. It is also useful for graduate students and research scientists who require an introduction to the theory and methods of nanopore sequencing. The book has clear explanations of the principles of this emerging technology, together with instructional material written by experts that describes how to use a MinION nanopore instrument for sequencing in research or the classroom.

At Harvard University the book serves as a textbook and lab manual for a university laboratory course designed to intensify the intellectual experience of incoming undergraduates while exploring Rights Information: biology as a field of concentration. Nanopore sequencing is an ideal topic as a path to encourage All language rights students about the range of courses they will take in Biology by pre-emptively addressing the available. complaint about having to take a course in Physics or Maths while majoring in Biology. The book addresses this complaint by concretely demonstrating the range of topics — from electricity to biochemistry, protein structure, molecular engineering, and informatics — that a student will have 216pp to master in subsequent courses if he or she is to become a scientist who truly understands what Pub. date: Mar 2019 his or her biology instrument is measuring when investigating biological phenomena.

978-981-3270-60-2 Readership: Undergraduate students, graduate students and research scientists who require and US$98 / £85 introduction to the theory and methods of nanopore sequencing, bioinformatics, clinical technicians, and other biologists who have had no training in nanopore sequencing.

Key Features: ○ The book is the first on the market and is unique ○ The book serves both as a textbook and as a laboratory manual for nanopore sequencing ○ The topic of the book — nanopore sequencing — is the only sequencing method that is sufficiently inexpensive and can be used in undergraduate courses

Editor’s Choice Nobel Prizes Cancer, Vision and the Genetic Code By (author): Erling Norrby (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sweden)

Cancer is a dreaded disease in man. In spite of this very few Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine have focused directly on means of identifying and treating this kind of disease. However, in 1966 the prize recognized Peyton Rous, who had discovered that viruses can cause tumors in animals and Charles Huggins, who had introduced hormone treatment of human cancers. Rous had to wait more than 50 years for his prize from the time when he made the discovery and he remains the oldest prize recipient in this discipline (87 years old). The view of the role of viruses in cancer has shifted over time. There was a period when it was proposed that they were of importance for the development of all forms of cancer. This oncogene theory was wrong but by use of viruses as tools it was possible to identify critical groups of cellular genes, that when not functioning properly, might cause cancer or alternatively suppress the disease. These studies have given a comprehensive picture of the role of changes in the genetic material in the progressive Rights Information: developments towards severe forms of cancers. All language rights The rear parts of eyes are extensions of the central nervous system. They have a fascinating available. intrinsic complexity, the neurophysiology and biochemistry of which has been progressively analyzed. These revealing studies concern both our capacity to distinguish different colors and 400pp also our ability to see in the dark. The prize in 1967 identified seminal contributions in this wide Pub. date: Sep 2019 field by Ragnar Granit, Haldan Hartline and George Wald.

978-981-120-085-4 The Prize in 1968 stands out. It recognized Robert Holley, Ghobind Khorana and Marshall US$88 / £75 Nirenberg who in different ways had contributed to the cracking of the genetic code. There are 64 code words, the codons, each one composed of three nucleotides, the building stones of 978-981-120-086-1(pbk) DNA. These codons control the position of a specific amino acid among the 20 that exist in a US$38 / £35 growing chain of a specific protein. Insights into the language used by Nature, since the dawn of cellular life some 4.6 billion years ago, have completely revolutionized modern life sciences. The capacity to read and also to write the books of life has defined new kinds of science, deepening our understanding of the magic of evolution and opened the possibilities for molecular medicine by understanding the genetic background to diseases, not least cancer.

40 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Life Sciences Contents: The Long Wait; Hormone Treatment of Tumors and the Prize Events in 1966; Rous Virus and the Elucidation of the Genetic Nature of Cancer; The Rock Foundation of Nobel Prize Developments; Visionary Contributions Gave a Happy Trio; The Prime Author of the Saga of the Genetic Code; The Formation of a Trio for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; To See the Invisible and to Read the Unprinted.

Readership: General.

About the Author Erling Norrby has an MD and PhD from the Karolinska Institute, the School of Medicine, Stockholm. He was the professor of virology and chairman at the Institute for 25 years. During that time he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine for 6 years and was deeply involved in the work on Nobel prizes in physiology or medicine for 20 years. After leaving the Institute he became Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for six years. During this time he had overriding responsibility for the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and was a member of the Board of the Nobel Foundation. Presently he is at the Center for the History of Sciences at the Academy and in 2010 he published the book Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences, in 2013 a second book Nobel Prizes and Nature’s Surprises, and in 2016 a third book Nobel Prizes and Notable Discoveries. In addition he is currently Vice-Chairman of the Board of the J Craig Venter Institute. He also has one of the leading functions at the Royal Swedish Court as Lord Chamberlain-in-Waiting.

Replicating and Repairing the Genome From Basic Mechanisms to Modern Genetic Technologies By (author): Kenneth N Kreuzer (Duke University, USA)

Replicating and Repairing the Genome provides a concise overview of the fields of DNA replication and repair. The book is particularly appropriate for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, and scientists entering the field or working in related fields. The breadth of information regarding DNA replication and repair is vast and often difficult to absorb, with terminology that differs between experimental systems and with complex interconnections of these processes with other cellular pathways. This book provides simple conceptual descriptions of replication and repair pathways using mostly generic protein names, laying out the logic for how the pathways function and highlighting fascinating aspects of the underlying biochemical mechanisms and biology. The book incorporates extensive and informative diagrams and figures, as well as descriptions of a number of carefully chosen experiments that had major influences in the field. Rights Information: All language rights The process of DNA replication is explained progressively by starting with the system of a simple available. bacterial virus that uses only a few proteins, followed by the well-understood bacterial (E coli) system, and then culminating with the more complex eukaryotic systems. In the second half of the book, individual chapters cover key areas of DNA repair — postreplication repair of mismatches 400pp and incorporated ribonucleotides, direct damage reversal, excision repair, and DNA break repair, Pub. date: Mar 2020 as well as the related areas of DNA damage tolerance (including translesion DNA polymerases) and DNA damage responses. The book closes with chapters that describe the huge impact of DNA 978-981-121-569-8 replication and repair on aspects of human health and on modern biotechnology. US$98 / £85

Contents: The Challenges of Maintaining and Duplicating the Genome; The Simple DNA Replication System of a Bacterial Virus; The Highly Efficient Replication Systems of Bacteria; Eukaryotic DNA Replication; Replication Dynamics — Initiating, Regulating and Terminating Cellular DNA Replication; Post-Replication Repair of Mismatches and Ribonucleotides; DNA Topology and the Enzymes That Alter It; DNA Damage — A Persistent Threat to the Genome; Direct Reversal of DNA Damage; Excision Repair — Taking Advantage of the Complementary Strand; Double Strand Break Repair — Taking Advantage of the Homolog; DNA Damage Tolerance and Trans-Lesion Polymerases; DNA Damage Response Pathways; Human Diseases Caused by Replication and Repair Defects; Enzymes of Replication and Repair Fuel Modern Genetic Technologies.

Readership: Graduate students, advanced undergraduates and scientists in the field of oncology/ cancer biology.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 41 Key Features: ○ As described above, the book provides a broad overview of the fields of DNA replication and repair without diving deeply into the many complexities of mechanism and terminology that are common in review articles and other books in these areas. The book carefully builds up a sophisticated understanding of the detailed mechanisms in replication and repair by introducing simple systems first, and adding layers of complexity without resorting to excessive technical jargon. Throughout the book, mechanisms and principles are illustrated with informative Figures and Tables Life Sciences ○ The process of discovery in science and the construction of informative and rigorous experiments are, for many, the most compelling aspects of being a scientist. In this book, experimental approaches are integrated into the text at times, and also augmented with side boxes that illustrate particularly interesting and/or historically important experiments. These side boxes are called “How was that tested?”, and a subset illustrate the progression of scientific methodology with a “Then and Now” theme. Side boxes also highlight experimental findings that resulted in Nobel Prizes. These various side boxes are very useful when the book is adopted for a course — the course work can expand on the side box by discussing more of the experiments in that particular study, they can be used as an introduction to modern technologies in genetics, biochemistry and cell biology, and they can be used as jumping-off points for student presentations (oral or written) or for group discussions ○ The author is an accomplished scientist/educator who has published over 100 research articles in the fields of DNA replication and repair, funded by extensive research grants from the NIH and other agencies. Dr Kreuzer is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has mentored high school, college, graduate and post-graduate students, and has taken a very active role in recruiting and mentoring students from underrepresented groups. Most relevant to this book, Dr Kreuzer has taught the principles of DNA replication and repair to undergraduate, graduate and medical students during his 30-year career at Duke University. In honor of his teaching and mentoring, he won the first Duke University Faculty Award for Graduate Teaching in the Basic Biomedical Sciences (2001)

Stem Cells From Hype to Hope Edited by: Khawaja Husnain Haider (Sulaiman AlRajhi Medical School, Saudi Arabia)

During the last two decades, stem cells have progressed from merely a concept to a vibrant field of regenerative medicine which is aimed at addressing the root cause of the problem rather than conventional methods of intervention that mostly provide symptomatic relief. Stem cell therapy either alone or in combination with the other established treatment strategies is a hope for patients who suffer from the “incurable” diseases such as Alzheimer, diabetes, myocardial infarction etc. Besides aspirations in the clinical perspective, stem cells provide excellent in vitro disease models for drug development. Given the significance of the field, the proposed book will be a compilation of the bench experience of experts from various research labs involved in the cutting edge area of stem cell research.

Contents: Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes: Current Progress and Perspectives (S Hoppler et al.); Challenges in Stem Cell-Based Approaches for Myocardial Regeneration (T M Kolettis et al.); Non-Destructive Metabolomics Characterization of Mesenchymal Stem Rights Information: Cell Differentiation (K H Haider); Cell Therapy for Critical Limb Ischemia: Current Progress and All language rights Future Prospects (M Konoplyannikov); Stem Cells Derived Paracrine Factors Modulates Cardiac available. Repair (S Mohsin & M Khan); Harnessing Stem Cell Secretome Towards Cell-Free Therapeutic Strategies (S Fakurazi et al.); Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Immunology and Therapeutic Benefits (A M H Ng); Stem Cells and Diabetes: Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Renewable Source of Cells 250pp (K H Haider); Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells are Reprogrammed Cells for Targeting Pub. date: Mar 2020 Tumors (M Özen).

978-981-120-552-1 Readership: Graduate and Undergraduate Students and Researchers involved in stem cell and gene therapy, cellular and molecular pharmacology, regenerative medicine, cell-based therapy and US$98 / £85 cell-free therapy. medical graduates, medical doctors and physicians, researchers in the field of cell therapy and cell-free therapy, regenerative medicine, cellular pharmacology, pharmaceutical industry, drug development labs and industries using stem cells as ex-vivo disease models for drug development etc. Members of the educated public may be interested too.

Key Features: ○ Covers a broad scope of stem cell research, from their use as drugs to their use as important tools in drug development ○ The contributing authors constitute a blend of established, senior and talented young researchers from some of the top stem cell research labs around the globe

42 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Life Sciences A Textbook of Bioinformatics Rights Information: All language rights Information-theoretic Perspectives of Bioengineering and Biological available. Complexes By (author): Perambur S Neelakanta (Florida Atlantic University, USA) 700pp Pub. date: Jul 2020 This book on bioinformatics is designed as an introduction to the conventional details of genomics and proteomics as well as a practical comprehension text with an extended scope on the state- 978-981-121-288-8 of-the-art bioinformatic details pertinent to next-generation sequencing, translational/clinical US$168 / £150 bioinformatics and vaccine-design related viral informatics. 978-981-121-384-7(pbk) It includes four major sections: (i) An introduction to bioinformatics with a focus on the US$88 / £75 fundamentals of information-theory applied to biology/microbiology, with notes on bioinformatic resources, data bases, information networking and tools; (ii) a collection of annotations on the analytics of biomolecular sequences, with pertinent details presented on biomolecular informatics, pairwise and multiple sequences, viral sequence informatics, next-generation sequencing and translational/clinical bioinformatics; (iii) a novel section on cytogenetic and organelle bioinformatics explaining the entropy-theoretics of cellular structures and the underlying informatics of synteny correlations; and (iv) a comprehensive presentation on phylogeny and species informatics.

The book is aimed at students, faculty and researchers in biology, health/medical sciences, veterinary/agricultural sciences, bioengineering, biotechnology and genetic engineering. It will be a useful companion for managerial personnel in the biotechnology and bioengineering industries as well as in health/medical science.

Contents: Bioinformatics — An Introduction: Introduction; Information-Theoretics of Biological Systems; Bioinformatic Resources: Databases, Information Networks and Tools; Analytics of Biomolecular Sequences: Biomolecular Informatics; Pairwise and Multiple Biomolecular Sequences; Bioinformatics of Viral Genomics; Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS); Translational Bioinformatics ; Clinical Bioinformatics; Cytogenetic and Organelle Informatics: Entropy- Theoretics of Chromosomal Informatics; Information-Theoretics of Chromosomal Synteny Correlations; Phylogenetic and Species Informatics: Evolution-Theoretics and Phylogeny: An Overview; Bioinformatic Aspects of Phylogeny.

Readership: Undergraduates/graduates and researchers in biotechnology, bioengineering, bioinformatics, computational biology and biocomputing.

Key Features: ○ The book is organized in FOUR major Parts (SECTIONS) comprehensively addressing the state-of-the-art technological considerations on modern bioinformatics and the associated bioengineering/technology considerations. The chapters therein are structured in their contents and are tuned to describe the technology aspects of specifics involved as they exist now and as they are being transformed to meet the new options. More like case studies, these specific examples will be furnished and relevant topics will be addressed, studied, analyzed and presented ○ At the end of each chapter, a collection of exercises is indicated along with relevant examples and/or case-studies. They are designed as extensions to the contents of the chapters with an objective of enabling readers to improve their knowledge on the subject as well as enhance their skill in collecting (and learning) more details on the relevant topics from the archival of information deliberated in the vast literature as well as supercharged in the knowledge engines of multitudes of web pages ○ The examples presented and rider problems indicated thereof are not just for pedagogical and class-room applications of the academia. They are indicated to portray the bigger picture of practical implications in their right perspectives so as to assimilate the concepts of bioinformatics pertinent to modern bioengineering and biotechnology. This big picture painted also stresses the analytical questioning and problem-solving skills as being the key towards successful understanding of concepts and making best use of the prevailing knowledge of the subject-matter. A biotechnologist may also judiciously adopt the underlying concepts of these exercises to supplement their learning while exercising their endeavors of bio- and genetic engineering and while assaying the related molecular biosciences

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 43 Composites and Metamaterials By (author): Roderic Lakes (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

This book is an excellent primer for students to learn about physical properties, particularly mechanical properties of heterogeneous and multiphase materials and the cultivation of physical insight. Written by a prominent author who pioneered many of the concepts, this book provides a comprehensive coverage of current topics in new heterogenous materials.

Topics covered include: ○ Principles of the mechanics of solid multiphase systems. Materials Science ○ Role of heterogeneity and anisotropy in determining physical properties including elastic, dielectric, and piezoelectric properties. ○ Coupled fields; smart materials including piezoelectric materials and thermal actuators. Rights Information: ○ Applications in lightweight structures, ultra-strong materials, materials for protection of All language rights the body, and materials for the replacement of human tissues. available. ○ Materials with fibrous, lamellar, particulate, and cellular structures. ○ Lattice metamaterials. Extreme and unusual physical properties. 250pp ○ Heterogeneous materials of biological origin. Pub. date: Mar 2020 ○ Metamaterials and biomimetic and bio-inspired materials.

978-981-121-636-7 Contents: Introduction; Structure, Properties and Bounds; Symmetry and Anisotropy; Coupled US$78 / £70 Fields; Particles, Fibers, Platelets; Cellular Solids and Lattices; Biological Material Structural Hierarchy; Size of Heterogeneity; Viscoelastic Composites.

Readership: This book is intended as a course pack for senior and graduate students to understand physical properties. Key Features: ○ Materials science perspective on composites; prominent author who pioneered many of the concepts ○ Draft version used and tested as a textbook ○ Treatment of current topics in new heterogeneous materials

About the Author Professor Roderic Lakes is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin and is also affiliated with the Department of Materials Science. He has taught courses in composite materials, experimental testing of materials, viscoelastic materials, biomechanics, and biomaterials among others.

Honors include becoming a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and several teaching awards. He is the author of other books including Viscoelastic Materials and of Biomaterials (2nd and 3rd Edition) with J B Park and is author or co-author of 15 chapters in books and 300 articles in archival journals.

Professor Lakes’ research activities have led to the following, some of which were derived from teaching: ○ Developed the first 3D materials with a negative Poisson’s ratio, in later years called auxetic. ○ Developed the first materials with arbitrarily large magnitudes of positive or negative thermal expansion. Zero thermal expansion is also attainable. ○ Developed the first extreme materials based on negative stiffness inclusions in composites; developed theoretical framework for elastic chirality, the first experimental measurements of elastic chirality and the first design and making of elastic chiral materials. ○ In recent years, materials with reversed or extreme properties have been called metamaterials. Lakes’ research interests also include viscoelastic spectroscopy, development of high performance viscoelastic materials and development of high performance hierarchical materials.

44 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Mathematics A Course in Game Theory By (author): Thomas S Ferguson (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Game theory is a fascinating subject. We all know many entertaining games, such as chess, poker, tic-tac-toe, bridge, baseball, computer games — the list is quite varied and almost endless. In addition, there is a vast area of economic games, discussed in Myerson (1991) and Kreps (1990), and the related political games [Ordeshook (1986), Shubik (1982), and Taylor (1995)]. The competition between firms, the conflict between management and labor, the fight to get bills through congress, the power of the judiciary, war and peace negotiations between countries, and so on, all provide examples of games in action. There are also psychological games played on a personal level, where the weapons are words, and the payoffs are good or bad feelings [Berne (1964)]. There are biological games, the competition between species, where natural selection can be modeled as a game played between genes [Smith (1982)]. There is a connection between game theory and the mathematical areas of logic and computer science. One may view theoretical statistics as a two-person game in which nature takes the role of one of the players, Rights Information: as in Blackwell and Girshick (1954) and Ferguson (1968). All language rights Games are characterized by a number of players or decision makers who interact, possibly available. threaten each other and form coalitions, take actions under uncertain conditions, and finally receive some benefit or reward or possibly some punishment or monetary loss. In this text, we 408pp present various mathematical models of games and study the phenomena that arise. In some Pub. date: Jul 2020 cases, we will be able to suggest what courses of action should be taken by the players. In others, we hope simply to be able to understand what is happening in order to make better predictions 978-981-3227-34-7 about the future. US$88 / £75

Contents: Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Impartial Combinatorial Games; Two- Person Zero-Sum Games; Two-Person General-Sum Games; Games in Coalitional Form; Appendix; Solutions to the Exercises.

Readership: Students in mathematical economics / game theory / econometrics.

An Introduction to Differential Equations with Applications By (author): Harold Cohen (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) & Daniel Gallup (Pasadena City College, USA)

This book is for students in a first course in ordinary differential equations. The material is organized so that the presentations begin at a reasonably introductory level. Subsequent material is developed from this beginning. As such, readers with little experience can start at a lower level, while those with some experience can use the beginning material as a review, or skip this part to proceed to the next level.

The book contains methods of approximation to solutions of various types of differential equations with practical applications, which will serve as a guide to programming so that such differential equations can be solved numerically with the use of a computer. Students who intend to pursue a major in engineering, physical sciences, or mathematics will find this book useful. Rights Information: All language rights Readership: Undergraduate students studying mathematics, physics, engineering, business, economics and banking who are interested in the practical applications of differential equations. available.

Key Features: 816pp ○ Our book presents methods for solving differential equations that many other text Pub. date: Jul 2020 do not cover. These include Heaviside operator methods, phase plane analysis and several detailed methods for approximating solutions that cannot be obtained 978-981-3276-65-9 analytically US$168 / £150

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 45 Coming Home to Math Become Comfortable with the Numbers that Rule Your Life By (author): Irving P Herman (Columbia University, USA)

We live in a world of numbers and mathematics, and so we need to work with numbers and some math in almost everything we do, to control our happiness and the direction of our lives. The

Mathematics purpose of Coming Home to Math is to make adults with little technical training more comfortable with math, in using it and enjoying it, and to allay their fears of math, enable their numerical thinking, and convince them that math is fun. A range of important math concepts are presented and explained in simple terms, mostly by using arithmetic, with frequent connections to the real world of personal financial matters, health, gambling, and popular culture.

As such, Coming Home to Math is geared to making the general, non-specialist, adult public more comfortable with math, though not to formally train them for new careers or to teach those Rights Information: first learning math. It may also be helpful to liberal arts college students who need to tackle more technical subjects. The range of topics covered may also appeal to scholars who are more math All language rights savvy, though it may not challenge them. available. Contents: Preface; Our World of Math and Numbers: Introduction; We Use Numbers Here, 444pp There and Everywhere; Numbers Are Some of My Favorite Things; The First World of Math: Pub. date: Feb 2020 The Eternal Truths of Math: Linking Numbers: Operations on Numbers; Words and Numbers: Being Careful; Writing Really Big and Really Small Numbers, and Those In-between; Touching All 978-981-120-984-0 Bases, At Times with Logs; Numbers Need to be Exact, But It Ain’t Necessarily So; The Different US$108 / £95 Types of Numbers Have Not Evolved, But Our Understanding of Them Has; Really, Really Big and Really, Really Small Numbers; The Whole Truth of Whole Numbers; The Second World of 978-981-121-126-3(pbk) Math: The Math of Doing: The Math of the Digital World: Modular Arithmetic (or Using Number US$38 / £35 Leftovers); The Math of What Will Be: Progressions of Growth and Decay; Untangling The Worlds of Probability and Statistics; The Math of What Might Be: Probability — What Are the Odds?; The Math of What Was: Statistics — The Good, The Bad, and The Evil; The Math of Big Data; The Third World of Math: The Math of Making Decisions and Winning: The Math of Optimization, Ranking, Voting, and Allocation; The Math of Gaming; The Math of Risk; Closing Thoughts; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: The general, non-specialist, adult public, liberal arts students in colleges who want to transition to more technical subjects.

Key Features: ○ It can be understood by the general, non-specialist public ○ Examples in everyday life are used to illustrate points and make amusing connections ○ Examples that are important to the public are presented

About the Author Irving P Herman is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. His academic activities range from research in optics and nanomaterials, to a broader range of activities in publishing technical books, teaching research and professional ethics, and presenting technical work outside the university community. He has previously written two books: the technical monograph Optical Diagnostics for Thin Film Processing and the undergraduate textbook Physics of the Human Body.

46 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Mathematics A First Look at Stochastic Processes By (author): Jeffrey S Rosenthal (University of Toronto, Canada) This textbook introduces the theory of stochastic processes, that is, randomness which proceeds in time. Using concrete examples like repeated gambling and jumping frogs, it presents fundamental mathematical results through simple, clear, logical theorems and examples. It covers in detail such essential material as Markov chain recurrence criteria, the Markov chain convergence theorem, and optional stopping theorems for martingales. The final chapter provides a brief introduction to Brownian motion, Markov processes in continuous time and space, Poisson processes, and renewal theory. Interspersed throughout are applications to such topics as gambler’s ruin probabilities, random walks on graphs, sequence waiting times, branching processes, stock option pricing, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. The focus is always on making the theory as well-motivated and accessible as possible, to allow students and readers to learn this fascinating subject as easily and painlessly as possible. Rights Information: Contents: Preface; About the Author; Markov Chain Probabilities; Markov Chain Convergence; All language rights Martingales; Continuous Processes; Appendices: Background; Bibliography for Further Reading; Solutions to Problems Marked [sol]; Index. available.

Readership: Senior undergraduate and graduate students in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Actuarial Science, and other fields, who already 212pp know some basic probability theory, and who want to learn the foundations of stochastic processes Pub. date: Sep 2019 — including Markov chains, martingales, continuous processes, and a variety of applications. 978-981-120-790-7 Key Features: US$78 / £70 ○ The material is presented directly and succinctly, without excessive detours or diversions ○ Theorems are stated clearly and proved ○ The book provides the mathematical foundations of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, which are the author’s main research area

Foundations of Modern Econometrics A Unified Approach By (author): Yongmiao Hong (Cornell University, USA) Modern economies are full of uncertainties and risk. Economics studies resource allocations in an uncertain market environment. As a generally applicable quantitative analytic tool for uncertain events, probability and statistics have been playing an important role in economic research. Econometrics is statistical analysis of economic and financial data. In the past four decades or so, economics has witnessed a so-called “empirical revolution” in its research paradigm, and as the main methodology in empirical studies in economics, econometrics has been playing an important role. It has become an indispensable part of training in modern economics, business and management. This book develops a coherent set of econometric theory, methods and tools for economic models. It is written as a textbook for graduate students in economics, business, management, statistics, applied mathematics, and related fields. It can also be used as a reference book on econometric theory by scholars who may be interested in both theoretical and applied econometrics. Rights Information: Readership: Graduate students in economics, business, management, statistics, applied All language rights mathematics, and related fields. available.

Key Features: 524pp ○ This book has several important features. First, it covers, in a progressive manner, Pub. date: Jul 2020 various econometrics models and related methods from conditional means to possibly nonlinear conditional moments to the entire conditional distributions, and this is 978-981-122-018-0 achieved in a unified and coherent framework. There exists a strong logical link US$128 / £115 among the materials covered in different chapters of the book ○ Second, the book provides various intuitions, explanations and potential applications for important econometric concepts, theories and methods from an economic perspective. Economic examples are also provided to motivate important econometric methods and models. Such training is indispensable in teaching and learning econometrics ○ Third, the book emphasizes basic training in asymptotic analysis. It first provides a brief review of asymptotic analytic methods and tools, and then show how they are used to develop the econometric theory in each chapter. Asymptotic analysis helps readers gain deep insight into modern econometric theory, particularly the conditions under which the econometric theory, methods and models are valid and applicable. By going through various chapters in this book progressively, readers will learn how to do asymptotic analysis for econometric models. Such skills are useful not only for those students who intend to work on theoretical econometrics, but also for those who intend to work on applied subjects in economics because with such analytic skills, readers will be able to understand more specialized or more advanced econometrics textbooks

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 47 Geometric Foundations of Design Old and New By (author): Jay Kappraff (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

This book is meant to serve either as a textbook for an interdisciplinary course in Mathematics of Design, or as a trade book for designers. It will also be of interest for people interested in

Mathematics recreational mathematics showing the connection between mathematics and design. Topics from the book can also be adapted for use in pre-college mathematics. Each chapter will provide the user with ideas that can be incorporated in a design. Background materials will be provided to show the reader the mathematical principles that lie behind the designs.

Contents: Triangle-Circle and Square-Circle Designs; Margit Echols Quilt Patterns; Islamic — Pythagorean Theorem; Congruent and Non-Congruent Squares; Simple Tilings with Lattice Symmetry in 2 and 3-Dimensions; The Brunes Star; Versatiles, Optiles, Truchet Tiles and Kufic Tiles; Do You Like Paleolithic Op Art?; Meanders, Labyrinths and Mazes; Why is a Rights Information: Donut Mathematically Equivalent to a Coffee Cup: The Mobius Strip and Klein Bottle; Szilassi All language rights and Csaszar Polyhedra; Curves of Constant Width; Snowflakes, Trees and The Moon; A available. Fractal Wallhanging; Logarithmic Spirals; The Golden Mean; Wythoff’s Game; The Modulor of Lecorbusier; Non-Periodic Tilings; The Silver Mean; The Unified System of Proportions; Zonogons; 275pp Tangrams and Amish Quilts; Mirror Curves; Lunda Patterns; Visual Illusions — Op-Art; Visual Pub. date: Sep 2020 Illusions — Impossible Figures.

978-981-121-970-2 Readership: General Public, undergraduates and designers who are interested in seeing the US$98 / £85 connection between mathematics and design.

Key Features: ○ The book is written based on the ideas of three well-known mathematicians with wide experience involving students in the use of mathematics for creating designs ○ The book is highly graphic oriented with many examples of incorporating mathematics in design ○ Additional designs will be offered to the purchaser in a website ○ Many topics are novel and have not been presented elsewhere ○ Every effort has been made to make the topics accessible to non-mathematicians while at the same time being of interest to experienced mathematicians

Rights Information: Global Solution for Sudoku All language (except By (author): Zhong-Qi Ma (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Simplified Chinese) rights available. The present book aims to provide systematic and reliable techniques, called the global solution, for Sudoku puzzles. Any proper Sudoku puzzle, which has one and only one solution of Sudoku, 193pp can be solved by anyone following the techniques provided in this book. Specific symbols are Pub. date: Sep 2020 introduced to express the 6 basic rules of the Sudoku global solution, as the results, those Sudoku solving techniques are presented similar to the annotations in chess. Finnish mathematician Arto 978-981-122-460-7 Inkala proposed “the most difficult Sudoku puzzle” in 2007. Then, he designed another difficult US$39 / £35 Sudoku puzzle in 2012, named “the thing Everest”. In the present book the solving process of those two difficult Sudoku puzzles are illustrated reliably by the specific symbols of the global solution step by step. 978-981-122-461-4(pbk) US$14 / £10 Contents: Preface; The Classic Sudoku; Global Solution; Easy Problems of Sudoku; Satisfactory Problems of Sudoku; World›s Hardest Sudoku Puzzle.

Readership: People of all ages who are interested in Readership the Sudoku puzzles.

Key Features: ○ This book aims to provide the systematic and reliable techniques for Sudoku puzzles. Any proper Sudoku puzzle, which has one and only one solution of Sudoku, can be solved by anyone following these techniques provided in this book, step by step ○ The world’s hardest Sudoku puzzle designed by the Finnish mathematician Arto Inkala, was solved by the global solution step by step in this book ○ It demonstrates that anyone without advanced mathematical training could learn and apply the global solution introduced in this book to solve most of the Sudoku puzzles including even extremely difficult ones

48 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Mathematics KENKEN: Lim-Ops, No-Ops and Twist! 180 6 x 6 Puzzles That Make You Smarter Created by: Tetsuya Miyamoto Edited by: Robert Fuhrer (KenKen Puzzle, LLC, USA) This book will challenge seasoned KenKen players, enhance their solving techniques, and provide hours of fun puzzle play and brain training.

NEW RULES ARE INTRODUCED ... ○ Limited-operations puzzles, where puzzles may contain only addition, only subtraction, or a mix of addition and subtraction. ○ No-operations puzzles, where puzzles will use all four operations including multiplication and division, but YOU have to figure out which operations to use.

... AND A BRAND NEW PUZZLE Twist puzzles where instead of using 1 to 6 for a 6 x 6 puzzle as you do in regular KenKen, Rights Information: you›ll use a different candidate set each time. In one puzzle, you might use {1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9}; All language (except in another, you might use {2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9}. Different combinations will present exciting new Japanese) rights challenges. available. No puzzle involves guesswork ... there is always a logical way in! This collection of 6 x 6 puzzles is perfect for any experienced KenKen player ... from 156pp beginner to expert! Pub. date: Apr 2020 Hours of Fun, Challenges and ultimate Satisfaction!! 978-981-3236-67-7 KenKen is an exciting, mind-expanding puzzle based on “The Art of Teaching without Teaching”, US$38 / £33 an ingenious teaching philosophy developed by KenKen’s creator and renowned educator, Tetsuya Miyamoto. 978-981-3235-84-7(pbk) Contents: Introduction; The Rules of Standard KenKen; LIM-OPS PUZZLES (Addition & US$12 / £10 Subtraction); NO-OPS PUZZLES (All Operations); TWIST PUZZLES (All Operations); Solutions. Readership: KenKen Puzzle Enthusiasts at the Intermediate and Advanced Level. Good for all ages! Key Features: ○ KenKen is an intricate, yet simple, math and logic puzzle that requires a multi-level thought process designed to exercise and improve the mind ○ It marries education with entertainment in ways suitable for any age or ability

KENKEN: A Puzzle A Day! 365 Puzzles That Make You Smarter Created by: Tetsuya Miyamoto Edited by: Robert Fuhrer (KenKen Puzzle, LLC, USA) This book will challenge KenKen puzzle lovers to improve their puzzling, sharpen their logic and reasoning skills, and to just have fun by solving an all-new puzzle-a-day. It is suitable for ALL puzzle lovers, math and logic aficionados, and anyone who enjoys exercising their brain on a regular basis or who is interested in improving their thought processes. You’ll find a BRAND NEW, freshly “Kenerated” KenKen puzzle for every day of the year in this book. That›s right — 365 puzzles, ranging in size from 4 x 4 to 9 x 9, and ranging in difficulty from easy to advanced! We›re hopeful that you will find time each day to indulge in just one intriguing puzzle. You’ll also discover three different types of KenKen puzzles: ○ in which the operations are limited to different combinations Lim-ops puzzles, Rights Information: (addition/subtraction only, and multiplication only) ○ No-ops puzzles, in which there are no operations in the cages, only target numbers; All language (except ○ Twist puzzles, which require you to use a different set of numbers than usual to fill in Japanese) rights the grid. available. KenKen, the most enjoyable and fastest growing math and logic puzzle in the world, is based on the “The Art of Teaching without Teaching”, an ingenious teaching philosophy developed by 340pp KenKen’s creator and renowned educator, Tetsuya Miyamoto. Pub. date: Aug 2020 Give your brain a treat with these fascinating puzzles ... 978-981-3236-68-4 ... STARTING TODAY! US$48 / £42 Readership: KenKen Puzzle enthusiasts and all those who like to solve math puzzles. 978-981-3235-87-8(pbk) Key Features: US$19 / £15 ○ KenKen is an intricate, yet simple, math and logic puzzle that requires a multi-level thought process designed to exercise and improve the mind ○ It marries education with entertainment in ways suitable for any age with reasonable math ability

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 49 Mathematics Entertainment for the Millions By (author): Alfred S Posamentier (City University of New York, USA)

This book demonstrates to the general audience that mathematics can be entertaining and fun, rather than the sad reputation it has gained over decades from uninspired school instruction that is often devoid of enrichment or motivational considerations.

Mathematics The book is designed in such a way that a reader will need almost no special preparation in mathematics, but to recall some of the most basic concepts that were taught at the lower- secondary-grade level.

Yet, by the same token, the book will hopefully open up doors for those less motivated in mathematics — to interest readers to investigate some of the topics presented and thereby enhance their knowledge of mathematics — something most general readers will not initially find possible, but we hope will be an end product of this book. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: Arithmetic Entertainments; The Fun of Logical Reasoning; Geometric Surprises; A available. Potpourri of Mathematical Entertainments Readership: General public, mathematics teachers, mathematics enthusiast. 350pp Pub. date: Aug 2020 Key Features: ○ Augment today’s “teaching to the test” instructional methods 978-981-121-990-0 ○ Presented in a very reader-friendly fashion US$78 / £70

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Mathematical Nuggets from Austria Selected Problems from the Styrian Mid-Secondary School Mathematics Competitions By (author): Robert Geretschläger (BRG Keplerstraβe, Austria) & Gottfried Perz (BG/BRG Pestalozzistraβe, Austria)

This book is composed of the most interesting problems from a quarter century of regional mathematics competitions for students aged 11–14 in the province of Styria, Austria. The problems presented here range from pure puzzles to a more traditional mathematical type of question, but all are somehow special, posed with the intent of giving the reader something interesting to think about, with the promise of an entertaining moment of elucidation and enlightenment at the end.

Contents: Number Digits; A Little Bit of Algebra; Building with Bricks; Sports; Circles; Logic; Fractions; Percentages; Our 3D World; Money; Its About Time; Letter Puzzles and Digit Puzzles; Rights Information: How Frau, How Fast, How Long; Triangles; Quadrilaterals and Polygons; Divisibility; Cutting and All language rights Rearranging; Sequences; Counting Things. available. Readership: Students, Teachers, Adults interested in solving mathematical puzzles, Trainers for Math Competitions. 300pp Pub. date: Sep 2020 Key Features: ○ Fun problems for all ages 978-981-121-989-4 ○ Excellent practise for students training their problem solving skills US$78 / £70 ○ Great fun for adults when they feel like tackling some puzzles of a more varied nature than those typically offered in newspaper puzzles collections or the like 978-981-121-928-3(pbk) US$36 / £30

50 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Mathematics Mathematical Muffin Morsels Nobody Wants a Small Piece By (author): William Gasarch (University of Maryland, USA), Erik Metz (University of Maryland, USA), Jacob Prinz (University of Maryland, USA) & Daniel Smolyak (University of Maryland, USA)

Suppose you have five muffins that you want to divide and give to Alice, Bob, and Carol. You want each of them to get 5/3. You could cut each muffin into 1/3-1/3-1/3 and give each student five 1/3-sized pieces. But Alice objects! She has large hands! She wants everyone to have pieces larger than 1/3.

Is there a way to divide five muffins for three students so that everyone gets 5/3, and all pieces are larger than 1/3? Spoiler alert: Yes! In fact, there is a division where the smallest piece is 5/12. Is there a better division? Spoiler alert: No.

In this book we consider THE MUFFIN PROBLEM: what is the best way to divide up m muffins Rights Information: for s students so that everyone gets m/s muffins, with the smallest pieces maximized. We look at both procedures for the problem and proofs that these procedures are optimal. All language rights available. This problem takes us through much mathematics of interest, for example, combinatorics and optimization theory. However, the math is elementary enough for an advanced high school student. 228pp Contents: Preface; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Five Muffins, Three Students; Three Pub. date: May 2020 Muffins, Five Students; One Student! Two Students! Some Basic Theorems!; Our Plan; Three 978-981-121-517-9 Students! Four Students! The Floor–Ceiling Theorem!; Finding Procedures; The Half Method; A Formula for ƒ(m,5); The Interval Method; The Midpoint Method; The Easy Buddy–Match US$58 / £50 Method; The Hard Buddy–Match Method; The Gap and Train Methods; Scott Huddleston’s 978-981-121-597-1(pbk) Method; Appendices: Math Notation; Fair Division; ƒ(m,s) Exists! ƒ(m,s) is Rational! ƒ(m,s) is US$28 / £25 Computable!; References; Index.

Readership: High school and undergraduate students, computer scientists, mathematicians, and anyone interested in recreational mathematics.

Key Features: ○ Fun mathematics for high school students ○ Material on Muffin Mathematics appears here for the first time ○ Unique book, since most other recreational math books are essays on separate topics

Mathemagics: A Magical Journey Through Advanced Mathematics Connecting More Than 60 Magic Tricks to High-Level Math By (author): Ricardo V Teixeira (University of Houston-Victoria, USA) & Jang-Woo Park (University of Houston-Victoria, USA)

Teixeira and Park present over 60 different magic tricks while introducing students to high-level math areas. Readers will learn really interesting ideas that will better prepare them for future courses and help them finding areas they might want to study deeper. And as a “side effect” students will learn amazing magic tricks, century-old secrets, and details from famous magicians and mathematicians.

The material was written to quickly present key concepts in several mathematical areas in direct way. Little or no proficiency in math is assumed. In fact, students do not require any Calculus knowledge. And since chapters are almost independent from each other, this book also work as introduction to several other courses. Rights Information: All language rights Topics covered include mathematical proofs, probability, abstract algebra, linear algebra, available. mathematical computing, number theory, coding theory, geometry, topology, real analysis, numerical analysis and history of math. 408pp Contents: Mathematical Proofs; Probability; Abstract Algebra; Linear Algebra; Mathematical Pub. date: May 2020 Computing; Number Theory; Coding Theory; Geometry; Topology; Real Analysis; Numerical Analysis; History of Math. 978-981-121-450-9 US$98 / £85 Readership: High school and college students, general public. 978-981-121-530-8(pbk) Key Features: US$48 / £40 ○ Students will learn key concepts from 12 different mathematical and computational areas in a fun way ○ There is no book in the market that offers the introduction to these areas at all ○ Book comes with 62 magic tricks and almost 400 exercises so students will have great opportunities to practice the material

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 51 The Fate of Schrodinger’s Cat Using Math and Computers to Explore the Counterintuitive By (author): James D Stein (California State University Long Beach, USA)

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lifetime of experience, tells us that we cannot, as these are classic examples of what are known to be 50–50 guesses. Mathematics

But mathematics is filled with counterintuitive results — and this book discusses some surprising and entertaining examples. It is possible to devise experiments in which a flipped coin lands heads completely at random half the time, but we can also correctly predict when it will land heads more than half the time. The Fate of Schrodinger’s Cat shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive.

Rights Information: This book explores fascinating and controversial questions involving prediction, decision-making, All language rights and statistical analysis in a number of diverse areas, ranging from whether there is such a thing as a “hot hand” in shooting a basketball, to how we can successfully predict, more than half the available. time, the decay of the radioactive atom that determines the fate of Schrodinger’s Cat.

172pp Contents: The Monty Hall Problem; How Probabilistic Entanglement Connects Almost Everything; Pub. date: Jul 2020 Blackwell›s Bet; A Stop at Willoughby — Mathematics in the Twilight Zone; The Fate of Schrodinger›s Cat; Coins and Camels; The Joy of Simulation; Numbed by Numbers; Losing the 978-981-121-863-7 Battle, Winning the War; The Hot Hand; The Bent Coin and the Hot Hand; Using Combinatorics US$58 / £50 to Improve Advertising — For Everyone.

978-981-121-815-6(pbk) Readership: General Public, undergraduate math teachers and students in mathematics, computer programming, quantum mechanics, sports or the advertising business. US$28 / £25 Key Features: ○ Much of the material is either new or has not seen in a book of this type — in some cases because it has only appeared in journals or books within the last year or so ○ It is a unique blend of probability, statistics, computer modeling, sports, decision- making, quantum mechanics and the advertising business

Thinking Matters Module I Critical Thinking as Creative Problem Solving By (author): Gary Mar (Stony Brook University, USA)

The ancient Roman orator Horace (65 B.C.–8 B.C.) wrote, “Control your mind or it will control you.” In today’s society we are faced with more information, and more complex information, than ever. Faced with making decisions, we can feel overwhelmed and helpless. One way to become less helpless — to gain control over our lives — is to gain control over our own thinking. We can feel helpless when faced with this barrage of information, opinions, data, and conflicting arguments if we lack the skills to quickly grasp and critically evaluate them. This book is designed to impart these kinds of skills.

Any course in a university should do more than teach information — in nearly every field, ‘facts’ become obsolete quickly. The goals of Thinking Matters are to help you: ○ to be more creative, fluid, and perceptive in solving problems; Rights Information: ○ to identify the implicit premises, fallacies, or moral principles that are presupposed in All language rights the arguments of others; available. ○ to be able to advocate for what you believe by effectively refuting opposing arguments and presenting persuasive arguments of your own; 190pp ○ to understand the logic of scientific testing to distinguish between science and Pub. date: Oct 2020 pseudo-science;

978-981-121-684-8 ○ to develop your own style and intuitive powers of logical deduction, probabilistic US$88 / £75 reasoning, and computational thinking. The text is punctuated with exercises or ‘personal experiments’ to challenge and stimulate your curiosity. These exercises may take the form of an inventory to be taken, a puzzle to be solved, or some thoughts to ponder.

The first module Thinking Matters: Critical Thinking as Creative Problem Solving introduces the student to all the above topics — logic, probability, argument forms and fallacies, ethical reasoning, algorithms, and computational thinking — through logic puzzles and games and mathematical magic tricks.

52 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Mathematics Contents: Preface to Teachers, Preface to Students; The Thinking Reed; «Eureka!» Problem Solving Heuristics; Bridges to Problem Solving; Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Previews; Computational Magic; Cultivating Creativity; References; Index.

Readership: Undergraduates in Logical and Critical Thinking courses, general public with interests in Logical Puzzles. Mathematical Magic, Logic Games, Creative Problem Solving, Computational Thinking.

Key Features: ○ The book is beautifully laid out in the Tufte format with margins for quotations, illustrations, and creative doodling ○ The book is punctuated with puzzles and exercises that advance the argument of the text by giving the student first-hand experience with what is discussed ○ The methods that are introduced by these puzzles will be developed more fully and formally, but no less playfully, in the volumes to follow

Understanding Game Theory Introduction to the Analysis of Many Agent Systems with Competition and Cooperation (2nd Edition) By (author): Vassili N Kolokoltsov (The University of Warwick, UK & St. Petersburg State University, Russia) & Oleg A Malafeyev (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

Steadily growing applications of game theory in modern science (including psychology, biology and economics) require sources to provide rapid access in both classical tools and recent developments to readers with diverse backgrounds. This book on game theory, its applications and mathematical methods, is written with this objective in mind. The book gives a concise but wide-ranging introduction to games including older (pre-game theory) party games and more recent topics like elections and evolutionary games and is generously spiced with excursions into philosophy, history, literature and politics. A distinguished feature is the clear separation of the text into two parts: elementary and advanced, which makes the book ideal for study at various levels. Rights Information: Part I displays basic ideas using no more than four arithmetic operations and requiring from All language (except the reader only some inclination to logical thinking. It can be used in a university degree course Russian) rights available. without any (or minimal) prerequisite in mathematics (say, in economics, business, systems biology), as well as for self-study by school teachers, social and natural scientists, businessmen 412pp or laymen. Part II is a rapid introduction to the mathematical methods of game theory, suitable for a mathematics degree course of various levels. Pub. date: Aug 2020 To stimulate the mathematical and scientific imagination, graphics by a world-renowned 978-981-121-485-1 mathematician and mathematics imaging artist, A T Fomenko, are used. The carefully selected US$128 / £115 works of this artist fit remarkably into the many ideas expressed in the book. This new edition has been updated and enlarged. In particular, two new chapters were added on statistical limit of games with many agents and on quantum games, reflecting possibly the two most stunning trends in the game theory of the 21st century.

Contents: Basic Ideas: Around the Prisoner›s Dilemma; Auctions and Networks; Wise Men and Businessmen; Hawks and Doves, Lions and Lambs; Coalitions and Distribution; Presidents and Dictators; At the Doors of Quantum Games; It›s Party Time!; Armed with Mathematics: A Rapid Course in Mathematical Game Theory; Examples of Game Models and Methods; Elements of More Advanced Analysis; Games of Many Agents in Statistical Limit; Quantum Games.

Readership: Undergraduates and graduate students in applied mathematics, economics, business, finances and systems biology; non-experts interested in the application of mathematical methods and ideas in natural and social sciences, business and life.

Key Features: ○ The updated second edition contains two new chapters on statistical limit of games with many agents and on quantum games ○ Reveals information on game theory in relation to other fields of human culture, making the book accessible to a wider range of readers and stresses natural connections to a variety of sciences and human creative activities (biology, philosophy, sociology, politics, military strategy, etc) ○ Provides a clear separation into two parts of elementary and advanced levels, allowing a grasps of ideas without spending too much time on unnecessary technicalities ○ Includes exercises with detailed hints to enhance the appreciation of the materials presented ○ Highly illustrated in graphics by world-renowned mathematician and mathematics imaging artist, A T Fomenko

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 53 Editor’s Choice Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math Strategies, Curiosities, and Stories to Make Math Fun for Parents and Children By (author): Alfred S Posamentier (Long Island University, USA), Gavrielle Levine (Long Island University, USA), Aaron Lieberman (Long Island University, USA) & Danielle Sauro (Long Island University, USA) Mathematics Parents need to take an ever-increasing role in their child’s learning experience. However, what to do and how to do it is often not prescribed to the parents. This book offers a wide variety of aspects related to the parent’s role as a support to their child’s learning of mathematics, and above all appreciation for the subject.

The uniqueness of this book is that we provide the parent the information they need about how mathematics is taught in today’s early grades. We then provide a plethora of ideas that can Rights Information: motivate children with information beyond that which is taught in the classroom. All language (except Readership: Parents and general public. Russian) rights available.

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978-981-3271-42-5 US$88 / £75

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Editor’s Choice The Two-Minute Puzzle Book Puzzles to Train Your Brain By (author): David Goodman, Ilan Garibi LEARN SHORTCUTS Many of the puzzles will seem as though they will take longer than two minutes to solve, but ... there are shortcuts if you can find them!! There are faster ways to solve each problem and dilemma. The Two-Minute Puzzle Book will teach you to look for such loopholes and shortcuts! ENGAGING THEMATIC PUZZLES From Chapter One›s «The One and Only» through Chapter Nine›s «The Whole Nine Yards», each chapter contains puzzles related to the chapter›s theme. For example, in the second chapter, you will find mechanical puzzles with double pieces, riddles about couples, line puzzles and more. There are match puzzles, tangram-related puzzles, paper puzzles, geometric puzzles and mathematical puzzles to tease and occupy all types of puzzlists. Some require intuition but all are two minutes away from a solution. Rights Information: UNIQUE CHALLENGES As with their previous puzzle books, the authors, David Goodman and All language (except Ilan Garibi, aim to provide a fresh and original book. Many of the puzzles are coming from their heads and are not retreads!! There are some classic puzzles too, but the authors present them Hebrew) rights available. in an original way. CULTIVATE YOUR BRAIN TO THINK CREATIVELY Crack open this book and allow the puzzles 164pp presented to train your brain. Always look for a bypass or shortcut. Find a different point of view. Pub. date: Feb 2020 By rephrasing the question, a solution may surface!

978-981-121-775-3 We hope that this book will tickle your imagination and sharpen your mind. You just might begin US$68 / £60 to solve everyday “real-world” problems differently. FLEX YOUR BRAIN. Contents: Foreword; Thanks; Introduction; How to Use this Book; Glossary of Terms; The ONE 978-981-121-319-9(pbk) and Only; TWO Heads are Better than One; THIRD Time Lucky; FOUR Corners of the Earth; US$28 / £25 High FIVE; Check your SIX; Twenty-Four SEVEN; Behind the EIGHT Ball; The Whole NINE Yards; Appendices: Hints; Templates.

Readership: Puzzle and riddle lovers.

Key Features: ○ Many new and original puzzles with in-depth solutions ○ Suitable for all ages and levels ○ Both educational and fun; highly challenging puzzles

54 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Medicine Algorithms in Differential Diagnosis How to Approach Common Presenting Complaints in Adult Patients, for Medical Students and Junior Doctors By (author): Nigel Fong (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore)

“This book has helped to shape how I think about approaching patients. Those who read and understand it will be able to better synthesize the immense amount of medical knowledge expected from us.” Tan Jiekai medical student, National University of Singapore

“Other textbooks tend to teach one disease at a time, which is not how it is in the wards. Differential diagnosis is a fundamental skill we need to pick up and this book does the trick.” Lynnette Ng Rights Information: medical student, National University of Singapore All language (except Simplified Chinese and “Nigel’s Algorithms is a handy gestalt approach to the problems that patients present with, and succinctly provides a scaffolding for students to learn how to diagnose. One of this book’s Indonesian) rights available. strengths is that it was written at a relatively junior stage of the author’s career — he understands the confusion that students have, and is thus able to guide the learner through a diagnostic 500pp approach much better than someone older. The pairing of a junior author with 20 senior specialist Pub. date: Dec 2018 reviewers has ensured both accuracy and approachability.” 978-981-3232-92-1 Dr Ong Thun How US$98 / £85 Senior Consultant & Program Director, Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine Singapore General Hospital 978-981-120-055-7(pbk) US$48 / £40

This is a book for medical students and first-year doctors who wish to learn how to approach a patient’s symptoms, and sharpen their skills of clinical reasoning and diagnosis.

Fifty-four presenting symptoms are discussed, covering approaches and conditions across various medical and surgical disciplines. Each chapter sets out the thought process behind history, examination, and investigations for a symptom, providing a systematic and practical algorithm to distinguish one differential from another. The reader will gain not only a functional approach to patients’ presenting complaints, but also learn how to better organize and apply medical knowledge in diagnostic reasoning.

Readership: Medical students and first-year doctors.

Key Features: ○ This book covers common presenting complaints in adult patients, cutting across different clinical specialties — from internal medicine subspecialties, to surgical disciplines, rthopaedics, and gynaecology

○ To help students and junior clinicians approach differential diagnosis with smart strategies. this book provides the basic schemata, which categorizes possible diagnoses in terms of their clinical picture, identifies key differentiators, and discusses the reasoning process how to comprehensively consider all possibilities yet narrow down to the most likely diagnosis

○ Every chapter provides a clinical vignette, with a discussion on how the suggested algorithm can be applied to the clinical scenario

○ The book is written with input from 15+ senior subspecialty experts

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 55 Aerosols and the Human Lung An Introduction By (author): Chantal Darquenne (University of California, San Diego, USA), Otmar Schmid (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany) & G Kim Prisk (University of California, Medicine San Diego, USA)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of aerosol science related to particle inhalation and its effect on the lung, predominately in humans. It covers the basics of aerosol behavior, transport, deposition, clearance, and effects of aerosols, both environmental and therapeutic. Aimed at the researcher entering the field of aerosol inhalation it provides a valuable introductory resource in an accessible format.

Contents: Introduction; The Respiratory System; Aerosol Transport and Deposition: The Basics; Aerosol Measurement Techniques; Determination of Aerosol Deposition; Clearance of Deposited Rights Information: Particles; Aerosols as a Diagnostic Tool; Aerosol Therapeutics; Ambient and Indoor Aerosol; All language rights Adverse Health Effects of Aerosols; Aerosols in Unusual Environments; Regulation of Particle Exposure. available. Readership: Researchers working in the multi-faceted field of aerosol science; those in the related 200pp fields of respiratory medicine and environmental health. Pub. date: Mar 2020 Key Features: 978-981-121-217-8 ○ Accessible concise approach US$88 / £75 / SGD130 ○ Key references and new material provided ○ Broad coverage of the multi-faceted field ○ Coherent view on therapeutic and adverse health effects of inhaled aerosol

About the Authors Chantal Darquenne is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She earned her PhD degree in Applied Sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Physiology at UCSD where she still holds her current position. Dr Darquenne studies the deposition and dispersion of inhaled aerosols to gain greater insight into the mechanisms involved in particle transport in the lung. Her major research contributions in the field include the study of aerosol inhalations in humans in altered gravity, the development of numerical models that simulate the transport and deposition of aerosols in the lung, the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to measure aerosol deposition in animal models, the effect of lung disease such as COPD on both regional and overall aerosol deposition, and the study of upper airway dynamics during breathing and its effect on aerosol transport. She is the President of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (2019–2021).

Otmar Schmid is head of the Pulmonary Aerosol Delivery Group at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Comprehensive Pneumology Center in Munich, Germany. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST), from which he hold a PhD degree in physics. He has more than 20 years of experience in aerosol science working in the fields of ambient aerosol characterization, combustion aerosols and particle lung deposition. More recently, his research focus has shifted to therapeutic aerosols, dosimetry and biokinetics of aerosols in the lungs and the biological effects of nanoparticles. He holds patents related to aerosol technology and he has worked intensely towards bridging the gap between aerosol science, medicine and toxicology. He has served on the boards of related professional societies including the Association for Aerosol Research (GAeF) and the International Society of Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM).

Kim Prisk earned his PhD from the University of Otago in 1983 and has been at the University of California, San Diego ever since. He worked extensively on studies of the human lung in weightlessness in spaceflight on both the Space Shuttle and on the International Space Station. These studies were extended to studies on aerosol transport and deposition and the influence of gravity on these processes using parabolic flight. More recently he has worked on the development and use of functional imaging techniques using MRI to quantitatively measure both ventilation and perfusion in the human lung. Despite the low signal to noise environment for MRI in the lung, the techniques offer imaging without the constraints of radiation dose or the use of injected contrast agents, making them well-suited for studies that require repeated imaging. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Physiology with an emphasis on pulmonary gas exchange and environmental physiology.

56 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Medicine Bridging the Gap Integrative Oncology and the Practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine By (author): Bianca Di Giulio (The Wellness Principle, USA) & James Munson (Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine of Napa, USA) The book’s inherent value, currently, is in its uniqueness. There are few books on Integrative Oncology (IO). There are few books on the entirety of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of cancer. There are even fewer, if any, books that deal with the topics of Integrative Oncology and the use of traditional Chinese medicine as a whole in the treatment of people with cancer. While very broad and deep topics, this makes for a varied audience of interest that includes not just the TCM practitioner or student, but Western health practitioners and patients as well as laypeople interested in the topic of oncology. For those interested in the topic of IO, it gives one of the few non-biased, honest and critical views of the state of IO in contrast to what is promoted by various institutions and societies. For the Western health practitioner and/or patient, many of whom are completely unfamiliar with Rights Information: TCM and how it works or can be used, it provides information on the breadth of TCM and how it All language rights can be applied in various ways to help improve outcomes. available. For the TCM practitioner or student, it provides much needed information on how to go about caring for a patient with cancer to include clinical pearls and important Western medical information 300pp and terminology. Pub. date: Aug 2020

Contents: Prologue; Introduction; History of Western Medical Oncology; History of Chinese 978-981-120-402-9 Medical Oncology; Integrative Oncology; Chinese Medicine & Oncology; TCM Theory & US$108 / £95 Acupuncture Oncology; Moxibustion; Chinese Herbal Medicine; Manual Therapy; Exercise; Dietary Therapy; Eight-Extraordinary Meridians — Connecting Mind & Body; Where to Begin with a TCM Oncology Intake; Coordinating TCM Treatments with Western Medicine; Clinical Case Studies & Applications of Modalities; End of Life.

Readership: TCM practitioners, TCM students, Western health practitioners and patients, laypeople interested in the topic of oncology.

Key Features: ○ Unique: specific book on integrative oncology and how the full scope of TCM can be used in the treatment of patients with cancer in therapeutic settings designed to be informative for the general reader or healthcare practitioner, approachable for the new TCM doctor/practitioner, and informative for the established TCM physician seeking broader knowledge base on the subject of IO and Chinese medicine ○ The topic of Integrative Oncology is rapidly evolving with few other significant competing works, particularly for the field of Chinese medicine ○ Patients with cancer are seeking complementary therapies and TCM is one of the first avenues of support. Therefore, TCM practitioner’s are beginning to see patients at increasing rates in the clinical setting, yet, it is not a topic that most practitioners are prepared to adequately treat. This is due to the fact that it is a complex specialty, not covered in most schools or in the continuing education side of teaching

Hydrogen-Oxygen Inhalation for Treatment of COVID-19 With Commentary from Zhong Nanshan By (author): Kecheng Xu (Jinan University, China)

COVID-19 pneumonia is ravaging the world. Faced with the lack of specialized treatment, a novel form of hydrogen-oxygen inhalation therapy has been successfully developed. Molecular hydrogen, a very safe “physiological gas”, has proven to be able to reduce lung damage caused by viruses including COVID-19, improve dyspnea, and promote disease recovery due to its healing biological properties.

This book details an innovative form of treatment from theory to practice, and comprehensively discusses the rationality of this new treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia. It is ideal not only for doctors, but also for the general public, as it provides new knowledge and effective treatment and rehabilitation methods to combat this highly infectious disease.

Contents: Hydrogen Gas and Its Biological Effects; Effects of Hydrogen on Experimental Lung Rights Information: Damage; Pathogenesis of Viral Infectious Lung Disease; Oxidative Stress and ROS During Viral All language rights Respiratory Infections; Study on Lung Diseases with Hydrogen-Oxygen Treatment; Rationality of available. Application of Hydrogen-Oxygen Inhalation for COVID-19 Pneumonia; Clinical Use of Hydrogen- Oxygen Inhalation for Treatment of COVID-19 Pneumonia. 150pp Readership: Respiratory medicine specialists, healthcare professionals, research scientists and Pub. date: Sep 2020 readers who are interested in the research, treatment and prevention of COVID-19. General public 978-981-122-329-7 interested in COVID-19 treatment and control. US$58 / £50

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 57 The Atlas of Ankle Replacements Edited by: Paul Cooke (The Oxford Centre for Foot & Ankle Medicine, UK) & Andrew Goldberg (Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, UK)

Medicine The future of ankle replacements will be governed by careful patient selection, meticulous surgical technique, and appropriate prospective follow up and reporting as well as the introduction and collaboration of joint replacement registers. There is a large uptrend in the use of ankle replacements and a need for authoritative publications that can be used as a reference internationally.

The Atlas of Ankle Replacements is an objective, comprehensive and authoritative textbook on this subject. With easy-to-read chapters from global pioneers in ankle replacement, alongside extensive images, illustrations and photographs, this title has widespread appeal and accessibility to foot and ankle surgeons, engineers and industry alike.

Rights Information: Contents: Preface (Hakon Kofoed); Biomechanics (Alberto Leardini, John J O’Connor, Sandro All language rights Giannini); Biomaterials (Claire Brockett); Anatomy of the Ankle (Tim Williams, Dishan Singh & Andy available. Goldberg); Ankle Arthritis (Rhys Thomas & Timothy Daniels); Indications & Contraindications for TAR (H Cornelis (Kees) Doets); Alternative Treatment Options for Ankle Arthritis (Brian Donley & 320pp Manuel Leyes); History of the Total Ankle Replacement (John Kirkup & Andy Goldberg); Designs of Pub. date: Aug 2020 Total Ankle Replacement (The Atlas); Outcomes of Total Ankle Replacement (Anders Henricson); Surgical Technique of Total Ankle Replacement (Arul Ramasamy, Ali Najefi, Paul Cooke, Andy 978-1-78634-623-0 Goldberg); Complications of Ankle Replacement — Prevention & Treatment (James K DeOrio & US$118 / £105 Daniel Latt); Total Ankle Replacement in Deformity (J Chris Coetzee & Pascal Rippstein); Total Ankle Replacement in patients with Co-Morbidity (Klammer Georg & Espinosa Norman); Modes of Failure of Total Ankle Replacement (Timothy Clough & Michael Karski); Revision Total Ankle Replacement (Sunil Dhar, Dakshinamurthy Sunderamoorthy & Haroon Majeed); Bibliography.

Readership: It is an essential reference source for foot and ankle surgeons internationally.

Key Features: ○ This is an up-to-date authoritative textbook with a list of all prosthesis layed out like an atlas

Editor’s Choice Constable and Lim Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology (6th Edition) By (author): Ian J Constable (Lions Eye Institute, Australia), Tien Yin Wong (Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore & NUS, Singapore) & Vignesh Raja (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia)

In the 6th edition of this Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology, all the chapters have been comprehensively updated to incorporate the latest advances in the understanding, diagnosis, investigations and treatment of ocular diseases. This edition has new chapters on glaucoma, trauma, global blindness with major revisions of chapters particularly cornea, cataract and retina. Photographs and images have been updated to reflect the progress in imaging systems and new diagnostic modalities. The electronic version of this book also includes short videos of common surgeries in ophthalmology. With more than 300 high quality pictures and concise text, this book will be an excellent reference for medical students, general practitioners, optometrists, paramedical personnel and community ophthalmic assistants to help understand and treat Rights Information: common eye diseases. All language (except Russian) rights available. Readership: For medical students, general practitioners, optometrists, paramedical personnel and community ophthalmic assistants. 200pp Pub. date: Aug 2018

978-981-3236-61-5 US$68 / £60

978-981-3237-29-2(pbk) US$38 / £33

58 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Editor’s Choice Medicine Cobert’s Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance 3rd Edition By (author): Barton Cobert (BLCMD Associates LLC, USA), William W Gregory (Pfizer Inc., USA) & Jean-Loup Thomas (Hospices Civils de Lyon, France)

Completely revised and updated, Cobert’s Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Third Edition, is a how-to manual for those working in the fields of drug safety, clinical research, pharmacology, regulatory affairs, risk management, quality/compliance, and in government and legal professions.

This comprehensive and practical guide discusses the theory and the practicalities of drug safety (also known as pharmacovigilance), and provides essential information on drug safety and regulations in the United States, Europe Union, and more, including: recognizing, monitoring, reporting, and cataloging serious adverse drug reactions. Rights Information: Cobert’s Manual of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Third Edition, teaches the daily practice of drug safety in industry, hospitals, the FDA and other health agencies — both in the United States All language (except and around the world — and provides critical information about what to do when confronted with Simplified Chinese) rights a drug safety problem. available.

The Theory and Definitions of Drug Safety — Pharmacovigilance; Clinical Trials, Contents: 524pp Clinical Research Organizations, Phases I–IV, and Investigator-Initiated Trials; Spontaneous Pub. date: Apr 2019 Post-marketing Adverse Events; The Theory of Drug Safety — Pharmacovigilance; The Mathematics of Adverse Events and a Brief Note on Pharmacoepidemiology; Epidemiology 978-981-3278-84-4 and Pharmacoepidemiology: What Are They? What Are Their Limitations and Advantages?; US$98 / £85 Regulations, Directives, Guidance, Laws and Consensus Documents; The United States Food and Drug Administration; The European Medicines Agency; The EU Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance; The Uppsala Monitoring Centre; Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences; Where Data Reside; Information Technology, Databases, and Computers; Adverse Events with New Chemical Entities, Generics, Excipients, Placebos, and Counterfeits; Children, Elderly, and Other Special (Vulnerable) Groups; Pregnancy and Lactation; Acute and Chronic (Late Occurring) Adverse Events, Adverse Events That Disappear (Bendectin) and Diethylstilbesterol; Drug Interactions; Product Quality Issues; AE Volume, Quality, Good Documentation Procedures, and Medical Records; Seriousness, Expectedness, and Causality; Coding of Adverse Events and Drug Names; Expedited and Aggregate Reporting in Clinical Trials; Post-marketing Spontaneous ICSR/SAE Reporting; Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports, and Periodic Safety Update Reports/Periodic Benefit Risk Evaluation Reports; Signals and Signaling in the Context of Risk Management; Risk: What Is It? Risk Management and Assessment, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies, and Risk Management Plans; Data Monitoring Committees and Investigational Review Boards/Ethics Committees; Pharmaceutical Companies; Organization of a Typical Drug Safety Department; How an Individual Case Safety Report (ICSR) is Handled from Start to Finish; PV Quality System; Training; Audits and Inspections; Pharmacovigilance System Master File; Ethical Issues and Conflicts of Interest; The Safety Department’s Role in Clinical Research, CROs, Marketing and Sales, Labeling, Regulatory, Quality, Due Diligence, Legal Issues, Toxicology, Epidemiology, Medical Information and Manufacturing; Drug Labeling; Universities and Academic Medical Centers; Vaccinovigilance; Business Partners and Exchange of Safety Data; Data Privacy and Security; The Roles and Interactions of Companies, Governments, Non-governmental Organizations, and Others in the World of Pharmacovigilance; Real-World Issues: Case Studies; Medical Marijuana and Pharmacovigilance; International Council for Harmonisation (ICH).

Readership: Students, Medical professionals and others working in the field of pharmaceuticals. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, PharmDs, PhDs, podiatrists, dentists, clinical researchers. In particular those who are involved in the safety and efficacy of drugs both in research and already on the market.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 59 Essentials of Ophthalmology For Medical School and Beyond By (author): Victor Koh (National University Hospital, Singapore) & Ray Manotosh (National University Hospital, Singapore) Medicine Essentials of Ophthalmology: For Medical School and Beyond is a concise reference text for the medical undergraduates and residents, but the contents will also benefit family physicians who really are the first line of eye-care givers in the community.

Highly illustrated with 200 colour clinical pictures and illustrations, the book is written by the multi-disciplinary faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology, National University Health System, Singapore. The authors constantly asked themselves “how much is too much” and deliberately attempted to weed out any “excess” for the benefit of the target readers. The content is written in a point format with lucid language. Rights Information: Emphasis has been focused on information that constitutes essential ophthalmic “core conditions All language (except and problems” of the current medical undergraduate curriculum. Every section in the book has Arabic) rights available. “learning objectives” and a “take home message” to facilitate quick learning. The book embraces a practical guide to the study of ocular diseases, basic methods of investigations and treatment 250pp where applicable. Pub. date: Aug 2018 Readership: Medical undergraduates, residents, primary eye-care providers. 978-981-3275-59-1 US$128 / £115 Key Features: ○ The book is designed to incorporate knowledge and skills to prepare the undergraduate 978-981-3275-98-0(pbk) medical students for their NUS rotation within Ophthalmology US$68 / £60 ○ The content is written in summarized point format with lucid language that is supplemented with more than 200 high resolution clinical pictures and illustrations ○ Atlas of coloured images which illustrates concepts, anatomy, conditions, treatment and common complications related to the Asian population

Rights Information: Fundamentals of Glaucoma All language rights A Guide for Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioners, Optometrists and available. Orthoptists 120pp Edited by: Salman Waqar (Royal Eye Infirmary, UK) Pub. date: Aug 2020 Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Robust screening alongside early diagnosis and prompt management is essential for preserving vision. Advanced ophthalmic nurse 978-981-121-644-2 practitioners, optometrists and orthoptists are increasingly becoming part of a multi-disciplinary US$85 / £75 team approach that is designed to provide the best outcomes for our patients.

978-981-121-746-3(pbk) This full-colour book has been written by experienced ophthalmologists and optometrists, and US$40 / £35 details all that a practitioner needs to know about the condition. It will also serve as a useful reference for junior ophthalmic trainees and medical students.

Contents: Introduction; Anatomy; Definition and Classification; Examination Techniques; Investigations; Eye Drops; Lasers; Surgical Options; Improving quality of life; Developing a Holistic Approach to Glaucoma Management; Useful Resources; Index.

Readership: Ophthalmic nurse practitioners, opticians, orthoptists, ophthalmologits.

Key Features: ○ Focused, yet comprehensive, introduction to glaucoma ○ Dedicated chapters on anatomy, clinical examination techniques, imaging (visual fields, optical coherence tomography and ultrasound biomicroscopy) and common medical treatments ○ Introduction to available laser options ○ Overview of surgical techniques including Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) and Aqueous Shunt Devices ○ Advice on helping patients maintain quality of life, and towards developing a holistic approach to management ○ Well-illustrated with both hand-drawn illustrations and colour photographs

60 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Medicine Haematology A Core Curriculum (2nd Edition) By (author): Barbara Jane Bain (Imperial College London, UK) Reviews of the First Edition: “Barbara Bain is well known to anybody in the UK or Ireland who has sat for the MRCPath examination. Her knowledge of morphology, her precision and her attention to details are legendary … The information on various haematological conditions is clearly laid out and well illustrated … I particularly liked the chapter on ‘what you need to know before you graduate’.” British Journal of Haematology

“The author is very good at describing how various hematological diseases present in the real world … I recommend this book very highly to medical students and to practicing clinicians alike.” The Medical Media Review

This second edition of Haematology: A Core Curriculum is written by a haematologist with more Rights Information: than forty-five years of experience in teaching haematology to medical students and whose pedagogical and writing skills are widely admired within the field. All language rights available. The textbook takes a useful, practical approach, incorporating self-evaluation questions and learning objectives that give students the information needed to understand the topic and clear indications of the core knowledge required to progress within the field of haematology. Themes 364pp covered include clinical haematology and the scientific basis of the discipline and the causes and Pub. date: May 2020 pathogenesis of haematological disorders as well as how conditions are diagnosed and treated. 978-1-78634-866-1 Haematology closely follows the Imperial College London curriculum but medical students, trainee nurses and biomedical science students from other institutions will find the textbook equally US$108 / £95 suitable, since it includes the core student haematology curriculum as recommended by the Royal College of Pathologists. 978-1-78634-886-9(pbk) US$69 / £60 Contents: Physiology of the Blood and Bone Marrow; The Blood Count and Film; Microcytic Anaemias and the Thalassaemias; Macrocytic Anaemias; Haemoglobinopathies and Haemolytic Anaemias; Miscellaneous Anaemias, Pancytopenia and the Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Leucocytosis, Leucopenia and Reactive Changes in White Cells; Leukaemias and Lymphomas; Polycythaemia, Thrombocytosis and the Myeloproliferative Neoplasms; Multiple Myeloma; Platelets, Coagulation and Haemostasis; Thrombosis and Its Management — Anticoagulant, Antiplatelet and Thrombolytic Therapy; Blood Transfusion ; Haemopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Things You Need to Know Before You Graduate; Further Reading; Preparing for Exams and Self-Assessment; Answers to Test Cases. Readership: Medical students, biomedical science students, and trainee nurses in the field of haematology and oncology.

Human Edge Rights Information: Limits of Human Physiology and Performance All language rights available. By (author): Marcus Ranney

The book is a non fiction-based piece of popular science which unravels the amazing adaptive 250pp physiological responses that our bodies undergo as we push it to the limits in extreme sports and Pub. date: Aug 2020 natural environments. Each chapter captures the history, geography and physical challenges which our bodies face when we as a species have tried to conquer the great outdoors. From Mt Everest 978-981-121-011-2 to the South Pole, from a journey to Mars to the bottom of the Mariana trench, the book makes US$78 / £70 the subject accessible to readers, with a basic knowledge of science, and also tries to bring in the author’s own personal experiences and those of many legends from this sphere. 978-981-121-127-0(pbk) For the reader (someone interested in science, particularly the life sciences or those who enjoy the US$38 / £35 outdoors and partake in extreme sports and outdoor activities), this is aimed to make physiology accessible and relatable, not as a piece of academic text. The reader will come away with a stronger understanding of human physiology (particularly at the extreme), how the body first deteriorates, then adapts and finally excels when faced with running a marathon, summiting Everest or going to Mars. Its cross functional nature, being a piece of non- fiction / popular science with personal anecdotes and history mixed in, will make for an interesting and memorable reading. Contents: Mt Everest; South Pole; Mumbai Marathon; Planet Mars; Sahara Desert; Mariana Trench; Mind Over Matter; The Future of Human Power — Mitochondria. Readership: Students of medicine, life sciences and physiology, individuals interested in extreme sports, adventure sports and physical fitness. Key Features: ○ Linking the chapter’s science with a historical perspective and personal anecdotes so the reader can appreciate the mental and emotional side of these physical changes ○ Discussing first principles of basic physical and natural sciences to highlight the relationship between the world around us and the changing physiological systems ○ Linking the various systems together, from each of the unique extreme environments, to sequentially build upon each of the chapter’s learnings

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 61 Multi-Level Mammaplasty Anatomical Support and Re-Shaping of the Breast By (author): Amiram Borenstein (Borenstein Plastic Surgery Clinic, Israel) & Or Friedman (Suckler Faculty of Medicine, Israel) Medicine Multi-Level Mammaplasty focuses on the modification of the Lassus technique, adjusted for the use in breasts of all shapes and sizes. This method relies on an upper pedicle relative to the areola and involves a lower central breast reduction, glandular shaping, and suturing. The tradeoff is that in order to ensure a fine-line peri-areolar scar, a vertical extension is added. However, this vertical scar fades over time and is partly obscured by the breast. The submammary horizontal scar, typical of the inverted T incision, is avoided through progressive gathering of the breast tissue during the reconstruction of the breast mound, precisely through trimming of the excess skin for a short, tension-free vertical suture. Moreover, the peri-areolar suture is not disturbed by the vertical suture with unnecessary tension. Still, in the larger breast, the vertical scar may extend to the Rights Information: chest wall. We accept this tradeoff and discuss it with our patients before surgery. All language rights available. In this book, the authors present evidence to demonstrate that the Borenstein multi-level mammaplasty technique is safe and allows the precise reshaping of the breast with long- 104pp lasting results. Its advantages largely compensate for the addition of the vertical limb to the Pub. date: Jul 2020 peri-areolar scar.

978-981-121-912-2 Contents: List of Figures; Preface — Short Scar Mammaplasty Evolution; Acknowledgments; US$98 / £85 Surgical Anatomy of the Breast; Multi-Level Mammaplasty; Patient Consultation and Evaluation; Multi-Level Breast Reduction; Breast Implant Explantation and Multi-Level Mastopexy; Breast 978-981-3275-98-0(pbk) Augmentation and Multi-Level Mastopexy; Postoperational Breast Support; Complications and US$68 / £60 Long-Term Results; Advanced Scar Treatments; References; List of Abbreviations; Index.

Readership: Plastic surgeons, plastic surgery residents, researchers and practitioners in plastic surgery.

Key Features: ○ A clear and concise aesthetic breast surgery textbook for the modern plastic surgeon ○ A logical, safe approach to breast shaping and support based on the real woman needs and longlasting results ○ The most current illustrations of the breast with special emphasis on the internal support ligamentous structures. Over 50 color images and illustrations breaking down the most basic and most complex maneuvers

Pocket Anatomy of Cerebrovascular Imaging and Topography By (author): Dong-Eog Kim (Dongguk University Hospital, Korea & Massachusetts General Hospital, USA), Oh Young Bang (Samsung Medical Center, Korea), Eung Yeop Kim (Gachon University College of Medicine, Korea), Woo-Keun Seo (Samsung Medical Center, Korea) & Jong-Won Chung (Samsung Medical Center, Korea)

The book provides updated knowledge on cerebrovascular imaging-related anatomy and topographic maps for neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and neurovascular researchers as well as medical or neuroscience students. It includes not only high-resolution cerebrovascular images but also topographic brain maps.

The topographic brain maps will provide (a) “recently-updated” knowledge on cerebrovascular territories, which are of key clinical importance in patients with stroke; (b) age-specific WMH maps that allows a “tailored patient-specific” interpretation in stroke- and vascular dementia-related Rights Information: clinical practice; and (c) easy-to-use “reference maps” that allow prompt and reliable visual All language rights estimation of cerebral infarct volumes. This pocket book will serve as the best format for these available. image datasets to be looked up and referenced by the vast majority of readers.

Apart from being a handy reference for neurovascular or neuroscience researchers, this book can 160pp also be used as a supplementary text book in medical schools. Pub. date: Apr 2020

Contents: MR Angiography & MR Venography: (Contrast-Enhanced) Intracranial & 978-981-120-936-9 Extracranial MRA; Carotid / Vertebral Arterial Segments; TOF Intracranial MRA; Anterior Cerebral US$118 / £105 Artery & Middle Cerebral Artery (Segments and Branches); Anterior Cerebral Artery & Middle 978-981-121-144-7(pbk) Cerebral Artery (Anteroposterior & Lateral Views); Posterior Cerebral Artery (Anteroposterior US$78 / £70 & Lateral Views); Phase-Contrast Venography (Anteroposterior, Lateral, Oblique, and Head-

62 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Medicine Foot Views; Conventional Angiography: Internal Carotid Artery (Lateral & Anteroposterior Views); Extracranial-to-Intracranial Collateral Pathways; Anterior Cerebral Artery (Lateral & Anteroposterior Views); Middle Cerebral Artery (Lateral & Anteroposterior Views); Distal Vertebral / Basilar / Posterior Cerebral Artery (Lateral & Anteroposterior Views); Early / Late Venous Phase Internal Carotid Artery Angiogram (Lateral & Anteroposterior Views); Modified Thrombolysis in Cerebral Infarction (mTICI) Score; Cervical Carotid Artery Diseases; High-Resolution Vessel Wall MRI: ICAS-BOD Type Acute MCA Infarction; ICAS-BOD Type Acute BA Infarction; ICAS- NBOD Type Acute MCA Infarction (Before Statin Treatment) vs. ICAS-NBOD Type Acute MCA Infarction (6 Months After 20mg Rosuvastatin Treatment); Imaging Assessment of Intracranial Stent Patency; Moyamoya Disease; Intracranial Artery Dissection; Primary Angiitis of the Central Nervous System (Pre- and Post-Steroid Treatment); Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (Pre- and Post-Nimodipine Treatment); Supratentorial Brain Anatomy; Cerebral Arterial Topography: Conventional Cartoon Maps vs. New Supratentorial Probabilistic Maps (Brain Templates Used for Territorial Mapping, Infarct Frequency Maps; Certainty Index Maps for the Anterior / Middle / Posterior Cerebral Artery; Interterritorial Border Zone Maps; Interterritorial Border Line Maps; Reference Charts for At-a-Glance MR Lesion Quantification or Stroke Outcome Prediction: Brain Maps for Fisual Estimation of Infarct Volume for Decision Making in Thrombectomy Cases; Brain Maps for Visual Estimation of WMH burden; Proportion of Patients Achieving Modified Rankin Scale Score of 0-2 at Discharge; Stratified by Age and Initial NIHSS Score After Intravenous Thrombolysis; Symptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage Risk; Stratified by Age and Initial NIHSS Score After Intravenous Thrombolysis.

Readership: Neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, and neurovascular researchers as well as general practitioners (treating stroke patients) and medical or neuroscience students.

Key Features: ○ The pocket anatomy book will provide not only high-resolution cerebrovascular images but also topographic brain maps that have been recently generated by my group. The topographic brain maps will provide a) ‘recently-updated’ knowledge on cerebrovascular territories, which are of key clinical importance in patients with stroke, b) age-specific WMH maps that allows a ‘tailored patient-specific’ interpreation in stroke- and vascular dementia-related clinical practice, and c) easy-to-use ‘reference maps’ that allow prompt and reliable visual estimation of cerebral infarct volumes. We recently published peer-reviewed articles on these maps in high impact journals. However, a pocket book, rather than the papers with small multi-panel figures, will serve as the best format for these image datasets to be looked up and referenced by the vast majority of readers. There is no book that show these topographic brain maps (including probabilistic vascular territory / border maps) that will be useful for personalized neurovascular care or translational neurovascular research

○ The slim pocket book that would be about 160 pages long can be easily carried in the ‘pocket’ of doctor’s gown, which is usually filled with other paper stuffs and disgnostic instruments such as the stethoscope, a reflex hammer, a smart phone, and etc.

○ Cerebrovascular anatomy will be described by using not only brain MR images & angiograms / venograms but also conventional angiography images. High-resolution vessel wall MR images will also be provided by an internationally renowned neurovascular imaging researcher (Pf. O Y Bang), who have published many seminal papers in this field, to show how to interpret them

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 63 Remote Medicine A Textbook for Trainee and Established Remote Healthcare Practitioners Edited by: Nelson Norman (University of Aberdeen, UK) & Malcolm Valentine Medicine This is the first major textbook on the emerging speciality of remote medicine. The modern concept emerged in the 1970s when the medical directors of the main oil companies operating in the North Sea — BP, Shell and Mobil — sought advice from the University sector since the morbidity and mortality levels of offshore workers had become unacceptable. A system of healthcare was jointly developed and applied by the industrial doctors and the academic doctors of Aberdeen University which worked well and greatly improved the healthcare of the offshore personnel. It was subsequently validated by duplication for the very different scientific population of the British Antarctic Survey where it worked even better. It was next introduced to the oilfields of the Middle East — Qatar (QGPC, Offshore and Onshore), Abu Dhabi (ADMA and ADCO) and Oman Rights Information: (PDO) where it worked equally well. The Aberdeen Universities next collaborated with the UAE All language rights University in Abu Dhabi to evaluate and develop telemedicine mainly in the area of education and available. research and they established early transcontinental courses and conferences together with joint supervision and production of higher degrees between collaborating universities in different parts of the world. 372pp Pub. date: Jul 2020 The recently established International Remote Healthcare Association (IRHCA), backed by the University of Glasgow, the UAE University in Abu Dhabi and the Siberian State Medical University 978-1-78634-750-3 has established an ongoing study to determine the education and skills required to produce a US$98 / £85 competent Remote Healthcare Practitioner. The chapters in this book contain the knowledge base currently thought by the IRHCA to be necessary to produce a competent remote healthcare practitioners and thus to allow curricular development of the new courses necessary for the establishment of University qualifications and for the regulating authorities to design examinations and establish appropriate registration. Since this is a new speciality the continuing research of the IRHCA is necessary to act as an audit to ensure that the information in the book, and the courses derived from it remain relevant and also to detect omissions as they are recognised.

Contents: About the Editors; About the Authors; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Remote Medicine: History, Development of the Concept and Research (J Nelson Norman); First-Aid for Industrial and Remote Settings (J Nelson Norman); Preparation for Disasters in Remote Places (J Nelson Norman and Graham Page); The Psychological Response to Major Trauma in Remote Locations (David A Alexander); Communications and Telemedicine (J Nelson Norman); Acute Surgical Problems (J Nelson Norman); Diagnosis and Management of Medical Emergencies (Thomas French); Remote Healthcare and Psychiatric Emergencies (Alison Carroll); Remote General Medical Practice (Malcolm Valentine); Delivering Pharmaceutical Services in Remote Locations (Brian Wells); Occupational Health in Remote Environments (Finlay Dick and Will Ponsonby); Industrial Medicine and Remote Healthcare in Russia (Sergey A Antipov, Andrey B Karpov and Ergena R Badmaeva); Work and Experience of an Oil Industry Remote Medical Practitioner (Harry Horsley); Hyperbaric Medicine and Diving (J Nelson Norman); Environmental Medicine: The Physical Environment — Heat and Cold (J Nelson Norman); Index.

Readership: For remote healthcare practitioners and to those wishing to evaluate proposals on provision of remote medical services for industry. The book will be useful for those established practitioners wishing to achieve a formal qualification and international registration together with those new graduates aspiring to achieve that status.

64 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Medicine Stalin and Medicine Untold Stories By (author): Natalya Rapoport (University of Utah, USA)

The manuscript treats the relationship between the totalitarian regime and science in a series of stories that describe the lives and times of outstanding medical scientists who represented the top of the Soviet intellectual elite of the 20th century.

The narrations are based on first-hand accounts the author gained in conversations with her father, a world-renowned pathologist, and family friends, such as Nobel Prize physicist Lev Landau; a world-recognized physiologist Lina Stern; the pioneers of cancer biotherapy, Klyueva and Roskin; the “father” of the H-bomb, Andrey Sakharov; and the daughter of the Head of the Kremlin Hospital, Alexandra Kanel.

The author describes Stalin’s fabrication of the “Doctors’ Plot”; the cases of Stalin’s revenge on his Rights Information: doctors; the dramatic history of the Moscow Brain Institute; the history of an anti-plague vaccine All language rights and plague outbreak in the center of Moscow; and other events of historical significance. Ironically, available. Stalin’s persecution of medical scientists and doctors bounced back and accelerated his death (hence the title, “Boomerang”). 304pp The echo of Stalin’s repression of medical doctors and scientists still resonates today, almost 70 Pub. date: Apr 2020 years after Stalin’s death, in the plight of medicine in current Russia. 978-981-120-849-2 The real stories described in the book are absorbing and captivating. The reader gets a glimpse US$78 / £70 of the destructive behind-the-scene events associated with the intervention of a totalitarian government in medicine and medical science. 978-981-120-917-8(pbk) US$38 / £35 Through the years, the BBC Witness program aired several interviews with the author’s father and herself. Recently, The BBC News produced a short cartoon based on one of the author’s stories, which enjoyed more than 250,000 viewers. David Remnick dedicated a chapter to Rapoport’s family in his Pulitzer Prize awarded book, Lenin’s Tomb.

In the US, one series of the PBS Red Empire program was dedicated to the “Doctors’ Plot” and partly shot in the author’s Moscow apartment. A number of documentaries were also shot in this apartment by various European TV and movie programs. However, none of the stories described in the manuscript (with the exception of the edited version of the chapter on the “Doctors’ Plot”) has ever been published in English.

Contents: I Am Rapoport: About the Author in Her Own Words; My Father Yakov Rapoport; The Manuscript; Stories From My Father and Our Friends: It›s Just the Plague; Academician Vassily Parin and the Anti-Cancer Vaccine KR; The Death of Andrey Sakharov; Mischka; The Kanel Family and the Secrets of the Kremlin Hospital; The Mystery of Stalin’s Wife’s Death: Who Pulled the Trigger?; My Father’s Manuscript.

Readership: General readers.

Key Features: ○ The real stories described in the book are absorbing, captivating, and are read as fiction. The reader gets glimpse on the destructive behind-the-scene events associated with the intervention of totalitarian government in medicine and medical science ○ All stories (with the exception of the last chapter, The Mystery of Stalin’s Wife’s Death, which is partly based on the first-hand account of the daughter of the Head Doctor of the Kremlin Hospital as well as on published documents) are based on first-hand accounts of the participants of the events. The manuscript is intended for the general reader. Competing titles on the totalitarian regime and science are scholarly books treating published documents

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 65 Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Edited by: Xiyun Deng (Hunan Normal University Medical College, China) & Faqing Tang (Hunan Cancer Hospital, China)

Medicine Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents a challenge clinically due to the lack of actionable targets coupled with an aggressive disease course and a worse prognosis compared to patients with other breast cancer subtypes. This book covers aspects of TNBC ranging from epidemiology, biology, molecular classification, to currently available and potentially new therapeutics options for TNBC. This book includes a range of recommended resources, including recent reviews, schematic illustrations, and information for patients with TNBC.

Contents: Overview of TNBC; Biology of TNBC; Heterogeneity and Subtyping of TNBC; Genetics and Signaling Events in TNBC; Epigenetics in TNBC; Clinical Aspects of TNBC; Potential Targeted Therapeutic Strategies for TNBC.

Rights Information: Readership: Individuals including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, All language rights university researchers and educators, practitioners, pharmaceutical professionals, and patients available. who are interested in research and treatment of breast cancer.

200pp Key Features: Pub. date: Oct 2020 ○ TNBC is the most difficult-to-treat subtype of breast cancer in clinic. This book provides a good reference for medical researchers on the basics and up-to-date 978-981-3277-75-5 information of TNBC US$88 / £75 ○ This book is a systematic exposition of potential treatment options of TNBC, providing new ideas for patients and medical researchers ○ The authors of this book are top achievers in the field of TNBC from academic institutions around the world

Editor’s Choice Viruses: More Friends Than Foes Revised Edition By (author): Karin Moelling (University of Zurich, Switzerland & Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany)

Reviews of the Previous Edition: “Her style is chatty, and just when you want to break into the conversation and ask a question, she’s thrown in an aside about a spat at a scientific meeting or discussed how we should dispose of our tissues when we have a cold. If this sort of mental gymnastics on top of some heavyweight science doesn’t put you off, you’ll like her book and learn much from it.” Times Higher Education

“Moëlling uses her successful career in the discipline to structure much of the book and includes numerous interesting personal anecdotes to underscore her points. The writing style is conversational and will be accessible to non-scientists.” Rights Information: CHOICE connect All language rights available. Reviews of the German edition: “The author describes a real success story of viruses which is fascinating and unconventional. 450pp What is presented with respect to knowledge, personal evaluations, amusing anecdotes from Pub. date: Aug 2020 everyday life in research, is impressive.” Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurich 978-981-122-474-4(pbk) US$26 / £18 “I find your book excellent, instructive, and yet very entertaining.” Emeritus Professor Charles Weissmann 978-981-3237-29-2(pbk) The Scripps Research Institute, Florida US$38 / £33 “Very amusing are the descriptions of the author’s personal experiences with contemporary famous scientists. Rich with facts, this book is very worth reading also for non-specialists who would get to know the abundance of non-pathogenic viruses.” Biology in Our Time

Coronavirus, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes surprising insights about a completely new and unexpected world of viruses. Viruses are ubiquitous, in the oceans, our environment, in animals, plants, bacteria, in our body, even in

66 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Medicine our genomes. They influence our weather, can contribute to control obesity, and can surprisingly be applied against threatening multi-resistant bacteria. The success story of the viruses started more than 3.5 billion years ago in the dawn of life when even cells did not exist. They are the superpower of life. There are more viruses on earth than stars in the sky. Viruses are everywhere. Some of them are incredibly ancient. Many viruses are hundredfold smaller than bacteria, but others are tenfold bigger and they were discovered only recently — the giant viruses, even deep within the permafrost where they were reactivated after 30,000 years.

The author talks about a completely new world of viruses, which are based on the most recent, in part her own research results. Could viruses have been our oldest ancestors? Have viruses even “invented” social behavior, do they lead to geniuses such as Mozart or Einstein — or alternatively to cancer? They can help to cure cancer. In this book, the author made a clear distinction between what is fact and what is her vision. This book is written for a general audience and not just for the experts. Its aim is to stimulate thinking, and perhaps to attract more young scientists to enter this field of research.

This revised edition is brought up to date by a new chapter on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

Contents: SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic; Viruses — Not as You Pictured Them; Viruses — How They Make Us Ill; Retroviruses and Immortality; Viruses and Cancer; Viruses That Do Not Make Us Ill; Viruses — “Giant” as Cells; Viruses as Fossils; Viruses — Our Oldest Ancestors?; Viruses and Antiviral Defense; Viruses and Phages for Survival?; Viruses for Gene Therapy; Viruses and the Future.

Readership: All.

Nonlinear Science 500 Years After Leonardo da Vinci Machines Towards Innovation and Control By (author): Maide Bucolo (University of Catania, Italy), Arturo Buscarino (University of Catania, Italy & CNR-IASI, Italy), Carlo Famoso (University of Catania, Italy), Luigi Fortuna (University of Catania, Italy & CNR-IASI, Italy) & Salvina Gagliano (University of Catania, Italy)

The book focuses on the role of the Leonardo da Vinci projects and inventions, specifically the interdisciplinarity of his studies that represents perhaps the first example of the paradigm of complex systems engineering. The projects are characterized within a modern conception of his thinking, looking at the main motivations behind his machines. The book also proposes a set of experimental realizations of the models made mainly in wood, using the actual concept of automatic control and microcontroller technology emphasizing that the Leonardo machines can be seen in agreement with modern current technology. Rights Information: The remote control of each machine is considered and the behavior of each monitored. Machines All language rights are revisited based on the transmission principle that adopts microcontrollers and bluetooth available. devices, studying the equipment behind the actuation of the systems. Thus, the paradigm of each machine is maintained unaltered while the latest technologies show the relevance of such inventions in the modern era. The study also stimulated more applications and future projects that 108pp can start from the original Leonardo projects and then proceed to the next centuries, providing Pub. date: Feb 2020 readers simple and efficient ideas to innovate his projects using modern low-cost microcontrollers. 978-981-121-183-6 Contents: Leonardo’s Flying Machine: Model and Pleasant Details; Thinking in Complexity and US$48 / £40 Complex Systems Engineering with Leonardo da Vinci ; The Eye and the Mind of Leonardo da Vinci: Some Remarks; Leonardo da Vinci and the Technical Design; Leonardo da Vinci: Civil 978-981-121-245-1(pbk) Engineer, Architect and Urban Planner; Leonardo da Vinci and the Engineering Scenario at His US$28 / £25 Time; A Selected Number of Machines: Innovation and Control; Epilogue;.

Readership: Students and researchers interested in complex systems and the history of science

Key Features: ○ First to present the innovation of Leonardo da Vinci’s machines based on control techniques and technology ○ Timely after 500 years of Leonardo passing ○ Stimulates the control of old machines with innovative devices

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 67 A Day at CERN Guided Tour Through the Heart of Particle Physics By (author): Gautier Depambour (Université de Paris, France) Physics What lies within CERN’s entrails? What is the path followed by the particles that are accelerated before they collide? What does the ATLAS detector look like? Does research at CERN find applications in everyday life? From the accelerator control room to the huge Computing Centre, via the auditorium where the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced in July 2012, I invite you to experience for one day an immersion in the world of research in particle physics! Discovering emblematic installations at CERN, walking through the places where people spend every working day, meeting with researchers in various fields, descending into the ATLAS cavern ... Our visit, whose path will mimic that of the particles during their journey, will be full of anecdotes and surprises. Follow me for a guided tour of CERN, the largest scientific collaboration in the world!

Rights Information: Contents: Foreword by Frédérick Bordry; A Welcome at CERN›s Entrance; Interview with All language (except Bernard Pellequer: Presentation of CERN; The Exhibition «Universe of Particles»; A Brief History of CERN; Interview with Arnaud Marsollier: CERN funding; Entering CERN; LINAC 2 French) rights available. and LEIR; The Antimatter Factory; The Cryomagnets Test Facility; Interview with Elias Métral: Beam Instabilities; Interview with Django Manglunki: CERN Control Centre; A Brief Overview of 180pp the Research Conducted by ATLAS; Arrival at Building 40; Description of the ATLAS Detector; Building 40; Interview with Isabelle Wingerter: ATLAS France; The ATLAS Weekly Meeting; The Pub. date: Aug 2020 Trigger System; Interview with Laurent Serin: Test Beam in Prévessin; The AMS, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer; The Self-Service Meal; Standard Model and Higgs Boson; The Auditorium; 978-981-122-110-1 The Panoramic Terrace of Building 500; Visit of Buildings 1, 4, 5, 52 and 53; CERN Clubs and US$58 / £50 Cordiality of Coffee; A Brief History of the Search for the Higgs Boson; Interview with Mélissa Gaillard: The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid; The Computing Centre; Interview with David 978-981-122-064-7(pbk) Rousseau: Machine Learning and Particle Physics; Interview with Alvaro Lopez Solis: Shifts on US$28 / £25 the ATLAS Detector; The ATLAS Control Room; The ATLAS Detector; Prospects for the Future. Readership: The book is aimed at both informed scientists and the general public, and especially those who know CERN only by name and who are curious to know more about the research being conducted there. Key Features: ○ A unique presentation of CERN in the form of a guided tour ○ Foreword by Frédérick Bordry, Director for Accelerators and Technology at CERN ○ Interviews with important CERN personnel on various aspects of the organization

Algebraic Structures in Integrability Foreword by Victor Kac By (author): Vladimir Sokolov (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia) Relationships of the theory of integrable systems with various branches of mathematics are extremely deep and diverse. On the other hand, the most fundamental exactly integrable systems often have applications in theoretical physics. Therefore, many mathematicians and physicists are interested in integrable models. The book is intelligible to graduate and PhD students and can serve as an introduction to separate sections of the theory of classical integrable systems for scientists with algebraic inclinations. For the young, the book can serve as a starting point in the study of various aspects of integrability, while professional algebraists will be able to use some examples of algebraic structures, which appear in the theory of integrable systems, for wide-ranging generalizations. The statements are formulated in the simplest possible form. However, some ways of generalization are indicated. In the proofs, only essential points are mentioned, while for technical Rights Information: details, references are provided. The focus is on carefully selected examples. In addition, the All language (except book proposes many unsolved problems of various levels of complexity. A deeper understanding Russian) rights available. of every chapter of the book may require the study of more rigorous and specialized literature. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Lax Representations for Integrable Systems: Lax 348pp Pairs and Decomposition of Lie Algebras; Algebraic Structures in Theory of Bi-Hamiltonian Bi-Hamiltonian Formalism; Basic Concepts of Pub. date: Jun 2020 Systems: Symmetry Approach to Integrability: Symmetry Approach; Integrable Hyperbolic Equations of Liouville Type; Integrable Nonabelian Equations; Integrable Evolution Systems and Nonassociative Algebras; Integrable Vector Evolution 978-981-121-964-1 Equations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. US$138 / £120 Readership: Graduate. Key Features: ○ For scientists who prefer to begin the study of scientific theories with a consideration of simple but substantial examples ○ For scientists who prefer to first understand the approximate content of the theory and solve several simple problems ○ Discusses the results and algebraic structures associated with most important concepts of the theory of classical integrable systems

68 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics A Tale of Two Twins The Langevin Experiment of a Traveller to a Star By (author): Lucien Gilles Benguigui (Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

The thought experiment proposed by Langevin in 1911, known under the popular names, “Clock Paradox” or “Twin Paradox”, is the most surprising result of the theory of Relativity: A twin who travels to a star at nearly the velocity of light comes back to Earth and finds his twin brother much older. In over a century, several thousands of published articles debated both in favor of and against this result. Unique to the physics of Relativity, this baffling phenomenon is analyzed as a main goal of this book.

Among an incredible number of solutions, is there one of simplicity and clarity which may be accepted unanimously by all of the physics community? The answer is yes and this solution, which has its origin in Einstein himself, is developed in the framework of the Special Theory of Relativity. In detailing this solution, it is shown that the essential ingredient to understand the theory is the Rights Information: acceleration of the twins. All the models which do not include acceleration are incompatible with the original idea of Langevin. If one considers this phenomenon, several questions come to mind. All language rights Why did physicists debate excessively on the paradox and struggle to reach an agreement? Why available. was there resistance to integrate acceleration into their studies? Why is the solution developed in this book known only by a minority of scientists? 146pp Pub. date: Aug 2020 Written for physicists, historians and philosophers of science, this book seeks to answer these questions based on (1) the psychological difficulty to accept the theoretical results, and (2) the fact 978-981-121-909-2 that scientific knowledge is not uniformly distributed among scientists. US$68 / £60

Contents: Introduction; The Story in Short; The Article of Langevin; The Clock or Twin Paradox; The First Solutions (Lorentz, Langevin, Einstein, Born); The Einstein–Møller Solution; The Disappearance of the Acceleration and the Symmetry Breaking; Physiscits Against the Mainstream; Questions With and Without Answers; Bergson and the Relativity; The Langevin Effect.

Readership: Physicists and lecturers; specialists in the theory of Special & General Relativity; historians; philosophers; laypersons who are interested in the history and philosophy of science.

Key Features: ○ New and original approach of a very controversial problem called the Clock paradox or the Twin paradox in the Theory of Relativity ○ The most elegant, simple and clear solution is presented and detailed ○ Some ideas are presented in order to explain why this theoretical problem was for a very long time the subject of discussions and controversies

Application-Driven Quantum and Statistical Physics A Short Course for Future Scientists and Engineers Volume 3: Transitions By (author): Jean-Michel Gillet (CentraleSupélec, Paris-Saclay University, France & Centrale Pékin, Beihang University, China)

Bridging the gap between traditional books on quantum and statistical physics, this series is an ideal introductory course for students who are looking for an alternative approach to the traditional academic treatment.

This pedagogical approach relies heavily on scientific or technological applications from a wide range of fields. For every new concept introduced, an application is given to connect the theoretical results to a real-life situation. Each volume features in-text exercises and detailed solutions, with easy-to-understand applications.

This third volume covers several basic and more advanced subjects about transitions in quantum Rights Information: and statistical physics. Part I describes how the quantum statistics of fermions and bosons All language rights differ and under what condition they can merge into the classical-particle-statistics framework available. seen in Volume 2. This section also describes the fundamentals of conductors, semiconductors, superconductors, superfluids and Bose–Einstein condensates. Part II introduces time-dependent 340pp transitions between quantum states. The time evolution of a simple two-level model gives the Pub. date: Jun 2020 minimum background necessary to understand the principles behind lasers and their numerous applications. Time-dependent perturbation theory is also covered, as well as standard approaches 978-1-78634-788-6 to the scattering of massive particles. A semi-classical treatment of electromagnetic field–matter US$98 / £85 interaction is described with illustrations taken from a variety of processes such as phonon scattering, charge distribution or spin densities. The third and last part of the book gives a 978-1-78634-801-2(pbk) brief overview of quantum electrodynamics with applications to photon absorption or emission spectroscopies and a range of scattering regimes. There follows a short introduction to the role of US$48 / £40 multiphoton processes in quantum entanglement based experiments.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 69 Contents: Quantum Statistics: The Ideal Quantum Gases; Fermion Gases; Boson Gases; Time- Dependent Transitions: Two-Level Couplings; Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory; Standard Approaches to Scattering; Photons: From Electromagnetic Fields to Photons; From One-Photon to Multiphoton Processes. Physics Readership: Undergraduate students who need a concise introduction to quantum and statistical physics. Graduate students who want to return and learn about the subject from a different perspective.

Key Features: ○ Conciseness ○ Emphasis on easy to understand applications ○ Exercises in the text with detailed solutions ○ Focus on applicable concepts (very little physics for its own sake) ○ Detailed index ○ Additional explanations on essential points which (over the years) have proved to be a recurrent difficulty for the student

As the World Turns The History of Proving the Earth Rotates By (author): Peter Kosso (Northern Arizona University, USA)

We know the Earth rotates, but how do we know? When and how did it become reasonable to believe that the Earth rotates?

This book offers a historical account, from ancient Greek science to the theory of relativity and ultimately to videos taken from outer space, of how this widely known truth came to be. Using an accessible and entertaining narrative suitable for anyone interested in astronomy, physics, or the history of either, Kosso clarifies the use of evidence to prove that the Earth rotates, and deals with the tension between the claims that the Earth is absolutely in motion, yet all motion is relative. The book also explores the general nature of scientific evidence and method, and confronts challenges to science from outside the discipline.

Rights Information: Contents: Preface; On Uncertainty; The Ancient Perspective: To Save the Phenomena; All language rights Aristotle›s Standard Model; Tinkering with the Standard Model; Moving the Earth; The Best of both available. Worlds; On Skepticism; The Modern Perspective: The Two Chief World Systems; New Astronomy and the Great Magnet; Rotational Dynamics and Absolute Space; Foucault’s Pendulum; The 288pp Postmodern Perspective: Mach›s Principle; Relativity; The Extraterrestrial Perspective: The Pub. date: Mar 2020 Final Frontier; All Things Considered; Timeline of Important Events and Ideas; Bibliography.

978-1-78634-817-3 Readership: General public interested in the field of astronomy and physics. US$58 / £50 Key Features: ○ The focus is as much on how we know — the evidence and reasoning — as on what we know — the Earth rotates. It’s about both science and method ○ The evidence is presented in historical and scientific context, allowing evaluation of reasoning in the time it was done ○ There is explicit and frequent discussion of the difference between relative and absolute motion and the relevance for the claim that the Earth moves

70 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics The Basic Physics of Quantum Theory By (author): Basil S Davis (Xavier University of Louisiana, USA)

This book is an introductory course on quantum theory accessible to anyone who is interested in obtaining an insider’s knowledge of the subject, but who may not have studied physics at the college level. No mathematics is required beyond middle school algebra. Exercises are provided throughout the book, with answers at the back. This book can be used for self-study or as a textbook in an undergraduate or high school curriculum.

Contents: Introduction; Newtonian Physics; Statistical Mechanics; The Concept of a Field; The Ultraviolet Catastrophe; Absorption and Emission of Radiation; Matter Waves; The Special Theory of Relativity; The Geometry of Space and Time; The Heart of Quantum Theory; Angular Momentum and Spin; Quantum Theory and Relativity; Tunneling: Quantum Magic?; The Spatial Wave Function; Conclusion. Rights Information: Readership: Undergraduate or high-school students and readers interested in quantum theory. All language rights Key Features: available. ○ Trains the reader to do quantum theory without the need for learning calculus or linear 208pp algebra Pub. date: Apr 2020 ○ Develops the theory directly from the historical experiments and shows how the abstraction of quantum theory is experimentally verifiable 978-981-121-939-9 ○ Based on a course that was developed and taught successfully at the undergraduate US$98 / £85 level 978-981-121-995-5(pbk) US$48 / £40

Editor’s Choice Diseases from Outer Space — Our Cosmic Destiny 2nd Edition By (author): Chandra Wickramasinghe (University of Buckingham, UK) Foreword by: Edward J Steele

“The publication of this revised and expanded version of Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe’s classic book “Diseases from Space” comes at a crucial time. Twenty-first century research in virology and disease transmission is urgently focussing on studying the origin and possible solutions to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic — this potent and sometimes deadly disease has had a significant impact on both human health and the economies of the world. Chandra Wickramasinghe’s life-long study of the theory of “panspermia” and it’s relationship to possible space-borne bacteria and viruses continues; his detailed reassessment of the topic is most timely ... it will, for many, continue to raise key questions about how life originated and indeed what the future holds for disease control across the planet.” Nick Spall, Space and Science Writer Rights Information: The first edition of the monumental book by Sir Fred Hoyle and N Chandra Wickramasinghe All language rights appeared some 40 years ago, encapsulating the key principles of Panspermia, and it has been available. the guiding principle in the new scientific field of Astrobiology. 252pp This latest edition continues to describe the consequences of the theory of cometary panspermia Pub. date: Jul 2020 that relate to the origins of epidemic disease. Available data on historic and modern plagues are analysed to show that extraterrestrial bacteria and viruses are the cause of ongoing pandemics of diseases. 978-981-122-212-2 US$68 / £60 Adherence to an inappropriate and obsolete theory of pandemics could put in jeopardy the economic well-being of the entire world, perhaps even threatening the continued existence of our civilization.

Coronavirus from Outer Space - Interview with the Author

Contents: Descent from Space; Pathogenic Invaders; The Viral Connection; History of a Disease; Spread of a Virus; Anatomy of an Epidemic; Isolation and Pandemics; Plagues Past and Present; Disease Against Mankind; Viruses and Evolution; Diseases from Space; On The Fragility of Empires and Paradigms; Predicting the Future Trajectory of COVID-19; Appendices: Organic Materials in Space; The Survival of Cometary Cells and Viruses in Passing to the› Earth; The Interpretation of Genetic Material; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: Astrobiologists, and all those interested in the origin of diseases.

Key Features: ○ Vitally relevant to the ongoing pandemic of the corona virus ○ Relates diseases from space with the growing evidence for an extraterrestrial life and panspermia

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 71 Rights Information: Fundamental Physics of Sound All language rights By (author): S Y Lee (Indiana University, USA) available. This is a textbook on the basic sciences of sound. It contains sufficient latest information on the Physics 250pp subject and is divided into four parts that fit into the semester structure. Pub. date: Sep 2020 The first part deals with basic Newton’s second law of motion, simple harmonic oscillation, 978-981-122-259-7 and wave properties. Newton’s second law, “the net force is equal to the rate of change of US$88 / £75 momentum,” is used to derive the speed of waves in a medium. The second part focuses on the psychoacoustics of our perception of three attributes of sound: loudness, pitch and timbre. The third part discusses the basic physics of some musical instruments and human voice. From the point of view of physics, musical instruments and human speech are similar. They are composed of a sound source and a resonator. Human ingenuity has produced various aesthetic-looking and ear- pleasing instruments for musicians to perform. Magical human evolution has also shaped our vocal folds and vocal tract so that we can dynamically change loudness, pitch, and timbre in an instant, in a manner that no other musical instrument can emulate. The fourth part includes electricity and magnetism, room acoustics, digital technology in acoustics, effects of noise on human hearing, and noise regulations for hearing protection that are relevant to sound wave production, transmission, storage, and human ear protection. Our ears are extremely sensitive. Without proper protection, loud noise including loud music can damage our ears. Government regulation and education serve as a first line of protection in working environments.

This small book is comprehensible, understandable and enjoyable to all eager students.

Contents: Classical Mechanics and Simple Harmonic Motion; Wave, Standing Waves, Wave Intensity and Impedance; Sound Levels, Loudness and Psychoacoustics; Pitch, Timbre and Musical Scale; Basic Physics of some Musical Instruments; Human Voice, Speech. Singing. Analysis and Synthesis; Electricity and Magnetism in Acoustics; Digital Technologies in Acoustics; Room Acoustics; Noise, Effects on Human Hearing and Regulations; Appendices.

Readership: Students majoring in music, speech and hearing, and audio technology.

General Relativity A First Examination 2nd Edition By (author): Marvin Blecher (Virginia Tech, USA)

This textbook is suitable for a one-semester introduction to General Relativity for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering. The book is concise so that the entire material can be covered in the one-semester time frame. Many of the calculations are done in detail, without difficult mathematics, to help the students. Though concise, the theory development is lucid and the readers are exposed to possible analytic calculations.

In the second edition, the famous twin paradox with acceleration is solved in full from the accelerated observer’s frame. The findings of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who captured the first ever image of a black hole, are discussed in detail. The geodetic and frame Rights Information: drag precessions of gyroscopes in orbit about a rotating Earth are worked out and the Gravity All language rights Probe B (GPB) experiment is discussed. Also in the second edition are some new exercise available. problems.

Resources are provided to instructors who adopt this textbook for their courses. Adopting 250pp instructors can print and copy portions of these resources solely for their teaching needs. All Pub. date: Aug 2020 instructional resources are furnished for informational use only, and are subject to change without notice. 978-981-122-043-2 US$78 / £70 Contents: Preface; Review of Special Relativity; Vectors and Tensors in Spacetime; Covariant Differentiation, Equations of Motion; Curvature; Gravity and General Relativity; Classic Solar 978-981-122-108-8(pbk) System Tests of General Relativity; Gravitational Waves; Black Holes and Kerr Space; Cosmology; US$38 / £35 Bibliography; Index.

Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate physics students.

72 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics Introduction to Classical Mechanics By (author): John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

This textbook aims to provide a clear and concise set of lectures that take one from the introduction and application of Newton’s laws up to Hamilton’s principle of stationary action and the lagrangian mechanics of continuous systems. An extensive set of accessible problems enhances and extends the coverage.

It serves as a prequel to the author’s recently published book entitled Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism based on an introductory course taught sometime ago at Stanford with over 400 students enrolled. Both lectures assume a good, concurrent, course in calculus and familiarity with basic concepts in physics; the development is otherwise self-contained.

A good introduction to the subject allows one to approach the many more intermediate and advanced texts with better understanding and a deeper sense of appreciation that both students and teachers alike can share. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: Preface; Introduction; Vectors; Inertial Coordinate Systems; Newton›s Laws; Examples; available. Energy; Angular Momentum; System of Particles; Generalized Coordinates; Hamilton›s Principle; Lagrangian Dynamics; Hamiltonian Dynamics; Continuum Mechanics; Waves; Continuum 184pp Mechanics of String; Mechanics of Fluids; Problems; Appendix A: Numerical Methods; Pub. date: Feb 2020 Bibliography; Index. 978-981-121-743-2 Readership: First-year (honors) undergraduates, other physicists and engineers interested in US$78 / £70 the topic. 978-981-121-823-1(pbk) Key Features: US$38 / £35 ○ Provides a clear, self-contained, calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics ○ The concise analysis advances through the lagrangian mechanics of irrotational, isentropic fluid flow and sound waves ○ Contains an extensive set of accessible problems that enhances and extends the coverage

Lecture Notes on Mechanics Intermediate Level By (author): Lock Yue Chew (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) & Elbert Chia (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

This book is for students who are familiar with an introductory course in mechanics at the freshman level. With an emphasis on perspectives that are more fundamental and techniques more advanced than those given in most introductory mechanics textbooks, the book illuminates on notions where vectors are coordinate free, presents the importance of reference frames (inertial and non-inertial) to mechanics problems, the role of Galilean Relativity on invariance and covariance of physical quantities, a framework to perform calculations — free from the constraint of a fixed axis — in rotational dynamics, and others. Moreover, it provides clear links between concepts in mechanics and other branches of physics, such as thermodynamics and electrodynamics, so that students can possess a more complete view of what they learn within the confines of physics. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: Vectors as Coordinate-Free System; Vector Representation of Kinematics; Galilean available. Theory of Relativity; Newton›s Laws; Energy and Work; Linear Momentum and Newton›s Law with Variable Masses; The Fundamental Mechanics of Rotational Motion. 160pp Pub. date: Aug 2020 Readership: Junior undergraduate students in Physics and Engineering. Lecturers of Physics and Engineering courses, looking for ideal materials to ease students’ learning. 978-981-121-310-6 Key Features: US$68 / £60 ○ This book puts forth perspectives, concepts and methods that are usually skimmed through in freshman courses due to their advanced nature and insufficient time 978-981-121-437-0(pbk) ○ While advanced in nature, the materials covered do not approach the difficulty of a US$28 / £25 sophomore’s course in mechanics based on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics ○ This book serves to bridge the gap between these two levels

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 73 Editor’s Choice Loop Quantum Gravity for Everyone By (author): Rodolfo Gambini (University of the Republic, Uruguay) & Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, USA) Physics Loop quantum gravity is one of the main contenders to unify Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, therefore providing a quantum theory of gravity. If these words do not mean much to you, do not worry, we will define them in simple terms.

This book describes loops quantum gravity and its applications to cosmology, black holes and spin foams without using formulas. It is concise and has a light style that makes for easy reading yet covering many of the cutting-edge developments in the field. It also addresses some of the controversies that surround these topics as they are incomplete science.

Contents: Introduction; Gravitation; The Quantum Theory; Loop Quantum Gravity; Application: Black Holes; Application: Cosmology; Further Developments: Spin Foams; Possible Observable Rights Information: Consequences?; Conclusions. All language rights available. Readership: Beginning science students, science enthusiasts.

Key Features: 104pp ○ Concise Pub. date: Jan 2020 ○ Easy reading ○ Geared to the general public 978-981-121-195-9 US$28 / £25

Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Field Theory By (author): Albert Schwarz (University of California at Davis, USA)

The book is very different from other books devoted to quantum field theory, both in the style of exposition and in the choice of topics. Written for both mathematicians and physicists, the author explains the theoretical formulation with a mixture of rigorous proofs and heuristic arguments; references are given for those who are looking for more details. The author is also careful to avoid ambiguous definitions and statements that can be found in some physics textbooks.

In terms of topics, almost all other books are devoted to relativistic quantum field theory, conversely this book is concentrated on the material that does not depend on the assumptions of Lorentz-invariance and/or locality. It contains also a chapter discussing application of methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, in particular to the derivation of the diagram techniques that appear in thermo-field dynamics and Keldysh formalism. It is not assumed that the reader is familiar with quantum mechanics; the book contains a short introduction to quantum mechanics Rights Information: for mathematicians and an appendix devoted to some mathematical facts used in the book. All language (except Russian) rights available. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Principles of Quantum Theory; Quantum Mechanics of Single- Particle and Non-Identical Particle Systems; Quantum Mechanics of a System of Identical Particles; Operators of Time Evolution S(t, t ) and Sα(t, t ); The Theory of Potential Scattering; 460pp 0 0 Pub. date: Apr 2020 Operators on the Fock Space; Wightman and Green Functions; Translation-Invariant Hamiltonians; The Scattering Matrix for Translation-Invariant Hamiltonians; Axiomatic Scattering Theory; Translation-Invariant Hamiltonians (Further Investigations); Axiomatic Lorentz-Invariant Quantum 978-981-3278-63-9 Field Theory; Methods of Quantum Field Theory in Statistical Physics; Appendix; Bibliography; US$148 / £130 Index.

Readership: Physics and mathematics students and researchers interested in quantum field theory.

Key Features: ○ Concentrated on topic rarely covered by other books: aspects that do not depend on the assumptions of Lorentz-invariance and/or locality ○ Contains a chapter discussing application of methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics ○ It is not assumed that the reader is familiar with quantum mechanics; the book contains a short introduction to quantum mechanics for mathematicians

74 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics Problems and Solutions on Mechanics 2nd Edition Edited by: Swee Cheng Lim, Choy Heng Lai (National University of Singapore, Singapore) & Leong Chuan Kwek (National University of Singapore, Singapore & National Institute of Education, Singapore & Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

This volume is a compilation of carefully selected questions at the PhD qualifying exam level, including many actual questions from Columbia University, University of Chicago, MIT, State University of New York at Buffalo, Princeton University, University of Wisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley over a twenty-year period. Topics covered in this book include dynamics of systems of point masses, rigid bodies and deformable bodies, Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s equations, and special relativity.

This latest edition has been updated with more problems and solutions and the original problems Rights Information: have also been modernized, excluding outdated questions and emphasizing those that rely on All language rights calculations. The problems range from fundamental to advanced in a wide range of topics on available. mechanics, easily enhancing the student’s knowledge through workable exercises. Simple-to-solve problems play a useful role as a first check of the student’s level of knowledge whereas difficult 712pp problems will challenge the student’s capacity on finding the solutions. Pub. date: Jun 2020

Contents: Newtonian Mechanics: Dynamics of a Point Mass (1001–1108); Dynamics of a 978-981-121-340-3 System of Point Masses (1109–1144); Dynamics of Rigid Bodies (1145–1223); Dynamics of US$148 / £130 Deformable Bodies (1224–1272); Analytical Mechanics: Lagrange›s Equations (2001–2027); 978-981-121-445-5(pbk) Small Oscillations (2028–2067); Hamilton›s Canonical Equations (2068–2084); Special US$68 / £60 Relativity: Special Relativity (3001–3054).

Readership: Lecturers, postgraduates and advanced undergraduates in physics.

Origin and Evolution of the Universe From Big Bang to ExoBiology (2nd Edition) Edited by: Matthew A Malkan (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) & Ben Zuckerman (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

The book provides a broad overview of what we currently know about the Origin and Evolution of the Universe. The goal is to be scientifically comprehensive but concise. We trace the origins from the Big Bang and cosmic expansion, to the formation of galaxies, heavy elements, stars and planets as abodes for life. This field has made stunning progress since the first edition of this book. At that time, there were no known planets outside of our own Solar System (compared with the many thousands currently being studied). The origin of massive black holes was pure speculation (compared with the very recent detection of the first gravitational waves from space, produced by the cataclysmic merger of two surprisingly large black holes). And the most important energy in the Universe, now known as the Dark Energy which is accelerating the expansion, had not been Rights Information: discovered. We aim to bring lay readers with an interest in science ‘up to speed’ on all of these All language rights key discoveries that are part of the panorama of cosmic evolution, which has ultimately lead to available. our existence on Earth. 240pp Contents: The Origin of the Universe; The Origin and Evolution of Galaxies; The Origin of the Pub. date: Aug 2020 Chemical Elements; Stellar Explosions, Netutron Stars and Black Holes; The Origin of Stars and Planets; The Origin and Evolution of Life in the Universe. 978-981-120-645-0 US$78 / £70 Readership: Science students, professionals and general public interested in astronomy.

Key Features: 978-981-120-772-3(pbk) US$38 / £35 ○ Up-to-date coverage of many crucial scientific advances in the last few years ○ Written by leading researchers who have contributed in their specialties to our understanding of cosmic evolution ○ Compact treatments of key concepts of cosmic origins and evolution, accessible to a wide range of interested readers who do not necessarily hold college degrees in physical sciences

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 75 A Quantum Leap in Information Theory By (author): Stefano Mancini (University of Camerino, Italy) & Andreas Winter (ICREA, Spain & Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) Physics This is an introductory textbook at graduate or advanced undergraduate level. Students with diverse backgrounds, in mathematics, physics and computer science, can use it to become acquainted with the quantum theory of information. Its scope is deliberately chosen to be not too broad, while being self-consistent and usable for a semester-long course for beginners. The subject is presented using a balanced mix of intuitive arguments and rigorous formalism. The emphasis is not on the physical information but rather in the formal and mathematical features of quantum information theory. Only a basic knowledge of algebra is required to understand the contents of this book. In particular, a background in quantum mechanics is not needed, since quantum theory is used as a mere mathematical framework without entering into physical interpretations. Rights Information: All language rights The book introduces all necessary concepts from quantum theory and classical information available. theory, to cover the elements of quantum Shannon theory: quantum states and channels, data compression and entropy, error correcting codes and channel capacities, as well as the basics of 248pp entanglement theory and quantum cryptography. Pub. date: Apr 2020 Examples are provided to help the reader in understanding the different concepts, together with 978-981-120-154-7 exercises at the end of each chapter. US$88 / £75 Contents: Prelude; Information and Entropy: The Classical View; A Quantum Primer; Mixed Quantum States; Information and Entropy: The Quantum View; Channel Maps; Interlude: Estimation Theory; Data Compression; Information Transmission; Error Correcting Codes; Channel Capacities; Entanglement Manipulation; Cryptography; Appendix: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra; Solutions to Selected Exercises.

Readership: Graduate students and researchers from Mathematics and Communication Engineering.

Key Features: ○ Contributions from well-known and high-profile researchers in their respective fields ○ Each chapter is self-contained ○ Suitable for researchers or students familiar with a primer on coding or cryptography interested in moving on to advanced topics

76 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics Superconductivity Begins with H both properly understood, and misunderstood: Superconductivity basics rethought By (author): Jorge E Hirsch (University of California San Diego, USA)

This iconoclastic book proposes that superconductivity is misunderstood in contemporary science and that this hampers scientific and technological development. Superconductivity is the ability of some metals to carry electric current without resistance at very low temperatures. Properly understanding superconductivity would facilitate finding materials that superconduct at room temperature, providing great benefits to society.

The conventional BCS theory of superconductivity, developed in 1957 and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972, is generally believed to fully explain the lower temperature ‘conventional superconductors’ but not the more recently discovered ‘high temperature superconductors’, for which the charge carriers are positive holes rather than negative electrons. Instead, this book Rights Information: proposes the holistic view that holes are responsible for superconductivity in all materials. It All language rights explains in simple terms how the most fundamental property of all superconductors, that they available. expel H-fields (the Meissner effect), can be understood with hole carriers and cannot be explained by BCS. It describes the historical development of the conventional theory and why it went astray, 280pp and credits pre-BCS researchers for important insights that were forgotten after BCS but are in Pub. date: Jun 2020 fact relevant for the proper understanding of superconductivity.

Contents: Overview of Supercoductivity: Introduction; Bird›s Eye View of Superconductivity: 978-981-121-685-5 US$128 / £115 Heroes and Villains; Bird›s Eye View of Superconducting Materials; BCS and Hubbard: Theories of Superconductivity That Don›t Explain It; Electrons and Holes in Solids:: The Key to Superconductivity; The Key Questions That Need to be Answered: The Simplest Question in Superconductivity, That BCS Doesn›t Answer; Meissner Effect and London Theory; Essential Points of BCS, and Why It Doesn›t Explain the Meissner Effect; The Meissner Effect in More Detail; The Key to the Meissner Effect: Charge Expulsion; Conventional Theory and the New Materials: Theories of Superconductivity Before BCS, That Explain More than BCS; Phonons and the Beginning of Obscurantism; Herbert Fröhlich›s Deception and Its Consequences; 1957– 1980: The Golden Age of BCS Theory; Holes in Cuprates and Other Materials; Electron–Hole Asymmetry and Its Consequences: The Fundamental Asymmetry Between Electrons and Holes; Superconductors as ‹Giant Atoms›; Holes, Charge Expulsion and Internal Electric Field; Mesoscopic Orbits and Spin Currents; Kinetic or Potential Energy? Liquid Helium Provides the Answer; Answers to the Key Questions and Conclusions: Spinning Superconductors and Ice Skaters: The Smoking Gun; The Meissner Effect Explained (Almost All); The Secret of the Holes; BCS versus Hubbard versus Holes; How to Find and Not Find High Temperature Superconductors.

Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, research professionals and the general public interested in superconductivity.

Key Features: ○ There is no other book that explains superconductivity the way this book does. This book addresses and answers the simplest and most fundamental questions about superconductivity: how does a supercurrent start and stop? How is momentum conservation satisfied, and how is Faraday’s law not violated? How does a rotating superconductor generate a magnetic field defying the law of inertia? Other books on superconductivity don’t even mention these basic questions, because the conventional theory has no answers for them ○ Other existing books on superconductivity require advanced scientific training and yet do not correctly explain their basic physics. Or, they give a superficial qualitative overview of superconductors without explaining how they work. This book provides a unified understanding of all superconducting materials, unlike all other books on superconductivity that make a sharp distinction between ‘conventional’ and ‘unconventional’ superconductors ○ The book’s author, Jorge E. Hirsch, is a renowned expert in the field of condensed matter physics, having published over 250 articles on the subject. He has developed the theory of ‘hole superconductivity’, the focus of this book, over the last 30 years and published over 100 scientific articles on it. He is also the inventor of the H-index, a bibliometric measure of scientific achievement that is used world-wide across scientific disciplines which, he admits in this book, fails to identify high scientific achievement in the field of superconductivity. His H-index is 58

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 77 The Dark Energy Survey The Story of a Cosmological Experiment Edited by: Ofer Lahav (University College London, UK), Lucy Calder (University

Physics College London, UK), Julian Mayers (University of Sussex, UK) & Josh Frieman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA & University of Chicago, USA)

This book is about the Dark Energy Survey, a cosmological experiment designed to investigate the physical nature of dark energy by measuring its effect on the expansion history of the universe and on the growth of large-scale structure. The survey saw first light in 2012, after a decade of planning, and completed observations in 2019. The collaboration designed and built a 570-megapixel camera and installed it on the four-metre Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in the Chilean Andes. The survey data yielded a three-dimensional map of over 300 million galaxies and a catalogue of thousands of supernovae. Analysis of the early data has confirmed remarkably accurately the model of cold dark matter and a cosmological Rights Information: constant. The survey has also offered new insights into galaxies, supernovae, stellar evolution, All language rights solar system objects and the nature of gravitational wave events. available. A project of this scale required the long-term commitment of hundreds of scientists from institutions all over the world. The chapters in the first three sections of the book were either written by these 350pp scientists or based on interviews with them. These chapters explain, for a non-specialist reader, Pub. date: Jul 2020 the science analysis involved. They also describe how the project was conceived, and chronicle some of the many and diverse challenges involved in advancing our understanding of the universe. 978-1-78634-835-7 The final section is trans-disciplinary, including inputs from a philosopher, an anthropologist, visual US$98 / £85 artists and a poet. Scientific collaborations are human endeavours and the book aims to convey a sense of the wider context within which science comes about.

This book is addressed to scientists, decision makers, social scientists and engineers, as well as to anyone with an interest in contemporary cosmology and astrophysics.

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the DES Project and Science (Josh Frieman & Ofer Lahav); Building the Dark Energy Survey: Early Days of the Dark Energy Survey (John Peoples, Chris Smith & Alistair Walker); The Dark Energy Camera (David Brooks, Thomas Diehl, Peter Doel & Brenna Flaugher); Installation and First Light (Tim Abbott, H Thomas Diehl & Alistair Walker); Commissioning DECam on the Blanco Telescope (Aaron Roodman & Alistair Walker); DES Early Observations and Science Verification (Gary Bernstein & Klaus Honscheid); DES as a Big Data Machine Part I: the Dark Energy Survey Data Management System (Robert Gruendl & Donald Petravick); DES as a Big Data Machine Part II: SExtractor and the DES Science Portal (Emmanuel Bertin, Luiz da Costa & Angelo Fausti); DES Survey Strategy and Calibration (James Annis, Eric Neilsen & Douglas Tucker); Dark Energy Science: Type Ia Supernovae (Chris D’Andrea, Rick Kessler, John Marriner, Bob Nichol & Masao Sako); Large Scale Structure of the Universe (Martin Crocce, Will Percival, Ashley Ross & Eusebio Sánchez); Weak Gravitational Lensing (Daniel Gruen, Bhuvnesh Jain & Michael Troxel); Galaxy Clusters (Tesla Jeltema, Tim McKay, Chris Miller, Joe Mohr & Kathy Romer); Theory and Combined Probes (Scott Dodelson, Tim Eifler, Wayne Hu, Dragan Huterer, Elisabeth Krause, Eduardo Rozo & Jochen Weller); Spectroscopic Redshifts (Chris D’Andrea, Tamara Davis, Janie Hoormann, Alex Kim & Chris Lidman); Photometric Redshifts (Chris Bonnett, Francisco Castander, Tamara Davis, Ben Hoyle, Ofer Lahav, Huan Lin & Carles Sánchez); Simulating DES (Gus Evrard, Pablo Fosalba, Katrin Heitmann, Andrey Kravtsov & Risa Wechsler); Non-Dark Energy Science: Galaxy Evolution (Manda Banerji, Will Hartley, Daniel Thomas & Risa Wechsler); Quasars (Xin Liu, Paul Martini & Richard McMahon); Strong Gravitational Lensing (Adam Amara, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Martin Makler & Brian Nord); Stellar, Milky Way and Local Group Science (Keith Bechtol, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Ting Li, Jennifer Marshall, Basilio Santiago & Brian Yanny); Solar System Science (David Gerdes); Optical Follow-ups to Gravitational Wave Events (Marcelle Soares-Santos); Reflections and Outlook: An Anthropology Angle: Credit and Uncertainty in the Dark Energy Survey (Lucy Calder, with Martin Holbraad); A Philosopher’s Look at DES (Michela Massimi); Artists’ Reflections (Judy Goldhill & Jane Grisewood); At the Edge of the Abyss: A Poem for the Dark Energy Survey (Amy Catanzano); DES and the Future of Dark Energy (David Weinberg); Appendix A: DES Collaboration Meeting Group Photos.

Readership: Undergraduate and PhD students, DES members, members of other big collaborations, the general community of astronomers and physicists, funding agencies, policy makers, historians and anthropologists of science, educated laypeople interested in science.

78 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics The Majorana Case Letters, Documents, Testimonies By (author): Erasmo Recami (University of Bergamo, Italy & INFN-Sezione di Milano, Italy & UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil) Ettore Majorana was born in the Sicilian city of Catania. He joined Enrico Fermi’s “Via Panisperna boys” at an early age and was part of the team who first discovered the slow neutrons (the research that would lead to the nuclear reactor and eventually, the atomic bomb). Enrico Fermi considered him one of brightest scientists, comparable to Galileo and Newton. On March 25, 1938, Ettore Majorana mysteriously disappeared at 31. When the author moved to the University of Catania, Sicily, from Milan University back in 1968, he soon discovered important documents pertaining to Majorana’s life and works. Together with his own investigative materials and full cooperation from Majorana’s family members, he published a book on his disappearance in Italian (after having helped the famous Italian writer, Leonardo Sciascia, to write down his known Essay, by supplying him with copy of some of the discovered documents). Recami’s book was entitled Il Caso Majorana — Epistolario, Documenti, Rights Information: Testimonianze and when it first appeared in Italy, it drew interest from all the major newspapers, All language rights publications and TVs & broadcast media. available. Even after his disappearance, Ettore Majorana’s name appeared in many areas of frontier physics research, ranging from elementary particle physics to applied condensed matter, to mathematical physics, and more. His long lasting contributions is a testimony of his brilliance and farsightedness 400pp and has continued to draw interest from scientists not only in Italy, but from all over world until today. Pub. date: Dec 2019 An English version of the original is very appropriate at this juncture, when more and more scholars 978-981-120-701-3 in the world are getting convinced that he was really a genius “like Galileo and Newton”. This book traces the extraordinary life of Ettore Majorana — through his letters, documents and testimonies US$98 / £85 from his friends and family members. What makes this book more fascinating (as a detective-story too) is his mysterious disappearance at young age. This book, therefore, is both a biography and 978-981-120-769-3(pbk) a mystery book. US$48 / £40 Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Ettore Majorana: The Man and the Scientist: The Disappearance; Fame; The Family; The Man: Recollections of Friends; The Scientist; The Letters of Ettore Majorana; Anatomy of a Disappearance; Did Majorana Seek Refuge in Argentina? — Some Documents; Letters, Documents, and Testimonies: Letters and Testimonies; Other Documents Related to His Professorship and His Disappearance; Other Testimonies; The Possible Presence in Argentina: Testimonies; List of Ettore Majorana›s Publications; Bibliography; Appendix: ”In Memory of Ettore Majorana”. Readership: Everyone interested in Ettore Majorana. Key Features: ○ Best seller for the Italian version ○ A collection of numerous historical photos ○ A piece of scientific history that needs to be read

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics By (author): Richard Fitzpatrick (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

This book provides a comprehensive exposition of the theory of equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics at a level suitable for well-prepared undergraduate students. The fundamental message of the book is that all results in equilibrium thermodynamics and statistical mechanics follow from a single unprovable axiom — namely, the principle of equal a priori probabilities — combined with elementary probability theory, elementary classical mechanics, and elementary quantum mechanics.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Probability Theory; Statistical Mechanics; Heat and Work; Statistical Thermodynamics; Classical Thermodynamics; Multi-Phase Systems; Applications of Statistical Thermodynamics; Chemical Equilibria; Quantum Statistics; Appendix A: Physical Constants; Appendix B: Classical Mechanics; Appendix C: Wave Mechanics; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students; lecturers teaching a course on thermodynamics or statistical mechanics in Physics. Rights Information: All language rights Key Features: available. ○ Unique treatments of thermodynamics of atmosphere ○ Surpasses conventional texts/materials in its systematic exposition 360pp Pub. date: Jul 2020

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Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 79 Editor’s Choice You Can Be the Next Einstein By (author): George Jaroszkiewicz

Have you ever wondered how Einstein, a regular man, can come up with radical ideas that shape Physics the world to be what it is today?

Albert Einstein is a familiar name to many in the scientific and non-scientific community due to his revolutionary ideas such as the Theory of Relativity, Special Relativity and significant contributions to the development of Quantum Mechanics. As such, many aspire to be like him and wonder how they can do that. The author believes that one needs to condition his/her mind to be able to think like the world-renowned Mathematical Physicist, Albert Einstein. The road to being successful can be challenging and it requires grit, confidence and guidance from the right people. Hence, this book is as a must-have guide to readers who wish to be one of the best scientists in the world!

Contents: Introduction; Role Models; Is This You?; Mathematical Physics as a Career; What We Rights Information: Do; Nullius in Verba; The Gates of Hell; Why?; How It All Started for Me; No Good at Maths?; All language rights Einstein›s Brain; Motivate Yourself; Study, Sleep, and Exams; Tools of the Trade; The Mess on available. Your Desk; Giving a Talk; Finding a Job; Interviews; Sitting at the Back; The Administrators; Publish or Perish; Strings and Things; Notation; Your Career Choice; Glossary; Notes. 324pp Readership: Secondary school students and teachers, undergraduate students and general Pub. date: Jan 2020 public. 978-981-121-112-6 US$68 / £60 Key Features: ○ Will appeal to students, teachers, and lecturers at school, colleges, and universities 978-981-121-209-3(pbk) because of its informative approach to becoming a mathematical physicist. The book US$28 / £18.99 is aimed at encouraging a wide spectrum of students, particularly those who never thought about science as a career ○ Contains a unique blend of personal, factually based anecdotes about mathematical physics and mathematical physicists, and many pointers, tips, and sensible advice about becoming a mathematical physicist ○ Gives a perspective on significant branches of mathematical physics, such as String Theory, Many Worlds, and Hidden Variables, designed to guide the beginner in a choice of career in mathematical physics

Editor’s Choice Quantum Computing Physics, Blockchains, and Deep Learning Smart Networks By (author): Melanie Swan (Purdue University, USA), Renato P dos Santos (Lutheran University of Brazil, Brazil) & Frank Witte (University College London, UK)

Quantum information and contemporary smart network domains are so large and complex as to be beyond the reach of current research approaches. Hence, new theories are needed for their understanding and control. Physics is implicated as smart networks are physical systems comprised of particle-many items interacting and reaching criticality and emergence across volumes of macroscopic and microscopic states. Methods are integrated from statistical physics, information theory, and computer science. Statistical neural field theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence are employed to derive a smart network field theory (SNFT) and a smart network quantum field theory (SNQFT) for the orchestration of smart network systems. Specifically, a smart network field theory (conventional or quantum) is a field theory for the organization of particle- many systems from a characterization, control, criticality, and novelty emergence perspective.

Rights Information: This book provides insight as to how quantum information science as a paradigm shift in All language rights computing may influence other high-impact digital transformation technologies, such as blockchain available. and machine learning. Smart networks refer to the idea that the internet is no longer simply a communications network, but rather a computing platform. The trajectory is that of communications 400pp networks becoming computing networks (with self-executing code), and perhaps ultimately Pub. date: May 2020 quantum computing networks. Smart network technologies are conceived as autonomous self-operating computing networks. This includes blockchain economies, deep learning neural 978-1-78634-820-3 networks, autonomous supply chains, self-piloting driving fleets, unmanned aerial vehicles, US$138 / £120 industrial robotics cloudminds, real-time bidding for advertising, high-frequency trading networks, smart city IoT sensors, and the quantum internet.

Contents: About the Authors; Introduction; Smart Networks and Quantum Computing: Smart Networks: Classical and Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Computing: Basic Concepts;

80 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Physics Advanced Quantum Computing: Interference and Entanglement; Blockchain and Zero- knowledge Proofs: Classical Blockchain; Quantum Blockchain; Zero-knowledge Proof Technology; Post-quantum Cryptography and Quantum Proofs; Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Classical Machine Learning; Quantum Machine Learning; Smart Network Field Theories: Model Field Theories: Neural Statistics and Spin Glass; Smart Network Field Theory Specification and Examples; The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Holographic Codes: The AdS/CFT Correspondence; Holographic Quantum Error-correcting Codes; Quantum Smart Networks: AdS/Smart Network Correspondence and Conclusion; Glossary; Index.

Readership: Thought-leaders, executives, industry strategists, research scientists, graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, policy-makers, government regulators, corporate practitioners, and entrepreneurs in the areas of computer science, blockchain, machine learning, quantum information science, and theoretical physics.

Key Features: ○ This book is unique in providing a strategy for managing the considerable uncertainty of the disruptive possibilities of quantum computing in the next decade and beyond ○ This book is unique in considering quantum computing, blockchain, and machine learning with an integrative approach that includes concepts, methods, and theory development from contemporary physics ○ This book is unique in providing insight into the convergence of research frontiers in blockchain and machine learning in the context of the possible coming quantum information revolution ○ This book offers vision into the future of blockchain, machine learning, and quantum information technologies

About the Authors Melanie Swan is a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, a Technology Theorist in the Philosophy Department at Purdue University, and a Singularity University faculty member. She is the founder of several startups including the Institute for Blockchain Studies, DIYgenomics, GroupPurchase, and the MS Futures Group. Melanie’s educational background includes an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in New York, and a BA in French and Economics from Georgetown University. She is the author of the best-selling book Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy. Other notable work is on the topics of Blockchain Economics, Human Brain/Cloud Interface, BCI Cloudminds, Multigenic Risk Assessment, the Brain as a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Corporation), Neural Payment Channels, Biocryptoeconomics, and Blocktime (the native time domain of blockchains).

Renato P dos Santos is a researcher on blockchain technologies and Graduate Professor at the Lutheran University of Brazil. He is a member of the British Blockchain Association, holds a DSc (Physics) degree and did post-doc works in Artificial Intelligence, and specialisations in Data Science and blockchain technologies. He is also the author of more than 100 scientific papers about Philosophy of Cryptocurrencies, Data Science in STEM Education, Second Life in STEM Education, Web 2.0 technologies, Ethnoscience, Physics Teaching, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Algebra in Physics, and Quantum Field Theory in prestigious scientific periodicals and events around the world. He is a reviewer and editor of prestigious scientific periodicals and events around the world and developed systems for Second Life, Forex market, Qualitative Physics, and Computer Algebra.

Frank Witte completed an MSc in theoretical Astrophysics (1992) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and received his PhD in theoretical physics (1995) from the University of Heidelberg. As an assistant and associate professor he taught theoretical physics at Utrecht University and University College Utrecht (1997–2010) and published on diverse topics such as phase-transitions in non-equilibrium field theories, bound-states of fermions under gravitational interactions and the foundations of quantum game theory. As his research interests shifted towards the application of physics-inspired methods and concepts in Economics he accepted a position in the Department of Economics of University College London where he is working today. He teaches Economics of Science, with a forthcoming textbook to be published by World Scientific, and Environmental Economics as well as Computational Methods for Economists. Frank has spent extended academic visits, including teaching and research, at St. John›s College, Cambridge (UK), the Quantum Optics & Laser Science group at Imperial College London and as International Fellow of Grinnell College (US).

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 81 Editor’s Choice China versus the US Who Will Prevail? By (author): Alfredo Toro Hardy (Venezuelan Scholar and Diplomat)

“Weaving together into a seamless narrative the many strands of past and present changes, this is soft-power writing that reveals the hard-power implications that lie in wait. Toro Hardy has produced a detailed, accessible and insightful text to understand the coming fury.” Roxane Farmanfarmaian Social Sciences Director of Global Policies and International Studies, and Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge

“The rivalry between China and America is the big question of the 21st century. It shapes our economies, our technology, our security and determine whether we can tackle the climate emergency. Alfredo Toro Hardy’s gripping book uses decades of diplomatic experience to Rights Information: forensically examine every aspect of this critical relationship and lays out scenarios for the future. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the future of geopolitics.” All language rights Mark Leonard available. Author of What Does China Think?, and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations 304pp Pub. date: Jun 2020 “The US-China rivalry requires a scholar-diplomat that is neither American nor Chinese to give it fair treatment. That is what Alfredo Toro Hardy delivers in this landmark volume. Covering the 978-981-121-851-4 history of their intertwined relations, the personalities shaping their worldviews, and the episodes US$58 / £50 defining their rising tension, China Versus the US deftly asks the big questions that will shape the future of geopolitics. A sweeping and bold narrative.” Parag Khanna Author of The Future is Asian, and One of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century”

“In this lucid and insightful book, which is a compelling reading, Alfredo Toro Hardy has done a great service. The power dynamics driving China and the United States, as well as the different outcomes that might result from it, are very clearly explained. Toro Hardy shows both how competition between these two superpowers has become inevitable and also why it need not end in military conflict.” Victor Bulmer-Thomas Author of Empire in Retreat: The Past, Present and Future of the United States, and Former Director of Chatham House

The heralding of ambitions and hardening of geopolitical and military stances by China has given rise to few questions: Did China challenge the United States too hard and too soon and, by doing so, seriously jeopardize its chances of achieving its objectives? Can Washington still contain China’s ascendancy and retain its current leading status?

This book attempts to explore these questions and analyse if China has tried to display its strength to America too soon. It argues that by comparing the comprehensive national power of the two countries, one may be able to answer the above questions.

Contents: Acknowledgments; About the Author; Foreword; Introduction; The Good Years; The Unraveling; Sailing Against the Wind; The Convergence Aptitude; The Mistakes Avoidance Aptitude; The Universality Aptitude; The Military Aptitude; The Economic Aptitude; The Technological Aptitude; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: General public; scholars, graduate and undergraduate students studying international business, political science, international relations, American Studies, and China Studies.

Key Features: ○ Only book that compares the comprehensive national power of both China and the United States

82 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 Social Sciences Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali The Accidental Doctor By (author): Eva Wong Nava & June Ho Illustrated by: Debasmita Dasgupta

Meet Siti Hasmah, a little girl, who wants to be a journalist, in a period when not every girl was sent to school. Watch what happens to her, her family, and country when World War II strikes. Walk in her footsteps as she graduates from university and goes on to save the lives of many Malaysian women and children. See what she finally ends up becoming.

The Asian Sheroes series aim not just to educate but also to motivate. These stories celebrate the amazing accomplishments of women from the region. Their remarkable strength in the face of adversity and sheer determination make it possible for their dreams to be fulfilled, no matter how big! They remind our young readers that great things are accomplished by people who were once little, just like them. Rights Information: All language rights Readership: Malaysians, children in Southeast Asia, children interested in medicine. available.

Key Features: 32pp ○ This book is a unique story about a unique life Pub. date: Sep 2020 ○ There is no other book competing with it 978-981-122-111-8 US$98 / £85

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Populists and Progressives The New Forces in American Politics By (author): Steven Rosefielde (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) & Daniel Quinn Mills (Harvard Business School, USA)

Populists and Progressives alerts readers to dramatic changes in the ideological and political structure of America›s Democratic and Republican parties roiling Washington and shaping the 2020 presidential election. America now has four distinct contentious political orientations: progressive, liberal, conservative and populist. The least well understood are the progressives, whose programs are often confused with socialism, and populists stigmatized as reactionaries. Each has its own agenda and presses programs that are incompatible with one another, auguring protracted strife and paralysis. The book carefully elaborates the substance of each movement and analyses the social, political and economic forces driving them. It assesses their staying power and prospects in the 2020 presidential election. The analysis reveals that most contemporary American political commentary is intensely partisan and relies on obsolete notions of Democrat and Republican party doctrine and rivalry, obscuring the transformation of American society, Rights Information: politics and economy. Populists and Progressives assists readers to dispel the fog, allowing them All language rights to judge the present danger and help in the search for consensus solutions. available.

Contents: New Forces in American Politics: A Time of Confusion; Revolt of the Middle 192pp Class: The Populist Right; Populists Are Not Conservatives; When Life Isn’t Going Right, You Pub. date: May 2020 Should Go Left: The Progressive Movement: Progressives Are Not Liberals; The End Is All- Important; History as the Servant of Present-Day Politics; There Is Fear from All Sides: Will 978-981-121-718-0 Populists Persecute Minorities and Plunge the World into War?; Will Progressives Oppress US$68 / £60 Their Opponents?; The Mitterand Rule; Is There a Place to Hide?; Why Radicalization Is Happening: Domestic Disintegration; The Struggle for the Votes of a Changing Electorate; “For 978-981-121-840-8(pbk) God’s Sake, Don’t Try to Improve Their Minds!”: The Role of Mass Media; The Crisis of US$28 / £25 the Establishment; The Surge of Tribalism; Politics in Motion: A President Without a Party; Progressives Try to Displace Liberals; Will There Be Fighting in the Streets?; What’s Going on: I Won›t Pay for a Landslide; We Know That Woman! Celebrities in Politics; Our Future: The Politics of Payback; What a Government Stalemate Is Going to Do; The Political Future of Populism; The Immediate Future: An Astonishing Story.

Readership: General readers interested in American politics.

Key Features: ○ Fills a crucial void in contemporary American political, social and economic analysis which fixes on the jockeying of the Democrat and Republican parties, failing to appreciate that the Democratic Party is being captured by progressives, and the Republican Party is paralyzed by conservative conflicts with populists ○ Illuminates Washington’s shrill politics and the deep forces shaping the portentous 2020 presidential election

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2020 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 83 Putin’s Russia Economy, Defense and Foreign Policy Edited by: Steven Rosefielde (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)

This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress’s decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia’s performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia’s economy, military prowess and international ambitions. The volume does not settle controversies, but does provide readers with

Social Sciences an objective basis for assessing Russia’s prospects without the distortions caused by fake news and disinformation wars.

Contents: Introduction; Russian Economy: Performance; Macroeconomy; Technology; Banking; Demography; Education and Science Policy; Russian Defense: Military Industry; Defense Capabilities; Armed Forces; Military Strategic Thought; Russian Politics: Foreign Policy; Sanctions; Arctic; Pivot to the East; Conclusion. Rights Information: All language rights Readership: Academics, professionals, policy-makers and students interested in Russia. available.

300pp Pub. date: Aug 2020

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