Advance Information CHINA AND LATIN AMERICA Economic and Trade Cooperation in the Next 10 Years

By Zhenxing Su (China Academy of Social Sciences, China) Translated by Hongling Zhao (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Features solid argumentation and substantial evidences Binding: Hardcover • Contains historical materials, analyses current situation and predicts the future trends ISBN: 978-981-3202-28-3 of relationship between China and Latin America Price: £123 Description: Page Extent: 500pp The international financial crisis in 2008 marked the beginning of important changes in the international economic system. The emerging market economies are increasingly Type: Monograph becoming a driving force for the global economic growth. Under such circumstances, the Main Subject: Asian Studies Sino–Latin American economic and trade cooperation has entered a new period of historical Sub-subjects: China Studies; opportunity. Based on the economic development trend and the adjustment of policy, this Asian Economies; Asian Politics/ book explores the prospect for Sino–Latin American economic and trade cooperation. It Society; International Relations; tracks the development path for this cooperation in the next 10 years by analyzing resource International Economics; General endowment, industrial structure, economic system, development pattern, basic economic Economics; Developmental policy, economic environment, economic and trade relations between China and Latin Economics America. BIC: KCLT Author: BISAC: BUS069020; POL011020; Su Zhenxing studied Russian in the Beijing Foreign Language College for one year from 1959 POL024000 to 1960. From 1960 to 1964, he studied Spanish at the department of western languages and Keywords: China; Latin America; literature in Peking University. He is a Researcher and PhD student advisor at the Institute of Economic Cooperation; Trade Latin American Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His academic specialties Cooperation; International Trade are Latin American Studies. In 1964, he started working in the Institute of Latin American Studies of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Readership: Policymakers, Party of China; from 1974 to 1977, he was the cultural attaché of the Chinese Embassy in professionals, academics, Argentina. He has served as the Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the undergraduate and graduate Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and as a member of the 9th National Committee of the students interested in China- Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Latin American Economic Relations and Trade Cooperation Translator: Imprint: World Scientific Zhao Hongling is the Associate Professor of English in the School of Foreign Languages, Publishing Company Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT); Master Supervisor of English Language and Literature; one of the tutors in the MTI (Master of Translating and Interpreting) Center of BIT. He got his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Nanjing Normal University in 1986 and his master certificate from Shanghai Institute of Technology in 1988. From 1988 to 2016, he has been working in the School of Foreign Languages, BIT, teaching English to English-major graduates and undergraduates and Non-English-major graduates and undergraduates, and doing researches. He has written a lot of articles concerning English teaching and taken part in the compiling of several English textbooks for graduates and undergraduates. Contents: • Preface • Reform and Development of the Latin–American Economy • Economic Trend of Argentina and the Sino–Argentine Economic and Trade Relations • Brazilian Economy and the Sino–Brazilian Economic and Trade Relations • Economic Trend of Chile and the Policy Choice of the Sino–Chilean Economic and Trade Cooperation • Economic Policy Adjustment of Mexico and the Prospect for the Sino–Mexican Economic and Trade Cooperation • Economic Characteristics of Peru and the Sino–Peruvian Economic and Trade Cooperation • Economic Reform of Venezuela and the Sino–Venezuelan Economic and Trade Relations • Study on the Economic Openness of the Latin American Countries • Review of the Sino–Latin American Economic and Trade Cooperation since the Beginning of the 21st Century • Opportunities and Challenges of the Sino–Latin American Economic and Trade Cooperation • Continuing to Deepen the Cooperation and Realizing Common Development Bibliography Advance Information

Series on Contemporary China CHINA’S ECONOMIC STATECRAFT Co-optation, Cooperation, and Coercion

Edited by Mingjiang Li (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Caters to the IR community and the policy circles throughout the world, which continue Binding: Hardcover to be interested in research on China’s rise and its impact on the outside world ISBN: 978-981-4713-46-7 • First comprehensive study that specifically and systematically addresses China’s economic statecraft in the contemporary era Price: £115 • Contributed by scholars from China and many other countries, thereby bringing in Page Extent: 328pp diverse views Type: Review Volume Main Subject: Asian Studies Description: This book aims to study China’s economic statecraft i n t he contemporary era i n a Sub-subjects: China Studies; comprehensive manner. It attempts to explore China’s approaches to using its economic, International Relations; Political trade, investment, and financial power for the pursuit of its political, security, and strategic Science/Policy Studies/Public interests at the regional and global levels. The volume addresses three major issue areas in Policy particular. The first issue pertains to how Beijing has used its economic clout to protect what it BIC: JPQB perceives as its “core interests” in its external relations. Three cases are included: the Taiwan BISAC: POL054000; POL062000; issue, human rights, and territorial dispute in the South China Sea. The second major area of POL011000 inquiry focuses on how China has employed its economic power in its key bilateral relations, Keywords: China's Foreign including relations with Japan, North Korea, the United States, and other states in the East Relations; China's Foreign Policy; Asian region. The third issue concerns China’s economic statecraft in the global context. It Economic Statecraft; Economic addresses the impacts of China’s economic power and policy on the transformation of the Diplomacy; The Rise of China; global financial tructurs e, developments i n Africa, t he international intellectual property China's International Relations rights regime, and China’s food security relations with the outside world. Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Author: Readership: Students who Dr Mingjiang LI is an Associate Professor at S. Rajaratnam School of International are studying China’s foreign Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also the Coordinator of policy, researchers in the field of the China Program at RSIS. He received his PhD in Political Science from Boston China’s foreign relations, and University. His main research interests include China–ASEAN relations, Sino–US relations, practitioners and policy makers Asia-Pacific security, and domestic sources of Chinese foreign policy. He is the author (as who are involved or interested well as editor and co-editor) of 12 books. His recent books are New Dynamics in US–China in China’s foreign affairs Relations: Contending for the Asia Pacific (lead editor, Routledge, 2014) and Mao’s China and the Sino–Soviet Split (Routledge, 2012). He has published papers in various peer- reviewed journals including the Journal of Strategic Studies, Global Governance, Cold War History, Journal of Contemporary China, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, The Chinese Journal of Political Science, China: An International Journal, China Security, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Security Challenges, and the International Spectator. Dr. Li frequently participates in various track-two events on East Asian regional security. Contents: • Chinese Debate on Economic Statecraft • China’s Economic Influence in Asia • China’s Economic Statecraft and Its Core Interests • China’s Practice of Economic Power in Major Bilateral Relations • China’s Financial Power and Global Financial System • China’s Economic Activities in Africa • China’s Participation in International Intellectual Property Rights Regime • China’s Food Security and Foreign Relations Advance Information MODI AND THE WORLD (Re) Constructing Indian Foreign Policy

Edited by Sinderpal Singh (S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Contrary to prior expectations, Narendra Modi has expended a significant amount of time, Binding: Hardcover energy and political capital in conducting India’s engagement with the outside world since ISBN: 978-981-3203-85-3 becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. In accordance with wider perceptions about Modi, there were expectations of significant, if not radical, change in Indian foreign policy under Price: £91 his charge. This sentiment led to a section of Indian strategists and foreign policy watchers Page Extent: 280pp conceiving the notion of a ‘Modi Doctrine’ in Indian foreign policy. This notion of foreign Type: Review Volume policy ‘doctrines’ is not new to the analysis of Indian foreign policy. Previous incarnations Main Subject: Asian Studies include the ‘Indira Doctrine’ of the 1970s, the ‘Gujral Doctrine’ for a brief period in the late 1990s and the ‘Manmohan Doctrine’ in the period before Modi was elected as prime Sub-subjects: Asian Politics/ minister. Society; Political Science/ Policy Studies/Public Policy; This edited volume attempts to interrogate the extent to which Indian foreign policy, under International Relations; Political Modi, has undergone significant change and the extent to which this manifests itself as a new Economy doctrine in Indian foreign policy. The individual chapters cover key bilateral relationships (the BIC: JPSL United States, China, Australia and Pakistan) as well as broader regional relationships (South BISAC: POL062000; POL011000; Asia and the Indian Ocean Region) and specific themes (such as economic diplomacy). POL054000 Keywords: India; Modi; Indian Foreign Policy; Modi Doctrine; International Relations; Indian Politics; Bilateral Ties Readership: Graduate students and researchers focusing on Indian foreign policy, geo- political ties and international relations Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Bilateral Engagements: • Pakistan (P S Suryanarayana) • United States (Slyvia Mishra) • Japan (Anthony Yazaki) • China (Manjeet Pardesi) • Australia (David Brewster) • Themes/Geo-Political Regions: • Foreign Economic Policy (Amitendu Palit) • Indian Ocean (Rajeev Chaturvedy) • South Asia (S D Muni) • Middle East/ Gulf States (Nicholas Blarel) • Soft Power Anirban( Ganguly) Advance Information SOUTHEAST ASIA AND CHINA A Contest in Mutual Socialization

Edited by Lowell Dittmer (UC Berkeley, USA) & Chow Bing Ngeow (University of Malaya, Malaysia)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Multidisciplinary approach adopted to analyse the relations between China and Binding: Hardcover Southeast Asia ISBN: 978-981-3146-87-7 • Latest observations on the recent developments in South China Sea and China’s Maritime Silk Road Price: £81 • Expertise in political science, international relations, economics and history from Page Extent: 300pp prominent scholars Type: Review Volume Main Subject: Asian Studies Description: Sub-subjects: China Studies; The recent uncertainties vo er t he S outh C hina S ea have become o ne m ajor i ssue i n the Asian Politics / Society; Asian relations between China and Southeast Asian countries. The South China Sea issue, however, Economies; International is countered by the deepening economic integration between China and Southeast Asia, Relations; Maritime Studies which is likely to continue should China’s proposal for a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road JPS is agreed and implemented. Yet the success or not of this proposal depends also on the BIC: interactions in the political-security sphere between both sides. BISAC: POL011000; POL054000; POL062000 Southeast Asia and China: Exercises in Mutual Socialization brings together experts Keywords: China; ASEAN; South from different disciplines to illuminate on the complex political, economic and China Sea; ASEAN-China Free normative interactions between China and the Southeast Asian countries. This book Trade Area; Sovereignty analyses key issues including the national identity discourse of China as a Great Power, Readership: Academics, China’s civil-military interactions in its strategy in the South China Sea dispute, the policymakers, professionals, different kinds of political and strategic strategies used by Southeast Asian countries in and undergraduate and countering China, the past patterns and present trajectories of economic ties between graduate students interested in China and Southeast Asian countries, as well as the strategic implications of China’s 21st relations between China and Century Maritime Silk Road initiative. Southeast Asian countries Imprint: World Scientific Editors: Publishing Company Lowell Dittmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and editor of Asian Survey. Recent works include Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications (1992), China's Quest for National Identity (with Samuel Kim, 1993), China Under Reform (1994), Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution (rev. ed., 1997), (with Haruhiro Fukui and Peter N S Lee, eds.), and many scholarly articles. His most recent book is (with Maochun Yu, ed.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Security (2015).

NGEOW Chow Bing is Deputy Director of the Institute of China Studies at the University of Malaya. His research interests include China’s political reform, Chinese nationalism, and China-Southeast Asia relations. He has published in journals such as Journal of Contemporary China, China: An International Journal, Issues and Studies, East Asia: An International Quarterly, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnopolitics, Problems of Post-Communism, and others. Contents: • Southeast Asia and China: Interplay of Power, Capital and Ideas • China’s Great Power National Identity and Its Impact on China-Southeast Asia Relations • China’s Civil-Military Strategies for South China Sea Dispute Control • Independence and Friendship: Shared Histories in the China-Philippines Sea Crisis • ASEAN and Vietnam’s Security • Malaysia’s Hedging Strategy, a Rising China, and the Changing Strategic Situation in East Asia • Indonesia and China: The Bumpy Path to a Wary Partnership • China-ASEAN Economic Relations • The Future of China-ASEAN Trade Relations • “One Belt One Road” and China-Southeast Asia Relations • “Sovereignty” in the South China Sea: Some Malaysian and Malay Perspectives • The Institutional Foundations and Features of China-ASEAN Connectivity Advance Information UNDERSTANDING SINGAPORE POLITICS By Bilveer Singh (NUS, Singapore)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • An introductory text that provides a comprehensive overview to Singapore politics Binding: Hardcover • Updates on political developments in the post-2011 General Elections, such asthe ISBN: 978-981-3209-22-0 holding of various elections and the passing of Lee Kuan Yew Price: £62 Description: Binding: Softcover This book is written to address the dearth of a succinct overview on Singapore politics. This introductory text looks at the factors that shape the island-republic’s domestic politics, the ISBN: 978-981-3209-23-7 key institutions and issues in the city-state, electoral power as well as the political direction Price: £37 Singapore is likely to take in a post-Lee Kuan Yew era. The specific institutions covered for Page Extent: 200pp discussion include the mass media, trade unions, civil service and grassroots organisations. Type: Textbook The role of civil and civic society, including pressures for democratisation, is also examined. In addition, various new political issues — the importance of race, income equality and Main Subject: Asian Studies migration — and their implications are discussed. Finally, the linkage between Singapore’s Sub-subjects: Singapore domestic and foreign policy is analysed. This foundational guide to Singapore politics is Collection; Political Science/ recommended for anyone who has an interest or a stake in the island republic. Policy Studies/Public Policy; Asian Politics/Society Author: BIC: JPHL Bilveer Singh, a Singapore citizen, is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. He is concurrently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at BISAC: POL054000; POL015000; the Centre of Excellence for National Security, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, POL016000 Nanyang Technological University and the President, Political Science Association, Singapore. Keywords: Singapore; People’s He received his MA and PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. Action Party; Opposition; He has been lecturing on issues relating to Singapore’s politics and foreign policy for more Challenges; Elections than 35 years. He researches and publishes on Comparative Politics and International Readership: Secondary and Relations and some of his works include: Quest for Political Power: Communist Subversion Junior College students, and Militancy in Singapore, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2015; Politics and Governance University students specialising in Singapore: An Introduction, Second Edition, Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education Asia, 2012; on Southeast Asia and in Politics and Governance in Singapore: An Introduction, Singapore: McGraw-Hill Education, particular Singapore, researchers 2007. on Singapore politics, as well as professionals such as diplomats and journalists who want to have an insight on Singapore politics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Key Personalities in Singapore Politics • Chronology of Key Political Developments • List of Tables and Figures • Abbreviations • Key Terms • Acknowledgements • Preface • Introduction • Factors Affecting Singapore’s Internal and External Politics • Political History of Singapore and the Relevance for Contemporary Politics • The Singapore Political System • Political Parties • Key Para-political Organisations in Singapore • Nation Building and National Identity • Political Leadership and Challenges of Political Renewal • Rise of Civil Society Politics in Singapore • Rise of New Political Issues in Singapore • Elections in Singapore • Singapore in the Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era • Linkage between Singapore’s Domestic and Foreign Policy • Conclusion Whither Politics in Singapore • Select Bibliography • Index Advance Information

Series on Complexity Science A COMPLEXITY APPROACH TO SUSTAINABILITY Theory and Application 2nd Edition

By Angela Espinosa (Hull University Business School, UK) & Jon Walker (Independent Researcher, UK)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Very few publications on environmental or sustainability research with focus on Binding: Hardcover complexity management ISBN: 978-1-78634-203-4 • Includes complexity management theory, methodology and applications in a variety of levels from communities to business and governments Price: £120 • Innovative, holistic view of sustainability management Page Extent: 496pp Description: Type: Monograph Business sustainability and sustainable development are of great importance in modern- Main Subject: Business & day socio-economic study. Despite this, the impact of recent contributions from systems Management and complexity sciences in addressing these issues has not yet filtered down into effective Sub-subjects: Operations practice. This book argues that there is a need for urgency in the application of analytical Management/Operations tools which embody the principles of complexity management in sustainability research, Research/Supply Chain in particular in the context of the global climate change. The approach presented is based Management; Environmental on the concept of clusters of whole systems coming together through collaboration, in Management & Planning; order to create larger wholes capable of dealing with the issues facing our socio-economic Organizational Behavior/ environmental systems. Industrial Organization BIC: RNU In this updated second edition, the authors further clarify the viability and sustainability (V&S) approach, and the criteria and framework needed for sustainable governance. It BISAC: BUS072000; BUS087000 includes a more detailed perspective on the implications of the V&S approach to businesses Keywords: Sustainable and networks towards changes in structure, strategy and processes, inspired by specific Development; Operations case studies. Key additions include a criteria for designing more viable and sustainable Management; Complexity self-governed organizations, the methodologies and tools to design and implement Science; Climate Change; self-transformations towards sustainability, and how these tools support sustainability Viability and Sustaibility; management individually and globally, for businesses and society. Management Systems Authors: Imprint: World Scientific Europe Angela Espinosa was born in Bogota, Colombia. She graduated as a computer and systems Readership: Graduate and engineer in 1981 and received a PhD in Organisational Cybernetics from Aston Business undergraduate students studying School, UK in 1995. She worked originally as an Information Systems Manager, in private and ecology management and public enterprises, and then as the Director of the Secretariat of Information and Systems of corporate social responsibilty, the Colombian President’s Office (1990–1992). From 1993 to 2002, she taught systems and professionals, general public cybernetics in Los Andes University and provided consultancy for both private and public and researchers interested in organisations. complexity and sustainability

Jon Walker received a PhD in cybernetics in Aston University in the 1980s. He has over thirty years’ experience working in the co-operative business sector. He has established and co- managed a range of businesses including retail outlets, a small-scale manufacturing plant, a warehouse and a chain of supermarkets dealing mainly with wholefood, organic and fairly- traded products. Concurrently, Jon has lectured, published, consulted and provided training courses in both private and public sectors, internationally on organisational structures. Contents: • Introducing Complexity and Sustainability • Viability through Complexity Management: Revisiting the Viable Systems Model • Societies as Viable Systems: Self-Governance and Sustainability • Towards More Sustainable Businesses • Viable and Sustainable Networks • Rethinking Sustainable Development • Envisioning Solutions for The Required Societal Transition • Conclusions Advance Information MANAGING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION Tools and Methods

Edited by Tugrul U Daim (Portland State University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well as a science; the process Binding: Hardcover involves the know-how and technological core skills to deliver the functionality on the one ISBN: 978-981-3207-26-4 hand, and (with ear on the ground) the ability to identify changes in technologies to come up with new innovations on the other. This requires, as a result, frameworks, system tools, and Price: £123 methodologies to improve the yield in innovations. Page Extent: 400pp Type: Review Volume Managing Technological Innovationprovides a set of tools and case studies for R&D managers Main Subject: Business & to effectively manage technological innovations — from the identifying of technological needs Management to the launch of the product. The book is divided into five parts. Part 1 addresses the policies and strategies necessary to provide direction to R&D organizations in the management Sub-subjects: Innovation/ of technological innovation. Part 2 focuses on technological assessment; presenting the Technology/Knowledge/ methods available to better matching of technologies to strategic directions, supported with Information Management; case studies to illustrate the evaluation methods. Part 3 covers the development and building Decision Sciences; Systems of technological portfolios with new products, as well as mitigation strategies. Part 4 focus Engineering; Industrial on the execution phase of built portfolios — the development of new products. And finally, Engineering Part 5 rounds up with a study on the factors which impact the diffusion of technological BIC: KJD innovations into the market place. BISAC: BUS108000 Keywords: Technology This book is a practical guide for R&D professions and designers, as well as a case study Management; Innovation; R&D reference for graduate students in pursuit of their project work. Management Editor: Readership: Graduate students, Tugrul U Daim is Professor and Director of Technology Management Doctoral Program, in the researchers and professionals Department of Engineering and Technology Management, at Portland State University (PSU), in the fields of R&D, product USA. Prior to joining PSU, he had worked at Intel Corporation for over a decade in varying design, and technology diffusion management roles. At Intel he managed product and technology development. He also has several professional certifications including the New Product Development Professional Imprint: World Scientific and Project Management Professional certificates. Professor Daim has been consultant to Publishing Company several organizations in sectors ranging from energy to medical device manufacturing. He Series: World Scientific Series in has been helping organizations including the US Department of Energy; the Energy Trust R&D Management - Volume 1 of Oregon; Biotronik; Biopro; Elsevier; and many others, to develop technology roadmaps for their future investments. He is also a visiting professor with the Northern Institute of Technology at Technical University of Hamburg, Harburg, Germany, where he teaches similar short courses. Contents: • Managing Technological Innovation • Cases and Tools for Managing Research and Development • Part 1: Policies & Strategies: • Technology Policy • Determining Effects of Incentives for Industry Competitiveness Using System Dynamics • Part 2: Technological Assessment: • Managing Risks for Disruptive Technologies • Triz Technology System Evolution Theory • Framework for Identification of Causalities Among Internal and External Modes of Technology Acquisition • Part 3: Portfolio Development and Mitigation Strategies: • R&D Portfolio Management • Intellectual Property Scorecard • Real Options Theory in Defense Projects • Integrated Technology Road-mapping Tool to Aid the Decision-making of R&D Investments • Performance Management • Part 4: Developing New Products: • New Product Development • Balancing Between R&D and Marketing • Performance Measurement Evaluation Matrix • Design Risk Assessment • Part 5: Technological Diffusion: • Application Paths • Computational Fluid Dynamics for Flow Simulation in Greenhouses Advance Information OPEN INNOVATION: UNVEILING THE POWER OF THE HUMAN ELEMENT Edited by Anne-Laure Mention (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg) & Dimitrios Salampasis (Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science- INESC TEC, Portugal)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Provides a diversified content with perspectives both from academics and practitioners Binding: Hardcover • The first of its kind to explicitly delve and focus on the multidimensional and ISBN: 978-981-3140-84-4 multidisciplinary human aspect of open innovation • Unveils the peculiarities of the dynamic interplay between the organizational and Price: £112 individual spectrum Page Extent: 400pp Description: Type: Review Volume What is the profile to excel and lead in an open innovation environment, within and across Main Subject: Business & organizational boundaries? What are the organizational ingredients and ways contributing Management to the creation of the right corporate open innovation environment and culture, within and Sub-subjects: Innovation/ across organizational boundaries? What is the role of organizational culture as a catalyst for Technology/Knowledge/ adopting open innovation practices? What kinds of educational and training curricula for Information Management; open innovation need to be developed and put in place? By unveiling the peculiarities of Organizational Behavior/ the dynamic interplay between the individual and organizational spectrums, this volume, Industrial Organization; General seeks to provide relevant answers to these questions, among others. Readers are invited Business and Management; to embark on a fascinating and challenging journey towards one of the darkest of sides and Globalization mysteries of open innovation: the human element. BIC: KJD Open Innovation: Unveiling the Power of the Human Element brings together the latest BISAC: BUS085000; BUS000000 thinking from members of the academic community, industry leaders and practitioners, Keywords: Open Innovation; along with, policy-makers. By adopting a variety of research methods, this volume provides Human Side; Organizational; relevant up-to-speed but at the same time down-to-earth invaluable insights, foresights Skills; Capabilities; Readiness and solutions in relation to the role and the positioning of the human element within the Readership: Executives, participatory and connection-driven DNA of the open innovation paradigm. practitioners, policy makers, Editors: students and researchers in the Dr Anne-Laure Mention holds an expert position at Luxembourg Institute of Science and field of innovation Technology (LIST). Until end of 2014, she was leading a research unit focusing on innovation Imprint: World Scientific economics and management within the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg. Publishing Company She is actively involved in research projects, mainly focusing on innovation and performance Open Innovation: Bridging measurement and management in the financial and business to business services industries. Series: Theory and Practice - Volume 2 She is also currently appointed as Expert to the High Committee for the Financial Industry in Luxembourg, in the context of the FinTech initiative.

Dimitrios Salampasis (PhD) is an internationally-educated researcher and trained Business Management Advisor and Research Analyst professional. Furthermore, he is a visiting senior researcher at INESC TEC in Porto Portugal. Dimitrios obtained his PhD in Industrial Engineering, Business and Management from the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland. Moreover, he holds two Master’s Degrees in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and EU Studies from the University of Luxembourg and the Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences respectively. Contents: • What Kind of Skills, Competences, Attitudes, Motivations and Attributes an Open Innovation Professional Possesses? • How to Recruit, Select, Train, Assess and Retain Talent for Open Innovation? (Attracting Talent, Exploiting Skills, Intelligence and Creativity) • What is the Integrative Role of Top Management Towards the Creation of a Corporate Environment Ideal for Open Innovation? • What is the Effect of Trust, Motivation and Leadership on the Human Side of Open Innovation? • How Does an Individual’s Position Within the Organization Affect Personal Involvement in the Open Innovation Process? • How do You Identify and Engage the Innovative Souls within Your Company? • Is There a Certain Personality Type that will Always be Among the Contributors? If Yes, What Defines this Personality? • Why do the Other People Hold Back from Participating? Are There Any Tips to Engage Them at All? • Why and How People Engage in Their Work and What Makes Them Contribute? • How to Develop Training Curricula for Open Innovation Professionals? Advance Information SEEKING ADAM SMITH Finding The Shadow Curriculum of Business

By Eli P Cox III (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Endorsements: “This is an important book. I hope it will be not only widely read but also seriously used to guide business schools toward a deeper thoughtfulness about the economic models that drive so much of what they do. The book’s scholarship and careful reasoning make it believable, its grounding in the wisdom of practice makes it usable, and its charm and honesty make it enjoyable ” Anne Colby, Consulting Professor, Stanford University, Author ofRethinking Undergraduate Business Education

“Cox’s Seeking Adam Smith provides a penetrating picture of how traditional economists were ill-informed and limited in their portrayal of the ideas of Adam Smith. He goes on to Pub Date: May 2017 argue that their confusion resulted in substantial harm to our ethics and our economy. No Binding: Hardcover one should reference Adam Smith without first actually reading the work of Adam Smith and also reading Cox’s fascinating historical perspective.” ISBN: 978-981-3206-72-4 Max H Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Price: £71 Business School, and Co-Director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School Binding: Softcover ISBN: 978-981-3206-73-1 Key Features: Price: £37 • Introduces new terms: twin pillars of free-market capitalism, creed of greed, shadow Page Extent: 300pp curriculum of business Type: Popular Book • Devotes a chapter to Adam Smith’s theories, drawing on An Inquiry into the Nature and Main Subject: Business & Causes of the Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and his jurisprudence Management lectures • Source materials are drawn from numerous academic disciplines but is written for the Sub-subjects: General Business general reader. The book employs stories and illustrations to support the analysis and and Management; Corporate conclusions Governance; General Education; Education Systems and Policies; Description: Organizational Behavior/ The Dean of Harvard Business School, Nithin Nohria, declared that, “The public has lost trust Industrial Organization; History in business, and some of our graduates seem to be responsible” for what former Federal of Economic Thought/Economic Reserve Chair, Ben Bernanke, labelled as “the worst financial crisis in global history, including History the Great Depression.” BIC: KJR Great resources and effort have been expended to incorporate ethics and corporate social BISAC: BUS104000; BUS008000; responsibility into business curricula since the Great Recession. The effectiveness of these BUS023000 efforts has been limited because they have little impact on the technical and core business Keywords: Financial Crises; courses that serve as the gateway to the highest paying jobs. United States; Corporations; Moral and Ethical Aspects; Additional, a shadow curriculum undermines the effectiveness of the formal curriculum. Business Education; Business The formal curriculum is idealistic, coherent, and fully explicated. The shadow curriculum Ethics; Economics-Moral and is practice, diffuse, informal, disjointed and is based on a view that Adam Smith proclaimed Ethical Aspects; Adam Smith ‘greed is good’ because the invisible hand of free markets cleans up the mess. Readership: Anyone interested in business ethics, corporate social This book demonstrates that this view is indeed false, and is not found in Wealth of Nations. responsibilities and on making Cox offers alternative economics perspectives that are more realistic and less politicised than the finance industry better by those of neoclassical microeconomics which permeates the business curricula. educating a new generation Author: of “responsible” bankers and Eli P Cox III is La Quinta Motor Inns Centennial Professor in Business, Department of Marketing finance graduates Professor Cox received his BA (1965) and MBA (1966) from Michigan State University and his Imprint: World Scientific DBA (1973) from Indiana University. He taught at Central Michigan University from 1966 to Publishing Company 1968 and has been with The University of Texas since 1971. He served as Director of the Option II MBA Program from 1982 to 1985 and Department Chairman from 1985 to 1989. He has been serving as the Director of the Business Honors Program since 1995.

Advance Information THE ART OF LEADERSHIP Perspectives from Distinguished Thought Leaders

Edited by Kwon Ping Ho & Arnoud De Meyer (both of Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Key Feature: Pub Date: May 2017 • The thought leaders featured in the book are: Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Former Singapore Binding: Hardcover Minister Mentor; Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Former Malaysian Prime Minister; Mr ISBN: 978-981-3144-71-2 Benigno S Aquino III, President, Republic of the Philippines; Mr Frederik Willem de Klerk, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Former President of South Africa; Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Price: £56 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & Member of Parliament, Myanmar; Mr Lee Hsien Loong, Page Extent: 560pp Prime Minister of Singapore; Dr László Sólyom, Former President of Hungary; Dr Francis Type: Review Volume Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Main Subject: Business & Studies, Stanford University; Mr Robert B Zoellick, Former President of World Bank; Management Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; H E Herman Van Rompuy, Former President of the European Council; Mr Jyrki Sub-subjects: Entrepreneurship; Katainen, Vice-President of the European Council General Business and Management; International Description: Relations; Political Science/Policy The Art of Leadership: Focusing on leadership and issues pertinent to our global landscape, Studies/Public Policy Perspectives from Distinguished Thought Leaders is an in-depth analysis and enriching collection of knowledge and perspectives from illustrious thought leaders who have spoken BIC: JPHL at the podium of Singapore Management University (SMU). SMU’s thought leadership series BISAC: BUS071000; BUS025000; seeks to inspire Asia and beyond with the views and opinions of internationally eminent BUS035000 and outstanding academics, scholars, business or political leaders who have achieved Keywords: Thought leadership; distinction in their respective fields. The book provides valuable insights on topics ranging Economics; Political Science; from economics and politics to entrepreneurship and management. International Relations; Financial Editors: Crisis; Asian Governance; Mr Ho Kwon Ping is Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings. He was educated in Entrepreneurship; Sustainability; Tunghai University, Taiwan; Stanford University, California and the University of Singapore. Singapore Government; He worked as a broadcast and financial journalist and was the Economics Editor of the Far Management Eastern Economic Review. He joined the family business in 1981. In 1994, after the success Readership: Policy makers, of rehabilitating an abandoned tin mine into Laguna Phuket, Asia’s first integrated resort, he entrepreneurs, business leaders launched Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts. Banyan Tree has grown to more than 30 hotels and practitioners; academics and resorts, over 60 spas and close to 80 retail galleries, as well as three golf courses. With a and researchers specializing in strong presence in China, Banyan Tree will double its number of properties by 2016. leadership and management; tertiary and university students; Professor De Meyer is the fourth President of Singapore Management University. Previously, and general public he was Director of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge where he was Imprint: World Scientific Professor of Management Studies and Fellow of Jesus College. He was associated for 23 years Publishing Company with INSEAD where he held various senior academic and administrative positions, including founding Dean of INSEAD’s Asia Campus in Singapore. Professor De Meyer has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, MBA and PhD in Management from the University of Ghent in Belgium. He also pursued his studies as a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Contents: • An Entrepreneurial Culture for Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew) • Asian Leadership (Mahathir Mohamad) • Consensus Building and Responsive Governance (Benigno S Aquino III) • Tipping the Balance of History — Perspectives into Dilemmas of Leadership (FW de Klerk) • Mindset in Leadership (Daw Aung San Suu Kyi) • Singapore — The Past, The Present, and The Future (Lee Hsien Loong) • Governing for Sustainability (László Sólyom) • The Origins of Political Order (Francis Fukuyama) • Contemporary Global Economy through the Eyes of Asia (Robert B Zoellick) • Leadership in a Networked World (Rosabeth Moss Kanter) • The Future of The European Economy (H E Herman Van Rompuy) • Investing in Europe — The Way Forward (Jyrki Katainen) Advance Information GOLD NANOPARTICLES FOR PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGY 2nd Edition

Edited by Catherine Louis & Olivier Pluchery (both of Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

Endorsement: “The authors have achieved their goal: a textbook for students, young scientists and experts who need an introduction to gold nanoparticles. The varied perspectives combine to give an agreeable read and a solid foundation in this topic.” Raphaël Lévy, University of Liverpool, UK, Chemistry World, Royal Society of Chemistry

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Gold Nanoparticles for Physics, Chemistry and Biology offers an overview of recent research Binding: Hardcover into gold nanoparticles, covering their discovery, usage and contemporary practical ISBN: 978-1-78634-124-2 applications. Price: £115 This Second Edition begins with a history of over 2000 years of the use of gold nanoparticles, Page Extent: 500pp with a review of the specific properties which make gold unique. Updated chapters include Type: Monograph gold nanoparticle preparation methods, their plasmon resonance and thermo-optical Main Subject: Chemistry properties, their catalytic properties and their future technological applications. New chapters have been included, and reveal the growing impact of plasmonics in research, Sub-subjects: Materials with an introduction to quantum plasmonics, plasmon assisted catalysis and electro- Chemistry/Nanochemistry; photon conversion. The growing field of nanoparticles for health is also addressed with a Nanomedicine; Nanomedicine; study of gold nanoparticles as radiosensibiliser for radiotherapy, and of gold nanoparticle General Nanoscience; Catalyst functionalisation. This new edition also considers the relevance of bimetallic nanoparticles Chemistry; Surface/Interface for specific applications. Chemistry; Condensed Matter Physics; Surface Science; World-class scientists provide the most up-to-date findings for an introduction togold Pharmacology/Drug Discovery/ nanoparticles within the related areas of chemistry, biology, material science, optics and Pharmaceuticals; Applied and physics. It is perfectly suited to advanced level students and researchers looking to enhance Technical Physics; Physical their knowledge in the study of gold-nanoparticles. Chemistry; Biotechnology BIC: TBN BISAC: SCI050000; SCI013050; TEC021000 Keywords: Gold Nanoparticles; Nanomedicine; Catalysis; Therapy; Plasmon; Synthesis; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology Imprint: World Scientific Europe Readership: Graduate students, young scientists and experts in related areas of chemistry, biology, material science and physics who need an introduction to gold nanoparticles Contents: • Gold Nanoparticles in the Past: Before the Nanotechnology Era (Catherine Louis) • Introduction to the Physical and Chemical Properties of Gold (Pekka Pyykko) • Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles (Olivier Pluchery) • Photothermal Properties of Gold Nanoparticles (Bruno Palpant) • Quantum Plasmonics (Mark Tame and Changhyoup Lee) • Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles in Liquid Phase (Dahea Seo and Hyunjoon Song) • Chemical Preparation of Gold Nanoparticles on Surfaces (Catherine Louis) • Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles (Souhir Boujday, Atul Parikh and Bo Liedberg) • Catalytic Properties of Gold Nanoparticles (Harold and Mayfair KUNG) • Electrocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Plasmonic Activation in Catalysis (Ewa Kowalska) • Gold Nanoparticles for Coupling Electronic and Optical Properties (Eric Le Moal, Gérald Dujardin, Elizabeth Boer- Duchemin) • Surface Structures of Supported Gold Nanoparticles (Shamil Shaikhutdinov) • Theoretical Studies of Gold Nanoclusters in Chemical Environments: When the Size Matters (Hannu Häkinen) • Optical and Thermal Properties of Gold Nanoparticles for Biology and Medicine (Romain Quidant) • Gold Nanoparticles and Ionising Radiation in Medical Contexts (Fred Currell) • Gold Nanoparticles for Sensors and Drug Delivery (Christian Villiers) • Toxicity of Gold Nanoparticles (Marie Carrière) • Technological Applications of Gold Nanoparticles (Michael Cortie) Advance Information

Essential Textbooks in Chemistry PROBLEMS OF INSTRUMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY A Hands-On Guide

By J M Andrade-Garda, A Carlosena-Zubieta, MP Gómez- Carracedo, MA Maestro-Saavedra, MC Prieto-Blanco, RM Soto- Ferreiro (all of University of A Coruña, Spain)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The complex field of analytical chemistry requires knowledge and application ofthe Binding: Hardcover fundamental principles of numerical calculation. Problems of instrumental Analytical ISBN: 978-1-78634-179-2 Chemistry provides support and guidance to help students develop these numerical strategies to generate information from experimental results in an efficient and reliable Price: £62 way. Exercises are provided to give standard protocols to follow which address the most Binding: Softcover common calculations needed in the daily work of a laboratory. Also included are easy to ISBN: 978-1-78634-180-8 follow diagrams to facilitate understanding and avoid common errors, making it perfect as a Price: £32 hands-on accompaniment to in-class learning. Page Extent: 250pp Subjects covered follow a course in analytical chemistry from the initial basics of data Type: Textbook analysis, to applications of mass, UV-Vis, infrared and atomic spectrometry, chromatography, Main Subject: Chemistry and finally concludes with an overview of nuclear magnetic resonance. Intended as a self- Sub-subjects: Analytical training tool for undergraduates in chemistry, analytic chemistry and related subjects, this Chemistry; Numerical Analysis; book is also useful as a reference for scientists looking to brush up on their knowledge of Spectroscopy and Other instrumental techniques in laboratories. AnalyticalT echniques; Industrial Chemistry BIC: PNF BISAC: SCI013010; SCI078000; SCI013060 Keywords: Analytical Chemistry; Spectrometry; Chromatography; Data Analysis; UV-ViS Spectrometry; Magnetic Resonance; Infrared Spectrometry Imprint: World Scientific Europe Readership: Undergraduates in chemistry, analytic chemistry and related subjects; scientists looking to brush up on their knowledge of instrumental techniques in laboratories Contents: • Fundamental calculations in Analytical Chemistry • Basic Data Analysis • UV-Vis Spectrometry • Infrared Spectrometry • Atomic Spectrometry • Chromatography • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry Advance Information THE SELECTED PAPERS OF SIR JOHN MEURIG THOMAS By John Meurig Thomas (University of Cambridge, UK) Edited by Kenneth Harris (Cardiff University, UK)

Pub Date: May 2017 Binding: Hardcover Descrip ion: John Meurig Thomas is a former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, a former ISBN: 978-1-78634-187-7 head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and former Master of Peterhouse, Price: £131 University of Cambridge. A world-renowned solid-state, materials and surface chemist, Page Extent: 700pp he has been an educator, researcher, academic administrator, author of university Type: Reprint Volume texts, government advisor, industrial consultant and trustee of national museums in a career spanning over 50 years. Recipient of many international awards, including the Main Subject: Chemistry Linus Pauling, Willard–Gibbs, Kapitza, Natta, Stokes, Davy a nd Faraday m edals, h e i s a lso Sub-subjects: Catalyst a fellow o f t he Royal Society (1977), of the American Philosophical Society (1993) and of Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; ten other national academies. He is best known for his fundamental work in Surface/Interface Chemistry; heterogeneous catalysis, chemical electron microscopy and in the popularisation of Materials Chemistry/ science, for which he was knighted (1991). He is also founding editor of three scientific Nanochemistry; Solid State journals and editor or co-editor of some 30 monographs. A new mineral, meurigite, was Chemistry; Popular Science; named in his honour (1995). Most recently in 2016, Sir John was awarded the Royal Medal Electron Microscopy, Scanning, for Physical Sciences by the Royal Society. Tunnelling; Chemical Engineering; Organic Chemistry Drawn from over 1200 publications, this volume contains a summarised account of Sir BIC: PNR John’s work, with a selection of the new techniques pioneered and discovered by him BISAC: SCI013050; TEC021000; and his colleagues. Also included are popular science articles, and various illustrations of SCI013040 techniques which have enhanced our knowledge of many facets of condensed Keywords: Meurig Thomas; matter science. Contributions from 80 peers, colleagues, former co-workers, students and Heterogeneous Catalysis; Solid- friends worldwide who have interacted with or been influenced by him are a tribute to state Chemistry; Materials the professional and personal life of Sir John, making this book a unique reflective summary Chemistry; Surface Chemistry; of the work of one of the greatest achievers in modern British physical science. Meurigite; Royal Institution; Royal Society Readership: Those with an interest in solid-state, materials, and surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, and chemical electron microscopy. General public who are interested in the autobiography of a remarkable scientist Imprint: World Scientific Europe Contents: • An Outline of My Lifetime’s Scientific Journey • Selected Papers Printed Herein with Brief Commentaries • The Popularisation of Science • Interacting with Sir John Meurig Thomas (Kenneth D M Harris) Advance Information UNDERSTANDING BASIC CHEMISTRY THROUGH PROBLEM SOLVING The Learner’s Approach Revised Edition

By Kim Seng Chan (Victoria Junior College, Singapore) & Jeanne Tan

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The book provides fundamental important scaffolding to aid students to create their own Binding: Softcover understanding of the chemical concepts in O level chemistry or the GCSE equivalence ISBN: 978-981-3209-77-0 • The book encourages critical thinking and meaningful applications, using the basic concepts learnt Price: £37 • The book guides the students to integrate the various concepts that they have learnt Page Extent: 468pp into a coherent and meaningful conceptual network, especially relating to the basic Type: Study Guide physical chemistry they have learnt Main Subject: Chemistry Description: Sub-subjects: General Chemistry; This book is the revised edition of Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving Inorganic Chemistry; Organic published in 2015. It is in a series of Understanding Chemistry books, which deals with Chemistry; Physical Chemistry Basic Chemistry using the problem solving approach. Written for students taking either the BIC: PN university of Cambridge O-level examinations or the GCSE examinations, this guidebook covers essential topics and concepts under both stipulated chemistry syllabi. The book is BISAC: SCI013000; SCI013030; written in such a way as to guide the reader through the understanding and applications of SCI013050 essential chemical concepts using the problem solving approach. Keywords: O level Chemistry; GCSE Chemistry; IGCSE The authors have also retained the popular discourse feature from their previous few books Chemistry; High School — Understanding Advanced Physical Inorganic Chemistry, Understanding Advanced Organic Chemistry; Chemistry Guide Book and Analytical Chemistry, Understanding Advanced Chemistry Through Problem Solving, Readership: Students taking and Understanding Basic Chemistry — to help the learners better understand and see for the University of Cambridge themselves, how the concepts should be applied during solving problems. Based on the O-level examinations or the GCSE Socratic Method, questions are implanted throughout the book to help facilitate the reader’s examinations development in forming logical conclusions of concepts and the way they are being applied to Imprint: World Scientific explain the problems. In addition, the authors have also included important summaries and Education concept maps to help the learners to recall, remember, reinforce and apply the fundamental chemical concepts in a simple way. Contents: • The Particulate Nature of Matter • Atomic Structure • Chemical Bonding • Mole Concept, Formula, and Stoichiometry • Energy Change and Fuels • Rate of Chemical Reactions • Equilibria, Ammonia, and Sulfur • Acids, Bases, and Salts • Redox Reactions • Electric Cells and the Reactivity Series • Electrolysis • The Periodic Table • Metals and Extraction • Air and Environment • Organic Chemistry • Experimental Chemistry Advance Information

Series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Intelligent Systems - Volume 2 Advances in Chinese Document and Text Processing Edited by Cheng-Lin Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) & Yue Lu (East China Normal University, China)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The book is a collection of invited chapters by experts in Chinese document and text Binding: Hardcover processing, and is part of a series on Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, and ISBN: 978-981-3143-67-8 Intelligent Systems. The chapters introduce the latest advances and state-of-the-art methods for Chinese document image analysis and recognition, font design, text analysis and speaker Price: £98 recognition. Handwritten Chinese character recognition and text line recognition are at the Page Extent: 300pp core of document image analysis (DIA), and therefore, are addressed in four chapters for Type: Review Volume different scripts (online characters, offline characters, ancient characters, and text lines). Main Subject: Computer Science Two chapters on character recognition pay much attention to deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are widely used and performing superiorly in various pattern Sub-subjects: Artificial recognition problems. A chapter is contributed to describe a large handwriting database Intelligence / Machine Learning; consisting both online and offline characters and text pages. Postal mail reading and writer Pattern Recognition / Image identification, addressed in two chapters, are important applications of DIA. The collection Analysis can serve as reference for students and engineers in Chinese document and text processing BIC: UYQP and their applications. BISAC: COM012050; COM042000; COM073000 Keywords: Chinese; Typefaces; Chinese Handwriting Database Building and Benchmarking ; Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition; Handwritten Chinese Text Line Recognition; Chinese Word Segmentation, Syntactic Parsing and Discourse Analysis; Speaker Recognition Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Students and researchers in Chinese document and text processing. Contents: • Characteristics of English, Chinese, and Arabic Typefaces (Ching Y Suen, Shima Nikfal, Bing Zhang & Jehan Janbi) • Chinese Handwriting Database Building and Benchmarking (Cheng-Lin Liu, Fei Yin, Da-Han Wang, Qiu-Feng Wang, Liang Xu & Xu-Yao Zhang) • Handwritten Character Recognition Using CNN (Song Wang, Li Chen, Chunpeng Wu, Wei Fan, Jun Sun & Satoshi Naoi) • Online Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition: From a Bayesian Approach to Deep Learning (Lianwen Jin, Weixin Yang, Ziyong Feng & Zecheng Xie) • Historical Chinese Character Recognition Using Transfer Learning (Liangrui Peng & Jixiong Feng) • Handwritten Chinese Text Line Recognition (Qiu-Feng Wang, Fei Yin & Cheng-Lin Liu) • Handwritten Chinese Address Recognition for Postal Automation (Shujing Lu, Xiaohua Wei, Xiao Tu & Yue Lu) • Online Text-independent Writer Identification for Chinese Handwriting (Yu-Jie Xiong & Yue Lu) • Chinese Word Segmentation, Syntactic Parsing and Discourse Analysis (Man Lan & Yuanbin Wu) • Speaker Recognition: Deep Neural Networks Approach (Xin He & Lekai Huang) Advance Information Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI2016) International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI2016) Guilin, China, 13 – 14 August 2016

Edited by Wen-Jer Chang (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Held in Guilin of China from August 13–14, 2016, the 2016 International Conference on Binding: Hardcover Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI2016) provides an excellent international ISBN: 978-981-3220-28-7 platform for all invited speakers, authors and participants to share their results and establish research collaborations for future research. Price: £148 Page Extent: 600pp The conference enjoys a wide spread participation. It would not only serve as an academic Type: Proceedings forum, but also a good opportunity to establish business cooperation. Main Subject: Computer Science Artificial CSAI2016 proceedings collects the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and worldwide state- Sub-subjects: Intelligence/Machine Learning; of-art knowledge on computer science and artificial intelligence. After strict peer-review, the Databases/Information Sciences proceedings put together 117 articles based on originality, significance and clarity for the purpose of the conference. BIC: UYQ BISAC: COM004000; COM0210000 Keywords: Artificial Intelligence and Application; Computer and Software; Communication and Network; Information and Security; Data Mining; Optimization Readership: Researchers and academics in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence and databases Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Computer Science • Computer Intelligence • Cloud Computing Advance Information

World Scientific Series in Information Studies - Volume 9 INFORMATION STUDIES AND THE QUEST FOR TRANSDISCIPLINARITY Unity in Diversity

Edited by Mark Burgin (UCLA) & Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The book represents the most recent achievements in information studies related to Binding: Hardcover social problems and the development of society ISBN: 978-981-3108-99-8 • The book represents advanced ideas and approaches to utilization of information technology and science for the benefit of separate individuals and society as whole Price: £98 • The book is written by the leading experts in information theory, computer science and Page Extent: 250pp the theory of complexity Type: Review Volume Main Subject: Computer Science Description: This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society Sub-subjects: Artificial for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on “The Information Society at the Crossroads. Intelligence / Machine Learning; Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information” (see summit.is4is.org). Databases/Information Sciences; Popular Science; Fuzzy Logic; The book gives an up-to-date multiaspect exposition of contemporary studies in the field of Mathematical Logic And information and related areas. It presents most recent achievements, ideas and opinions of Foundations; Complex Systems leading researchers in this domain reflecting their quest for advancing information science BIC: GPF and technology. With the goal of building a better society, in which social and technological BISAC: COM031000; innovations help make information key to the flourishing of humanity, we dispense with the COM004000; COM021000 bleak view of the dark side of information society. Keywords: Databases/ Information Sciences; Innovation It is aimed at readers that conduct research into any aspect of information, information / Technology / Knowledge / society and information technology, who develop or implement social or technological Information Management; applications. It is also for those who have an interest in participating in setting the goals for Philosophy; Popular Science the sciences of information and the social applications of technological achievements and Imprint: World Scientific the scientific results. Publishing Company Readership: Researchers in aspects of information.

Advance Information INTRODUCTION TO EVOLUTIONARY INFORMATICS By Robert J Marks II (Baylor University, USA), William A Dembski (Evolutionary Informatics Lab, USA) & Winston Ewert (Evolutionary Informatics Lab, USA)

Pub Date: May 2017 Description: Binding: Hardcover Science has made great strides in modeling space, time, mass and energy. Yet little ISBN: 978-981-3142-13-8 attention has been paid to the precise representation of the information ubiquitous in Price: £91 nature. Binding: Softcover Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics fuses results from complexity modeling and ISBN: 978-981-3142-14-5 information theory that allow both meaning and design difficulty in nature to be measured Price: £40 in bits. Built on the foundation of a series of peer-reviewed papers published by the Page Extent: 350pp authors, the book is written at a level easily understandable to readers with knowledge of Type: Popular Book (Treat as rudimentary high school math. Those seeking a quick first read or those not interested in Textbook) mathematical detail can skip marked sections in the monograph and still experience the impact of this new and exciting model of nature’s information. Main Subject: Computer Science Sub-subjects: Artificial This book is written for enthusiasts in science, engineering and mathematics interested Intelligence/Machine Learning; in understanding the essential role of information in closely examined evolution theory. Information Theory; Popular Science Authors: BIC: UYQ Robert J Marks II is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Department of BISAC: COM039000; COM031000; Engineering at Baylor University, USA. Marks’s professional awards include a NASA Tech COM043050 Brief Award and a best paper award from the American Brachytherapy Society for Keywords: Information Theory; prostate cancer research. He is Fellow of both IEEE and The Optical Society of America. Algorithmic Information Theory; Computer Search; Kolmogorov William A Dembski is Senior Research Scientist at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab in Complexity; Specified Complexity; McGregor, Texas; and also an entrepreneur developing educational websites and software. Shannon Information Theory; He holds a BA in Psychology, MS in Statistics, PhD in Philosophy, and a PhD in Mathematics Gregory Chaitin; Borel’s Law; (awarded in 1988 by the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA), and an MDiv degree Bernoulli’s Principle of Insufficient from Princeton Theological Seminary (1996, New Jersey, USA). Reason; Basener’s Ceiling; Tierra; Active Information; The Monte Winston Ewert is currently a Software Engineer in Vancouver, Canada. He is a Senior Hall Problem; Oracles; Avida; Research Scientist at the Evolutionary Informatics Lab. Ewert holds a PhD from Baylor Fitness Landscapes; Evolution; University, Waco, Texas, USA. Coevolution; Search Algorithms; Metabiology; Intelligent Design Readership: General/Popular; Enthusiasts in science, engineering and apologetics and to those interested in the information theoretic components of closely examined evolution Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • History • Foundation • The Math Herein and the † Symbol • Introduction • Information. What is It? • Design Search in Evolution and the Requirement of Intelligence • Determinism in Randomness • Conservation of Information in Evolutionary Processes • Analysis of Some Evolutionary Models • Meaning of Meaning • Intelligent Design & Artificial Intelligence Advance Information

Series on Computers and Operations Research NETWORK DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION FOR SMART CITIES Edited by Konstantinos Gakis & Panos Pardalos (both of University of Florida, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the Binding: Hardcover latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart ci ties. Suc h mod els ISBN: 978-981-3200-00-5 can be used from outlining the fundamental concepts of urban development to the Price: £123 description and optimization of physical networks, such as power, water or telecommunications. Networks help us understand city economics and various aspects of Page Extent: 400pp human interactions within cities with particular applications in qu ality of life an d th e Type: Review Volume flow of peo ple and goo ds. Finally, the natural environment and even the climate of Main Subject: Computer Science cities can be modeled and managed as networks. Sub-subjects: Neural Networks/ Networking; Urban Planning; Systems Engineering; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Energy Studies/Research BIC: RPC BISAC: ARC010000; TEC009160; TEC031010 Keywords: Smart Cities; Networks; E-Governance; Optimization; Urban Planning Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Urban planners, researchers, academics, professionals and graduate students in neural networks/ networking, systems engineering, electrical & electronic engineering, and energy studies Contents: • Network Models for City Economics and Integrated Urban Management • Network Optimization and Integration for Utilities: Power, Water, Waste and Telecommunications, Flow of Goods and People in Urban Networks • Social Networking and Urban Nexus in Smart Cities • Understanding and Modelling Modern Cities as Networks Advance Information CONTRACT, GOVERNANCE AND TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS By Oliver E Williamson (UC Berkeley, USA) Edited by Gengxuan Chen (UC Berkeley, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The book comprises papers by Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson Binding: Hardcover • The topic offers insights into the economic practices of the Chinese market ISBN: 978-981-3202-07-8 • The volume covers several applications of Transaction Cost Economics Price: £79 Description: This book brings together a collection of seven papers on Transaction Cost Economics Page Extent: 170pp by Nobel Laureate Professor Oliver E Williamson. The applications of Transaction Cost Type: Reprint Volume Economics are extensive, ranging from the field of industrial organization and applied fields Main Subject: Economics & of economics such as labor, public finance, comparative economic systems and economic Finance development, to the business fields of strategy, organizational behavior, marketing, finance, Sub-subjects: Macroeconomics/ operations management, and accounting. In short, as Williamson states, “any problem that Microeconomics; Corporate originates as or can be reformulated as a contracting problem can be examined to advantage Finance; General Business and in transaction cost economizing terms.” Management; Organizational Behavior/Industrial Organization What is referred to as New Institutional Economics is developed in the West in two mainly complementary ways: Property Rights Theory, and Transaction Cost Economics. Of the two, BIC: KCC Property Rights Theory developed more rapidly. Transaction Cost Economics has nonetheless BISAC: BUS044000; BUS017000 taken shape of late. Keywords: Contract; Government; Transaction Cost; Research on New Institutional Economics in China began in the 1990s and has grown rapidly New Institutional Economics; since. China has similarly given much more attention to Property Rights Theory. Chen’s Economic Organization recommendation is that China will benefit by bringing Transaction Cost Economics to bear. Readership: Graduate and Simultaneously, for economic scholars who study the market economy, Transaction Cost research level students of Economics provides a very attractive way to explain the practice of the Chinese market microeconomics, corporate economy. governance and industrial organization Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Transaction Cost Economics: The Natural Progression • The Lens of Contract-Private Ordering • Calculativeness, Trust, and Economic Organization • The Theory of the Firm as Governance Structure: From Choice to Contract • Pragmatic Methodology: A Sketch, with Applications to Transaction Cost Economics • Transaction Cost Economics: How It Works; Where It is Headed • The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead Advance Information INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DOMESTIC PERFORMANCE Edited by Mary E Lovely (Syracuse University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays Binding: Hardcover of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration ISBN: 978-981-3141-08-7 and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section Price: £81 considers the welfare effects and optimal design of retail sales taxes when consumers can Page Extent: 288pp avoid taxation by crossing jurisdictional boundaries. The second section highlights the role of Type: Reprint Volume scale economies in the design of industrial policies and as a determinant of firm location. The Main Subject: Economics & third section explores the influence of environmental policy on foreign investor’s location Finance decisions and the role of trade and technology on country’s environmental regulation. The final section considers the determinants of wage differences, the attraction of low wages for Sub-subjects: Developmental foreign investors, and misallocations of labor in an emerging economy — China. Economics; Environmental/ Energy Economics; International The collection, taken as a whole, highlights the power of international factor mobility to Trade/Business; Asian Economies determine domestic tax burdens, to influence welfare implications of domestic policy BIC: KCL alternatives, and to influence the location of productive factors and their rewards. BISAC: BUS069020; BUS099000; Editor: BUS068000 Mary E Lovely is Melvin A Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar and Professor of Economics Keywords: International Trade; at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she serves Foreign Direct Investment; as chair of the International Relations Program. Dr Lovely is also a Senior Associate of the Environmental Standards; Labor Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs and a Research Network Fellow ofCESifo, Munich Standards Germany. She was coeditor of China Economic Review from 2010–2014. Dr Lovely’s current Readership: Advanced research programs investigate links between trade liberalization in China and labor market undergraduates and performance in China and in the United States, the role of foreign ownership and processing postgraduates taking trade in the pollution intensity of Chinese industries, and the link between wages and access Developmental Economics, to domestic and foreign markets. Her recent papers focus on innovation in the Chinese solar Environmental Economics and equipment industry, North Korean export patterns, China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, International Trade and the influence of market access on the geographic dispersion of manufacturing wages. Her work has been published in the Review of Economics & Statistics, the Journal of International Imprint: World Scientific Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, World Economy, Regional Science and Publishing Company Urban Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics, among other journals. Her courses Series: World Scientific Studies in for Syracuse University focus on international economics and global markets. She earned International Economics a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MCRP degree from Harvard University. Contents: • The Power of Mobility (Mary E Lovely) • Optimal Commodity Taxation with Costly Noncompliance (Mary E Lovely) • Crossing the Border: Does Commodity Tax Evasion Reduce Welfare and Can Enforcement Improve It? (Mary E Lovely) • Playing by the New Subsidy Rules: Capital Subsidies as Substitutes for Sectoral Subsidies (Mary E Lovely) • Technological Linkages, Market Structure, and Production Policies (Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Mary E Lovely) • Scale Economies, Returns to Variety, and the Productivity of Public Infrastructure (Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Mary E Lovely) • Information, Agglomeration, and the Headquarters of US Exporters (Mary E Lovely, Stuart S Rosenthal and Shalini Sharma) • Decomposing China–Japan–US Trade: Vertical Specialization, Ownership, and Organizational Form (Judith M Dean, Mary E Lovely and Jesse Mora) • The Home Market Effect and Bilateral Trade Patterns: A Reexamination of the Evidence (Cong S Pham, Mary E Lovely and Devashish Mitra) • Are Foreign Investors Attracted to Weak Environmental Regulations? Evaluating the Evidence from China (Judith M. Dean, Mary E Lovely and Hua Wang) • Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Does Access to Technology Promote Environmental Regulation? (Mary E Lovely and David Popp) • The Location Decisions of Foreign Investors in China: Untangling the Effect of Wages Using a Control Function Approach (Xuepeng Liu, Mary E Lovely and Jan Ondrich) • Does Final Market Demand Elasticity Influence the Location of Export Processing? Evidence from Multinational Decisions in China (Xuepeng Liu, Mary E Lovely and Jan Ondrich) • Labor Allocation in China: Implicit Taxation of the Heterogeneous Non-State Sector (Fariha Kamal and Mary E Lovely) • Does Deeper Integration Enhance Spatial Advantages? Market Access and Wage Growth in China (Fariha Kamal, Mary E Lovely and Puman Ouyang) Advance Information INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Global Markets and Competition 4th Edition

By Henry Thompson (Auburn University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 International Economics: Global Markets and Competition integrates the microeconomics Binding: Hardcover of international trade with open economy macroeconomics and finance. The theory is ISBN: 978-981-4678-15-5 comprehensive but presented with intuitive diagrams. The book emphasizes the gains from international competition and the limits of trade policy. Price: £104 Binding: Softcover Economics began during the Industrial Revolution with a debate over import tariffs. To ISBN: 978-981-4663-87-8 this day, domestic industries lobby for tariff protection against foreign competition, paying Price: £54 lawmakers for tariffs on imports. Only under special conditions do tariffs lead to economic Page Extent: 540pp gains. Domestic importers of materials and industrial products favor free trade, as do export industries since tariffs encourage other countries to retaliate with tariffs of their own. Type: Reprint Volume Main Subject: Economics and Trade theory includes market analysis and general equilibrium models of the economy. This Finance text integrates the full range of trade theory with exchange rates, balance of payments, Sub-subjects: International international finance, and open economy growth and macroeconomics. Economics; International Finance; International Trade/ The presentation focuses on diagrams and avoids equations and algebra. The theory is presented with numerical examples. The text does not assume intermediate economics, Business; Macroeconomics/ instead developing the theory with thorough explanations. Questions in each section build Microeconomics confidence in applying the theory. Boxed examples illustrate the importance of the theory. BIC: KCL BISAC: BUS021000; MAT029040 Students like the concise and straightforward style. Instructors notice the difference on Keywords: International Trade; exams. Financial Economics; Investment; Policy; Macroeconomics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Undergraduates in international economics.

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World Scientific Lecture Notes in Finance LECTURE NOTES IN FIXED INCOME FUNDAMENTALS By Eliezer Z Prisman (York University, Canada)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Simplified fundamental understanding of the subject, requires almost no prior Binding: Hardcover knowledge in Finance, a companion interactive version of the book can be purchased ISBN: 978-981-3149-75-5 Description: Price: £71 Written for undergraduates, this book is dedicated to fixed income fundamentals that do not Binding: Softcover require modeling the dynamics of interest rates. The book concentrates on understanding ISBN: 978-981-3149-76-2 and explaining the pillars of fixed income markets, using the modern finance approach Price: £37 implied by the “no free lunch” condition. It focuses on conceptual understanding so that novice readers will be familiar with tools needed to analyze bond markets. Institutional Page Extent: 260pp information is covered only to the extent that is necessary to obtain full appreciation of Type: Lecture Notes concepts. Main Subject: Economics & Finance This volume will equip readers with a solid and intuitive understanding of the No Arbitrage Sub-subjects: Money & Banking Condition — its link to the existence and estimation of the term structure of interest rates, / Investments / Financial Markets and to valuation of financial contracts. Using the modern approach of arbitrage arguments, & Institutions the book addresses positions and contracts that do not require modeling evolution of interest rates. As such, it welcomes readers lacking the technical background for this modeling, and BIC: KFFM provides them with good intuition for interest rates, no arbitrage condition, bond markets BISAC: BUS036010; BUS004000 and certain financial contracts. Keywords: Fixed Income; Bond Markets; Term Structure of Authors: Interest Rates; Forwards; Bond Eliezer Prisman, a Professor of Finance at the Schulich School of Business (SSB) York Arbitrage University, was the developer and the director of the Financial Engineering Diploma. Dr Imprint: World Scientific Prisman’s background is Economics, Statistics and Operations Research. While at SSB, he Publishing Company taught graduate and undergraduate courses, published in refereed journals, authored books and consulted in various aspects of Finance. He works in the areas of Investment, Financial Readership: Undergraduates Engineering, Risk Management and Historical Finance. studying fixed income securities, bonds, interest rates or related financial contracts. Contents: • Preface • Introduction and Review of Simple Concepts • Basic Features of Bond Markets • The Term Structure, its Estimation & Smoothing • Duration and Immunization • Forwards, Eurodollars and Futures • Swaps: A Second Look Advance Information MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES UNDER SCARCITY A Multidisciplinary Approach

Edited by Ariel Dinar (UC Riverside, USA) & Yacov Tsur (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Combines a multidisciplinary analysis of transboundary water management Binding: Hardcover under scarcity ISBN: 978-981-4740-04-3 • Balances theory and case studies • Includes a set of case studies (Nile, Mekong, Jordan, Aral Sea, Rio Bravo, Mount Aquifer, Price: £125 Kidron/Nar) from hotspots around the world Page Extent: 396pp • All papers have been peer reviewed before being compiled into chapters Type: Review Volume Description: Main Subject: Economics & Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a Finance critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world. Water scarcity is especially Sub-subjects: Environmental/ critical in regions where water is shared by several riparian states and used for competing Energy Economics; purposes (irrigation, domestic, industry, environment, and hydropower). There is evidence Environmental Management & that water scarcity may give rise to conflicts among the riparian states that share water Planning; Water Management; basins. At the same time, there is evidence that proper arrangements among riparian states International Relations; Security create a basis for cooperation, which is a necessary condition for economic development, Studies/Terrorism food production, environmental sustainability, and poverty reduction. This book presents a BIC: KCN collection of work presented by a group of academics and policy experts dealing with the impact of water scarcity and variability on the ability to jointly manage shared water and BISAC: BUS099000; POL011000; the derived welfare of international states and nations sharing international river basins, POL044000 consisting of economics, technology, law and institutions, geography, and international Keywords: International Water; relations. Climate Change; Population Growth; Economic Development; The book covers theoretical aspects of management of transboundary water as well as case Pollution; International studies from hotspots around the world. The unique aspect of this book is the multidisciplinary Relations; Water Law; ; Economic nature of the chapters, reflecting a new field of research that will gain popularity as water Optimization; Water Scarcity; scarcity will increase over time and across regions. Conflict; Cooperation Imprint: World Scientific The chapters from the book were presented at the “Management of Transboundary Water Publishing Company Resources under Scarcity: Perspectives on Agriculture and Food Security” workshop held at Readership: Policy makers The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, from June 22 to 23, 2015. and academics in the field of Editors: water resource management Ariel Dinar is a Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at the School of Public from various fields such Policy, University of California, Riverside. His work addresses various aspects of economic as international relations, and strategic behavior of management of natural resources and the environment. Dr Dinar geography, economics, law, and received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since then he spent 15 years at public policy the World Bank working on water economics and climate change issues.

Yacov Tsur is the Ruth Ochberg Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the Department of Environmental Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Contents: • Acknowledgments • Foreword (Aaron Wolf) • About the Editors • About the Contributors • Introduction and Conclusion (Ariel Dinar and Yacov Tsur) • Economic, Institutional, and Technological Aspects in Management of Transboundary Water Under Scarcity: • Closing The (Widening) Gap Between Natural Water Resources and Water Needs in the Jordan River Basin: A Long-Term Perspective (Yacov Tsur) • Exploring Benefits and Scope of Cooperation in Transboundary Water Sharing in the Amu Darya Basin (Anik Bhaduri and Maksud Bekchanov) • Distributional Impacts of Welfare Allocations from Damming the Nile RiverGetachew ( Nigatu and Ariel Dinar) • Issue Linkage: A Mechanism for Managing Conflict, Applied to the Mekong Basin (Kim Hang Pham Do and Ariel Dinar) • Water Treaty Models: • Proposed International Legal and Institutional Framework for Conjunctive Management of Surface and Groundwater Along the US–Mexico Border Region (María Milanés-Murcia) • A New Paradigm for Transboundary Water Agreements: The Opportunity for Israel and Palestine (David B Brooks and Julie Trottier) • Valuing and Allocating Water: • Disputes Over International Watercourses: Can River Basin Organizations Make a Difference? (Sabine Blumstein and Susanne Schmeier) • Transboundary Water Management Along the Tagus River Basin in the Iberian Peninsula: Sustainable Water Allocation of the Aqueduct Tagus-Segura (María Milanés-Murcia) • Institutional Settings in Transboundary Water Management: Lessons From the Fergana Valley and the Lower Jordan Basin (Christine Bismuth and Bernd Hansjürgens) • Regional Cooperation in River Basin Rehabilitation: Estimating Economic Benefits of Alternatives for Jordan River Restoration (Nir Becker and David Katz) Advance Information REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE Carbon Negative Technologies and the Carbon Market

By Graciela Chichilnisky (Columbia University, USA) & Peter Bal (Millemont Institute, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, Binding: Hardcover one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its ISBN: 978-981-4719-34-6 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an Price: £81 economic system that created a price for carbon for the first time, is now used in four Binding: Softcover continents, is promoted by the World Bank, and is recommended even by leading oil and ISBN: 978-981-4719-35-3 gas companies. However, one critical problem for the future of the Kyoto Protocol is the Price: £40 continuing impasse between the rich and the poor nations. Page Extent: 200pp Who should reduce emissions — the rich or the poor countries? Type: Monograph Main Subject: Economics & This book is about the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Finance Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP21, held from 30 November Sub-subjects: Environmental/ to 11 December 2015 in Paris, which brought together around 40,000 participants in total Energy Economics; Political — with delegates representing each country, observers, and civil society members. It is one Science/Policy Studies/ of the largest climate conferences ever organized. Co-written by Graciela Chichilnisky, who Public Policy; Environmental proposed and designed the carbon credit emissions trading market, this book is a must read Management & Planning; for academics and professionals studying, implementing and analyzing global climate change Climate Change policies; interested advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC 1992 founding. BIC: RND BISAC: POL044000; SCI092000; Authors: POL028000 Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively on the Kyoto Protocol, creating and designing Keywords: COP21; Climate the carbon market that became international law in 2005. The Washington Post calls her an Change; UNFCCC; Carbon “A-List Star” and Time Magazine calls her a “Hero of the Environment” and was elected one NegativeT echnology of the Ten Most Influential Latinos in the US. US Congressman, Jay Inslee wrote that her work is “revolutionary for the international community”. A world-renowned economist, she is the Imprint: World Scientific creator of the formal theory of Sustainable Development and acted as Lead US Author of the Publishing Company Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the Nobel Prize in 2007. Her Readership: A must read for pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to create Green Capitalism. She acts as academics and professionals a special adviser to several UN organizations and heads of state. studying, implementing and analyzing global climate Peter Bal is a businessman and ecological restoration practitioner. Born in the US in 1960 change policies; interested and educated across Europe and Asia, Bal uses the multilingual and creative mind to bridge advance undergraduates and cultural differences in international transactions. His experience includes selling the Empire postgraduates interested in the State Building, producing alcohol from grapes, and restoring a devastated forest in France. follow up of the Kyoto Protocol Bal sees CO2 as an asset to be mined. He has chosen to dedicate natural plant absorption as and UNFCCC 1992 founding well as industrial solutions to retrieve CO2 from the atmosphere. He is currently working on a containerised CO2 absorbing unit with Global Thermostat, and also participating with John D Liu in setting up ecological research and training centers.

Advance Information THE STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS (In 2 Volumes) Volume 1: Framework Volume 2: Trading System Analytics

By Steven D Moffitt (Stuart School of Business, USA & Market Pattern Research, Inc., USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Has new strategic concepts for investors and traders Binding: Hardcover • Illustrates those concepts with successful and unsuccessful trading ideas ISBN: 978-981-3142-77-0 • Shows how people’s mistakes and ignorance of market mechanisms creates trading opportunities for examples Price: £378 Description: Page Extent: 950pp Volume 1 is premised on the belief that markets can be understood only by dropping the Type: Handbook assumptions of rationality and efficient markets in their extreme forms, and showing that Main Subject: Economics & markets still have an inherent order and inherent logic. But that order results primarily from Finance the “predictable irrationality” of investors, as well as from people’s uncoordinated attempts Sub-subjects: Money & Banking/ to profit. The market patterns that result do not rely on rationality or efficiency. A framework Investments/Financial Markets & is developed for understanding financial markets using a combination of psychology, Institutions; International Trade/ statistics, game and gambling analysis, market history and the author’s experience. It Business; International Finance expresses analytically how professional investors and traders think about markets. Those strategies’ interactions can be toxic and lead to booms, bubbles, busts and crashes, or can be BIC: KFF less dramatic, leading to various patterns that are mistakenly called “market inefficiencies” BISAC: BUS036070; BUS036090 and “stylized facts.” Keywords: Investment Strategies; Trading Systems; A logical case is constructed, starting from two foundations, the psychology of human Backtesting; Game Analysis; decision making and the “Fundamental Laws of Gambling.” Applying the Fundamental Laws Professional Gambling; Inefficient to trading leads to the idea of “gambling rationality” (grationality), replacing the efficient Markets; Behavioral Finance; market’s concept of “rationality.” By classifying things that are likely to have semi-predictable Econophysics; Nonparametric price impacts (price “distorters”), one can identify, explore through data analysis, and create Statistics; Semiparametric winning trading ideas and systems. A structured way of doing all this is proposed: the six-step Regression; Statistical Learning; “Strategic Analysis of Market Method.” Examples are given in this and Volume 2. Time Series; Market Anomalies; Market Event Analysis Volume 2 continues the development of Volume 1 by introducing tools and techniques for Readership: Students, graduates developing trading systems and by illustrating them on real trading systems. The difference and researchers who are between these two Volumes and the rest of the literature is its rigor. It describes trading interested in knowing how as a form of gambling that when properly executed, is quite logical, and is well known to financial markets work professional gamblers and analytical traders. But even those elites might be surprised at the extent to which quantitative methods have been justified and applied, including a life cycle Imprint: World Scientific theory of trading systems. Publishing Company Series: World Scientific Series in Apart from a few sections that develop background material, Volume 2 creates from scratch Finance a trading system for Eurodollar futures using principles of the Strategic Analysis of Markets Method (SAMM), a principled, step-by-step approach to developing profitable trading systems. It has an entire Chapter on mechanical methods for testing and improvement of trading systems, which transcends the rather unstructured and unsatisfactory “backtesting” literature. It presents a breakout trend following system developed using factor models. It also presents a specific pairs trading system, and discusses its life cycle from an early, highly profitable period to its eventual demise. Recent developments in momentum trading and suggests improvements are also discussed. Contents: • Volume 1: Framework: • Introduction • Financial Time Series and Potentially Profitable Gambling Systems • Statistical Regularities of Financial Time Series • Essentials of Utility Theory • Reexamining Market Efficiency • How People Make Decisions • Market “Anomalies” Due to Human Behavior and Cognition • Econophysics and Market Empirics • Games and Gambling • The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH) and Soros–Minsky–Kindleberger (SMK) Model • The Strategic Analysis of Markets Method (SAMM) • Appendices: • Linear Algebra and Quadratic Forms • Probability and Statistics • Statistical Tests for Financial Analysis • Statistical Tables • The R-Language Environment Used in this Book • Volume 2: Trading System Analytics: • Cash Flows: • Cash Flow Analysis: Statics • Cash Flow Analysis: Dynamics • Trading Systems for the Yield Curve • Trading System Tools: • The Mechanics of Trading Systems Development and Testing • Modeling Methods for Trading Systems • Profitable Trading Systems: • Break-Out Trend Following • Break-Out Trend Following, Continued • The Family of Trend Anomalies • Volatility Arbitrage and Pairs Trading • The Mean-Variance World • Active Portfolio Management • Appendices: • Linear Algebra and Quadratic Forms • Statistical Tests for Financial Analysis • The R-Language Environment Used in this Book Advance Information PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PROJECT-BASED LEARNING By Mun Wai Ho (Republic Polytechnic, Singapore) & Mark Brooke (NUS, Singapore)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • It is specifically written for undergraduate and tertiary students at the polytechnics and Binding: Hardcover junior colleges ISBN: 978-981-3202-19-1 • It uniquely fills a gap to help lecturers and industry supervisors to design and implement collaborative applied research projects Price: £46 • It is written by two authors who have brought together their expertise and experience Binding: Softcover from the industry and academia to address pertinent issues from the insider’s perspective ISBN: 978-981-3202-20-7 Description: Price: £23 Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies Page Extent: 240pp at the university as well as at the polytechnics, ‘A’ levels and the international baccalaureate Type: Textbook programmes. These courses are usually structured as part of the Final Year Projects. Their applied nature is also motivated by the increasing emphasis on collaborations between the Main Subject: Education academia and the industry. Sub-subjects: General Education; General Business This book shall serve as a text and a practical reference for students, lecturers and industry and Management; Innovation/ supervisors to design, structure and supervise their projects so that they will serve the Technology/Knowledge/ desired curricular objectives as well as the needs of the industry collaborators. In essence, Information Management it will guide students to write their final year dissertations. A key feature of this book is its BIC: JN practical orientation. It contains a lot of examples. It is structured in a series of questions BISAC: EDU000000; EDU050000 and answers which mimics the thought process of a student working on his/her final year project dissertation. Keywords: Project; Learning; Thesis; Dissertation; Report; Specifically, the book has also included some contemporary topics such as design thinking University; Polytechnic; and pecha kucha presentations which would be of particular interest to instructors and Research; Academic; Industry; students. Applied; Collaboration Readership: Students in undergraduate studies and polytechnics, as well as ‘A’ level and the International Baccalaureate, working on their projects dissertations; their lecturers and industry supervisors Imprint: World Scientific Education Contents: • Curricular Objectives of Final Year Dissertations in Tertiary Education • Academic- Industry Collaborations in Applied Research Projects • Writing Proposals • Structure of the Final Year Project Report, Dissertation or Thesis • Techniques in Reference Sourcing and Doing Citations • Styles of Academic Writing • Selection of Qualitative, Quantitative or Mixed Methodology • Formative and Summative Assessments for Projects and Final Year Dissertations • Project Management for Final Year Dissertations • Ethics Declaration Advance Information THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS SERIES In 12 Volumes

By Nury Vittachi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Illustrated by Step Cheung

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great Binding: Softcover discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures — some are young people, ISBN: 978-981-3221-30-7 and many are female. Price: £41 Author: Page Extent: 288pp Nury Vittachi has authored of more than 40 books, several of which have been published in many languages around the world. He particularly enjoys bringing science and history to life Type: Popular Book for readers young and old. Main Subject: Education Sub-subjects: Children’s Books; He is chairman of the Asia Pacific Translators & Writers, Inc., Asia’s biggest association of Popular Science writers. A lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, he teaches BIC: YNT students how to write stories and how to create content for novels and movies. BISAC: JNF051190; JNF007090; Illustrator: JNF062030 Step Cheung studied Illustration at School of Visual Arts in NYC and Character Animation at Keywords: Scientists; History of Gobelins School in Paris. Her illustrations are published in The Standard newspaper weekly Science; Children’s Books and she has illustrated for McDonald’s TV commercials, Cyberport, HK magazines and Readership: Children 6-10 years different types of media. She loves to use variety of media to express her imagination of the old world. Her dream is to draw every day. Imprint: World Scientific Education Contents: • Volume 1: Secrets in the Rocks — Five Astounding Tales of People Solving Mysteries Beneath Our Feet: • The Girl Who Found a Flying Dragon (Mary Anning) • The Boy Who Went Searching for Giants (Georges Cuvier) • Love, Rocks and the First Dinosaur (Mary Morland) • The Bug Boy Solves a Huge Mystery (Louis Agassiz) • The Girl Who Loved the Biggest Rock of All (Inge Lehman) • Volume 2: Fabulous Physics — Five Amazing Stories of People Who Solved Nature’s Puzzles: • The Man Who Saw a Living Skeleton (Wilhelm Rontgen) • The Servant Girl Who Beat Einstein (Marie Curie) • The Boy Who Climbed to the Top (Abdus Salam) • The Quiet Queen of Physics (Wu Chien-Shiung) • The Boy Who Secretly Read the Books He Was Binding (Michael Faraday) • Volume 3: Magical Mathematics — Five Astonishing Stories of People Who Did Miracles with Numbers: • The Girl, the Pearl and the Not-So-Sad Story (Lilavati) • The Boy with No Birthday (Carl Gauss) • The Math Girl Who Stunned the World (Philippa Garrett) • The Penniless Youth Who Amazed the Professors (Srinivasa Ramanujan) • The Good Witch Who Made an Amazing Decision (Maria Agnesi) • Volume 4: Breakers of Barriers — Five Stunning Stories of People Demolishing Walls to Make History: • The Unloved Teenager and the Giant Calculator (Ada Byron Lovelace) • The Scientist and the Secret in the Ancient Book (Tu Youyou) • The Impossibly Young Doctors (Balamurali Ambati and Sho Timothy Yano) • The Motherless Child Who Solved His Father’s Problem (Blaise Pascal) • The Girl Torn Between Two Careers (Rachel Carson) • Volume 5: Scientific Pioneers — Five Incredible Tales of People Who Helped Develop the Scientific Method: • The Woman Who Hid the Moon (Aglaonike) • The Man Who Stayed in His House for Ten Years (Al-Haytham) • The Boy Who Was Curious All His Life (Shen Kuo) • The Grumpy Nun Who Was Forbidden to Sing (Hildegard of Bingen) • The Boy Who Sorted Out the Living World (Carl Linneaus) • Volume 6: The Amazing Quantum — Five Awesome Stories of People Who Made a Revolution in Physics: • The Boy Who Didn’t Listen to His Teacher (Max Planck) • How a Compass Inspired a Genius (Albert Einstein) • The Boy Secretly Reading a Book Behind His School Desk (Wolfgang Pauli) • The Student Whose Schools Kept Closing (T D Lee) • The Boy Who Had a Dispute with His Father (John von Neumann) • Volume 7: The Science of Humanity — Five Fascinating Stories of People Who Helped Us Understand Ourselves: • The Boy Who Found Different Ways of Thinking (Jean Piaget) • The Woman Who Taught Us Love and Remembrance (Artemisia) • The Mother with Six Boys and Six Girls (Lillian Gilbreth) • The Girl Born in the Shadow of the Moon God (Enheduanna) • The Explorer Girl Who Travelled Far Without Leaving Home (Alice Hamilton) • Volume 8: Women of Discovery — Five Super Stories of Fabulous Females Who Made Scientific History: • The Girl Who Found Her Sisters on the Other Side of the World (Harriet Noyes) • The First Woman Doctor in History (Merit Ptah) • The Girl Who Had to Hide Behind a Man’s Name (Sophie Germain) • The Murderous Princess Who Found Salvation (Anna of Byzantium) • The Bug Hunter Who Dreamed of the Jungle (Maria Merian) • Volume 9: The Inventor’s Spark — Five Marvelous Stories of People Who Helped Shape the Modern World: • The Boy Who Combined a Bike and a Train to Invent the Car (Karl Benz) • The Failed Doctor Who Sparked an Idea (John Walker) • The Woman to Thank If You Like Chocolate (Mary the Alchemist) • The Man in the Burning House (Garrett Morgan) • The Boy Who Lost His Chance but Got It Back (Gregorio Zara) • Volume 10: Advances in Alchemy — Five Startling Stories of Chemistry and Biology: • The Strange Adventures of Doctor Poison (F F Runge) • The Young Woman Who Was Forgotten (Rosalind Franklin) • The Girl in the Chamber of Corpses (Alessandra Giliani) • The Farm Girl Who Made Your Milk Safe (Alice Evans) • A Tasty Treat Found by Accident (Frank Epperson) • Volume 11: The Call of the Stars — Five Wonderful Stories of People Looking to the Heavens: • The Boy Who Decoded the Dance of the Stars (Jeremiah Horrocks) • The Poet–Scientist Who Detected an Earthquake (Zhang Heng) • The Farm Boy Who Saw the Galaxies Flying Away (Vesto Slipher) • The Girl Who Named the Stars in the Sky (Annie Jump Cannon) • The Boy Who Understood Einstein (Michio Kaku) • Volume 12: Mysteries of Nature’s Laws — Five Striking Stories of People Investigating the Deepest Puzzles of Reality: • The Girl at the Back of the Boys-Only Classroom (Amalie Emmy Noether) • The True Story of the Philosopher’s Stone (Jabir Ibn Hayyan) • The Bullied Boy Who Fought Back (Isaac Newton) • The Teenager Who Saw the Light (Galileo Galilei) • What We Learn From the Strange Tale of the Human Computer (Shakuntala Devi) Advance Information ADVANCED HIGH STRENGTH STEEL AND PRESS HARDENING Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference (ICHSU 2016) The 3rd International Conference on Advanced High Strength Steel and Press Hardening ICHSU 2016 Xi’an, China, 25 – 27 August 2016

Edited by Yisheng Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) & Mingtu Ma (China Automotive Engineering Research Institute, China)

Descrip ion: Pub Date: May 2017 This proceedings brings together seventy seven selected papers presented at the Binding: Hardcover 3rd International Conference on Advanced High Strength Steel and Press Hardening ISBN: 978-981-3207-29-5 (ICHSU2016), which was held in Xi’an, China, during August 25–27, 2016. Price: £156 In this rapid growing market in advanced high strength steel and press hardening, Page Extent: 600pp in particularly demand from automotive industry and sustainability community to Type: Proceedings develop light-weight materials for or , has motivated us to organize Body in white BIW Main Subject: Engineering/ ICHSU2016, soon after the successful conclusion of our ICHSU2015 last year to encourage Acoustics experts all over the world to get together again to exchange note and ideas as how to move the R&D in press hardening technology forward in the new era. Sub-subjects: Material Engineering; Industrial The purpose of holding ICHSU2016 is to satisfy the increasingly urgent requirement Engineering; Mechanical of reducing the weight of vehicle structures and increasing passenger safety. This Engineering conference arouses great interests and attentions from domestic and foreign researchers BIC: KNJH in hot stamping field, of the articles accepted, covering almost all the current topics of BISAC: TEC020000; TEC021030; advanced high strength steel and press hardening technology, which includes materials & Keywords: Materials testing, modeling & simulation, process design, tribology & tools, equipment and product Engineering; Materials Science; properties. Press Hardening; High Strength Steel Readership: Researchers and professionals in advanced high strength steel and press hardening Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Advanced High Strength Steel/Aluminium Alloy • Hot Stampings of AHSS • Cold/Hot Forming of Tailor-Welded Blank • Modeling & Simulation • Products & Application • Surface Condition, Friction & Lubrication • Coating, Corrosion & Preservation • Process and Industry Production Process Design • Heating & Cooling • Microstructure & Phase Transformation • Tools & Dies Design and Manufacture • Testing & Assessment • Hot Stamping Parts Design of Auto Body • Laser Cutting and Welding • Digital and Intelligent Technology of Hot Stamping Equipment and Its Application Advance Information ADVANCED MATERIALS AND ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials and Energy Sustainability (AMES2016) 2016 International Conference on Advanced Materials and Energy Sustainability (AMES2016) Wuhan, Hubei, China, 27 – 29 May 2016

Edited by Joy Iong-Zong Chen (Da-Yeh University, Taiwan) & Qiang Li (Aarhus University, Denmark)

Pub Date: May 2017 • This proceedings collected together R&D funded and undertaken by Chinese researcher Binding: Hardcover Key Features:in Material science, Environmental Materials Engineering ISBN: 978-981-3220-38-6 • Printed version of about 30 copies will be POD to meet the order from conference participants and authors alike Price: £156 • Additional copies will be printed for marketing to include in their library package Page Extent: 700pp Type: Proceedings Description: Main Subject: Engineering/ 2016 International Conference on Advanced Material and Energy Sustainability [AMES2016] Acoustics was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China during May 27–29, 2016. AMES2016 aims to bring together Sub-subjects: Material researchers, engineers, and students to participant in the discussion of Advanced Material Engineering; Environmental and Energy Sustainability. AMES2016 features unique mixed topics of Advanced Materials Engineering; Energy Studies/ and Related Technology, Energy Management and Renewable Energy and Environmental Research Engineering and Sustainable Development. BIC: TGM The conference program committee is greatly honored to have three renowned BISAC: TEC021000; TEC010000 experts for taken time off to present their keynotes to the conference. In addition, we Keywords: Polymers, Composites have put together five invited sessions. There are a total of 260 submissions from and Mesoporous Materials; various parts of the world. Among them, 87 articles are complied into this proceedings, Micro and Nano Materials; covering Polymers, Composites and Mesoporous Materials; Applications of Micro-and Materials Science; Smart Grid, Nano-Technology and Materials; Computational Methods in Area of Materials Science; Micro-Grid Concepts; Fuels, Smart Grid, Micro-Grid Concepts; Fuels, Combustion and Material Handling; Advanced Advanced and Renewable Energy and Renewable Energy Systems; Sustainable Management of Environment; Sustainable Systems; Sustainable Technolgy Cities and Communities, Transportation; Wind Energy Systems and Technologies. for Energy Management Readership: Researchers and professionals Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Polymers, Composites and Mesoporous Material • Applications of Micro-and Nano-Technology and Materials • Processing Technologies and Computational Methods • Smart Grid, Micro-Grid Concepts • Fuels, Combustion and Material Handling • Advanced and Renewable Energy Systems • Sustainable Management of Environment • Sustainable Cities and Communities, Transportation • Wind Energy Systems and Technologies Advance Information CLASSICAL THEORY OF CRYSTAL DISLOCATIONS From Iron to Gallium Nitride

By Hiroyasu Saka (Nagoya University, Japan)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The competing title is “Theory of dioslocations” by Hirth and Lothe: In this book, while Binding: Hardcover fundamental aspects are fully described, nothing or only little is mentioned about ISBN: 978-981-4749-16-9 functional materials such as GaN and SiC, nor about dislocations in a thin crystal such as epilayer, which is essential in modern semiconductor technology Price: £65 • Many original pictures Page Extent: 400pp • Many exercises, which the author found useful when he was teaching in Department of Type: Textbook Materials Science and Engineering of Nagoya University to stimulate their interests in Main Subject: Engineering dislocation theory Sub-subject: Materials Description: Engineering; Liquid Crystals & The book consists of two parts: Part 1 is a standard text of dislocation theory. Mathematics Crystallography; Semiconductors is avoided as much as possible. Part 2 describes application of dislocation theory, which & Related Areas; New Materials; includes mechanical properties (including the inverse temperature dependence of strength) Metallography; General and dislocations in functional materials such as Si, GaN and SiC and dislocations in a thin Materials Science crystal such as an epitaxial layer. This is what has been long anticipated among researchers BIC: PNT in industry. BISAC: SCI016000; TEC021000; TEC008090 The book contains about 330 illustrations (mostly originals by the author) and the pictures obtained by the author by means of in-situ experiment in a transmission electron microscope Keywords: Materials over the past 50 years. Engineering; Liquid Crystals & Crystallography; Semiconductors This book includes many exercises, which the author found useful when he was teaching in & Related Areas; New Materials; Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Nagoya University to stimulate their Metallography; General interests in dislocation theory. Materials Science Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Graduate students, academics and professionals interested in disclocation theory, crystal dislocations. Contents: • The Fundamentals of Crystallography • Geometry of Dislocations • Fundamentals of Elasticity Theory • Elasticity Theory of Dislocations • Elastic Interaction Between Dislocations and Solute Atoms • Motion of Dislocations (Peierls Force) and Multiplication (Frank-Read Source, Bardeen-Herring Source) • Dislocation Groups • Dissociated Dislocations in FCC Structure • Dissociated Dislocations in HCP • Dislocations in Ordered Alloys and Intermetallic and Inverse Temperature Dependence of the Strength • Dislocations in Diamond, Zincblend and Wurtzite Structures and SiC • Dislocations and Macroscopic Strength • Dislocations in Thin Foils Advance Information ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING A Remote Sensing Perspective

Edited by Yang Du (Zhejiang University, China)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • An update on the recent progress of electromagnetic scattering theory and approaches Binding: Hardcover pertinent to remote sensing ISBN: 978-981-3209-86-2 • A balanced coverage of surface scattering and volume scattering • A balanced treatment of analytical methods and numerical approaches Price: £123 Page Extent: 412pp Description: Type: Review Volume Remote sensing is a fast-growing field with many important applications as demonstrated in the numerous scientific missions of the Earth Observation System (EOS) worldwide. Main Subject: Engineering/ Given the inter-disciplinary nature of remote sensing technologies, the fulfillment of these Acoustics scientific goals calls for, among other things, a fundamental understanding of the complex Sub-subjects: Communications; interaction between electromagnetic waves and the targets of interest. Electromagnetism and Plasma Physics; Electromagnetism & Using a systematic treatment, Electromagnetic Scattering: A Remote Sensing Perspective Optics; Electrical & Electronic presents some of the recently advanced methods in electromagnetic scattering, as well Engineering; Geology/Earth as updates on the current progress on several important aspects of such an interaction. Studies/Earth Science The book covers topics including scattering from random rough surfaces of both terranean BIC: PHK and oceanic natures, scattering from typical man-made targets or important canonical BISAC: TEC036000; SCI002000; constituents of natural scenes, such as a dielectric finite cylinder or dielectric thin disk, the TEC061000 characterization of a natural scene as a whole represented as a random medium, and the extraction of target features with a polarimetric radar. Keywords: Electromagnetic Wave; Scattering; Polarization; Editor: Terrain; Sea; Target; SAR Yang DU is a full Professor and Deputy Director at the Innovative Institute of Electromagnetic Readership: Theorists, system Information and Electronic Integration, Department of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang designers, engineers and other University, China. He graduated from Tsinghua University, China in 1991, and holds a Doctorate practitioners dealing with in Electrical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA, 2003), a Master in Mathematics electromagnatic scattering, (University of Michigan, USA, 2001) and a Master in Electrical Engineering (University of surface scattering, and volume Massachusetts, USA, 1997). Dr Du is a member of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing scattering Society’s “Modeling in Remote Sensing” Technical Committee, an Associate Editor of IEEE Imprint: World Scientific Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE GRSS Remote Publishing Company Sensing Code Library. He has also served as a TPC member, Chair/Co-Chair of IGARSS, PIERS, APSAR, ISMOT and many other international conferences. His past experience includes being a research scholar with the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University, USA (2012); and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Electronics Research Laboratory, USA (2007). His research interests are electromagnetic and electromagnetic waves, remote sensing theory and technology, and wireless communication. Contents: • Modeling of Bistatic Scattering from Rough Surfaces — An Advanced Integral Equation Model (Kun-Shan Chen) • Investigation on the Composite Scattering and Doppler Spectra of a Moving Ship at Time-Evolving Sea Surface (Min Zhang, Ye Zhao, and Jin-Xing Li) • Study on Scattering Problems about Rough Surfaces with FEM/BIM (Lixin Guo and Runwen Xu) • Volume Integral Equation Solvers for Electromagnetic Scattering by Penetrable Objects (Mei Song Tong) • Numerical Modeling of Scattering by Multiple Bodies of Revolution (Jun Hu, Yu-Ke Li, Xi Rui and Qinghuo Liu) • Analytical Formulations of Scattering by Finite Circular Cylinder and Thin Dielectric Circular Disk (Il-Suek Koh) • VPM: An Extended T-matrix Method for the Analysis of Scattering from Dielectric Cylinders with Finite Length (Yang Du, Wenzhe Yan, Chao Yang and J C Shi) • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering in Dense Media: Applications in the Remote Sensing of Sea Ice and Vegetation (Jun Yi, Koay Yu Jen Lee, Hong Tat Ewe, and Hean Teik Chuah) • Target Feature Extraction with Polarimetric Radar (Junjun Yin and Jian Yang) Advance Information FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED PROBLEMS OF TERAHERTZ DEVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES Selected Papers from the Russia-Japan-USA-Europe Symposium (RJUSE-TeraTech 2016) Russia-Japan-USA-Europe Symposium (RJUSE-TeraTech 2016) Katahira Campus of Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 31 October – 4 November 2016

Edited by Maxim Ryzhii, Akira Satou & Taiichi Otsuji (all of University of Aizu, Japan)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • This issue contains selected extended papers presented as invited and contributed talks Binding: Hardcover at the RJUSE-TeraTech 2016 symposium ISBN: 978-981-3223-27-1 • It addresses the variety of topics, in particular, THz detectors based on double heterojunction bipolar transistors (DHBT) and field effect transistors (FET) utilizing Price: £73 resonant plasma effects, quantum cascade (QCL) and HgCdTe quantum-well Page Extent: 140pp heterostructures, and graphene-based THz devices Type: Proceedings Description: Main Subject: Engineering/ Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves, phenomena in the THz range and related Acoustics technological issues have been explosively investigated during the recent two decades. Sub-subjects: Electrical & However, its potential as a disruptive technology to commercial applications has yet to make Electronic Engineering; Circuits any impression. & Systems; Nanoelectronics; Microelectronics The Russia-Japan-USA-Europe Symposium on Fundamental and Applied Problems of BIC: TJFD Terahertz Devices and Technologies (RJUSE-TeraTech 2016), held at Katahira Campus of BISAC: TEC008000; TEC008090; Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan on October 31 – November 4, 2016, aims to bring together TEC008080 researchers from Russia, Japan, USA and Europe, who are working on the broad range of related problems in the terahertz devices, technologies and applications, to discuss on state- Keywords: Terahertz (Thz) of-the-art results and future directions and collaborations in the development of THz. Electromagnetic Waves; Nanoelectronics; Optoelectronics This is the fifth in the series of preceding successful symposiums in Terahertz Devices and Readership: Scientists, Technologies. It contains 14 selected extended papers presented at the RJUSE-TeraTech 2016 engineers, research leaders, symposium, addressing the variety of topics, in particular, THz detectors based on double and even investors interested heterojunction bipolar transistors (DHBT) and field effect transistors (FET) utilizing resonant in microelectronics, plasma effects, quantum cascade (QCL) and HgCdTe quantum-well heterostructures, and nanoelectronics, and graphene-based THz devices. optoelectronics. It is also recommended to graduate students working in these fields Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: Selected Topics in Electronics and Systems - Volume 58 Contents: • High-Speed Room Temperature Terahertz Detectors Based on InP Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (D Coquillat, V Nodjiadjim, S Blin, A Konczykowska, N Dyakonova, C Consejo, P Nouvel, A Pénarier, J Torres, D But, S Ruffenach, F Teppe, M Riet, A Muraviev, A Gutin, M Shur and W Knap) • Terahertz Response of Tightly Concatenated Two Dimensional InGaAs Field-Effect Transistors Integrated on a Single Chip (D M Yermolayev, E A Polushkin, A V Koval’chuk, S Yu Shapoval, K V Marem’yanin, V I Gavrilenko, N A Maleev, V M Ustinov, V E Zemlyakov, V I Yegorkin, V A Bespalov, V V Popov and I Khmyrova) • Optimization of the Design of Terahertz Detectors Based on Si CMOS and AlGaN/GaN Field-Effect Transistors (Maris Bauer, Sebastian Boppel, Jingshui Zhang, Adam Rämer, Serguei Chevtchenko, Alvydas Lisauskas, Wolfgang Heinrich, Viktor Krozer and Hartmut G Roskos) • Design and Fabrication of Terahertz Detectors Based on 180-nm CMOS Process Technology (Kosuke Wakita, Eiichi Sano, Masayuki Ikebe, Stevanus Arnold, Taiichi Otsuji, Yuma Takida and Hiroaki Minamide) • Plasma Instability of 2D Electrons in a Field Effect Transistor with a Partly Gated Channel (Aleksandr S Petrov, D Svintsov, M Rudenko, V Ryzhii and M S Shur) • THz Spectroscopic Imaging of Chemicals Using IS-TPG (Kosuke Murate, Mikiya Kato and Kodo Kawase) • Imaging and Gas Spectroscopy for Health Protection in Sub-THz Frequency Range (W Knap, D B But, D Couquillat, N Dyakonova, M Sypek, J Suszek, E Domracheva, M Chernyaeva, V Vaks, K Maremyanin, V Gavrilenko, C Archier, B Moulin, G Cywinski, I Yahniuk and K Szkudlarek) • Calculation of Modal Gain for Terahertz Lasers Based on HgCdTe Heterostructures with Quantum Wells (Alexander A Dubinov and Vladimir Ya Aleshkin) • Plasmonic Enhancement of Terahertz Devices Efficiency (Vladimir Mitin, Victor Ryzhii, Maxim Ryzhii, Akira Satou, Taiichi Otsuji and Michael S Shur) • Sub-Micron Gate Length Field Effect Transistors as Broad Band Detectors of Terahertz Radiation (J A Delgado Notario, E Javadi, J Calvo-Gallego, E Diez, J E Velázquez, Y M Meziani and K Fobelets) • Improved Performance of Ultrahigh-Sensitive Charge-Sensitive Infrared Phototransistors (CSIP) (Sunmi Kim, Susumu Komiyama, Shinpei Matsuda, Mikhail Patrashin and Yusuke Kajihara) • Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Laser Based on the Resonant-Phonon Depopulation Scheme (Rustam A Khabibullin, Nikolay V Shchavruk, Aleksandr Yu Pavlov, Alexey N Klochkov, Dmitry S Ponomarev, Igor A Glinskiy, Petr P Maltsev, Alexey E Zhukov, George E Cirlin and Zhores I Alferov)

• Intensive Terahertz Radiation from InxGa1-xAs due to Photo-Dember Effect (Dmitry S Ponomarev, Rustam A Khabibullin, Aleksandr E Yachmenev, Petr P Maltsev, Igor E Ilyakov, Boris V Shiskin and Rinat A Akhmedzhanov) • Numerical Characterization of Dyakonov-Shur Instability in Gated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems (Akira Satou and Koichi Narahara) Advance Information GLOBAL CRISIS AND SUSTAINABILITY TECHNOLOGIES By Kenji Uchino (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Pub Date: May 2017 Binding: Hardcover Description: Global Crisis and Sustainability Technologies is a nontechnical introduction ISBN: 978-981-3142-29-9 and overview of the current “politico-engineering” — politically initiated Price: £51 engineering — intended for an international relationship. The book focuses specifically on Binding: Softcover technologies for crisis and societal sustainability in response to natural disasters, ISBN: 978-981-3143-72-2 infectious diseases, enormous accidents, terrorist or criminal incidents, war or territorial invasions, elimination of toxic materials, and renewable energy, as well as risk Price: £27 management. Page Extent: 360pp Type: Popular Book The case studies cited draw from the author’s experience in the United States, Japan, Main Subject: Engineering/ and China, and act as instructive studies that may be extended and applied to other Acoustics countries. Sub-subjects: Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Author: Materials Engineering; Energy Kenji Uchino, one of the pioneers in piezoelectric actuators, is Founding Director Studies/Research; of International Center for Actuators and Transducers and Professor of Electrical Environmental Technology; Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, Pollution; Earthquake USA. He was Associate Director (Global Technology Awareness) at The US Office of Engineering; Political Science/ Naval Research — Global Tokyo Office through IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) Policy Studies/Public Policy; from 2010 till 2014. He was also the Founder and Senior Vice President & CTO of Security Studies/Terrorism; Micromechatronics Inc., State College, Pennsylvania, USA. After being awarded his PhD Environmental/Energy degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, he became Research Associate/ Economics Assistant Professor (1976) in the Physical Electronics Department at this university. Then, BIC: PDR he joined Sophia University, Japan, as Associate Professor in the Physics Department in BISAC: TEC007000; TEC018000; 1985. He was then recruited by The Penn State University in 1991. He was also involved POL063000 with the Space Shuttle Utilizing Committee in NASDA, Japan from 1986–1988; served as Vice President of NF Electronic Instruments, USA, from 1992–1994. Uchino was the Keywords: Politico- Founding Chair of the Smart Actuators/Sensors Committee, Japan Technology Transfer Engineering; Crisis Technology; Association, sponsored by the Ministry of Economics, Trading and Industries, Japan, Sustainability Technology; from 1987 to 2014; and is a long-term session chair of the International Conference on Global Politics; New Actuators, Messe Bremen, Germany, since 1997. He was also the associate Readership: Engineering & law editor for Journal of Advanced Performance Materials, Journal of Intelligent Materials school undergraduate, graduate Systems and Structures and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. Uchino served as students, and also active Administrative Committee Member (Elected) of IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and researchers who are interested Frequency Control (1998–2000) and as Secretary of the American Ceramic Society, in becoming Science & Electronics Division (2002–2003). Technology program officers, intellectual properties, S&T policy making, global regimes etc. Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Background of Politico-Engineering • Japanese and Global Technology Trend Change • Global Politics in Engineering • Categorization of Politico-Engineering • Crisis Technology • Sustainability Technology • Risk Management • Advanced Game Theory • Concluding Remarks Advance Information THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE LECTURES IN PETROLEUM ENGINEERING Volume 2: Reservoir Engineering

By Martin J Blunt

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This book covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering in the recovery of Binding: Hardcover hydrocarbons from underground reservoirs. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the ISBN: 978-1-78634-209-6 topic, including discussion of recovery processes, material balance, fluid properties and fluid flow. It also contains details of multiphase flow, including pore-scale displacement Price: £73 processes and their impact on relative permeability, with a presentation of analytical Page Extent: 350pp solutions to multiphase flow equations. Created specifically to aid students through under- Type: Handbook (Treat as graduate and graduate courses, this book also includes exercises with worked solutions, Textbook) and examples of previous exam papers for further guidance and practice. Main Subject: Engineering/ Acoustics As part of the Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering, and based on a lecture series on the same topic, Reservoir Engineering provides the introductory information Sub-subjects: General needed for students of the earth sciences, petroleum engineering, engineering and Engineering; Geology/Earth geoscience. Studies/Earth Science; Industrial Engineering BIC: TNFD BISAC: TEC047000; SCI031000; TEC009110 Keywords: Reservoirs; Underground Reservoirs; Geology; Hydrocarbons; Well Exploration; Pore-Scale Displacement; Multiphase Flow; Fluid Properties Readership: Students of the earth sciences, petroleum engineering, engineering and geoscience Imprint: World Scientific Europe

Advance Information MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND OPTOELECTRONIC ENGINEERING Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Management, Information and Communication (ICMIC2016) and the 2016 International Conference on Optics and Electronics Engineering (ICOEE2016) The International Conference on Management, Information and Communication (ICMIC2016) and the International Conference on Optics and Electronics Engineering (ICOEE2016) Guilin, China, 28 – 29 May 2016

Edited by Yongsheng Gao (Hebei University of Science and Pub Date: May 2017 Technology, China) Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-3202-67-2 Description: Price: £156 This proceedings brings together 59 selected articles presented at the joint conferences of the International Conference on Management, Information and Communication (ICMIC2016) Page Extent: 480pp and the International Conference on Optics and Electronics Engineering (ICOEE2016), which Type: Proceedings were held in Guilin, China, during May 28–29, 2016. Main Subject: Engineering/ Acoustics ICMIC2016 and ICOEE2016 provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians Sub-subjects: Electrical as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their latest findings & Electronic Engineering; and results in the development in Information Management, Communication, Optics and Innovation/Technology/ Electronics host by ICMIC2016 and ICOEE2016. Knowledge/Information Management The proceedings collected the latest research results and applications in the related areas. BIC: TJF We hope to enlighten readers with some latest developments in Information Management, and Optics Electronics presented at the joint conferences. BISAC: TEC008080; TEC008000 Keywords: Material Engineering; Environmental Science and Engineering; Material Science; Advanced Materials; Environment Protection; Sustainable Development Readership: Graduate students, academics and professionals in the field of electrical & electronic engineering and information management Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Management, Information and Communication: • The Analysis of Entrepreneurs’ Innovation Cognition in Hebei Province (Rong-Ping Li, Si-Ying Wang and Sen Zhao) • Reviews of International Maritime Safety Management Philosophies and Approaches (Wei, RUAN) • Efficient FEC Decoding Algorithm for 100Gbps Optical Transport Networks in FPGA (Jiang-Yi Qin, Zhi-Ping Huang, Jun-Yu Wei, Zhi Dong and Zhen Zuo) • An Improved Line Non-symmetry and Anti-packing Model for Gray Images Representation (Fei Xiao, Jinwen Tian and Guangwei Wang) • The Study of Competency Model about Endurance Ltd.’s Salesman (Li-Hong Han and Shao-Fan Zhang) • Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting Based on Nonparametric GARCH Residuals Correction-Least Square Support Vector Machine (Yuan-Sheng Huang, Shen-Hai Huang and Yin-Ping Hu) • College Students’ Work Innovation Model Research under the Background of Internet (Shu-Yang Zhu) • An Empirical Research of the Input-Output Model on Demand Elasticity Based on the Energy Consumption (Yan Zhang and Xin Liu) • Research on Network Public Opinion Evolution Model Based on Mobile Cellular Automaton (Chao-Bin Wang and Qian-Ren Mao) • Rule and Maximum Entropy Model Based Method of Temporal Expression Recognition (Jie-Jun Li, Qing-Qiu Cai and Hao Tang) • Feature Mining and Sentiment Orientation Analysis on Product Review (Jie-Jun Li, Han Yang and Hao Tang) • Design of Raptor Code for Space-to-Ground High-speed Communication (Bao-Li Hong, Zhang-Wei and Li-Hong Bao) • Fund Risk Early Warning System Design of Power Grid Enterprise Group (Lin-lin Wang) • Layer Aggregation and Structure Detection of Interconnected Networks (Quantong Guo, Xin Jiang, Yanjun Lei and Zhiming Zheng) • Design of Network Security Distributed Pre-Warning System (Ya-Lin Ye, Wei-Feng Sun, Kun Han, Quan Yuan, Ke-Li Yang and Ning Shan) • Performance Evaluation of Different Grade INS Aiding GNSS Receiver Acquisition in Hot Start State (Zhou Qin, Wen-Xiang Liu, Ying-Xue Su and Fei- Xue Wang) • Comprehensive Evaluation Index Model Construction and Application in the Transnational Power Transmission Project (Huang Qing) • The Construction and Use of Implicit Relationship in Knowledge (Jing Chen, Yun-Qing Li and Hu Kuang) • The Efficiency Analysis of the Construction Industry in Linyi City Based on DEA Model (Xiang Liu and Zong-Ying Li) • Loss Effect on the Dynamical Evolution of Rigid Holographic Bright Spatial Solitons in a Dissipative System (Guang-Yong Zhang, Mi-Zhuo Zhao, Guo- Zhen Chen and Xiao-Qing Zhang) • The Efficiency Analysis of Logistics Industry in Shandong Province Based on VRS DEA Model (Zong-Ying Li and Xiang Liu) • Study on International Electricity Market Regulation Models and China’s Practice (Huang Qing) • Building and Application of Project Management Maturity Model for Military Equipment Medium-Maintenance (Yong-Dong Zhang, Zheng-Ping Shu and Zhong-Guang Li) • The Algorithm of the Regional Centroid Indoor Positioning Based on RSSI Filter Ji-Hua( Ye, Qing-Ping Lan and Jun Chen) • Acquisition and Research of the Soil Building Environmental Data Based on the Sensor Network (Yuan Zhang, Chao-Ming Wang, Fan Zhang, Zhi- Yong Zhang and Xue-Wen Wang) • Research on Influencing Factors of Employees’ Acceptance of MOOC Training (Shuai Wang, Pin-Hua Dong and Shuai Shao) • Decomposition and Modeling of Equipment Support Mission (Tian Zhao, Wei Zhang, Yao-Ping Lv and Xian-Jun Pan) • Motion Simulation of Tracked Robot Under the Virtual Reality Environment (Ma Jiu-he, Chen Zhi-wei, Sun Hai-tao and Deng Hui-yong) • Research on Social Media Marketing Strategy of Small and Micro Enterprises under the Background of “New Normal” of Economy (Fang Gao and Xin Zhao) • Optics and Electronics Engineering: • A Novel Optical Fiber Transmission System Based on Dynamic Payload Clock Recovery Technology (Jiang-Yi Qin, Zhi-Ping Huang, Jun-Yu Wei, Zhi Dong and Zhen Zuo) • The Research of Signal Power Quality Disturbance Identification and Classification Based on the GA-ELM (Bo Sang and Hong-Wen Liu) • Research on Protection Configuration Optimization of Power System (Xian Li, Yubin Mao, Xinju Guo and Jinli Yu) • Muiltidimensional Collaborative Constellation Design and Implement for MIMO Indoor Visible Light Communications (Wang-Feng Liang, Yi-Jun Zhu and Heng-Bin Cai) • Motion of Transceivers in MCNS for Underwater Optical Wireless Communications (Hao Xu and Yi-Jun Zhu) • An Instantaneous Frequency Extraction Method in the Application of Laser Doppler VelocimeterGuo-Hua ( Wang, Si-Chen Xu and Wei-Shuo Zhang) • The Improved Coaxial Bragg Structure (Xue-Yong Ding, Lian-Sheng Wang and Yuan Wang) • The Influence of Return Stroke Current Waveforms to Approximation of Spatial Lightning Electromagnetic Field at Near Ranges (Li-peng Wang, Ya- zhou Chen, Hao-jiang Wan and Xiaojia Wang) • Sorting Radar Signal based on the Resemblance Coefficient of Bispectrum Two Dimensions Characteristic (Chun-Lai Yu, Jun Han and Fang Wan) • Research on Software Testing of FPGA Embedded System (Hong-Feng Wang, Hui Zhang and Qiang Li) • A Judgmental Method of Illegal Electricity Based on BP Neural Network and Errors Theory (Jian-hao Lu, Sheng-ke Wen, Yi-xiong Nie and Yue-hui Yang) • A Simple Frequency Domain Equalization Method for Atmospheric Laser Communication (Hui-Qin Wang, He Wang, Jing-wei Zhu, Ke-jun Jia and Ming-hua Cao) • The Prediction of Time Domain Electromagnetic Pulse Waveform Based on the Minimum Phase Method (Qiang Li and Ming Wei) • Design and Simulation of Neural Network Unit Based on FPGA (Zhu Fang and Ding Lei) • Research on the Harmonic Governance Program for the Enterprise Distribution System with Photo-Voltaic (Yan-Qing Pan and Hui-Bin Sui) • Design of Imaging System for Infrared Tracker Simulator (Ming-Chang Wang and Yang-Yu Fan) • A Simple Implementation of Long Distance Visible Light Communication System (Ziyu Song and Shengliang Peng) • The Influence of Magnetic Field on the Spatial Resolution of Pulse-Dilation Framing Tube (Yan-Li Bai) • Research on Condition Evaluation Technology of Energy Storage Equipment in Photovoltaic System (Hai-Feng Bian, Rong-Jiang Jin, Chao Zhang, Tian-Chun Xiang and Xu-Dong Wang) • Research on Laser Eavesdropping of Interference Method Based on Linear CCD (Jian An, Jia-Hao Song and Zhi-Yong Dai)

• Quantum Chemistry Calculation of the SOF4 Product Formation Mechanism in SF6 Discharge Gas (Zhen Li, Shao-yi Chen, Shang-kun Gong, Bing Feng and Zhou Zhou) • A Power Estimation Method of Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Pipelined Processor Based on Macro-model (Wang Qi and Si-Kun Li) • The Analytical Solutions of Two-Photon Spatial Solitons in Biased Photovoltaic Photorefractive Crystal (Guang-Yong Zhang, Guo-Zhen Chen, Mi-Zhuo Zhao and Xiao-Qing Zhang) • Intellectualized Large Diameter Aspherical Reflector Manufacture Technology (Bao-Wei Qiu, Wen Guo and Ting-Ting Hao) • Research on Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer Method Measuring Corrosive Sulfur in Mineral Insulating Oil (Tao Wan, Jun Hu, Bing Feng, Zhou Zhou, Hui Qian and Ying-Jun Qiu) • Lens’s Design and Verification Used for Terahertz Beam Collimation (Qiu-Jie Yang, Jing-Guo Huang, Zhi-ping He, Zhi-Ming Huang and Rong Shu) • Severity Diagnosis of Surface Partial Discharge Provoked by Immobilized Metal Wire on GIS Insulators (Xie Yaoheng, Zhou Weihua, Ye Huisheng, Liu Yun, Zhang Guoqi and Ding Yuzhu) • Design of a Vertically Stacked Substrate Integrated Circular Cavity (SICC) Filter in LTCC Technology (Huan Wu, Jian-Rong Chen, Wen-Qiang Jia and Xiao-Yang Zhang) • Research on the Impact of Meteorological Factors on Electric Power Accidents (Chen Jia, Chengrui Wang, Chao Zhang and Jing Zhou) • Optical Analysis and Simulation of Spherical Vapor Cell (Yu-Ting Zhao, Gang Liu, Wei Quan and Ming Ding) Advance Information POWER MICROELECTRONICS Device and Process Technologies 2nd Edition

By Yung C Liang (NUS, Singapore), Ganesh S Samudra (NUS, Singapore) & Chih-Fang Huang (National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This descriptive textbook provides a c lear l ook at t he t heories a nd process technologies Binding: Hardcover necessary for understanding the modern power semiconductor devices, i.e. from the ISBN: 978-981-3200-24-1 fundamentals of p-n junction electrostatics, unipolar MOSFET and superjunction structures, bipolar IGBT, to the most recent wide bandgap SiC and GaN devices. It also covers their Price: £120 associated semiconductor process technologies. Real examples based on actual fabricated Page Extent: 600pp devices, with the process steps described in clear detail are especially useful. This book is Type: Monograph (Treat as suitable for university courses on power semiconductor or power electronic devices. Device Textbook) designers and researchers will also find this book a good reference in their work, especially Main Subject: Engineering/ for those focusing on the advanced device development and design aspects. Acoustics Sub-subjects: Circuits & Systems; Electrical & Electronic Engineering BIC: TJFD1 BISAC: TEC008070; TEC008010 Keywords: Power Semiconductor Devices; Power Integrated Circuits; Bipolar Diode; Power MOSFET; Power IGBT; Superjunction Devices; Silicon Carbide; Gallium Nitride; Medici Simulations; Sentaurus Simulations Readership: Researchers, academics, professionals, final- year undergraduate and graduate students in circuits & systems and electrical & electronic engineering Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company

Advance Information PROBABILISTIC METHODS IN THE THEORY OF STRUCTURES Strength of Materials, Random Vibrations, and Random Buckling

By Isaac Elishakoff (Florida Atlantic University, USA)

Reviews of the Previous Edition: “The book certainly satisfies the need that now exists for a readable textbook and reference book ...” Prof Masanobu Shinozuka Columbia Universit

“... By far the best book on the market today ...” Pub Date: May 2017 Prof Niels C Lind University of Waterloo, Canada Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-3149-84-7 “This extremely well-written text, authored by one of the leaders in the field, incorporates Price: £81 many of these new applications ... Professor Elishakoff’s techniques for developing the Binding: Softcover material are accomplished in a way that illustrates his deep insight into the topic as well as his expertise as an educator...” ISBN: 978-981-3149-85-4 Prof Frank Kozin Price: £40 Polytechnic Institute of New York Page Extent: 400pp American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal Type: Monograph Main Subject: Engineering/ Description: Acoustics The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one saw light on the verge of new millennium (Dover, 1999). This is third, Sub-subject: Mechanical corrected and expanded edition that appears in conjunction with its companion volume Engineering Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Complete Worked-Through Solutions. BIC: TNC BISAC: TEC063000; TEC009070 Thus, the reader is able to both get acquainted with the theoretical material and be able Keywords: Mechanical to master some of the problems, following Chinese dictum: I hear and I forget. I see and I Engineering; Theory of remember. I do and I understand — Confucius. Structures; Strength of Materials; Random Vibrations; The main idea of the book lies in the fact that three topics: probabilistic strength of materials, Random Buckling random vibrations, and probabilistic buckling are presented in a single package allowing one to see the forest in between the trees. Indeed, these three topics usually are presented in Imprint: World Scientific separate manners, in different specialized books. Here, the reader gets a feeling of true unity Publishing Company of the subject at large in order to appreciate that in the end what one wants is reliability of Readership: Researchers and the structure, in conjunction with its operating conditions. academics interested in the theory of structures. As the author describes in the Preface of the second edition, this book was not conceived ab initio, as a book that author strived to compose. Rather, it was forced, as it were, upon me due to two reasons. One was rather a surprising but understandable requirement in the venerable Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands to prepare the lecture notes for students with the view of reducing skyrocketing costs of acquisition of textbooks by the students. The other one was an unusually warm acceptance of the notes that the author prepared while at Delft University of Technology and later in Haifa, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology by the legendary engineering scientist Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914– 1997). The energy necessary to prepare the second and third editions came from enthusiastic reviews that appeared in various sources. Author embraced the simplicity of exposition as the main virtue following Isaac Newton’s view that “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

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SATELLITE SAR DETECTION OF SUB-MESOSCALE OCEAN DYNAMIC PROCESSES By Quanan Zheng (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Differing from general ocean remote sensing books, this book focuses on one subject Binding: Hardcover only, i.e., SAR detection of the ocean. Thus it is more specified and more concentrated ISBN: 978-981-4749-00-8 • The fundamental material for the book is the research results obtained by the author during the last two decades and also includes the contributions from other investigators Price: £110 Page Extent: 300pp Description: Type: Monograph Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as a form of radar to create images of objects, uses the Main Subject: Engineering/ motion of the radar antenna over a targeted region to provide finer spatial resolution than Acoustics is possible with conventional beam-scanning radars by mounting the antenna on a moving platform such as an aircraft or spacecraft. As antenna aperture (the “size” of the antenna) is Sub-subjects: Ocean defined by the distance the SAR device travels over a target in the time taken for the radar Engineering/Coastal pulses to return to the antenna, the larger the aperture is, the higher the image resolution, Engineering; Electrical & therefore, this enables SAR to create high resolution images with comparatively small Electronic Engineering; Geology/ physical antennas. Earth Studies/Earth Science; Classical Mechanics, Continuum This special book aims to provide the updated theories and methods for the use of synthetic Physics, Acoustics aperture radar (SAR) onboard satellites to detect ocean processes, i.e., SAR ocean remote BIC: RBKC sensing. It is a hi-tech application field having been developed since late 1970s and become BISAC: TEC036000; SCI052000; a powerful tool for obtaining dynamic signatures from the remote and broad ocean. TEC009020 Keywords: Satellite SAR; Sub- Mesoscale Ocean Processes; Ocean Internal Waves; Ocean Bottom Topography; Air-Sea Boundary Processes Readership: Graduate, academics and professionals in the field of satellite oceanography, ocean engineering, geophysics, electrical and electronic engineering, and earth science Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering Contents: • Principles of Radar Imaging of Ocean Processes • Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Vortex Train • Spirals on the Sea • Ocean Inertial Oscillations • Estuarine Outflow Jet • Ocean Internal Waves • Ocean Bottom Topography • Air-Sea Boundary Layer Processes Advance Information

THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF OCEAN SURFACE WAVES (In 2 Volumes) 3rd Edition

By Chiang C Mei (MIT, USA), Michael Stiassnie (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) & Dick K-P Yue (MIT, USA)

Reviews of the Previous Edition: Pub Date: May 2017 “Overall, the book remains a major resource for graduate students in ocean engineering Binding: Hardcover and applied mathematics. The new material that has been added is certainly appropriate.” ISBN: 978-981-3147-17-1 Mathematical Reviews Price: £164 “Much of the introductory material is well presented, and followed by many specific Binding: Softcover examples, often with full mathematical detail … These books can certainly benefit graduate ISBN: 978-981-3147-18-8 students and researchers, and Part 2 is a worthwhile improvementJournal over the of Fluid earlier Mechanics Price: £81 editions.” Description: Page Extent: 1500pp This book set is a revised version of the 2005 edition of Theory and Applications Type: Textbook of Ocean Surface Waves. It presents theoretical topics on ocean wave dynamics, Main Subject: Engineering/ including basic principles and applications in coastal and offshore engineering as well Acoustics as coastal oceanography. Advanced analytical and numerical techniques are Sub-subjects: Ocean demonstrated. In this revised version, five chapters on recent developments in linear and Engineering/Coastal Engineering; nonlinear aspects have been added. The first is on detailed analyses in Wave/Structure Civil Engineering; Engineering Interactions. The second is a new section on Waves through a Marine Forest, a topic Mechanics; Oceanography; motivated by its possible relevance to tsunami reduction. The third is on Long Waves in General Physics (Popular Shallow Water and the fourth is an update on Broad-Banded Nonlinear Surface Waves in Reading); Fluid Mechanics; the Open Sea to include new findings in this topic. The fifth is an expanded chapter on Classical Mechanics 2: Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Wave Dynamics to include predictions of nonlinear Mechanics Of Deformable Solids spectral evolution and rogue wave occurrence and dynamics using large-scale phase- resolved simulations. This revised version also includes recent developments in BIC: PHVG precorrected-FFT accelerated O(N log N) low- and high-order boundary element BISAC: SCI067000; SCI052000; methods for the computation of fully nonlinear wave-wave and wave-body interactions. TEC009070 Keywords: Fluid Mechanics; Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves (2016) will be invaluable for graduate Ocean Waves; Surface students and researchers in coastal and ocean engineering, geophysical fluid Waves; Linear and Nonlinear dynamicists interested in water waves, and theoretical scientists and applied Wave Dynamics; Coastal mathematicians wishing to develop new techniques for challenging problems or to apply Oceanography; Coastal techniques existing elsewhere. Engineering; Ocean Engineering; Oceanographic Engineering; Applied Mathematics Readership: Graduate students and lecturers in coastal and ocean engineering, as well as theoretical engineers, applied mathematicians and geophysicists Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering - Volume 42

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World Scientific Series on Asia-Pacific Weather and Climate - Volume 8 ARIDITY TREND IN NORTHERN CHINA

Edited by Congbin Fu (Nanjing University, China) & Huiting Mao (SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The continued aridity trend occurring in many regions worldwide is a manifestation of Binding: Hardcover the response of the earth system to global change. It hinders severely the sustainable ISBN: 978-981-4723-53-4 development of these regions. Northern China is one of the largest and most affected regions in the world. This book documents the climatic change in its arid and semi-arid Price: £115 areas on decadal to geological time scales based on analyses of various data sources. These Page Extent: 350pp analyses improved our understanding of the potential mechanisms driving the aridity trend, Type: Review Volume particularly in the second half of the 20th century. Based on these analyses and a systematic Main Subject: Environmental assessment of the impact of the aridity trend on the ecological and hydrological processes Science in northern China, measures of human adaptation to the aridity trend for socio-economic developments are proposed. Sub-subjects: Climatology/ Meteorology; Oceanography BIC: RBP BISAC: SCI092000; SCI042000; SCI052000 Keywords: Aridity Trend; Climate Change; Northern China; Global Warning; Ecosystems; Sustainable Development Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in atmospheric sciences, oceanography, and climate change.

World Scientific Connecting Great Minds Contents: • Introduction • Plio-Pleistocene Changes in the Arid Area of Northern China on Geological Timescales • Evidence of Aridity Trend in Northern China on Decadal Scales • Global Patterns of Aridity Trends and Time Regimes in Transition • Hadley Cell Widening in Warming Climate and Implication to Expansion of World Dry Lands • Tropical Large-Scale Atmospheric Interaction in Association with Subtropical Aridity Trend • Land-atmospheric Interaction in Semi-Arid Regions • Impacts of Land Use/Cover Change on Aridity Trend • Dust Aerosol and Aridity Trend • Ecosystem Process in Semi-Arid Region • Hydrological Processes in Semi-Arid Region • Impact of the Aridity Trend on Socio-Economic Development and Human Adaptation • Summary Remarks

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By David Goodstein (Caltech, USA) & Michael Intriligator

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and Binding: Hardcover the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated ISBN: 978-981-3208-34-6 problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel energy in detail and then presents the economic factors governing Price: £32 possible solutions. Page Extent: 96pp Type: Textbook Written by two world renowned academics — a physicist who writes about the nature of the Main Subject: Environmental problem, and an economist who discusses various scenarios and solutions, this unique must- Science have book highlights the problem from the point of view of a scientist and an economist. Sub-subjects: Energy Studies/ Authors: Research; Environmental/Energy Dr David Goodstein is Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and the Frank J Giloon Economics; Political Science/ Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, Emeritus at the California Institute of Policy Studies/Public Policy Technology in Pasadena. He was on the faculty there for more than 45 years and was Vice BIC: RNPG Provost for nearly 20 years. He was host and project director of The Mechanical Universe, a 52-part college physics telecourse based on his popular lectures at Caltech. He was awarded BISAC: SCI092000; SCI024000; the 1999 Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the 2000 John POL068000 P McGovern Medal of Sigma Xi, the Research Society. Keywords: Global Warming; Peak Oil; Climate Change; Energy Dr Michael D Intriligator was Professor of Economics, Emeritus at the University of Readership: Undergraduates, California Los Angeles. His interests included economic theory and mathematical economics, graduates, professionals, econometrics, and strategy and arms control. He was appointed Professor in the Department academics and the general public of Public Policy, School of Public Affairs at UCLA in 2004. He passed away in 2013. interested in energy studies, environmental economics, geophysics and public policy Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • The Science of Energy and Global Warming • Energy Market Structures and Regulatory Structures • The Future • The Economics of Global Energy Security • Energy Myths and a Brief History of Energy • The Economics of Energy and Climate Change • Where Do We Go from Here? • The Future of Energy Based on Technological Innovation • Summary Advance Information BIOENGINEERING IN WOUND HEALING A Systems Approach

Edited by Martin L Yarmush (Rutgers University, USA & Harvard Medical School, USA) & Alexander Golberg (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2016 • Comprehensive coverage of wound healing for bioengineers and scientists Binding: Hardcover • Contributors are leaders in wound healing research and technology ISBN: 978-981-3144-57-6 • First-of-its-kind: An introductory book on wound healing for bioengineers • Multidisciplinary approach: Covers topics on medicine, biology, psychology, and Price: £112 engineering Page Extent: 350pp Type: Review Volume Description: Main Subject: Life Sciences / What is a wound, how does it heal, and how can we prevent scarring? The concept of wound Biology healing has puzzled humans even before the advent of modern medicine. Sub-subjects: Bioengineering | In this new, exciting and interdisciplinary book, its contributors address multiple questions Biomedical Engineering | Surgery related to the anatomy, biology, and metabolism of wound healing, and discuss cutting-edge | Dermatology bioengineering tools that diagnose and treat wounds. BIC: MQW BISAC: TEC059000; MED017000; In recent years, bioengineering has tackled the problems of cancer, tissue engineering and MED005000 molecular manufacturing. The broad spectrum of technologies developed in these fields Keywords: Bioengineering; could potentially transform the wound care practice. However, entering the world of wound Wound Healing; Anatomy; healing research is challenging — a broad spectrum of knowledge is required to understand Imaging; Technology; Wounds; wounds and improve healing. Fundamentals; Introductions This book provides an essential introduction of the field of wound healing to bioengineers Imprint: World Scientific and scientists outside the field of medicine. Written by leading researchers from various Publishing Company fields, this book is a comprehensive primer that gives readers a holistic understanding of the Readership: Bioengineers, field of wound biology, diagnostics and treatment technologies. scientists, researchers and graduate students outside the field of medicine. Contents: • Dedications • Introduction from Editors (Alexander Golberg & Martin Yarmush) • Scarless Tissue Regeneration (Alexander Golberg) • Anatomy of the Skin and Wound Healing (Amit Sharma, Labib R Zakka & Martin C Mihm Jr.) • Developmental Biology of Skin Wound Healing: On Pathways and Genes Controlling Regeneration versus Scarring (Sarah Susan Kelangi and Marianna Bei) • Deprived and Enriched Environments: How Sensory Stimulation Affects Wound Healing (Jonathan G Fricchione & John B Levine) • Nutrition, Metabolism and Wound Healing Process (Yong-Ming Yu & Alan J Fischman) • Models of Ischemic and Vascular Wounds (Michael T Watkins & Hassan Albadawi) • Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography for Imaging of Wound Repair (Martin Villiger & Brett Bouma) • Functional Imaging of oundW Metabolism (Vasily Belov, Jake Jones & Kyle P Quinn) • Functional Skin Substitutes — The Intersection of Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials (Kevin Dooley, Julie Devalliere & Basak Uygun) • Biomaterial-Based Systems for Pharmacologic Treatment of Wound Repair (Mara A Pop, Julia B Sun & Benjamin D Almquist) • Laser Tissue Welding in Wound Healing and Surgical Repair (Russell Urie, Tanner Flake & Kaushal Rege) • Bioprinting for Wound Healing Applications (Aleksander Skardal, Sean Murphy, Anthony Atala & Shay Soker) • Electroporation Applications in Wound Healing (Laure Gibot, Tadej Kotnik & Alexander Golberg) Advance Information COMPUTATIONAL CHEMOTAXIS MODELS FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE By William E Schiesser (Lehigh University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The mathematical model presented in this book, based on partial differential equations Binding: Hardcover (PDEs) describing attractant-repellent chemotaxis, is offered for a quantitative analysis ISBN: 978-981-3207-45-5 of neurodegenerative disease (ND), e.g., Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The model isa representation of basic phenomena (mechanisms) for diffusive transport and biochemical Price: £98 kinetics that provides the spatiotemporal distribution of components which could explain Binding: Softcover the evolution of ND, and is offered with the intended purpose of providing a small step ISBN: 978-981-3208-91-9 toward the understanding, and possible treatment of ND. Price: £56 The format and emphasis of the presentation is based on the following elements: Page Extent: 230pp • A statement of the PDE system, including initial conditions (ICs), boundary conditions Type: Textbook (BCs) and the model parameters. Main Subject: Life Sciences/ • Algorithms for the calculation of numerical solutions of the PDE system with a minimum Biology of mathematical formality. Sub-subjects: Biomedical • A set of R routines for the calculation of numerical solutions, including a detailed Sciences; Bioengineering; explanation of all of the sections of the code. The R routines can be executed after a General Applied Mathematics; straightforward download of R, an open-source scientific computing system available Numerical Analysis; Software from the Internet. Engineering/Programming • Presentation of the numerical solutions, particularly in graphical (plotted) formatto enhance the visualization of the solution. BIC: MQW • Summary and conclusions concerning the principal results from the model that might BISAC: TEC059000; MAT003000; serve as the basis for a next step in the modeling of ND. MAT041000 Keywords: Neurodegenerative In other words, a methodology for numerical PDE modeling is presented that is flexible, Disease; Chemotaxis; open ended and readily implemented on modest computers. If the reader is interested in an Mathematical Model; Partial alternate model, it might possibly be implemented by: (1) modifying and/or extending the Differential Equations; Computer current model (for example, by adding terms to the PDEs or adding additional PDEs), or (2) Code using the reported routines as a prototype for the model of interest. Readership: Biologists, medical researchers and clinicians, These suggestions illustrate an important feature of computer-based modeling, that is, the biophysicists, biochemists, readily available procedure of numerically experimenting with a model. The current model is engineers and applied offered as only a first step toward the resolution of this urgent medical problem. mathematicians Author: Imprint: World Scientific William E Schiesser, PhD, ScD (Hon.), is Emeritus McCann Professor of Biomolecular and Publishing Company Chemical Engineering and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. His research interests include numerical software, ordinary, differential algebraic, partial differential equations and computational mathematics. Dr Schiesser is the author or co-author of seventeen books, including An Introductory Global CO2 Model (with A J McHugh and G W Griffiths) published by World Scientific. Contents: • Introduction • 3-PDE Chemotaxis Model • R Routines • Model Output • Model Variants • Extensions and Conclusions Advance Information NEUROPROSTHETICS Theory and Practice 2nd Edition

Edited by Kenneth Horch & Daryl Kipke (both of University of Utah, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Comprehensive scope Binding: Hardcover • Updated and new material to supplement previous edition ISBN: 978-981-3207-14-1 • Authors are well-known leaders in their field Price: £164 Description: This is an updated and abridged edition of the original volume published in 2004. Like its Page Extent: 900pp predecessor it is targeted for students of bioengineering, biomedical engineering, applied Type: Review Volume physiology, biological cybernetics and related fields; for engineers and scientists who have Main Subject: Life Sciences/ an interest in neuroprosthetics; and for medical practitioners using products of that field. Biology Sub-subjects: Bioengineering; The practice of neuroprosthetics requires a fundamental understanding of the anatomy Biomedical Engineering; and physiology of the nervous system, mathematical neurobiology, material science, Neurobiology/Neuroanatomy; electrochemistry, and electrophysiology. The text assumes some familiarity with basic Neurology/Neuroscience; anatomy, physiology, calculus, electrophysiology and bioinstrumentation, which typically are Human Physiology; Orthopaedics covered in undergraduate and first year graduate bioengineering curricula. These areas are (+Plastic Surgery)/Biomechanics also reviewed here, with the aim of consolidating principles fundamental to understanding the field. With that as background, the book then presents an overview of the field with BIC: MQW detailed emphasis in selected areas of neural interfaces and neuroprostheses. The covered BISAC: TEC059000; SCI089000; topics provide readers with sufficient information to understand the theory, rationale, design, MED077000 and functioning of neuroprosthetic devices currently in clinical use and under development. Keywords: Bioengineering; Neuroprosthetics The current volume is shorter than its predecessor. This has been achieved by reducing some Readership: Graduate students, of the repetition present in certain chapters of the earlier edition and eliminating a few academics, researchers chapters whose topics are now well covered in review literature readily available on the and clinicians in biomedical internet and elsewhere. Two chapters have been retained in their original versions to provide engineering/bioengineering, important background material, but the remaining chapters have either been revised by neurobiology, neurology/ their original authors or replaced by new versions written by different authors. In addition neuroscience and human new topics have been added to the section on existing systems. physiology Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: Series on Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Contents: • Neuroanatomy and Physiology • Stimulation and Recording • Existing Systems • Future Systems • Regulatory Advance Information SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS AND RODS FOR IN VIVO IMAGING AND CANCER PHOTOTHERAPY By Maoquan Chu (Tongji University, China)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • A comprehensive discussion on how quantum dots (QDs) and quantum rods (QRs) are Binding: Hardcover applied to cancer therapy and diagnosis ISBN: 978-981-3142-88-6 • First book of its kind Price: £106 Description: Cancer is fast becoming one of the main causes of death worldwide. Unfortunately many cases Page Extent: 350pp are diagnosed at an advanced incurable stage, and these lives are usually lost. Early diagnosis Type: Monograph and treatment are very important for increasing disease curability. In recent years, novel Main Subject: Life Sciences/ techniques for cancer diagnosis and therapy have been developed, and nanobiomedicine Biology appears to show the most promising results. Sub-subjects: Bioengineering; Nanomedicine; The application of nanotechnology to biology and medicine in cancer diagnosis is termed Nanobiotechnology; nanobiomedicine. Nanoparticles 1–100 nm in size usually have unique physical and/or Nanobiotechnology; chemical properties, and this has attracted great attention in the cancer research. Preparation Nanomedicine; Biomedical and biomedical applications of the nanoparticles are key components in nanobiomedicine. Sciences Semiconductor nanocrystals, including quantum dots (QDs) and quantum rods (QRs), have been extensively investigated for drug delivery, biomedical imaging and tumor target therapy. BIC: MQW BISAC: TEC027000; TEC059000; In Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Rods for In Vivo Imaging and Cancer Phototherapy, MED062000 the QD and QR optical properties, sentinel lymph node mapping, in vivo tumor target Keywords: Quantum Dots; imaging, self-illuminating QDs for in vivo imaging, in vivo cancer photothermal therapy and Quantum Rods; Photothermal photodynamic therapy, QD-graphene nanosheet, and QD-magnetic hybrid nanocomposites Therapy; Photodynamic Therapy; for bioimaging and cancer therapy are discussed. This book may interest under- and Cancer Diagnosis; Cancer postgraduate students in the field of bioengineering (especially cancer phototherapy) and Treatment medical professions alike. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students in bioengineering and with a particular interest in cancer phototherapy. It may also interest technical non-specialists Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Preface • Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping through In Vivo Fluorescent Imaging • Semiconductor Quantum Dots for In Vivo Tumor-targeted Imaging • Self-illuminating Quantum Dots for In Vivo Imaging • Semiconductor Quantum Rods with Bright Fluorescence and Slow Bleaching Kinetics for Cell Labeling and In Vivo Imaging • Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Photodynamic Cancer Therapy • Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Photothermal Cancer Therapy • Semiconductor Quantum Dot-tagged Graphene Nanosheets for Bioimaging and Cancer Bimode Therapy • Magnetic Quantum Dot Hybrid Nanocomposites for Multimodal Cancer Imaging and Therapy Advance Information

THE WORLD SCIENTIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NANOMEDICINE AND BIOENGINEERING II Bioimplants, Regenerative Medicine, and Nano-Cancer Diagnosis and Phototherapy (A 3-Volume Set)

Editor-in-chief: Donglu Shi (University of Cincinnati, USA) Edited by Maoquan Chu (Tongji University, China) & Jiang Chang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Key Features: • Covers new materials, including biodegradable and highly photothermal types, most Pub Date: May 2017 suitable for cancer therapy and other medical applications Binding: Hardcover • Discusses recent stem cell research involving many key areas such as neuron repair • Focuses on recently developed nano technologies, which enable extremely low levels of ISBN: 978-981-4667-58-6 viral and cancer cells to be detected. These apparatuses are also portable, making the Price: £730 £647 technologies much more viable clinically and individually Introductory Price available till Jul 31, 2017 Page Extent: 900pp Description: This two-part multivolume set provides a comprehensive overview of current achievements Type: Handbook in biomedical applications o f nanotechnology, i ncluding stem c ell b ased regenerative Main Subject: Life Sciences/ medicine, medical imaging, cell targeting, drug delivery, and photothermal/photodynamic Biology cancer therapy. New approaches in early cancer diagnosis and treatment are introduced with Sub-subjects: Biochemistry/ extensive experimental results. In particular, some novel materials have been synthesized Biological Chemistry; Biological with new properties that are most effective in cancer therapy. Some of the key issues are Chemistry; Materials Chemistry/ also addressed with these recent discoveries such as bio safety and bio degradability, that Nanochemistry; Polymer are essential in the success of nano medicine. Chemistry; Pattern Recognition/ Image Analysis; Nuclear An important aspect of this book set is the introduction of nanotechnology to the medical Medicine/Radiology/Medical communities that are searching for new treatments of cancer. It may also break the barriers Imaging; Nanobiotechnology; between the physical and medical sciences so that more MDs will be able to appreciate the Nanomedicine new discoveries and establishments in medical diagnosis and therapy that will allow the BIC: PSB effective handling of major clinical issues. BISAC: TEC059000; SCI013010; This major reference publication will be important as the field of nanomedicine has been SCI007000 rapidly developing with a great deal of new information. It is anticipated that the research Keywords: Photodynamic will soon advance into the pre-clinical stage. Therefore, this reference set can serve as Cancer Therapy; Tissue valuable background information for future clinical studies. Regeneration; Biomedical Imaging; Biosensors; Stem Cells Editor-in-chief: Readership: University students Dr Donglu Shi is currently the Chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program and researchers from diversified at the University of Cincinnati. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Nano LIFE, backgrounds such as physics, and Associate Editor of Materials Science & Engineering: C, and J. of Nanomaterials. He has materials science, engineering, won the Distinguished Engineering Researcher Award, the SIGMA XI Research Recognition and chemistry. Both Award, Honor Roll Professor Award, and Neil Wandmecher Teaching Award. Donglu undergraduate and graduate Shi’s main interests include nanostructure design and characterization, nanomedicine, and students will find it a valuable nano effects on biological processes. The most recent works on nano-biomedicine reference book pioneer some novel approaches in developing multifunctional nano carrier systems for Imprint: World Scientific early cancer diagnosis and therapy. Based on new designs of nanostructures, these Publishing Company methods have enabled successful cell targeting for tumor therapy, optical imaging by Series: Frontiers in quantum dots, phototherapy of cancer, and drug/gene delivery by intelligent triggering Nanobiomedical Research - mechanisms. Volume 9 Contents: • Introduction to Nanomaterials • Nanomaterials Development and Synthesis • Bio/Physical/Chemical Properties, Structures, and Defects Characterization • Applications in Biomedicine • Newly Developed Nanotechnologies and Fundamental New Concepts • Medical Practical Applications: Early Cancer Diagnosis, Photothermal/Photodynamic Cancer Therapy, Cell Targeting, Intelligent Drug Delivery, and Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Advance Information A GRADUATE COURSE IN ALGEBRA (In 2 Volumes)

By Ioannis Farmakis & Martin Moskowitz (both of City University of New York, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This comprehensive two-volume book deals with algebra, broadly conceived. Volume 1 Binding: Hardcover (Chapters 1–6) comprises material for a first year graduate course in algebra, offering the ISBN: 978-981-3142-60-2 instructor a number of options in designing such a course. Volume 1, provides aswell all essential material that students need to prepare for the qualifying exam in algebra at Price: £148 most American and European universities. Volume 2 (Chapters 7–13) forms the basis for Binding: Softcover a second year graduate course in topics in algebra. As the table of contents shows, that ISBN: 978-981-3142-61-9 volume provides ample material accommodating a variety of topics that may be included Price: £81 in a second year course. To facilitate matters for the reader, there is a chart showing the interdependence of the chapters. Page Extent: 700pp Volumes also available to purchase individually Type: Textbook Main Subject: Mathematics Sub-subjects: Group Theory and Generalizations; Fields and Rings; Associative & Nonassociative Rings and Algebra; Functional Analysis; Linear and Multilinear Algebra/Matrix Theory BIC: PBF BISAC: MAT002010; MAT002000; MAT002050 Keywords: Graduate Course; Qualifying Exam; Algebra Readership: Graduate students and researchers in Algebra and related areas Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Volume 1: • Introduction and Fundamentals • Groups • Further Topics in Group Theory • Vector Spaces • Inner Product Spaces • Rings, Fields and Algebras • Modules • Volume 2: • Multilinear Algebra • Symplectic Geometry • Commutative Algebra • Valuations and p-adic Numbers • Galois Theory • Representations of Finite Groups • Representations of Associative Algebras Advance Information DIVERSIFYING MATHEMATICS TEACHING Advanced Educational Content and Methods for Prospective Elementary Teachers

By Sergei Abramovich (State University of New York at Potsdam, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The ideas of the book were developed by the author through teaching elementary Binding: Hardcover mathematics content and methods to teacher candidates of the United States and ISBN: 978-981-3206-87-8 Canada • The book demonstrates various uses of manipulative materials and the importance of Price: £81 an experimental component in the teaching of elementary mathematics Binding: Softcover • The book includes the author’s analysis of solicited reflections by teacher candidates ISBN: 978-981-3208-90-2 on the international mathematics standards and teaching ideas they experience as they Price: £40 prepare to become teachers of young children Page Extent: 300pp Description: Lecture Notes (Treat as The book is written to enhance the preparation of elementary teacher candidates by Type: Textbook) offering teaching ideas conducive to the development of deep understanding of concepts fundamental to the mathematics curriculum they are to teach. It intends to show how the Main Subject: Mathematics diversity of teaching methods stems from the knowledge of mathematics content and how Sub-subjects: Mathematics the appreciation of this diversity opens a window to the teaching of extended content. Education BIC: JNU The book includes material that the author would have shared with teacher candidates BISAC: MAT030000; EDU029010; should there have been more instructional time than a 3 credit hour master’s level course, EDU010000 “Elementary Mathematics: Content and Methods”, provides. Thus the book can supplement a basic textbook for such a course by extending content and diversifying methods. Keywords: Elementary Teachers; Mathematics Also, the book can support graduate level mathematics education programs which have Education; Classroom Discourse; problem-solving seminars/courses in their curriculum. The book is well-informed with International Standards; (available in English) the mathematical standards and recommendations for teachers from Conceptual Knowledge; Australia, Canada, Chile, England, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United States. Technology; Visualization Readership: Mathematics teachers, practicing teachers of elementary mathematics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Preface • Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Standards, Recommendations and Teacher Candidates’ Perspectives • Counting Techniques • Counting and Reasoning with Manipulative Materials • We Write What We See (W4S) Principle • Partitioning Integers into Like Summands • Hidden Curriculum of Mathematics Teacher Education • Informal Geometry • Probability as a Blend of Theory and Experiment • Using Counter-Examples in the Teaching of Elementary Mathematics • Bibliography Advance Information ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS Volume 2

By Raz Kupferman (The Hebrew University, Israel)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Offers a comprehensive exposition of elementary mathematics, accessible toboth Binding: Hardcover teachers and parents alike ISBN: 978-981-3108-92-9 • An essential asset for making better teachers • This is one of the very few books that exposes elementary school mathematics in its Price: £65 entirety, at the level needed by educators Binding: Softcover Description: ISBN: 978-981-3108-93-6 This book covers the elementary school mathematics curriculum common in most parts of the Price: £35 world. Its aim is to serve educators (teachers and parents) as a guide for teaching mathematics Page Extent: 270pp at elementary school level. The book focuses both on content knowledge and on pedagogical content knowledge. It bridges the gap between fundamental mathematical principles and Type: Study Guide good teaching practices. It also offers the reader a glimpse on how mathematicians perceive Main Subject: Mathematics elementary mathematics and presents ideas for specific mathematical activities. Sub-subjects: Mathematics Education; Popular & Volume 2 focuses on content taught in the higher grades of elementary school. It covers the Recreational Mathematics following topics: multiplication and division of multi-digit numbers, divisibility and primality, BIC: YQM divisibility signs, sequences, fractions and their representations, and fraction arithmetic. BISAC: EDU029010; MAT030000; EDU010000 Keywords: Mathematics; Pedagogy; Elementary School; Curriculum Readership: Elementary school teachers; parents of elementary school children (whether through home schooling or in public education, through PTA activity, and others) or anyone who wishes to rediscover the mathematics they studied at a young age from a more mature point of view Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company

Advance Information FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS AND INEQUALITIES Solutions and Stability Results

By John Michael Rassias (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), E Thandapani (University of Madras, India), K Ravi (Sacred Heart College, India) & B V Senthil Kumar (C Abdul Hakeem College of Engineering & Technology, India)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The coverage in the volume is broad in nature and easily attracts anyone in search of Binding: Hardcover this analytical topic ISBN: 978-981-3147-60-7 • This book begins with fundamental concepts, describes the growth of this field for the past four decades and it takes to the latest developments and findings that prevail in Price: £81 present research papers Binding: Softcover • One of the authors, John Michael Rassias, is a well-known and world-leading ISBN: 978-981-3149-97-7 mathematician in this field of functional equations Price: £40 Description: Page Extent: 340pp This volume covers the topic in functional equations in a broad sense and is written by authors who are in this field for the past 50 years. It contains the basic notions of functional Type: Textbook equations, the methods of solving functional equations, the growth of functional equations Main Subject: Mathematics in the last four decades and an extensive reference list on fundamental research papers Sub-subjects: Difference and that investigate the stability results of different types of functional equations and functional Functional Equations; Functional inequalities. This volume starts by taking the reader from the fundamental ideas to higher Analysis; Approximations and levels of results that appear in recent research papers. Its step-by-step expositions are easy Expansions; History of Science; for the reader to understand and admire the elegant results and findings on the stability of Operator Theory; Probability functional equations. Theory/Stochastic Processes; Real Functions; Statistics BIC: PBKF BISAC: MAT037000; MAT034000; MAT005000 Keywords: Functional Equations; Functional Inequalities; Mixed Type Functional Equations; Ulam Stability Problems; Stability of Functional Equations and Functional Inequalities Readership: Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers who are interested in functional equations and functional inequalities Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: Series on Concrete and Applicable Mathematics - Volume 21 Contents: • Functional Equations • Historical Development • Applications • Methods of Solving Functional Equations • General Solution of Quadratic, Cubic, Quartic, Quintic, Sextic • Mixed Type, Two-Variable, Three-Variable Functional Equations • The Ulam Stability Problem • Functional Inequalities • Generalized Ulam–Hyers Stability of Functional Equations in Felbin’s Normed Spaces • C*-Algebras, Lie C*-Algebras, Restricted Domains Advance Information INFERENCE, ASYMPTOTICS, AND APPLICATIONS Selected Papers of Ib Michael Skovgaard, with Introductions by His Colleagues

By Nancy Reid (University of Toronto, Canada) & Torben Martinussen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Provides a comprehensive look at a number of important developments in the theory Binding: Hardcover of asymptotic inference ISBN: 978-981-3207-87-5 • Provides an overview of a career that successfully combined important collaborative work in applied fields with highly advanced mathematical results Price: £106 • Serves as a model of writing style that is concise, exceptionally clear, wide-ranging and Page Extent: 360pp inspiring Type: Reprint Volume Description: Main Subject: Mathematics This book showcases the innovative research of Professor Skovgaard, by providing in one Sub-subjects: Statistics place a selection of his most important and influential papers. Introductions by colleagues BIC: PBT set in context the highlights, key achievements, and impact, of each work. BISAC: MAT029000; MAT029020; This book provides a survey of the field of asymptotic theory and inference as it was being MAT029030 pushed forward during an exceptionally fruitful time. It provides students and researchers Keywords: Likelihood Inference; with an overview of many aspects of the field. Edgeworth Expansions; Higher Order Asymptotic Theory; Theory of Statistics; Conditional Inference; Saddlepoint Approximation Readership: Graduate students and researchers Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Preface • Introduction • Edgeworth Expansions for MLE (Introduction by Rahul Mukerjee) • Asymptotic Ancillarity (Introduction by Peter McCullagh) • Multivariate Edgeworth Expansions (Introduction by John Robinson) • Saddlepoint Expansions for Conditional Distributions (Introduction by Jens Ledet Jensen) • Saddlepoint Expansions for Directional Test Probabilities (Introduction by Nicola Sartori) • A Review of Higher Order Likelihood Inference (Introduction by Nancy Reid) • Densities of Contrast Estimators (Introduction by Alessandra Salvan and Luigi Pace) • Modelling Relations Between Instrumental and Sensory Measurements (Introduction by Per Bruun Brockhoff) • An Explicit Approximation to One-Parameter Tests (Introduction by Thomas A Severini) • Modified Residuals in Non-Linear Regression (Introduction by Anthony Davison) • Likelihood Asymptotics (Introduction by Ruggero Bellio and Donald A Pierce) • Parameter Dependent Group Structure (Introduction by D A S Fraser) • Cox-Model with Time-Varying Effects (Introduction by Yanqing Sun and Seunggen Hyun) • Diffusion-Type Models with Given Marginal Distribution and Autocorrelation Function (Introduction by Helle Sørensen) • Likelihood Ratio Tests (Introduction by Nina Munkholt Jakobsen and Michael Sørensen) • NPMLE of Time-Transformed Curves (Introduction by Judith Rousseau) • Bibliography Advance Information LET US USE WHITE NOISE Edited by T Hida (Nagoya University, Japan & Meijo University, Japan) & L Streit (University of Bielefeld, Germany & University of Madeira, Portugal)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Why should we use white noise analysis? Well, one reason of course is that it fills that Binding: Hardcover earlier gap in the tool kit. As Hida would put it, white noise provides us with a useful set ISBN: 978-981-3220-93-5 of independent coordinates, parametrized by “time”. And there is a feature which makes white noise analysis extremely user-friendly. Typically the physicist — and not only he — Price: £81 sits there with some heuristic ansatz, like e.g. the famous Feynman “integral”, wondering Page Extent: 232pp whether and how this might make sense mathematically. In many cases the characterization Type: Review Volume theorem of white noise analysis provides the user with a sweet and easy answer. Feynman’s Main Subject: Mathematics “integral” can now be understood, the “It’s all in the vacuum” ansatz of Haag and Coester is now making sense via Dirichlet forms, and so on in many fields of application. There is Sub-subjects: Probability mathematical finance, there have been applications in biology, and engineering, many more Theory/Stochastic Processes; than we could collect in the present volume. Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory; Particle Physics/High Finally, there is one extra benefit: when we internalize the structures of Gaussian white Energy Physics, Quantum noise analysis we will be ready to meet another close relative. We will enjoy the important Fields; Quantum Mechanics similarities and differences which we encounter in the Poisson case, championed in particular and Quantum Information; by Y Kondratiev and his group. Let us look forward to a companion volume on the uses of Mathematical/Quantitative Poisson white noise. Finance BIC: PBWL The present volume is more than a collection of autonomous contributions. The introductory BISAC: MAT029040; SCI057000; chapter on white noise analysis was made available to the other authors early on for MAT029050 reference and to facilitate conceptual and notational coherence in their work. Keywords: White Noise; Chern– Simons Path Integral; Quantum Fields; Feynman Path Integrals Readership: Researchers in probability theory Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • White Noise Analysis: An Introduction (M J Oliveira) • Quantum Fields (S Albeverio, M Rockner and M W Yoshida) • Feynman Path Integrals (W Bock) • Local Times in White Noise Analysis (J L da Silva and M Grothaus) • White Noise Analysis and the Chern–Simons Path Integral (A Hahn) • A White Noise Approach to Insider Trading (B Oksendal and E E Rose) • Outlook of White Noise Theory (T Hida) Advance Information NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY AND PHYSICS 4 Workshop on Strings, Membranes and Topological Field Theory Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 5 – 7 March 2015

Edited by Yoshiaki Maeda (Tohoku University, Japan), Hitoshi Moriyoshi (Nagoya University, Japan), Motoko Kotani (Tohoku University, Japan) & Satoshi Watamura (Tohoku University, Japan)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The book provides comprehensive introductions to the various subjects Binding: Hardcover • The book gives the newest developments in the corresponding areas ISBN: 978-981-3144-60-6 • It describes mathematical concepts for physicists and describes physical ideas for mathematicians Price: £123 Description: Page Extent: 412pp This book is a collection of the lectures and talks presented in the Tohoku Forum for Creativity Type: Proceedings in the thematic year 2015 “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics: Strings, Black Holes Main Subject: Mathematics and Quantum Information”, and related events in the period 2014–2016. Sub-subjects: Mathematical Physics; Algebraic Geometry/ This volume especially contains an overview of recent developments in the theory of strings Algebraic Topology; Quantum and membranes, as well as topological field theory. Theory BIC: PBMW BISAC: MAT012010; SCI057000; SCI040000 Keywords: Noncomutative Geometry; Symplectic Geometry; Deformation; String Theory; Quantum Field Theory Readership: Researchers and graduate students in Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company

Advance Information THE WIGNER TRANSFORM By Maurice de Gosson (University of Vienna, Austria)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This book provides an in-depth and rigorous study of the Wigner transform and its variants. Binding: Hardcover They are presented first within a context of a general mathematical framework, and ISBN: 978-1-78634-308-6 then through applications to quantum mechanics. The Wigner transform was introduced by Eugene Wigner in 1932 as a probability quasi-distribution which allows expression of Price: £98 quantum mechanical expectation values in the same form as the averages of classical Binding: Softcover statistical mechanics. It is also used in signal processing as a transform in time-frequency ISBN: 978-1-78634-309-3 analysis, closely related to the windowed Gabor transform. Price: £48 Written for advanced-level students and professors in mathematics and mathematical Page Extent: 252pp physics, it is designed as a complete textbook course providing analysis on the most important Type: Textbook research on the subject to date. Due to the advanced nature of the content, it is also suitable Main Subject: Mathematics for research mathematicians, engineers and chemists active in the field. Sub-subjects: Quantum Theory; General Pure Mathematics; Theoretical Chemistry/Quantum Chemistry BIC: PHQ BISAC: SCI057000; SCI040000; MAT003000 Keywords: Wigner; Wigner Transform; Wigner Distribution; Quantum Mechanics; Time- frequency Analysis; Gabor Transform Readership: Advanced-level students and professors in mathematics and mathematical physics; research mathematicians, engineers and chemists active in the field Imprint: World Scientific Europe Series: Advanced Textbooks in Mathematics Contents: • General Mathematical Framework: • Phase Space Translations and Reflections • The Cross-Wigner Transform • The Cross-Ambiguity Function • Weyl Operators • Symplectic Covariance • The Moyal Identity • The Feichtinger Algebra • The Cohen Class • Gaussians and Hermite Functions • Sub-Gaussian Estimates • Applications to Quantum Mechanics: • Moyal Star Product and Twisted Convolution • Probabilistic Interpretation of the Wigner Transform • Mixed Quantum States and the Density Operator • The KLM Conditions and the Narcowich.Wigner Spectrum • Wigner Transform and Quantum Blobs • A: Sp(n) and Mp(n) • B: The Symplectic Fourier Transform • C: Symplectic Diagonalization • D: Symplectic Capacities Advance Information COMMEMORATION AND MEMORIALS IN ANATOMY Edited by Goran Štrkalj (Macquarie University, Australia) & Nalini Pather (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Pub Date: May 2017 Binding: Hardcover Description: A major component of many modern human anatomy programs is commemorating ISBN: 978-981-3143-14-2 people who have donated their body for education and research. In addition, some Price: £79 institutions have also organized memorial places to honor the body donors. This book Page Extent: 220pp is an edited volume which explores the phenomena of commemorations and memorials Type: Review Volume in anatomy. It includes both descriptive papers focusing on the content of the ceremonies and theoretical papers contextualizing and examining these within the broader ethical, Main Subject: Medicine scientific, medical and educational frameworks. Building up on the idea of a community Sub-subjects: Medical Education; of practice, the main objective of the volume is to enhance the exchange of ideas and Anatomy; Medical Law & Medical sharing of experiences. The concepts of “commemoration” and “memorial” in anatomy Ethics programs are presented as emerging. They are seen as phenomena that will continue to BIC: MFC evolve and ramify within different cultural and educational contexts, and this volume is BISAC: MED024000; expected to facilitate these processes. Indeed, meager literature on the topic indicates MED005000; MED050000 potentially enormous practical value in sharing and combining practices from different Anatomy; Medical cultural and teaching/research traditions. Keywords: Education; Science Education; Bioethics; Body Donation; Commemoration; Memorial Readership: Professional: anatomists, medical and science educators, human biologists/ biological anthropologists, forensic scientists, medical practitioners; students: medicine, allied medical disciplines, medical science, human biology, biological anthropology; secondary: bioethicists, social/ cultural anthropologists, sociologists and also segments of general public Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Introduction: Anatomy’s Human Face (G Štrkalj & N Pather) • Bioethical Aspects of Commemorations and Memorials (G Jones) • Being Human: Implications for Medicine and Education (J McClean) • Commemorating ‘For Profit’ Donors (T Champney) • Remembering the Victims of Abusive Practices in Anatomy: The Example of Nazi Germany (S Hildebrandt) • Commemoration Practices at Otago and Especially with Regard to Including Indigenous Cultures (H Nicholson & N Flack) • Reflections of Staff, Students and Donor Families on Thanksgiving Services for Donors (K Ashwell & N Pather) • The Ceremony to Honor the Body Donor as Part of an Anatomy Outreach Program in Brazil (A Oxley Da Rocha et al.) • The Curriculum of Compassion: Connecting the Students with Donor Families (E Talarico) • Tributes to the Donors and the Indignant Givers (G Louw & B Kramer) • The Kolkata Memorial Assemblage at the University of Queensland (K Stephens) • Commemorations and Memorials in Chinese Body Donation Programs (J Ding) • Anatomy Commemorations on YouTube: A Review (Yousef AbouHashem) • Attitudes Towards Donation (N Pather) • Conclusion: Towards the Future (N Pather & G Štrkalj) Advance Information

MULTI-WAVE MEDICAL IMAGING Mathematical Modelling & Imaging Reconstruction

By Habib Ammari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Josselin Garnier (Ecole Polytechnique, France), Hyeonbae Kang (Inha University, South Korea), Loc Hoang Nguyen (University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA) & Laurent Seppecher (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)

May 2017 Description: Pub Date: Super-Resolution imaging refers to modern techniques of achieving resolution Binding: Hardcover below conventional limits. This book gives a comprehensive overview of ISBN: 978-1-78634-224-9 mathematical and computational techniques used to achieve this, providing a solid Price: £131 foundation on which to develop the knowledge and skills needed for practical Page Extent: 532pp application of techniques. Split into five parts, the first looks at the mathematical and probabilistic tools needed, before moving on to description of different types of Type: Monograph imaging; single-wave, anomaly, multi-wave and spectroscopic and nanoparticle. Main Subject: Medicine Sub-subjects: Nuclear Medicine/ As an important contribution to the understanding of super-resolution techniques in Radiology/Medical Imaging; biomedical imaging, this book is a useful resource for scientists and engineers in the fields Mathematical Modeling; of biomedical imaging and super-resolution, and is self-contained reference for any Difference And Functional newcomers to these fields. Equations; Calculus Of Variations And Optimal Control/ Optimization; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Sciences BIC: MMN BISAC: MED080000; MED003070; TEC059000 Keywords: Nanoparticle Imaging; Spectroscopic Approaches; Tissue Properties; Biomedical Imaging; Super-Resolution; Multi- Wave Imaging; Scale Separation Techniques Readership: Nanoparticle Imaging; Spectroscopic Approaches; Tissue Properties; Biomedical Imaging; Super- Resolution; Multi-Wave Imaging; Scale Separation Techniques Imprint: World Scientific Europe Series: Modelling and Simulation in Medical Imaging - Volume 2 Contents: • Mathematical and Probabilistic Tools: • Basic Mathematical Concepts • Layer Potential Techniques • Probabilistic Tools • General Image Characteristics • Single-Wave Imaging: • Electrical Impedance Tomography • Ultrasound and Microwave Tomographies • Time-Harmonic Reverse-Time Imaging with Additive Noise • Reverse-Time Imaging with Clutter Noise • Optical Coherence Tomography with Clutter Noise • Anomaly Imaging: • Small Volume Expansions • Anomaly Imaging Algorithms • Multi-Wave Imaging: • Photoacoustic Imaging • Quantitative Thermoacoustic Imaging • Ultrasonically-Induced Lorentz Force Electrical Impedance Tomography • Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic Induction • Impediography • Microwave Imaging by Elastic Deformation • Ultrasound-Modulated Optical Tomography • Mechanical Vibration-Assisted Conductivity Imaging • Viscoelastic Modulus Reconstruction • Full-Field Optical Coherence Tomography • Spectroscopic and Nanoparticle Imaging: • Effective Electrical Tissue Properties • Plasmonic Nanoparticle Imaging • Nonlinear Harmonic Holography Advance Information III-NITRIDE MATERIALS, DEVICES AND NANO- STRUCTURES Edited by Zhe Chuan Feng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This is Zhe Chuan Feng’s third book on the topic of III-nitride materials, following the Binding: Hardcover original III-Nitride Semiconductor Materials (2006) and the subsequent III-Nitride Devices ISBN: 978-1-78634-318-5 and Nanoengineering (2008). The development of these materials and devices is moving so rapidly that constant updates and amendments are needed to reflect new research Price: £123 discoveries. This book covers recent innovation and achievements in the field, in particular Page Extent: 400pp those made since 2009. It focusses on engineering and materials science, as opposed to Type: Review Volume having a purely scientific approach, making it useful to material growers and evaluators, Main Subject: Nanotechnology & device design and processing engineers, postgraduate and graduate students in electrical & Nanoscience electronic engineering and materials engineering, as well as scientists. Sub-subjects: Nanomaterials And Nanostructures; Condensed Matter Physics; Materials Engineering; Nanoelectronics; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Circuits & Systems; Semiconductors & Related Areas BIC: TBN BISAC: SCI077000; SCI050000; TEC021010 Keywords: III-Nitrides; Light-Emitting Diodes; III- Nitride Devices; III-Nitride Nanostructures; III-Nitride Materials; Doping Readership: Scientists; material growers and evaluators; device design, processing engineers; postgraduate and graduate students in electrical & electronic engineering and materials engineering Imprint: World Scientific Europe Contents: • General: • Comprehensive Theoretical and Experimental Studies on III-Nitrides, Doping, Nano-Structures and LEDs (Jinmin Li, Zhiqiang liu, Xiaoyan Yi & Junxi Wang) • Waste Energy Harvesting Using III-Nitrides Materials (E Ghafari, E Witkoske, Y Liu, C Zhang, A Bukowski, X Jiang, B Kucukgok, I Ferguson & N Lu) • III-Nitrides for Infrared Optoelectronics (C B Lim, A Ajay, J Lähnemann, D A Browne & E Monroy) • GaN-Based Photodetectors (Ke Jiang, Xiaojuan Sun, Hang Song & Dabing Li) • III-Nitride Materials: • Single Crystal AlN: Growth by Modified Physical Vapor Transport and Properties (Honglei Wu & Ruisheng Zheng) • Indium-Rich III-Nitride Alloys Growth by Super-Atmospheric and Migration-Enhanced, Plasma-Assisted MOCVD and Their Properties Analysis (Yohannes Abate, Viktoriia E Babicheva, Vladislav S Yakovlev & Nikolaus Dietz) • Combined Synchrotron X-Ray Absorption and Optical Spectroscopic Studies on III-Nitrides (Yi Liang, Xiaodong Jiang, Lingyu Wan, Devki Talwar, Gu Xu & Zhe Chuan Feng) • III-Nitride Devices and Nano-Structures: • III-Nitride Nano-Structures and Improving the Luminescence Efficiency from Quantum Well LEDs (Peng Chen) • Fabrication and Characterization of Green Resonant-Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes Prepared by Wafer Transfer Technologies (Shih-Yung Huang & Ray-Hua Horng) • Nanotexturing Effects in GaN/InGaN Multi-Quantum-Wells LED Planar Structures (S J Xu) • Group III-Nitride Nanostructures for Light Emitting Devices and Beyond (Je-Hyung Kim, Young-Ho Ko & Yong- Hoon Cho) Advance Information LESSONS FROM NANOELECTRONICS A New Perspective on Transport Part A: Basic Concepts 2nd Edition

By Supriyo Datta (Purdue University, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Based on a physically insightful approach that not only conveys the key concepts of Binding: Hardcover nanoelectronics, but also their relevance to other non-equilibrium problems like heat ISBN: 978-981-3209-73-2 flow, spin flow and entropy flow • The chapters are keyed to video lectures from the online courses offered on nanoHUB-U Price: £98 and on edX Binding: Softcover • The author received the 2008 IEEE Technical Field Award for graduate teaching “for ISBN: 978-981-3209-74-9 his unique approach to quantum transport that has inspired and educated graduate Price: £40 students in the field of nanoscale electronic devices” Page Extent: 276pp Description: Lecture Notes (Treat as Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by Type: Textbook) a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms long. The same amazing technology has also led to a deeper understanding of the Main Subject: Nanotechnology & nature of current flow and heat dissipation on an atomic scale which is of broad relevance to Nanoscience the general problems of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics that pervade many different Sub-subjects: Nanoelectronics; fields. Semiconductors & Related Areas; Electrical & Electronic This book is based on a set of two online courses originally offered in 2012 on nanoHUB-U Engineering; Materials and more recently in 2015 on edX. In preparing the second edition the author decided to Engineering; Condensed Matter split it into parts A and B titled Basic Concepts and Quantum Transport respectively, along Physics the lines of the two courses. A list of available video lectures corresponding to different BIC: TBN sections of this volume is provided upfront. BISAC: TEC027000; TEC008090; TEC007000 To make these lectures accessible to anyone in any branch of science or engineering, the author assume very little background beyond linear algebra and differential equations. Keywords: Nanoelectronics; However, the author will be discussing advanced concepts that should be of interest even to Transport; Theory; Spintronics; specialists, who are encouraged to look at his earlier books for additional technical details. Thermoelectricity; Entropy; Nanotransistor Author: Readership: Students and Supriyo Datta received his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, professionals in any branch of Kharagpur in 1975 and his MS and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign science or engineering in 1977 and 1979 working on ultrasonics. Since 1985 he has focused on current flow in nanoscale electronic devices and the approach pioneered by his group for the description Imprint: World Scientific of quantum transport, combining the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism of Publishing Company many-body physics with the Landauer formalism from mesoscopic physics, has been widely Series: Lessons from adopted in the field of nanoelectronics. This work is described in his booksElectronic Transport Nanoscience: A Lecture Notes in Mesoscopic Systems (Cambridge 1995) and Quantum Transport: Atom to Transistor Series - Volume 5 (Cambridge 2005). His latest book Lessons from Nanoelectronics: A New Perspective on Transport (World Scientific 2012) makes the insights gained from nanoelectronics accessible to a broad audience irrespective of their specialization. Datta is also known for several important conceptual proposals that have subsequently been demonstrated experimentally in diverse areas including molecular electronics, negative capacitance devices, and spin electronics. Contents: • Part A: Basic Concepts: • Preface • Acknowledgments • List of Available Video Lectures • Constants Used in This Book • Some Symbols Used • Overview • What Determines the Resistance: • Why Electrons Flow • The Elastic Resistor • Ballistic and Diffusive Transport • Conductance from Fluctuation • Simple Model for Density of States: • Energy Band Model • The Nanotransistor • What and Where is the Voltage: • Diffusion Equation for Ballistic Transport • Boltzmann Equation • Electrochemical Potentials and Quasi-Fermi Levels • Hall Effect • Smart Contacts • Heat & Electricity: • Thermoelectricity • Phonon Transport • Second Law • Fuel Value of Information • Appendices: • Derivatives of Fermi and Bose Functions • Angular Averaging • Current at High Bias for Non-Degenerate Resistors • Semiclassical Dynamics • Transmission Line Parameters from BTE Advance Information DIAGNOSTICS OF LABORATORY AND ASTROPHYSICAL PLASMAS USING SPECTRAL LINESHAPES OF ONE-, TWO-, AND THREE- ELECTRON SYSTEMS By Eugene Oks (Auburn University, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Practically its entire focus is on presenting solutions for the inverse problem in spectral Binding: Hardcover lineshapes from plasmas ISBN: 978-981-4699-07-5 • This monograph significantly expands the scope of parameters of plasmas and/or fields in it that can be measured (such as, e.g., effective charge of ions, parameters Price: £113 of low-frequency electrostatic turbulence in magnetized plasmas, parameters of Page Extent: 364pp Langmuir turbulence in magnetized plasmas, parameters of transverse laser-induced Type: Monograph electromagnetic fields in plasmas) Main Subject: Physics • For some parameters, this monograph presents new, more advanced diagnostic methods than the methods covered in the previous books Sub-subjects: Electromagnetism and Plasma Physics; Astronomy, Description: Astrophysics and Cosmology The book presents an advanced tool for experimentalists using spectral lineshapes (Including Geophysics) for diagnostics of laboratory or astrophysical plasmas, and for theorists helping the BIC: PHFP experimentalists in interpreting the experimental line profiles. It significantly expands BISAC: SCI074000; SCI005000; the scope of parameters of plasmas and/or fields in it that can be measured. For some SCI055000 parameters, the book presents new, more advanced diagnostic methods than the methods covered in the previous books. Keywords: Plasma Diagnostics; Spectral Lineshapes; Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas; Turbulent and Non-Turbulent Plasmas; Inverse Problem Readership: Graduate students and researchers working on plasma physics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Non-Turbulent Plasmas: • Electron and Ion Densities • Electron Temperature • Ion Temperature • Atomic Temperature • Magnetic Field • Effective Charge of Ions • Plasmas Containing Oscillatory Electric Fields: • Low-Frequency Electrostatic Turbulence • Langmuir Turbulence • Transverse Laser-Induced Electromagnetic Fields Advance Information FREE AND INTERACTING QUANTUM FIELDS By Daniel Radu, Ioan Merches & Dorian Tatomir (all of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania)

Key Feature: Pub Date: May 2017 • In this book we present several solutions to problems connected to the quantum- Binding: Hardcover relativistic interaction of particles. Remarkably, such solutions furnished rigorous and ISBN: 978-981-3145-46-7 pertinent explanations of a large set of phenomena, both in microscopic world and universe Price: £131 Page Extent: 600pp Description: Type: Monograph (Treat as Modern physics is characterized by two great theories, which make it fundamentally different Textbook) from its predecessor: quantum theory and theory of relativity. In this book we want to bring to the reader’s attention several solutions to problems connected to the quantum-relativistic Main Subject: Physics interaction of particles. Remarkably, such solutions furnished rigorous and pertinent Sub-subjects: Quantum explanations of a large set of phenomena, both in microscopic world and galactic universe. Mechanics And Quantum Information; Astronomy, Astrophysics And Cosmology (Including Geophysics); Computational, Mathematical And Theoretical Physics BIC: PHQ BISAC: SCI057000; SCI005000; SCI040000 Keywords: Quantum Fields Readership: Researchers and graduate students in quantum field theory and theoretical physics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Preface • Introduction • Classical and Quantum Free Fields • The Gravitational Transmutations Hypothesis • Tomonaga-Schwinger Representation of Dynamics of a Quantum Physical System • Elements of Gauge Theories • The Gravitational Field Interacting with Other Fields • Interaction of Scalar, Spinorial, Vectorial, Spin-Vectorial and Tensorial Particles, and the Gravitational Field Described by the Schwarzchild Metric • Scattering of Electrons and Photogeneration of Gravitons in External Electromagnetic Fields • Interaction of Scalar, Spinorial, Vectorial, Spin-Vectorial and Tensorial Particles, with an Axially-Symmetric Gravitational Field • Software Package for Analytical Calculation of Differential Cross-Sections of Gravitational Scattering of High-Spin Particles • Appendices: • Isotropic Formalism • The Dirac Matrices and the Dirac Equation • Operatorial Transformations • Singular Functions • Integration Formulas in Momentum Space • Matrix Elements of the Field Operators and First-Order Vertices for the Gravitational Interaction of Particles • Coefficient-Functions of Differential and Integral/Total Particle Scattering Cross-Sections in External Axially- Symmetric Gravitational Field • Values of Several Physical Quantities in CGS and Natural (h = 1, c = 1) Unit Systems Advance Information INTERACTION OF MID-INFRARED PARAMETRIC WAVES IN LASER PLASMAS By Rashid Ganeev (Voronezh State University, Russia)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • There are no competing titles on these topics Binding: Hardcover • It discusses the newly emerged area of light-plasma interactions ISBN: 978-981-3208-25-4 • It discusses the advantages of using longer-wavelength laser sources in various applications Price: £98 Page Extent: 296pp Description: Type: Monograph It is interesting to analyze the application of mid-infrared (MIR, 1000–5000 nm) radiation Main Subject: Physics to study the dynamics of the nonlinear optical response of ablated molecular structures Sub-subjects: Optics and Laser compared with commonly used Ti: sapphire lasers for plasma high-order harmonic Physics; Electromagnetism and generation (HHG), including the studies of extended harmonics at a comparable conversion Plasma Physics; Interdisciplinary efficiency with shorter wavelength laser sources, and a search for new opportunities in improvement of the HHG conversion efficiency in the mid-IR range, such as the application Physics of clustered molecules. This book shows the most recent findings of various new schemes BIC: PHJL of the application of MIR pulses for HHG in laser-produced low-ionised, low-density plasma BISAC: SCI053000; SCI022000 plumes, which could be dubbed for simplicity as ‘plasma harmonics’. The use of any element Keywords: High-Order Harmonic of the periodic table, as well as thousands of complex samples that exist as solids largely Generation; Laser-Produced extends the range of materials employed, whereas only a few rare gases are typically available Plasma; Mid-Infrared Waves for gas HHG. The exploration of practically any solid-state material through the nonlinear Readership: Researchers working spectroscopy comprising laser ablation and harmonic generation can be considered asa on laser-induced plasmas or laser new tool for materials science. Thus the MIR pump based laser-ablation-induced high- applications order harmonic generation spectroscopy can be considered a new method for the study of materials and one of most important applications of plasma HHG. Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Preface • Introduction • Applications of Mid-Infrared Sources for the Studies of the High-Order Nonlinear Optical Processes in Gases • Principles of HHG in Laser-Produced Plasmas Using MIR Pulses • Resonance-Induced Enhancement of Harmonics Using Tunable MIR Radiation • Quasi-Phase-Matching in Plasmas Using Mid-Infrared Pulses • Various Applications of MIR HHG Approach in Different Plasma Plumes • Summary: Perspectives Advance Information INTRODUCTION TO EARTH SCIENCES A Physics Approach

By Luc Thomas Ikelle (Texas A&M University, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Fills a gap in Earth sciences studies and increases the access of general public to recent Binding: Hardcover advances in geophysics ISBN: 978-981-3148-41-3 • Covers climate, earthquakes, volcanoes, and energy in a single volume • Contains analytical problems as well as computational problems that include MathLab Price: £81 software developed especially for the classes associated with this book Binding: Softcover ISBN: 978-981-3148-42-0 Description: Price: £40 Geophysics is concerned with the physical processes and properties of the Earth and its surrounding environment, and with the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Page Extent: 300pp This book provides the general public, including students, faculties, and universities with Type: Textbook a comprehensive presentation of geophysics suitable for first year undergraduate classes. Main Subject: Physics The key focus is to familiarize readers with the concepts of elastic and electromagnetic wave Sub-subjects: Astronomy, propagation, which are central to geophysical studies. Elastic waves and electromagnetic Astrophysics and Cosmology waves are two important ways that energy is transported in the world around us. These (Including Geophysics); Energy important concepts are presented through examples giving readers a more comprehensive Studies/Research understanding of geophysics and what geophysicists do. Special focus is on earthquakes, volcanoes, energy resources, and climate which are the present and future challenges of BIC: PH our times. BISAC: SCI032000; SCI005000; SCI024000 Keywords: Geophysics; Earthquakes; Volcanoes; Climate; Energy; Elastic Waves; Electromagnetic Waves; Oil; Gas; Biomass; Wind Energy; Solar Energy; Nuclear Energy; Landslides; Hurricanes; Droughts; Heat Waves; Greenhouse Gases Readership: Undergraduate students in geophysics and related subject areas Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • A View of Earth (including the Atmosphere, the Hydrosphere, the Lithosphere) • Seismic Waves and Evidences of Earth’s Interior Structure • Earthquakes and Volcanoes • Tectonic Plate Theory • Climate, Heat, and Electromagnetic Radiation • Energy-Balance Equations and Greenhouse Effect • Climate Forcings • Energy Production and Consumption • Source Rocks and Seismology • Exploration, Production, and Monitoring • Analytical and Computational Problems Advance Information THE LANGEVIN EQUATION With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering 4th Edition

By William T Coffey (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) & Yuri P Kalmykov (Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France)

Reviews of the Previous Edition: “This book is devoted to a detailed presentation o f Langevin’s i dea a nd d oes t his almost perfectly. Successive topics considered in this book are presented in a detailed manner giving the general impression that this book is a comprehensive compendium of knowledge. This book should be a very valuable addition to libraries of many experienced scientists and also beginners (e.g., students) presenting solutions of many stochastic phenomena.” Pub Date: May 2017 Zentralblatt MATH Binding: Hardcover “I found this book a valuable addition to my library. It will be of interest to researchers and ISBN: 978-981-3221-99-4 advanced students and the material could be used as the text for a course for advanced Price: £164 undergraduates and graduate students.” Irwin Oppenheim Page Extent: 928pp MIT Type: Monograph (Treat as Textbook) Key Features: • This volume is the fourth edition of the first elementary book on the Langevin equation Main Subject: Physics method for the solution of problems involving the translational and rotational Brownian Sub-subjects: Particle Physics / motion in a potential with particular emphasis on modern applications in the natural High Energy Physics, Quantum sciences, electrical engineering, etc. Fields; Nuclear Physics; • It has been extensively enlarged to cover in a reasonably succinct manner using a Computational, Mathematical synergetic approach a number of new topics such as anomalous diffusion, continuous and Theoretical Physics time random walks, stochastic resonance, nanomagnetism, magnetic resonance BIC: PHP imaging, spintronics, etc. which are of major current interest in view of the large number BISAC: SCI051000; SCI057000; of disparate systems which exhibit these phenomena SCI040000 • The book is written in a manner such that all the material should be accessible to an Keywords: Statistical Physics, advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate student Complexity and Nonlinear Description: Dynamical Systems (Including Our original objective in writing this book was to demonstrate how the concept of Heat and Thermodynamics); the equation of motion of a Brownian particle — the Langevin equation or Atomic and Molecular Physics; Newtonian-like evolution equation of the random phase space variables describing the Condensed Matter Physics; motion — first formulated by Langevin in 1908 — so making him inter alia the founder Computational Nanoscience; of the subject of stochastic differential equations, may be extended to solve the Complex Systems nonlinear problems arising from the Brownian motion in a potential. Such problems appear Readership: Advanced under various guises in many diverse applications in physics, chemistry, biology, electrical undergraduates, postgraduates, engineering, etc. However, they have been invariably treated (following the original academics and researchers in approach of Einstein and Smoluchowski) via the Fokker–Planck equation for the statistical physics, condensed evolution of the probability density function in phase space. Thus the more simple matter physics and magnetism, direct dynamical approach of Langevin which we use and extend here, has been virtually chemical physics, theoretical ignored as far as the Brownian motion in a potential is concerned. In addition two other chemistry and applied considerations have driven us to write this new edition of The Langevin Equation. mathematics Several chapters appearing in the third edition have been rewritten so as to provide a Imprint: World Scientific more direct appeal to the particular community involved and at the same time to Publishing Company emphasize via a synergetic approach how seemingly unrelated physical problems all Series: World Scientific Series in involving random noise may be described using virtually identical mathematical Contemporary Chemical Physics methods. Secondly, many new and exciting developments have occurred in the application of the Langevin equation to Brownian motion. Consequently, in order to accommodate all these, a very large amount of new material has been added so as to present a comprehensive overview of the subject. Contents: • Historical Background and Introductory Concepts • Methods for Solving Langevin and Fokker–Planck Equations • Matrix Continued Fractions • Escape Rate Theory • Linear and Nonlinear Response Theory • Brownian Motion of a Free Particle and a Harmonic Oscillator • Rotational Brownian Motion about a Fixed axis in a Periodic Potential • Brownian Motion in a Tilted Periodic Potential: Application to the Josephson Tunnelling Junction and Ring Lasers • Brownian Motion in a Double-Well Potential • Isotropic and Anisotropic Rotational Brownian Motion in Space in the Presence of an External Potential with Applications to Dielectric and Kerr Effect Relaxation in Fluids and Liquid Crystals • Brownian Motion of Classical Spins with Applications to Superparamagnetism • Spin-Transfer Torque Effects • Magnetic Stochastic Resonance • Dynamic Hysteresis • Switching Field Surfaces • Inertial Langevin Equations with Applications to Orientational Relaxation in Liquids • Itinerant Oscillator Model • Anomalous Diffusion • Continuous Time Random Walks • Methods for the Solution of Fractional Fokker–Planck Equations Advance Information LIGHT AND VACUUM The Wave–Particle Nature of the Light and the Quantum Vacuum. Electromagnetic Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics Beyond the Standard Model 2nd Edition

By Constantin Meis (Institute for Nuclear Science &T echnology, France)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 Light and Vacuum presents a synthesis of selected fundamental topics of Binding: Hardcover electromagnetic wave theory and quantum electrodynamics (QED) and analyzes the ISBN: 978-981-3209-94-7 main theoretical difficulties encountered to ensure a coherent mathematical description of the simultaneous wave–particle nature of light, put in evidence by the experiments. The Price: £73 notion and the role of the quantum vacuum, strongly related to light, are extensively Page Extent: 164pp investigated. Type: Lecture Notes Main Subject: Physics Classical electrodynamics issued from Maxwell’s equations revealed the necessity of introducing the notion of volume for an electromagnetic wave to stand entailing precise Sub-subjects: Quantum values of cut-off wavelengths to account for the shape and dimensions of the surrounding Mechanics and Quantum space. Conversely, in QED, light is considered to be composed of point particles Information disregarding the conceptual question on how the frequency of oscillating electric and BIC: PHQ magnetic fields may be attributed to a point particle. BISAC: SCI057000; SCI022000; SCI053000 To conciliate these concepts, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the author’s Keywords: Light; Electromagnetic work, including innovative contributions on the quantization of the vector potential Field; Second Quantization; amplitude at a single photon state, the non-local simultaneous wave–particle Photons; Electrons; Quantum mathematical representation of the photon and finally the quantum vacuum. The purpose Vacuum of the advanced elaborations is to raise questions, give hints and answers, and finally aspire for further theoretical and experimental studies in order to improve our knowledge Readership: This book is and understanding on the real essence of Light and Vacuum. recommended for advanced postgraduate students and In this new edition, the bibliography has been widely enriched. Improvements have researchers who are interested been made to the various chapters, taking into account the actual status of the knowledge in Quantum Mechanics and in this field. Electrodynamics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Historical Background and Introductory Concepts • Methods for Solving Langevin and Fokker–Planck Equations • Matrix Continued Fractions • Escape Rate Theory • Linear and Nonlinear Response Theory • Brownian Motion of a Free Particle and a Harmonic Oscillator • Rotational Brownian Motion about a Fixed axis in a Periodic Potential • Brownian Motion in a Tilted Periodic Potential: Application to the Josephson Tunnelling Junction and Ring Lasers • Brownian Motion in a Double-Well Potential • Isotropic and Anisotropic Rotational Brownian Motion in Space in the Presence of an External Potential with Applications to Dielectric and Kerr Effect Relaxation in Fluids and Liquid Crystals • Brownian Motion of Classical Spins with Applications to Superparamagnetism • Spin-Transfer Torque Effects • Magnetic Stochastic Resonance • Dynamic Hysteresis • Switching Field Surfaces • Inertial Langevin Equations with Applications to Orientational Relaxation in Liquids • Itinerant Oscillator Model • Anomalous Diffusion • Continuous Time Random Walks • Methods for the Solution of Fractional Fokker–Planck Equations Advance Information LOOP QUANTUM GRAVITY The First 30 Years

Edited by Abhay Ashtekar (Pennsylvania State University, USA), Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This volume presents a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in loop quantum gravity from the Binding: Hardcover perspective of younger leading researchers. It takes the reader from the basics to recent ISBN: 978-981-3209-92-3 advances, thereby bridging an important gap. Price: £81 The aim is two-fold — to provide a contemporary introduction to the entire field for students Binding: Softcover and post-docs, and to present an overview of the current status for more senior researchers. ISBN: 978-981-3209-93-0 The contributions include the latest developments that are not discussed in existing books, Price: £48 particularly recent advances in quantum dynamics both in the Hamiltonian and sum over histories approaches; and applications to cosmology of the early universe and to the Page Extent: 320pp quantum aspects of black holes. Type: Review Volume Main Subject: Physics Sub-subjects: Computational, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (Including Geophysics) BIC: PH BISAC: SCI015000; SCI005000; SCI040000 Keywords: Loop Quantum Gravity; Quantum Geometry; Hamiltonian Framework; Spin Foams; Group Field Theory; Continuum Limit; Loop Quantum Cosmology; Quantum Black Holes Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics interested in theoretical physics and cosmology Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Series: 100 Years of General Relativity: Volume 4 Contents: • Introduction: • An Overview (Abhay Ashtekar and Jorge Pullin) • Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity: • Quantum Geometry (Kristina Giesel) • Quantum Dynamics (Alok Laddha and Madhavan Varadarajan) • Spinfoam Gravity (Eugenio Bianchi) • Group Field Theory (Daniele Oriti) • The Continuum Limit: A Framework for Solving the Theory (Bianca Dittrich) • Applications of Loop Quantum Gravity: • Loop Quantum Cosmology (Ivan Agullo and Parampreet Singh) • Quantum Geometry and Black Holes (J Fernando Barbero G and Alejandro Perez) • Loop Quantum Gravity and Observations (Aurélien Barrau and Julien Grain) Advance Information MATHEMATICS FOR PHYSICISTS By Huaiyu Wang (Tsinghua University, China)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Number theory and its applications in physics, not introduced by any other textbook; Binding: Hardcover Non-Euclid space, the Schrodinger equation and Maxwell equations in de Sitter ISBN: 978-981-3146-48-8 spacetime are solved, which are the newest results • A systematical introduction of Dirac delta function, not seen in any other textbook of Price: £100 the same kind Binding: Softcover ISBN: 978-981-3148-00-0 Description: Price: £56 This book covers the necessary aspects of mathematics for graduate students in physics and engineering. Advanced undergraduate students and researchers who intend to enter Page Extent: 550pp the field of theoretical physics can also pick up this book. The first eight chapters include Type: Textbook variational method, Hilbert space and operators, ordinary linear differential equations, Main Subject: Physics Bessel functions, Dirac delta function, the Green’s function in mathematical physics, norm, Sub-subjects: General Physics integral equations. Beside these traditional contents, the last two chapters introduce some (Popular Reading) recent achievements of scientific research while presenting their mathematical background. Like the basis of number theory and its application in physics, material science and other BIC: PH scientific fields, the fundamental equations in spaces with arbitrary dimensions, not limited BISAC: SCI055000; SCI000000 to Euclid space; Pseudo spherical coordinates. Plain terminologies were used to present the Keywords: Variational Method; concept of metric, as well as new and interesting work on the Klein-Gorden equation and Hilbert Space; Ordinary Linear Maxwell equation. Differential Equation; Bessel Function; Dirac Delta Function; Green Function; Number Theory; De Sitter Space Readership: University teaching assistants in physics courses, physics educators and curriculum officials Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • The Theories of Variational Method, of Hilbert Space and Operators, of Ordinary Linear Differential Equations, of Bessel Functions, of Dirac Delta Function, of the Green’s Function in Mathematical Physics, of Norm, of Integral Equations • The Application of Number Theory in Physics • The Basic Equations in Multidimensional Spaces and Non-Euclid Spaces Advance Information MEMORIAL VOLUME ON ABDUS SALAM’A 90TH BIRTHDAY

Edited by Lars Brink (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Michael Duff (Imperial College London, UK) & Kok Khoo Phua (NTU, Singapore)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 In honor of one of the most prolific and exciting scientists of the second half of the Binding: Hardcover last century, a memorial meeting was organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies at ISBN: 978-981-3144-86-6 Nanyang Technological University for Professor Abdus Salam’s 90th Birthday in January 2016. Price: £106 Page Extent: 540pp Salam believed that “scientific thought is the common heritage of all mankind” and Type: Review Volume that the developing world should play its part, not merely by importing technology but by Main Subject: Physics being the arbiter of its own scientific destiny. That belief saw him rise from humble beginnings in a village in Pakistan to become one of the world’s most original and Sub-subjects: Particle Physics/ influential particle physicists, culminating in the 1979 Nobel Prize (shared with Glashow High Energy Physics, Quantum and Weinberg) for contributions to electroweak unification, which forms an integral part Fields; Computational, of the Standard Model. Mathematical And Theoretical Physics The book collected the papers presented at this memorable event which saw BIC: PHP many distinguished scientists participating as speakers to reflect on Prof Salam’s great BISAC: SCI051000; SCI055000 ; passion for the science and achievements. SCI040000 Keywords: Abdus Salam; Pakistani Nobel Laureate; Standard Model; Particle Physics; High Energy Physics; Theoretical Physics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Students, researchers and academics interested in elementary particle physics Contents: • Abdus Salam at Imperial College (M J Duff) • Life With Salam (1959–1976) (Robert Delbourgo) • The Force and Gravity of Events (Robert Delbourgo) • Advantages of Unity with SU(4)-Color: Reflections Through Neutrino Oscillations, Baryogenesis and Proton Decay (Jogesh C Pati) • Abdus Salam, the Electroweak Forces, ICTP and Beyond (Antonino Zichichi) • Imagining the Future, or How the Standard ModelMay Survive the Attacks (Gerard 't Hooft) • Abdus Salam and Physics Beyond the Standard Model (Qaisar Shafi) • Abdus Salam: The Passionate, Compassionate Man and his Masterpiece the ICTP (Miguel A Virasoro) • A Brief Review of E Theory (Peter West) • Quanta of Geometry and Unification (Ali H Chamseddine) • Abdus Salam and Quadratic Curvature Gravity: Classical Solutions (K S Stelle) • ICTP: From a Dream to a Reality in 50+ Years (F Quevedo) • Salam's Dream and Dynamic Changes in Chinese Condensed Matter Physics: A Personal Perspective (Lu Yu) • Prof Abdus Salam, My Teacher and Mentor: The Role of ICTP in Africa (Francis Kofi A Allotey) • Action Principles for Hydro- and Thermo-Dynamics (Christian Fronsdal) • Is Left-Right Symmetry the Key? (Goran Senjanović) • Precision Tests of the Standard Model: Rare B-Meson Decays (Ahmed Ali) • The World of Long-Range Interactions: A Bird's Eye View (Shamik Gupta & Stefano Ruffo) • SESAME: A Personal Point of View (Eliezer Rabinovici) • The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC Part I: Emphasis on CMS (Tejinder Singh Virdee) • The Long Journey to the Higgs Boson and Beyond at the LHC Part II: Emphasis on ATLAS (Peter Jenni) • High Energy Physics, Past, Present and Future (Hirotaka Sugawara) • Chern–Simons Theories with Fundamental Matter: A Brief Review of Large N Results Including Fermi–Bose Duality and the S-matrix (Spenta R Wadia) • Lorentz Invariant CPT Breaking in the Dirac Equation (Kazuo Fujikawa) • Cosmology and Supergravity (S Ferrara, A Kehagias and A Sagnotti) • A New Look at Newton–Cartan Gravity (E A Bergshoeff and J Rosseel) • Neutrino Oscillations and Neutrino Masses (Harald Fritzsch) • Majorana Fermions in Condensed-Matter Physics (A J Leggett) • What Remains Invariant: Life Lessons from Abdus Salam (T Z Husain) • Banquet Speech at the Memorial Meeting for Abdus Salam's 90th Birthday (Ahmad Salam)

'b World Scientific II Connectinq Great Minds Advance Information NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY Current Status, Future Prospects Edited by Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware, USA), Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The editors are prominent researchers in IceCube, one of the most important neutrino Binding: Hardcover observatories ISBN: 978-981-4759-40-3 • There are contributions by researchers from various neutrino observatories around the world Price: £88 Page Extent: 225pp Description: Type: Review Volume This review volume is motivated by the recent discovery of high-energy astrophysical Main Subject: Physics neutrinos by IceCube. The aim of the book is to bring together chapters on the status of Sub-subjects: Astronomy, current and future neutrino observatories with chapters on the implications and possible Astrophysics And Cosmology interpretations of the present observations and their upper limits. Each chapter is a mini- review of one aspect of the subject by leading experts. Taken together, the chapters constitute (Including Geophysics) an up-to-date review of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and their potential sources. BIC: PG BISAC: SCI005000; SCI051000; SCI004000 Keywords: Neutrinos; Cosmic Neutrinos; Astrophysical Neutrinos Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in the field of neutrino astronomy Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Gamma Ray Bursts as Neutrino Sources • Active Galactic Nuclei as High-Energy Neutrino Sources • The Origin of IceCube’s Neutrinos: Cosmic Ray Accelerators Embedded in Star Forming Calorimeters • Galactic Neutrino Sources • Observations of Diffuse Fluxes of Cosmic Neutrinos • IceCube and Astrophysical Neutrinos: The Search for Sources • ANTARES • The Baikal Neutrino Project • Multi-Messenger Astronomy • Supernovas • The Quest for Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes • KM3NeT: Astroparticle and Oscillations Research with Cosmics in the Abyss • IceCube Gen2 • PINGU/ORCA • Radio Detection of Neutrinos Advance Information ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity (In 2 Volumes)

By Wei-Tou Ni (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • Its balanced treatment of the subject from both empirical and theoretical points of view Binding: Hardcover set • Its balanced treatment of introductory and advanced materials ISBN: 978-981-4635-12-7 • Each chapter is written by author(s) well known in its field Price: £206 Description: Page Extent: 1100pp The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of Type: Review Volume development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a Main Subject: Physics broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, Sub-subjects: Astronomy, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave Astrophysics And Cosmology detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects (Including Geophysics); of the theory: Mathematical Physics; Relativity And Gravitation • Genesis, Solutions and Energy • Empirical Foundations BIC: PG • Gravitational Waves BISAC: SCI005000; SCI015000; • Cosmology SCI061000 • Quantum Gravity Keywords: General Relativity; Gravitation; Gravitational Waves; The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume Cosmology; Quantum Gravity 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone Imprint: World Scientific reference volume for the related topic. Publishing Company Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in general relativity. Contents: • Volume 1: • Genesis, Solutions and Energy: • A Genesis of Special Relativity (Valérie Messager & Christophe Letellier) • Genesis of General Relativity: A Concise Exposition (Wei-Tou Ni) • Schwarzschild and Kerr Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equation: An Introduction (Christian Heinicke & Friederich W Hehl) • Gravitational Energy: A Covariant Hamiltonian-Gauge Theory Perspective (Jiang-Mei Chen, James Nester & Roh-Suan Tung) • Empirical Foundations: • Equivalence Principles, Spacetime Structure and the Cosmic Connection (Wei-Tou Ni) • Cosmic Polarization Rotation: An Astrophysical Test of Fundamental Physics (Sperello di Serego Alighieri) • Clock Comparison Based on Laser Ranging Technologies (Étienne Samain) • Solar-System Tests of Relativistic Gravity (Wei-Tou Ni) • Pulsars and Gravity (R N Manchester) • Gravitational Waves: • GW: Classification, Sources and Methods of Detection (K Kuroda, & W-T Ni) • Introduction to Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detectors (K Kuroda) • GW Detection in Space (Wei-Tou Ni) • Volume 2: • Cosmology: • Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (Martin Bucher) • Cosmic Structure (Marc Davis) • Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology (Toshifumi Futamase) • Cosmic Inflation (K Sato and J Yokoyama) • Inflation, String Theory and Cosmic Strings (David Chernoff & Henry Tye) • Quantum Gravity: • Perturbative Quantum Gravity Comes of Age (R Woodard) • Black Hole Thermodynamics (S Carlip) • Loop Quantum Gravity (Dah-Wei Chiou) Advance Information

World Scientific Series in Astrophysics STAR FORMATION By Mark R Krumholz (Australian National University, Australia)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • This book is comprehensive, covering both galactic and extragalactic star formation Binding: Hardcover • It follows a modern, more theoretical approach, compared to earlier books which ISBN: 978-981-3142-02-2 emphasize only on observational phenomenology • It includes numerical results from latest studies Price: £104 Binding: Softcover Description: ISBN: 978-981-3142-03-9 This book provides a modern introduction to the study of star formation, at a level suitable Price: £56 for graduate students or advanced undergraduates in astrophysics. The first third of the Page Extent: 350pp book provides a review of the observational phenomenology and then the basic physical processes that are important for star formation. The remainder then discusses the major Type: Textbook observational results and theoretical models for star formation on scales from galactic down Main Subject: Physics to planetary. The book includes recommendations for complementary reading from the Sub-subjects: Astronomy, research literature, as well as five problem sets with solutions. Astrophysics And Cosmology (Including Geophysics) BIC: PG BISAC: SCI005000; SCI004000; SCI055000 Keywords: Star Formation; Interstellar Medium; Astrophysics; Stars; Hydrodynamics; Magnetohydrodynamics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers interested in astrophysics. Contents: • Introduction and Phenomenology: • Observing the Cold Interstellar Medium • Observing Young Stars • Physical Processes: • Chemistry and Thermodynamics • Gas Flows and Turbulence • Magnetic Fields and Magnetized Turbulence • Gravitational Instability and Collapse • Stellar Feedback • Star Formation Processes and Problems: • Giant Molecular Clouds • The Star Formation Rate at Galactic Scales: Observations • The Star Formation Rate at Galactic Scales: Theory • Stellar Clustering • The Initial Mass Function: Observations • The Initial Mass Function: Theory • Massive Star Formation • Protostellar Disks and Outflows: Observations • Protostellar Disks and Outflows: Theory • Protostar Formation • Protostellar Evolution • Late-Stage Stars and Disks • The Transition to Planet Formation Advance Information STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND THE PHYSICS OF MANY-PARTICLE MODEL SYSTEMS By Alexander Leonidovich Kuzemsky (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The book is a self-contained treatise which is useful for a broad audience of students Binding: Hardcover and researchers ISBN: 978-981-3145-62-7 • The presentation and material included in the book is unique. It includes a lot of topics and techniques which are difficult to find in other sources Price: £187 • The book contains both theoretical aspects and concrete application examples Binding: Softcover ISBN: 978-981-3145-63-4 Description: Price: £75 The book is devoted to the study of the correlation effects in many-particle systems. It presents the advanced methods of quantum statistical mechanics (equilibrium and nonequilibrium), Page Extent: 1260pp and shows their effectiveness and operational ability in applications to problems of quantum Type: Monograph (Treat as solid-state theory, quantum theory of magnetism and the kinetic theory. The book includes Textbook) description of the fundamental concepts and techniques of analysis following the approach Main Subject: Physics of N N Bogoliubov’s school, including recent developments. It provides an overview that Sub-subjects: Statistical Physics, introduces the main notions of quantum many-particle physics with the emphasis on Complexity and Nonlinear concepts and models. Dynamical Systems (Including Heat and Thermodynamics); This book combines the features of textbook and research monograph. For many topics the Statistical Mechanics; Condensed aim is to start from the beginning and to guide the reader to the threshold of advanced Matter Physics; Quantum researches. Many chapters include also additional information and discuss many complex Mechanics and Quantum research areas which are not often discussed in other places. The book is useful for Information established researchers to organize and present the advanced material disseminated in the literature. The book contains also an extensive bibliography. BIC: PHS BISAC: SCI057000; SCI077000 The book serves undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers Keywords: Quantum Statistical who have had prior experience with the subject matter at a more elementary level or have Physics; Many-particle System; used other many-particle techniques. Quantum Theory of Magnetism; Condensed Matter Physics; Author: Quantum Solid State Theory; N N A L Kuzemsky is one of the leading researchers at the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Bogoliubov Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia. He published more than 200 Readership: Graduate students scientific papers, including 20 extended review papers on statistical mechanics and quantum and researchers interested in theory of solid state. the field of statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics and many-particle systems Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Probability, Information and Physics • Dynamics of Particles • Perturbation Theory • Scattering Theory • Green Functions Method in Mathematical Physics • Symmetry and Invariance • The Angular Momentum and Spin • Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics • Dynamics and Statistical Mechanics • Thermodynamic Limit in Statistical Mechanics • Maximum Entropy Principle • Band Theory and Electronic Properties of Solids • Magnetic Properties of Substances and Materials • Statistical Physics of Many-Particle Systems • Thermodynamic Green Functions • Applications of the Green Functions Method • Spin Systems and the Green Functions Method • Correlated Fermion Systems on a Lattice. Hubbard Model • Correlated Fermion Systems on a Lattice. Anderson Model • Spin-Fermion Model of Magnetism: Quasiparticle Many-Body Dynamics • Spin-Fermion Model of Magnetism: Theory of Magnetic Polaron • Quantum Protectorate and Microscopic Models of Magnetism • Quasiaverages and Symmetry Breaking • Emergence and Emergent Phenomena • Electron-Lattice Interaction in Metals and Alloys • Superconductivity in Transition Metals and their Disordered Alloys • Spectral Properties of the Generalized Spin-Fermion Models • Correlation Effects in High-Tc Superconductors and Heavy Fermion Compounds • Generalized Mean Fields and Variational Principle of Bogoliubov • Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics • Method of the Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator • Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator and Transport Equations • Applications of the Nonequilibrium Statistical Operator • Generalized Van Hove Formula for Scattering of Particles by Statistical Medium • Electronic Transport in Metallic Systems Advance Information TOPICS ON THE NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND ACOUSTICS OF ORDERED GRANULAR MEDIA

By Yuli Starosvetsky (Israel Institute of Technology — Technion, Israel), K R Jayaprakash (Indian Institute of Science, India), M Arif Hasan (UC San Diego, USA) & Alexander F Vakakis (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, USA)

Key Features: Pub Date: May 2017 • The system primarily dwells on the strongly/essentially nonlinear dynamics and acoustics Binding: Hardcover of granular media ISBN: 978-981-3221-93-2 • Analytical and numerical results have been well corroborated with experimental results • Provides a brief introduction to energy channeling mechanism in locally resonant Price: £156 structures with internal rotators Page Extent: 640pp Type: Monograph Description: This research monograph provides a brief overview of the authors’ research in the area Main Subject: Physics of ordered granular media over the last decade. The exposition covers one-dimensional Sub-subjects: Classical homogeneous and dimer chains in great detail incorporating novel analytical tools and Mechanics, Continuum Physics, experimental results supporting the analytical and numerical studies. The proposed Acoustics; Applied and Technical analytical tools have since been successfully implemented in studying two-dimensional Physics dimers, granular dimers on on-site perturbations, solitary waves in Toda lattices to name a BIC: PHD few. The second part of the monograph dwells on weakly coupled homogeneous granular BISAC: SCI001000; SCI055000; chains from analytical, numerical and experimental perspective exploring the interesting SCI003000 phenomenon of Landau–Zener tunneling in granular media. The final part of the monograph Keywords: Granular Media; provides a brief introduction to locally resonant acoustic metamaterials incorporating internal Sonic Vacua; Solitary Waves; rotators and the resulting energy channeling mechanism in unit-cells and in one- and two- Anti-Resonances; Resonances; dimensional lattices. The monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the research in Diatomic Chains; Nonlinear this interesting domain. However, this exposition is not all exhaustive with regard to equally Normal Modes (NNMs); Wave exciting research by other researchers across the globe, but we provide an exhaustive list of Propagation; Landau-Zener references for the interested readers to further explore in this direction. Tunneling; Traveling Breathers; Energy Localization; Energy Channeling; Locally Resonant Structures Readership: Professional and graduate students and researchers Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Dedication • Preface • Introduction • Acoustics of One-Dimensional Homogeneous Granular Chains • Oscillatory Dynamics of One-Dimensional Homogeneous Granular Chains • Acoustics of Periodic Diatomic (Dimer) Chains without Pre-Compression • Acoustics of Weakly Coupled Granular Chains • Wave Propagation in Two-Dimensional Granular Crystals • Acoustic Metamaterials with Locally Resonant Structure Advance Information QUANTUM FIELD THEORY By Harald Fritzsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 The matter in our universe is composed of electrons and quarks. The dynamics of electrons Binding: Hardcover and quarks is described by the Standard Model of particle physics, which is based on quantum ISBN: 978-981-3141-72-8 field theories. The general framework of quantum field theories is described in this book. After the classical mechanics and the relativistic mechanics the details of classical scalar Price: £56 fields, of electrodynamics and of quantum mechanics are discussed. Then the quantization Page Extent: 168pp of scalar fields, of spinor fields and of vector fields is described. Type: Monograph (Treat as Textbook) The basic interactions are described by gauge theories. These theories are discussed in Main Subject: Physics detail, in particular the gauge theories of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), based on the gauge group SU(3). In both theories the gauge bosons, Sub-subjects: Particle Physics / the photon and the gluons, have no mass. The gauge theory of the electroweak interactions, High Energy Physics, Quantum based on the gauge group SU(2) x U(1), describes both the electromagnetic and the weak Fields interactions. The weak force is generated by the exchange of the weak bosons. They have a BIC: PHP large mass, and one believes that these masses are generated by a spontaneous breaking of BISAC: SCI057000; SCI051000; the gauge symmetry. SCI040000 Keywords: Quantum Field It might be that the strong and the electroweak interactions are unified at very high energies Theory; Standard Model; (“Grand Unification”). The gauge groups SU(3) and SU(2) x U(1) must be subgroups of a big Quantum Electrodynamics; QED; gauge group, describing the Grand Unification. Two such theories are discussed, based on Quantum Chromodynamics; the gauge groups SU(5) and SO(10). QCD; Grand Unification; SU(5); SO(10) Readership: Graduate students and researchers interested in quantum field theory and its application in Standard Model and Grand Unification Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • Introduction • Mechanics • Classical Fields • Quantum Theory • Group Theory • Free Scalar Fields • Free Spinor Fields • Free Vector Fields • Perturbation Theory • Quantum Electrodynamics • Symmetry • Gauge Theories • Quantum Chromodynamics • Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking • Electroweak Interactions • Grand Unification Advance Information QUARKS, NUCLEI AND STARS Memorial Volume Dedicated to Gerald E Brown

Edited by Jeremy W Holt (Texas A&M University, USA), Thomas T S Kuo (Stony Brook University, USA), Kok Khoo Phua (NTU, Singapore), Mannque Rho (CEA Saclay, France) & Ismail Zahed (Stony Brook University, USA)

Description: Pub Date: May 2017 This memorial volume is dedicated to physicist Gerald E Brown (1926–2013) or ‘Gerry’ as he Binding: Hardcover was known to his many students, postdocs, colleagues and friends. As written by one of the ISBN: 978-981-3220-64-5 contributors to this book, “Gerry was an inspiring father figure for generations of theoretical nuclear physicists and a great human being”. Price: £106 Page Extent: 536pp This book covers a wide range of topics in nuclear physics, including nuclear structure, two- Type: Review Volume and three-body nuclear forces, strangeness nuclear physics, chiral symmetry, hadrons in Main Subject: Physics dense medium, hidden local symmetry, heavy quark symmetry, cosmic neutrinos, nuclear double-beta decay, neutron stars, gravitational waves, renormalization group methods, Sub-subjects: Nuclear Physics exotic nuclei, electron ion collider (EIC), and much more. Most of the authors are Gerry’s BIC: PHP former students and collaborators. BISAC: SCI051000; SCI055000 Keywords: Gerry Brown; Nuclei; We hope readers will find this book very interesting not only for its physics content but Neutron Stars; Quarks; Chiral also for the window it gives into Gerry’s personal legacy and humanity. This book has vivid Symmetry; Baryons recollections of Gerry at Stony Brook, Princeton and Copenhagen, together with his humor and his very special intuitive way of thinking. Readership: Students and researchers in nuclear and particle physics Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company Contents: • The Shapes of Nuclei (George Bertsch) • The Oxygen Isotopes (B A Brown) • Lessons on Doing Science from My Father, Gerry Brown (C Titus Brown) • Thermal Effects in Dense Matter Beyond Mean Field Theory (C Constantinou, S Lalit and M Prakash) • Core Polarization and Modern Realistic Shell-Model Hamiltonian (L Coraggio, A Covello, A Gargano and N Itaco) • Science and Status of the Electron Ion Collider (Abhay Deshpande) • Can One Measure the Cosmic Neutrino Background? (A Faessler, R Hodak, S Kovalenko and F Simkovic) • Application of the Hidden Local Symmetry in Hadron Physics (M Harada) • Partial Restoration of Chiral Symmetry in Hot and Dense Neutron MatterJ ( W Holt and K E Rockcliffe) • Compact Star Matter: EoS with New Scaling Law (K Kim, H K Lee and J Lee) • Spinodal Instabilities in Baryon-Rich Quark MatterChe ( Ming Ko and Feng Li) • Nucleon-Anti-Nucleon Intruder States of Dirac Equation for Nucleon in Deep Scalar Potential Well (T T S Kuo, T K Kuo, E Osnes and S Shu) • Neutron Stars are Gold Mines (J Lattimer) • Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star Binaries (Chang-hwan Lee) • Baryons and Chiral Symmetry (K F Liu) • Heavy Exotic Molecules (Y Liu and I Zahed) • The Nuclear Force; Meson Theory Versus Chiral Effective Field Theory (R Machleidt) • Foundations of Strangeness Nuclear Physics Derived from Chiral Effective Field Theory (Ulf G Meissner and J Haidenbauer) • Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Covariant Density Functional Theory (J Meng, L S Song and J M Yao) • Partial Conservation Law in a Schematic Single J Shell Model (W Pereira, R Garcia, L Zamick, A Escuderos and Kai Neergard) • Chiral Electroweak Currents in Nuclei (D O Riska and R Schiavilla) • In Search of a Pristine Signal for (Scale-)Chiral Symmetry in Nuclei (Mannque Rho) • Confinement, Chiral Symmetry Breaking and the Effective Quark Mass (Edward Shuryak) • Many-Body Green’s Functions in Nuclear Physics (J Speth and N Lyutorovich) • Validity of Su(3) in the 0f1p Shell (D Strottman) • Multi Regulatory Functional Renormalization Group for Many-Femion Systems (Y Tanizaki and T Hatsuda) • Spectral Functions and In-Medium Properties of Hadrons (R A Tripolt, L Von Smekal and J Wambach) • Skyrmions at High Density (V Vento) • Neutral Current Coherent Cross Sections-Implications on Detecting SN and Earth Neutrinos with Gaseous Spherical TPC’s (J D Vergados and Y Giomataris) • Permanent Electric Dipole Moments of Single-, Two- and Three-Nucleon Systems (A Wirzba, J Bsaisou and A Nogga) • Hidden Local Symmetry and Beyond (K Yamawaki)