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Connecting Great Minds Foreign Rights Spring Catalogue 2019 Contents Foreign Rights Spring Catalogue 2019 TITLE PAGE Asian Studies Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1 1 China’s Change: The Greatest Show on Earth 2 Business and Management Living Digital 2040: Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare 3 Future Automation: Changes to Lives and to Businesses 4 Tips and Tools: A Guide to Effective Case Writing 5 Chemistry Lectures on Chemical Bonding and Quantum Chemistry 5 Optical Spectroscopy 6 Fundamentals and Advanced Applications Computer Science Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications, Part I and II 6 Unlocking Consciousness: Lessons from the Convergence of Computing and Cognitive Psychology 7 Economics and Finance Capitalism in the 21st Century: Why Global Capitalism Is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed 7 Economics Gone Astray 9 Essence of International Trade Theory 11 Exotic Betting at the Racetrack 11 Introduction to Derivative Securities, Financial Markets, and Risk Management 12 Mergers & Acquisitions: A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful Deals 13 Reversing Climate Change: How Carbon Removals can Resolve Climate Change and Fix the Economy 13 Engineering Coastal Engineering: Theory and Practice 14 Tsunami: To Survive from Tsunami (2nd Edition) 14 Environmental Science Split by Sun: The Tragic History of the Sustainocene 15 The Goldilocks Policy: The Basis for a Grand Energy Bargain 15 General and Popular Science The First of Everything 16 Elegant Fractals: Automated Generation of Computer Art 16 Nobel and Lasker Laureates of Chinese Descent: In Literature and Science 17 Rocks, Radio and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific Social and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander 17 Size Really Does Matter: The Nanotechnology Revolution 18 Life Sciences Corrupt Cultures : “Fake News” and Cheating in Science 18 Nanopore Sequencing: An Introduction 19 Photosynthesis: Solar Energy for Life 19 Contents Foreign Rights Spring Catalogue 2019 TITLE PAGE Progress, Pioneers and Process : Studies in Physiology and Genetic Medicine 20 Mathematics Board Games: Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces 20 Differential Forms 21 Fractalize That!: A Visual Essay on Statistical Geometry 21 In the Search for Beauty 22 Mathematics Coach Handbook 22 Problems with a Point: Exploring Math and Computer Science 23 A Problem Solving Approach to Supporting Mathematics Instruction in Elementary School: A Guide for 23 Parents, Teachers, and Students Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math: Strategies, Curiosities, and Stories to Make Math Fun for Parents 24 and Children Paper Puzzle Book: All You Need is Paper! 24 Medicine The 21st Century Guide to Writing Articles in the Biomedical Sciences 25 Algorithms in Differential Diagnosis: How to Approach Common Presenting Complaints in Adult Patients, for 26 Medical Students and Junior Doctors An Angiology Bible 27 Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology (6th Edition) 27 Essentials of Ophthalmology: For Medical School and Beyond 28 Evidence Based Medicine and Examination Skills: Translating Theory to Practice 28 The Lung: Developmental Morphogenesis, Mechanobiology, and Stem Cells 29 Residency Interview Handbook 29 Well-Being and Well-Dying: Cancel the Cancer 30 Physics Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics 31 Future of Fusion Energy 31 Going Underground: The Science and History of Falling through the Earth 32 Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory: Foreword by David Kaiser 32 Liquidator: The Chernobyl Story 33 Love and Physics: The Peierlses 34 Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics (Revised Edition) 34 The Immense Journey: From the Birth of the Universe to the Rise of Intelligence 36 Practical Alchemy: A Memoir 36 PT Symmetry: In Quantum and Classical Physics 37 Quantum Field Theory II 37 Quantum Leaps: How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science 38 Structure and Evolution of Stars 38 Topology and Physics 39 Social Sciences DRUMS: Distortions, Rumours, Untruths, Misinformation, and Smears 40 How Working Together Matters: Adversity, Aspiration, Action 40 Editor’s Choice Asian Studies Tall Order The Goh Chok Tong Story Volume 1 By (author): Shing Huei Peh (The Nutgraf, Singapore) Goh Chok Tong was an improbable Prime Minister for an unlikely country. He had neither the connections nor the cunning to rise to the top, and was even once famously derided by his mentor Lee Kuan Yew for being “wooden” in his communication skills. Except for an imposing height most unusual in this part of the world, he was an ordinary man. He lost his father at a young age, lived in a two-bedroom public flat with his mother and four siblings and needed a government bursary to complete university. Yet somehow he succeeded. Tall Order tells the extraordinary story of his life and career over half a century, revealing how Singapore›s second Prime Minister rose through a combination of Rights Information: strength, wit and a political nous which many, including himself, did not know he had. In this first All language (except of two volumes, Goh navigated years of a challenging apprenticeship to Lee, scoring numerous Simplified Chinese and policy successes but also suffering political blows and humiliation. Traditional Chinese) rights available. He was the man who first made Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore’s national carrier, profitable, 344pp before entering politics. The stellar corporate stint was followed by his many novel policies Pub. date: Oct 2018 and institutions that have since become household names in the country: Medisave, Total 978-981-3276-04-8 Defence, Residents’ Committee and Nominated Member of Parliament. But the highlights were US$56 / £50 / SGD56 counterposed by setbacks, including overseeing the People’s Action Party’s first electoral defeat after independence at the Anson by-election. 978-981-3276-13-0(pbk) US$37 / £35 / SGD37 In the hands of acclaimed author and journalist Peh Shing Huei, this authorised biography reveals the private deliberations and negotiations between Goh and Lee before the maiden leadership transfer of independent Singapore. Tall Order is the first biography of Goh. This riveting book offers rare insights into Singapore›s biggest and most important political and economic stories. Readership: General readers. Key Features: • First biography of Singapore’s second Prime Minister, Goh Chok Tong, offering insights into his life and career • Rare private exchanges between Goh and Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, including the negotiations and discussions leading up to the country’s first leadership transfer • Illustrates how Goh Chok Tong chose a different style to govern Singapore and the challenges he faced in making a break from the past • Contains a 32-page section of photographs revealing his early childhood years till his appointment as Singapore’s second Prime Minister Foreign Rights Spring Catalogue 2019 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 1 Editor’s Choice China’s Change The Greatest Show on Earth By (author): Hugh Peyman (Research-Works, China) “Through the extraordinary array of people he has known and met over 40-years, Hugh Peyman tells the story of today’s China in a way that has never been done before.” Tony Hall Asian Studies BBC Director-General “It is rare for a foreigner to understand China from the ground up. Hugh’s advantage is that he got to understand China’s diaspora before working in China, going through the numbers at the ground level and meeting people engaged in both business and officialdom” Andrew Sheng Former Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission Rights Information: Head of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and All language (except author of From Asian to Global Financial Crisis Simplified Chinese) “Hugh Peyman knows what he is talking about. Far from seeing China through a Western prism rights available. — and consistently getting things wrong — he understands China like few others.” Martin Jacques Best-selling author of When China Rules the World 404pp Pub. date: Mar 2018 “Every time you hear the negative alarm about China, reach for China’s Change.” Ralph Layman 978-981-3231-42-9 State Street Global Advisors Vice Chairman US$78 / £69 / SGD78 “China’s Change is essential reading for any serious global investor. Get insights from the 978-981-3231-99-3(pbk) perspective of a researcher who sees things from top-down and bottom-up and who has lived in US$38 / £33 / SGD36 China for 15 years.» Ng Kok Song Former Chief Investment Officer of the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore and Adviser to PIMCO “Punctures the biggest myths about the Chinese economy, from ghost cities to shadow banks. A great read, likely to change many readers’ views on China.” Andy Rothman Matthews Asia Investment Strategist, former US diplomat and top-rated CLSA strategist “Really like the way this is going for ‘change’. China’s Change is onto something, allowing it to be philosophical economics, which is much more beguiling than straight economics, of course! Particularly drawn in by the question of ‹what is China getting right›.» James Kynge Emerging Markets Editor Financial Times and award-winning author of China Shakes The World “All travellers to China, whether on business, holiday or study, should take this book that has it all on China: history, philosophy, government, politics, business and economics.” Ho Kwon Ping Banyan Tree Resorts Founder, Singapore Management University Trustees Chairman and author of The Ocean in a Drop “A very valuable book. Makes cogent arguments, with a lot of valid, interesting and provocative statements.”