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“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 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 author of From Asian to Global Financial Crisis All language rights available.

“Hugh Peyman knows what he is talking about. Far from seeing China through a Western prism 404pp — and consistently getting things wrong — he understands China like few others.” Pub. date: Mar 2018 Martin Jacques Best-selling author of When China Rules the World 978-981-3231-42-9 US$78 / £69

“Every time you hear the negative alarm about China, reach for China’s Change.” 978-981-3231-99-3(pbk) Ralph Layman US$38 / £33 State Street Global Advisors Vice Chairman

“China’s Change is essential reading for any serious global investor. Get insights from the perspective of a researcher who sees things from top-down and bottom-up and who has lived in 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.” Ian Johnson Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Wild Grass

“Fascinating: has a flair for making the difficult to grasp and conceptualise accessible.” Mike Tsang Editor, Chatham House

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“Ahead of the curve, more visionary than most China followers and even lots of Chinese!” William Fu Anglo American Group China Chief Representative

“Brilliant. China’s Change is the book that needs to be written. Just excellent. Monumental.» Ulrik Trampe

Asian Studies Odin Capital Founder

China’s Change injects timely, original ideas into the world›s most important, if confused, debate over how to manage the twin challenges of anaemic economic growth and accelerating global disruption. Change is the cry from the US to Europe, Asia to Australasia. The snag is the West has no playbook to help. China however, to regain control of its future, has regularly reinvented itself by understanding change›s nature through traditional philosophy.

This book argues it is time to “Look at China” but stresses China’s approach to managing change only supplies the process not individual policies: the how not the what. Policies have to be created locally. In managing change, traditional thought is China’s X-Factor, the key to China’s record- breaking economic transformation. To grasp this, China’s Change provides an understanding of China›s past, present and future through its philosophy, history, economics, business, politics, prospects and impact in a way that no other book has done.

Two big global questions are answered. Can other countries, firms and individuals find paths out of their dim twilight by adapting China’s change process? Can China continue to create one-third of world growth, more than the US, EU and Japan combined, to help cure the last decade’s global economic malaise?

China’s roadmap for change enables anyone to navigate growing global disruption. Ironically China’s process is built on such ignored-in-the-West ideas as long-term thinking, clear priorities, gradualism and non-ideological pragmatism that earlier powered two centuries of Western economic dominance. If the West and rest of Asia learn from China to manage change, the next global surprise could be another turning of the tables. There is no end to history, only more turns of the wheel: for now China’s Change is again the Greatest Show on Earth.

Readership: General public interested in the social, political,economic and financial development of China as well as world affairs.

Key Features: ○ Identifying China’s understanding of change to explain China’s record-breaking economic recovery is unique; and a process that can be applied in the rest of the world

○ “Look to China” is a startling and very unconventional idea for those in the West and parts of Asia battling with slow growth, economic challenges and no clear idea how to solve current problems: yet they have looked to China before with great success

○ China’s Change weaves decades of detailed on-the-ground research and observations to correct major misconceptions such as ghost cities, shadow banking and excessive debt, while describing China›s process that makes change work

2 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Business and Management Brazen Rights Information: Big Banks, Swap Mania and the Fallout All language rights available. By (author): A K Rashad (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, news broke that big banks in the US were collecting hundreds 500pp Pub. date: Oct 2018 of billions of dollars from non-profit parties. These enormous sums represented annual settlement and termination payments for bilateral contracts known as Interest Rate Swaps (IRSs). Starting 978-981-3275-56-0 in the late 1990s, big banks targeted non-profits for massive sales of all types of such contracts. Non-profits ended up being perennial losers, eventually owing enormous sums of money to the banks for nothing received.

The effects of such monetary transfers have been disastrous — money-strapped non-profits had to dismiss schoolteachers, shut off water supply to thousands of poor households and downsize many other essential public services. For example, over 108 public school districts and 105 government agencies in the state of Pennsylvania suffered massive losses because of dealing in IRSs. Local and state governments, universities, hospitals and transit authorities from New York to San Francisco have been and are among the largest hit. Moreover, about 500 hospitals ranging from charity to large healthcare centers became victims of bank-generated swap contracts. Members of the Service Employee International Union identified the curse of IRS payments to big banks as being “Money for Nothing.”

This book discusses selective cases of the costly undertaking of many non-profits whose officials were not informed that an IRS contract has only one winner, and that big banks had no intention of being the losers. The author argues that curiously, officials of non-profits relied heavily on the banks’ self-serving representations with respect to IRS contracts. There is no evidence showing that these officials and their advisors had a good understanding of the complexities, terms and nuances of IRS contracts offered by big banks. Arguably, therefore, the contracting parties did not have equal bargaining power and thus, IRSs with non-profits should be considered unconscionable contracts. It is further arguable that the huge sums of money the banks collected for the termination of IRSs, were collected for services that have not and will never be rendered, and are therefore tantamount to unjust enrichment.

Readership: Professors, teachers and students (undergraduate and above) seeking to understand the problems with interest rate swaps; local and state-level policy makers in the U.S. and internationally; finance professionals; non-profit company administrators and members of the public.

Key Features: ○ No other book has dealt with the linkage between interest rate swaps and the financial damage that is nearly destroying the fabric of the society from education, to transit, health care and local and state governance

○ None has ever made a convincing argument that big banks do not deserve and have not earned the huge swap termination payments they have been collecting with the result of draining the cash reserves of anyone involved

○ No one has advanced the reasons for considering interest rate swaps with nonprofit organizations as unconscionable contracts either legally or morally

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 3 The Economics of Small Business An Introductory Survey By (author): Roger A McCain (Drexel University, USA)

This survey reviews research on the economics of small business, introducing key concepts for the understanding of the research, including some basic microeconomics, distribution functions, and concepts of entrepreneurship. Accessible to readers with elementary knowledge of economics and probability, the book is suitable as a text for an undergraduate course in the economics of small business. It also covers the economics of organization, the role of the family in small business, human capital and nonpecuniary motivation, together with the relationship of small business to entrepreneurship and growth. Public policy toward small business is discussed with an emphasis on the United States, together with comparisons and contrasts of many other countries.

Readership: Students and lecturers of undergraduate courses in the economics of small business, academics in business fields, readers with elementary knowledge of economics and Business and Management Rights Information: probability. All language rights available. Key Features: ○ Surveys a broad range of research focused on the economics of small business ○ Accessible to readers with elementary knowledge of economics and probability 284pp Critically discusses the role of small business in employment growth and the relationship of Pub. date: Apr 2018 ○ small business to entrepreneurship and growth 978-981-3231-24-5 US$78 / £69

For God’s Sake: Work by the Book! Management Explained from Within By (author): Sarah Zohn

“The high growth years at EMC taught us a lot. One of the hidden problems with high growth companies is the lack of experienced middle line managers. Sarah captures the needed lessons perfectly in this book. My favorite motto ... ‘You have to plan for success’ ... is right there, fully explored.” Mike Ruettgers Former CEO and Chairman, EMC Corporation

“I find interesting and useful how she distills her experience from industries that are so different into management practices that apply everywhere. It’s simple — translates the philosophies into clear actions. The stories make it real and interesting.” Rights Information: Israel Makov All language rights Chairman of Sun Pharma Board (except Hebrew) available. Former CEO and President of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

380pp Pub. date: Nov 2017 “A solid bridge between theory and practice — from how to write an email to a full strategy. Lots 978-981-3222-48-9 of gems, pleasure to read.” US$58 / £51 Orna Berry, PhD Former Chief Scientist of the State of Israel Entrepreneur and industry executive VP, Dell EMC, Israel Center of Excellence, Brazil & Skolkovo R&D Centers

“A feat of great engineering ... Condensing such a broad range of management topics into one book that’s usable, easy and makes so much practical sense. Mandatory read for anyone who wants to advance and lead from the front. Bravo!” Philip Tamer VP, 3PAR Engineering and Storage Networking at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Former GM & VP, Symmetrix Business Unit at EMC Corporation

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Business and Management “As a Technion graduate loyal to her training Sarah brings it all together — engineering approach to management. Her vast experience and the many sources she uses are truly impressive. Here are the practical approaches and tools for most of today’s management situations, in business and in operations — you’d feel as if she wrote it for you. Read it once and keep it close ... “ Benjamin Soffer CEO, T3 Technion Technology Transfer

“Growing a company from an idea and a core team to a large acquisition by Cisco, we’ve been learning and improving through all stages, just as she describes the corrective processes of management. I was inspired to continuously inspect, correct and advance how we do things in our company. Page by page, I was curious to see what else she reminds me to do.” Gil Zimmermann Founder and CEO of Cloudlock — A Cisco Company

“The way she goes from large to small, and makes it relevant to all ... even with my years of experience I see that she extracted the common language that unites us all, managers and leaders of businesses in high technology.” Tom Heiser CEO ClickSoftware Former President, RSA, The Security Division of EMC

“Mid-level managers are a forgotten, neglected nation, even though they do the real work. Sarah Zohn has written her book for them. It is a treasure chest of valuable to-do tools, gleaned from her long experience. And she offers ongoing help, Ask Sarah, at the very end. For those managers who want to excel, this is one of a very few must-read books.” Prof. Shlomo Maital Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Most managers today work solely on intuition rather than best practices plus intuition. People keep reinventing what it means to be a manager, instead of learning from others’ experience and improving on it. People these days are not less talented; they have access to more information and they are fast learners. The problem is that there aren’t enough places to learn from, as organizations — large and small — are so mercurial and unstable.

This book summarizes the author’s experience from two major sources: a) growing with different companies through all the management ranks up to Vice President in a mega US corporation in the computer industry, and b) from working as a consultant to dozens of companies and hundreds of managers from different backgrounds and industries. New and experienced managers will benefit from principles, approaches, and checklists for current managerial challenges.

The book covers a broad range of managerial challenges — from role definition to strategy to communication.

Readership: Managers and leaders of small and medium companies and mid-level management of large companies; general public interested in managerial leadership.

Key Features: ○ Based on author’s experience and not on surveys (as are many other management books)

○ Useful for managers and leaders of small and medium companies and mid-level management (Directors and VP’s) of large companies

○ Contains problems that are presented from the point of view of the today’s managers. The book helps managers understand their problems, define them, and give them the most essential clues on how to approach a solution

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 5 Editor’s Choice Living Digital 2040 Future of Work, Education, and Healthcare By (author): King Wang Poon (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Hyowon Lee (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Wee KiatLim (NTU, Singapore), Rajesh Elara Mohan (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Youngjin Chae (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Gayathri Balasubramanian (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore), Aaron Yong (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore) & Raymond Yeong (Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.

Business and Management Rights Information: ○ How can people thrive as their lives are disrupted and transformed? All language rights ○ Will jobs be created or destroyed? (except Korean) available. ○ Will digital divides narrow or widen in education and healthcare?

308pp Living Digital 2040 provides practical answers to these questions. It focuses on the future of Pub. date: Oct 2017 work, education, and healthcare, because all of us experience these three social and economic 978-981-3230-70-5 institutions every day, and at seminal stages of our lives. Work, education, and healthcare also US$78 / £69 build our capabilities and relationships, so that we can live flourishing lives.

978-981-3232-97-6(pbk) Living Digital 2040 takes the view that it is up to us create a future that is better than the one today. US$38 / £33 It explores practical possibilities we could pursue, and how our collective capacity for innovation and collaboration can tackle the disruptive forces, and transform our lives for the better.

Contents: Beyond Physical: Cities Living Digital; How and Why; Drivers of Change; Future of Work; Future of Education; Future of Healthcare; Conclusion: The Scalable City.

Readership: General public.

Editor’s Choice Future Automation Changes to Lives and to Businesses By (author): Timothy E Carone (University of Notre Dame, USA)

“Future Automation is a mind-expanding experience in the form of a book. It helps me envision what›s next for rapidly changing business models and to project the likely impact of autonomous systems on people and society. As a leader of talent programs for thousands of professionals, understanding and effectively navigating the nexus of humans and machines is critical to my firm›s ability to compete — both as a values- and people-based professional firm and as a prosperous business. Despite complexities addressed, the book is highly readable, as the authors provide compelling graphics and evocative analogies.” Martin Fiore Americas Tax Talent Leader, Ernst & Young LLP

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300pp The world overstates the present fear of future risk. Autonomous systems are our future. One day Pub. date: Sep 2018 we will wake up to some event that will make it clear that the robots have taken over but just not in the way we always thought. Robots take many forms. A driverless car is a robot. A drone over 978-981-3142-32-9 Afghanistan is a robot. Siri is a robot as are high frequency trading systems. And the autonomous US$78 / £65 systems that Amazon uses to manage their warehouses and logistics are collections of robots 978-981-3142-33-6(pbk) acting in concert. In short, robots, or autonomous systems, are slowly taking over the execution US$39 / £32 of key processes that run our businesses and our lives. We define an autonomous system to be an integration at the data and process level of three components: sensors or the Internet of Things that collect data; big data that stores and processes data; and artificial intelligence, which takes the information, makes decisions, and acts. On occasions, we add in actuators, which are motors that are responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. Other words for an autonomous system with actuators are “robot,” “driverless car,” and “unmanned drone.”

6 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Business and Management In this book we show how autonomous systems when coupled with the blockchain and additive manufacturing will substantially change business models and our lives. It is clear that the transition to more autonomous systems operating in our society will come from the ground up and will be used to support processes that do not involve humans and human safety. Mostly this falls into the realm of logistics, farming, and some financial services. It does not fall into the area of healthcare where the adoption of autonomous system will be slower and presumably much more highly regulated. Healthcare though will be the place where the human + autonomous system evolves over time and shows how the weaknesses of machines are solved by the strengths of humans and vice versa. There is one area that can serve as the test bed for autonomous system in other industries. The logistics industry is already highly automated but it can also serve as a test bed for autonomous ports, trucks, planes, and our personal favorite, the Trone, which is a drone that can carry at least as much cargo as a long haul tractor-trailer. Change is coming and it is in many forms and will show up in different places at different times.

Contents: Autonomous Systems; Big Data and Business Analytics; Artificial Intelligence; The Internet of Things; Autonomous Systems Reconsidered; The Global Food Supply; Financial Services; Logistics; Manufacturing; Retail; Health Care; Recognizing as Presence.

Readership: Textbook targeted at undergraduate students studying Business Management as a degree.

Marketing for Competitiveness: Asia to The World Editor’s Choice In the Age of Digital Consumers By (author): Philip Kotler (Northwestern University, USA), Hermawan Kartajaya (MarkPlus Inc, Indonesia) & Den Huan Hooi (NTU, Singapore)

Asia is the most populated geographical region, with 50% of the world’s inhabitants living there. Coupled that with the impressive economic growth rates in many Asian countries, the region provides a very attractive and lucrative market for many businesses, big and small and from all industries. In addition, Asia is also a dynamic market that significantly grows with developments in technology and digitalization. For example, a research by Google and Temasek shows that Southeast Asia is the world’s fastest growing internet region. The internet economy in Southeast Asia is expected to grow by 6.5 times from US$31 billion in 2015 to US$197 billion in 2025. All these make it critical for marketers, whether domestic, regional or global, to stay in touch if not ahead, in their understanding of what is happening in Asia from a marketing perspective and what Asia has to offer to the world. One phenomenon happening in the Asian market and which marketers should pay utmost attention Rights Information: to, is the rapidly unfolding digital revolution that has fundamentally transformed not just the extent but also the nature of competition. What makes it even more challenging and complicating is also All language (except how such a revolution impacts on consumer and business buying behavior. Simplified Chinese, Disruptive technologies supported by this digital revolution have brought in new competitors and Traditional Chinese, enabled existing competitors to surpass the conventional boundaries which we may be quite Japanese, Korean, familiar with. Asian consumers have become more educated and connected and have embraced Vietnamese and newer ways of selecting, buying and using products and services. In this book, the Father of Indonesian) rights Modern Marketing, Professor Philip Kotler has collaborated with two marketing experts from available. Asia, Hermawan Kartajaya from Indonesia and Hooi Den Huan from Singapore to publish a book on Marketing for Competitiveness: Asia to the World — In the Age of Digital Consumers. This book argues that marketing is no longer just vertical but has encompassed a new, more horizontal 304pp paradigm. In addition to many new concepts and frameworks, this book includes a plethora of real- Pub. date: Sep 2016 world examples from various countries in Asia, which will help to shed light on how companies, 978-981-3201-95-8 both Asian and global, compete in Asia. Useful lessons can be drawn by all businesses in the US$55 / £46 world on how to win the mind, heart and spirit of the Asian consumer — digital and non-digital. 978-981-3201-96-5(pbk) Key Features: US$28 / £23 ○ This book describes how the digital revolution has transformed customers, competitors and marketing itself, specifically in the Asian context ○ In addition to gaining inspiring yet practical concepts, readers will get many interesting examples that clearly illustrate the applications of such concepts. These examples are based on Asia’s local champions, regional players and multinational companies ○ This book is writen by prominent authors in the marketing field, such as Professor Philip Kotler, arguably the Father of Modern Marketing, Hermawan Kartajaya who was included by the UK’s Chartered Institute of Marketing in a list of 50 people who shape the future of marketing and Hooi Den Huan, Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center, Nanyang Technological University, that established arguably the world’s first Masters degree in Technopreneurship and Innovation. All three are familiar with marketing in Asia. For example, Professor Philip Kotler is the Honorary Patron and Hermawan Kartajaya is the Patron and Founder of the Asia Marketing Federation and Hooi Den Huan is a Supervisor of the Asia Marketing Federation Foundation

Readership: Marketing enthusiasts, business practitioners, general public interested in marketing; graduates and researchers studying Marketing.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 7 Editor’s Choice Services Marketing (8th Edition) People, Technology, Strategy By (author): Jochen Wirtz (NUS, Singapore) & Christopher Lovelock

Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is the eighth edition of the globally leading textbook for Services Marketing by Jochen Wirtz and Christopher Lovelock, extensively updated to feature the latest academic research, industry trends, and technology, social media and case examples.

This textbook takes on a strong managerial approach presented through a coherent and progressive pedagogical framework rooted in solid academic research. Featuring cases and examples from all over the world, Services Marketing: People, Technology, Strategy is suitable for students who want to gain a wider managerial view of Services Marketing.

Readership: Primary market — University students taking the Services Marketing course, Business and Management Rights Information: generally compulsory for Business and Marketing students, as well as MBA and EMBA students; All language (except Secondary market — marketing professionals and practitioners. Greek, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Key Features: Traditional Chinese and ○ Full-color visual aids promote learning and organizational frameworks capture essence of Indian Adaptation) rights individual chapters in one look available. ○ Content thoroughly revised to include real-life industry examples and global case studies supported by academic research 800pp ○ Each chapter provides an organizational framework that provides a quick overview of each Pub. date: Mar 2016 chapter’s core concepts at a glance 978-1-944659-00-4 ○ Supplementary teaching materials complement the textbook to make teaching and US$118 / £78 assessment easier

978-1-944659-01-1(pbk) US$59.90 / £40

Editor’s Choice Unleashing the Greatness in You The Power of Self-Leadership By (author): John Ng (Meta Consulting Pte Ltd, Singapore) You can be Great.

No matter what your background is or what failures you’ve experienced, you can achieve greatness. That is the main thrust of this book. The author, Dr John Ng, is Chief Passionary Officer of Meta Consulting, and draws on years of extensive interviews with thought leaders across the region and his astute observations, personal experiences, careful analysis and synthesis of research, to present a concise guide to the power of self-leadership.

Having coached and supported many individuals to become the best that they can be, John now shares his knowledge and experience with the simple aim of helping readers unlock their own potential and turn their dreams into reality.

Filled with real-world examples of people who have succeeded against all odds, heroes and Rights Information: super stars who allowed themselves to be derailed, and leaders who are epitomes of greatness, All language (except this book is a vital resource for readers who wish to take the initial steps on the road to success. Vietnamese and Indonesian) rights As John writes, “This book will change your life.” Readers will be taught to discover their own available. greatness through their changed perspectives, realigned values, and personal commitment, with specific action steps along the way to guide them towards achieving their goals. 300pp The first of a three-volume series on leadership, this volume on the power of self-leadership is a Pub. date: Aug 2017 ‘must-read’ for anyone seeking to transform themselves into successful individuals. 978-981-3228-84-9 Readership: General readers targeting self-improvement, leaders of organisations or teams. US$58 / £51

978-981-3230-25-5(pbk) Key Features: US$29.95 / £26 ○ Specific action steps along the way to guide readers towards achieving their goals ○ Written in an accessible manner ○ Several relevant real-world examples

8 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Chemistry Applied Theoretical Organic Chemistry Edited by: Dean J Tantillo (UC Davis) “The chapters are each interesting in their own way, the coverage of the field is superb, and so is the underlying expertise. This book will be very, very useful to the organic community as quantum and computational chemistry fulfil their promise of becoming true partners in exploring synthesis and mechanism in organic chemistry.” Roald Hoffmann Cornell University, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry 1991

This book provides state-of-the-art information on how studies in applied theoretical organic chemistry are conducted. It highlights the many approaches and tools available to those interested in using computational chemistry to predict and rationalize structures and reactivity of organic molecules. Chapters not only describe theoretical techniques in detail, but also describe recent applications and offer practical advice.

Authored by many of the world leaders in the field of applied theoretical chemistry, this book is Rights Information: perfect for both practitioners of computational chemistry and synthetic and mechanistic organic chemists curious about applying computational techniques to their research. All language rights available. Contents: Modeling Organic Reactions — General Approaches, Caveats, and Concerns (Stephanie R Hare, Brandi M Hudson and Dean J Tantillo); Overview of Computational Methods for Organic Chemists (Edyta M Greer and Kitae Kwon); Brief History of Applied 624pp Theoretical Organic Chemistry (Steven M Bachrach);> Solvation (Carlos Silva Lopez and Olalla Pub. date: Mar 2018 Nieto Faza); Conformational Searching for Complex, Flexible Molecules (Alexander C Brueckner, O Maduka Ogba, Kevin M Snyder, H Camille Richardson and Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong); NMR 978-1-78634-408-3 Prediction (Kelvin E Jackson and Robert S Paton); Energy Decomposition Analysis and Related US$188 / £165 Methods (Israel Fernández); Systems with Extensive Delocalization (L Zoppi and K K Baldridge); Modern Treatments of Aromaticity (Judy I-Chia Wu); Weak Intermolecular Interactions (Rajat Maji and Steven E Wheeler); Predicting Reaction Pathways from Reactants (Romain Ramozzi, W M C Sameera and Keiji Morokuma); Unusual Potential Energy Surfaces and Nonstatistical Dynamic Effects (Charles Doubleday); The Distortion/Interaction Model for Analysis of Activation Energies of Organic Reactions (K N Houk, Fang Liu, Yun-Fang Yang and Xin Hong); Spreadsheet-Based Computational Predictions of Isotope Effects (O Maduka Ogba, John D Thoburn and Daniel J O’Leary); Stereoelectronic Effects: Analysis by Computational and Theoretical Methods (Gabriel dos Passos Gomes and Igor Alabugin); pKa Prediction (Yijie Niu and Jeehiun K Lee); Issues Particular to Organometallic Reactions (Gang Lu, Huiling Shao, Humair Omer and Peng Liu); Computationally Modeling Nonadiabatic Dynamics and Surface Crossings in Organic Photoreactions (Arthur Winter); Challenges in Predicting Stereoselectivity (Elizabeth H Krenske). Readership: Practitioners of computational chemistry and synthetic and mechanistic organic chemists curious about applying computational techniques to their research. Key Features: ○ A particular strength is the mix of theoretical background, informative examples and practical advice provided ○ Chapters are authored by many of world leaders in the field of applied theoretical chemistry

Carbohydrate Chemistry Fundamentals and Applications By (author): Raimo Alén (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) This book presents a comprehensive approach to the versatile and fascinating field of carbohydrate chemistry. It covers, besides the colorful historical perspective within the utilization of carbohydrates and their derivatives, all modern aspects on their properties, nomenclature, uses, and natural occurrence as such or as residues in a variety of biologically active molecules. Special emphasis is paid to various conversion techniques for producing value-added chemicals, biofuels, and other products from carbohydrate-rich renewable resources. This book can be primarily used as an advanced textbook for a wide range of readers in many disciplines; not only students and teachers but also everyone who works in the laboratory as a researcher or in production and planning or who generally needs relevant knowledge of carbohydrates. Contents: Historical Background of Carbohydrate Utilization and Chemistry; Isomerism; Representation of Open Chain Chiral Molecules as Planar Formulas; Configuration; Cyclic Rights Information: Forms of Monosaccharides; Naming of Monosaccharides; Carbohydrate Biosynthesis; Natural All language rights Carbohydrates and Their Derivatives; Carbohydrate Residues-containing Substance Groups; available. Characteristic Reactions of Carbohydrates; Utilization of Biomass. Readership: Chemists, biochemists, glycobiologists, materials scientists, students in biochemistry 596pp and biology. Pub. date: Mar 2018 Key Features: 978-981-3223-63-9 ○ A comprehensive book that contains all important areas of modern carbohydrate chemistry US$128 / £113 ○ A broad description about natural carbohydrates and their derivatives is included ○ A detailed overview of possibilities to produce a great variety of products from carbohydrates 978-981-3223-64-6(pbk) or carbohydrate-rich renewable resources is given US$78 / £69

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 9 Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics Edited by: James Barber (Imperial College London, UK) & Alexander V Ruban (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

This book is a tribute to three outstanding scientists, Professors Jan Anderson FRS, Leslie Dutton Chemistry FRS and John Walker FRS, Nobel Laureate. Covering some of the most recent advances in the fields of Bioenergetics and Photosynthesis, this book is a compilation of contributions from leading scientists actively involved in understanding the natural biological processes associated with the flow of energy in biological cells. The lectures found in this significant volume were presented at a meeting in March 2016 in Singapore to commemorate the outstanding research in this area.

The contents begin with the ideas, specially the contribution from Nobel Laureate Rudolph Marcus, who is well-known for creating the theory of electron transport reactions. This is followed by contributions of many others on various aspects of respiratory and photosynthetic transport chains as well as the dynamic regulation of light harvesting and electron transport events in oxygenic Rights Information: photosynthesis. The book is highly recommended to postgraduate students and researchers who All language rights are interested in various aspects of bioenergetic cycles. available. Readership: Postgraduate students, researchers and specialists interested in various aspects of 368pp respiratory and photosynthetic electron transport chains. Pub. date: Oct 2017

978-981-3230-29-3 US$108 / £95

Reminiscences of Ahmed H. Zewail: Photons, Electrons and What Else? A Portrait from Close Range. Remembrances of his Group Members and Family Edited by: Abderrazzak Douhal (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain), John Spencer Baskin (Caltech) & Dongping Zhong (The Ohio State University, USA)

In this unique illustrated book, PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, senior visiting scholars, and staff describe their personal experiences in working with the late Prof. Ahmed H. Zewail at Caltech. Their reminiscences provide snapshots of their rich interactions, reflecting the great scientific achievements, as well as the human and humorous sides of Ahmed H. Zewail.

The contributors tell us their stories covering a period of forty years, beginning from the time of Zewail’s arrival at Caltech in 1976. Some of them cover the time when Zewail was starting his Rights Information: pioneering work on femtochemistry at the end of 80’s, while others relate events long after he All language rights was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1999) and had embarked on a new career in ultrafast available. electron imaging. The aims and scope of this book is to provide both scientists and non-scientists descriptions of the experiences of scientists in the early or mature stages of their careers when 428pp interacting with one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, from developing the field of Pub. date: Feb 2018 femtochemistry to pioneering ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging technology. The personal dimension of Zewail’s leadership is reflected in all the contributions, and highlighted by special 978-981-3231-53-5 tributes from two of his children. US$88 / £77 The scientific and anecdotal stories recounted in the book give a rare view of experiences in 978-981-3231-65-8(pbk) shaping science. The reader will get firsthand accounts of how a Nobel Prize winner interacted US$38 / £33 daily with his co-workers to develop the laser-based science and technology for which he was internationally recognized. The recounted experiences may serve as a basis for scientists developing their own research, tutoring students, and supervising postdoctoral researchers.

Readership: Students, practitioners and researchers in chemistry, physical chemistry and physics interested in learning about one of the great minds in physical chemistry.

Key Features: ○ Untold stories between a Nobel Prize winner and his co-workers ○ How the development of Femtochemistry was lived by direct players ○ Stories of imminent scientists in Femtochemistry ○ How femtochemistry started at Caltech ○ Zewail and his co-workers at Femtoland

10 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Chemistry Ultrafast Optics and Spectroscopy in Physical Chemistry By (author): Atanu Bhattacharya (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)

Ultrafast spectroscopy is an advanced spectroscopic technique which enables us to capture events (mostly microscopic) in a very rapid time scale (spanning from nanoseconds (10–9 sec) to attosecond (10–18 sec)). The introduction of this spectroscopic technique to chemistry came with microsecond resolution near about 1950 with the development of flash photolysis by Norrish and Porter (R G W Norrish and G Porter, Nature, 164, 658 (1949); Discuss. Faraday Soc. 17, 40 (1954). They studied chemical reaction dynamics in time domain, for the first time. Thereafter, with the advances made with ultrafast lasers, the time resolution improved continuously over the years, reaching the “picosecond” in 1980, the “femtosecond” in 1990 and the “attosecond” in 2000. The field is continuously maturing and has earned noble prize in chemistry twice: the first one was awarded to M Eigen, R G W Norrish and G Porter, and the second one was awarded to A Zewail. This highlights the significant role of ultrafast spectroscopy in chemical dynamics study Rights Information: (more broadly in Physical Chemistry). All language rights available. Ultrafast Spectroscopy is a vast and exhaustive subject and perhaps everybody working in the field of ultrafast spectroscopy would agree that it is difficult to introduce this subject to a new 292pp student, particularly with physical chemistry (or chemistry) background (education obtained at the Pub. date: Jan 2018 bachelor or master level in India). Generally, the language of ultrafast spectroscopy and related optics is not part of the chemistry education in India. Students with academic background in 978-981-3223-67-7 physics and electrical engineering are far better suited to this. However, physical chemists have to US$118 / £104 measure physical properties and monitor dynamics of different physical and chemical processes routinely using ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. Furthermore, physical chemists have to reason intellectually about a new ultrafast technique to monitor a novel dynamics of chemical system. This leads to a problem, particularly when it comes to educating (Indian) chemistry students in ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory. Unfortunately, no single textbook is available which is suitable for a chemistry student new to this field. Realizing this need, a course on ultrafast optics and spectroscopy was offered by me in the January session of 2014 to the integrated and regular PhD students at Indian Institute of Science and the favourable reception to the course by the students from several departments, including Physics, Centre of Nano Science and Engineering, and Physical Chemistry, confirmed the existence of that need, not only in physical chemistry but also in other related disciplines.

The primary goal of this text book is that any student (beginner), even one who has never heard of the subject, should be able to learn what ultrafast spectroscopy is, why optics related to the subject requires special attention, how to use the basic ideas of the subject in laboratory-based ultrafast spectroscopy experiments, and how to interpret the experimental observations, and so on. Furthermore, the book should be studied without any help from an expert in the field. The level of mathematics is suitably selected in the book so that any student with basic knowledge of algebra, differentiation and integration would comfortably go through the book. As chemists often tend to see the physical picture of a mathematical formula, significant discussion on the meaning of mathematical expressions used in the text is included.

Readership: This book can be used with any introductory college/university course in optics, spectroscopy, or experimental physical chemistry or chemical physics usually undertaken by graduate and undergraduate students in science and engineering.

Key Features: ○ This book is an introduction to ultrafast optics and spectroscopy for use with any introductory college/university course in optics, spectroscopy, or experimental physical chemistry or chemical physics of the kind usually taken by undergraduate and graduate students in physical chemistry ○ The audience for this book are also physical chemistry or chemical physics students who have never heard of the subject but would like to work on ultrafast optics and spectroscopy in a PhD program with an academic background of chemistry ○ When this book was written, several advanced books on the topic were available, but none was really suitable for a student (particularly physical chemistry students) new to the subject. To the best of my belief, NONE is really suitable for a physical chemistry student new to the subject or for physical chemistry students. This book will fulfill that demand

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 11 Editor’s Choice Understanding Advanced Physical Inorganic Chemistry (Revised Edition) The Learner’s Approach By (author): Kim Seng Chan (Victoria Junior College, Singapore) & Jeanne Tan Chemistry This revised edition has been updated to meet the minimum requirements of the new Singapore GCE A level syllabus that would be implemented in the year 2016. Nevertheless, this book is also highly relevant to students who are studying chemistry for other examination boards. In addition, the authors have also included more Q&A to help students better understand and appreciate the chemical concepts that they are mastering.

Readership: Junior college students and teachers in chemistry.

Key Features: Rights Information: ○ The book provides fundamental important scaffolding to aid students to create their own All language rights understanding of the chemical concepts available. ○ The book encourages critical thinking and meaningful applications, using the basic concepts learnt 568pp ○ The book guides the students to integrate the various concepts that they have learnt into Pub. date: Sep 2016 a coherent and meaningful conceptual network 978-981-4733-95-3(pbk) US$38 / £32

Editor’s Choice Understanding Voltammetry (3rd Edition) By (author): Richard G Compton (Oxford University, UK) & Craig E Banks (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

Reviews of the First Edition: “There is a wealth of voltammetric data from a range of systems, with numerous diagrams showing actual voltammograms, greatly helpful to a reader new to the field, with underpinning mathematical equations and supportive mechanistic explanation. This is a most useful and instructive book.” Chemistry & Industry

“This is an excellent, insightful, cost-effective, and pedagogically structured book, written by a master and his apprentice for a wide audience of industrialists and academics (students and professors) in a range of disciplines such as chemistry, engineering, physics, ecology, et hoc genus omne.” Rights Information: Reviews All language rights available. The power of electrochemical measurements in respect of thermodynamics, kinetics and analysis is widely recognised but the subject can be unpredictable to the novice even if they have a strong 456pp physical and chemical background, especially if they wish to pursue quantitative measurements. Pub. date: Jul 2018 Accordingly, some significant experiments are perhaps wisely never attempted while the literature is sadly replete with flawed attempts at rigorous voltammetry. 978-1-78634-526-4 US$128 / £113 This textbook considers how to implement designing, explaining and interpreting experiments centered on various forms of voltammetry (cyclic, microelectrode, hydrodynamic, etc.). The reader 978-1-78634-529-5(pbk) is assumed to have knowledge of physical chemistry equivalent to Master's level but no exposure US$68 / £60 to electrochemistry in general, or voltammetry in particular. While the book is designed to stand alone, references to important research papers are given to provide an introductory entry into the literature.

The third edition contains new material relating to electron transfer theory, experimental requirements, scanning electrochemical microscopy, adsorption, electroanalysis and nanoelectrochemistry.

Readership: Researchers and professionals in electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells, solar cells, analytical chemistry.

Key Features: ○ The 3rd edition contains, in comparison with the previous editions, new material relating to electron transfer theory, experimental requirements, scanning electrochemical microscopy, adsorption, electroanalysis and nano-electrochemistry

12 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Computer Science Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications Part I and Part II By (author): Lotfi A Zadeh (UC Berkeley) & Rafik A Aliev (Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Azerbaijan)

Nowadays, voluminous textbooks and monographs in fuzzy logic are devoted only to separate or some combination of separate facets of fuzzy logic. There is a lack of a single book that presents a comprehensive and self-contained theory of fuzzy logic and its applications.

Written by world renowned authors, Lofti Zadeh, also known as the Father of Fuzzy Logic, and Rafik Aliev, who are pioneers in fuzzy logic and fuzzy sets, this unique compendium includes all the principal facets of fuzzy logic such as logical, fuzzy-set-theoretic, epistemic and relational. Theoretical problems are prominently illustrated and illuminated by numerous carefully worked-out and thought-through examples. Rights Information: This invaluable volume will be a useful reference guide for academics, practitioners, graduates All language rights and undergraduates in fuzzy logic and its applications. available.

Readership: Researchers, academics, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students in 500pp fuzzy logic and its applications. Pub. date: Oct 2018

978-981-3238-17-6 US$158 / £139

An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms (3rd Edition) By (author): Michael Soltys (California State University Channel Islands, USA)

A successor to the first and second editions, this updated and revised book is a leading companion guide for students and engineers alike, specifically software engineers who design algorithms. While succinct, this edition is mathematically rigorous, covering the foundations for both computer scientists and mathematicians with interest in the algorithmic foundations of Computer Science.

Besides expositions on traditional algorithms such as Greedy, Dynamic Programming and Divide & Conquer, the book explores two classes of algorithms that are often overlooked in introductory textbooks: Randomised and Online algorithms — with emphasis placed on the algorithm itself. The book also covers algorithms in Linear Algebra, and the foundations of Computation.

The coverage of Randomized and Online algorithms is timely: the former have become ubiquitous Rights Information: due to the emergence of cryptography, while the latter are essential in numerous fields as diverse All language rights as operating systems and stock market predictions. available.

While being relatively short to ensure the essentiality of content, a strong focus has been placed 328pp on self-containment, introducing the idea of pre/post-conditions and loop invariants to readers of all Pub. date: Jan 2018 backgrounds, as well as all the necessary mathematical foundations. The programming exercises in Python will be available on the web (see http://www.msoltys.com/book for the companion 978-981-3235-90-8 web site). US$98 / £86

Contents: Preliminaries; Greedy Algorithms; Divide and Conquer; Dynamic Programming; Online Algorithms; Randomized Algorithms; Algorithms in Linear Algebra; Computational Foundations; Mathematical Foundations.

Readership: Students of undergraduate courses in algorithms and programming and associated professionals.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 13 Unlocking Consciousness Lessons from the Convergence of Computing and Cognitive Psychology By (author): Charles T Ross (British Computer Society, UK)

In order to bridge the gap between artificial and synthetic intelligence, we must first understand our own intelligence. ‘What is intelligence?’ might appear as a simple question, but many great minds have agreed that there is no singular answer. Unlocking Consciousness attempts to examine this central question through exploring the convergence of computing, philosophy, cognitive

Computer Science neuroscience and biogenetics.

The book is the first of its kind to compare comprehensive definitions of both information and intelligence, an essential component to the advancement of computing into the realms of artificial intelligence. In examining explanations for intelligence, consciousness, memory and meaning from Rights Information: the perspective of a computer scientist, it offers routes that can be taken to augment natural and All language rights artificial intelligence, improving our own individual abilities, and even considering the potential for available. creating a prosthetic brain. Unlocking Consciousness demonstrates that understanding intelligence is not just for the benefit 388pp of computer scientists, it is also of great value to those working in evolutionary, molecular and Pub. date: Feb 2018 systems biology, cognitive neuroscience, genetics and biotechnology. In unlocking the secrets of intelligence and laying out the methods of which information is structured and processed, we can 978-1-78634-468-7 unlock a completely new theory of consciousness. US$98 / £86 For additional published articles and appendices referenced in this title, readers can visit http://www.brainmindforum.org/ for further information.

Contents: Preface; About the Author; Introduction; Philosophy; Convergence: Contribution of Computers: Predator or Partner?; State of the Art: Cognitive Neuroscience; Ideas, Past, Present and Future; Information: Sources of Information; Language; Representation of Information; Memory & Learning; Meaning; Intelligence: Summary of the Evolution of Intelligence; General and Responsive Intelligence; Aquisitive and Creative Intelligence; Physical, Emotional, Holistic and Medical Intelligence; Measurement, Implications and Extrapolation of Intelligence; The Many Languages and Powerful Tools of the Body; Definitions of Intelligence;Consciousness: Understanding Consciousness; Thinking, Knowledge and Creativity; The Synaptic Conjecture; The Future: The Future; Bibliography; List of Appendices; Index.

Readership: Computer scientists, software and electronic engineers, cognitive neuroscientists, researchers and the general public interested in the operation of the brain.

Introduction to Microfinance By (author): Todd A Watkins (Lehigh University, USA)

Microfinance has grown from the obscure efforts of a few philanthropic institutions into a global industry that reaches 150–200 million clients through the branches of thousands of institutions. Microfinance has matured from exclusively funding loans to providing savings, insurance, healthcare, and education. Yet many people still think of it narrowly as microcredit. Understanding remains thin of what the industry does, how it functions and why.

Introduction to Microfinance provides a non-technical introduction to the broad array of inclusive financial and non-financial services for the world›s poor. It explores the financial lives of those families, and the microfinance institutions and rapidly growing industry that serve them. Written in close collaboration with college students for college students, under the auspices of one of Economics and Finance the US›s leading undergraduate programs in microfinance, it is the first-ever introductory college textbook about microfinance. Rights Information: All language rights What is microfinance? What are its methods and why? Does it work? What are its prospects and available. challenges? Why is it controversial? This book tackles these questions and more.

Contents: History and Evolution of the Microfinance Industry; Daily Financial Lives of the Poor; 472pp Economic and Behavioral Barriers to Financial Services for the Poor; Informal Sector Finance; Pub. date: Apr 2018 Microlending; Microsavings and Microinsurance; Gender Issues in Microfinance; The Debate Over Commercial Microfinance; Assessing Impact. 978-981-3140-73-8 US$128 / £113 Readership: Undergraduates and graduates interested in microfinance and those who are keen to know more about microfinance, development, and/or social investing. 978-981-3143-00-5(pbk) US$68 / £60

14 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Economics and Finance Key Features: ○ The only introductory, non-technical, microfinance textbook that is made reader-friendly for undergraduates and graduates ○ Written in close collaboration with college students for college students, under the auspices of one of the US’s leading undergraduate programs in microfinance ○ A complete coverage of the microfinance industry, its evolution and impact, in theory and in practice ○ Supplementary boxes (i.e., Dig Deeper, In the Field, Faces, In Your Backyard) relate microfinance to practices by individuals, organizations, as well as developing and developed countries

Innovative Federal Reserve Policies During the Great Financial Crisis Edited by: Douglas D Evanoff (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, USA), George G Kaufman (Loyola University Chicago, USA) & A G Malliaris (Loyola University Chicago, USA)

This book, Innovative Federal Policies During the Great Financial Crisis, contains discussions of unconventional monetary policies, policy changes to address systemic and payments systems risks, new macroprudential policies, the ‘stretching’ of the financial safety net, changes in the Fed’s liquidity funding facility (the discount window), use of the Fed’s balance sheet as a tool of monetary policy, and alternative means to deal with real-estate asset bubbles and potential financial instability.

The 10 chapters in this book offer a unique analysis of several innovative approaches by the Federal Reserve that contributed to the stabilization of the US economy following the Great Rights Information: Recession. What unique policies were implemented? Toward what goal? Were they effective? All language rights Were there unintended consequences? Additionally, but less thoroughly, events in the Euro market are also discussed, and policies (and their impact) of the ECB are critiqued. available.

Based on papers presented at the 91st Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association 316pp International Meetings in Portland, Oregon, 2016, Innovative Federal Policies During the Great Pub. date: Jul 2018 Financial Crisis adds significantly to the debate over why innovative or unconventional policies were needed, how they were implemented and how effective they were. 978-981-3236-58-5 US$118 / £104 Readership: Finance and economics professionals, and academics and research economists.

Key Features: ○ This book puts together the papers presented at a conference that offers an extremely impressive list of financial scholars and industry experts representing most of the thought leaders in financial regulation, providing an evaluation of the most significant financial regulatory changes in nearly a century and discussion of unintended consequences from recent regulatory reform ○ To complement the various aspects of innovative policies discussed at the WEA conference, additional papers covering related issues and written by experts in the field were also invited for inclusion in the volume

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 15 Lecture Notes in Behavioral Finance By (author): Itzhak Venezia (Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College, Israel & The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

This volume presents lecture notes for a course in behavioral finance, most suitable for MBA students, but also adaptable for a PhD class. These lecture notes are based on the author’s experience in teaching behavioral finance classes at Bocconi University (at the PhD level) and at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo (MBA).

Written in a way that is user-friendly for both teachers and students, this book is the first of its kind and consolidates all the material necessary for a course on behavioral finance, balancing psychological concepts with financial applications. Material formerly presented only in academic papers has been transformed to a format more suitable for students, while the most important

Economics and Finance issues have been highlighted in boxes that can form the basis of a lecturer’s teaching slides.

In addition to corralling all the currently scattered materials into one book, a neat logical order Rights Information: is introduced to the subject matter. Behavioral finance is put in a context relative to the other All language rights disciplines of finance, its history is outlined and the way it evolved — from an eclectic collection available. of counter examples to market efficiency into a bona fide discipline of finance — is reviewed and explained. 288pp Pub. date: Jun 2018 The 17 topic-based chapters in this book are each intended for a 90-minute lecture. The first five chapters (Part 1) provide the psychological and financial foundations of behavioral finance. The next 12 chapters (Part 2) are applications: Chapters 6–13 cover the essentials while Chapters 978-981-3231-56-6 14–17 are special, elective topics. US$88 / £75 Readership: MBA and PhD level students and instructors of behavioral finance, corporate finance and decision analysis.

Key Features: ○ This book is currently the only text book in behavioral finance (or one of the very few that exist) ○ The book provides a balanced mix of theory and application and a well-adjusted blend of psychology and finance, with the ultimate goal of emphasizing the financial applications of all theories and concepts ○ The book covers all of the essential applications of behavioral finance and some elective topics

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

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

Rights Information: Who should reduce emissions — the rich or the poor countries? All language rights available. This book is about the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP21, held from 30 November to 11 December 2015 in Paris, which brought together around 40,000 participants in total — with 200pp delegates representing each country, observers, and civil society members. It is one of the largest Pub. date: Aug 2018 climate conferences ever organized. Co-written by Graciela Chichilnisky, who proposed and designed the carbon credit emissions trading market, this book is a must read for academics and 978-981-4719-34-6 professionals studying, implementing and analyzing global climate change policies; interested US$98 / £81 advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC 1992 founding. 978-981-4719-35-3(pbk) US$48 / £40 Readership: A must read for academics and professionals studying, implementing and analyzing global climate change policies; interested advance undergraduates and postgraduates interested in the follow up of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC 1992 founding.

16 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Engineering 50 Years of Engineering in Singapore Edited by: Tao Soon Cham (NTU, Singapore)

An underpinning force in Singapore’s remarkable 50-year transformation into a sophisticated world-class city, engineering has contributed significantly to the nation’s economic, infrastructural and social developments.

A joint publication by The Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and World Scientific Publishing, to celebrate Singapore’s 50th birthday, 50 Years of Engineering in Singapore brings to life the extraordinary engineering feats across multiple disciplines and tells the stories of these exceptional engineers who, with their determinations and courage, turned the little red dot into a jewel of a city. A vibrant record of engineering excellence, the publication traces the goliath challenges impeding the nation›s growth over the past five decades, and the engineering innovations that brought about wealth creation, higher standards of living, and enhanced liveability.

This compendium covers land transportation (ERP system, MRT and LRT, roads and buses Rights Information: system); water management and engineering; energy (supply and maintenance); manufacturing All language rights in the areas of electronics, precision engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical/bio-medical available. engineering; housing/cities/infrastructure and land use (reclamation and underground); air and sea hub; and telecommunications, ICT and software. 204pp Pub. date: Oct 2017 Contents: Foreword by DPM Teo Chee Hean; Foreword by Er. Edwin Khew; Editor’s Remark by Prof Cham Tao Soon; Acknowledgements; Land Transportation; Water; Energy; Manufacturing; 978-981-4632-28-7 Buildings & Infrastructure; Aerospace; Infocomm Technology; Offshore & Marine; Health & Safety; US$58 / £51 Conclusion: Engineers for the Future; Index. 978-981-4632-29-4(pbk) Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, and laymen interested in all aspects of US$24 / £21 engineering.

The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics Editor’s Choice (In 4 Volumes) Volume 1: Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics Volume 2: Micro and Nano robotics in Medicine Volume 3: Image-guided Surgical Procedures and Interventions Volume 4: Rehabilitation Robotics Editor-in-chief: Jaydev P Desai (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Edited by: Rajni Patel (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Antoine Ferreira (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Centre Val de Loire, campus Bourges, France) & Sunil Agrawal (Columbia University, USA) The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics combines contributions in four distinct areas of Medical robotics, namely: Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics, Micro and Nano Robotics in Medicine, Image-guided Surgical Procedures and Interventions, and Rehabilitation Robotics. The volume on Rights Information: Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics focuses on robotic technologies geared towards challenges All language rights and opportunities in minimally invasive surgery and the research, design, implementation and available. clinical use of minimally invasive robotic systems. The volume on Micro and Nano robotics in Medicine is dedicated to research activities in an area of emerging interdisciplinary technology 1200pp that is raising new scientific challenges and promising revolutionary advancement in applications Pub. date: Aug 2018 such as medicine and biology. The size and range of these systems are at or below the micrometer scale and comprise assemblies of micro and nanoscale components. The volume on Image-guided 978-981-3232-22-8 Surgical Procedures and Interventions focuses primarily on the use of image guidance during US$990 / £871 surgical procedures and the challenges posed by various imaging environments and how they related to the design and development of robotic systems as well as their clinical applications. This volume also has significant contributions from the clinical viewpoint on some of the challenges in the domain of image-guided interventions. Finally, the volume on Rehabilitation Robotics is dedicated to the state-of-the-art of an emerging interdisciplinary field where robotics, sensors, and feedback are used in novel ways to re-learn, improve, or restore functional movements in humans. Volume 1, Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics, focuses on an area of robotic applications that was established in the late 1990s, after the first robotics-assisted minimally invasive surgical procedure. This area has since received significant attention from industry and researchers. The teleoperated and ergonomic features of these robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) have been able to reduce or eliminate most of the drawbacks of conventional (laparoscopic) MIS. Robotics-assisted MIS procedures have been conducted on over 3 million patients to date — primarily in the areas of urology, gynecology and general surgery using the FDA approved da Vinci® surgical system. The significant commercial and clinical success of the da Vinci® system has resulted in substantial research activity in recent years to reduce invasiveness, increase dexterity, provide additional features such as image guidance and haptic feedback, reduce size and cost, increase portability, and address specific clinical procedures. The area of robotic MIS is therefore in a state of rapid growth fueled by new developments in technologies such as continuum robotics,

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 17 smart materials, sensing and actuation, and haptics and teleoperation. An important need arising from the incorporation of robotic technology for surgery is that of training in the appropriate use of the technology, and in the assessment of acquired skills. This volume covers the topics mentioned above in four sections. The first section gives an overview of the evolution and current state the da Vinci® system and clinical perspectives from three groups who use it on a regular basis. The second focuses on the research, and describes a number of new developments in surgical robotics that are likely to be the basis for the next generation of robotic MIS systems. The third

Engineering deals with two important aspects of surgical robotic systems — teleoperation and haptics (the sense of touch). Technology for implementing the latter in a clinical setting is still very much at the research stage. The fourth section focuses on surgical training and skills assessment necessitated by the novelty and complexity of the technologies involved and the need to provide reliable and efficient training and objective assessment in the use of robotic MIS systems. In Volume 2, Micro and Nano Robotics in Medicine, a brief historical overview of the field of medical nanorobotics as well as the state-of-the-art in the field is presented in the introductory chapter. It covers the various types of nanorobotic systems, their applications and future directions in this field. The volume is divided into three themes related to medical applications. The first theme describes the main challenges of microrobotic design for propulsion in vascular media. Such nanoscale robotic agents are envisioned to revolutionize medicine by enabling minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. To be useful, nanorobots must be operated in complex biological fluids and tissues, which are often difficult to penetrate. In this section, a collection of four papers review the potential medical applications of motile nanorobots, catalytic- based propelling agents, biologically-inspired microrobots and nanoscale bacteria-enabled autonomous drug delivery systems. The second theme relates to the use of micro and nanorobots inside the body for drug-delivery and surgical applications. A collection of six chapters is presented in this segment. The first chapter reviews the different robot structures for three different types of surgery, namely laparoscopy, catheterization, and ophthalmic surgery. It highlights the progress of surgical microrobotics toward intracorporeally navigated mechanisms for ultra-minimally invasive interventions. Then, the design of different magnetic actuation platforms used in micro and nanorobotics are described. An overview of magnetic actuation-based control methods for microrobots, with eventually biomedical applications, is also covered in this segment. The third theme discusses the various nanomanipulation strategies that are currently used in biomedicine for cell characterization, injection, fusion and engineering. In-vitro (3D) cell culture has received increasing attention since it has been discovered to provide a better simulation environment of in-vivo cell growth. Nowadays, the rapid progress of robotic technology paves a new path for the highly controllable and flexible 3D cell assembly. One chapter in this segment discusses the applications of micro-nano robotic techniques for 3D cell culture using engineering approaches. Because cell fusion is important in numerous biological events and applications, such as tissue regeneration and cell reprogramming, a chapter on robotic-tweezers cell manipulation system to achieve precise laser-induced cell fusion using optical trapping has been included in this volume. Finally, the segment ends with a chapter on the use of novel MEMS-based characterization of micro-scale tissues instead of mechanical characterization for cell lines studies. Volume 3, Image-guided Surgical Procedures and Interventions, focuses on several aspects ranging from understanding the challenges and opportunities in this domain, to imaging technologies, to image-guided robotic systems for clinical applications. The volume includes several contributions in the area of imaging in the areas of X-Ray fluoroscopy, CT, PET, MR Imaging, Ultrasound imaging, and optical coherence tomography. Ultrasound-based diagnostics and therapeutics as well as ultrasound-guided planning and navigation are also included in this volume in addition to multi-modal imaging techniques and its applications to surgery and various interventions. The application of multi-modal imaging and fusion in the area of prostate biopsy is also covered. Imaging modality compatible robotic systems, sensors and actuator technologies for use in the MRI environment are also included in this work., as is the development of the framework incorporating image-guided modeling for surgery and intervention. Finally, there are several chapters in the clinical applications domain covering cochlear implant surgery, neurosurgery, breast biopsy, prostate cancer treatment, endovascular interventions, neurovascular interventions, robotic capsule endoscopy, and MRI-guided neurosurgical procedures and interventions. Volume 4, Rehabilitation Robotics, is dedicated to the state-of-the-art of an emerging interdisciplinary field where robotics, sensors, and feedback are used in novel ways to relearn, improve, or restore functional movements in humans. This volume attempts to cover a number of topics relevant to the field. The first section addresses an important activity in our daily lives: walking, where the neuromuscular system orchestrates the gait, posture, and balance. Conditions such as stroke, vestibular deficits, or old age impair this important activity. Three chapters on robotic training, gait rehabilitation, and cooperative orthoses describe the current works in the field to address this issue. The second section covers the significant advances in and novel designs of soft actuators and wearable systems that have emerged in the area of prosthetic lower limbs and ankles in recent years, which offer potential for both rehabilitation and human augmentation. These are described in two chapters. The next section addresses an important emphasis in the field of medicine today that strives to bring rehabilitation out from the clinic into the home environment, so that these medical aids are more readily available to users. The current state-of-the-art in this field is described in a chapter. The last section focuses on rehab devices for the pediatric population. Their impairments are life-long and rehabilitation robotics can have an even bigger impact during their lifespan. In recent years, a number of new developments have been made to promote mobility, socialization, and rehabilitation among the very young: the infants and toddlers. These aspects are summarized in two chapters of this volume.

Readership: Researchers, graduates, and post-graduate students active in the field of bioengineering and robotics.

18 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Engineering Engineering Optics with MATLAB® (2nd Edition) By (author): Ting-Chung Poon (Virginia Tech, USA) & Taegeun Kim (Sejong University, South Korea)

This invaluable second edition provides more in-depth discussions and examples in various chapters. Based largely on the authors’ own in-class lectures as well as research in the area, the comprehensive textbook serves two purposes. The first introduces some traditional topics such as matrix formalism of geometrical optics, wave propagation and diffraction, and some fundamental background on Fourier optics. The second presents the essentials of acousto-optics and electro- optics, and provides the students with experience in modeling the theory and applications using a commonly used software tool MATLAB®.

Contents: Geometrical Optics; Wave Propagation and Wave Optics; Beam Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media and in Kerr Media; Acousto-Optics; Electro-Optics. Rights Information: All language rights Readership: First-year/senior graudate students in engineering and physics; scientists and available. engineers keen in the basics of acousto-optics and electro-optics. 324pp Pub. date: Oct 2017

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The Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering Volume 4: Drilling and Reservoir Appraisal By (author): Olivier Allain (KAPPA, France), Michael Dyson (Striatum Ltd, UK), Xudong Jing (Shell, Netherlands), Christopher Pentland (Petroleum Development Oman, Oman), Marcel Polikar (Independent Consultant, Canada) & Vural Sander Suicmez (Maersk Oil & Gas, Denmark)

This book covers the fundamentals of drilling and reservoir appraisal for petroleum. Split into three sections, the first looks at the basic principles of well engineering in terms of planning, design and construction. It then goes on to describe well safety, costs and operations management. The second section is focussed on drilling and core analysis, and the laboratory measurement of the physico-chemical properties of samples. It is clear that efficient development of hydrocarbon reservoirs is highly dependent on understanding these key properties, and the data can only be Rights Information: gathered through a carefully conducted core-analysis program, as described. Finally, in the third All language rights section we look at production logging, an essential part of reservoir appraisal, which describes available. the nature and the behaviour of fluids in or around the borehole. It describes how to know, at a given time, phase by phase, and zone by zone, how much fluid is coming out of or going into the 396pp formation. Pub. date: Jul 2018

As part of the Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering, and based on a lecture series 978-1-78634-395-6 on the same topic, Drilling and Reservoir Appraisal provides the introductory information needed US$118 / £105 for students of the earth sciences, petroleum engineering, engineering and geoscience.

Readership: Students of the earth sciences, petroleum engineering, engineering and geoscience.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 19 The Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering Volume 5: Fluid Flow in Porous Media By (author): Robert W Zimmerman (Imperial College London, UK)

Engineering This book presents, in a self-contained form, the equations of fluid flow in porous media, with a focus on topics and issues that are relevant to petroleum reservoir engineering. No prior knowledge of the field is assumed on the part of the reader, and particular care is given to careful mathematical and conceptual development of the governing equations, and solutions for important reservoir flow problems. Fluid Flow in Porous Media starts with a discussion of permeability and Darcy›s law, then moves on to a careful derivation of the pressure diffusion equation. Solutions are developed and discussed for flow to a vertical well in an infinite reservoir, in reservoirs containing faults, in bounded reservoirs, and to hydraulically fractured wells. Special topics such as the dual- porosity model for fractured reservoirs, and fluid flow in gas reservoirs, are also covered. The book Rights Information: includes twenty problems, along with detailed solutions. All language rights As part of the Imperial College Lectures in Petroleum Engineering, and based on a lecture series available. on the same topic, this book provides the introductory information needed for students of the petroleum engineering and hydrology. 220pp Pub. date: Mar 2018 Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of petroleum engineering or hydrology.

978-1-78634-499-1 US$78 / £69

Introduction to Micromechanics and Nanomechanics (2nd Edition) By (author): Shaofan Li (UC Berkeley) & Gang Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)

Review of the First Edition: “With many references and illustrations, this book certainly deserves the accolade far-reaching. The presentation of these results is necessary for people working in the fields of materials science, applied computational mechanics, nano-science and technology, and mechanical engineering.” Professor Huiling Duan Beijing University

This book presents a systematic treatise on micromechanics and nanomechanics, which encompasses many important research and development areas such as composite materials Rights Information: and homogenizations, mechanics of quantum dots, multiscale analysis and mechanics, defect All language rights mechanics of solids including fracture and dislocation mechanics, etc. available. In this second edition, some previous chapters are revised, and some new chapters added — 660pp crystal plasticity, multiscale crystal defect dynamics, quantum force and stress, micromechanics Pub. date: Dec 2017 of metamaterials, and micromorphic theory.

978-981-4436-75-5 The book serves primarily as a graduate textbook and intended as a reference book for the next US$128 / £113 generation of scientists and engineers. It also has a unique pedagogical style that is specially suitable for self-study and self-learning for many researchers and professionals who do not have 978-981-4436-76-2(pbk) time attending classes and lectures. US$64 / £53 Contents: Introduction; Green’s Function and Fourier Transform; Micromechanical Homogenization Theory; Effective Elastic Modulus; Variational Principles and Computational Homogenization; Eshelby Tensors in a Finite Volume and Their Applications; Micromechanics- Based Damage Theory; Introduction of Dislocation Theory; Configurational Mechanics of Defects; Nanomechanics: Small-Scale Coarse-Grained Models; Periodic Microstructure and Asymptotic Homogenization; Introduction to Crystal Plasticity.

Readership: Researchers and educators in academics, and graduate students in engineering mechanics, nanomechanics, nanomaterials and nanostructure and mechanical engineering.

20 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Engineering Tsunami To Survive from Tsunami (2nd Edition) By (author): Susumu Murata (Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd., Japan), Fumihiko Imamura (Tohoku University, Japan), Kazumasa Katoh (ECOH Corporation, Japan), Yoshiaki Kawata (Kansai University, Japan), ShigeoTakahashi (Coastal Development Institute of Technology, Japan) & Tomotsuka Takayama (Kyoto University, Japan)

The book is organized into two parts: the first part covers (i) the precious lessons obtained from recent actual tsunami disasters including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, (ii) fundamental knowledge of tsunami for our survival, and (iii) concludes the lessons learnt and listing measures for tsunami disaster mitigation for saving human lives. The second part presents tsunami from academic perspective in two chapters: one describes tsunami occurrence mechanism and near-shore behavior; the other mentions numerical simulation and forecasting of tsunami. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: How Can We Escape a Tsunami?: Examples of Tsunami Disasters; Tsunami Disaster; (except Japanese and Knowledge for Tsunami Survival; Prevention and Mitigation of Tsunami Disasters; Tsunami Indonesian) available. Behavior and Forecasting: Occurrence and Amplification of Tsunamis; Tsunami Simulations and Forecasting Systems. 480pp Readership: Undergraduates and graduates interested in tsunamis, tsunami mitigation planners, Pub. date: Mar 2018 oceanographers and physicists, especially residents in tsunami prone areas. 978-981-3239-38-8 Key Features: US$118 / £104 ○ The book aims to provide scientific information and knowledge for survival from tsunami to people who live or may possibly live in the areas prone to tsunami, or travelers who may 978-981-3239-86-9(pbk) visit such areas US$68 / £60 ○ All these chapters are described from the viewpoint of saving human lives through lessons learnt and measures for tsunami disaster mitigation ○ Written by world renowned experts on tsunami Environmental Science The Energy Conundrum Climate Change, Global Prosperity, and the Tough Decisions We Have to Make By (author): Neil A C Hirst (Imperial College London, UK)

“For anyone working in the energy field ... The Energy Conundrum is essential reading.» Dr Fatih Birol

This book provides a comprehensive and balanced account of global energy policy; covering moral, political, social, technical and economic aspects of the subject. While The Energy Conundrum does not offer easy solutions, it provides the facts and evidence gathered from sources in government, industry, academia, and NGOs alike, for readers to understand the issues and make their own judgements.

With a foreword by Dr Fatih Birol, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency and a Rights Information: leading figure in world energy, The Energy Conundrum comprises eleven chapters covering topics All language rights from history and geopolitics to contemporary challenges for climate mitigation and governance. available. The book also offers realistic case studies which invite readers to try their hand at making energy policy as government energy ministers in two countries with very different circumstances. 348pp Pub. date: Jan 2018 Contents: Introduction; History and Geopolitics of Fossil Energy; Energy Security and Emergency Planning; Energy Justice and Human Welfare; Climate Change; Energy Technology; Energy 978-1-78634-460-1 Finance, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, and Carbon Pricing; Energy Efficiency; Markets and Competition; US$88 / £77 Global Energy Governance; Conclusions; Case Study: Energy Minister of Ygrene; Case Study: Energy Minister of Rewop.

Readership: University students, analysts and policy makers in government, industry and NGOs, general public.

Key Features: ○ Useful “reference book” on energy policy ○ An overview on energy covering both policies and technologies ○ Two case studies are included for use to support teaching

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 21 Editor’s Choice Water Is ... The Indispensability of Water in Society and Life By (author): Seth B Darling & Seth W Snyder

People are increasingly aware of the role that water has in shaping society and how it impacts quality of life. This is the first book to provide a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance on earth — written at a level accessible to non-experts in each of these areas.

Water is shockingly bizarre in its properties and of unsurpassed importance throughout human history, yet so mundane as to often be invisible in our daily lives. In Water Is ..., the two Seths (Darling and Snyder) walk the reader through all of the diverse perspectives on water. The journey

Environmental Science Environmental begins with an exploration of the mysteries of water’s properties on the molecular level, zooming out through its central role at biological and geological scales. Next, the Seths travel through the history of human civilization, highlighting the fundamental part water has played throughout, Rights Information: including the complexities of water policy, privatization, and pricing in today’s world. Attention then All language rights turns to technology and innovation, emphasizing the daunting challenges dictated by increasing available. water stress and a changing climate as well as the enticing opportunities to achieve a secure global water future. 200pp Pub. date: Jun 2018 Water is arguably the single most interdisciplinary topic. Students in business, policy, history, science, and engineering can best position themselves to make an impact by learning about the 978-981-3271-39-5 entire range of diverse, unexpected, and fascinating angles on water. US$68 / £60 Readership: People interested in capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance on earth; students in business, policy, history, science, and engineering looking for solutions to the daunting challenges dictated by increasing water stress and a changing climate as well as the enticing opportunities to achieve a secure global water future.

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○ This is the first book to provide a holistic perspective on water, capturing the full breadth of the science, technology, policy, history, and future outlook for the most important substance on earth — all written at a level accessible to non-experts in each of these areas

Editor’s Choice The First of Everything By (author): Nury Vittachi & Step Cheung (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was the first human, anyway?

Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered remarkable true tales: ○ The tamer of wolves ○ The tape measure that reached the moon ○ The first instant message ○ The man who took a picture of a sound ○ The first newspaper — which actually WAS made of rock! General and Popular Science General and Popular Rights Information: ○ And dozens more remarkable true stories. All language rights available. The result is a fun story collection about the origins of a huge range of things — which also introduces young readers to the art and science of academic research. In these times of fake news, information overload, and too much homework, the ability to conduct fast, accurate research 160pp is one of the best skills any student can have — and you can learn it in these pages. Pub. date: Aug 2018 Readership: Children 6–12 years old. 978-981-3274-49-5 US$28 / £25 Key Features: ○ One of the very few books on the “first of everything” 978-981-3274-77-8(pbk) US$16 / £15 ○ Stories are presented in a fun and child-friendly format ○ Makes the themes of research and history more accessible to children

22 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 General and Popular Science Wonders of Water The Hydrogen Bond in Action By (author): Ivar Olovsson (University of Uppsala, Sweden)

The book presents the fantastic world of water in all its different forms, from liquid to ice and snow. This book is amply illustrated with a large number of beautiful pictures with. Water plays a unique role in chemistry. The special properties of water are due to hydrogen bonding between the H2O molecules. The hydrogen bond is of fundamental importance in biological systems since all living matter has evolved from and exists in an aqueous environment, and hydrogen bonds are involved in most biological processes. There is a hundred times more water molecules in our bodies than the sum of all the other molecules put together.

The unique properties of water are of great importance in our daily life. The origin of these special properties is often not recognized. Even among chemists and physicists, the fundamental facts are not always known. In spite of very active research, there are still many questions to be answered Rights Information: about the structure of liquid water, for instance. All language rights The book differs from most books on water as it covers basic facts about structure and properties available. as well as the influence of these properties in our daily life. Why does ice float on water? Why is the maximum density of water at 4°C? The beauty of snow crystals is amply illustrated, and many 156pp of the pictures are unique. Pub. date: Oct 2007

Contents: There are Many Different Types of Snow; Early Snow Crystal Observations; Artificial 978-981-3229-11-2 Snow Crystals; Snow and Ice Crystals in Nature; Snow for Pleasure and Art; The Ice Surface US$58 / £51 and Formation of Ice Spikes; Structure and Physical and Chemical Properties of Water and Ice; Physical Properties of Water and Ice; Significance in Nature; Electron Microscopic Studies of 978-981-3235-16-8(pbk) Snow Crystals; Ice in Lakes and Glaciers; Gas Hydrates; Polyhedra Formed by Water, Carbon S$28 / £25 and Hydrocarbons; The Classical Elements of Nature; Mysteries of Water; The Mpemba Effect. Can Warm Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?; Mpemba Effects in Our Daily Life/li> Hydrogen Bonding; Transformations of Our Earth by Water and Ice; The Rain Bow; The Water Molecule is Unique.

Readership: Interested lay readers.

Soviet Union in the Context of the Nobel Prize By (author): Abram M Blokh (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

The result of meticulous research by Professor Abram Blokh, this book presents facts, documents, thoughts and comments on the system of the Nobel Prize awards to Russian and Soviet scientists. It provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between the ideas expressed by the Nobel Foundation and those expressed by the autocratic and totalitarian regimes in Russia and the ex-Soviet Union during the 20th century who had the same attitude of revulsion toward the intellectual and humanistic values represented by the Nobel Prizes.

To do his research, the author had access to the declassified documents in the archives of the Nobel Foundation for many years. Also included in the book are new materials obtained and developed by the author after the publication of the first two editions (in Russian). This additional information is from the archives of the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Soviet Writers’ Union et al. in Moscow and St Petersburg. These documents Rights Information: shed new light on the difficulties encountered during the attempts to integrate Russian and Soviet All language (except science into the world’s intellectual community. Russian) rights available.

This book would be of utmost interest to those who are interested in the history of science in 900pp Russia and the ex-Soviet Union, related to the Nobel Prize. Pub. date: Aug 2018 Readership: Historians, scientists, academics and students. 978-981-4277-97-6 US$89 / £74

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 23 Rights Information: The Future of Fusion Energy All language rights By (author): Jason Parisi (Oxford) & Justin Ball (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology available. in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

345pp The gap between the state of fusion energy research and public understanding is vast. In an Pub. date: Oct 2018 entertaining and engaging narrative, this popular science book gives readers the basic tools to understand how fusion works, its potential, and contemporary research problems. 978-1-78634-542-4 US$68 / £60 Written by two young researchers in the field, The Future of Fusion Energy explains how physical laws and the Earth›s energy resources motivate the current fusion program — a program that is approaching a critical point. The world›s largest science project and biggest ever fusion reactor, ITER, is nearing completion. Its success could trigger a worldwide race to build a power plant, but failure could delay fusion by decades. To these ends, this book details how ITER›s results could be used to design an economically competitive power plant as well as some of the many alternative fusion concepts.

General and Popular Science General and Popular Readership: Motivated laypeople with an interest in fusion.

Key Features: ○ There is no book on fusion that is this accessible to the motivated layperson

Editor’s Choice The Young Scientists Series In 12 Volumes By (author): Nury Vittachi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Illustrated by: Step Cheung

Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures — some are young people, and many are female.

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 Woman Who Saw Deep into the Earth (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); Rights Information: The Quiet Queen of Physics (Wu Chien-Shiung); The Boy Who Secretly Read the Books He Was Binding (Michael Faraday); All language rights 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); (except Simplified The Boy with No Birthday (Carl Gauss); The Math Girl Who Stunned the World (Philippa Garrett); Chinese, Indonesian, The Penniless Youth Who Amazed the Professors (Srinivasa Ramanujan); The Good Witch Who Bengali, Arabic and Made an Amazing Decision (Maria Agnesi); Volume 4: Breakers of Barriers — Five Stunning English Reprint in Stories of People Demolishing Walls to Make History: The Unloved Teenager Who Found Phillipines) available. Her Place (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 288pp (Set) Who Solved His Father’s Problem (Blaise Pascal); The Girl Torn Between Two Careers (Rachel Pub. date: Mar 2017 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 978-981-3221-30-7(pbk) Stayed in His House for Ten Years (Al-Haytham); The Boy Who Was Curious All His Life (Shen US$49.90 / £41 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 Fab Females Who Made Scientific History: The Girl

24 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 General and Popular Science 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: The Mystery 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);

Readership: Children 6-12 years old.

About the Author 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 for readers young and old.

He is chairman of the Asia Pacific Translators & Writers, Inc., Asia’s biggest association of writers. A lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, he teaches students how to write stories and how to create content for novels and movies.

About the Illustrator Step Cheung studied Illustration at School of Visual Arts in NYC and Character Animation at Gobelins School in Paris. Her illustrations are published in The Standard newspaper weekly and she has illustrated for McDonald›s TV commercials, Cyberport, HK magazines and different types of media. She loves to use variety of media to express her imagination of the world. Her dream is to draw every day.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 25 Editor’s Choice Bioinformatics A Practical Handbook of Next Generation Sequencing and Its Applications Edited by: Lloyd Low (Perdana University Centre for Bioinformatics, Malaysia & University of Adelaide, Australia) & Martti Tammi (Sime Darby, Malaysia)

Life Sciences “The book is a great practical introduction to the bioinformatics analysis of next generation sequencing data, covering all the major areas of analysis, from quality control and alignment to domain-specific analysis such as variant calling and transcriptomics. The book is highly practical with well-chosen and relevant exercises for readers who want to get their feet wet analysing sequencing data. It is excellent resource for conducting practical classes or workshops. The exercises are highly relevant and the book covers major areas for next generation bioinformatics, making it suitable for beginners, but also experienced practitioners looking to try out analyses in a different domain.” Rights Information: Kenneth Hon Kim BAN, MBBS, PhD All language rights Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS Assistant Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR available.

252pp “The language used is relatively easy to understand for non-bioinformaticians. Sufficient Pub. date: Jul 2017 simplifications have been successfully done in describing complex concepts while still maintaining clarity. This is the book that I have been looking for. As a molecular geneticist starting to use NGS 978-981-3144-74-3 I find this book informative and practical for priming me with simple bioinformatics knowledge US$78 / £69 and skills.” Teguh Haryo Sasongko, MD, PhD Senior Lecturer, Human Genome Center, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Rapid technological developments have led to increasingly efficient sequencing approaches. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is increasingly common and has become cost-effective, generating an explosion of sequenced data that need to be analyzed. The skills required to apply computational analysis to target research on a wide range of applications that include

identifying causes of cancer, vaccine design, new antibiotics, drug development, personalized medicine and higher crop yields in agriculture are highly sought after.

This invaluable book provides step-by-step guides to complex topics that make it easy for readers to perform essential analyses from raw sequenced data to answering important biological questions. It is an excellent hands-on material for teachers who conduct courses in bioinformatics and as a reference material for professionals. The chapters are written to be standalone recipes making it suitable for readers who wish to self-learn selected topics. Readers will gain skills necessary to work on sequenced data from NGS platforms and hence making themselves more attractive to employers who need skilled bioinformaticians to handle the deluge of data.

Contents: Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Technologies (Lloyd Low and Martti T Tammi); Primer on Linux (Adeel Malik and Muhammad Farhan Sjaugi); Inspection of Sequence Quality (Kwong Qi Bin, Ong Ai Ling and Martti T Tammi); Alignment of Sequenced Reads (Akzam Saidin); Establish a Research Workflow (Joel Low Zi-Bin and Heng Huey Ying); De novo Assembly of a Genome (Joel Low Zi-Bin and Martti T Tammi); Exome Sequencing (Setia Pramana, Kwong Qi Bin, Heng Huey Ying, Nuha Hassim and Ong Ai Ling); Transcriptomics (Akzam Saidin); Metagenomics (Sim Chun Hock); Applications of NGS Data (Teh Chee-Keng, Ong Ai-Ling and Kwong Qi-Bin).

Readership: It is a necessary companion for undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and anyone interested in the exponentially growing field of bioinformatics.

Key Features: ○ This invaluable book provides step-by-step guides to complex topics that make it easy for readers to perform essential analyses from raw sequenced data to answering important biological questions ○ It is an excellent hands-on material for teachers who conduct courses in bioinformatics and as a reference material for professionals ○ The chapters are written to be standalone recipes making it suitable for readers who wish to self-learn selected topics

26 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Life Sciences Corrupt Cultures Rights Information: “Fake News” and Cheating in Science All language rights available. By (author): Roy Y Calne (Cambridge)

This book is concerned with cheating in Science and the harm that it does, concentrating on 345pp three disasters in cell culture, which caused international concern and personal tragedy for the Pub. date: Oct 2018 perpetrators. There is an overview of plant, animal and human cheating, providing a background to the focus on Science. This demands a special form of truth in that claims need to be substantiated 978-1-78634-542-4 by repetition in independent laboratories to confirm that the claims work. The nature of originality US$68 / £60 is examined in art and Science.

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

Advice is given to the young Scientist and suggestions have been made as to how fraud in Science could be reduced by more regulated supervision. There is a need to revise the regulations and assessment of claims of originality and the whole review process of journals to avoid publishing fake data.

This text is unusual in focusing on three well-documented cases. The data should not have been published in high impact journals if more rigorous review had been made. Journals should require independent repetition of claims that seem to be “too good to be true”. This little book should be of considerable interest to young scientists, historians of science and editors of scientific journals. The general reader might find it fascinating to learn how science works or does not work.

Readership: Motivated laypeople with an interest in fusion.

Key Features: ○ There is no book on fusion that is this accessible to the motivated layperson

GMO Sapiens Editor’s Choice The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies By (author): Paul Knoepfler (UC Davis)

“What I find troubling, exciting but scary, is that I find myself agreeing with an undertone, I do not support human germline genetic modification but with all the new information and perspectives available to me I have found myself questioning my own views and will be watching any developments with a fascinated interest I would rather not admit to.” The NODE

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) including plants and the foods made from them, are a hot topic of debate today, but soon related technology could go much further and literally change what it means to be human. Scientists are on the verge of being able to create people who are GMOs.

Should they do it? Could we become a healthier and ‘better’ species or might eugenics go viral leading to a real, new world of genetic dystopia? GMO Sapiens tackles such questions by taking Rights Information: a fresh look at the cutting-edge biotech discoveries that have made genetically modified people All language rights possible. (except Arabic, German, Bioengineering, genomics, synthetic biology, and stem cells are changing sci-fi into reality before Simplified Chinese, our eyes. This book will capture your imagination with its clear, approachable writing style. Japanese and Korean) It will draw you into the fascinating discussion of the life-changing science of human genetic available. modification. 284pp Readership: Undergraduate biology majors, graduate biology majors, non-experts interested in Pub. date: Nov 2015 GMOs, biologists and teenagers interested in cloning and human genetic modification. 978-981-4667-00-5 Key Features: US$68 / £45 ○ Books on this hot new topic of creating GMO people are rare, tend to be out-of-date, or have narrow topic ranges 978-981-4678-53-7(pbk) ○ The goal of this book is to educate and entertain an educated lay audience about human US$28 / £18 genetic modification

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 27 In the Spirit of Science Lectures by Sydney Brenner on DNA, Worms and Brains By (author): Sydney Brenner (A*STAR, Singapore) & Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA)

In October 2017, Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner (Physiology or Medicine, 2002) gave four lectures on the history of Molecular Biology, its impact on Neuroscience and the great scientific Life Sciences questions that lie ahead.

Sydney Brenner has been at the centre of the development of molecular biology, being a key player in shaping the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge into a cradle of research, where pioneering and seminal discoveries in the field for over half a century have resulted in more than half a dozen Nobel Prizes.

His memory is a treasure trove of the history of the field with innumerable anecdotes on other Rights Information: leading scientists in the past 60 years. These lectures trace the history and recount some of those All language rights anecdotes. His interlocutor Terry Sejnowski is the Francis Crick professor at the Salk Institute for available. Biological Studies and the Laboratory Head of its Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. Terry and Sydney are long-term collaborators and they share many stories and memories. 200pp Pub. date: Aug 2018 The recorded lectures are the basis for this book. It aims to preserve the history of molecular biology and to also raise scientific questions that have resulted from the work of Sydney, Terry and 978-981-3271-73-9 others. It should be read by everybody who is interested in the generation, history and impact of US$68 / £60 great ideas as recounted by one of the legends of 20th century science.

Readership: All students and researchers in molecular biology and related areas.

A Mathematical Modeling Approach to Infectious Diseases Cross Diffusion PDE Models for Epidemiology By (author): William E Schiesser (Lehigh University, USA)

The intent of this book is to provide a methodology for the analysis of infectious diseases by computer-based mathematical models. The approach is based on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that provide time variation of the model dependent variables and partial differential equations (PDEs) that provide time and spatial (spatiotemporal) variations of the model dependent variables.

The starting point is a basic ODE SIR (Susceptible Infected Recovered) model that defines the S,I,R populations as a function of time. The ODE SIR model is then extended to PDEs that demonstrate the spatiotemporal evolution of the S,I,R populations. A unique feature of the Rights Information: PDE model is the use of cross diffusion between populations, a nonlinear effect that is readily All language rights accommodated numerically. A second feature is the use of radial coordinates to represent the geographical distribution of the model populations. available. The numerical methods for the computer implementation of ODE/PDE models for infectious 460pp diseases are illustrated with documented R routines for particular applications, including models Pub. date: Jun 2018 for malaria and the Zika virus. The R routines are available from a download so that the reader can reproduce the reported solutions, then extend the applications through computer experimentation, 978-981-3238-78-7 including the addition of postulated effects and associated equations, and the implementation of US$98 / £86 alternative models of interest.

The ODE/PDE methodology is open ended and facilitates the development of computer-based models which hopefully can elucidate the causes/conditions of infectious disease evolution and suggest methods of control.

Readership: Medical researchers, biologists, applied mathematicians, NIH, WHO, pharmaceutical companies.

Key Features: ○ Partial differential equation analysis defining the spatiotemporal evolution of epidemics ○ Cross diffusion between affected populations ○ Radial spatial coordinates corresponding to the physical system geometry ○ This combination of features does not appear in any other book of which the author is aware

28 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Life Sciences Progress, Pioneers and Process Studies in Physiology and Genetic Medicine By (author): Moyra Smith (UC Irvine)

This book describes the growth of information on specific aspects of physiology and pathology of particular disorders and provides an analysis of the processes and contributions of pioneers to discovery. It begins primarily in the second half of the 19th century and explores specific contributions of researchers through to the 20th and 21st centuries. The book revisits specific aspects of physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology relevant to genetic medicine. In addition, it provides a review of specific human disorders that the author has encountered during her career, as well as an analysis of the progress in determining disease mechanisms and improving therapies.

The chapters in this book provide insights into the processes of research and discovery, as well Rights Information: as how elucidation of disease mechanisms translates into research in diagnostics and treatments. All language rights available. The book provides historical information and current information obtained from recent journals and presentations, on each of the topics discussed. 350pp Pub. date: Oct 2018 Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students and academics in molecular biology and medicine. 978-981-3270-57-2 US$118 / £105

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

Influenza, AIDS, and Ebola: Viruses are normally defined as pathogens. Most viruses are, however, not enemies or killers. Well-known virologist and cancer researcher Karin Moelling describes surprising insights about a completely new and unexpected world of viruses. Viruses are ubiquitous, in the oceans, our environment, in animals, plants, bacteria, in our body, even in our genomes. They influence our weather, can contribute to control obesity, and can surprisingly be applied against threatening multi-resistant bacteria. The success story of the viruses started more than 3.5 billion years ago in the dawn of life when even cells did not exist. They are the superpower of life. There are more viruses on earth than stars in the sky. Viruses are everywhere. Some of them are incredibly ancient. Many viruses are hundredfold smaller than bacteria, but others are tenfold bigger and they were discovered only recently — the giant viruses, even deep within the permafrost where they were reactivated after 30,000 years. Rights Information: The author talks about a completely new world of viruses, which are based on the most recent, in All language (except part her own research results. Could viruses have been our oldest ancestors? Have viruses even Russian and Simplified “invented” social behavior, do they lead to geniuses such as Mozart or Einstein — or alternatively Chinese) rights available. to cancer? They can help to cure cancer. In this book, the author made a clear distinction between what is fact and what is her vision. This book is written for a general audience and not just for the 300pp experts. Its aim is to stimulate thinking, and perhaps to attract more young scientists to enter this Pub. date: Oct 2018 field of research. 978-981-3147-81-2 Readership: All US$58 / £48

978-981-3147-82-9(pbk) US$26 / £18

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 29 Industrial Applications of Ultrafast Lasers By (author): Richard Haight & Adra V Carr (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)

This book describes the application of ultrafast laser science and technology in materials and processing relevant to industry today, including ultrafast laser ablation where fundamental studies have led to the development of the world’s first femtosecond photomask repair tool. Semiconductor manufacturing companies worldwide use the tool to repair photomask defects, saving hundreds of millions in production costs. The most up-to-date ultrafast laser technologies are described and methods to generate high harmonics for photoelectron spectroscopy

Materials Science of industrially important materials are covered, with an emphasis on practical laboratory implementation. Basic device physics merged with photoemission studies from single- and polycrystalline materials are described. Extensions to new methods for extracting key device properties of metal-oxide-semiconductor structures, including band offsets, effective work functions, semiconductor band bending and defect-related charging in a number of technologically Rights Information: important gate oxides are detailed. Polycrystalline photovoltaic materials and heterostructures All language rights as well as organic light emitting materials are covered. This book describes both the history, and most recent applications of ultrafast laser science to industrially relevant materials, processes available. and devices.

208pp Contents: An Overview of Ultrafast Lasers and Their Applications to Laser Ablation; Photomask Pub. date: Mar 2018 Repair; Photoelectron Spectroscopy; High Harmonic Generation; Applications to Metal-Oxide- Semiconductor Device Structures; Nanowire Spectroscopy and Femtosecond Laser Processing. 978-981-4569-00-2 US$138 / £115 Readership: This book provides a basis for researchers and technologists interested in the applications of ultrafast lasers and as such will be relevant to a wide range of readers in both large and small industrial settings as well as materials science and engineering schools at universities.

Key Features: ○ At present there are no books in the market on this topic

Ivan Stranski — the Grandmaster of Crystal Growth By (author): Ivan V Markov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

Who is Ivan Stranski, you ask? If you enter Google and write his name you will find thousands of sites citing his name. In fact, the Kossel-Stranski model of crystal growth and the Stranski- Krastanov mode of growth of thin epitaxial films are named after him — just two of the many scientific ideas and concepts Professor Stranski introduced to science (and through which a whole new field in science was born). Today thousands of physicists, chemists and materials scientists all over the world are working in the field of crystal growth, epitaxial growth and nucleation for inventing new materials and high technologies. In this respect, the life, personality and way of thinking of this remarkable scientist should be of great interest to both beginners and professionals in science.

This book describes the life and scientific achievements of Ivan Stranski, Bulgarian-German physical chemist and the father of crystal growth, against the historical backdrop of wars, Rights Information: massacres, and remarkable scientific discoveries in the 20th Century. It covers his family roots, All language rights which are remarkable in their own right, his life and career both in Bulgaria and Germany (West available. Berlin), and his scientific achievements, including his most important contribution to the physics of crystal growth. 140pp Pub. date: Oct 2018 The book captures Professor Stranski’s personality and way of thinking as much as possible from the recollections of his disciples and contemporaries. Short biographical notes about his most 978-981-3270-45-9 renowned students in Bulgaria, Rostislaw Kaischew and Lyubomir Krastanov, with whom Stranski US$78 / £70 developed his most fundamental ideas are also included.

Readership: Students studying, and physicists, chemists and materials scientists working in, the field of crystal growth, epitaxial growth and nucleation for inventing new materials and high technologies.

Key Features: ○ There are no competing titles, so it is unique in this case

30 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Materials Science Materials Concepts for Solar Cells (2nd Edition) By (author): Thomas Dittrich (Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Germany)

Reviews of the First Edition: “The book offers a well-balanced treatment of physical principles and materials-related concepts of solar cells, and considers both classical and new trends in this rapidly developing field ... The book is perfectly structured, with a concise summary of the most important points provided for every chapter, and the description of the concepts well complemented by the tasks. I strongly recommend this book for students and scientists attracted to the renewable energy and the materials science fields.” Andrey Rogach Chair Professor of Photonic Materials City University of Hong Kong Rights Information: “The book is of good pedagogical value. Students as well as teachers can make use of this either All language rights as a main textbook or as a support for their lessons. In general, the book is well-written and available. provides a solid basis for studying solar cells.” MRS Bulletin 568pp Pub. date: Jan 2018

A modern challenge is for solar cell materials to enable the highest solar energy conversion 978-1-78634-448-9 efficiencies, at costs as low as possible, and at an energy balance as sustainable as necessary US$128 / £113 in the future. This textbook explains the principles, concepts and materials used in solar cells. It combines basic knowledge about solar cells and the demanded criteria for the materials with a comprehensive introduction into each of the four classes of materials for solar cells, i.e. solar cells based on crystalline silicon, epitaxial layer systems of III-V semiconductors, thin-film absorbers on foreign substrates, and nano-composite absorbers. In this sense, it bridges a gap between basic literature on the physics of solar cells and books specialized on certain types of solar cells.

The last five years had several breakthroughs in photovoltaics and in the research on solar cells and solar cell materials. We consider them in this second edition. For example, the high potential of crystalline silicon with charge-selective hetero-junctions and alkaline treatments of thin-film absorbers, based on chalcopyrite, enabled new records. Research activities were boosted by the class of hybrid organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites, a promising newcomer in the field.

This is essential reading for students interested in solar cells and materials for solar cells. It encourages students to solve tasks at the end of each chapter. It has been well applied for postgraduate students with background in materials science, engineering, chemistry or physics.

Contents: Preface; Symbols and Abbrevations; Basics of Solar Cells and Materials Demands: Basic Characteristics and Characterization of Solar Cells; Photocurrent Generation and the Origin of Photovoltage; Influence of Recombination on the Minimum Lifetime; Charge Separation Across pn-Junctions; Ohmic Contacts for Solar Cells; Maximum Efficiency of Solar Cells;Materials Specific Concepts: Solar Cells Based on Crystalline Si; Solar Cells Based on III–V Semiconductors; Thin-Film Solar Cells; Nano-Composite Solar Cells; Solutions to Tasks; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and graduate students in photovoltaics, as well as students with background in materials science, engineering, chemistry or physics.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 31 Board Games Throughout the History and Multidimensional Spaces By (author): Jorma Kyppö (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

In this richly illustrated book, Dr Jorma Kyppö explores the history of board games dating back to Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China. He provides a description of the evolution and

Mathematics various interpretations of chess. Furthermore, the book offers the study of the old Celtic and Viking board games and the old Hawaiian board game Konane, as well as a new hypothesis about the interpretation of the famous Cretan Phaistos Disk. Descriptions of several chess variations, including some highlights of the game theory and tiling in different dimensions, are followed by a multidimensional symmetrical n-person strategy game model, based on chess. Final chapter (Concluding remarks) offers the new generalizations of the Euler-Poincare’s Characteristic, Pi and Fibonacci sequence.

Rights Information: Readership: Researchers in combinatorics, complex manifolds and topology, game theory. All language rights Key Features: available. ○ Versatility, inspiration, innovations: From history to mathematics and game theory

250pp ○ The book offers ten different new hypotheses related to both, the mathematics and history Pub. date: Aug 2018

978-981-3233-52-2 US$98 / £86

Ernest Irving Freese’s Geometric Transformations The Man, the Manuscript, the Magnificent Dissections! By (author): Greg N Frederickson (Purdue University, USA)

A geometric dissection is a cutting of a geometric figure (such as a regular polygon, or a star, or a cross) into pieces that we can rearrange to form another geometric figure. The best dissections are beautiful and possess economy (few pieces), symmetry, or hingeability. They are often challenging to discover.

Ernest Irving Freese was an architect who lived and worked in Los Angeles until his death in 1957. Shortly before he passed away, he completed a 200-page manuscript on geometric dissection, the first book-length treatment on that subject. Freese included elegant drawings of dissections that were both original and clever. After his death the manuscript lay forgotten in his former house until Greg Frederickson set in motion its recovery in 2003. What a treat that it was rescued!

Rights Information: Frederickson’s book sketches a history of geometric dissections and a biography of Freese, All language rights followed by a refurbished copy of Freese’s manuscript interleaved with a commentary that available. highlights Freese’s major contributions as well as singular improvements made by Frederickson and others after Freese. 432pp This book introduces Freese and his creations to math puzzle enthusiasts, by way of his engaging Pub. date: Nov 2017 manuscript, his wild adventures, and his lovely dissections. Frederickson also includes remarkable designs that improve on Freese’s work, and packs this book with nifty illustrations and tidbits that 978-981-3220-46-1 may well leave you speechless! US$98 / £81 Contents: The Rich History of Geometric Dissections; The «Wild Adventures» of Ernest Irving 978-981-3220-47-8(pbk) Freese; Techniques, Special Properties, Hardness; Freese›s Title Page and Descriptive Index; US$38 / £32 Isosceles Triangles; Equilateral Triangles; Squares, Crosses, Rectangles; Pentagons and Pentagrams; Hexagons and Hexagrams; Octagons and Octagrams; Enneagons (Nonagons); Decagons and Decagrams; Dodecagons and Dodecagrams; Many-sided Polygons; Miscellaneous Figures; More Crosses; More Miscellaneous Figures; Mixed Polygons to One; Special Triangles;

Readership: General public and math puzzle enthusiasts.

32 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Mathematics The KENKEN Method — Puzzles for Beginners 150 Puzzles and Solutions to Make You Smarter Created by: Tetsuya Miyamoto Edited by: Robert Fuhrer (KenKen Puzzle Company)

KenKen is the world’s fastest growing puzzle since sudoku. It was developed in a Japanese Classroom in 2004 by renowned educator, Tetsuya Miyamoto, and was later introduced internationally as both an adult and educational math and logic puzzle in 2008. Originally intended to improve reasoning, creativity, concentration, and perseverance, this simple yet sophisticated puzzle has since expanded beyond the classroom into a global sensation. KenKen can be found daily in The New York Times and is now available in over 200 publications worldwide. Unlimited KenKen puzzles can be accessed on www.kenkenpuzzle.com and can also be played on mobile devices via the KenKen Classic app. It is supported by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the world’s largest math education organization, and is used by over 30,000 educators worldwide. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: Introduction; How to Use This Book; The Rules of KenKen; Step-by-Step Tutorial (except Japanese) for Beginners; 3x3 Puzzles; 4x4 Puzzles (Easiest Level): Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All available. 4 Operations; 4x4 Puzzles (Easy Level): Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 4x4 Puzzles (Medium Level): Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 5x5 Puzzles (Easiest Level): Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 5x5 Puzzles (Easy Level): 128pp Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 5x5 Puzzles (Medium Level): Addition, Addition Pub. date: Jan 2018 & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 6x6 Puzzles (Easiest Level):Addition, Addition & Subtraction, All 4 Operations; 6x6 Puzzles (Easy Level): All 4 Operations; Solutions. 978-981-3232-55-6(pbk) US$9 / £8 Readership: General public who like to solve puzzles.

Introduction to Number Theory By (author): Richard Michael Hill (University College London, UK)

Introduction to Number Theory is dedicated to concrete questions about integers, to place an emphasis on problem solving by students. When undertaking a first course in number theory, students enjoy actively engaging with the properties and relationships of numbers.

The book begins with introductory material, including uniqueness of factorization of integers and polynomials. Subsequent topics explore quadratic reciprocity, Hensel’s Lemma, p-adic powers series such as exp(px) and log(1+px), the Euclidean property of some quadratic rings, representation of integers as norms from quadratic rings, and Pell’s equation via continued fractions.

Throughout the five chapters and more than 100 exercises and solutions, readers gain the advantage of a number theory book that focuses on doing calculations. This textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduates or those with a background in university level mathematics. Rights Information: All language rights Contents: About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Euclid’s Algorithm; Polynomial available. Rings; Congruences Modulo Prime Numbers; p-Adic Methods in Number Theory; Diophantine Equations and Quadratic Rings; Solutions to Exercises; Bibliography; Index. 264pp Pub. date: Dec 2017 Readership: Students and educators in a university course on number theory.

978-1-78634-471-7 US$108 / £95

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 33 Rights Information: In the Search for Beauty All language rights By (author): available. Voldemar Smilga This is a popular book that chronicles the historical attempts to prove the fifth postulate of Euclid 350pp on parallel lines that led eventually to the creation of non-Euclidean geometry. To absorb the Pub. date: Aug 2018 mathematical content of the book, the reader should be familiar with the foundations of Euclidean geometry at the high school level. But besides the mathematics, the book is also devoted to Mathematics 978-981-3274-35-8 human stories about the people, brilliant mathematicians starting from Pythagoras and terminating US$78 / £70 with Gauss, Lobachevsky and Klein who first tried to prove the fifth postulate (whose formulation seemed to them too complicated to be a real postulate and not a theorem, hence the title “In the search for beauty”). It was understood in the 19th century that such proof was impossible leading to a revolution of mathematics. The two final chapters are devoted to Einstein and his general relativity.

The human stories represent historical essays with a chapter devoted to Omar Khayyam, who was not only a poet, but also a brilliant scientist and mathematician.

Readership: All students, historians and researchers interested in mathematical physics.

Key Features: ○ Presents a very clear description of the foundations of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry written in simple terms and accessible to any reader with a high school certificate ○ A unique concise narration about the history of mathematics and not just mathematics ○ Accompanied by witty funny pictures, which can help the reader better absorb the contents

Editor’s Choice Logic in Wonderland An Introduction to Logic through Reading Alice in Wonderland — Teacher’s Guidebook By (author): Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel) & Atara Shriki (Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel)

This guidebook is for college instructors who teach a course in Introduction to Logic at a teachers college or provide a workshop in this subject for in-service mathematics teachers. It can also be used by high school mathematics teachers for teaching students who are capable and interested in Logic.

Learning is based upon reading from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and discussing quotes from that book as a trigger for developing basic notion in Logic. This guidebook includes the student’s worksheets with exemplary solutions, as well as the background in elementary logic and pedagogical comments. There is a student’s workbook that accompanies the guidebook which includes the student’s worksheets without solutions. Rights Information: All language rights Ordinary textbooks for such a course are purely mathematical in their nature, and students usually available. find the course difficult, boring and very technical. Our approach motivates the students through reading the classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Caroll who was not only one of the best storytellers but also a logician. 300pp Pub. date: Sep 2018 Contents: Designing a Learning Environment; The Logical Connective AND; The Logical Connective NOT; The Logical Connective OR; De Morgan’s Laws; The Empty Set; Relations and 978-981-3208-62-9 their Properties; The Quantifiers ALL, THERE EXISTS and ONLY; The Logical Connective ‘IF ..., US$98 / £81 THEN ...’ (Implication); Necessary and Sufficient Condition.

978-981-3209-81-7(pbk) Readership: Professional college mathematics teachers, high school mathematics teachers and US$48 / £40 prospective teachers of high school mathematics.

Key Features: ○ A vivid treatment of a difficult subject matter ○ Written by experts in the field of mathematics education

34 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Editor’s Choice Mathematics The Mathematics That Power Our World How Is It Made? By (author): Joseph Khoury & Gilles Lamothe (University of Ottawa, Canada)

The Mathematics That Power Our World: How Is It Made? is an attempt to unveil the hidden mathematics behind the functioning of many of the devices we use on a daily basis. For the past years, discussions on the best approach in teaching and learning mathematics have shown how much the world is divided on this issue. The one reality we seem to agree on globally is the fact that our new generation is lacking interest and passion for the subject. One has the impression that the vast majority of young students finishing high school or in their early post-secondary studies are more and more divided into two main groups when it comes to the perception of mathematics. The first group looks at mathematics as a pure academic subject with little connection to the real world. The second group considers mathematics as a set of tools that a computer can be programmed to use and thus, a basic knowledge of the subject is sufficient. This book serves Rights Information: as a middle ground between these two views. Many of the elegant and seemingly theoretical All language rights concepts of mathematics are linked to state-of-the-art technologies. The topics of the book are available. selected carefully to make that link more relevant. They include: digital calculators, basics of data compression and the Huffman coding, the JPEG standard for data compression, the GPS system 204pp studied both from the receiver and the satellite ends, image processing and face recognition. Pub. date: May 2016

This book is a great resource for mathematics educators in high schools, colleges and universities 978-981-4730-84-6 who want to engage their students in advanced readings that go beyond the classroom US$55 / £40 discussions. It is also a solid foundation for anyone thinking of pursuing a career in science or engineering. All efforts were made so that the exposition of each topic is as clear and self- 978-981-3144-08-8(pbk) contained as possible and thus, appealing to anyone trying to broaden his mathematical horizons. US$28 / £20

Readership: Advanced high school students, undergraduates and teachers interested in the mathemtics that drive many modern technologies.

Key Features: ○ The book strikes a delicate balance between relevant common applications and a reasonable dose of mathematics

○ The mathematical proofs included are written in a way to assist students make a transition to higher level courses where tedious and detailed proofs are required

○ The reader starts every chapter with a clear expectation on the level of mathematics involved

○ Chapters are made as independent as possible to give the reader the flexibility to start at any point of the book

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 35 Editor’s Choice The Power of Computational Thinking Games, Magic and Puzzles to Help You Become a Computational Thinker By (author): Paul Curzon & Peter W McOwan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

“A huge need and an outstanding author team with a glowing track record in this precise area.

Mathematics What more do you want?” Simon Peyton Jones (FRS) Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK

“A wonderful book full of ideas with which to inspire and engage in computational thinking. Core concepts and principles are brought to life in fun and engaging ways through puzzles, magic tricks and games. This is a must-have book for Computing teachers.” Rights Information: Dr Kevin R Bond All language (except Managing Director Russia, Traditional Educational Computing Services Ltd Chinese & German) rights available. The Power of Computational Thinking shows that learning to think can be fascinating fun. ○ Can you become a computational thinker? 232pp ○ Can machines have brains? Pub. date: Jan 2017 ○ Do computers really see and understand the world? 978-1-78634-183-9 ○ Can games help us to study nature, save lives and design the future? US$58 / £48 ○ Can you use computational thinking in your everyday activities?

978-1-78634-184-6(pbk) Yes, and this book shows you how. US$24 / £20 Computational thinking has changed the way we all live, work and play. It has changed the way science is done too; won wars, created whole new industries and saved lives. It is at the heart of computer programming and is a powerful approach to problem solving, with or without computers. It is so important that many countries now require that primary school children learn the skills.

Professors Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan of Queen Mary University of London have written a unique and enjoyable introduction. They describe the elements of computational thinking — such as algorithmic thinking, decomposition, abstraction and pattern matching — in an entertaining and accessible way, using magic tricks, games and puzzles, as well as through real and challenging problems that computer scientists work on.

This book gives you a head start in learning the skills needed for coding, and will improve your real life problem solving skills. It will help you design and evaluate new technologies, as well as understand both your own brain and the digital world in a deeper way.

Readership: School pupils studying the new programming based national curriculum in computer science, and teachers’ upskilling to teach programming. The book may also be useful for first year computer science undergraduate students.

Rights Information: Tools to Help Your Children Learn Math All language rights Strategies, Curiosities, and Stories to Make Math Fun for Parents available. and Children 300pp By (author): Alfred S Posamentier, Gavrielle Levine, Aaron Lieberman & Pub. date: Oct 2018 Danielle Sauro (Long Island University, USA)

Parents need to take an ever-increasing role in their child’s learning experience. However, what 978-981-3271-42-5 to do and how to do it is often not prescribed to the parents. This book offers a wide variety of US$88 / £75 aspects related to the parent’s role as a support to their child’s learning of mathematics, and above all appreciation for the subject. 978-981-3272-47-7(pbk) S$38 / £35 The uniqueness of this book is that we provide the parent the information they need about how mathematics is taught in today’s early grades. We then provide a plethora of ideas that can motivate children with information beyond that which is taught in the classroom.

Readership: Parents and general public.

36 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Editor’s Choice Mathematics The Paper Puzzle Book All You Need is Paper! By (author): Ilan Garibi, David Goodman & Yossi Elran

ALL YOU NEED IS PAPER! All the puzzles inside are made out of paper — from simple teasers to extreme brain workouts!

ORIGINAL DESIGNS Co-developed by a mathematician, an origami artist and a mechanical puzzle maker, this inventive book provides a unique and invaluable collection of a large, comprehensive and diverse collection of paper puzzles. And they only require a sheet of paper and perhaps a pair of scissors!

EASY TO CHALLENGING There are around one hundred unique puzzles including paper strip puzzles, Möbius strips and flexagons, two-dimensional sheet folding, ‹fold-and-cut› puzzles, 3D dissections and constructions, sequence folding puzzles, origami puzzles and even paper toys Rights Information: and magic. All language (except Hebrew & Simplified PROVIDES HOURS OF FUN Anyone of any age can find hours of enjoyment and challenge! Chinese) rights available.

LEARNING GEOMETRY, MATHEMATICS AND PROBLEM-SOLVING CHALLENGES CAN BE 130pp FUN! For students and teachers; parents and children; amateur and skilled mathematicians and Pub. date: Sep 2017 puzzle lovers. 978-981-3202-40-5 LEARN CONCEPTS AS YOU GO! Many of the puzzles are new and original, they complement the US$35 / £29 classic puzzles that are included and all of them come with a solution as well as a mathematical and geometrical explanation that can be easily understood by all. The layout of the book, with 978-981-3202-41-2(pbk) its extensive puzzles, solutions and detailed descriptions, make it a sure candidate as the paper US$18 / £15 puzzle ‹bible› for enthusiasts and puzzle lovers everywhere.

Contents: Folding Puzzles; Color Changing Puzzles; Exploiting the Colored Side of Origami Paper; Just Paper Puzzles, No Folds or Cuts; 3D Folding Puzzles — Puzzles Regarding Cubes, Tetrahedron and Similar; Sequence Folding Puzzles; Strips of Paper — Such as Möbius Band and Other Puzzles; Flexagons; Fold and Cut Puzzles; Cut Only Puzzles; Fun with Paper — Activities and Fun Projects with Paper.

Readership: Puzzle and riddle lovers, and origami enthusiasts.

Key Features: ○ Many new and original puzzles

○ A huge collection of paper puzzles and activities for all ages and levels

○ Both educational and fun; highly challenging puzzles

○ Presents many geometrical and mathematical principals in an easy to understand manner

○ Possibly the only book in the market that contains such a large and diverse collection of paper puzzles

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 37 The 21st Century Guide to Writing Articles in the Biomedical Sciences By (author): Shiri Diskin (Science Write Right, Israel)

Medicine We live in an unprecedented era of flourishing of scientific publishing. However, many professionals in the biomedical sciences find writing articles to be a daunting task. The book is meant to serve as a practical writing guide that covers the writing process from the project’s inception until online distribution of the published article.

The book covers the framework for constructing a scientific study into a coherent narrative that can later be easily translated into a written manuscript. The content of each article section in accordance with the IMRAD format is covered and many details for the construction of additional submission materials are provided. Characteristics of papers reporting on specific types of research are presented as well as article types other than the general full research article. The book is full of resources for additional reading and learning. Rights Information: All language rights There are many writing guides on the market. Most of them are general, cover a wide range available. of scientific writing, and are mainly aimed at students. This book is best suited for young professionals who are a few years out of school. They no longer enjoy the benefit of close 132pp mentoring by a thesis adviser or equivalent, but still lack the experience to lead writing projects Pub. date: Mar 2018 on their own. Through her experience of teaching young professionals and editing their work, Dr Diskin has learned their unique set of needs and the book has been written in an attempt to 978-981-3231-86-3 address them. Dr Diskin addresses the reader in the second person, with an ever-supportive US$58 / £51 tone. Importantly, the practicalities of writing articles in today’s interconnected environment are discussed throughout the book. Topics such as coordinating the writing in a multinational team, 978-981-3233-75-1(pbk) use of different types of software in the writing process and resources available online to support US$28 / £25 the writer are addressed in detail.

Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Before you Write; Choosing your Target Journal; The Methods Section; The Results Section; The Introduction; The Discussion; The Abstract and Title; When you have a Full Draft; Following Submission; Abbreviations and Terms; References;

Readership: Doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other young professionals who write journal articles in the biomedical sciences.

Key Features: ○ User-friendly pocket-sized yet thorough writing guide, a 200-word synopsis is provided as quick reference at the top of each chapter ○ Practical, easy-to-follow tips on managing every step of the writing process ○ An abundance of resources to use while writing

An Angiology Bible By (author): Giovanni Vincent Belcaro (Irvine³ Vascular Lab, Ch-Pe University, Italy, Italy)

This book is a 360º view of vascular pathologies and an introduction to the complexity of the most important field in medicine, with topics including cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, venous diseases, investigations, population sciences, prevention and the indication of a specialization field.

It offers a broad introduction to angiology and vascular diseases, surgery and medicine, in an easy-to-read format with case studies separated under key areas. The scope includes many different aspects at an introductory level under a single observational point, bringing unity and homogeneity in the otherwise disjointed field of circulation sciences.

Readership: Medical graduates and medical practitioners specialising in angiology.

Rights Information: Key Features: All language rights ○ No competing titles available. ○ The group producing the book has much clinical experience in the field 250pp Pub. date: Sep 2018

978-1-78634-569-1 US$98 / £85

38 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Editor’s Choice Medicine Alzheimer’s Disease Decoded The History, Present, and Future of Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia By (author): Ronald Sahyouni (UC Irvine), Jefferson Chen (UC Irvine) & Aradhana Verma (UC San Francisco)

The book aims to present, educate and inform individuals about Alzheimer’s disease in a comprehensive manner. Its scope ranges from the discovery of the disease, epidemiology and basic biological principles underlying it, to advanced stem cell therapies used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s. It adopts a “global” perspective on Alzheimer’s disease, and include epidemiological data and science from countries around the world.

Alzheimer’s disease is a rapidly growing problem seen in every country around the world. This is the first and only comprehensive book to cover Alzheimer’s disease, and includes the most Rights Information: updated literature and scientific progress in the field of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease All language (except research. Simplified Chinese, Indo- Most books on the market that focus on Alzheimer’s disease are targeted at caregivers as practical nesian and Dutch) rights advice on how to deal with loved ones with the disease. This book instead is a comprehensive available. and popular science book that can be read by anyone with an interest in learning more about the disease. 200pp Pub. date: Aug 2016 Dr. Jefferson Chen MD, PhD, co-author, participated in the world’s first surgical clinical trial using shunts to treat Alzheimer’s disease. His first-hand involvement in a clinical trial for patients with 978-981-3109-24-7 Alzheimer’s disease and experience treating Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) which is US$58 / £38 commonly misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease lends a unique perspective. 978-981-3109-25-4(pbk) This book with appeal to a wide audience, regardless of their scientific or educational background. US$28 / £18

Key Features: ○ We approach Alzheimer’s disease in a comprehensive and global manner, from its history to the latest scientific discoveries in the field. No other book provides readers with the thoroughness and explanation of complex scientific topics like ours. Additionally, this book does not focus on Alzheimer’s only in the United States, but rather, how Alzheimer’s disease affects individuals around the world

○ Dr. Jefferson Chen MD, PhD, co-author, participated in the world’s first surgical clinical trial using shunts to treat Alzheimer’s disease. His first-hand involvement in a clinical trial for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and experience treating Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus (NPH) which commonly is misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease lends a unique perspective. As Director of NeuroTrauma at UCI medical center, he is involved in many up-front initiatives to mitigate the long term effects of traumatic brain injury

○ We wrote this book with the intention of making it readable and understandable by a wide audience, regardless of their scientific or educational background. We explain simply and succinctly any topic which is discussed in the book, and ensure that readers understand the information that is presented by using real world examples and personal anecdotes to humanize the subject matter

Readership: Interested lay public.

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 39 Editor’s Choice Constable and Lim Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology (6th Edition) By (author): Ian J Constable (Lions Eye Institute, Australia), Tien Yin Wong (Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore & NUS, Singapore) & Vignesh Raja (Sir Charles Medicine Gairdner Hospital, Australia)

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

For medical students, general practitioners, optometrists, paramedical personnel 200pp Readership: Pub. date: Aug 2018 and community ophthalmic assistants.

978-981-3236-61-5 US$68 / £60

978-981-3237-29-2(pbk) US$38 / £33

Rights Information: Essentials of Ophthalmology All language rights For Medical School and Beyond available. By (author): Victor Koh & Ray Manotosh (National University Hospital, Singapore)

250pp Essentials of Ophthalmology: For Medical School and Beyond is a concise reference text for the Pub. date: Aug 2018 medical undergraduates and residents, but the contents will also benefit family physicians who really are the first line of eye-care givers in the community. 978-981-3275-59-1 US$128 / £115 Highly illustrated with 200 colour clinical pictures and illustrations, the book is written by the multi-disciplinary faculty of the Department of Ophthalmology, National University Health System, Singapore. The authors constantly asked themselves “how much is too much” and deliberately attempted to weed out any “excess” for the benefit of the target readers. The content is written in a point format with lucid language.

Emphasis has been focused on information that constitutes essential ophthalmic “core conditions and problems” of the current medical undergraduate curriculum. Every section in the book has “learning objectives” and a “take home message” to facilitate quick learning. The book embraces a practical guide to the study of ocular diseases, basic methods of investigations and treatment where applicable.

Readership: Medical undergraduates, residents, primary eye-care providers.

Key Features: ○ The book is designed to incorporate knowledge and skills to prepare the undergraduate medical students for their NUS rotation within Ophthalmology

○ The content is written in summarized point format with lucid language that is supplemented with more than 200 high resolution clinical pictures and illustrations

○ Atlas of coloured images which illustrates concepts, anatomy, conditions, treatment and common complications related to the Asian population

40 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Medicine Fighting the OCD Monster A Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Workbook for Treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Children and Adolescents Edited by: Haanusia Prithivi Raj (Institute of Mental Health, Singapore)

“Haanusia Prithivi Raj has created a masterpiece in drafting a cognitive behavioral therapy oriented self-guided treatment protocol for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. The writing is very clear and patient/family oriented, and appropriately harnesses the efficacy of exposure and ritual prevention in addressing this debilitating but very treatable condition. Beyond its focus on exposure based treatment elements, the manual is notable for including additional modules to help someone affected beat OCD and prevent a return of symptoms. This text will do much to advance access to care and belongs on the shelf of those who are affected by OCD, their family member, and will be a useful asset to practicing clinicians.” Eric Storch, PhD McIngvale Presidential Endowed Chair & Professor Rights Information: Vice Chair & Head of Psychology All language rights Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences available. Baylor College of Medicine 100pp

Pub. date: Jul 2018 This workbook incorporates the best and most effective Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) techniques and tips for the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) especially in 978-981-3239-45-6 children and young adults. Research indicates that CBT with Exposure and Response Prevention US$38 / £35 (ERP) works best in treating OCD. This workbook describes a CBT programme for children and young adolescents (of ages 7 to 18) who have OCD. It is best suited for those who have been diagnosed with OCD, and are intending to commence treatment with a CBT Therapist. While OCD can be a daunting and debilitating condition, help is available and a life without OCD is possible. This book was designed to be a one-stop book for families, patients and therapists battling OCD monsters.

Readership: It is a one-stop information book on fighting OCD for young persons and their caregivers. It is suitable for both young children and yet still engaging for adolescents and adults alike. It also has notes for therapists to help patients and families fight OCD.

Key Features: ○ Written in a simple language with heart-warming illustrations suitable for young children and yet still engaging for adolescents and adults alike ○ It’s a three-in-one book: treatment manual and self help book for children and adolescents with OCD; their families and therapists/practitioners ○ Contains strategies to address common roadblocks or complications that can arise in treatment of OCD in children and adolescents ○ Contains therapy notes to guide each session and worksheets that can be used in therapy sessions

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 41 Editor’s Choice Gynecology Clinics Illustrated By (author): Sun Kuie Tay (Singapore General Hospital, Singapore)

This book presents symptom-orientated teaching of gynecology, illustrated with a wide range of

Medicine photographs to simulated real-world learning in clinic settings. The content of the book consists of 23 common clinical scenarios which covers the entire spectrum of gynecologic entities. This book is suitable for learning of clinical gynecology by medical students, residents of gynecology and family physicians, as well as gynecology nurses.

Teaching of clinical medicine is the process that transforms a student into a practising physician who makes diagnosis and formulates management strategies. Exposure of learners to wide- ranging clinical conditions is essential. This book, generously illustrated with 225 colored photographs of a large number of gynecology entities, bridges the gap of restricted time and accessibility of learners to gynecology patients in the current clinical settings.

Rights Information: Contents: Primary Amenorrhea; Oligo-Menorrhea; Secondary Amenorrhea; Intermenstrual All language rights Bleeding; Irregular Menstruations; Heavy Menstrual Bleeding; Post-Coital Bleeding; available. Postmenopausal Bleeding; Dysmenorrhea; Dyspareunia; Premenstrual Syndrome; Vaginal Discharge; Pruritus Vulvae; Painful Vulva; A Lump Down Below; Urinary Incontinence; Acute Abdominal Pain; Chronic Pelvic Pain; Abdominal Swelling; Cervical Screening; Subfertility; Fertility 328pp Control; Hot Flushes. Pub. date: Mar 2018 Readership: Medical students, residents of gynecology, family physicians and gynecology nurses. 978-981-3229-03-7 US$98 / £86 Key Features: ○ Subjects in this book are treated according to clinical settings as assimilated information for immediate clinical application, in contrast to compartmentalized and fragmented information provided according to organ and pathology systems in traditional text books ○ Numerous color photographs in this book provides more accurate details than text description on clinical entities in traditional textbooks ○ The breadth of the subjects is drawn from the author’s practice in gynecology for more| than three decades. Each subject is reviewed and updated with information available within the last 12 months to reflect the contemporary practice of gynecology

Editor’s Choice Well-Being and Well-Dying, Cancel the Cancer By (author): Min Young Lee (SFJ Pharmaceuticals Group, Singapore) Rights Information: Panic is the common initial reaction from a person diagnosed with cancer. Most patients, with a All language rights lack of knowledge about the nature of cancer and the treatment options, become anxious to learn available. about cancer and how to overcome the notorious disease.

120pp However, it is not easy for cancer patients to gain a comprehensive understanding of the scientific Pub. date: Aug 2018 and medical knowledge about cancer. The main reason is that the information needed is scattered in many different resources, and the information is complex and difficult for ordinary people to 978-981-3273-19-1 understand. US$58 / £50 In an attempt to help ordinary people understand cancer and its medical science, the author

has written this book in an easy-to-understand style, so that patients can manage cancer more effectively in their life time.

Providing information for patients to understand the why, how, and what with each step of treatment plan, as well as a realistic range of possible outcomes, is very important. Information can help patients reduce anxiety and give patients a greater sense of ownership in their treatment process. The sense of ownership is imperative to growing a positive attitude for patients fighting cancer.

This book is a one-stop shop, easy-to-understand guidebook for cancer patients to understand: ○ Why and how do people get the cancer? ○ Can we prevent the cancer? ○ What is the difference between cancer and other diseases? ○ What should we do if cancer is diagnosed or progressed? ○ How can we treat the cancer? ○ Where does the cancer treatment end?

Readership: The book is an easy-to-read roadmap for cancer patients to understand why people could develop cancer, the different types of cancer, anticancer drugs and treatment plans upon diagnosis. The book also covers the importance on quality of life, hospice care and palliative care for terminal patients.

42 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Medicine Key Features: ○ This book is a one-stop shop, easy-to-understand guidebook for cancer patients ○ This book explains important concepts about cancer such as the onset of cancer, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, recovering from cancer, the recurrence of cancer, rehabilitation programs, and pathways to the end of life ○ Provides information for patients to understand why, how, and what with each step of treatment plan, as well as a realistic range of possible outcome. This helps to reduce anxiety and give patients a greater sense of ownership in their treatment process

What It Takes to Thrive Techniques for Severe Trauma and Stress Recovery By (author): John Henden (John Henden Consultancy Ltd, UK)

“It is useful for anyone who wants to manage their lives better and seek to take steps to a better way of being and doing. I will be recommending this book to the people I work with as it explains so much, so simply and in bite size chunks.” Steve Flatt Director, Psychological Therapies Unit, Liverpool, UK

“This book serves as a compendium of immediately applicable tools to use with people who have experienced trauma. A beginning practitioner will be able to act as a seasoned therapist using this book and the experienced trauma clinician will find it a highly practical reminder of what works and perhaps get a few new ideas.” Stephen M Langer, PhD Director, Northwest Brief Therapy Training Center, Olympia, WA USA Rights Information: faculty, International Trauma Treatment Program, USA All language rights available. “As a family therapist, this book will not sit on my bookshelf: It will be in my hands and on my mind for a long time, with the best hope of it influencing my practice. 208pp As a trainer in Solution Focused Practice, John Henden’s book contributes many very useful and Pub. date: Oct 2017 concrete tools and techniques for people suffering from severe trauma and stress. The book is set to be included in my education program at the Danish Solution Focused Institute.” 978-981-3229-32-7 Anne-Marie Wulf US$68 / £60 Managing Director, Solutionsbywulf; and Chair of Danish Solution Focused Institute, Denmark 978-981-3230-21-7(pbk) US$28 / £25 “A thoroughly practical and helpful read. The information contained enables one to take immediate and action. We use John’s insights to help our clients on a regular basis.” Lee Hayward Managing Director, Save Our Soldier, UK

“This excellent book is a useful resource for distressed individuals and for those who work with sufferers from post-traumatic stress. Good results in a safe fashion are guaranteed by the author’s own personal experience and his long history of working with such clients.” Dr Alasdair Macdonald Consultant Psychiatrist, UK

“Readers will find solid practical techniques, balanced with reassuring facts drawn from well documented scientific research and exemplified by scenarios drawn from real life situations. This is a must-read for anyone dealing with the aftermath of trauma.” Yvonne Dolan Director Emeritus, Institute for Solution-Focused Therapy Co-founder and Past-President of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association (SFBTA), USA

“In this groundbreaking work, John gives survivors (and practitioners) options that work, based on his knowledge and vast experience in the field of trauma and recovery. The tools and strategies that he details are not just life-saving; they are life-enhancing!” Dr Rosario Margarita A Aligada College of Education Dean, Miriam College, The Philippines

“This book contains an abundance of concrete ideas, practices and techniques; it’s like a trauma re-wiring toolbox in one place: From somatic exercises, such as breathing, to visualizations, useful therapeutic stances (i.e. working with guilt), a basic self-care checklist, working with sleep disturbances, and existential questions of meaning and realizing one’s full potential. I would highly recommend it.” Olga Zotova coach, narrative therapist, solution focused and EMDR practitioner, Moscow, Russia

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 43 This book deals with all aspects of severe trauma and stress recovery. It offers tools and techniques to manage triggers, flashbacks or intrusive thoughts, helping survivors of severe trauma and stress to regain control of their lives.

The techniques and advice described here are organised into six sections: Triggers; Flashbacks;

Medicine Unwelcome Thoughts; Dealing with the Lows; Disturbed Sleep; and Living Life to the Full: Meaning and Purpose in Life. Readers can refer to each section and experiment with methods that work best for them.

This is a useful guide for survivors of severe trauma and stress, psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors, welfare workers and volunteers in the field.

Contents: Dedication; Disclaimer; The Book›s Purpose; Introduction; How to Use This Handbook; The Term “Survivor”; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Dealing with “Triggers”; How to Deal with Flashbacks; How to Deal with Unwelcome Thoughts; Dealing with “The Lows”; Dealing with Sleep Disturbance; Living Life to the Full (or, as Full as Possible); Appendices: Reassuring Things for Survivors to Know; What Survivors Have Found to be Helpful in This Work; Helpful Questions and Statements from the Worker; The Three Stages: Victim –Survivor–Thriver (Living Life to the Full, or as Full as Possible); Blocks to Disclosing; How to Avoid Retraumatisation and Revictimisation; Benefits of Doing This Important Work; Two-Day Solution-Focused Workshops on Working with Severe Trauma and Stress; Supporting Research Evidence for Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; Bibliography; Index.

Readership: Psychotherapists, counsellors, welfare and social workers, volunteers in social and welfare work, and survivors of trauma and abuse.

Key Features: ○ Offers practical advice on managing issues related to severe trauma and stress ○ Techniques and advice are organised into six sections for easy reference: Triggers; lashbacks; ○ Unwelcome Thoughts; Dealing with the Lows; Disturbed Sleep; and Living Life to the Full: ○ Meaning and Purpose in Life

Applied Thermal Measurements at the Nanoscale A Beginner’s Guide to Electrothermal Methods By (author): Zhen Chen (Southeast University, China) & Chris Dames (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

This book aims to serve as a practical guide for novices to design and conduct measurements of thermal properties at the nanoscale using electrothermal techniques. An outgrowth of the authors’ tutorials for new graduate students in their own labs, it includes practical details on measurement design and selection, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, and pitfalls and verifications. The information is particularly helpful for someone setting up their own experiment for the first time.

The book emphasizes the integration of thermal analysis with practical experimental considerations, in order to design an experiment for best sensitivity and to configure the laboratory instruments accordingly. The focus is on the measurements of thermal conductivity, though thermal diffusivity and thermal boundary resistance (thermal contact resistance) are also briefly covered, Rights Information: and many of the principles can be generalized to other challenging thermal measurements. All language rights available. The reader is only expected to have the basic familiarity with electrical instruments typical of a university graduate in science or engineering, and an acquaintance with the elementary laws of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience heat transfer by conduction, convection, and radiation. 160pp Pub. date: Jul 2018 Readership: Graduate students and researchers in nanotechnology; professional.

978-981-3271-10-4 Key Features: US$98 / £85 ○ A handbook or manual for a novice researcher to get up to speed and effective in performing their own measurements independently ○ Integrated use of thermal design coupled with practical experimental considerations, an approach showing how a microfabricated experimental platform can be optimized to make the measurement results most sensitive to the property of the unknown sample, and highlights the trade-offs between simplicity of microfabrication and simplicity of the heat transfer model ○ Offers some of the most beginner-friendly treatments available for various practical experimental matters, notably including the Monte Carlo approach to uncertainty analysis and detailed advice on configuring a lock-in amplifier for delicate electrothermal measurements

44 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Nanotechnology Lessons from Nanoelectronics A New Perspective on Transport (In 2 Parts) (2nd Edition) By (author): Supriyo Datta (Purdue University, USA)

Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by 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 nature of current flow and heat dissipation on an atomic scale which is of broad relevance to the general problems of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics that pervade many different fields.

This book is based on a set of two online courses originally offered in 2012 on nanoHUB-U and more recently in 2015 on edX. In preparing the second edition the author decided to split it into parts A and B titled Basic Concepts and Quantum Transport respectively, along the lines of the two courses. A list of available video lectures corresponding to different sections of this volume Rights Information: is provided upfront. All language rights available. 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. However, the 536pp (Set) author will be discussing advanced concepts that should be of interest even to specialists, who Pub. date: Mar 2018 are encouraged to look at his earlier books for additional technical details. 978-981-3224-64-3 Contents: Part A: Basic Concepts: Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Available Video US$218 / £192 Lectures; Constants Used in This Book; Some Symbols Used; Overview; What Determines the Resistance: Why Electrons Flow; The Elastic Resistor; Ballistic and Diffusive Transport; 978-981-3224-65-0(pbk) Conductance from Fluctuation; Simple Model for Density of States: Energy Band Model; The US$88 / £77 Nanotransistor;What and Where is the Voltage Drop: Diffusion Equation for Ballistic Transport; Boltzmann Equation; Quasi-Fermi Levels; Hall Effect; Smart Contacts; Heat and 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.

Readership: Students and professionals in any branch of science or engineering.

Key Features: ○ Based on a physically insightful approach that not only conveys the key concepts of nanoelectronics, but also their relevance to other non-equilibrium problems like heat flow, spin flow and entropy flow

○ The chapters are keyed to video lectures from the online courses offered on nanoHUB-U and on edX

○ The author received the 2008 IEEE Technical Field Award for graduate teaching “for his unique approach to quantum transport that has inspired and educated graduate students in the field of nanoscale electronic devices”

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 45 Editor’s Choice Disrupted Balance Society at Risk Edited by: Jan Wouter Vasbinder (NTU, Singapore)

Human society is no stranger to catastrophe, but the challenges the world faces today — a ballooning population, intense global connectivity and the unquenchable thirst of human consumption — have synergised to make disruptions more frequent, intense and far reaching.

Despite the complexity of these problems, the response should not be to give up and surrender

Nonlinear Science to these forces, the crash can be avoided. Humanity does possess the scientific, technological and social knowledge to not just survive, but also to emerge from the tumult by being more resilient and sustainable societies. The most urgent question, therefore, is how can we act on this knowledge.

This book brings together 12 esteemed authors from diverse fields ranging from geology to Rights Information: governance, who have come together to collectively issue a unifying clarion call to action. All language rights available. Readership: Researchers and policymakers grappling with the challenges of complexity in human society. 120pp Pub. date: May 2018

978-981-3239-21-0 US$68 / £60

A Bouquet of Dyson and Other Reflections on Science and Scientists By (author): Jeremy Bernstein (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Physics

“A grab bag in the most charming sense — reach inside and pull out an unexpected treasure. A chapter selected at random might be a biographical miniature about a scientist, Bernstein’s signature format at New Yorkermagazine. The subject may be famous or obscure, 20th century (mostly) or earlier (a few), paladin (mostly) or rogue (a few); but in all cases fascinating. Another chapter may veer from biographical to autobiographical to philosophical and then back again, and be no less engaging. Bernstein seems to have crossed paths with everyone who was anyone in science in the 20th century. He furnishes a large, comfortable house with midcentury modern physics. Come in, admire the furniture, and enjoy the conversation.” Prof William H Press University of Texas at Austin Rights Information: All language rights available. My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I 188pp was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a Pub. date: Feb 2018 space ship — the Orion — which would be propelled by atomic bombs. When I left the Institute, Freeman and I continued our correspondence and I saved his letters. They are written in an 978-981-3231-92-4 almost calligraphically elegant handwriting. It is hard to see how you could make a mistake in US$68 / £60 a mathematical computation if you wrote that clearly. The letters show his human side and his enormous range of knowledge. 978-981-3238-28-2(pbk) US$28 / £25 There are then two essays involving the physicist Fritz Houtermans who was an extraordinarily colorful character. There is a brief essay on Einstein’s collaboration with a fraud. There is even an essay on the Titius-Bode law and the new exo-planets. Because of my enduring interest in nuclear weapons, the reader will find essays devoted to that. There is also a bit of fiction at the end.

Contents: People: A Bouquet of Dyson; The Pope; A Preprint; Murray; Chronicles: Houtermans; Charlotte; Einstein and the Fraud; Pontecorvo; Science: Three for the Road; Bode’s Law and the Trappists; Advanced Quantum Mechanics; Gian Carlo ;Nuclear Weapons: An Error; Round and Round; Li6; Is E = mc2?; Life: A Trick of Memory; Checkers; A Little List; Anti-Semitism at Harvard; Twenty One.

Readership: General public, students and academicians who are interested in issues related to science, technology and society.

46 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Physics Biophotonics Science and Technology By (author): Yin Yeh (UC Davis) & V V Krishnan (California State University, Fresno, USA & UC Davis)

This lecture volume aims to give students and researchers in this rapidly expanding field of biophotonics an interdisciplinary perspective. Among the primary topics are ultrahigh resolution microscopy, particle tracking, photon correlation spectroscopy, and nonlinear optical methods as used in biological and biomedical research, with a focus on current applications in biophysics and biomedicine.

Readership: This book is intended for students and professionals in the rapidly emerging field of biophotonics.

Key Features: Rights Information: ○ Provides sufficient introduction of both the photonics interaction with matter and the key All language rights elements of cellular biology to bring the reader (student) to understand and appreciate the available. necessary interdisciplinary nature of this area of research and development

○ Substantially updated on progress in the many areas of light-biological matter interaction, 292pp including ultrahigh resolution optical microscopy, time correlation spectroscopy and a range Pub. date: Jun 2018 of biomedical applications ○ Authors are active participants in current research activities in this broad, new field 978-981-3235-68-7 US$108 / £95

Essential Classical Mechanics By (author): Choonkyu Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea) & Hyunsoo Min (University of Seoul, South Korea)

This is a book on intermediate classical mechanics. In this book, classical mechanics is presented as a useful tool to analyze the physical universe and also as the base on which the whole pyramid of modern physics has been erected. Various mechanical concepts are developed in a highly logical manner, with relatively thorough treatments on mathematical procedures and many physically interesting applications. Connections to more modern theoretical developments (including statistical physics, relativity, and quantum mechanics) are emphasized.

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate physics students.

Key Features: ○ We explained all mechanical concepts by a systematical and logical approach Rights Information: ○ We strongly emphasized on the symmetry arguments and various mechanical All language rights conservation laws available. ○ We provided many applications in broad areas in thorough manners 764pp Pub. date: Apr 2018

978-981-3234-64-2 US$148 / £130

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 47 Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (2nd Edition) By (author): Peter R Saulson (Syracuse University, USA) Physics LIGO’s recent discovery of gravitational waves was headline news around the world. Many people will want to understand more about what a gravitational wave is, how LIGO works, and how LIGO functions as a detector of gravitational waves.

This book aims to communicate the basic logic of interferometric gravitational wave detectors to students who are new to the field. It assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of physics, but no special familiarity with gravitational waves, with general relativity, or with the special techniques of experimental physics. All of the necessary ideas are developed in the book.

The first edition was published in 1994. Since the book is aimed at explaining the physical ideas behind the design of LIGO, it stands the test of time. For the second edition, an Epilogue has been Rights Information: added; it brings the treatment of technical details up to date, and provides references that would All language rights allow a student to become proficient with today’s designs. available. Readership: Anyone with undergraduate knowledge of physics who wish to know more about the 336pp detection of gravitational waves. Pub. date: Feb 2017 Key Features: 978-981-3143-07-4 ○ This book is aimed at beginning-level professions (grad students or other newcomers to US$101 / £89 gravitational wave detection) ○ It emphasizes the experimental physics aspects and links all of the key ideas to fundamental 978-981-3271-85-2(pbk) principles of physics US$58 / £50 ○ For this second edition, all of the key topics are brought up to date; a brand new set of recent references is provided. Thus, the book can serve as a bridge to carry a student from the basic concepts of gravitational wave detection to readiness to contribute to the progress of the field

Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism By (author): John Dirk Walecka (College of William and Mary, USA)

These lectures provide an introduction to a subject that together with classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and modern physics lies at the heart of today’s physics curriculum. This introduction to electricity and magnetism, aimed at the very best students, assumes only a good course in calculus, and familiarity with vectors and Newton’s laws; it is otherwise self-contained. Furthermore, these lectures, although relatively concise, take one from Coulomb’s law to Maxwell’s equations and special relativity in a lucid and logical fashion.

An extensive set of accessible problems enhances and extends the coverage. Review chapters spaced throughout the text summarize the material. Clear departure points for further study are indicated along the way.

The principles of electromagnetism, as synthesized in Maxwell’s equations and the Lorentz force, Rights Information: have such an astonishing range of applicability. A good introduction to this subject, even at the All language rights cost of some repetition, allows one to approach the many more advanced texts and monographs available. with better understanding and a deeper sense of appreciation that both students and teachers can share alike. 272pp Undergraduates and academics in physics. Pub. date: Jul 2018 Readership: Key Features: 978-981-3272-06-4 US$88 / £75 ○ Provides a clear, self-contained, calculus-based introduction to a subject that together with classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and modern physics lies at the heart of 978-981-3273-10-8(pbk today’s physics curriculum US$48 / £40 ○ Assumes only a good course in calculus and familiarity with vectors and Newton’s laws ○ Presentation then self-contained ○ Takes the reader from Coulomb’s law to Maxwell’s equations and special relativity in a lucid and logical fashion ○ An extensive set of accessible problems enhances and extends the coverage ○ Allows one to approach the many more advanced texts and monographs with better understanding and a deeper sense of appreciation

48 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Editor’s Choice Physics Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory Foreword by David Kaiser Edited by: Bryan Gin-ge Chen (Leiden University, Netherlands), David Derbes (University of Chicago, USA), David Griffiths (Reed College, USA), Brian Hill (Saint Mary’s College of California, USA), Richard Sohn (Kronos, Inc., Lowell, USA) & Yuan-Sen Ting (Harvard)

“Sidney Coleman was the master teacher of quantum field theory. All of us who knew him became his students and disciples. Sidney’s legendary course remains fresh and bracing, because he chose his topics with a sure feel for the essential, and treated them with elegant economy.” Frank Wilczek Nobel Laureate in Physics 2004

“When stumped on some physics, I often still ask myself, even after nearly forty years, ‘What would Sidney say?’ His lectures and their transcriptions were models of clarity and charm. The subjects Rights Information: remain crucial to frontier physics. This volume is a treasure.” All language rights Hugh David Politzer available. Nobel Laureate in Physics 2004

1000pp “Ah, quantum field theory: through Coleman’s eyes we watch a victory parade that made ‘the Pub. date: Feb 2019 spectator gasp with awe and laugh with joy’!” Anthony Zee 978-981-4632-53-9 University of California, Santa Barbara and US$168 / £150 author of Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell 978-981-4635-50-9(pbk) “Sidney Coleman’s course on quantum field theory was one of the most memorable and enjoyable US$88 / £75 experiences of my physics education. Uniquely meticulous and insightful, these notes from his lectures will be invaluable to anyone interested in the cornerstone topic of modern physics.” Sean Carroll Caltech and author of Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity

“Sidney Coleman’s Field Theory lectures at Harvard were a staple of every particle physicist Harvard graduate student’s education ... the ideas — like all good physics concepts — have survived the decades beautifully. In a labor of love and educational devotion, a team of former students and TAs teamed up with professors and experts to share his legacy in perpetuity.” Lisa Randall Harvard

“It may seem strange to refer to a book on Quantum Field Theory as ‘fun’ — but this book is fun. The reader not only sees important physics and math, but also gets to appreciate a Master Teacher at work. It is wonderful to have these lectures written down so that they can be pored over and savored multiple times. David Politzer said it best in the acknowledgment in his Nobel- Prize-winning thesis on asymptotic freedom. ‘To Sidney Coleman my teacher and advisor, who with his cleverness and cunning, conned me into thinking that good physics is simple, I am forever indebted ... Thanks to him, my understanding of field theory has never been so clear, but sometimes my head feels funny.’” Howard Georgi Harvard

Sidney Coleman was a physicist’s physicist. He is largely unknown outside of the theoretical physics community, and known only by reputation to the younger generation. He was an unusually effective teacher, famed for his wit, his insight and his encyclopedic knowledge of the field to which he made many important contributions. There are many first-rate quantum field theory books (the venerable Bjorken and Drell, the more modern Itzykson and Zuber, the now-standard Peskin and Schroeder, and the recent Zee), but the immediacy of Prof. Coleman’s approach and his ability to present an argument simply without sacrificing rigor makes his book easy to read and ideal for the student. Part of the motivation in producing this book is to pass on the work of this outstanding physicist to later generations, a record of his teaching that he was too busy to leave himself.

Readership: Graduate students and academics interested in quantum field theory.

Key Features: ○ Based on Coleman’s own handwritten notes, two sets of notes from former graduate students, homework, solutions, past examinations ○ Some missing steps addressed in derivations or arguments, maintaining as far as possible Coleman’s own language

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 49 Liquidator The Chernobyl Story By (author): Sergei Belyakov (Theracross Technologies, Singapore) Physics In the late April of 1986, the world learned about the quaint town in the Central Ukraine — Chernobyl. The largest nuclear catastrophe in the history of mankind, which affected the lives of millions and millions, had forced the USSR government to take unprecedented actions. One of them was the formation of a cleanup crew from the Army reservists. They were tasked with a titanic chore of cleaning the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant from radioactive debris after the explosion of Reactor #4. Sergei Belyakov, then a PhD scientist, volunteered to become one of the many “nuclear jumpers” of that long-forgotten crew. This book sums up his recollections about that nuclear jumper stint. It is written not as a traditional memoir, but as an alloy of personal views and feelings, templated over the information about the Chernobyl disaster from the official sources of those days. It will give the Western readers a chilling sense of the magnitude of the event that Rights Information: brought down the almighty Soviet Union. All language rights Readership: People who are interested in the Chernobyl story. available. Key Features: 200pp ○ Authentic recollections of the actual cleanup efforts during “pre-sarcophagus” time at Pub. date: Sep 2018 Chernobyl NPP

978-981-3227-41-5 ○ Personal accounts of a nuclear jumper: fear, bravery, creativity, camaraderie, resilience, US$48 / £42 determination, exhaustion, and many others ○ Unique atmosphere of liquidator’s daily life, on and away from the Plant 978-981-3228-68-9(pbk) US$28 / £25

Daystar A Peep into the Workings of the Sun By (author): Parameswaran Venkatakrishnan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India)

“This book provides a timely summary of current solar research interests with a view to the forthcoming solar missions … It is highly recommended for both students and interested members of the public.” Dr Helen E Mason O.B.E University of Cambridge

This book is an attempt to demystify the activities of a celestial object such as the Sun appealing to basic physics already available to high school students. Building on simple logic, the contents begin with measurements of the gross properties of the Sun like size (volume) and mass from which the average density of solar material is shown to be almost equal to water’s density. Then Rights Information: the temperature is obtained using the colour of sunlight, and the gravitational force is discussed All language rights to indicate how the solar material is compressed at the centre of the Sun leading to heating available. which further causes nuclear reactions. The roles of all the forces of nature, viz. strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitation are shown in the construction of the Sun. The generation of 116pp magnetic fields by solar rotation and the eruptions of solar atmospheric material are also included. Pub. date: Oct 2017 To further demystify the methods of obtaining all such facts about the Sun, a chapter is solely 978-981-3228-52-8 devoted to the different kinds of solar telescopes operating at different wavelengths and also at US$58 / £51 different locations ranging from outer space to deep underground, where solar neutrino flux is measured. The entire discussion is interspersed with historical encounters between giants of science to show the human face of scientific research.

Contents: Introduction; Vital Statistics; The Anatomy of the Sun; Blemishes on the Sun; The Sphere of Influence; Tools of the Trade.

Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics interested in solar astronomy.

Key Features: ○ Includes both theoretical and experimental aspects with equal clarity ○ Brief but comprehensive contents, providing a quick overview of the subject ○ Appeals to non-specialists interested in logically building up topics based on first principles

50 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Physics Entropy and Sustainable Growth By (author): Guy Deutscher (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

While the possible depletion of energy sources has been emphasized in most literatures, this book aims to show that the increase of entropy in the biosphere, resulting since the dawn of industrial era, is a cause for urgent concern.

As the entropy release puts a limit on sustainable growth, and the CO₂ atmospheric content is a reliable indicator of global entropy release that threatens the biospheric balance, a change of paradigm is necessary with the need to switch from an economy of exploitation to an economy of entropy.

Contents: Limits to Growth: From Malthus to the COP21 Agreement Through the Club of Rome Report; Green House Gases and Boltzmann Entropy; Biosphere in Disruption; Thermodynamic Conditions for a Return to Equilibrium; Why do We Release So Much Carbon into the Atmosphere?; The Means for a Recovery of Balance. Rights Information: All language rights Readership: Students and the general public interested in the science behind climate change. (except French) available.

Key Features: 148pp ○ Emphasizes entropy as the global concept behind climate change as well as all forms of Pub. date: Mar 2018 pollution ○ Relies on geological data to demonstrate that the biosphere has become out of balance 978-981-3237-76-6 US$48 / £42 ○ Gives a concrete estimate of the amount of investment necessary to restore biosphere balance

Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics Editor’s Choice (Revised Edition) By (author): Martinus J G Veltman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA & NIKHEF, The Netherlands)

“Veltman’s life spans the history of particle physics, from Antiparticles to Z bosons. So does his crystal clear book, which tells all you want to know about the strange sub-nuclear world and the stranger scientists that study it … a thrilling tale about the world’s tiniest things.” Sheldon Glashow Nobel laureate Boston University

“I must congratulate you! The book you have written is truly a masterpiece. Not only have you explained the physics of the world of elementary particles to the young aspiring student, but you have made it available to the intelligent layman. On top of that you gave it the humanity it deserves; reading this book brought me back to the most exciting period of my life in which every Rights Information: day brought a new discovery and we all fought for recognition. I can truly say that there is no book All language rights like this.” available. Melvin Schwartz Nobel laureate 352pp Columbia University Pub. date: Mar 2018

“Veltman’s … transparent explanations of the abstract theories of quantum mechanics and special 978-981-3237-05-6 relativity, his lucid accounts of esoteric subjects in particle physics, such as scaling, Higgs particle US$85 / £75 and renormalizability … are very impressive. The book will interest anyone who is interested in the view of the physical world held by contemporary fundamental physicists.” 978-981-3237-49-0(pbk) T Y Cao US$35 / £31 Boston University

“I greatly enjoyed finally reading a book that goes into the details I always wanted … Veltman has the courage to try a deeper level about what we understand and what is simply fact … Even if you have read books popularizing physics before, you have to read this one …” CERN Courier

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 51 “Veltman seamlessly combines historical and thematic descriptions of particle physics, an approach that allows the reader to appreciate how experiment and theory interrelate … I found the book to be immensely entertaining, and I recommend it highly to anyone looking for insight into the nature of elementary particle physics.” Physics American Scientist

“Veltman gives an excellent impression of how science works and how the desire to penetrate into the unknown is what fires the enthusiasm of scientists. He also manages to explain the most abstract intricacies of particle theory without using any mathematics whatsoever … I can fully recommend this book to students and interested lay readers, who will gain a fascinating insight into the sub-nuclear world — from a theoretical experimental and personal point of view.” Physics World

“… the wonderful feature of the book is that it should be extremely useful to almost anyone with an interest in this field, ranging from high school students and interested laypersons to physicists in other fields. Enthusiastically recommended as an addition to any library.” Choice

“Students and lay people will find Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics superbly enlightening.” SirReadaLot.org

“… students and researchers in elementary particle physics should seriously consider having this book in their personal library, partly to be able to look at the many pictures and brief biographies of their favorite elementary particle physicists, and partly to learn Veltman’s incisive thinking on obscure or unsettled areas in particle physics … there are plenty of popular books on dark matter, dark energy, black holes, and cosmology, but relatively few straightforward yet fascinating popular books on elementary particle physics, so in this sense Veltman’s book is exactly what is needed.” ” American Journal of Physics

This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern particle physics accessible to anyone with a true passion for wanting to know how the universe works. We are introduced to the known particles of the world we live in. An elegant explanation of quantum mechanics and relativity paves the way for an understanding of the laws that govern particle physics. These laws are put into action in the world of accelerators, colliders and detectors found at institutions such as CERN and Fermilab that are in the forefront of technical innovation. Real world and theory meet using Feynman diagrams to solve the problems of infinities and deduce the need for the Higgs boson.

Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics offers an incredible insight from an eyewitness and participant in some of the greatest discoveries in 20th century science. From Einstein›s theory of relativity to the elusive Higgs particle, this book will fascinate and educate anyone interested in the world of quarks, leptons and gauge theories.

This book also contains many thumbnail sketches of particle physics personalities, including contemporaries as seen through the eyes of the author. Illustrated with pictures, these candid sketches present rare, perceptive views of the characters that populate the field.

The Chapter on Particle Theory, in a pre-publication, was termed “superbly lucid” by David Miller in Nature (Vol. 396, 17 Dec. 1998, p. 642).

Contents: Introduction; Preliminaries; The Standard Model; Quantum Mechanics. Mixing; Energy, Momentum and Mass-Shell; Detection; Accelerators and Storage Rings; The CERN Neutrino Experiment; The Particle Zoo; Particle Theory; Finding the Higgs; Quantum Chromodynamics; Epilogue; Addendum.

Readership: Students, lay people and anyone interested in the world of elementary particles.

52 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Editor’s Choice Physics Fireworks in a Dark Universe By (author): Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv University, Israel)

This popular science book offers a glimpse into a plethora of extreme cosmic phenomena in which the theories of modern physics, particularly quantum mechanics and general relativity, play a key role. Despite their vastly different appearances, these cosmic phenomena have much in common: they are all powered by exotic stars — black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs — collectively called compact objects.

The book describes, in accessible language, the physics underlying these phenomena, the historical background that led to their discovery, and the various observational techniques used by astronomers for their exposure. The book contains many spectacular photographs taken with modern telescopes around the world and satellites of different space agencies, as well as illustrations specially prepared by the author to enhance the reading experience.

Readership: Non-professional readers interested in science in general, and physics and Rights Information: astronomy in particular. All language rights available.

316pp Pub. date: May 2018

978-1-78634-511-0 US$78 / £70

From Micro to Macro Editor’s Choice Adventures of a Wandering Physicist By (author): Vlatko Vedral (Oxford & NUS, Singapore)

“In the course of speculating about unifications that might close the amazing, blatant ‘gaps’ in our knowledge, Vedral provides a refreshing and engaging tour of those gaps, and of the (apparently) firmer ground between them.” Prof David Deutsch Oxford University Mathematical Institute

This is a popular science book exploring the limits of scientific explanation. In particular, it de- bates if all sciences will ultimately be reducible to physics. The journey starts with physics itself, where there is a gap between the micro (quantum) and the macro (classical) and moves into chemistry, biology and the social sciences. Written by a practising scientist, this volume offers a personal perspective on various topics and incorporates the latest research. Rights Information: Contents: Prologue: The Point of It All; Physics and its Troublesome Gap; Chemistry and All language rights Computing: Lost in Translation; Biology: The Biggest Gap of Natural Science; Uniting the Natural available. Sciences; Economics; Sociobiology; Conclusion: Can We Bridge the Social-Natural Science Gap?; Epilogue: The World, the Flesh and the Devil; Acknowledgements; References; Index. 192pp Readership: Students, general public, academic professionals. Pub. date: Feb 2018

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Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 53 Editor’s Choice Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology By (author): Christian G Böhmer (University College London, UK)

Physics Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology gives undergraduate students an overview of the fundamental ideas behind the geometric theory of gravitation and spacetime. Through pointers on how to modify and generalise Einstein’s theory to enhance understanding, it provides a link between standard textbook content and current research in the field.

Chapters present complicated material practically and concisely, initially dealing with the mathematical foundations of the theory of relativity, in particular differential geometry. This is followed by a discussion of the Einstein field equations and their various properties. Also given is analysis of the important Schwarzschild solutions, followed by application of general relativity to cosmology. Questions with fully worked answers are provided at the end of each chapter to aid comprehension and guide learning. This pared down textbook is specifically designed for new students looking for a workable, simple presentation of some of the key theories in modern Rights Information: physics and mathematics. All language rights available. Readership: Undergraduate students of mathematics and physics.

216pp Pub. date: Oct 2016

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Editor’s Choice The Immense Journey From the Birth of the Universe to the Rise of Intelligence By (author): Gerald E Marsh

This book is an attempt to trace the majestic immense journey from the coming into being of the universe to the emergence and evolution of life. It is intended to complement the many excellent books that cover different aspects of this journey.

The contents have been classified into five parts. Part I covers the coming into existence of the universe while Part II presents the beginning of life on the early Earth, following which Part III discusses the emergence of consciousness and intelligence, and Part IV, the immense journey of the universe beyond Earth. Finally, Part V addresses the problems raised by the rise of higher- order consciousness in human beings as captured by the phrase “the human condition”.

Contents: Preface; The Coming into Existence of the Universe: In the Beginning; Quantum Foundations and the Building Blocks of Matter; Let There Be Light; The Beginning of Life Rights Information: on the Early Earth: Prebiotic Molecules and Protocells; The First Cells; Darwinian Evolution All language rights and Beyond; The Emergence of Consciousness: Sense, Thought and Consciousness; The available. Immense Journey of the Universe: Beyond Our Earth; The Human Condition: Civilization and Its Discontents; Code and Implications;Appendices: Space-Time-Matter; Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics. 340pp Pub. date: Feb 2018 Readership: Students in natural sciences and all those interested in philosophy of science.

978-981-3235-74-8 Key Features: US$88 / £77 ○ Interesting material for readers looking for a connection between science and religion ○ Accessible to the general public with a basic introduction to general science

54 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Physics Microscopic and Macroscopic Simulation Techniques Kharagpur Lectures By (author): William Hoover (UC Davis) & Carol Hoover (Ruby Valley Research Institute, Nevada, USA)

This book aims to provide an example-based education in numerical methods for atomistic and continuum simulations of systems at and away from equilibrium. The focus is on nonequilibrium systems, stressing the use of tools from dynamical systems theory for their analysis. Lyapunov instability and fractal dimensionality are introduced and algorithms for their analysis are detailed. The book is intended to be self-contained and accessible to students who are comfortable with calculus and differential equations.

The wide range of topics covered will provide students, researchers and academics with effective tools for formulating and solving interesting problems, both atomistic and continuum. The detailed description of the use of thermostats to control nonequilibrium systems will help readers in writing their own programs rather than being saddled with packaged software. Rights Information: Contents: Mechanics/Numerical Integration/Molecular Dynamics; Integration Methods/Predictor- All language rights Corrector Methods/Stiff Equations; Temperature and Molecular Dynamics/Thermostats/Boltzmann available. Equation; Simple System with Thermal Constraints/Bit-Reversibility; Ergodicity and its Importance for Small Systems; Gibbs› Thermodynamics/Fluid Mechanics/Virial and Heat Theorems; Statistical 412pp Mechanics of Small Systems at and Away from Equilibrium; Microscopic Reversibility/Macroscopic Pub. date: Mar 2018 Irreversibility/Shockwaves; Lyapunov Instability, Fractal Dimensionality/Dimensionality Loss I; Lyapunov Instability, Fractal Dimensionality/Dimensionality Loss II; Smooth-Particle and Finite- 978-981-3232-52-5 Element Methods. US$118 / £104

Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students, researchers focusing on statistical mechanics and numerical simulation.

Key Features: ○ Three useful areas covered — treatment of control variables such as thermostats and ergostats, dynamical system analysis and the use of smooth particle techniques for analyzing molecular dynamics, and the solution of continuum problems

Mathematics for Physics An Illustrated Handbook By (author): Adam Marsh This unique book complements traditional textbooks by providing a visual yet rigorous survey of the mathematics used in theoretical physics beyond that typically covered in undergraduate math and physics courses. The exposition is pedagogical but compact, and the emphasis is on defining and visualizing concepts and relationships between them, as well as listing common confusions, alternative notations and jargon, and relevant facts and theorems. Special attention is given to detailed figures and geometric viewpoints. Certain topics which are well covered in textbooks, such as historical motivations, proofs and derivations, and tools for practical calculations, are avoided. The primary physical models targeted are general relativity, spinors, and gauge theories, with notable chapters on Riemannian geometry, Clifford algebras, and fiber bundles.

Contents: Mathematical Structures; Abstract Algebra; Vector Algebras; Topological Spaces; Algebraic Topology; Manifolds; Lie Groups; Clifford Groups; Riemannian Manifolds; Fiber Bundles; Rights Information: Categories and Functors. All language rights Readership: Students in mathematics and physics who want to explore a level deeper into actual available. mathematical content.

Key Features: 300pp Pub. date: Nov 2017 ○ The approach taken by this book to the subject material differs from other titles in that it is intuitive and visual yet also mathematically rigorous, allowing concise coverage of a large breadth of material and providing a cross-subject synthesis while at the same time serving 978-981-3233-91-1 as a useful reference US$98 / £86 ○ The book is also unique in that it can be used in three ways: as the basis for a course, as a supporting text for related courses, and as a reference. These uses could apply to both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition, there is a substantial audience for the book among independent researchers, amateur physicists, and readers of popular science who want to explore a level deeper into actual mathematical content ○ The treatments of Riemannian geometry, Clifford algebras, and fiber bundles are particularly notable, including detailed figures and geometric viewpoints that would seem to be novel to the literature

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 55 Schrödinger’s Mechanics Interpretation By (author): David B Cook (University of Sheffield, UK) Physics The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been in dispute for nearly a century with no sign of a resolution. Using a careful examination of the relationship between the final form of classical particle mechanics (the Hamilton–Jacobi Equation) and Schrödinger’s mechanics, this book presents a coherent way of addressing the problems and paradoxes that emerge through conventional interpretations.

Schrödinger’s Mechanics critiques the popular way of giving physical interpretation to the various terms in perturbation theory and other technologies and places an emphasis on development of the theory and not on an axiomatic approach. When this interpretation is made, the extension of Schrödinger›s mechanics in relation to other areas, including spin, relativity and fields, is Rights Information: investigated and new conclusions are reached. All language rights Contents: Aims; Basics: The Schrödinger Condition; The Dimensions of Space; Momenta, available. Operators, and a Problem; Approximation and Interpretation; Spin in Schrödinger’s Theory; Relativistic Equations; Fields and Second Quantisation; Epilogue. 196pp Pub. date: Apr 2018 Readership: Physicists, chemists, philosophers of science, anyone with an interest in physical science. 978-1-78634-490-8 US$78 / £69 Key Features: ○ Gives a unique interpretation of the topic

The Story of Antimatter Matter’s Vanished Twin By (author): Guennadi Borissov (Lancaster University, UK)

Each elementary particle contained within every known substance has an almost identical twin called its antiparticle. Existing data clearly indicate that equal numbers of particles and antiparticles were initially created soon after the birth of the universe. Despite this, all objects around us, as well as all the stars in all the known galaxies, are made of particles, while antiparticles have almost completely vanished. The reasons behind this disappearance are not yet fully known. Uncovering them will allow us to not only penetrate much deeper into the structure of matter, but also to understand the secret mechanisms that determine the genesis and development of our immense universe. That is why explaining the mystery of the missing antimatter is currently considered to be one of the main tasks of particle physics.

This book tells the story of all the achievements in solving the problem of the missing antiparticles Rights Information: including the latest developments in the field. It is written by Prof. Guennadi Borissov, an All language rights international expert in this subject. It is intended for serious readers with some general background available. knowledge in physics, although no specialist knowledge is required. All phenomena observed in the microworld of particles are explained in simple terms using well-known examples from ordinary 308pp life. Starting with a description and discussion of the main properties of particles and antiparticles, Pub. date: Apr 2018 the book details the important stages in the research that has brought scientists closer to solving one of the greatest enigmas of nature. 978-981-3228-75-7 US$78 / £70 Readership: General public with some knowledge of particle physics and cosmology and/or serious interest in the latest developments of these fields.

56 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Physics The World According to Quantum Mechanics Rights Information: All language rights Why the Laws of Physics Make Perfect Sense After All (2nd Edition) available. By (author): Ulrich Mohrhoff (Sri Aurobindo International Center of Education, India) & Manu Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) Apart from providing a lucid introduction to the mathematical formalism and conceptual foundations 375pp of quantum mechanics, we explain why the laws of physics have the form that they do. In addition, Pub. date: Sep 2018 we present a new and unique look at the quantum world, steering clear of two common errors: the error of the ψ-ontologists, who reify a calculational tool; and the error of the anti-realists, for whom 978-981-3273-69-6 physical theories are simply devices for expressing regularities among observations. US$118 / £105

The new edition of this acclaimed text adds around 200 pages on a variety of topics, such as how the founders sought to make sense of quantum mechanics, Kant’s theory of science, QBism, Everettian quantum mechanics, de Broglie–Bohm theory, environmental decoherence, contextuality, nonlocality, and the paradox of subjectivity — the curious fact that the world seems to exist twice, once for us, in our minds, and once by itself, independently of us.

Readership: Students, lecturers in university undergraduate physics courses related to quantum mechanics.

Key Features: ○ Presents the formalism of quantum mechanics in a clear and compelling manner ○ Useful to both students (undergraduate as well as graduate) and teachers (including higher secondary) ○ Serves as the missing link between the popular literature on quantum mechanics and the academic literature

Social Sciences Can Singapore Fall? Editor’s Choice Making the Future for Singapore By (author): Siong Guan Lim (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, Singapore)

Lim Siong Guan, Singapore’s former Head of Civil Service (1999–2005) was the Institute of Policy Studies’ 4th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book contains edited versions of the three IPS-Nathan Lectures he gave between September and November 2017, and highlights of his dialogue with the audience.

Lim addresses the question, “Can Singapore Fall?”, by examining the state of Singapore today and proposing what Singapore and Singaporeans must do in order to prevent economic and social decline. Taking inspiration from Sir John Glubb’s essay, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival, Lim urges Singaporeans to counter decline by observing the “three legs of honour”: Trust, Diversity, and Excellence. These include becoming a gracious society and building up a culture of innovation, excellence and outwardness.

Lim also reminds us that cultural change takes a generational effort to effect; for change to Rights Information: happen, Singaporeans must thus act with urgency and act now for the well-being of future All language rights generations. available.

The IPS-Nathan Lectures series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for 128pp the Study of Singapore. The S R Nathan Fellow delivers a series of lectures during their term to Pub. date: Jul 2018 advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest.

Readership: General public, professionals, students, researchers, diplomats, and foreign visitors 978-981-3238-07-7 interested in knowing more about Singapore and what lies ahead for the city-state. US$48 / £42

Key Features: 978-981-3238-62-6(pbk) US$25 / £22 ○ Books that consider Singapore’s position and future often end up being too deliberative, with little recommendation of action for people to take. By comparison, this book contains a strong practical element in urging citizens to take action. The delivered lectures had indeed garnered heartfelt reactions from Singaporeans, both young and old ○ This books offers a holistic view of Singapore’s future prospects. It talks about the “hard” aspects of national survival and the need for innovation, as well as the “soft” aspects of values and a “gracious society” ○ It raises questions on Singapore’s long-term viability from an insider’s perspective, exploring the underbelly of Singapore’s social and economic challenges and contradictions, in a way that an international observer is unlikely to uncover. Too much of lessons on Singapore has been about the past; this book is about lessons for the future

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 57 Leadership for Change The Singapore Schools’ Experience By (author): Thiam Seng Koh (National Institute of Education, Singapore) & David Hung (National Institute of Education, Singapore) “What can be done to transform a school system that has been driven by a focus on testing and rankings and reconstruct it into one that promotes the holistic development and growth of all of its students? This is the insistent question that is explored in ‘Leadership for Change: The Singapore Schools’ Experience.’ The authors show how steering from the top, leadership from the middle, Social Sciences and innovation from below all can work together to produce a virtuous circle of continuous learning and improvement. This is essential reading for all change leaders, wherever they may be found.” Professor Dennis Shirley Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational Change Lynch School of Education, Boston College

“’Leadership for Change: The Singapore Schools’ Experience’ is both a timely and important Rights Information: contribution to the growing literature on Singapore’s education system. The editors Thiam-Seng All language rights Koh and David Wei-Loong Hung ably draw upon their own deep knowledge, both of the system available. and the various levels of leadership, and the insights of the 10 contributors who have both practitioner expertise and draw upon the rich database at NIE’s Office of Education Research. 272pp The books’ unique contribution is its focus on school leadership in Singapore in historical, Pub. date: Dec 2017 contemporary and future perspectives. The focus on the role of leadership for sustaining innovation, the possibilities inherent in ‘leadership from the middle’, and partnerships for example 978-981-3227-30-9 provide a nuanced picture of leadership in practice in the complex ecology of a system seeking to US$58 / £51 engender a shift from transmissive to knowledge building pedagogies. Well researched and clearly written. Essential reading for both Singaporean educators and 978-981-3236-84-4(pbk) students of comparative and international education.” US$28 / £25 Professor S Gopinathan Adjunct Professor Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University Singapore

“Singapore has been a model of planned change: the success of its education system witnesses the importance of planning for development. But all education systems are now facing challenges that call for innovative and flexible responses. In this highly readable collection the authors offer ecological leadership as a way of sustaining a healthy tension between central planning and innovative responses to new demands. The chapters give fascinating accounts of how school leadership can shape schools to be future-oriented. It is a must read for all those who believe there is more to schooling than regurgitating past knowledge and more to leadership than being a manager.” Professor Anne Edwards Professor Emeritus, University of Oxford

“A common question asked about the success of the Singapore education system is ‘How did you do it?’ To which a concise response is ‘Good School Leaders and Good Teachers’. This book provides a strong elaboration of the former, setting out policies and initiatives that serve to help build the latter. Starting from a historical context, and laying out the policies and initiatives that continually build on earlier foundations throughout the years, a picture emerges of a pragmatic and adaptive evolution of Singapore’s educational landscape, particularly how the system response to a changing context. The next question is whether this can continue given the increasingly complex and uncertain environment. The leadership mindset and the educators’ collective efforts shared in this book provide a hint that the future can be faced with a substantial dose of optimism and purpose.” Professor Horn-Mun Cheah Assistant Provost Dean, School of Human Development and Social Sciences Singapore University of Social Sciences

“A must read for any current and aspiring leader in education. The book considers the role of educational leadership from multiple but synergistic perspectives of the teacher, school leaders, and policy makers. It articulates and argues for an ecological imperative, where leadership at multiple levels has to be agentic yet coordinated. Identification of teachers’ epistemic change as a key lever for transformational impact, together with the attendant processes and structures that can potentially facilitate such change is a timely and significant contribution of the work.” Professor Manu Kapur Professor and Chair of Learning Sciences and Higher Education, ETH Zürich

“The book provides a range of deep insights and rich descriptions of what makes Singapore schools among the most successful in the world. A must read for school leaders and policy makers everywhere who are striving to take their schools to the next level.” Professor Allan Walker Dean, Faculty of Education and Human Development Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Leadership and Change The Education University of Hong Kong

58 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Social Sciences “This is a timely book for policy makers, educators, stakeholders and everyone who is interested in education in Singapore. The sections on preparation for the future are well discussed, pertinent and provided useful ideas to move forward in sustaining Singapore’s educational success.” Associate Professor David Ng Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group National Institute of Education, Singapore

“This is a must-read book on school leadership. The book provides insightful analyses of empirical case studies in Singapore schools, portraying how leadership for change towards school improvements takes place. The case studies provide particular attention towards the process of co-innovation, co-production and co-construction in leadership development. The book highlights the evolvement of apprenticing leadership that brings about epistemic change of teacher leaders from being unwilling in the first place, to becoming tolerant and later accepting the need for change for school improvement. The book provides vivid examples of the evolvement of teacher leadership, and the significance of leadership from the middle, which form the crux of ecological leadership. Most importantly, the book showcases the open-mindedness of the school system in Singapore, and shows how new leadership concepts emerge in the process of developing teacher- led professionalization in schools.” Professor Wing-On Lee Distinguished Professor, Zhengzhou University, China

“This important book examines the transformation of the Singaporean education system, which left behind traditional methods of teaching and learning, and altered the role of education leaders, for the sake of equipping students with skills which might enable them to succeed in the changing global knowledge economy of the twenty-first century. The complex process is one which many education systems across the world are now examining.” Professor Ami Volansky School of Educationr, Tel-Aviv University

The book shares stories of the role of school leadership in Singapore, with case studies from selected schools, that provides some insights on how Singapore delivers a high-quality education that had led to it achieving high rankings in TIMMS and PISA. This book will provide both the historical and present contexts of changes in the education system, school leadership and teacher leadership in Singapore that made it what it is today. It will distil some universal principles of educational change that school leaders and policy makers can apply in bringing about educational changes that will enhance the learning experiences of students and prepare them for future challenges.

Contents: Leadership for Change in Singapore Schools: An Introduction (Thiam-Seng Koh and David Wei-Loong Hung); Historical Development of Educational Leadership in Singapore (Jeanne- Marie Ho and Thiam-Seng Koh); Significance of Educational Leadership: Case for Singapore Schools Today (Shamala Raveendaran, Yancy Toh, Paul Chua, David Wei-Loong Hung and Azilawati Jamaludin); Overcoming Impediments to Reform: Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Educational Innovations (Yancy Toh, Azilawati Jamaludin and David Wei-Loong Hung); Empowering Partnerships for School-based Innovation Scale and Sustainability (Azilawati Jamaludin, Yancy Toh and David Wei-Loong Hung); Educational Change for the 21st Century: “Leadership from the Middle” (David Wei-Loong Hung, Yancy Toh, Azilawati Jamaludin, Galvin Sng, Monica Lim, Stephen Li and Eva Moo); Developing Teacher Leadership in Pedagogical Practice (Liang-See Tan, Letchmi Devi Ponnusamy and Keith Chiu-Kian Tan); Inductive Leadership: Activating Community-Oriented Student Agency towards School Improvement (Paul Chua, Yancy Toh, Wee-Kwang Tan, David Wei-Loong Hung and Thiam-Seng Koh); Teachers at the Heart of System Change: Principles of Educational Change for School Leaders (David Wei-Loong Hung, Thiam-Seng Koh and Azilawati Jamaludin).

Readership: General public and professionals.

Key Features: ○ Much of information covered in the proposed book has been reported generally in academic journals, which are less accessible to the public. The findings reported in the book will be written in the form of stories and perspectives that will engage a wider audience beyond academia and practitioners ○ There is much interest in the Singapore education system because of its strong international standing in TIMMS and PISA. This book will provide stories and insights into how school leaders, in working with the Ministry of Education, bring about some of the important changes in education that have contributed to Singapore having a strong internationally-recognised education system ○ The stories in the book will be told through the direct experiences of key leaders who are and were contributors to the success of the Singapore education system and researchers who are actively researching school leadership in Singapore schools which implement educational changes to improve learning experiences of their students

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 59 Editor’s Choice Lee Kuan Yew Through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars By (author): Chen-Ning Yang (Tsinghua University, China), Ying-Shih Yu (Princeton) & Gungwu Wang (East Asian Institute, NUS, Singapore)

Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly- respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper

Social Sciences understanding of Lee Kuan Yew — the man, as well as Singapore — his nation.

Marking the momentous event of his death as well as the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence in 2015, this compilation reflects both the high regard in which Lee Kuan Yew is held across the Chinese-speaking world as well as the reservations of a few. The contributors are all ethnic Chinese from different academic disciplines ranging from a Nobel laureate in physics, Rights Information: Chen-Ning Yang, to historians, economists and political scientists. They include Singaporeans All language (except such as Wang Gungwu and Chew Cheng Hai, as well as scholars from China, the US and Hong Kong such as Yongnian Zheng, Ying-Shih Yu, Lawrence Lau and Hang-Chi Lam among others. Simplified Chinese) rights available. Originally published in Chinese, this English translation makes the material accessible to a wider English-reading audience. 216pp Pub. date: Dec 2016 Readership: English readers interested in how Chinese scholars view Lee Kuan Yew.

978-981-3202-31-3 US$58 / £48

978-981-3209-37-4(pbk) US$28 / £23

Editor’s Choice Silver Shades of Grey Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century By (author): Kanwaljit Soin

“Dr Kanwaljit Soin has produced a highly engaging, readable, and informative book on the subject of ageing. It is written for all genders to help the reader understand and embrace the inevitable ageing process. With her medical background, she explains simply and clearly, sometimes with a touch of wit, issues of ageing that have troubled us and have no one to ask. The book is also for researchers in universities and research centres who work on the subject because it is rich in medical information, social analyses and public policy discussion.” Professor Chan Heng Chee Chairman, Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities Singapore University of Technology and Design

“Dr Soin has given so many golden nuggets of her experiences on healthy living and ageing well. I am sure many will find much truth and emulate and gain confidence in themselves to be able to function well as senior members of society and be a joy to their families and friends” Rights Information: Dorothy Chan All language rights Executive Director, Far East Organization available. “How do we prepare for a life we haven’t lived? If indeed forewarned is forearmed, this book is 292pp a must read. It’s informative, holistic and enlightening. A positive endorsement that ‘ageing’ can Pub. date: Mar 2018 be enjoyable.” Patricia Chan Swimming’s Pioneer Golden Girl and Women’s Hall of Fame & Sports Hall of Fame 978-981-3231-33-7

US$48 / £42 “Dr Kanwaljit Soin is a Woman for All Ages. She is compassionate, inclusive and clear-eyed about problems that face us; a doer, not an arm-chair theorist; a tireless champion of the underdog. 978-981-3233-73-7(pbk) Above all, she celebrates life in all its complexity. Any book by her will be engaging, exhilarating US$28 / £25 and, above all, life-enhancing.” Dr Geh Min Environmentalist and former Nominated Member of Parliament (Jan 2005–Apr 2006)

“This book is literally everything you ever wanted to know about growing old. But Dr Soin does not bore you to old age. Her message is optimistic and hopeful: Don’t be afraid of growing old, and don’t be afraid of other people growing old. But, first, you need to read this book.” Han Fook Kwang Editor-At-Large, The Straits Times and Senior Fellow, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies

60 WORLD SCIENTIFIC Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 Social Sciences “This is a highly educational, fun and easy to read book on a subject that affects us all — getting older and ageing. Dr Soin brilliantly reveals the difference between our chronological, biological and psychological age, and how we can modify the ageing process to live in greater fitness and well-being. A must read for all ages and stages of life.” Dr Noeleen Heyzer member of the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation

“Here is prose chiming with vitality and possibilities, clarity, wit and wisdom; its subject, the very thing that informs its brilliance. Dr Soin, the medical specialist AND activist are both true to form here. Her objective is clear. What is the use of knowledge if not to facilitate new ways of being?” Dana Lam author of Days of Being Wild: Walking the Line with the Opposition

“With characteristic flair, Dr Kanwaljit Soin looks at a traditionally sensitive topic, ageing, from the widest possible range of perspectives, including the biological, psychological and sociocultural. To this vastness of scope, she brings an assured tone, moving easily from unflinching admonition to friendly advice, from earnest instruction to warm understanding and humour.” Dr Catherine Lim, writer

“This brilliant, reassuring, simply-written book summarizes, ‘all you need to know’ about ageing from various perspectives — biological, psychological, medical, financial, individual, societal — drawing from the latest scientific and social-scientific research to suggest practicable actions that individuals, families and governments can take to realize the full potential of ageing populations.” Professor Linda Lim Professor Emerita of Corporate Strategy and International Business Stephen M Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

“Dr Soin is not only an expert on medical aspects of ageing, but she is a brilliant writer, whose stories and facts offer inspiration for the critical global issue of growing old. A must-read for old and young alike, since we are all heading in the same direction toward ‘seniority’.” Professor Meg Lowman Director of Global Initiatives, California Academy of Sciences, USA

“Dr Kanwaljit Soin is absolutely right. Ageing is untraveled territory for humanity. For 99.9% of human history, we lived for only 30 to 40 years. Now many of us, if not most, will exceed 65 years. So how do we cope? In a small book filled with uncommon common sense and deep insights of wisdom, she has prepared an indispensable guide. It shines a valuable light on an untraveled path that most of humanity will now walk on. As I turn 70, I will heed her advice. I would strongly encourage you to do so too.” Professor Kishore Mahbubani National University of Singapore and the author of Can Asians Think?

“This vitally important and readable book is a timely contribution to issues of ageing. The author, Dr Kanwaljit Soin, examines all the complexities and contradictions of growing old and she does this by deftly blending history, culture, hard data, common sense advice and liberal doses of humour to keep the reader engaged in a subject that is not always entertaining nor appealing. That is a remarkable achievement.” Constance Singam, writer and social activist

“Silver Shades of Grey is an innovative book that addresses the many questions individuals and societies should ask about how we grow old. Dr Kanwaljit Soin nimbly combines scientific information with humanistic wisdom. The book is a lively, informative read that triggers deep reflections on what we can do to embrace our ageing society and harness this as a valuable asset rather than a liability. « Professor Teo You Yenn sociologist and author of This is What Inequality Looks Like

“This is a book you dip into. Each dip will reward you with a fistful of facts that are food for thought — about you and your ageing process, and about whether as a society we are doing enough to adjust to the reality of our greater longevity and extended vitality.”

Margaret Thomas, writer/editor and lifelong procrastinator who believes we should all procrastinate about ageing

“’We are only old once,’ concludes Dr Kanwaljit Soin in this highly readable, informative, entertaining, and inspiring collection of memos on ageing. She describes the art and science of successful ageing, reminding us that, ultimately, ars moriendi (the art of dying) is really ars vivendi (the art of living). Wonderful reading for those who want to celebrate life at any age!» Dr Astrid Tuminez Regional Director, Corporate External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft (Southeast Asia)

Foreign Rights Annual Catalogue 2018 WORLD SCIENTIFIC 61 “Ageing is a multi-faceted process. This book covers a wide range of topics on ageing as part of an individual’s life course and as part of the demographic transition taking place in many populations of the world. Drawing from some recent advancements in biological and medical sciences, social research findings and evidence-based practices of active and healthy ageing, Dr Soin has helped dispel myths and prejudices against ageing, advocated special attention to gender inequalities in ageing, and pointed to how individuals and policy-makers can harness the qualities of ageing for continuous human growth and social development. The text is peppered with wittiness and encouragement that nourishes the human spirit. The chapters are to be reflected upon and savoured, but not to be read in one single breath.” Social Sciences Dr Aline Wong sociologist and former Minister of State for Health, Singapore

“Dr Kanwaljit Soin has written a treasure trove of information and insight on the topic and condition that escapes no individual or society — ageing. With big doses of science, statistics, information, humour and wisdom, Silver Shades of Grey answers all the questions you ever had about growing old. A must read for all on how to understand, appreciate and make the most of the journey all of us must take.” Dr Yeoh Lam Keong former GIC Chief Economist and Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore

“A timely guide to ageing in this age of the baby boomers, grounded in a broad research on gerontological aspects from the physical to the mental, spiritual, sociological and economical, with nuggets of information all found in a neat and handy package.” Choo Wai Hong author of The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains

“In her inimitable style of providing thoughtful, humorous insights backed by credible research, Kanwaljit’s collection of bite-sized chapters are endearing yet serious. She makes a convincing case that while one must understand the realities of ageing, the potential of the older mind as a force for creative change and genius is historically proven. If ever there was a primer on ageing and its trials and triumphs, this is it!”

Sylvia Lim Member of Parliament and Chair of Workers’ Party (Singapore)

“Silver Shades of Grey uses a well curated collection of scientific evidence and facts that dem- onstrate how ageing impacts how we live, work and play. The sooner we realise that ageing overlaps every sector of our economy, the faster we will capture the opportunities of enabling health longevity and successful ageing. This book is a must-read resource for those that care deeply about older adults and support a mindset shift in the future of ageing.»

Janice Chia Founder and Managing Director, Ageing Asia Pte Ltd

Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn’t really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. This book offers some operating instructions for life, a guide to engaging passionately with age!

Dealing with a plethora of subjects, such as health, happiness, loneliness, dementia, sex, gender, marriage, abuse, respect, wage, wealth, class, and care, the book touches on how ageing affects us as individuals and as a society.

It explores a few of the mysteries and miracles of life, and some of its myths. It encourages us to cope creatively with the mundaneness of our continuing life.

The author invites you to join her as she delves into these questions about life and ageing with curiosity and contemplation, and with a sense of awe and adventure.

Contents: Body: Age & Replace; Age & Pace; Age & Real Age; Age & Damage; Age & Haze; Age & Rage; Age, Sex & Porn; Age & Eternity; Age & Frailty; Age & Health; Mind & Spirit: Age & Alone; Age & Create; Age & Daze; Age & Smarts; Age & Fear of Crime; Age & Haha; Culture: Age & Wager; Age & Face; Age & Sage; Age & Gender; Age in Place; Age & Marriage; Age & Ageism; Age & Abuse; Age & Respect; Age & Apocalypse; Age & Adage; Age & Death; Economy: Age & Wage; Age & Next Gen; Age & Leverage; Age, Wealth & Health; Age, Place & Class; Age & Care; Age & Security; Age & Laze; Age & Silver Economy.

Readership: General Public.

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