(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jul-2013, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814425513)
Describes the life and times of a physician-scientist over the last half-century. This book is about the authors struggle with colon cancer and the lessons he learnt from the experience. It also describes his experiences as a practicing physician a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jun-2013, Izdevniecība: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781848169081)
E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. In this book, the authors aim is to show the human face of science, how the course of her fathers life was shaped by circumstance and by the influence of illustrious frien...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Nov-2012, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814390033)
Tells the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war. This book contains 13 chapters covering the authors childhood, education, and his career-long contrib...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Sep-2012, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814405898)
Offers a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships, his friendships, and his love for the field, family...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Apr-2012, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814390767)
Dr Goh Keng Swees extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This title includes essays that provide an assessment of the long-term inf...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Mar-2012, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814350037)
In Chinese politics, the act of retirement is surprisingly difficult, but Hu Jintao is widely known for his reserve and reticence; there is little doubt that he could disappear into a quiet and anonymous retirement if he so desires. This title provi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Oct-2011, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814355261)
Best known outside the scientific community for the Nobel Prize in Physics he won in 1991, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was exceptional amongst scientists for the breadth and depth of his contributions in multiple fields of physics. This title retraces t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jul-2011, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814291392)
A crucial founding father of independent Singapore, Dr Goh Keng Swee has his distinguished and unparalleled stint in public service hitherto reduced to dates and designations. This book commemorates his public career and attempts to portray a person...Lasīt vairāk
Richard Guy Compton, Gregory George Wildgoose, Elza G. Zakharova
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Apr-2011, Izdevniecība: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781848166769)
Armin G Stromberg was arguably one of the founding fathers of the technique of stripping voltammetry frequently used in chemical analysis, yet he is virtually unheard of in Western Scientific circles. This title presents the complete set of 74 survi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2011, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814299596)
S Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra, was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. This title describes the evolution of his scientific work and records each investigation, describing the doubts and the successes, the trials and th...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Oct-2010, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814322973)
Walter Thirring is the last offspring of an Austrian family of scientists. In this narrative, he describes how he survived the Nazi occupation and became instrumental in reconstructing European science. It also includes his encounters with the old m...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jun-2010, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814317498)
Opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the late Qing through the 1950s. This title reflects the life of a pioneer writer of Malayan-Singapore Chinese Literature: his personal tragedies, struggles, disappointments an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jun-2010, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814307871)
An autobiographical account of doing scientific research in India. It provides insight to the perseverance of a scientist from a developing country....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jan-2010, Izdevniecība: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789814304016)
An autobiography that presents a personal account of the life of a woman academic, over a span of 60 years, from incidents in her childhood, through the education process from primary to pre-university education in British Malaya to two doctorates f...Lasīt vairāk
