Singapore University Press - Böcker

The Malayan flora is one of the richest in the world. This book gives a brief systematic account of all the major groups of seed plants classified under 41 orders and 178 families which are represented by native or naturalised plants in Peninsular...

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What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? The author, John J. Sosik, answers this question by reviewing what is known about the connect...

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This invaluable book contains the collected papers of Stephen Smale. These are divided into eight groups: topology; calculus of variations; dynamics; mechanics; economics; biology, electric circuits and mathematical programming; theory of computat...

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Acute primary closed angle glaucoma is a dangerous eye disease on the increase. It can blind a patient rapidly. Yet, blindness from acute glaucoma is preventable as the symptoms draw attention of the patient. With the help of nurses, healthcare wo...

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The fifth book in the Folio series features leading architects as they test out their ideas and designs among the students and staff of the National University of Singapore's Department of Architecture. The ideas cover a range of issues, including...

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The NUS Architecture Folio series highlights the current developments of contemporary Asian architectural education and debate. "Folio" deals with global and local architectural issues in an accessible way, and brings topical issues into...

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A much-needed resource on the practice of public art commissions and community engagement through the arts in urban Asia. Distributed for the NTU Centre for Co ntemporary Art Public art integrates landscape architecture, urban planning, and cultur...

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Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electrical supply, it took over the tram service and started the el...

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This handbook is designed to aid the management of acute medical emergencies as an easy reference source. It represents the collective wisdom from the Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, and should provide practical help in most ...

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The Asian financial crisis has attracted much attention to this part of the world, especially Southeast Asia where the crisis first emerged. While there are signs of economic recovery in the affected countries, financial events in Southeast Asia r...

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This is an attempt at putting into context Kofi Annan's agenda for the United Nations. It assesses the possibilities of reforms at the UN, highlights key issues that will dictate the nature of future discussion on this topic, and updates the reade...

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This volume features the perspective of a new generation of younger China scholars, men and women who themselves grew up in China, but earned their PhDs overseas.

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This edition of the Singapore Financial Sourcebook has been completely updated, revised and expanded. It summarizes the financial developments, reforms and policies of the financial system over the last decades, and provides reference information.

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Life sciences is an area of technology that is hardly ever out of the news. The moral, social, economic, and legal issues raised by the latest work in the life sciences are immense. This book is an introductory survey of the relations between the ...

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This is a study of human melioidosis, an infectious diseases which affects predominantly poor people. Melioidosis strikes slowly, is difficult to diagnose and is potentially fatal.

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This text examines internal political challenges and the wider regional perspective, including the progress of economic integration through ASEAN, the mobility of labour and capital throughout the region and East Asia, and the way big power relati...

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Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of the Singapore river and of the people who made it their home and workplace. This text should be of interest to anyone wishing to understa...

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Confucianism, colonialism and socialism have all contributed significantly to gender relations in Vietnam. More recently, political and social change associated with modernization and globalization have also had an impact. How do the Vietnamese di...

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As the National University of Singapore (NUS) celebrates 100 years of university education in Singapore in 2005, the institution takes a look at significant developments in history and the people who have shaped its past decades. This book capture...

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What it is like to live in a world where witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief? Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the predominantly Christian community of Buli in the Indon...

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Why does violence recur in some places, over long periods of time? Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that island's tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara. Once a small ...

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