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This book responds to calls for further advancing knowledge creation in schools. It examines sixteen Chinese Language teachers from Singapore, since language teachers are primarily responsible for the basic literacy that is the foundation of students’ lifelong learning. Positing that people’s cultur... More

This book chronicles the journeys of educational researchers and academics who have engaged in research and development to improve teaching and learning at universities. It highlights the research evidence, approaches, and in many cases, the journey of transformation rather than prescribing certain ... More

This book focuses on the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into K-12 education. It documents the authors' reflections on the approaches and issues that have facilitated implementation of ICT integration in education as well as their experience in integrating ICT in edu... More

This book arises from research conducted through Singapore's National Institute of Education on such topics as integrating knowledge building pedagogies into Singaporean classrooms, with both students and teachers across school levels, from primary schools to high schools. Additionally, internation... More

Acoustic Interculturalism is a study of the soundscapes of intercultural performance through the examination of sound's performativity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines an akoumenological reception of sound to postulate the need for an acoustic knowing - an awareness of ho... More

"Performing Southeast Asia: Performance, Politics and the Contemporary is an important reconsideration of the histories and practices of theatre and performance in a fluid and dynamic region that is also experiencing an overarching politics of complexity, precarity and populist authoritarian tendenc... More

This book features the best papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance in 2016. Chapters include research conducted by experts in the field of Economics, Finance and Business from the region. Put together by East Asia Research, East Asia Institute of Management & Univer... More

This edited book tells the story of the multifaceted efforts devoted by a "future school" in Singapore--The Nan Chiau Primary School--in shaping future learning. It documents the various measures implemented by one primary school to improve student learning outcomes in a technology-rich teaching an... More

This book provides a comparative assessment of the material and ideational contributions of five countries to the regional architecture of post-Cold War Asia. In contrast to the usual emphasis placed on the role and centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Asia’s multilate... More

Despite the long-held and jealously guarded ASEAN principle of non-intervention, this book argues that states in Southeast Asia have begun to display an increasing readiness to think about sovereignty in terms not only of state responsibility to their own populations but also towards neighbouring co... More

New developments in the Asia Pacific are forcing regional officials to rethink the way they manage security issues. The contributors to this work explore why some forms of security cooperation and institutionalisation in the region have proven more feasible than others.... More

The poor prognosis and high mortality for cancer patients are majorly ascribed to tumor metastasis, one of the most complicated pathological processes. Elucidation of molecular mechanisms for metastasis is essential for management and prevention of this lethal condition. In the book to be published,... More

This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a systematic, substantive and comparative manner. The contributions assess similarities and differences between the EU and its Asian partners with respect to levels of threat perception, policy response and security cooperation in the con... More

This book brings together selected lectures given by eminent educationalists in memory of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education. The lectures represent the powerful ideas seeded by Dr Wong and address the challenges of education in Singapore's journey from a textbook case of po... More

In his previous life, Luodan chose the most outstanding combat style, but he became a space pirate before graduating and died young. After dying, he experienced rebirth before choosing a major. This time, he decisively chose the "Trash major" as his "Guardian System." He had thought that he could av... More

In his previous life, Luodan chose the most outstanding combat style, but he became a space pirate before graduating and died young. After dying, he experienced rebirth before choosing a major. This time, he decisively chose the "Trash major" as his "Guardian System." He had thought that he could av... More

In his previous life, Luodan chose the most outstanding combat style, but he became a space pirate before graduating and died young. After dying, he experienced rebirth before choosing a major. This time, he decisively chose the "Trash major" as his "Guardian System." He had thought that he could av... More

In his previous life, Luodan chose the most outstanding combat style, but he became a space pirate before graduating and died young. After dying, he experienced rebirth before choosing a major. This time, he decisively chose the "Trash major" as his "Guardian System." He had thought that he could av... More

This book chronicles a few approaches to constructing biohybrid devices using photosynthetic protein complexes. Can the abundantly available solar energy be tapped to meet our rising energy demands using green and cheap active materials? Exploring nature’s own tiny solar factories, the photosyntheti... More

This book investigates key security issues in connection with the physical layer for random wireless cellular networks. It first introduces readers to the fundamentals of information theoretic security in the physical layer. By examining recently introduced security techniques for wireless point-t... More

Spontaneous potential (SP) well-logging is one of the most common and useful well-logging techniques in petroleum exploitation. This monograph is the first of its kind on the mathematical model of spontaneous potential well-logging and its numerical solutions. The mathematical model established in... More

A one-of-a-kind text offering an introduction to the use of spectroscopic ellipsometry for novel material characterization In Introduction to Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of Thin Film Materials: Instrumentation, Data Analysis and Applications, a team of eminent researchers delivers an incisive explora... More

This book was written to assist the dermatologists and practitioners in the management of rare and challenging skin disorders. It is the most valuable collection of such skin disorders from more than 274 outstanding contributors over 4 decades in China. In this book, a comprehensive coverage of abou... More

This book introduces the linkage between evolutionary computation and complex networks and the advantages of cross-fertilising ideas from both fields. Instead of introducing each field individually, the authors focus on the research that sits at the interface of both fields. The book is structured t... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2016, held in Beijing, China, in November 2016.  The 32 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions.  They discuss the emerging areas and ch... More