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The Asian 21st Century

This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination.

Mahbubani, Kishore
30.12.2021

The Asian 21st Century

Mahbubani, Kishore
01.01.2022

Risk and Resilience in the Era of Climate Change

This book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis. Its timeliness lies in applying important findings on risk and resilience to runaway climate change. When risk and resilience are brought together in the context of climate catastrophes, three key messages emerge.

Thomas, Vinod
15.04.2024

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition

This open access book consists of essays selected from Joseph S. Nye, Jr.’s last three decades of writing and illustrate a variety of perspectives on the nature of power, the role of the United States in the world and US-China relations. Through this collection, it is hoped that readers will gain a better understanding of today’s global environment and find that while great power competition may be inevitable in a world as centers of power shift, cooperating to address transnational challenges can be a positive sum game.

Nye, Joseph S.
06.05.2023

Soft Power and Great-Power Competition

Nye, Joseph S.
06.05.2023

Party Life

The emergence of China as a great power is perhaps the most consequential development for the world in the 21st century. Yet, what the Western world sees in this development is largely through the prism of misinterpreted ideological dichotomy and misguided geopolitical rivalry.

Li, Eric
02.11.2024

Forensic Genetics in the Governance of Crime

This open access book uses a critical sociological perspective to explore contemporary ways of reformulating the governance of crime through genetics. Through the lens of scientific knowledge and genetic technology, Machado and Granja offer a unique perspective on current trends in crime governance.

Machado, Helena
29.01.2020

Russophobia

This book defines Russophobia as the irrational fear of Russia, a key theme in the study of propaganda in the West as Russia has throughout history been assigned a diametrically opposite identity as the “Other.” Propaganda is the science of convincing an audience without appealing to reason.

Diesen, Glenn
07.05.2023

Russophobia

Diesen, Glenn
23.04.2022

Managing Great Power Politics

This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s.

Koga, Kei
01.09.2022

Managing Great Power Politics

Koga, Kei
31.08.2022

Managing Great Power Politics

Koga, Kei
01.09.2022

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively.

Diesendorf, Mark
29.07.2023

The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation

Diesendorf, Mark
29.07.2023

Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand

This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family’s plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young king, Ananda, and his Swiss girlfriend, Marileine Ferrari, a daughter of a famous pastor of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Chachavalpongpun, Pavin
03.12.2022

How China Works

This book, a bestseller in China with over a million copies sold, depicts the role played by the Chinese government in China‘s economic development. It explains how the Chinese government has gradually established and improved market mechanisms while promoting economic growth.

Lan, Xiaohuan
16.03.2024

How China Works

Lan, Xiaohuan
15.03.2024

How China Works

Lan, Xiaohuan
03.04.2025

Linear Algebra with Python

This textbook is for those who want to learn linear algebra from the basics. After a brief mathematical introduction, it provides the standard curriculum of linear algebra based on an abstract linear space. It covers, among other aspects: linear mappings and their matrix representations, basis, and dimension; matrix invariants, inner products, and norms; eigenvalues and eigenvectors; and Jordan normal forms.

Tsukada, Makoto
11.10.2023

China and the World in a Changing Context

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license.Ambassadors are a kind of vehicle and bellwether for globalization. These diplomatic envoys serve as pivotal contact points between nations across a wide range of fields, from economics and culture to health and the environment.

Wang, Huiyao
06.03.2022

China and the World in a Changing Context

Wang, Huiyao
05.03.2022

China and the World in a Changing Context

Wang, Huiyao
06.03.2022

New World Order and Small Regions

The book provides a comprehensive understanding of the unfolding geopolitical changes in the South Caucasus in the age of increased great power competition across Eurasia. Recent research on the geopolitics of the South Caucasus focuses either on interstate relations among Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia or on each of regional actor’s (Russia, Turkey and Iran) ties with the region’s one or all three states.

Avdaliani, Emil
30.08.2022

New World Order and Small Regions

Avdaliani, Emil
31.08.2023

The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace

This is an Open Access book.Hoping to incubate a unique idea about workplace design, Dr. Agustin Chevez walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney. His pilgrimage delivered 34 Signposts, a collection of insights which hold the promise to guide us to a better place to work.

Chevez, Agustin
30.08.2022

Self as Method

Despite China’s rise to the status of global power, many Chinese youths are anxious about their personal future, in large measure because the rapid changes have left them feeling adrift. This book, available in open access, provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people to think by themselves and for themselves.

Xiang, Biao
01.10.2022

Self as Method

Xiang, Biao
01.10.2022

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Banking and Financial Services

This book discusses all aspects of money laundering, starting from traditional approach to financial crimes to artificial intelligence-enabled solutions. It also discusses the regulators approach to curb financial crimes and how syndication among financial institutions can create a robust ecosystem for monitoring and managing financial crimes.

Gupta, Abhishek
19.07.2023

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Banking and Financial Services

Gupta, Abhishek
07.08.2024

Party Life

Li, Eric
14.11.2023

From Trump to Biden and Beyond

The last four years have seen significant damage in US-China relations that will take years to rebuild. Early signs within the Biden Administration indicate that an expeditious return to strong Sino-US ties is premature at best. To fully address these challenges and regain credibility both at home and abroad, the Biden team will need to recalibrate a new set of values, objectives, and thinking in redefining the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

Carr Jr., Earl A.
10.09.2022

China’s Technology War

This book is a short history of the Chinese crackdown on the country’s large technology firms that began in 2020. The book discusses the political and economic context, and outlines the limitations on the power of the state. As the policies of 'common prosperity' continue to develop, this book will be an invaluable reference for economists studying either China, the internet and big tech, or both.

Collier, Andrew
09.07.2022

History Continues

Decades after Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' thesis became famous, the conflicts and turmoil of history have returned; Dr. Kicmari, having seen his own native land erupt in a European civil war in the 1990s, has been thinking about these issues for many years.

Kiçmari, Sabri
08.12.2022

History Continues

Kiçmari, Sabri
22.12.2023

Global Trends Compendium

This Compendium was conceived as a “pocket compass”, a practical guide that may help readers to orientate themselves while they explore global affairs and attempt to make sense of the highly interconnected, multidimensional challenges of contemporary human development.

Monaco, Edoardo
10.03.2023

Global Trends Compendium

Monaco, Edoardo
18.02.2024

A General Theory of Fluid Mechanics

This book provides a general introduction to fluid mechanics in the form of biographies and popular science. Based on the author’s extensive teaching experience, it combines natural science and human history, knowledge inheritance and cognition law to replace abstract concepts of fluid mechanics with intuitive and understandable physical concepts.

Liu, Peiqing
03.04.2022

Structural Hot-Spot Stress Approach to Fatigue Analysis of Welded Components

This book provides background and guidance on the use of the structural hot-spot stress approach to fatigue analysis. The book also offers Design S-N curves for use with the structural hot-spot stress for a range of weld details, and presents parametric formulas for calculating stress increases due to misalignment and structural discontinuities.

Niemi, Erkki
06.09.2017

Electro-Fenton Process

This volume discusses the theoretical fundamentals and potential applications of the original electro-Fenton (EF) process and its most innovative and promising versions, all of which are classified as electrochemical advanced oxidation processes. It consists of 15 chapters that review the latest advances and trends, material selection, reaction and reactor modeling and EF scale-up.

Zhou, Minghua
01.02.2019

Structural Hot-Spot Stress Approach to Fatigue Analysis of Welded Components

Niemi, Erkki
23.12.2018

Manual of Travel Medicine

The fourth edition of this well received book provides an authoritative and up-to-date resource to support good practice in travel medicine, a field that has evolved substantially in recent years. Concretely, there has been intensified monitoring of health problems among travelers, as well as extensive research efforts, which have led to the development of evidence-based approaches to the field.

Torresi, Joseph
05.11.2019

Manual of Travel Medicine

Torresi, Joseph
05.11.2020

Hematopathology

This book covers recent advances in the understanding and management of essential hematological pathologies. In addition to updates on Hodgkin’s lymphoma, acute myeloid leukemia and other disorders, it provides essential information on transplant pathology, and the molecular and genetic aspects of hematological disorders.

Saxena, Renu
28.08.2020

Iran in an Emerging New World Order

This book critically develops and discusses Iran’s geopolitical imaginations and explores its various foreign-policy schools of thought and their controversies. In doing so, the book covers Iran's foreign policy and international relations from "9/11" all the way to Rouhani’s rise (late 2014).

Fathollah-Nejad, Ali
24.05.2022

Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India

The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the caste scholarship.

Ingole, Anagha
19.05.2022

Hong Kong History

This book aims at providing an accessible introduction to and summary of the major themes of Hong Kong history that has been studied in the past decades. Each chapter also suggests a number of key historical figures and works that are essential for the understanding of a particular theme.

Wong, Man-Kong
12.11.2022

Nontraditional Security Concerns in India

This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security. Nontraditional security goes beyond military security and focuses primarily on socioeconomic security. Its major concern is human beings rather than border or territory of the state.

Singh, Shantesh Kumar
02.04.2022

Nontraditional Security Concerns in India

Singh, Shantesh Kumar
01.04.2022

Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka

This book systematically maps the evolution of the party–voter nexus of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). In doing so, it argues that these parties rely mostly on a complex Web of patronage-based networks to mobilise electorates.

Peiris, Pradeep
22.11.2022

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (ELCA) that was developed about three decades ago demands a broadening of its scope to include lifecycle costing and social aspects of life cycle assessment as well, drawing on the three-pillar or ‘triple bottom line’ model of sustainability, which is the result of the development of the Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA).

Muthu, Subramanian Senthilkannan
23.09.2022

From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the transition from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific. The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world’s economic and strategic centre of gravity, in which established and rising powers compete with each other.

Patman, Robert G.
26.11.2022

The Vortex and The Jet

This open access book is an introduction for the lay reader to understand the basics of flight. The exposure is to the mysteries of lift generation by wings and the basic function of the jet propulsion engine. The text relies on simple descriptions of the physics of air flow without unduly involving mathematics.

Decher, Reiner
26.02.2022

The Vortex and The Jet

Decher, Reiner
25.02.2022

The Vortex and The Jet

Decher, Reiner
26.02.2022

Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary World

This book puts forward a new angle of understanding the society of states in the milieu of the contemporary world. The absence of a regulatory mechanism, i.e., anarchy, has been the fundamental issue of international relations. This book explains how the normative imperatives, information and communication technology (ICT) and nuclear deterrence generated ambiance have poised the states in a society where they are bound to follow certain normative imperatives that dilute the color and meaning of anarchy and obliges the states to act in a certain way.

Sorkar, M. N. I.
17.03.2022

Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary World

Sorkar, M. N. I.
16.03.2022

Power and Issue Framing in the Contemporary World

Sorkar, M. N. I.
18.03.2023

Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world.

Tan, Kenneth Paul
13.04.2022

A Study of Diplomatic Protocol and Etiquette

This book, with its focus on the study of diplomatic protocol and etiquette, collects high-quality papers written by scholars in diplomatic protocol from nine countries, including US, UK, Russia, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, India and China. As a result of in-depth international academic cooperation, it explores diplomatic protocol from three dimensions of theory, practice and country-specific and has the characteristics of internationality and nationality.