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| | World Scientific Launched 50 Years of Social Issues in Singapore  Singapore Management University (SMU) Professor David Chan's latest book, 50 Years of Social Issues in Singapore, was co-launched by World Scientific and SMU along with his other book People Matter, also published by World Scientific, on 30 April.
The book draws insights from 22 other contributors including Ambassador-at-large Professor Tommy Koh, Member of Parliament Mohamad Maliki Bin Osman, Former CEO of HDB and URA Liu Thai Ker, and Senior Research Fellow Gillian Koh, amongst others, on the social issues that the nation faces. In his foreword, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam commended the book being a "most worthwhile endeavour", bringing together "a distinguished team of thinkers and scholars to examine and reflect on a range of critical social issues that have received wide public and policy attention in Singapore."  "A good understanding of the various social issues", said Singapore Management University (SMU) Professor David Chan (above), "will facilitate effective policy-making and constructive public actions." Professor Chan also opined that Singapore's advantageous position could be partly attributed to its cohesive approach on social issues ranging from social mobility, racial and religious harmony, community building, and ageing population. Social progress, he noted, was a potpourri of issues of inclusivity, including social mobility, developing communities and giving attention to marginal groups.
Singapore Education Minister Heng Swee Keat (centre above) who was the Guest-of-Honour at the launch, noted that the late Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew had one key test for social policies and that was, "Does it work?". Minister Heng also highlighted the importance of analysing issues based on evidence while being rooted in values and looking ahead into the future. This would result in the improvement of the people's welfare and a building of a fair and just society for all. Minister Heng concluded his speech by looking ahead that the shaping of Singapore would require "resilience, resourcefulness, responsibility and service to Singapore", the very values that drove the pioneer leaders of the nation. The event was covered by local and foreign news agencies including the Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, Channel 8 News, ChannelNewsAsia, Xinhua News Agency. | | SG50 Book on Women Issues Launched:
Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore  World Scientific launched the second book of its 50 Years of Nation-building series, Our Lives to Live: Putting a Woman's Face to Change in Singapore, on 13 May. The book explores and documents how women's roles, choices, and voices in Singapore have changed in the last 50 years. Among the authors are some of Singapore's most accomplished women in many different fields - Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob, political scientist and diplomat Chan Heng Chee, global women's activist Noeleen Heyzer, sociologist and politician Aline Wong, food ambassador Violet Oon, sports legend Pat Chan, law lecturer and playwright Eleanor Wong, and novelist Meira Chand.  In her foreword, Minister Grace Fu (below left) commended the book for having a "range of views" reflecting "the diversity, depth and strength of women in Singapore."
Ms Doreen Liu, Group Managing Director, World Scientific (below right) announced that to mark Singapore's 50 years of Nation Building, "World Scientific is set to publish a series of books on various areas of our nation's development." She expressed in her speech that "50 percent of our country's population are women, and over 50 percent of Singapore women have tertiary education. Without a volume on women's issues, this series would be incomplete!" Minister Grace Fu (above left) who was also the Guest-of-Honour at the launch encouraged family members, employers, and the community to support women so as to "r educe the work-family trade-off that women face". This would help women balance their time between work and family and achieve their goals and aspirations. Minister Fu concluded her speech by acknowledging the contribution of Singapore women, young and old, to the nation through important ways such as businesswomen, entrepreneurs, artistes, sportswomen, firewomen. The event was covered by local news agencies including the Straits Times, Lianhe Zaobao, TODAY and ChannelNewsAsia. | | Imperial College Press to Host a Lunch Reception to
Honour Professor James Barber's 75th Birthday on 8 July 2015  Imperial College Press is proud to sponsor a lunch to honour Professor James Barber, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Barber has been a member of the Imperial College academic community since 1968 and was head of the Department of Biochemistry for ten years, from 1989 to 1999. More recently he has been a visiting professor at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and a scientific advisor at NTU's Solar Fuels Laboratory, where he has worked with a team to develop an artificial leaf that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Indeed, photosynthesis has been a central focus of his research throughout his career. Professor Barber is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as a member of the European Academy and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded numerous prizes throughout his career, including both the Flintoff Medal and the Interdisciplinary Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Biochemical Society Novartis Medal and Prize, and the Wheland Medal and Prize from the University of Chicago. Professor Barber has coedited two books with ICP: Molecular to Global Photosynthesis with Mary Archer, and The Life and Scientific Legacy of George Porter with David Phillips. | | Media Start-Up Hub @ World Scientific Publishing Centre
Launching 1 June 2015! |  World Scientific has created a media hub to nurture publishers and start-ups in the content, interactive media and gaming industries. Located in the World Scientific Publishing Centre, the hub offers a cost effective yet dynamic environment, where like-minded partners are in conversation for a common goal. Connect, collaborate and create with us today! For more information, contact Lesley Siau at 6466 5776 or email: admin@wspc.com.sg Rates per fully furnished workstation. Early bird discount of 10% and group discounts apply.  - $500 per workstation per month
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Birds and Frogs
Selected Papers from Freeman Dyson
 Professor Freeman Dyson is a world renowned physicist and a mathematician, a thinker and a futurist, who has been very active in scientific, literary and public policy activities throughout his career. He was in Singapore in 2013 for a conference, held at the Nanyang Technological University, in his honor to celebrate his 90th birthday. The lively event attracted distinguished scientists from around the world. It was the perfect occasion for World Scientific to approach him to consider publishing his most recent selected papers as a sequel to the publication by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The resulting compilation of both previously published as well as unpublished talks and writings survey a wide range of topics in science, history and politics that are bound to keep the readers transfixed and delighted with Birds and Frogs (Selected Papers, 1990-2014). |  Hot Off the Press
George Yeo on Bonsai, Banyan and the Tao The long-anticipated book by George Yeo (former Foreign Minister of Singapore) is now published. It is a compilation of some of his best speeches and essays on Singapore and Politics, Culture and Values, Media and Social Media, and Geopolitics. Professor Amartya Sen (Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences) will be the Guest-of-Honour at the book launch to be held on 9 July 2015. |  Insight into Chinese Economic Transformation World Scientific proudly announces the publication of The Economic Transformation of China, the collection of Dwight H. Perkins' comprehensive works on Chinese economic history and development. The book depicts the full spectrum of Chinese economic transformation beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the second decade of the twenty-first century. It includes an analysis of the forces that held China back before 1949, the nature of the economy as it operated under the Soviet model of development, and the transformation since 1978 into a "socialist market economy." The essays of the post-1978 era reflect the author's view of the state of the reform effort and carries the story up to the 2012-2013 slowdown in economic growth of China. Dwight H. Perkins is the H. H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Harvard University and former director of the Harvard Institute for International Development. He has authored or edited twelve books and over one hundred articles on economic history and economic development, with special references to the economies of China, Korea, Vietnam and the other nations of East and Southeast Asia. | |
