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This volume presents articles focusing on four prevalent themes, namely transformation and modernity, the culture of streets, experiencing the street and finally, design and quality of streets.

The Wolf Prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel and goes to mathematicians. It honours the achievements of a lifetime. This volume features bibliographies, papers and speeches of Wolf Prize winners, such as L. Ahlfors, H. Cartan, S. Eilenberg, P. Erdos, F. Hirzebruch and others.

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A native of Bruges (now part of Belgium), Jacques de Coutre was a gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century. In addition to a substantial autobiography written in Spanish and preserved in the National Library of Spain in Madrid, he wrote a series of memorials to the united crown of Spain and Portugal that contain recommendations designed to remedy the decline in the fortunes of the Iberian powers in South...

This book takes a unique, wholly integrated look at the e-payment landscape, viewing consumer, business, and wholesale payments as a continuum.

A self-contained introduction to the theory of periodic, progressive, permanent waves on the surface of incompressible inviscid fluid. The book consists of two parts: numerical experiments and normal form analysis of the bifurcation equations.

This second 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 a wealth of reference information. A must for all financial institutions and libraries, and an indispensable reference guide for all financial and banking professionals, researchers, students, and members of the p...

Singapore is changing. Confronted with a political landscape that is likely to become more contested, how should the government respond? What reforms should it pursue? This collection of essays suggests that a far-reaching and radical rethinking of the country's policies and institutions is necessary, even if it weakens the consensus that has enabled Singapore to succeed in its first 50 years.

In this original and perceptive study Donna J. Amoroso argues that the Malay elites' preeminent position after the Second World War had much to do with how British colonialism reshaped old idioms and rituals - helping to (re)invent a tradition. In doing so she illuminates the ways that traditionalism reordered the Malay political world, the nature of the state and the political economy of leadership.

Diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Britain at the height of the Cold War provide unique insights into the overall foreign policies of both nations. British diplomatic records present a fascinating window into Cambodian decision-making. Equally, a fine-grained analysis of British-Cambodia relations reveals much about the dynamics of British foreign policy in the period.

A collection of reviews covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it at the start of the 21st century. Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the formulation of the problem, where it stands with respect to other issues, and why it is important.

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The Vertical Cities Asia International Design Competition and Symposium was created to encourage design explorations and research into the prospects of new architectural and planning models for the increasingly vertical, dense and intense urban environments of Asia. This book presents the spectrum of innovative design and theoretical approaches proposed in the competition entry schemes and symposium.

While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems.

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The serious degradation of the vast peatlands of Indonesia since the 1990s is the proximate cause of the haze that endangers public health in Indonesian Sumatra and Borneo, and also in neighbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. This title explains the degradation of peat soils and outlines a potential course of action to deal with the catastrophe looming over the region.

Javanese shadow puppetry is a sophisticated dramatic form, often felt to be at the heart of Javanese culture, drawing on classic texts but with important contemporary resonance in fields like religion and politics. How to make sense of the shadow-play as a form of world-making? In Tall Tree, Nest of the Wind, Bernard Arps explores this question by considering an all-night performance of Dewa Ruci, a key play in the repertoire.

Based on a vast range of archival materials and spanning 60 years and 3 continents, Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia shows how pan-Asian sporting events helped shape anti-colonial sentiments, Asian nationalisms, and pan-Asian aspirations in places as diverse as Japan and Iran, and across the span of countries lying between them.

From its creation in 1949 until the 1960s, the Central Bank of the Philippines dominated industrial policy by means of exchange controls, becoming a symbol of nationalism for a newly independent state. Yusuke Takagi argues that the Filipino policy makers behind the Central Bank worked not for vested interests associated with colonial or neo-colonial rule but for structural reform based on particular policy ideas.

Explores the agency of women who migrate abroad to acquire opportunities unavailable to them in their homelands. The authors show that the trajectories of marriage migrants are often not a simple movement from home to destination but can involve return, repeated, or extended migrations, and that these transitions that can alter geographies of power in economics, nationality or ethnicity.