Thee Kian Wie,Indonesia’s Economy since Independence. Singapore: ISEAS, 2012, xvii + 307 pp. ISBN 9789814379632. Price: SGD 49.90 (paperback).

X-Ray Crystallography. Second Edition. By William Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 128. Price GBP 14.99 (paperback). ISBN 9780198700975.

During my career, I have taught undergraduates majoring in physics and undergraduates majoring in chemistry. I have also taught molecular biologists and biochemists. My initial preference in teaching X-ray crystallography to any undergraduate was for my physics undergraduate course book in crystallography by Michael Woolfson (1970). However, that book, with its clear mathematical foundation, is...

Crystallography - An Introduction, 3rd ed. By Walter Borchardt-Ott. Springer, 2012. Pp. xvi + 357. Price (paperback) EUR 42.75. ISBN 978-3-642-16451-4

Imperfections in crystalline solids. By Wei Cai and William D. Nix. MRS-Cambridge Materials Fundamentals. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Paperback Pp. 532. Price GBP 44.99. ISBN 1107123135.

This book is a very good textbook of more than 500 pages that bridges the gap between Introduction to Dislocations by Hull & Bacon (2011), and the famous Theory of Dislocations by Hirth & Lothe (1968). It is based on the lecture notes of one the authors (WDN), who originally taught in the Materials Science and Engineering Department of Stanford University. It is mainly aimed at senior undergrad...

Chemistry for Environmental Scientists. By Detlev Möller. De Gruyter, 2015. Paperback, Pp. XIV+380. Price EUR 69.95, USD 98.00, GBP 52.99. ISBN 9783110409994.

As indicated by its title, the book ‘Chemistry for Environmental Scientists’ aims at covering a very broad field of knowledge. After a short and general introduction, it is divided in four chapters, namely ‘Chemistry under environmental conditions’, ‘Fundamentals of physical chemistry’, ‘Chemistry of the elements and its [sic] compounds in the environment’ and ‘Chemical processes in the environ...

Singapore: Economy

“A wonder created out of a tear drop” is an apt way to describe what Singapore is today compared to what it was just over forty years ago in 1965 when Singapore was thrown out of the Malaysian Federation. The tears that the nation saw in the eyes of the then young leader Lee Kuan Yew solidified the determination of the nation to rise against all odds. The rest is history; Singapore turned its v...