The imminent exhaustion of fossil energy resources and the increasing demand for energy were the motives to put into practice an energy policy base...

Public utilities constitute a large section of Europe' economy, and they have historically been at the centre of national states and their industri...

Trade in manufactured goods has expanded rapidly. U.S. manufacturing export share of GDP grew by 140 percent between 1960 and 2006. The share of ma...

Video games are not necessarily uniform in the "lessons" they teach players. Indeed, even violent video games are not simply hotbeds of violent con...

This book examines 2011 trends in the U.S. "voluntary" markets - those in which consumers and institutions purchase renewable energy to match their...

Edwin Cole Bearss, born in 1923, is an American World War II wounded warrior of the Greatest Generation. As a U.S. Marine, he was shot four times b...

This volume presents the results of an interview survey among Greenland subsistence hunters on walruses and the catch of walruses in West and North...

This book examines how water management practices can influence commercial fishing activities and their economic benefits. Government water managem...

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that t...

sn’t it time that we are told the insider TRUTH regarding the intentional and unintentional cover-ups made by the big boys in Detroit. We will be b...

Accurately determining how much of our economy's total production is American-made can be a daunting task. However, data from the Commerce Departme...

Vietnam attracts visitors from various source markets and such diversity has become commonplace in major tourism receiving areas. The practice of i...

Federal financial regulation in the United States has evolved through a series of piecemeal responses to developments and crises in financial marke...

Rising energy prices and concern over greenhouse gas emissions have focused congressional attention on energy alternatives, including wind power. A...

The radio-frequency spectrum is a natural resource used to provide an array of wireless communications services that are critical to the U.S. econo...

This is the tale of how Canada's high northern wilderness was brought into civilization's fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung ...

Farms and ranches operated by women have more than doubled in the last 30 years. Since 1978, the first year the Census of Agriculture collected dat...

The Hogarth Press is perhaps most famous for its association with Virginia Woolf, as she was both a partner in the Press and its most important aut...

During the Second World War, the collaboration dilemma regarding Europe's business life came to the forefront as business leaders were faced with t...

This book examines the production potential of biofuels in the world. World biofuels production was assessed over the 2010 to 2030 timeframe using ...

This book provides analysis, recommendations and laws on youth safety on the internet and explores a host of collaborative and multi-faceted initia...

This informative new volume on the reproduction and development of zebrafish provides a timely and fundamental set of chapters presenting new data ...

Worker, mother trade unionist and activist Zelda D'Aprano shows, in her autobiography, the same spirit she evidenced when chaining herself to the C...