Tens of thousands of foreign nationals travel to the United States each year under the H-2A (agricultural) and H-2B (nonagricultural) visa programs...

Transportation is important. It is about people and how they live their lives, how they get to work, how they get their children to school, how the...

Grasslands provide both ecological and economic benefits. The importance of grasslands lies not only in the areas they cover, but also in the diver...

Fuel cells (FCs) are considered essential future energy technologies by developed and developing economies alike. Several countries, including the ...

The U.S. petroleum refining industry -- the largest refining industry in the world -- experienced a period of high product prices and industry prof...

Congress designed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to be a self-supporting government agency. Since 1971, the agency has not relied upon annual appro...

Rice, an ancient grain, is the primary staple for more than half the world's population, through its role in the diets of billions of low-income, f...

The U.S. shipbuilding and repairing industry is comprised of establishments that are primarily engaged in operating shipyards, which are fixed faci...

Following terrorist attacks against the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1983, the U.S. Department of State began an embassy construction progra...

The US postal service has moved from a largely ignored agency of the government to the frontline troops in the battle with terrorists sending anthr...

The U.S. travel and tourism sector, the main economic and employment engine in a number of states, suffered a steep decline in 2008 and 2009 as the...

This book examines uranium mining and management in the United States with a focus on federal considerations. From 2005 to 2007, uranium prices inc...

This book discusses the uses of minerals. Today over 3,000 minerals have been reported and named of which 1800-2000 have been studied and described...

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...