Most broadcast television stations' viewing areas extend far beyond the borders of their city of license, and in many cases extend beyond state bor...

The importance of strong autonomous local unions on the waterfront is central to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union movement. ILWU Loc...

Marie-Dominique Chenu OP's (1895-1990) writing demonstrates that a theology of humanity was the basis of his historical, ecclesiological and socio-...

This new book gathers information related to Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. It is far from clear whether adequate measures are...

This book is designed to provide mail centre managers, their supervisors, and an organisation's security personnel a framework for understanding an...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) became the nation's 15th Cabinet department in January 2003. Twenty-two agencies with different miss...

Federal spending on highways totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. About 95 percent of that amount w...

This second edition is a comprehensive, entertaining guide to mixing boating with business. Leaping ahead of the first edition, this guide keeps up...

The health of the U.S. manufacturing sector has been a long-standing concern of Congress. Although Congress has established a wide variety of tax p...

Marine Cargo Operations clearly spells out the basic principles of cargo operations and acquaints merchant officers with the techniques of stowage ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) developed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction (ALWTR) plan to protect endangered large whales from...

Since the Titanic disaster of 1912, the horrors of major maritime casualties have prompted international conventions and domestic legislation, but ...

This book explores the concern about the dramatic increase in childhood obesity in the United States which has prompted Congress to request that th...

America's future competitiveness and global technology leadership depend, in part, upon the availability of additional spectrum. The world is going...

In recent years the model of sport media communication has changed drastically, and it continues to evolve seemingly daily. The bywords of media co...

As sport media communication has become intertwined with the frenetic pace of technology, the bywords have become global interconnectivity and vers...

Jersey-born William Mesny ran off to sea as a boy and jumped ship at Shanghai in 1860 when he was just 18. Amid the chaos of foreign intrigue and c...

The future of oil and natural gas production in Mexico is of importance for both Mexico's economic growth, as well as for U.S. energy security, a k...

Creation of firms with new ideas, their growth, and exit of inefficient ones constitute the essence of creative destruction which has been the engi...

This book documents the history of two celebrated mines in Sussex County, New Jersey, through the eyes of those who lived it. The two mines, consol...

Federal funding to build and maintain the nation's highways and bridges comes primarily from highway users through federal fuel taxes. These revenu...