The Internet has thrived because of its freedom and openness, the absence of any gatekeeper blocking lawful uses of the network or picking winners ...

What happens when the place you've loved working at for twenty years asks for a divorce and breaks your heart?"Tapping into her journalistic rigour...

Roof crush describes a vehicle’s roof as it is deformed during a rollover crash. According to some analysts, a collapsing roof can compromise all a...

This book makes a significant academic contribution because the study enriches the theories of social capital, governance and participatory forestr...

Passenger rail systems are vital components of the nation's transportation infrastructure, encompassing rail transit and intercity rail. In the U.S...

The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid...

Highly migratory species (HMS) are fish stocks that often have trans-oceanic movements and life cycles. Tunas, billfishes, swordfish, and sharks ar...

From prolonged duration of a disease, to permanent injury, to death, drug shortages have led to harmful outcomes for patients of all ages. Over the...

Politicians consistently wage high-profile battles over prescription drugs and the companies that make them. The dilemma is balancing the pharmaceu...

In this book, the authors gather topical research in the study of the design, applications and safety of pipelines. Topics discussed in this compil...

For over a century, the federal government has constructed water resource projects for a variety of purposes, including flood control, navigation, ...

Positive Train Control (PTC) is a communications and signalling system that has been identified by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ...

This book provides background regarding the vulnerability of U.S. agricultural support programs to potential WTO dispute settlement challenges. It ...

This book discusses the development of spot welding electrode and its fabrication using Cu-WC through a powder metallurgy route. This book consists...

This is a practical guide with a step-by-step process for establishing and maintaining a consulting practice for today's sport and performance psyc...

Athletic program administrators have a tremendous influence on the success of their organisations. They must construct viable program plans; overse...

Prebiotics is defined as a selectively fermented ingredient that allows specific changes, both in the composition and/or activity in the gastrointe...

Due to the intensity of research in the field warm water fish nutrition in Egypt, the decision was made to conduct the last fish nutrition in publi...

Heat treatment is one of the most common practices used to produce safe and shelf stable foods or otherwise stated, to reduce the probability of su...

Modern means of communications, led by the Internet, provide a relatively inexpensive, open, easy-entry means of sharing ideas, information, pictur...

This book explores various protective devices utilised in the fields of medicine, automobile and motorcycle safety, and sports. This work gathers t...

The fourth edition of Psychological Bases of Sport Injuries brings together a diverse and global collection of expert chapter authors to provide in...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was created out of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 (P.L. 90-129). The CPB was intended to provide...

The Australian publishing industry has transformed itself from a colonial outpost of British publishing to a central node in a truly global publish...

This book covers the basic principles in canned seafood: principles of thermal processing, resistance of microorganisms, canned seafood microbiolog...

Studies on queueing models and their publication in professional journals and textbooks have been sparse over the past eleven decades. Collections ...

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging wireless communication technology that has stimulated numerous innovative applications in mult...

Pressure is building for greater passenger use of freight rail-road rights of way. Freight rail-road rights of way are owned by private, for-profit...

Most books available in the market related to this area consider the use of recycled aggregate only for low-grades of concrete applications. This b...

In this book you'll find everything you always wanted to know about the real, honest-to-not-so-goodness, day-to-day inner workings of Hollywood. No...

While billions have been provided to rebuild Iraq's oil and electricity sectors, Iraq's future needs are significant and sources of funding uncerta...

In 2010, auto manufacturers recalled more vehicles than any other year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), th...

Recreational fishing is a traditional American pastime integral to social, cultural, and economic life in coastal communities across the nation. Th...

The atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, most notably carbon dioxide, has gradually increased over the last century and, in the view of m...

This book examines the design technologies and developments in refrigeration systems. Topics discussed include sorption refrigeration systems; impr...

The extent to which the federal and state governments regulate the death care industry -- funeral homes, cemeteries, crematories, pre-need funeral ...

Green marketing -- a marketing strategy highlighting the environmental attributes of a product -- dates back to the 1970s but began to flourish in ...

High petroleum and gasoline prices, concerns over global climate change, and the desire to promote domestic rural economies have greatly increased ...

Perceptions that the pace of new-drug development has slowed and that the pharmaceutical industry is highly profitable have sparked concerns that s...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because o...

The potential of environmental resources as tourist resources and the impact of tourism on these resources are an open research area and, because o...

Rice and Rice Straw: Production, Cultivation and Uses opens with a discussion on rice straw, a substance rich in polysaccharides with a high lignin...