Gases are the key components in many industrial and domestic activities. The specific demand for gas detection and monitoring has emerged particula...

Over the past several years, gasoline prices have risen well above their historic average. In many parts of the United States, gasoline prices were...

An ever-increasing number of tourists annually visit places which have been hit by disasters, or remembering onslaughts, genocides or places of mas...

Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as...

The price and availability of oil and natural gas affects every American. That's why it is important that the Energy Committee's first hearing of t...

Growth in the productivity of the global food and agricultural system will be largely determined by today's investments in research and development...

This book explores the developments, issues and research outlook of global agriculture. Topics discussed include classifying and measuring agricult...

This book is an overview of the current U.S. and World Beef Trade. The 110th Congress has been monitoring U.S. efforts to regain foreign markets th...

Access to cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies. However, the uneven distribution of energy supplies among count...

Globalisation is shaping a new system of international economic relations -- be it in the fields of investment, production, trade, finance or techn...

Today the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, convention...

Six papers by international scholars reporting on studies of food production and food consumption in the North Atlantic area during the Viking Age ...

Today, the energy sources used to create electricity differ in many ways, including in their environmental impacts. In the United States, electrici...

The fast growth of the tourism industry over the past decades is one of the most remarkable economic phenomena of our time. This handbook discusses...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has conducted an assessment in response to national and international concerns that over...

The ultimate objective for the book is to be a useful tool to increase awareness surrounding the importance of the use and the proper adjustment of...

It is difficult to find an area of such unyielding cost increases as health care except perhaps energy costs. These costs and the underlying health...

Indoor air quality and human health are of continuously growing importance. Indoor air quality may be affected by many factors excluding, but not l...

The future of New Zealand’s rural communities is often in the news. Empty shops, depopulation and lack of jobs are offered as signs that many towns...

The phrase "child labour" carries negative undertones in today's society. However, only a century ago on the Canadian Prairies, youngsters laboured...

All major U.S. agricultural program crops -- corn, barley, sorghum, oats, wheat, rice, and soybeans -- have exhibited extreme price volatility sinc...

Founded in 1905, the High River Times served a community of small town advertisers and an extensive hinterland of ranchers and farmers in southern ...

While Congress has been interested in high speed rail (HSR) since the 1960s, the provision of $8 billion for intercity passenger rail projects in t...

It is widely acknowledged that there is an increasing problem in maintenance of the American civil infrastructure. Highways, bridges, sewers, railr...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides about $40 billion to the states annually to build and maintain highways and bridges through th...

Federal surface transportation programs are currently funded primarily through taxes on motor fuels that are deposited in the highway trust fund. A...

This how-to book is for the prospective author and presents guidelines, examples, forms and advice from 900 publishers.

Human resource management is one of the most important components of business operations in any organization, and sport and recreation programs are...

Offers a perspective of northern native societies that have depended upon whaling for centuries. Alaskan and Western Canadian Arctic coastal reside...

Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), employing liquid methanol as a fuel, offer an attractive option in portable devices due to their simplicity in ...