This directory covers more than 8,500 of the leading chemical and petrochemical companies worldwide. Coverage includes companies involved with general chemicals, petrochemicals, industria...
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When Columbia professor Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crisis, he didn't just think big, he thought "up" and developed the vertical farm--a fully functionin...
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The &_hash_;1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Late Great USA" returns with a powerful follow-up that shows how America's economic crises have forced the country to accept global solutions.
As the World Wide Web continues to expand, it becomes increasingly difficult for users to obtain information efficiently. Because most search engines rea...
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The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the a...
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A timely, thoughtful analysis of some of the country's most pressing financial and moral questions, "Good Value" presents the heartening possibility that through good ethics comes good bu...
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Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea secrets in 1848. This thrilli...
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How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one tha...
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The founder of survivalblog.com shares crucial (and varied) survival information such as proper food storage, gardening and livestock basics, investment strategies, medical advice--and ho...
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An utterly original exploration of the world of human waste, "The Big Necessity" takes aim at the taboo and reveals everything that matters about how people do--and don't--deal with their own waste.
If the 20th century was the American century, then the 21st century belongs to China. One of the world's most successful investors shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of...
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The State of Play presents an essential first step in understanding how new digital worlds will change the future of our universe. Millions of people around the world inhabit virtual word...
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This is a concise yet wide-ranging and accessible synthesis of the experience of southern workers between World War II and the present, and it links its discussion to important debates i...
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With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional act...
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This volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is t...
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Humans are builders—we make structures to span rivers, to connect points of land, to offer shelter. Indeed, throughout history, civilizations have created structures of such immense sca...
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An Environmental History of the World is a concise history, from Ancient to Modern times, of the interaction between human societies and the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. T...
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Written by specialist and regional contributors, this invaluable book provides an integrated, up-to-date, geographical assessment of land degradation in the world's Mediterranean regions....
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for embossing and printing of plastics credit, identification, and other cards across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, esti...
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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a ...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for bare printed circuit board manufacturing across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent dem...
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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for propellant powders. With the globalization of thi...
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Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and diseas...
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Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and diseas...
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While the relationship between man and nature has been a constant feature of the human situation, the human impact on the environment has only recently become a topic of general interest ...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for precipitated calcium carbonate (100 percent CaCO3) across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the ...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and systems across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent d...
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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a ...
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This study covers the world outlook for turbine generators across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earning...
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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a ...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for acetaminophen and acetaminophen combinations across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for chitosan across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industry earni...
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This is the official World Trade Organization (WTO) certified text of the Protocol of Accession negotiated by China to become a member of the WTO. The document provides all the terms, com...
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This classic reference work presents a political, economic and social account of every country of the world together with facts and analysis. The 2012 edition includes:• Revised and upd...
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This report was created for global strategic planners who cannot be content with traditional methods of segmenting world markets. With the advent of a "borderless world", cities become a ...
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It is generally agreed that in order to understand the economy today, you need to understand its history. This easy-to-use encyclopedia provides a useful reference for students and acade...
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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for artificial guts (sausage casings) made of hardene...
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This econometric study covers the world outlook for Internet access across more than 200 countries. For each year reported, estimates are given for the latent demand, or potential industr...
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