Product Description: This volume reports the results of a rigorous and quantitative assessment of the impacts of climate change on U.S. agriculture over the 21st century. It advances work on climate impacts by using scenarios from state-of-the-art climate models and describes the forces likely to shape U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume is the most comprehensive of the existing studies of McMurtry's writings, covering all of his works up to the most recent. A biographical chapter introduces the reader to Larry McMurtry. A literary heritage chapter helps students understand how McMurtry transforms the traditional components of the western genre into stories that are models of modern life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

'Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2001.Gathers essays by such crime and mystery authors as Sara Paretsky, Edward D. Hoch, Ruth Rendell, and Tony Hillerman

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Product Description: The prospect of global climate change raises questions about many serious problems, the most important of which may be economic in nature. This volume identifies the critical economic research issues related to global climate change and focuses on the economic and policy implications for forestry, agriculture and natural resources...read more

Product Description: This valuable reference book for anyone involved in energy studies has grown out of research on world energy economics begun at the Oak Ridge Institute for Energy Analysis in 1975. The intention has been to create a detailed and flexible model of world energy production and consumption to use when working on scientific questions relating to energy...read more