Product Description: In an era of limited research resources and limitless research needs, demonstrating the worth of any research discipline to policymakers and administrators is a prerequisite for obtaining future funding and making an impact in policy matters...read more

Product Description: Recent and likely future developments in worldwide wheat markets among major exporting and importing countries are reviewed in this book. Country specific issues are examined for Russia and China, whose role in world wheat markets has changed rapidly over the last decade, and for major exporting countries or regions, including the USA, the European Union, Canada, Argentina and Australia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study is the first to provide a comprehensive and in-depth economic analysis of the origins and consequences of U.S. crop insurance and disaster relief programs.

Product Description: Medical Technology and Society is a thought-provoking examination for nonspecialists of medical technology and the social and moral issues arising from it. The book describes the evolution of medicine from turn-of-the-century general practice with its few surgical techniques and scarcity of effective drugs to today's complex hierarchical delivery systems involving advanced science, sophisticated equipment, and a multitude of highly specialized personnel...read more