Andrew H : 178 books

Book cover of Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry

Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry

An Assessment of Four Promising Methods

by Andrew R. Morral, Henry H. Willis, Peter Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is responsible for controlling the flow of goods and people across the U.S. border, but compelling methods for producing estimates of the total flow of illicit goods or border crossings do not yet exist. This paper describes four innovative approaches to estimating...
Book cover of Defense Outlook 2016

Defense Outlook 2016

What to Know, What to Expect

by Kathleen H. Hicks, Mark F. Cancian, Todd Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016

This is the inaugural report in the CSIS Defense Outlook Series, an annual review of what happened in the U.S. Department of Defense in the past year and what CSIS experts are looking for in the next. It is meant to serve as a roadmap to track where the course of policy and actions relating to strategy, budget, forces, and acquisition has run and what curves lie ahead.
Book cover of Presidential Swing States
by Scott L. McLean, Sean D. Foreman, Donna R. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018

The 2020 United States presidential race is arguably already over except for about 12 states and 20 counties. If recent presidential election trends are any indication of what will happen in 2020, Democrats in Texas and Republicans in New York might as well stay home on election day because their...
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 1

Cultivation techniques, quality and sustainability

by Dr Louis Jean Claude Autrey, Salem Saumtally, Asha Dookun-Saumtally
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Sugarcane is the source of over three quarters of the world’s sugar, and is grown widely in the tropics and sub-tropics. Despite rising demand, average yields have not increased significantly, partly because of continued vulnerability to pests and diseases. In addition, cultivation has been seen...
Book cover of Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

Vulnerability in Technological Cultures

New Directions in Research and Governance

by Julia Quartz, Esha Shah, Sheila Jasanoff
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014

Analysis and case studies explore the concept of vulnerability, offering a novel and broader approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable...
Book cover of The Influence of Airpower upon History

The Influence of Airpower upon History

Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903

by John H. Morrow Jr., Patrick Facon, Richard R. Muller
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital...
Book cover of Porous Carbon Materials from Sustainable Precursors
by Shu-Hong Yu, Vitaliy Budarin, Rafael Luque
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015

Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The environmentally-friendly production of these materials is crucial for a sustainable future. This book focuses on the transformation...
Book cover of Using Google Earth in Libraries

Using Google Earth in Libraries

A Practical Guide for Librarians

by Eva H. Dodsworth, Andrew Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Google Earth is a research, mapping, and cultural exploration tool that puts the whole world in your hands, then hands over the tools to let you build your own world. The uses of Google Earth in academia, in libraries, and across disciplines are endless and each year more innovate research projects...
Book cover of 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark Trials, 1e (The Classics Series)
by Marc D Succi, Leah H Carr, Andrew Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015

Over the past 30 years, the transition from print to digital media has contributed to an exponential increase in medical literature. In response, 2 Minute Medicine™ presents 160+ authoritative, curated, and physician-written summaries of the key landmark trials in medicine: 2 Minute Medicine’s...
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The Arms Race in Asia

Trends, causes and implications

by Andrew T.H. Tan
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013

This book is the first systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong demand for arms in Asia and the Middle East, the two largest arms export markets in the world. Of these two regions Asia has become particularly...
Book cover of Texans on the Brink

Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by Neil B. Ford, David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019

What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect. Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic...
Book cover of The Historical Animal
by Jason Colby, Abraham H. Gibson, Sandra Swart
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015

The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described as the history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades have scholars from a wide variety of disciplines attempted to document the lives of historical animals in ways that recognize their agency as sentient beings...
Book cover of Contested Seas

Contested Seas

Maritime Domain Awareness in Northern Europe

by Andrew Metrick, Kathleen H. Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018

Operations in littoral waters present numerous challenges for modern navies, challenges that are especially acute in the waters of the Baltic Sea and around Northern Europe. Russia’s increasing menace above, on, and under the waves—combined with its deployment of new and upgraded maritime capabilities...
Book cover of Choices for America in a Turbulent World
by Jeffrey Martini, David Ochmanek, F. Stephen Larrabee
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015

The first in a series exploring the elements of a national strategy for U.S. foreign policy, this book examines the most critical decisions likely to face the next president. The book covers global and regional issues and spotlights the long-term policy issues and organizational, financial, and diplomatic challenges that will confront senior U.S. officials in 2017 and beyond.
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