Thomas Light: 7 books

In 2007, the United States imported 58 percent of the oil it consumed. This book critically evaluates commonly suggested links between these imports and U.S. national security and assesses the economic, political, and military costs and benefits of potential policies to alleviate imported oil?related challenges to U.S. national security.

Nuclear power is receiving renewed interest because of its low greenhouse gas emissions. However, if nuclear power is to be sustainable option for the United States, methods for managing spent fuel that meet stringent safety and environmental standards must be implemented. This report examines technical...

This book discusses the opportunities and risks the government of Israel faces in shifting to a greater reliance on domestic and imported natural gas. By applying newly developed methods for strategic planning and decisionmaking under deep uncertainty, the analysis seeks to help the Israeli government...

Choosing policy responses to mitigate greenhouse gases (GHGs) is one of the great challenges that the United States faces. It will require balancing cost-effectiveness and other objectives that reflect the institutional and political realities of passing major federal legislation with widespread impacts...

Halloween horror, dark fiction and suspense short stories. Carve your pumpkins and turn on the porch light, Halloween frights begin with the sound of…Doorbells at Dusk. Doorbells at Dusk is a treasury of brand-new Halloween tales from both modern masters and rising stars of dark fiction,...

Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there's no escaping the nightmare. Fear reigns supreme. In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and...

Designer and merchant, collector and tastemaker, Thomas O’Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy and generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles—from casual to formal, vintage to urban—alongside...