The combustor is one of the four major engine components and is directly associated with engine p...

With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten children in America, this book discusses h...

Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends ho...

Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Stan...

Every industrialized country is concerned with maintaining an adequate supply of individuals inte...

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships

Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with...

Since the early 1970s, experts have recognized that petroleum pollutants were being discharged in...

This book explores the national information infrastructure (NII) as the collection of all public ...

We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including te...

This practical guide to teaching inquiry and teaching through inquiry is the long-awaited addendu...

Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive...

The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-in...

This is a report on changing patterns of sexual behavior and intravenous drug use, the distributi...

The United States is riding a whirlwind of technological change. To be sure, there have been peri...

Some 600 pipe bomb explosions per year have occurred in the United States during the past several...

'Upstream' explores the complications and conflicts surrounding the problem of declining salmon p...

Coastal farming and ocean ranching of marine fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and seaweed are a majo...

Do persons exposed to radiation suffer genetic effects that threaten their yet-to-be-born childre...

Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude ball...

In 2005, the National Academies released the report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Rese...

Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinki...

As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moo...

The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order t...

Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves under...

In this summary of a unique conference on urban violence, mayors, police chiefs, local, state, an...

Experts in the areas of water science and chemistry from the government, industry, and academic a...

This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into o...

'How Students Learn is also available in three paperback versions of the original title. Each vol...

The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on ...

'This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Resea...

'From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteri...

'Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements describes various LCM ap...

Faced with the steady rise in energy costs, dwindling fossil fuel supplies, and the need to maint...

Aquaculture now supplies half of the seafood and fisheries products consumed worldwide and is gai...

Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change

The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducte...

Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing fa...

The NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST provides two-year temporary appointments ...

The purpose of the committee is to provide advice on the development of a robust national spatial...

This book brings together the latest research on protein absorption by ruminants and takes a look...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep?...

'A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been ...

Autism is a word most of us are familiar with. But do we really know what it means?

A Life of George Westinghouse

Electrodynamics of Moving Media: Report of the National Research Council Committee on Electrodyna...

More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half giv...

For the 119 species of marine mammals, as well as for some other aquatic animals, sound is the pr...