In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the rea...

'The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) were developed by a group of 26 states working with...

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

By all indicators, the reproductive health of Americans has been deteriorating since 1980. Our na...

Brain disorders--neurological, psychiatric, and developmental--now affect at least 250 million pe...

'If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people cou...

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...

The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, R...

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

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships

'Smoking-related diseases kill more Americans than alcohol, illegal drugs, murder and suicide com...

'Rural counties make up about 80 percent of the land area of the United States, but they contain ...

Schools and Health is a readable and well-organized book on comprehensive school health programs ...

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

The concept of utilizing big data to enable scientific discovery has generated tremendous excitem...

'Although health literacy is commonly defined as an individual trait, it does not depend on the s...

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 ...

The roots of health literacy can be traced back to the national literacy movement in India under ...

Through his eyes, we relive the history of the past 50 years, witnesses to a tale of science and ...

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 2010 opening of the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC) created a joint...

This easy-to-read and practical book shows how to bring about the changes recommended in the Nati...

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...

Describing more than 400 curriculum titles for students grades six through eight, this reference ...

Part detective story, part portrait of the state of cutting-edge biomedicine, 'The Proteus Effect...

Addressing the fear and mistrust of genetically modified foods, Fedoroff--a leading geneticist an...

This fascinating book has something for every reader who wants to better understand the universe....

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

?Casti knows his subject and explains it lucidly; the discussions of physics and math are reasona...

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

The threat of domestic terrorism today looms larger than ever. Bombings at the World Trade Center...

This book describes the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health...

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

What activities might a teacher use to help children explore the life cycle of butterflies? What ...

John Bardeen fits a new profile of genius. Through an exploration of his science as well as his l...

In everyday language, 'Dying to Quit' reveals the history and complexity of issues behind the new...

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...

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast...

This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisors in science ...

Electronic Travel Aids

NASA's Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to...

Quality of care is a priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency's...