Author: Committee on R&D Opportunities for Advanced Fo
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: compass, series, future, options, fossil, fuel, vision
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2000-05-31
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0309069793
ISBN-13: 9780309069793

Author: Dale Allen Pfeiffer
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: coming, crisis, agriculture, food, oil, fossil, fuels, eating
Number of Pages: 125
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0865715653
ISBN-13: 9780865715653

The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the United States show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources.   Eating Fossil Fuels examines the interlinked crises of energy and agriculture and highlights some startling findings:   • The worldwide expansion of agriculture has appropriated fully 40 percent of th

Author: Walter Carl Hartwig
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: biological, evolutionary, anthropology, studies, cambridge, fossil, record, primate
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2002-05-13
List price: $265.99
ISBN-10: 0521663156
ISBN-13: 9780521663151

The Primate Fossil Record is a profusely illustrated, up-to-date, and comprehensive treatment of primate paleontology that captures the complete history of the discovery and interpretation of primate fossils. Each chapter emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The volume objectively summarizes the many intellectual debates surrounding the fossil record and provides a foundation of reference information on the last two decades of astounding discoveries and worldwi

Author: Mark Jaccard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: clean, enduring, energy, quest, suspect, fossil, fuels, unusual, sustainable
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2006-01-16
List price: $73.99
ISBN-10: 0521861799
ISBN-13: 9780521861793

More and more people believe we must quickly wean ourselves from fossil fuels - oil, natural gas and coal - to save the planet from environmental catastrophe, wars and economic collapse. Professor Jaccard argues that this view is misguided. We have the technological capability to use fossil fuels without emitting climate-threatening greenhouse gases or other pollutants. The transition from conventional oil and gas to their unconventional sources including coal for producing electricity, hydrogen and cleaner-burning fuels will decrease energy dependence on politically unstable regions. In addi

Author: Michael Toman
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: trade, offs, technical, report, environmental, economic, fossil, based, fuels, unconventional
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2008-10-25
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0833045644
ISBN-13: 9780833045645

In this report, RAND researchers assess the potential future production levels, production costs, greenhouse gases, and other environmental implications of synthetic crude oil from oil sands and fuels produced via coal liquefaction relative to conventional petroleum-based transportation fuels. The findings indicate the potential cost-competitiveness of these alternative fuels and potential economic-environmental trade-offs from their deployment.

Author: J. Alan Holman
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: distribution, paleoecology, life, past, evolution, origin, snakes, north, america, fossil
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2000-05-22
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0253337216
ISBN-13: 9780253337214

The heart of the book consists of detailed systematic accounts of the known fossil snakes of North America and the localities where they occur. Extinct fossil taxa are discussed and illustrated and many are redescribed on the basis of new information. Illustrations of diagnostic vertebrae and criteria for the identification of presently living fossil snake taxa are given as well as the modern characteristics and ranges of these species.

Authors:Patricia H. Kelley, Michal Kowalewski, Thor A. Hanse
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: topics, geobiology, record, fossil, prey, interactions, predator
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0306474891
ISBN-13: 9780306474897

From the Foreword: "Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions....It will only be by compiling and evaluating data on predator-prey relations as they are recorded in the fossil record that we can hope to tease apart their role in the tangled web of evolutionary interaction over time. This volume, compiled by a group of expert specialists on the evidence of predator-prey interactions in the fossil record, is a pioneering effort to collate the information now accumulating in this important field. It will be a standard reference on which future