Our morning cups of coffee connect us to a global industry and an export crisis in the tropics that is destroying livelihoods, undermining the cohesion of families and communities, and threatening ecosystems. Confronting the Coffee Crisis explores small-scale farming, the political economy of...

Although the widely appreciated advantages of electronic journals in the sciences would indicate that they should be the preferred form of publication, they persist in print as well. The data on the relative use of bound and unbound journals in an academic biology library suggest that almost all...

This paper considers a multi-contract bidding situation in which the contracts are interrelated because of limited productive facilities and because of budgetary constraints. A dynamic programming model and computational algorithm are presented which derive a bidding strategy which maximizes...