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Selling Ronald Reagan

The Emergence of a President

By: Gerard DeGroot

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Selling Ronald Reagan

The Emergence of a President

By: Gerard DeGroot

Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalists therefore ridiculed his aspirations to be governor of California. No one, however, doubted his incredible ability to communicate with a crowd. In order to succeed in his campaign, Reagan had to be packaged as an outsider - an antidote to politics as usual. A highly sophisticated team of marketers and ad-men turned the scary right-winger into a harmless moderate who could attract supporters from across the political spectrum. Researchers meanwhile provided the coaching that allowed Reagan to seem well-informed - all of which led to Reagan winning the California governorship by a landslide. Gerard DeGroot here explores how, in the decade of consumerism, Reagan was marketed as a product. While there is no doubting his natural abilities as a campaigner, Reagan won in 1966 because his team of advisers understood how to sell their candidate, and he, wisely, allowed himself to be sold. Selling Ronald Reagan tells the story of Reagan's first election, when the nature of campaigning was forever altered and a titan of modern American history emerged.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857727265

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The Sixties Unplugged

A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade

By: Gerard J. DeGroot

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The Sixties Unplugged

A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade

By: Gerard J. DeGroot

ÒIf you remember the Sixties,Ó quipped Robin Williams, Òyou werenÕt there.Ó That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perceptionÑyet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the ÒBallad of the Green BeretÓ outsold ÒGive Peace a Chance,Ó that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. The Sixties Unplugged shows how opportunity was squandered, and why nostalgia for the decade has obscured sordidness and futility. DeGroot returns us to a time in which idealism, tolerance, and creativity gave way to cynicism, chauvinism, and materialism. He presents the Sixties as a drama acted out on stages around the world, a theater of the absurd in which ChinaÕs Cultural Revolution proved to be the worst atrocity of the twentieth century, the Six-Day War a disaster for every nation in the Middle East, and a million slaughtered Indonesians martyrs to greed. The Sixties Unplugged restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In an impressionistic journey through a tumultuous decade, DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.

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Harvard University Press

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0674034635

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The Bomb

A Life

By: Gerard DeGroot

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The Bomb

A Life

By: Gerard DeGroot

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.

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Random House

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1446449610

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Back in Blighty

The British at Home in World War One

By: Gerard DeGroot

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Back in Blighty

The British at Home in World War One

By: Gerard DeGroot

World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound. In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were surprisingly resilient. Despite economic and technological changes, the British peoplemanaged to cling onto their usual ways of life as much as possible in this new world. Back in Blighty has been fully revised to take into account new scholarship and historical perspectives, and is full of fascinating glimpses into everyday life during the war. The lives of ordinary people are illuminated and given historical significance in this powerful portrait of the British people and their culture.

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Random House

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1448161207

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A Soldier and a Woman

By: Gerard J.De Groot,C Peniston-Bird

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A Soldier and a Woman

By: Gerard J.De Groot,C Peniston-Bird

The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the present day. Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide range of wars: The Thirty Years War, the French and Indian Wars in Northern America, the Anglo-Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, the Long March in China, and the Vietnam War. There are also thematic chapters, including studies of terrorism and contemporary military service. Taking a multidisciplinary approach: historical, anthropological, and cultural, the book shows the variety of arguments used to support or deny women's military service and the combat taboo. In the process the book challenges preconceived notions about women's integration in the military and builds a picture of the ideological and practical issues surrounding women soldiers.

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Routledge

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1317876431

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Student Protest

The Sixties and After

By: Gerard J.De Groot

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Student Protest

The Sixties and After

By: Gerard J.De Groot

This topical new study takes a new look at the causes, course and consequences of student activism across the world since its heyday in the 1960s. It starts with analyses of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - Sixties protests themselves, in the US, France, Germany, Mexico and Great Britain. It then goes on to examine more recent, and hazardous, examples of student activism, particularly in China, Korea and Iran. Throughout, the tone is hard-headed and analytical, rather than celebratory, exploring the similarities and differences across these protests and asking what they achieved. The contributors to the volume are: Ingo Cornils; Gerard J. DeGroot; Sylvia Ellis; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Bertram M. Gordon; J. Angus Johnston; Alan R. Kluver; Donald J. Mabry; Gunter Minnerup; A.D. Moses; Frank Pieke; Julie Reuben; Barbara Tischler; Nella Van Dyke; Clare White; James L. Wood; Eric Zolov.

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Routledge

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131788048X

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The Bomb

A Life

By: Gerard DeGroot

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A Life

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Thyroid Function & Disease

By: Gerard N. Burrow,Jack H. Oppenheimer,Robert Volpe

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Thyroid Function & Disease

By: Gerard N. Burrow,Jack H. Oppenheimer,Robert Volpe

This integrated clinical reference offers candid coverage and informed views on thyroid function and disease. Carefully detailed line drawings elucidate the discussions by 3 renowned clinicians. Coverage includes thyroid hormone biosynthesis, laboratory evaluation, nontoxic goiter, hyperthyroidism, thyroid disease in pregnancy, malignant diseases, thyroiditis, and much more.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1483284603

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The Thermomechanics Of Nonlinear Irreversible Behaviours

By: Gerard A Maugin

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The Thermomechanics Of Nonlinear Irreversible Behaviours

By: Gerard A Maugin

In this invaluable book, macroscopic irreversible thermodynamics is presented in its realm and its splendor by appealing to the notion of internal variables of state. This applies to both fluids and solids with or without microstructures of mechanical or electromagnetic origin. This unmatched richness of essentially nonlinear behaviors is the result of the use of modern mathematical techniques such as convex analysis in a clear-cut framework which allows one to put under the umbrella of “irreversible thermodynamics” behaviors which until now have been commonly considered either not easily covered, or even impossible to incorporate into such a framework.The book is intended for all students and researchers whose main concern is the rational modeling of complex and/or new materials with physical and engineering applications, such as those accounting for coupled-field, hysteresis, fracture, nonlinear-diffusion, and phase-transformation phenomena.

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World Scientific

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9814496464

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9789814496469

Liberal Crusader

The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair

By: Gerard De Groot

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Liberal Crusader

The Life of Sir Archibald Sinclair

By: Gerard De Groot

Sinclair, from northern Scotland, was leader of the British Liberal Party 1935-45 and is credited with modernizing the 19th- century organizational and ideological dinosaur. He was also Air Minister in the coalition government during World War II. Much of the biography is drawn from unpublished correspondence between him and Winston Churchill, both a close friend and political adversary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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NYU Press

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0814718493

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The Disciples at the Lord's Table

Prayers Over Bread and Cup across 150 Years of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Worship

By: Gerard Moore

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The Disciples at the Lord's Table

Prayers Over Bread and Cup across 150 Years of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Worship

By: Gerard Moore

The Disciples at Table! The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is about to enter its third century of worship, evangelism and Christian worship. This book is a snapshot of their Table practice: its origins, forms, prayers, and ecumenical development. Single-minded pioneers and advocates of Eucharistic Table fellowship each Sunday, the Disciples forged a unique experience of worship within the restorationist paradigm. What did this worship look like? A free tradition, explicitly "non-liturgical," these Christian communities were open to the directives of the Scriptures and the inspiration of the Spirit. There were no official texts. Yet there was a plethora of worship books and aids, in effect unofficial texts, operating to guide, inform and develop the Disciples' understanding of the Lord's Table and their worship. For the first time these devotional books have been uncovered and studied, revealing something of the deeper influences behind Disciples practice, the common lines of thought and ritual that unknowingly bind the communities, and the difficulties that have emerged in light of ongoing ecumenical worship and research.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1498201113

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Dark Side of the Moon

The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest

By: Gerard Degroot

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Dark Side of the Moon

The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest

By: Gerard Degroot

A selection of the History, Scientific American, and Quality Paperback Book Clubs For a very brief moment during the 1960s, America was moonstruck. Boys dreamt of being an astronaut; girls dreamed of marrying one. Americans drank Tang, bought “space pens” that wrote upside down, wore clothes made of space age Mylar, and took imaginary rockets to the moon from theme parks scattered around the country. But despite the best efforts of a generation of scientists, the almost foolhardy heroics of the astronauts, and 35 billion dollars, the moon turned out to be a place of “magnificent desolation,” to use Buzz Aldrin’s words: a sterile rock of no purpose to anyone. In Dark Side of the Moon, Gerard J. DeGroot reveals how NASA cashed in on the Americans’ thirst for heroes in an age of discontent and became obsessed with putting men in space. The moon mission was sold as a race which America could not afford to lose. Landing on the moon, it was argued, would be good for the economy, for politics, and for the soul. It could even win the Cold War. The great tragedy is that so much effort and expense was devoted to a small step that did virtually nothing for mankind. Drawing on meticulous archival research, DeGroot cuts through the myths constructed by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations and sustained by NASA ever since. He finds a gang of cynics, demagogues, scheming politicians, and corporations who amassed enormous power and profits by exploiting the fear of what the Russians might do in space. Exposing the truth behind one of the most revered fictions of American history, Dark Side of the Moon explains why the American space program has been caught in a state of purposeless wandering ever since Neil Armstrong descended from Apollo 11 and stepped onto the moon. The effort devoted to the space program was indeed magnificent and its cultural impact was profound, but the purpose of the program was as desolate and dry as lunar dust.

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NYU Press

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0814721133

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Selling Ronald Reagan

The Emergence of a President

By: Gerard DeGroot

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Selling Ronald Reagan

The Emergence of a President

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0857729306

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Back in Blighty

The British at Home in World War One

By: Gerard DeGroot

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Back in Blighty

The British at Home in World War One

By: Gerard DeGroot

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The First World War

By: Gerard J. De Groot

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The First World War

By: Gerard J. De Groot

The origins of the First World War, both diplomatic and social, are discussed thoroughly examined. The reader is then taken through the major battles on the Eastern and Western fronts, and is given insight into the eventual Allied victory. The war at sea, on the home front, and in distant theaters is carefully examined. The war as it was experienced by the men in the trenches is also explored.

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0312237529

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The Bomb

A Life

By: Gerard J. De Groot

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The Bomb

A Life

By: Gerard J. De Groot

Traces the life of the atomic bomb, from its birth in turn-of-the-century physics labs in Europe, to its maturity in test sites and missile silos around the globe, examining the implications and legacy of this powerful weapon of mass destruction.

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0674022351

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9780674022355

Electrodynamics of Continua II

Fluids and Complex Media

By: A.Cemal Eringen,Gerard A. Maugin

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Electrodynamics of Continua II

Fluids and Complex Media

By: A.Cemal Eringen,Gerard A. Maugin

This is the second volume of a two-volume set presenting a unified approach to the electrodynamics of continua, based on the principles of contemporary continuum of physics. The first volume was devoted mainly to the development of the theory and applications to deformable solid media. This volume extends the developments of the first volume to richer and newer grounds. It contains discussions on fluid media, magnetohydrodynamics, eletrohydrodynamics and media with more complicated structures. With the discussion, in the last two chapters, of memory-dependent materials and non-local E-M theory, the authors account for the nonlocal effects arising from motions and fields of material points at past times and at spatially distant points. This discussion is included here to stimulate further research in these important fields, which are presently in development stages. The second volume is self-contained and can be studied without the help of volume I. A section summarizing the constitutive equations and the underlying physical ideas, which were presented in more detail in the first volume, is included. This volume may be used as a basis for several graduate courses in engineering schools, applied mathematics and physics departments. It also contains fresh ideas and will stimulate further research in the directions the authors outline.

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0387970053

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9780387970059

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