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Between Promise and Policy

Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism

By: John Karaagac

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Between Promise and Policy

Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism

By: John Karaagac

Between Promise and Policy is a thoughtful and intriguing study that compares the professed ideals and actual realities of conservative reformism leading up to, and during, the Reagan presidency. The author examines Ronald Reagan's defense program, his policies to reduce the size of the federal government, regulatory reform, and the reprioritizing of government expenditures. Karaagac concludes that the Regan administration effectively employed ideology as a political tool: President Reagan could alternate between being pragmatic and flexible, in order to score political victories, while making a stand as a staunch defender of conservative principles in order to rally his supporters.

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Lexington Books

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0739102966

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9780739102961

John McCain

An Essay in Military and Political History

By: John Karaagac

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John McCain

An Essay in Military and Political History

By: John Karaagac

Looking critically at the military and political halves of John McCain's career, John Karaagac has fashioned a political analysis of McCain that breaks the mold of traditional biography. The book is divided into a series of interpretive essays that highlight themes of political interest throughout McCain's career, providing not only an investigation into a figure whose personal history caught the American imagination, but also a penetrating look into electoral politics. As a work of military history and a critical study of McCain's life, Karaagac's book will appeal to political historians and to anyone interested in a substantive examination of the American political process.

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296

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Lexington Books

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0739101714

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9780739101711

Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

By: John E. Bradshaw

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Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

By: John E. Bradshaw

The potato (Solanum tuberosum) is the world’s fourth most important food crop after maize, rice and wheat with 377 million tonnes fresh-weight of tubers produced in 2016 from 19.2 million hectares of land, in 163 countries, giving a global average yield of 19.6 t ha-1 (http://faostat.fao.org). About 62% of production (234 million tonnes) was in Asia (191), Africa (25) and Latin America (18) as a result of steady increases in recent years, particularly in China and India. As a major food crop, the potato has an important role to play in the United Nations “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” which started on 1 January 2016 (http://faostat.fao.org). By 2030 the aim is to “ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round”. By then, the world population is expected to reach 8.5 billion and continue to increase to 9.7 billion in 2050. For potatoes, the need is to increase production and improve nutritional value during a period of climate change, a key aspect of which will be the breeding of new cultivars for a wide range of target environments and consumers. The aim of the book is to help this endeavour by providing detailed information in three parts on both the theory and practice of potato breeding. Part I deals with the history of potato improvement and with potato genetics. Part II deals with breeding objectives, divided into improving yield, quality traits and resistance to the most important diseases and pests of potatoes. Part III deals with breeding methods: first, the use of landraces and wild relatives of potato in introgression breeding, base broadening and population improvement; second, breeding clonally propagated cultivars as a way to deliver potato improvement to farmers’ fields; third, as an alternative, breeding potato cultivars for propagation through true potato seed; and fourth, gene editing and genetic transformation as ways of making further improvements to already successful and widely grown cultivars. Included are marker-assisted introgression and selection of specific alleles, genomic selection of many unspecified alleles and diploid F1 hybrid breeding.

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Springer Nature

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3030644146

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9783030644147

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Second Edition, Revised

By: John Robert Greene

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The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

Second Edition, Revised

By: John Robert Greene

After George H. W. Bush lost his re-election bid to Bill Clinton in 1992, John Robert Greene's verdict on the 41st president of the United States was that he "brought no discredit to the office" and "was both patient and prudent. . . mak [ing] few mistakes." In the years since the release of Greene's profile of the senior Bush, deemed by Publishers Weekly, "the essential introduction to Bush's abbreviated, but still consequential, tenure in office," a wealth of materials about Bush's presidency has become available, even as distance has sharpened our perspective on the Bush years. In this significantly expanded second edition of The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, Greene takes full advantage of newly released documents to revisit Bush's term, to consider his post-presidency accomplishment, and to enhance and clarify our understanding of his place in history. Such milestones as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, the fall of the Soviet Union, the savings and loan crisis, and the transition to the Clinton administration receive renewed and far more detailed treatment here, as do the ramifications of George H. W. Bush's positions and policies. Greene also devotes ample attention to Bush's post-presidency, including his relationship with his son, President George W. Bush, as well as the development of his close friendship with Bill Clinton. The elder Bush emerges from this reappraisal as a considerably more activist president, with a more activist administration, than was previously assumed. Greene's concise and readable account drawing on the contents of the bush Library, the papers of James A. Baker III, and personal interviews, shows us the 41st president--and thus an important chapter in American history--in a new and more revealing light.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700620796

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9780700620791

The Western Shores of Turkey

Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts

By: John Freely

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The Western Shores of Turkey

Discovering the Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts

By: John Freely

The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century. The Western coast of Turkey has captivated travellers for centuries. With its dramatic mountains and idyllic bays and promontories, scattered with ancient ruins, it is not only one of the most beautiful parts of the country, but is also of great historical interest. Resting on two continents, Turkey reflects and absorbs the cultures of both East and West and nowhere is this more evident than along its Aegean and Mediterranean coasts. This is a land immersed in history and mythology: it is where Anthony met Cleopatra, where Herodotus, the 'father' of history, was born and where legendary battles were fought – from Alexander the Great to Gallipoli. By bus, car and caïque, on foot and post boat, from Istanbul to Antakya (Antioch) on the Syrian border, Freely discovered both the charm of modern Turkey and the wonders of its past. The result is both an informative guide and a remarkable travelogue for all who follow in his footsteps.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085771788X

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9780857717887

The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara

By: John Freely,Anthony Glyn

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The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara

By: John Freely,Anthony Glyn

The traveller gets exactly what he needs, and in a handy format. THE TIMES The author seems to have covered every road in the country, and has something of interest to say about virtually every site. COUNTRY LIFE Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents, spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus, the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This Companion Guide to Istanbul goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles, which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore.Revised and updated for this new edition, the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic interest around the Marmara, including Edirne, Bursa and Iznik, ancient Nicaea, as well as the renowned archaeological site of Homeric Troy. It is also an introduction to Turkey itself and to its people and their way of life, which they are more than willing to share with the traveller who takes the time to become acquainted with them. JOHN FREELY has lived and worked on America's east coast, in Britain, and around the Mediterranean, but is long-time Professor of Physics at the University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, and has been resident for many years in Turkey. His understanding of the land and its people has made him a respected interpreter of Turkey ancient and modern.

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Companion Guides

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1900639319

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9781900639316

Turkey

The Rough Guide

By: Rosie Ayliffe,Marc Dubin,John Gawthrop

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Turkey

The Rough Guide

By: Rosie Ayliffe,Marc Dubin,John Gawthrop

Connect is a fun, four-level, multi-skills American English course especially written and designed for young adolescents. The comprehensive, interleaved Teacher's Edition 2 provides step-by-step instructions to present, practice, and review all new language for Student's Book 2. It also features the audio scripts, optional exercises, and informative notes.

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868

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185828242X

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9781858282428

Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring

By: Joseph Sirven,John Stern

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Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring

By: Joseph Sirven,John Stern

The single-best resource available for learning how to perform and interpret video EEG Companion DVD includes 110 seizure videos covering a full range of seizure types! A Doody's Core Title for 2011! Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring explains the essentials of video EEG for use in all settings. This full-color atlas thoroughly covers the basics of performing video EEG for diagnosis along with how to use video EEG for the diagnosis and interpretation of seizures and mimickers of seizures during treatment of epilepsy, in the emergency department, and in the intensive care unit. Features DVD contains videos linked to EEG patterns in the book—-allowing you to see each problem in real time Over 340 full-color images and EEGs Detailed overview of epileptic seizures, from simple partial seizures and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures to epileptic spasms In-depth survey of seizure mimics, including psychogenic non-epileptic spells; panic spells; non-epileptic movements in coma; dissociative spells; movement disorders; sleep disorders; and syncope Thorough review of status epilepticus, including epilepsia partialis continua, and other syndromes Cutting-edge guidance on intracranial video-EEG monitoring, including placement and interpretation of grid/strip electrodes and depth electrodes

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0071597425

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9780071597425

Between Promise and Policy

Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism

By: John Karaagac

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Ronald Reagan and Conservative Reformism

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John McCain

An Essay in Military and Political History

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The Bush Paradox

A Study in Contemporary Politics

By: John Karaagac

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The Bush Paradox

A Study in Contemporary Politics

By: John Karaagac

The story of George H. W. Bush is, to date, a story of his administration, and the Bush circle. It is a story of how he did not really fit in to the increasing muscular conservatism of the sagebrush suburbs and the mythical range. The story of George W. Bush, by contrast, has no such inherent constraints. It is the story of how he built on his father's legacy and connections, even as he distanced himself from the moderate leanings. For all their biographical similarities, the problems faced by Bush the elder and Bush the younger are fundamentally different. It is those differences, some of which are even paradoxical, that comprise the subject of this book.

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Wheatmark Incorporated

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1587363097

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Book's by John Karaagac

Between Promise and Policy

Between Promise and Policy

John McCain

John McCain

Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

Potato Breeding: Theory and Practice

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

The Presidency of George H. W. Bush

The Western Shores of Turkey

The Western Shores of Turkey

The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara

The Companion Guide to Istanbul and Around the Marmara

Turkey

Turkey

Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring

Atlas of Video-EEG Monitoring

Between Promise and Policy

Between Promise and Policy

John McCain

John McCain

The Bush Paradox

The Bush Paradox

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