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Election 2014 Why the Republicans Swept the Midterms


Free Download Ed Kilgore, "Election 2014: Why the Republicans Swept the Midterms"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0812247442 | EPUB | pages: 118 | 0.4 mb
The Republican party overwhelmingly carried the midterm elections of 2014, winning nearly every contested congressional and gubernatorial seat and taking the Senate after eight years of Democratic control. Many have characterized this sweep as a sign of a fundamental political shift toward the GOP. But acclaimed political commentator Ed Kilgore argues that the results of the midterm elections were a predictable outcome that was less an ideological watershed than the culmination of several long-term cyclical and historical trends.

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Wave-Swept Lighthouses of New England (Images of America)


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English | July 2, 2018 | ISBN: 1540233987, 146712897X | True EPUB | 130 pages | 66.95 MB
The lighthouse is a pervasive icon in our culture, often used to symbolize positive qualities like faith, guidance, strength, and steadfastness. No structures embody these qualities more than wave-swept lighthouses, which were built to withstand the most extreme forces of wind and ocean waves, often in isolated, rocky locations far offshore. In the United States, the earliest attempts to build wave-swept lighthouses in the 1830s led to several masterpieces of engineering, a few of which are in the New England region.

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Swept-source Optical Coherence Tomography A Color Atlas (Second Edition)


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 9813271779 | 101 Pages | PDF (True) | 57 MB
This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography.The swept-source OCT is a relatively new form of imaging and is able to capture structures and details which previous generations of OCT machines cannot. This type of imaging represents the forefront in ocular imaging. This second edition includes a new chapter on optic nerve conditions and more cases on eye conditions that were imaged with the SS-OCT. It also showcases the use of swept-source OCT for OCT angiography.

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