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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
CAIRO TO DAMASCUS by JOHN ROY CARLSON. PREFACE: IT seems to me
there are two ways, generally speaking, to pre pare a book, take a
trip, or, for that matter, to live a life. One may go at it
dilettante fashion, as a tourist nibbling at ex perience,
titillating the emotions yet emotionally starved, stimulating
oneself with ambition yet forever tortured by frustration.
Circumstances and temperament, however, may conspire together so
that, with the freedom of a nomad, one can escape the
straightjacket of everyday boredom, hurdle fences of space and
time, and consume life at its sources. Prop erly directed, such an
earthly life may give wing to one's imagination, clarity to one's
thinking, strength to one's convic tions, and even bring one nearer
to the simple, eternal truths of God and spirit This book, I feel,
belongs in the second category the cate gory of the primitive. I
left my country quite as uninformed, I am afraid, as are most
Americans with respect to other peoples and other shores. But
everywhere I went I sought to touch reality always honestly, and
always at first hand. Everywhere I clung close to the smells, the
flora and fauna of native existence. In that spirit I have written
of the Arabs among whom I lived. I found much good and much evil
evil acquired through a feudal order that, in rny opinion, remains
the Arab's greatest enemy and his greatest barrier to emergence
from the dark ages. I am grateful for Arab hospitality and the
kindness I was shown, but a reporter, like a physician, must not
remain blind to the ills plaguing his subject. With no desire to
attribute to myself or my writings any viii Preface exaggerated
importance, it is my fervent hope that the manyArmenians living in
the Arab Middle East will not suffer at the hands of fanatics
because an American of Armenian descent happened to write this
book. To them I can only say that I have told the story honestly,
as I saw it. And to my Arab friends who asked only that I tell the
truth/' I can say in all conscience that I have told the truth. Let
me assure them that I speak in this book as an American, and purely
in an individual capacity, with no ties to or membership in any
Armenian-American body save the church into which I was born. Any
retribution against the Armenians a minority island in a Moslem sea
would be an unwarranted and senseless cruelty. I have written this
book with the hope that it will bring both Arabs and Jews into
truer focus for the reader; that it will help reveal what they are
and what they are not, what may be ex pected of them and what is
impossible. I pray that these ancient Semitic peoples will
reconcile their differences, that Palestine refugees who, in the
main, left their homes because Arab leaders urged them to do so
expecting a short war and a quick victory will be resettled. The
only alternative to peace is disaster for Arab, Jew, and Christian,
for none may hope to prosper alone. Together they may ultimately
build a prosperous and democratic Middle East. To remain apart, at
dagger's point, means only that Communism and anarchy can be the
ultimate victors.
Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important
issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport
infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space. There has been,
therefore, much research conducted in the fields of empirical
analysis and theoretical and mathematical modelling of the
mechanisms of land use-transport interaction. The members of the
Transport and Land Use SIG (Special Interest Group) of the WCTRS
(World Conference on Transport Research Society) have conducted
extensive research in these fields. Leading on from the activities
of ISGLUTI (International Study Group on Land Use-Transport
Interaction) chaired by Dr. Vernon Webster, its output was
published as a book "Land Use-Transport Interaction / Policies and
Models." Concurrently with this ongoing research, energy
consumption in the transport sector has been increasing rapidly and
become a crucial issue from the viewpoint of global environmental
conservation. An emerging research need is to examine and
structurally identify the mechanisms of the influence of land
use-transport interaction on energy consumption and environmental
damage, both locally and globally. The SIG held a seminar in
December 1993 in Blackheath, Australia which was the first meeting
where world class land use-transport experts gathered to discuss
the above topic, covering fact finding, scenario analysis and
modelling. This book contains selected papers from the seminar. The
Australian Government, CSIRO (Australia) and the Asahi Glass
Foundation (Japan) supported the seminar. The book was edited with
an enormous and patient help by Dr. Omar Osman at Nagoya
University.
Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important
issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport
infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space. There has been,
therefore, much research conducted in the fields of empirical
analysis and theoretical and mathematical modelling of the
mechanisms of land use-transport interaction. The members of the
Transport and Land Use SIG (Special Interest Group) of the WCTRS
(World Conference on Transport Research Society) have conducted
extensive research in these fields. Leading on from the activities
of ISGLUTI (International Study Group on Land Use-Transport
Interaction) chaired by Dr. Vernon Webster, its output was
published as a book "Land Use-Transport Interaction / Policies and
Models." Concurrently with this ongoing research, energy
consumption in the transport sector has been increasing rapidly and
become a crucial issue from the viewpoint of global environmental
conservation. An emerging research need is to examine and
structurally identify the mechanisms of the influence of land
use-transport interaction on energy consumption and environmental
damage, both locally and globally. The SIG held a seminar in
December 1993 in Blackheath, Australia which was the first meeting
where world class land use-transport experts gathered to discuss
the above topic, covering fact finding, scenario analysis and
modelling. This book contains selected papers from the seminar. The
Australian Government, CSIRO (Australia) and the Asahi Glass
Foundation (Japan) supported the seminar. The book was edited with
an enormous and patient help by Dr. Omar Osman at Nagoya
University.
The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon’s
senior domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price—a member of the
moderate wing of the Republican Party, a cofounder of the Ripon
Society, and an employee on Nelson Rockefeller’s
campaigns—joined Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and later John D.
Ehrlichman, in the Nixon White House to develop domestic policies,
especially on welfare, hunger, and health. Based on those policies,
and the internal White House struggles around them, Price places
Nixon firmly in the liberal Republican tradition of President
Theodore Roosevelt, New York governor Thomas E. Dewey, and
President Dwight Eisenhower.Price makes a valuable contribution to
our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency.
Nixon himself lamented that he would be remembered only for
Watergate and China. The Last Liberal Republican provides firsthand
insight into key moments regarding Nixon’s political and policy
challenges in the domestic social policy arena. Price offers rich
detail on the extent to which Nixon and his staff straddled a
precarious balance between a Democratic-controlled Congress and an
increasingly powerful conservative tide in Republican politics. The
Last Liberal Republican provides a blow-by-blow inside view of how
Nixon surprised the Democrats and shocked conservatives with his
ambitious proposal for a guaranteed family income. Beyond Nixon’s
surprising embrace of what we today call universal basic income,
the thirty-seventh president reordered and vastly expanded the
patchy food stamp program he inherited and built nutrition
education and children’s food services into schools. Richard
Nixon even almost achieved a national health insurance program:
fifty years ago, with a private sector framework as part of his
generous benefits insurance coverage for all, Nixon included
coverage of preexisting conditions, prescription drug coverage for
all, and federal subsidies for those who could not afford the
premiums. The Last Liberal Republican will be a valuable resource
for presidency scholars who are studying Nixon, his policies, the
state of the Republican Party, and how the Nixon years relate to
the rise of the modern conservative movement.
The Last Liberal Republican is a memoir from one of Nixon's senior
domestic policy advisors. John Roy Price-a member of the moderate
wing of the Republican Party, a cofounder of the Ripon Society, and
an employee on Nelson Rockefeller's campaigns-joined Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, and later John D. Ehrlichman, in the Nixon White House to
develop domestic policies, especially on welfare, hunger, and
health. Based on those policies, and the internal White House
struggles around them, Price places Nixon firmly in the liberal
Republican tradition of President Theodore Roosevelt, New York
governor Thomas E. Dewey, and President Eisenhower. Price makes a
valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding
of the Nixon presidency. Nixon himself lamented that he would be
remembered only for Watergate and China. The Last Liberal
Republican provides firsthand insight into key moments regarding
Nixon's political and policy challenges in the domestic social
policy arena. Price offers rich detail on the extent to which Nixon
and his staff straddled a precarious balance between a
Democratic-controlled Congress and an increasingly powerful
conservative tide in Republican politics. The Last Liberal
Republican provides a blow-by-blow inside view of how Nixon
surprised the Democrats and shocked conservatives with his
ambitious proposal for a guaranteed family income. Beyond Nixon's
surprising embrace of what we today call universal basic income,
the thirty-seventh president reordered and vastly expanded the
patchy food stamp program he inherited and built nutrition
education and children's food services into schools. Richard Nixon
even almost achieved a national health insurance program: fifty
years ago, with a private sector framework as part of his generous
benefits insurance coverage for all, Nixon included coverage of
preexisting conditions, prescription drug coverage for all, and
federal subsidies for those who could not afford the premiums. The
Last Liberal Republican will be a valuable resource for presidency
scholars who are studying Nixon, his policies, the state of the
Republican Party, and how the Nixon years relate to the rise of the
modern conservative movement.
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