The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy.At the outset of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott drafted the Anaconda Plan, an ambitious strategy to blockade southern ports and use army forces supported by naval gunboats to secure control of the Mississippi River for the Union, effectively dividing the Confederacy in two. Over the course of the campaign, General Grant’s ground forces closely cooperated with river forces under the leadership of ...

You stick to a strict diet for three weeks, but after eating a single piece of cake, you proceed to consume the entire fridge. This is not a lack of discipline; it is a highly predictable behavioral phenomenon that actively sabotages human potential across every domain of life. The "What-The-Hell Effect" is a psychological trap where a minor lapse in self-control triggers a complete abandonment of the underlying goal. When our streak of perfection is broken, the brain experiences an intens...

Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated health insurance for every American, stronger gun control laws, broader sex education programs, laws that would make it easier for unions to organize, and the use of diplomacy instead of war to combat terrorism. But as a conservative presidential administration exits, how can progressives step into the breach?In Search of Progressive ...

The Headache Files: True Tales and Real Relief reflects Dr. Werner J. Becker’s decades in headache medicine, where evolving science met the lived reality of pain. Dr. Becker, one of Canada’s most eminent specialists, shares insights from his decades of practice, revealing the causes, treatments, and human stories behind headaches and migraine. Through patient stories and clinical insight, he explores migraine and hormonal headache, cluster and thunderclap headache, spinal fluid le...

Straightforward advice on building and launching a mobile marketing planMobile communication is hot, and so is marketing on mobile devices. Mobile Marketing For Dummies provides a clear and easy path for creating, launching, and making the most of a mobile marketing program. Designed for marketing professionals and other business people who may have little experience with the medium, it explains mobile marketing and how to convert a traditional marketing p...

Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. Since its inception, Whitehot has published thousands of reviews covering art from the United States, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America, with key pieces authored by critical luminaries, including Anthony Haden-Guest, Donald Kuspit, and Phoebe Hoban. The magazine is also uniquely independent in its editorial voice. Unlike other large art world publications, Whitehot ...

With the introduction of Part 61 to the Australian licensing system, prior to any helicopter pilot being able to provide instruction they must first hold a Flight Instructors' Rating (FIR), which includes completion of a Principles and Methods of Instruction (PMI) course with an approved helicopter flight school.Mike Becker's "Principles and Methods of Instruction for Helicopter Pilots" is the product of more than two decades of instructing experience. Mike Becker established Becke...

A book intended to provide the light and leadership of a lord explaining lording and sending dominatrices into the nations to give justice to the nations. Ideally, the nations will cooperate with the dominatrices out of respect.

First published in 1981. A Concordance to the Poems of John Keats intended to provide the user with a volume suitable to the varying and increasingly specialised interests of scholarship. This title offers a high degree of inclusiveness that attends to the poems and plays, the emended and authoritative headings, and virtually all of the variant readings considered substantive in the riches of the Keats manuscript materials. This title will be of interest to students of literature....

This book addresses the need for improved diagnostic and treatment guidelines for patients in whom total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has had an unsatisfactory outcome. It opens by discussing the basics of TKA and the various causes of failure and pain. Diagnostic aspects are considered in detail, with attention to advances in clinical investigation, laboratory analysis and in particular, imaging techniques. In addition, helpful state of the art diagnostic algorithms are presented. Specific pat...

"He Raped. . .Altemio Sanchez was a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde—a family man who resided in Buffalo, New York, with a wife and two sons, worked nights as a machinist, and concealed a terrible secret. Once a year, after his shift, he'd make a side trip to a secluded spot where women would ride bikes and jog. He was called ""The Bike Path Rapist""—until he crossed the line from rape to murder.He Killed. . .For fourteen years, the Bike ...

Humanity no longer only calls Earth its only home. A successful colony of four has been established on Mars. The amount of knowledge humanity is gaining from this amazing endeavor is incomparable. But before the next batch of colonists is sent, an even greater discovery is made—ruins deep beneath the surface of Mars.Upon arriving, they learn a startling fact. The ruins are identical to modern Earth buildings. Furthermore, one of the original group has become insane with Earth-Out-O...