Following the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the Marine Corps to establish a unit that would answer to US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The eighty-six-man "Detachment One" was formed with a two-year charter to train and deploy as a "proof-of-concept" to assess the viability of a larger Marine Special Operations contribution in support of the Global War on Terror.For such a departure from the norm, a special leader was needed. The Commanding Offi...

Following the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed the Marine Corps to establish a unit that would answer to US Special Operations Command. The eighty-six-man "Detachment One" was formed with a two-year charter to train and deploy as a "proof-of-concept" to assess the viability of a larger Marine Special Operations contribution in support of the Global War on Terror.For such a departure from the norm, a special leader was needed. The Commanding Officer—Colone...

This new text provides quick and easy access to a broad range of procedures performed by ophthalmic facial plastic surgeons. Brimming with 450 beautiful illustrations, this exceptional resource features a brief review of key anatomy, background and management techniques in each disorder, as well as easy-to-understand surgical diagrams. It also demonstrates the expertise of contributing leading specialists, who provide you with solid footing in each surgical intervention.Unlike many...

Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, content analyses and social science methodologies as well as a variety of foci on the practice of political campaign communication with studies on the communication dimensions and e...

Turn Your Dime Into Dollars takes the language of "brokerese" and breaks it up into plain language that newer (and not so new) investors can easily understand. What results is a straight forward step-by-step explanation the investment process. With this knowledge of investing each reader can determine what type of investor they are, which is so important to achieving the right personal balance between risks and rewards. Turn Your Dime Into Dollars is writt...

Gathers the best work of flourishing but often-neglected avant-garde southern poetsAnother South is an anthology of poetry from contemporary southern writers who are working in forms that are radical, innovative, and visionary. Highly experimental and challenging in nature, the poetry in this volume, with its syntactical disjunctions, formal revolutions, and typographic playfulness, represents the direction of a new breed of southern writing that is at onc...

On an isolated island, vampire Nobility run a mysterious laboratory, continuously pumping out a white mist which compels the inhabitants of a nearby fishing village to become the vampire's slaves!When the village tries to retaliate, their fighters never return. The vampire hunter known only as D has been sighted on the island, but how did he come to be there, and whose side is he on, and will any mortals survive the brewing conflict?Adapted from the novel and produced with ...