Mark Jenkins

A history of the vampire legend prior to Bram Stoker's Dracula draws on myriad sources to offer insight into vampire lore from ancient civilizations, recounting key stories while describing recent archaeological findings of reputed vampire sites.

Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend

Vampire Forensics

In an all-new compendium of travel tales, the Outside magazine columnist, explorer, and author of The Hard Way presents accounts of his true-life adventures and experiences in the farthest corners of the globe.

Dispatches from Dangerous Places

A Man's Life

Mark Andersen

Washington DC's creative, political insurgent punk scene is studied for the first time by local activist Mark Andersen and arts writer Mark Jenkins in this third edition of Dance of Days, now including a new preface and final chapter. The nation's capital gave birth to the most fertile and influential punk underground of the 1980s and '90s. This book recounts the rise of trailblazing artists such as Bad Brains, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, Fugazi and Bikini Kill, while examining the roots of everything from PMA to Riot Grrl. Illustrated with b/w photos.

Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital

Dance of Days

In 1969, geology student René Thompson pursues an independent study program that will set him on a path to climbing the world's highest peaks. Having lost his father to the war in Vietnam, and estranged from his mother, René visits his grandfather and borrows the money needed to join an expedition to summit Mount McKinley in Alaska (North America's highest peak).Before his journey, his grandfather gives him an heirloom that has been in the family for generations: an amulet that provides glimpses of possible future events.On the expedition, deadly storms, avalanches, crevasses, and team conflict threaten the climbers. But René cannot solely rely on the blurred visions provided by the amulet if he's to survive, he must also look within.

Verglas

A collection of true tales on living a physical outdoor life shares his adventures of climbing the ice-rimmed Italian ridge of the Matterhorn, sea kayaking along the Turkish coast of Gallipoli, and sneaking across Tibet to reach Buddhism's holiest lake deep in the Himalayas. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure

The Hard Way

Collects accounts and sketches by explorers ranging from Herodotus to Joseph Conrad on areas as varied as the Earth's poles and the Grand Canyon.

An Explorer's Miscellany

The Book of Marvels

Playing Burton

Gilbert Grosvenor

"The captivating inside story of the man who helmed National Geographic over the course of six decades is a front-row seat to iconic feats of exploration. This revealing autobiography makes an impassioned argument to know-and care for-our planet"--

My Life at National Geographic

A Man of the World

CD-ROM contains tuition and sound-sampling featuring over 30 different synthesizers.

Understanding, Performing, Buying: from the Legacy of Moog to Software Synthesis

Analog Synthesizers

In the 25th century, deep under the Earth's shattered surface, the dying remnants of humankind live in a dwindling Colony devoid of Nature and only one can travel to the past to save humanity from its dark fate. Clinging to life underground, after a cataclysmic all-out nuclear war, the remains of the human race are desperate for a way to change the past. Harnessing the power of an artificial wormhole, their only hope to avert global annihilation is to travel back in time and alter the discovery of nuclear fission. Humanity's future rests on the unlikely shoulders of Proteus. Born with a unique genetic mutation, scientists discover that he is the only one capable of surviving the ravages of time-travel. After decades of preparation, Proteus is sent backwards to early 20th century London... but Time doesn't want the past to change and it pushes back. To complete his mission, Proteus must manipulate the course of history, all the while battling enemy agents and avoiding the forces of Time, if he's ever going to save the future from the past.

Saving Schrödinger's Cat

Jenkins relates the invigorating experiences he shared as part of a team of three Americans and four Russians who set the world record for bicycling, riding from Vladivostock to Leningrad. "An epic tour of one of the world's most forbidding and legendary regions".--San Francisco Chronicle. Illustrations.

Bicycling Across Siberia

Off the Map

Follows the author and his companions down the Niger River to Africa and on to Timbuktu by motorcyle, describing their encounters with animals, natives, and the environment

To Timbuktu

Updated 2009 edition of this evergreen punk-rock classic!

Thomas J. Moore

Megan C. Murphy

Draws on the latest research in an introduction to the Boston University Professor of Medicine's DASH program for lasting weight loss that explains how to calculate calorie targets and adapt favorite recipes while lowering health risks. 50,000 first printing.

Lose Weight and Keep It Off--the Healthy Way--with America's Most Respected Diet

The DASH Diet for Weight Loss

Richard West

Ken Pasternak

Performance is the central focus of every organization, and yet for many how to achieve this remains unanswered.

Business Lessons from Formula 1 Motor Racing

Performance at the Limit

From his earliest work on personal identity to his last on the value of truthfulness, the ideas and arguments of Bernard Williams - in the metaphysics of personhood, in the history of philosophy, but especially in ethics and moral psychology - have proved sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. This book provides a comprehensive account of Williams's many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy. Topics include personal identity, various critiques of moral theory, practical reasoning and moral motivation, truth and objectivity, and the relevance of ancient Greece to modern life. It not only positions Williams among these important philosophical topics, but also with regard to the views of other philosophers, including prominent forerunners such as Hume and Nietzsche and contemporary thinkers such as, Nagel, McDowell, MacIntyre and Taylor. The fragmentary nature of Williams's work is addressed and recurring themes and connections within his work are brought to light.

Bernard Williams

‘MARK JENKINS IS AN ACCIDENTAL COMEDY GENIUS’ - Daily MailHaving driven into the sunset in the final episode of Channel 4’s The Hotel, Mark Jenkins is back doing what he does best - entertaining the nation. His unique take on life, affable charm, and woefully naïve exploits are all captured with great comedic effect in this, his first book.In The World According to Manager Mark you will discover just what makes this real-life Basil Fawlty tick. Containing Mark’s opinions on everything from AGEING to YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS, from BUS LANES to VEGETARIANS, and featuring VOL-AU-VENTS, INFLATABLES and countless SAUSAGES, this book houses more entertainment than a hotel in peak season.Frank, forthcoming and downright funny, in this A-Z of Mark’s world you’ll find a manifesto for a life in which we discover the difference between naturists and naturalists, umbrellas are categorised as dangerous weapons and green food is banned. Whether you consider yourself rich, poor or normal, and whether you drink real champagne or ‘nearly champagne’, this book contains something for everyone. Even the Queen!What’s more, you might learn a thing or two. UNBELIEVABLE!

The World According to Manager Mark

For nearly eight years as the monthly columnist for Outside magazine, and in his award-winning books, Mark Jenkins has held fans spellbound with his riveting accounts of expeditions to remote parts of the globe. In To Timbuktu, he sets out with three friends to attempt their first descent of the Niger River, hoping to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu. Along the way they are attacked by killer bees, charged by hippos, and stalked by crocodiles. They stumble upon a group of completely blind men living alone in the bush and dance with a hundred naked women. That Jenkins finally reaches his goal—riding alone across the Sahara on a motorcycle—stands in sharp contrast to what befell earlier explorers who tried to find Timbuktu and whose fates the author interweaves with the narrative of his own journey. A rich combination of cultural exploration, history, and gripping adventure, this beautifully repackaged edition of To Timbuktu is a journey not to be missed.

A Journey Down the Niger

Can you imagine your organisation as a Ferrari or a McLaren, a Toyota or a Force India? Your management team as a pit crew? Your sales force as the race team and your marketing and research department as the design studio creating a Formula 1 car? Formula 1 has an estimated turnover of $4bn, employs 50,000 people in more than 30 countries and has a foothold in every major and developing economy. With performance as the central focus of every organization, Performance at the Limit uses the case of Formula 1 motorsport as an example of how business can achieve optimal performance in highly competitive environments where dealing with change effectively is paramount. This second edition builds on the success of the first and contains a wealth of new material, including many more interviews with Formula 1 drivers and other key executives active in the sport.

More than 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure, and most of them control it by taking prescription drugs with potentially dangerous side effects. But there is a natural, affordable, and easy-to-manage alternative to medication: the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet. Developed by a world-class team of doctors and nutritionists, the DASH diet is clinically proven to lower blood-pressure levels and thereby reduce the risk of heart failure, stroke, and kidney disease. Now, with The DASH Diet for Hypertension, readers can benefit from: • A hearty and healthful selection of DASH menus, recipes, even grocery lists • DASH weight-loss and exercise programs for everyday living • The science behind DASH, including calorie worksheets and a formula to calculate body-mass ...and much more from this revolutionary program, which is recommended by the American Heart Association; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; the American Society for Hypertension; and other leading medical authorities.

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