A day in 1614 Japan, told through 24 unforgettable lives, revealing the drama, danger and daily life of this pivotal era of Japanese history.In 1614, Japan stood at a crossroads. As the Tokugawa shogunate tightened its grip on power, samurai prepared for war, Christians faced persecution and foreign merchants navigated a rapidly shifting political landscape.In 24 Hours in Shogun’s Japan, Mark Hudson brings this pivotal mome...

As a former ranger and CIA field operative, Gordan Hudde was used to operating far from friendly support; he never thought that one day that would be the case in Otter, Georgia his adopted new town. Sheriff "Big" John Schmidt convinces Hudde that he may be able to help on a missing children's case and Gordan is forced to decide between the rules of the law and the rules of what is just. Powerful forces try to derail Gordan, the sheriff's department, and the FBI agent who has been sent to h...

Jimmy was a feral cat in the neighborhood for years looking out from the shadows and bushes. My wife insisted on first setting out food and then against all advice; try to befriend him. This is the story how he entered our lives until I fell in love as well. RIP Jimmy as he was taken from us by a bobcat. He was outside, doing what he loved, roaming the bushes and backyards.

‘Deeply felt and expertly researched, “Beyond the Black Gate” is an immersive, heart-racing story of love and survival in a fracturing, vividly realised, end of empire world.’ Howard Cunnell, author of The Painter's FriendIn the year 409 the Roman Empire is collapsing. A young woman called Nehtan hides her enslaved status when she is rescued in Gaul by a resentful Patrician. Thrown together on a dangerous odyssey through a land devastated by invading barbarians, the two start to fal...

Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can also be applied to East Asia. Focus...

Most journalists and academics attribute the rise of wildfires in the western United States to the USDA Forest Service's successful fire-elimination policies of the twentieth century. However, in Fire Management in the American West, Mark Hudson argues that although a century of suppression did indeed increase the hazard of wildfire, the responsibility does not lie with the USFS alone. The roots are found in the Forest Service's relationships with other, more powerful elements of ...

Fresh out of the Army in 1989, the author started at the ground floor of retail security and worked himself into a multi-store district investigator. 100's of shoplifting detentions followed by 1000's of interviews leads to a story that is both entertaining and informational. Trained in several different forms of interview and interrogation techniques the author shares how he morphed them into successful admissions by employee suspects. A must read for anyone interested in retail security,...

The author, Mark Hudson here, I'm saddened by many things that happen here in America; I felt compelled to write about this one.What I have done is create a conspiracy that would show why the Veterans Administration has spiraled into an agency that doesn't place the care of veterans as the number one priority but they seem to have placed the advancement of the American Federation of Government Employees and their management as the number one priority.Try to remember that it...

Two conspiracies coil around Washington DC and the White House, each with a world-shaking outcome. One looks to change America. The other to destroy it.Jim Foster is the lone survivor of an American SEAL team who is now being held hostage after his unit was overrun on a mountain top in Afghanistan. He is the last man alive with knowledge of a high ranking US administration official having meetings with leaders of jihadist terrorist organizations.Former US Army Ranger and cu...

Gordan Hudde former Army ranger and current CIA covert operative needed time to relax. A beach vacation in Mexico seemed an ideal get away; he never thought he would meet the love of his life there. He never thought that he would find peace and family; he never thought it.Gordan Hudde also never thought about violent street gangs, cartel run Governments, or the politics within America that allowed the problems south of their border to fester.But they forced Gordan to think ab...

Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires.In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outline the consequences it has for people and nature, consequences routinely made invisible in the...

Help adults with intellectual disabilities improve their mental health and quality of lifeIntroduces a new emotional development, evidence-based modelDetails phases and milestones of development for people with IDExplains challenging behaviour and mental health problems according to the modelDetailed guidance on how to apply the approach in practiceFull of case examplesMore about the book...