Bøger af Mark Hudson

The essays in this volume explore questions relating to human dispersals and exchange across the varied environments of Eurasia. Part One focuses on the Neolithic and how agriculture led to new adaptive niches for human societies. This process involved population and linguistic expansion, but could also be expressed through exploitation of the environment in new ways. In Part Two, the emphasis shifts to exchange between east and west across Eurasia in the Bronze Age and Middle Ages. Chapters in the book discuss topics as varied as J¿mon plant cultivation, linguistic borrowings by agropastoral groups, the spread of gold and silverwares across the steppes, and customs related to feasting in medieval northern China. The volume will be of interest to archaeologists and historical linguists alike, particularly those working on long-term social change across Eurasia.

A conspiracy hidden inside another conspiracy and only hours left to stop it. The most powerful men inside politics circle each other in a deadly chess match to change America's foreign policy and America forever. If either wins, the country loses; can it even be stopped?

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 help. Every minute could mean life or death and when a fourth child disappears, Gordan is put to the test.

A beautiful Mexico vacation may lead to a whirlwind romance between a mysterious man and an exotic local woman. Swirling around them are a harsh street gang, the brutal cartels, and corrupt governments from both sides of the border. Violent and cinematic, it's a toxic blended drink served up cold under An Angry Orange Sky.

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, retail management, or anyone interested in what happens after the doors close.

Veterans have gone missing from a help group that had no suicidal tendencies. The 501c3 group creator reaches out to a friend to help him look into the situation, disgusted that the government does not seem interested in assisting. From the headlines in America to this frightening novel comes An Emerald Abyss, the story of greed, corruption, and a conspiracy that is so believable it will keep you up at night. Is it a foreign entity, a terrorist cell, or is our own government involved in this evil? .

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. Focusing primarily on Island East Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is proposed as a way to model the longue duree of premodern Eurasian history. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially historical figure, defined by the abstract expressionist era of the Fifties and early Sixties when he enjoyed his greatest fame, Davie was a prophetic artist whose preoccupations with universal creativity and self-realisation are more relevant today than they¿ve ever been.Lavishly illustrated with rare archive photographs and little-seen paintings, Alan Davie in Hertford demonstrates that Davie¿s visionary art was far more closely bound up with physical places than is generally supposed, not least the quiet market town of Hertford, where he lived for 60 years. A catalogue of 40 works intended as the new gallery¿s core collection, provides a ¿rich and fabulous¿ survey of Davie¿s work, from student works of the Thirties to some of his very last paintings.

The book is a quest - a journey through Titian's life and work, towards the physical and spiritual landscape of his last paintings.