Bøger af Mark Richardson

Experience driving Canada's longest road, while learning of the iconic highway's beginnings.The Trans-Canada Highway is one of the longest highways in the world -- 7,700 kilometres from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, British Columbia, with almost the same distance again on secondary routes. It's a Canadian icon, but it didn't come easily. In The Drive Across Canada, automotive journalist Mark Richardson tells the stories of the pioneers who first drove across the country in the early days of cars and motorcycles, even before any roads existed, and of the political fight to create a physical link that would connect Canadians to every province of their vast country.Richardson drove the length of the Trans-Canada Highway in 2023, repeating the drive he first completed in 2012. He encounters a hurricane in Newfoundland, a firestorm in British Columbia, and unspeakable tragedies on the Prairies. He meets people whose lives have been changed by the highway, sometimes in ways they could never have imagined, and along the way, the highway changes his life, too.

If you want to lose weight, stop using drugs, get rid of a lousy job, or get out of a bad relationship, you'll have to get your mind right to shake the weight off. In "Get your mind right to shake the weight off, "I discuss my issue with drug abuse as a prison counselor in a repeat drug offender facility. Find out how worked on the problems in my life and became a successful father and published author.

Whether your environment is your home, work, school, relationship, friendship, and the relationship you have with yourself, control is an illusion, but you can challenge your environment. The only power we have is over our own lives. Never give it up!

After hiding for many years from humans, Bob and his forest family decide they are going camping in the city as humans do in the forest. Upon arriving in town, Bob and all of his forest friends are disgusted with the filth of the humans and decided to close nature to the human until they change for the better.

Alexandra is a powerful witch on a desperate mission to restore balance but in order to do that she must first face her father the Wolf King. To complicate matters further, a psychotic vampire is creating an army of vampires to wipe out life as we know it. For protection, she turns to Gaia and her mother to help her raise an army of Witches. If she fails to gather enough witches to defeat her father and kill the vampire king all will be lost.

This book is intended to wake up as many complacent driver as possible and alert the new drivers of the real dangers that they are facing every day of their lives. The second you enter a car as a driver or baby in your mother's womb, you run the risk of becoming one of the 30,800 lost souls a year. Wake up cars are serious business.

It all starts when a twenty-something software programming genius is visited while he sleeps by a mysterious figure referred to as the Troll. "We're going to change the world," the Troll tells the narrator. Soon we're introduced to an assortment of off-beat characters: a red-haired, one-eared, female temptress; a pot-smoking tech reporter; a computer-generated Halfling; and a few venture capitalists who are all interested in finding the Troll. Mostly taking place in San Francisco, Hunt for the Troll is a quirky hybrid of mystery, pulp, and modern fairy tale.

In 10 weeks during the summer of 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the Trans-Canada Highway, author Mark Richardson drove the nearly 8,000 kilometres of the iconic road, meeting a variety of people along the way, exploring the route's fabled history, and discovering how important this ribbon of asphalt is to Canada.

There was a time when people sat together to listen to records. This album with four separate CDs celebrates this disappearing moment.