New Releases by Mark Bowden

England’s Military Heritage from the Air presents the story of the country’s rich military heritage using photographs from the Aerofilms Collection. Covering over 6,000 years, it reflects the changing threats faced by England from enemies without, and conflicts within. The book covers everything from hillforts to aircraft carriers and includes the castles, battle sites, ships and aircraft that have witnessed the changing character of warfare. Ending with how victory and sacrifice are commemorated and remembered, England’s Military Heritage from the Air is a tribute to the courage, skill and endurance of the people who have suffered yet prevailed.

Wednesday Wanders is a book about walking; not a guidebook with detailed route descriptions and maps, but the journal of a walker looking to broaden his horizons by seeing what could be achieved with an early start and still be home for tea (or supper more often). Weekly adventures setting out from northwest London to explore some of the long-distance footpaths of southeast England. Written in a light-hearted, humorous, but sometimes thoughtful style, it''s a journal of determination and achievement sitting alongside not a little folly, with some inept navigation and unrealistic plans. More importantly, it''s about what happened along the way, the fascination of places visited, the people met, the animals encountered, and perhaps most significantly, discovering the unexpected beauty and varied countryside in this corner of the country. Each chapter covers one of the seven routes attempted. Starting with the London LOOP, although this was the last walk completed. Chapter two returns to the beginning with a naïve walker setting out on the first stage of the North Downs Way from Farnham to Guildford on a wet and travel-disrupted day in early November. That chapter finishes five months later, on a bright but windy spring day, along the cliff tops into Dover. Proving that you can indeed complete a long-distance path in day trips. ufeffFive more routes are covered: the Ridgeway, Icknield Way Path, the Chiltern Way, Greensand Way, and the Hertfordshire Way. Some walks were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic or the onset of winter when the days were too short to complete their further reaches, but all were eventually finished. A thousand miles of walking recalled in a diary entry format. Each outing is dated, and the location and mileage given.

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname Bodymore, Murderland, and was made notorious by David Simon’s classic HBO series “The Wire.” Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang “Trained to Go,” or TTG, and when he was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison, he had been nicknamed “Baltimore’s Number One Trigger Puller.” Under Tana’s reign, TTG dominated Sandtown. After a string of murders are linked to TTG, each with dozens of witnesses too intimidated to testify, three detectives set out to put Tana in prison for life. For them, this was never about drugs: It was about serial murder. Now an acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with exclusive access to the FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city’s deadliest gangs and its notorious leader. As he traces the rise and fall of TTG, Bowden uses wiretapped drug buys, police interviews, undercover videos, text messages, social media posts, trial transcripts, and his own ongoing conversations with Tana’s family and community to create the most in-depth account of an inner-city gang ever written. With his signature precision and propulsive narrative, Mark Bowden positions Tana – as a boy, a gang leader, a killer, and now a prisoner – in the context of Baltimore and America, illuminating his path for what it really was: a life sentence.

“A gripping ground-level narrative…a marvel of reporting: tightly wound… but also panoramic.”—Washington Post “A lean, fast-paced and important account of the chaotic final weeks.”—New York Times In The Steal, veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In the sixty-four days between November 3 and January 6, President Donald Trump and his allies fought to reverse the outcome of the vote. Focusing on six states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—Trump’s supporters claimed widespread voter fraud. Caught up in this effort were scores of activists, lawyers, judges, and state and local officials. Working with a team of researchers and reporters, Bowden and Teague uncover never-before-told accounts from the election officials fighting to do their jobs amid outlandish claims and threats to themselves, their colleagues, and their families. The Steal is an engaging, in-depth report on what happened during those crucial nine weeks and a portrait of the dedicated individuals who did their duty and stood firm against the unprecedented, sustained attack on our election system and ensured that every legal vote was counted and that the will of the people prevailed.

Indiferent dacă te afli la un interviu de angajare, la o petrecere sau dacă navighezi în social media, îți dorești să știi dintr-o ochire dacă oamenii sunt sinceri în ceea ce spun sau dacă felul în care se afișează corespunde cu cine sunt ei în realitate. Dincolo de fațadă și de vorbe, cartea de față te ajută să ghicești intențiile și gândurile conlocutorilor, pornind de la postură, poziția mâinilor, contactul vizual (sau evitarea acestuia) ori genul de fotografii pe care aceștia le publică pe Facebook. Cei doi autori, somități în descifrarea limbajlui corporal, oferă o metodă precisă de "scanare" a gesturilor și de verificare a impresiilor obținute, luând în calcul contextul, proiecțiile personale, dar și multiplele semnificații ale gesturilor umane – brațele încrucișate, de exemplu, pot exprima nu doar rezistența celuilalt, dar și faptul că e obosit sau înfrigurat.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling “master of narrative journalism” and author of Black Hawk Down presents a compelling collection of true crime stories (The New York Times). Acclaimed investigative reporter Mark Bowden has ferreted out unbelievable-yet-true stories of wrongdoing, murder and mayhem for decades. His illustrious body of work has won him a lifetime achievement award from the International Thriller Writers organization, and a reputation as “a Woodward that outdoes even Woodward” (Malcom Gladwell, The New Yorker). The Case of the Vanishing Blonde collects six of Bowden’s most riveting stories—accounts spanning four decades of fascinating characters and unsettling tales to illustrate all manner of crimes and the ways technology has progressively altered criminal investigation. From a 1983 story of a University of Pennsylvania campus rape that sparked a national debate over the nature of consent, to three cold cases featuring the inimitable Long Island private detective Ken Brennan and a startling investigation into a murderer deep within the LAPD’s ranks—shielded for twenty six years by officers keen to protect one of their own—these stories are the work of a masterful narrative journalist.

Mastering the Art of Body Language A fresh, insightful guide to reading body language in the post-digital age Whether you’re at a job interview or a cocktail party, searching LinkedIn or swiping right on a dating site, you want (no—need) to understand what people are really thinking, regardless of what they’re saying. Understanding what others are trying to tell you with their posture, hand gestures, eye contact (or lack thereof) or incessant fiddling with their iPhone might all be even more important than what you’re projecting yourself. ■ Do they plan on making a deal with your company? ■ Are they lying to you? ■ Can you trust this person with your most intimate secrets? Knowing what others are thinking can tell you when to run with an opportunity and when not to waste your time, whether at work, in a crucial negotiation or on a promising first date. Bestselling authors Mark Bowden and Tracey Thomson illustrate the essential points of body language with examples from everyday life, leavened with humour and insights that you can use to your advantage in virtually any situation. MARK BOWDEN is a body language and behavior expert and the creator of TRUTHPLANE®, a communication training company and unique methodology for anyone who has to communicate with impact. His clients include leading business people, teams, and politicians, presidents and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and current Prime Ministers of G7 powers. TRACEY THOMSON is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of TRUTHPLANE®. Tracey advises the world’s top companies and individuals on their biggest questions around communication and body language.

The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and “master journalist” (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, DC As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and the mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware. The acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968 had been a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper at the time of the original disappearance, and covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch’s sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind. “One of our best writers of muscular nonfiction.” —The Denver Post “Deeply unsettling . . . Bowden displays his tenacity as a reporter in his meticulous documentation of the case. But in the story of an unimaginably horrific crime, it’s the detectives’ unwavering determination to bring Welch to justice that offers a glimmer of hope on a long, dark journey.” —Time

Una entrevista de trabajo, una fiesta, una búsqueda en LinkedIn o echar un vistazo a una aplicación de citas son muchas las situaciones en las que desearíamos saber qué es lo que nuestro interlocutor piensa realmente, más allá de lo que nos esté diciendo. Todos recordamos situaciones en las que hemos creído intuir lo que alguien pensaba y ha resultado ser cierto; pero también otras en las que teníamos la certeza de conocer las intenciones de alguien y, después, hemos descubierto lo absolutamente equivocados que estábamos. Saber leer correctamente el lenguaje no verbal y luego actuar basándonos en esa interpretación, indudablemente puede tener consecuencias muy positivas. Ahora bien, las consecuencias negativas de malinterpretar lo que vemos pueden tener también efectos terribles: remordimiento, angustia, decepción... Tanto si prefieres ir pasando páginas y hojeando secciones o capítulos que sean de tu interés, como si lees el libro de principio a fin, aprenderás a aplicar una metodología con la que podrás observar y asignar significado al lenguaje corporal, que te ayudará a llegar al fondo de lo que la gente piensa realmente y a descubrir las verdades y mentiras de lo que oyes y ves. Una guía fresca y perspicaz para superar todos los mitos sobre la comunicación no verbal y leer con precisión el lenguaje corporal en la era post-digital.

National bestseller A fresh, insightful guide to reading body language in the post-digital age Whether you’re at a job interview or a cocktail party, searching LinkedIn or swiping right on a dating site, you want (no—need) to understand what people are really thinking, regardless of what they’re saying. Understanding what others are trying to tell you with their posture, hand gestures, eye contact (or lack thereof) or incessant fiddling with their iPhone might all be even more important than what you’re projecting yourself. Do they plan on making a deal with your company? Are they lying to you? Can you trust this person with your most intimate secrets? Knowing what others are thinking can tell you when to run with an opportunity and when not to waste your time, whether at work, in a crucial negotiation or on a promising first date. Bestselling authors Mark Bowden and Tracey Thomson, principals at the communications company Truthplane, illustrate the essential points of body language with examples from everyday life, leavened with humour and insights that you can use to your advantage in virtually any situation.

What sets the very best footballers apart from the rest? It''s not about ability but about being able to perform at your peak level consistently. Thanks to developments in our understanding of how the brain works, you can now effectively train to improve your form by conditioning your thoughts and behaviour in all aspects of your life.

The author of Black Hawk Down vividly recounts a pivotal Vietnam War battle in this New York Times bestseller: “An extraordinary feat of journalism”. —Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal In Hue 1968, Mark Bowden presents a detailed, day-by-day reconstruction of the most critical battle of the Tet Offensive. In the early hours of January 31, 1968, the North Vietnamese launched attacks across South Vietnam. The lynchpin of this campaign was the capture of Hue, Vietnam’s intellectual and cultural capital. 10,000 troops descended from hidden camps and surged across the city, taking everything but two small military outposts. American commanders refused to believe the size and scope of the siege, ordering small companies of marines against thousands of entrenched enemy troops. After several futile and deadly days, Lieutenant Colonel Ernie Cheatham would finally come up with a strategy to retake the city block by block, in some of the most intense urban combat since World War II. With unprecedented access to war archives in the United States and Vietnam and interviews with participants from both sides, Bowden narrates each stage of this crucial battle through multiple viewpoints. Played out over 24 days and ultimately costing 10,000 lives, the Battle of Hue was by far the bloodiest of the entire war. When it ended, the American debate was never again about winning, only about how to leave. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in History Winner of the 2018 Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Greene Award for a distinguished work of nonfiction

Het spannende en verbijsterende verhaal achter de hitserie Narcos De jacht op Pablo Escobar is het ware verhaal van de gewelddadige opkomst en ondergang van Pablo Escobar, leider van het cocaïnekartel van Medellín, Colombia. Met zijn drugshandel, moordpartijen en andere criminele praktijken werd Escobar stinkend rijk én een van de grootste internationaal gezochte kopstukken. Hij had tachtig procent van de cocaïnehandel wereldwijd in handen en op zijn toppunt verdiende hij zestig miljoen dollar per dag. Escobar hield vanuit Medellín een land van dertig miljoen mensen in zijn greep. Zijn schrikbewind kon alleen maar eindigen met zijn dood: op 2 december 1993 werd hij in een vuurgevecht door het leger neergeschoten. Met De jacht op Pablo Escobar schreef Mark Bowden een meeslepend en ongelooflijk spannend verhaal ov er de grootste drugsbaron ooit. De pers over De jacht op Pablo Escobar ‘Bowden is een meester in de narratieve journalistiek.’ The New York Times ‘Grondige research, boeiend, leest als een trein.’ Sunday Times ‘Tien keer beter dan een fictief misdaadverhaal.’ Uncut ‘Fascinerende onderzoeksjournalistiek.’ The Times

Aldrig har en sann historia känts så mycket som en spänningsroman. Pablo Escobar var knarkkungen vars kriminella kokainimperium höll en hel nation som gisslan; ett skräckvälde som endast kunde få ett slut med Escobars död. I en intensiv och närgången berättelse avslöjar den prisbelönte journalisten Mark Bowden detaljerna om den amerikanska operationens sexton månader långa jakt på den colombianske drogkungen. Genom intervjuer med soldater, fältagenter och ämbetsmän, och med hjälp av sin insyn i topphemliga dokument och transkriptioner av Escobars telefonsamtal, skapar Bowden en gripande dokumentär berättelse. Killing Pablo Escobar har utnämnts till bästa faktabok av Overseas Press Club. Escobars liv har även aktualiserats i den populära Netflix-serien Narcos. En psykotisk safari. Daily Mail Ett mästerverk inom undersökande journalistik. The Times Mäktigt skriven och bra research. Independent on Sunday

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: “a first-rate collection” of long-form journalism on war, sports, politics, and more (Booklist). Mark Bowden has established himself as one of America’s leading journalists and nonfiction writers. The Three Battles of Wanat collects the best of his long-form articles, including pieces from the Atlantic, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The titular article delves into one of the bloodiest days of the War in Afghanistan and the years-long fallout it generated within the United States military. In “The Killing Machines,” Bowden examines the strategic, legal, and moral issues surrounding armed drones. And in a brilliant piece on Kim Jong-un called “The Bright Sun of Juche,” he recalibrates our understanding of the world’s youngest and most baffling dictator. Also included are profiles of newspaper scion Arthur Sulzberger; renowned defense attorney and anti-death-penalty activist Judy Clarke; professional gambler Don Johnson, who won six million dollars in a single night playing blackjack; and David Simon, the creator of the legendary HBO series The Wire. “Mark Bowden marshals his finest for The Three Battles of Wanat.” —Vanity Fair

MY RECIPES: Personal Recipe Notebook This attractive paperback notebook is the perfect organizing solution for every kitchen! No more drawers full of valuable recipes jotted down on loose scraps of paper, which can be easily lost or destroyed - My Recipes provides space to collect up to 99 recipes in a single volume, separated into nine different categories, with a handy table of contents in the front for easy reference! It''s the perfect gift for the Master Chef in your household!

This attractive paperback notebook is the perfect organizing solution for every kitchen! No more drawers full of valuable recipes jotted down on loose scraps of paper, which can be easily lost or destroyed - My Favorite Recipes provides space to collect up to 99 recipes in a single volume, separated into nine different categories, with a handy table of contents in the front for easy reference! It''s the perfect gift for the Master Chef in your household!

Kanwa filmu Ridley’a Scotta i międzynarodowy bestseller końca XX wieku, którego polskie wydanie ukazuje się po raz pierwszy prawie 20 lat po wydarzeniach w Mogadiszu. Próba ujęcia adiutantów somalijskiego watażki zakończona strąceniem 2 helikopterów i śmiercią 18 amerykańskich żołnierzy nie jest luźnym rozważaniem nad sensem amerykańskiej interwencji, ale trzymającą w napięciu niemalże stenograficzną relacją z pola bitwy. Książka Marka Bowdena przypomina dokładnie ułożoną grę strategiczną, w której pionkami są elitarne oddziały rangersów i Delta Force, grę rozsypującą się na naszych oczach jak kostki domina. Nieprzypadkowo Bitwa o Mogadiszu, jak nazwały operację wojskową media stanowi klasyczne studium przypadku jak wszystko, co miało pójść dobrze, poszło całkowicie źle.

It''s not what you say, but how you say it A proven new system for nonverbal communication—from an expert to Fortune 50 CEO''s and G8 world leaders Professionals can move up in the business world with the strategic tips and techniques employed by one of the world’s most skilled communicators. Winning Body Language shows how to move to make people believe what you are saying, make them trust you, how to use the area where you are standing, and how to imitate hand motions of influential personalities to inspire confidence, and much more. Body language expert Mark Bowden brings TruthPlane, a unique model of non-verbal communication that professionals can master to give effective, dynamic presentations or memorable one-on-one meetings to their staff, colleagues, management and clients. You''ll learn how to master the universal techniques of body language, including such counter-intuitive tips as: How manipulating the six square feet of area in front of your body known as the "truth plane" How to tap into audiences'' primal brain structures so they identify with you Why looking someone in the eye while speaking with them can be deadly How imitating Hilary Clinton''s hand motions can inspire confidence And more! Winning Body Language includes a full vocabulary of gesture delivery, a comprehensive and practical understanding of the signals that bind us all together, and unique tips and techniques to help us stand out and get noticed at work.

Examines the landscape of the Malvern Hills, a ridge of ancient volcanic rocks along the western edge of the Severn Valley. The survey ranges from the early prehistoric period to the present day, including the two large Iron Age hillforts on the ridge.

Como os serviços de inteligência americanos encontraram Osama Bin Laden. No dia 7 de outubro de 2001, menos de um mês depois dos ataques do Onze de Setembro, os Estados Unidos invadiram o Afeganistão. Acreditavam que tinham encurralado o líder da Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, em Tora Bora, mas ele desapareceu e seus rastros se tornaram cada vez mais distantes. Nos anos seguintes, o país se viu lutando contra uma organização invisível, apátrida e bem financiada. Em "A caçada", o jornalista investigativo Mark Bowden descreve passo a passo o trabalho das forças militares dos Estados Unidos e dos organismos de inteligência para desenvolverem novas estratégias em resposta ao principal desafio da segurança nacional do país. Com acesso inédito a fontes-chave, incluindo o presidente Barack Obama e importantes nomes da Casa Branca, da CIA e do Pentágono, descreve em detalhes como as decisões foram tomadas e elucida pontos cruciais das ações militares. Após milhares de missões de forças especiais no Iraque e no Afeganistão, a arma certa para a caçada a Osama bin Laden finalmente havia evoluído. Em 2011, a inteligência apontava para uma mansão na cidade paquistanesa de Abbottabad. As chances estimadas de que o líder da Al-Qaeda estivesse no local eram de 50%. Bowden revela que três estratégias foram planejadas e que Obama optou pelo embate certeiro e cara a cara com o inimigo.