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. 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. In this revised version of the The Steal, Mark Bowden distills the full January 6th Committee Report from its original 300,000 words to a brisk and illuminating few pages. Teague and Bowden have also added a preface, an afterword, and updates throughout the text to include new findings from the January 6th Committee Report and Trump''s ongoing attempts at regaining popularity and running for office in 2024.

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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.

From the # 1 New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down: The "shocking" story of the country''s unlikeliest drug kingpin ( The Baltimore Sun). By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin had everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class roots to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice, and a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia''s most exclusive suburbs. But behind the façade of his success was a dark secret: Lavin was also the mastermind behind a cocaine empire that spread from Miami to Boston to New Mexico, catering to lawyers, stockbrokers, and other professionals, and generating an annual income of $60 million for the good doctor. Now, Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" ( The New York Times Book Review) tells the harrowing saga of Lavin''s rise and fall in "a shocking American tragedy . . . [that] shoots straight from the hip" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). "An engrossing crime story and a compelling morality tale." — The Arizona Republic "Has all the elements of a chilling suspense thriller . . . A smoothly crafted, exciting, can''t-put-it-down book." — The New Voice (Louisville)

The NFL championship game that changed football forever: a New York Times–bestselling sports history classic by the author of Black Hawk Down. Yankee Stadium, December 28, 1958. What was about to go down on this Sunday evening in front of sixty-four thousand fans and forty-five million home viewers—the largest viewership ever assembled for a live televised event—was the first sudden death overtime in NFL history. This one battle between the league''s best offense, the Baltimore Colts, and the best defense, the New York Giants, would propel professional football from a moderately popular pastime into America''s favorite sport. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas, Raymond Berry, and Gino Marchetti; and Giants greats Frank Gifford, Sam Huff; and assistant coaches Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. But they were opposing teams in more ways than one. It was a contest between Baltimore blue-collars, many of whom worked off-season taking shifts at Bethlehem Steel, and the trendy, New York glamour boys of splashy magazine ads and TV commercials who mingled with politicians, Broadway stars, and even Ernest Hemingway. Mark Bowden "dives into the trenches of the 1958 NFL Championship game" for a riveting play-by-play account, the stories behind the key players, the effect it had on the league, the sport, and the country ( Entertainment Weekly). "Bring[s] the contest so alive that you find yourself almost wondering . . . years later, how it will turn out in the end." — The New York Times " The Best Game Ever is sure to become an instant Sacred Text." —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

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.

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

The Isles of Scilly are renowned for their natural beauty, wild flowers and temperate climate, but there is another reason to visit these paradise islands. Since the 16th century they have been in the frontline of this country''s military defences and successive generations of fortifications have survived in Scilly, unmatched in any other location around Britain. This unrivalled survival was due to the lack of pressure to develop the islands and happily because the feared enemy rarely attacked. However, there is another threat to this precious heritage, the power of the sea. William Borlase in the mid-18th century recorded how much of the islands'' history had succumbed to rising sea level, and today increasingly turbulent weather patterns may be accelerating the process of coastal erosion. This book celebrates the unique survival of military fortifications on the islands, but it also serves to illustrate the value and vulnerability of the whole country''s coastal heritage. Like King Canute, we cannot turn back the sea, but we can celebrate these precious survivals from the colourful history of our island nation.

Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the Acropolis of Athens, the Pyramids of Giza, Great Zimbabwe and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remains of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age that are also part of the World Heritage Site. Recent research by English Heritage''s landscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to the identification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly, the re-interpretation of known sites, including Stonehenge itself. This work has been carried out alongside recent and on-going independent research initiatives conducted by a number of academic institutions, involving international co-operation. This book presents the most significant findings of the English Heritage research and shows how it integrates with the results of work undertaken by colleagues in other research bodies. It traces human influence on the landscape from prehistoric times to the very recent past and presents an up-to-date synthesis of the results of recent fieldwork. It will be of value to anyone interested in Stonehenge itself, in megalithic monuments, in the Neolithic period and Bronze Age of Europe and in the historic evolution of chalkland landscapes.

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.