THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIR

What happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?

In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and discovered Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer's perilous path in search of the truth--except he'd written about adventure far more than he'd actually lived it. In fact, he'd never even slept in a tent.

Turn Right at Machu Picchu is Adams' fascinating and funny account of his journey through some of the world's most majestic, historic, and remote landscapes guided only by a hard-as-nails Australian survivalist and one nagging question: Just what was Machu Picchu?

**The National Bestseller**

From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled journey into Alaska, America's last frontier

In 1899, railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman organized a most unusual summer voyage to the wilds of Alaska: He converted a steamship into a luxury floating university, populated by some of America's best and brightest scientists and writers, including the anti-capitalist eco-prophet John Muir. Those aboard encountered a land of immeasurable beauty and impending environmental calamity. More than a hundred years later, Alaska is still America's most sublime wilderness, both the lure that draws one million tourists annually on Inside Passage cruises and as a natural resources larder waiting to be raided. As ever, it remains a magnet for weirdos and dreamers.

Armed with Dramamine and an industrial-strength mosquito net, Mark Adams sets out to retrace the 1899 expedition. Traveling town to town by water, Adams ventures three thousand miles north through Wrangell, Juneau, and Glacier Bay, then continues west into the colder and stranger regions of the Aleutians and the Arctic Circle. Along the way, he encounters dozens of unusual characters (and a couple of very hungry bears) and investigates how lessons learned in 1899 might relate to Alaska's current struggles in adapting to the pressures of a changing climate and world.

The New York Times Bestselling Travel Memoir

The author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu travels the globe in search of the world's most famous lost city.

Adventurous, inquisitive and mirthful, Mark Adams gamely sifts through the eons of rumor, science, and lore to find a place that, in the end, seems startlingly real indeed.--Hampton Sides

A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Far from alien conspiracy theories and other pop culture myths, everything we know about the legendary lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Stranger still: Adams learned there is an entire global sub-culture of amateur explorers who are still actively and obsessively searching for this sunken city, based entirely on Plato's detailed clues. What Adams didn't realize was that Atlantis is kind of like a virus--and he'd been exposed.

In Meet Me in Atlantis, Adams racks up frequent-flier miles tracking down these Atlantis obsessives, trying to determine why they believe it's possible to find the world's most famous lost city--and whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. The result is a classic quest that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters; and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world.

When Tatau was first published in 2010, Mark Adams' renowned images documenting a great Polynesian art tradition were a revelation. Mostly taken between 1978 and 2005, these photographs recorded the contemporary expressions of tatau (tattoo) and told the story of the late Sulu'ape Paulo II, the preeminent figure of modern Samoan tattooing. A brilliantly innovative and often controversial man, he saw tatau as an art of international importance. Tatau documented his practice, and that of other tufuga ta tatau (tattoo artists), and interpreted it within the contexts of Polynesian tattooing, Samoan migrant communities, and New Zealand art.

As in the original edition, the book is also concerned with what photographer Mark Adams has done with tatau. His images provide powerful and indeed moving records of certain times and people, some of whom have now passed on. Yet, despite their documentary nature, his images do much more than record a technique of body decoration or a scene around it. They ask tough questions of the scene and its history--questions that may inevitably remain unanswered. And, despite their virtuosity, the images exude a certain discomfort with the business of cross-cultural image making, with its histories, and with New Zealand's culture and politics.

Long out-of-print, this revised and extended edition, with its handsome larger format and texts by distinguished scholars, makes a cultural treasure available once more.

What's more satisfying than solving an entire sudoku puzzle?

With 100 easy sudoku puzzles, this sudoku puzzle book is designed for you who want the satisfaction of solving sudoku without spending hours staring at the squares and testing all kinds of solutions.

It's only one puzzle per page, which gives you plenty of space to use your ink pen without worrying about ending up with messy sudoku once you are finished.

The book's format makes it a perfect companion on your vacation, on the beach, or right next to your bed.

How fast can you solve one of these Sudokus?

This book is your companion next to your favorite sudoku puzzle book. It's your go-to source for a deeper dive and more knowledge about the game you love to play.

In this book, you learn:

• The Neuroscience of Sudoku, including Why is sudoku good for you?
• The History of Sudoku - Get a historical view of the game you love!
• Sudoku patterns in nature - Did you know they exist?
• Sudoku solving strategies from beginners, intermediate and difficult puzzles!
• Bonus chapter: 10 Example Sudoku puzzles
• And more!

Distilled here is the Sudoku knowledge that makes playing the game even more fulfilling!

Be ready to never look at a sudoku puzzle the same way again.

Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of 'world cultures', appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed to dialogue and collaboration with the peoples from whom collections were made. But their vast assemblages of artifacts, removed from countries of origin primarily during the colonial period, and assumed, mostly inaccurately, to have been looted, seem always in question.

Photo-Museology arises from an art project undertaken over 25 years. From the early 1990s, Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas together investigated sites of cross-cultural encounter in the Pacific and associated places in Europe, ranging from Captain Cook memorials to ethnographic museums. Some of those museums still exhibited colonial symbols and forms of knowledge, others had attempted to displace such histories, foregrounding more inclusive or progressive stories. Complementing the academic studies in the Pacific Presences series, this book offers what John Berger referred to as 'another way of telling'. Through photography, it revisits the places collections were made, and the places they ended up in. It is a meditation on presence and absence.

Five-year-old Max loves going to the liberry because they grow so many different kinds of liberries - fantasy liberries, spooky liberries, a'venture liberries, and so much more!

What are your favourite liberries?This edition uses British/UK Spelling.

What if your loved one becomes the victim of the world's most contagious and incurable disease - covid-19? Vikram had it all, a loving family, beautiful fianc s and career of his dreams. Though he hails from a business family, his interest lies in arts, and that's why he is in Florence, Italy - studying in one of the best colleges in Europe. Four more months in Florence Institute of Arts, and then Vikram was coming back home, with his love and future wife, Aria. Aria is an Italian by the origin and an unfortunate orphan. Vikram is her only family, and she loves him equally. It is February 2020, and they spend the best Valentine's day ever. But a few days later their life turns upside down. Suddenly, out of the Blue, Aria is sick, very sick. And when Vikram takes her to the hospital, he realises that not just Aria, but the whole of Italy, no, the world is sick. And there is no cure. They are facing the worst epidemic in the name of covid-19, and Vikram is in the heart of it. As Vikram fight against odds to save his Aria, things get mysterious all around him. He is forced to make certain choices, but are they the right ones? What is the dilemma that Vikram faces? What is happening in the world? Is it just the epidemic that Vikram has to fight? What challenges pave vikram's path? Can he save Aria? Can he bring her back from the clutches of corona? Read in this chilling tale.

A young boy's accidental encounter with a frightening spirit in Indianapolis leads to a lifelong possession. The boy grows up to be a young man who commits wicked crimes on board an airplane which leads to the opening of a dark portal on the aircraft and the subsequent haunting of a prominent, Japanese American, paranormal investigator on a transatlantic flight to London.

It is 1935, and the era of high living and brave fashion is fading, as the threat of war begins to infiltrate society. James Waybury, capitalising on rumours and secrets, has written a controversial book, and invited a number of associates to a book launch weekend at a remote house on Exmoor. Unfortunately, not all the guests are happy with the circumstances around the book, and events take an anxious and eventually tragic turn.

Two friends enjoying a reunion walk along the bleak coast of East Anglia find their recreation interrupted by the discovery of the body of a man in the shallows.

What began as a time of peaceful reflection at the closing of the year became the trigger for a series of events which involved a young woman, her brother, a detective faced with protocol and deception while tackling two apparently unrelated deaths, and the complexity and subterfuge of international crime.

What evolves is a gripping and disturbing account of the battle between the hunter and the hunted, and of the conflicts within criminal groups which lead to betrayal and treason.

This paper was prepared as a background document for a workshop on Development in Conflict, held in Birmingham, UK, convened by ACORD, Birmingham University's School of Public Policy, and Responding to Conflict. The growing incidence of armed conflicts in Africa and Eastern Europe, and their devastating impact, has placed this issue at the forefront of policy debates on aid and development. The Birmingham workshop brought together development practitioners and policy analysts to share experience and consider the adaptations that organisations and institutions need to make when working in situations of armed conflict. Illustrated with extracts from case studies on the work of ACORD in Africa, the paper draws together current thinking on the causes and impacts of conflict, and suggests a series of questions which aid organizations working in situations of armed conflict need to address.

Chief Inspector Alex Stirling, an officer in the Metropolitan Police's Arts and Antiques Unit, receives an urgent late-night phone call at his flat in London: Ivan Macek, a Croatian Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter, has been murdered at Tyburn Convent. A gold bar found next to the body apparently links the crime to the Ustashi, a long-thought dead Croatian nationalist movement.

This book is a culmination of the thirty years that the author spent helping clients change and reverse their self destructive behaviors. The formula presented in this book was formed as a result of helping clients understand how trauma affected their behavior and what needed to be done to reverse and change unhealthy behavior. Mark Adams witnessed those changes among his clients and was therefore able to personally construct the formula presented in this book for all to use.

Coaching psychology is a distinct branch of academic and applied psychology that focuses on enhancement of performance, development and wellbeing in the broader population. In Coaching Psychology in Schools, Mark Adams demonstrates how psychological principles and approaches can be applied in schools to enhance the performance of education practitioners, teams and settings, with corresponding benefits for the children under their care.

Coaching Psychology in Schools aims to put psychology in the hands of the reader, imparting psychology-informed coaching strategies that can enhance effectiveness in supporting others to learn, change and develop. The book challenges traditional notions of how psychology can contribute to education and illustrates how better outcomes for children can be achieved by helping adults to unlock and utilise their resources. The book covers how coaching psychology can be applied to:

Develop classroom practice

Improve teacher performance

Support Continuing Professional Development

Enhance practitioner and team performance, confidence and wellbeing

Support practical problem-solving

Develop individual and organisational resilience

Real-life case examples are used throughout to illustrate practical coaching methods and techniques that are underpinned by established psychological approaches, including solution-focused coaching, cognitive-behavioural coaching, motivational interviewing and many more.

Coaching Psychology in Schools will be essential reading for coaches, psychologists, and education practitioners who have an interest or investment in helping others to move forward, including school leaders, teacher coaches, CPD co-ordinators, advisors and consultants. It will also be of interest to those working in other professional contexts who are interested in finding out more about coaching psychology and its potential applications.

Coaching psychology is a distinct branch of academic and applied psychology that focuses on enhancement of performance, development and wellbeing in the broader population. In Coaching Psychology in Schools, Mark Adams demonstrates how psychological principles and approaches can be applied in schools to enhance the performance of education practitioners, teams and settings, with corresponding benefits for the children under their care.

Coaching Psychology in Schools aims to put psychology in the hands of the reader, imparting psychology-informed coaching strategies that can enhance effectiveness in supporting others to learn, change and develop. The book challenges traditional notions of how psychology can contribute to education and illustrates how better outcomes for children can be achieved by helping adults to unlock and utilise their resources. The book covers how coaching psychology can be applied to:

Develop classroom practice

Improve teacher performance

Support Continuing Professional Development

Enhance practitioner and team performance, confidence and wellbeing

Support practical problem-solving

Develop individual and organisational resilience

Real-life case examples are used throughout to illustrate practical coaching methods and techniques that are underpinned by established psychological approaches, including solution-focused coaching, cognitive-behavioural coaching, motivational interviewing and many more.

Coaching Psychology in Schools will be essential reading for coaches, psychologists, and education practitioners who have an interest or investment in helping others to move forward, including school leaders, teacher coaches, CPD co-ordinators, advisors and consultants. It will also be of interest to those working in other professional contexts who are interested in finding out more about coaching psychology and its potential applications.

Power and gender theories are applied to the life of Queen Elizabeth I to examine her tactics to maintain internal security within the borders of England and Ireland in the shadow of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had succumbed to the actions of misogynistic men.

This story is inspired by terrifying events from the nineties. The characters are local, high school seniors from Ellicott City, Maryland who visit the haunted ruins of an abandoned hospital, bring back something that was long forgotten, and seek the guidance of a Buddhist priest for an exorcism.

Previously published as Demon Nurse: Inspired by a True Story by Mark Adams.

Inspired by a true story. Set in the nineties, three high school seniors accept a stranger's bet to spend the night in an abandoned home. They experience terrifying events and capture evidence on their electronic devices. This is their story.

Previously published as Evil Soil: Inspired by a True Story by Mark Adams.