Mark Pendergrast: 10 books
by Mark Pendergrast
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
JAPAN'S TIPPING POINT is a small book on a huge topic. In the post-Fukushima era, Japan is the "canary in the coal mine" for the rest of the world. Can Japan radically shift its energy policy, become greener, more self-sufficient, and avoid catastrophic impacts on the climate? Mark Pendergrast...
Memory Warp
How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
In the 1990s, a faddish pseudoscience, repressed memory theory, destroyed millions of American families by creating false memories of childhood sexual abuse. At the time, Mark Pendergrast published his widely acclaimed book Victims of Memory, exposing the false nature of the science and counseling...
by Mark Pendergrast
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
The most comprehensive book on the repressed memory therapy epidemic of the late 1980s and 1990s. A misguided form of pseudoscientific psychotherapy became a fad during these years and encouraged adults to believe that they had been sexually abused for years during their childhood and had completely...
Uncommon Grounds
The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
The definitive history of the world's most popular drug
Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in ancient Abyssinia to the advent of Starbucks. Mark Pendergrast reviews the dramatic changes in coffee culture over the past decade, from the disastrous "Coffee...
City on the Verge
Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked highways,...
by Mark Pendergrast
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
For God, Country and Coca-Cola is the unauthorized history of the great American soft drink and the company that makes it. From its origins as a patent medicine in Reconstruction Atlanta through its rise as the dominant consumer beverage of the American century, the story of Coke is as unique, tasty,...
Inside the Outbreaks
The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
The “fascinating” story of the CDC’s intrepid investigators, who travel the world to protect us from deadly pathogens (Chicago Tribune).
Since its founding in 1951, the Epidemic Intelligence Service has waged war on every imaginable ailment. When an epidemic hits, the EIS will be there...
Mirror, Mirror
A History Of The Human Love Affair With Reflection
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
As our first technology for contemplation of the self, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal. Mirror Mirror is the fascinating story of the mirror's invention, refinement, and use in an astonishing range of human activities-from the bloodthirsty...
Beyond Fair Trade
How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
“A rich and resonantly detailed account of an unlikely partnership that enabled the hard-working tribespeople of a remote coffee-growing village in Thailand to emerge from poverty and obscurity to success in the refined new world of fine coffee.” —Coffee Review
A multi-faceted, inspiring...
The Repressed Memory Epidemic
How It Happened and What We Need to Learn from It
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of repressed memories. It provides a history and context that documents key events that have had an effect on the way that modern psychology and psychotherapy have developed. Chapters provide an overview of how human memory functions and works...