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PUBLISHED: Oct.08.2011

Japan's Tipping Point: Crucial Choices in the Post-Fukushima World

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 arrived in Japan exactly two months after the Fukushima meltdown....

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PUBLISHED: Oct.08.2011

Victims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives

There is a raging debate regarding “recovered memories” of sexual abuse. This web site provides a great deal of introductory information. By reading Victims of Memory, you will be introduced to many aspects of human memory research, infantile amnesia, hypnosis, multiple personality disorder, ritual abuse, interviews with those on...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.08.2011

For God, Country and Coca-Cola: The Definitive History of the Great American Soft Drink and the Company That Makes It

For God, Country & Coca-Cola is a cultural, social, and economic history of America as seen through the green glass of a Coke bottle. And what a quintessentially American tale it is. Coca-Cola began humbly as a patent medicine amid the fervor and chaos of Reconstruction Atlanta. A shrewd marketeer saw its value as a beverage,...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2003

Mirror Mirror: A History of the Human Love Affair with Reflection

Of all human inventions, the mirror is perhaps the most intriguing, since it is so closely connected to our own consciousness, reflecting both reality and illusion. As our first technology for self-contemplation, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal (the Incas, who had mirrors, did not...

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Oct.12.2011 - 2:06 pm

Japan's Tipping Point

Japanese trains run to the minute, and the country's businesses pride themselves on energy-efficiency. The Japanese boast of their eco-services for eco-products in eco-...

Every thing that lives is holy.”

—William Blake

About Mark

I have written six critically-acclaimed books of non-fiction, including Japan's Tipping Point, Inside the Outbreaks, Uncommon Grounds, Mirror Mirror, Victims of Memory, and For God, Country and Coca-Cola. Also wrote Jack and the Bean Soup, a funny...

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