Mark Pendergrast's Books
Oct.08.2011
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 arrived in Japan exactly two months after the Fukushima meltdown....
Oct.08.2011
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...
Oct.08.2011
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,...
Apr.01.2003
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...
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...