Mark Hudson Books

The book explores the implications of recent interdisciplinary studies on the Bronze Age, particularly focusing on long-distance trade and political decentralization. It introduces the concept of 'bronzisation' as a form of proto-globalization and examines its applicability to East Asia, particularly Island East Asia. The author analyzes maritime interactions and warrior culture within a comparative Eurasian context, arguing that Bronze Age trade fostered decentralized complexity in regions outside major alluvial states. The notion of the 'barbarian niche' is introduced to model premodern Eurasian history.

A former ranger and CIA operative, Gordan Hudde finds himself drawn into a tense missing children's investigation in his new hometown of Otter, Georgia. Teaming up with Sheriff 'Big' John Schmidt, he faces a moral dilemma between legal protocols and the pursuit of justice. As powerful adversaries threaten the investigation, including the sheriff's department and an FBI agent, Gordan must race against time to save the children, especially when a fourth child goes missing, pushing him to his limits.

The plot revolves around the mysterious disappearance of veterans from a support group, raising alarms when the creator discovers a lack of government interest in their plight. As he enlists a friend to investigate, the story unfolds into a chilling narrative of greed, corruption, and a conspiracy that blurs the lines between foreign threats and potential government involvement. The gripping tale promises to keep readers on edge, questioning the integrity of those in power while exploring the darker side of societal issues.

Set against the backdrop of a stunning Mexican vacation, this story unfolds a passionate romance between a mysterious man and a captivating local woman. Their relationship is complicated by the looming threats of a violent street gang, ruthless cartels, and corrupt governments on both sides of the border. The narrative is intense and cinematic, portraying a dangerous world where love and peril intertwine under the ominous presence of an angry orange sky.

A high-stakes political thriller unfolds as a conspiracy intertwines with another, threatening to reshape America’s foreign policy. Powerful figures engage in a dangerous game, each maneuvering for control, with dire consequences for the nation. As the clock ticks down, the urgency to unravel the plot intensifies. The gripping narrative explores themes of power, betrayal, and the fragility of democracy, posing the question of whether the impending disaster can be averted before it's too late.

The narrative follows the author's journey from an Army veteran to a multi-store district investigator in retail security. Through hundreds of shoplifting detentions and thousands of interviews, he shares entertaining and informative insights into the world of retail crime. His expertise in various interview and interrogation techniques reveals how he adapted these skills to secure confessions from employee suspects. This book is essential for those interested in retail security, management, or the hidden dynamics of the retail environment after hours.

The book is a quest - a journey through Titian's life and work, towards the physical and spiritual landscape of his last paintings.

Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and Mark Hudson critically examine how consumption has been understood in economic theory before analyzing its centrality to our social lives and function in contemporary capitalism. They also outline the consequences it has for people and nature, consequences routinely made invisible in the shopping mall or online catalogue. Hudson and Hudson show, in an approachable manner, how patterns of consumption are influenced by cultures, individual preferences and identity formation before arguing that underlying these determinants is the unavoidable need within capitalism to realize profit. This accessible and comprehensive book will be essential reading for students and scholars of political economy, economics and economic sociology, as well as any reader who wants to confront their own practices of consumption in a meaningful way.

This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsuro Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.

This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially historical figure, defined by the abstract expressionist era of the Fifties and early Sixties when he enjoyed his greatest fame, Davie was a prophetic artist whose preoccupations with universal creativity and self-realisation are more relevant today than they've ever been.Lavishly illustrated with rare archive photographs and little-seen paintings, Alan Davie in Hertford demonstrates that Davie's visionary art was far more closely bound up with physical places than is generally supposed, not least the quiet market town of Hertford, where he lived for 60 years. A catalogue of 40 works intended as the new gallery's core collection, provides a "rich and fabulous" survey of Davie's work, from student works of the Thirties to some of his very last paintings.