Turn Right at Machu Picchu

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Author: Mark Adams ID: B0080JLQEC

Writer for the New York Times and GQ, Mark Adams is also the acclaimed author of Mr. America. In this fascinating travelogue, Adams follows in the controversial footsteps of Hiram Bingham III, who’s been both lionized and vilified for his discovery of the famed Lost City in 1911 – but which reputation is justified?
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 10 hours and 12 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Recorded BooksAudible.com Release Date: May 4, 2012Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B0080JLQEC Best Sellers Rank: #9 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > History > Latin America #10 in Books > Travel > South America > Peru #24 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > Latin America
Mark Adams’ "Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time" is a book that’s a bit hard to classify. All at once, it’s a serious (and seriously funny) travelogue; a smart and tightly written history; and an investigative report into the greatest archaeological discovery of the last century.

Author Adams spent time writing and editing for the now defunct National Geographic Adventurer magazine and despite working with and alongside some of the world’s hardest core adventure travelers, he admits to not being much of one himself. He’d visited Machu Picchu with his son, but he’d done it the tourist way. He wanted to REdiscover Machu Picchu – the way its’ original discoverer, Hiram Bingham, had 100 years ago this July. He wanted to hike, climb, slog, tent and explore his way through the Vilcabamba region of Peru and finish at the site that was recently named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

Adams doesn’t camp and hadn’t been in a tent for years leading up to his Peruvian excursion. His preparation for the trip was extensive, including dressing the part of adventurer. "Have you ever seen Mr. Travel Guy? He’s the fellow who strides through international airports dressed like he’s flying off to hunt wildebeests – shirt with dozens of pockets, drip-dry pants that zip off into shorts, floppy hat with a cord pulled tight under the chin in case a twister blows through the baggage claim area. All of this describes exactly what I was wearing. I could have been trick-or-treating as Hemingway."

Make no mistake. Adams trip was an uncompromising adventure. There were no soft train rides, or helicopter drops into the jungle.
Back when Al Franken was a comedian and not a U.S. senator, he did a bit on "Saturday Night Live" in which he would describe some major event and end by asking, "how does this affect me, Al Franken?"

That, to me, is the stupid heart of the stunt memoir, those books in which the author undertakes a challenge outside his or her comfort zone, and then reports back on what it means to him. Such memoirs start with the assumption that the author is much more interesting than whatever they’re doing (usually false) and that just become something interesting happens to them makes them even more interesting (always false).

Thankfully, Mark Adams doesn’t participate in that nonsense. Although "Turn Right at Machu Picchu" starts with a similar elevator pitch ‘ "travel magazine copy editor gets out from behind his desk to explore Incan ruins in Peru" ‘ he comes back with a book that looks more outward than inward. Like a "Seinfeld" episode, there’s no learning and no hugging.

Adams uses three narrative threads to weave his story, starting with the Incans and their fatal encounters with the Spanish invaders during the 1500s. It’s not a pretty story, starting with the most commonly known story of Francisco Pizarro and Atahualpa, in which the Incan emperor promised a room full of gold in return for his freedom, an offer which Pizarro accepted and then reneged on by having Atahualpa strangled

Over the next three decades, subsequent Incan ruler moved between building new capitals in the jungle and raiding the Spanish. The Spanish responded with raids and various atrocities until, in 1572, they declared all-out war on the rebel Incan state. The empire dissolved when its last ruler, Tupac Amaru, was captured and executed.
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Verilog by Example

Verilog by Example: A Concise Introduction for FPGA Design
Author: Blaine Readler ID: 0983497303

Paperback: 124 pagesPublisher: Full Arc Press (April 19, 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0983497303ISBN-13: 978-0983497301 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #37,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #71 in Books > Textbooks > Engineering #632 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering #9158 in Books > reference
I know exactly who this book is for (me, among others, about 15 years ago), but I’m still not sure how to describe it. Thar reader is fluent enough with normal programming languages that bits of syntax won’t be a problem – making it that much easier to address the problematic parallelism implicit in HDLs. That reader also has a fair understanding about the bits & bobs of logic design: gates, RAMs, registers, and the like, but maybe never took the second course in logic design.

This book, a companion to Readler’s "VHDL by example," gives the novice a running start at the other major hardware design language. People on both sides can get pretty het up about which is The One, often along geographic lines (Europe vs. US, East coast vs. West coast). The fact is, though, that you don’t often get to pick. Your employer, your work group or client, the tools and libraries available to you will often make the choice for you. So, it’s best to know both, and Readler’s books treat them with a reasonably even hand.

In the unlikely event that you’re free to choose, it’s a matter of taste. I certainly have my preferences, but they don’t matter much. Verilog reminds a programmer of C – I mean, K&R C, from way back, with all the good and bad that implies. Include files, scopeless macro definition, and uninformative module (or function) prototypes will all look familiar. VHDL, on the other hand, derives consciously from Ada, with all the good and bad that implies. That includes packages (which no one uses), operator overloads (which no one thinks they use, but do), and draconian type checking – something that will cost you a lot of time, but very likely save you even more.

Like its VHDL twin, this gives only the basics, i.e.
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Plague and the End of Antiquity

Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750
Author: Lester K. Little ID: 052171897X

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“…this work escapes the fate of so many single-subject edited volumes, remaining interesting and thought-provoking throughout. Each chapter has new ideas to provide the reader, and Little does an admirable job of editing a comprehensive volume with a minimum of repetition. ….It is an excellent scholarly discussion and a base from which further research can occur. …this book is an indication that this fascinating topic is finally receiving the scholarly attention it deserves.” BMCR

“For those who want an indepth discussion of discrete topics, i wholeheartedly recommend Plague and the End of Antiquity.”
Raymond J. Dawttwyler, M.D. The New England Journal of Medicine

” is a fascinating collection of essays by specialists in history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology…” –New York Review of Books

“Plaque and the End of Antiquity is a fascinating collection of essays by specialists in history, archeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology…”
Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of Books

“The authors’ successful integration of insights from many fields provides a thorough account of the pandemic’s origins, lethality, waxings, and wanings… Plague and the End of Antiquity …provide[s] an ideal historic basis for dealing with the many facets of plague today and in the future.”
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Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. In this volume, the first on the subject, twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines-history, archaeology, epidemiology, and molecular biology- have produced a comprehensive account of the pandemic’s origins, spread, and mortality, as well as its economic, social, political, and religious effects.

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Paperback: 382 pagesPublisher: Cambridge University Press (January 14, 2008)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 052171897XISBN-13: 978-0521718974 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #261 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & health Sciences > Medicine > Clinical > Forensic Medicine #496 in Books > medical books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Forensic Medicine #2161 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > history > Ancient

Factors like epidemics as important historical forces have been largely underestimated. Little information has survived from these dark centuries and even less facts are available. This book tries to assess the demographic, economic and fiscal consequences of one of the first big epidemics which was recognised as such. Bringing in new methodologic approaches from biochemistry, the authors allow a clearer view with new facts.Due to the fact that we know very little from our written sources and even the demographics of antiquity are only in the beginnings, these new scientific approaches are an absolute necessity.
A must for any student of the dark ages.

I needed a book to take on a recent business trip and a friend recommended this. It was very good. An excellent survey of the effects of disease in late antiquity.

Very good initial resource on the plague of Justinian.

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