Mark Stevens

A vivid portrait of the day-to-day experience in the public asylums of nineteenth-century England, by the bestselling author of Broadmoor Revealed.
 
Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of nineteenth-century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed, and the treatments they received, as well as the enduring...

Are you mesmerized by the idea of drawing with fire? Do you want to master woodburning? Are you frustrated with vague online tutorials? Do you have a grand vision in your mind, but your drawing skills and tools let you down? If so, Woodburning for Beginners is the right book for you! This book teaches you all the technical skills for stellar woodburning! Whether you're a beginner who still can't transfer a pattern or an intermediate who wants to...

One of the most exciting and innovative hobbies you have never tried Do you want a new set of skills that will produce incredible art? Do you want to grow yourself as a person by engaging in a creative new talent? Do you love the smell of a campfire while you're working? If yes, then welcome to woodburning! Perhaps you've never heard of it, but are curious to learn something new? Or maybe you have some experience, and are searching for a book to...

In this dramatic, deal-by-deal portrait of legendary and, until now, secretive financier Carl Icahn, bestselling business writer Mark Stevens takes us behind the scenes of some of the biggest deals in U.S. corporate history: Icahn's multibillion dollar raid on Phillips Petrolium; his bold move on Texaco's hidebound management, which netted him $500 million in the largest single transaction ever recorded by the New York Stock Exchange; Icahn's prolonged...

As a train speeds through the night, a man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew. Fake doctor, Paul Bruckner (Wesley Addy), leaves the train with his "patient" and the "patient's wife", really Bruckner's wife, Linda (Linda Brucker). The insurance company investigator, Charlie Norman (Mark Stevens), on the case to work with the railroad's investigator, Joe Armstrong (King Calder).

"A decade in the making: the first comprehensive look at the life and art of Francis Bacon, one of the most iconic painters of the 20th century Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in both English art and life--from his public emergence with his legendary Triptych of 1944 (its images "so unrelievedly awful" that people fled the gallery), to his death in Madrid in 1992. Through hundreds of...

The rushing Nolichucky River cut deep gorges into Unicoi County's landscape, and the railroad laid track for the town of Erwin's future. Formed in 1875, Unicoi County's 201 square miles border North Carolina, with nearly 50 percent of the land protected by the U.S. government. Known as "the Valley Beautiful," this community comes alive through images of yesterday and today.

A poignant story about hopes, dreams, and how far one man's talent takes him before he realizes it's about what you do and how you do it.