Richard Porter: 34 books

Religion & Spirituality Have Made You The Person That You Are TodayHow many times you felt being rejected because of your wrong decisions. Most of your friends and relatives may not realize that you need motivation for whatever decisions you made, or have taught you a lesson. You learned a...

60 Recipes Brunch and Dinner Book Is something I would like to share with you.These are some of my family's favorite recipes that we have been enjoying for years.There are a lot new ideas for planning your family gatherings with these easy recipes.I spent quite a few hours researching and compiling...

The leader of a drug cartel decides that it would be more profitable to hijack ships at sea; He modifies an old WWII landing ship and puts a submarine inside, that he can unload while at sea. With a super high powered radio, he blocks all transmission within a ten mile radius. He hijacks several freighters...

An underground city built millions of year ago. When a meteor hit earth and killed the dinosaurs, a ship observing from an ancient highly advanced civilization got caught in the gravity and crashed. Many survived, but due to the blocked sunlight and highly toxic cloud from the impact had to go underground....

Brad Staples bought a small company, BrainTech, which has developed a method of recording and implanting a person’s whole personality and memory into someone who is comatose and dying. The implant also causes the recipient to overcome the disease that is killing them. Several successes make big...

Life is full of complications. From buying petrol and driving on a motorway to using a microwave oven and becoming a Formula 1 driver, all men have suffered from the stresses and inconveniences of the modern world. Happily, this handy book will solve all of these problems by applying...

For over ten years, Top Gear has been travelling all over Britain in the course of making the world’s best programme about cars, driving, and three men in smart-casual clothes shouting at each other. So, who better to assemble a guide to Britain itself with all its glories, quirks and multiple words...

Good old Dad and his good old Dad's car. As solid and dependable as the man himself, if a little less balding, Dad's car was almost a member of the family, whisking you to exciting days out, or just to visit boring relatives in distant parts of the country to the chant of 'are we nearly there yet?'...

With its unique blend of Western Palearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical components, and lying on a migratory crossroads, Oman is a jewel of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of this fascinating and welcoming country. All 528 species on the Oman Bird List...

Designing and making cars is an expensive thing to do. So is racing them. All told, the car business spends billions every year and with such vast sums at stake you’d think the people involved wouldn’t give desk space to Captain Cockup. Sadly, you would be wrong. Every department in every...

Building your own hovervan or brewing your own beer? Get down to the garage. Looking to store several step ladders or conceal a secret collection of owls? The garage is the place. Maybe you just want to whistle, drum or shout 'Ow my thumb!' without being told to shut up. The garage is waiting. This book celebrates the garage and all that happens in it. Even the fires.

Power in the Blood (revised version) is an adventure in ideas that explores many interrelated aspects of philosophy, faith and science in order to highlight the true dimensions of human nature and of the Magnum Mysterium (thus called in mediaeval times) in which we are embodied and imbedded. Those...

In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of waste products from business and households. Emphasizing the impossibility of achieving a zero-risk environment, Porter focuses...

This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer,...