Porter: 1504 books
by Julian Porter
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This chapter from Julian Porter’s essential companion to all the major European museums and galleries discusses some of the greatest paintings to be found in the museums and galleries of the United Kingdom and Ireland. His passion for art began with the seven years he spent as a student tour guide...
Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up
Sex, Lies, Murder, and the Great Cover-up
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
As an insight into the American experience of celebrity death on the 50th anniversary of the murder of the Love Goddess, biographer Darwin Porter has compiled, after decades of research, an intriguing roundup of the conspiracies and dark secrets behind Hollywood’s most notorious mystery: Who Killed...
Jacko, His Rise and Fall
The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market. After its original release in 2007, it was widely reviewed...
by Sheldon Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Sheldon Porter is an assertive Writing and Literature major who has captured the attention of administrators at his college. When Sheldon accepts an invitation from the administration to represent his college in a nationwide essay writing contest, he soon discovers that to have even a chance of winning,...
Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer: All the Gossip Unfit to Print from the Glory Days of Ol' Blue Eyes
All the Gossip Unfit to Print from the Glory Days of Ol' Blue Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage. Call me 'The Boudoir Singer,' or so claimed Frank Sinatra. The crooner's career spanned more than half a century, earning him millions of fans. His boudoir conquests involved some of the most stunning women of the 20th century. But exactly...
And On That Bombshell
Inside the Madness and Genius of Top Gear
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
I was Top Gear's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also got to hang around with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It didn't feel like something you should get paid for.
From the disastrous...
Laid Bare
My story of love, fame and survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Gail Porter burst on to our TV screens in the late 90s presenting The Movie Chart Show, Alive and Kicking and Top of the Pops. Bright, sparky and beautiful she soon attracted an entirely different audience, posing for a number of men's magazines and rapidly becoming the pin-up of the lad-mag generation....
Bodies Politic
Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Bodies Politic takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease, and health, as well as at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Arguing that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased...
The Black Seminoles
History of a Freedom-Seeking People
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This story of a remarkable people, the Black Seminoles, and their charismatic leader, Chief John Horse, chronicles their heroic struggle for freedom.
Beginning with the early 1800s, small groups of fugitive slaves living in Florida joined the Seminole Indians (an association that thrived for...
by Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Porter’s By Ox Team to California is a moving piece of social history which documents the struggles and hopes of ordinary Americans in the mid-nineteenth century.
by Roy Porter
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing...
by Pamela Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This stunning collection will break your heart and put it back together again, as Pamela Porter unravels a long-held family secret in a moving personal search for redemption, face to face with the question of her own identity. As she says, “It was this way when Rome was burning, / and was not so...
by Gene Stratton-Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
According to Wikipedia: "Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national...
British Imperial
What the Empire Wasn't
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including racism, exploitation and the problems of the Middle...