Porter: 1504 books

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - How to Manage the Creative Process of Your Business. The business world is full of examples of organisations which have tapped into the creativity of their workers as well as customers in order to become more efficient. Yet some businesses don’t realize the need...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - How to Help Teams Perform Effectively. For any organization to become successful, its employees must work effectively as a team. But you must remember that a new team can’t be expected to perform exceptionally from the very beginning. Team formation takes time,...

This book is short, simple and easy to follow. It covers the subject matter that you’ll want to include in your book. It also provides a sample book with expanded topics and many pictures. Follow the suggestions or simply use them to develop your own ideas. Here’s everything you need to...

Snatched is the electric tale, by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance. Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - How to Improve Performance through the Balanced Scorecard. Organizations often focus their efforts on short term financial results and neglect the other aspects of their business. This is when the concept of the “Balanced Business Scorecard”, a tool for improving...

BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from...

Tour North America’s greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world’s greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter...

Finalist for the 2018 Minnesota Book Award A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a cache of letters and the mystery of one man’s fate during World War II. Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn...

Rock Hudson reigned in the late 1950s and early ‘60s as “Hollywood's greatest ambisexual swordsman,” seducing icons who included Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, and Lauren Bacall, as well as hundreds of other lesser-known players willing to share some...

Do you love a good Mystery with Romance tied in with it.  Then, this particular book is what you have been looking for. We're going back in time to the slavery days in America.  When things were extremely difficult for people of color. I was so excited, just doing some the research. Once I started...

The Library of America presents an exclusive e-book edition of the astonishing 1930 collection that introduced a major new voice in American literature. “If Katherine Anne Porter had written nothing but these short narratives," observed the New York Times, "she would be among the most distinguished masters of her craft in this country.”

After a sickly start to his life, Tony Porter certainly made up for it – he started his career selling paint for ICI, who later sent him to Nigeria. There he married Beatrice and they had three children. Brought home 8 years later following the outbreak of the Biafran war, he left ICI and immersed...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence. In our daily lives, we encounter various people who are excellent listeners. These people know how and what to say at the right time, and do so in such a manner that we’re neither offended nor upset. There are also people...

Entrepreneurs Brief Guide - We usually notice that when we're stressed about something, talking to a friend immediately helps in vanishing that stress and burden. This is often because the so-called stress we are facing comes from our perception of the situation. It could be that sometimes our...