Brian Porter: 16 books

In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining the common assumption that nationalist movements by nature draw lines of inclusion and exclusion around social groups, establishing...

Carpentry and Joinery 2 is the second in a series of three books, which together provide an authoritative and thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and students working towards an Institute of Carpenters qualification....

The third edition of Carpentry and Joinery 1 is the first in a series of three books which together provide an authoritative but thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and a wide range of amateurs and professionals. Carpentry...

Carpentry and Joinery 3 is the third in a series of three books, which together provide an authoritative and thoroughly practical guide to carpentry and joinery for students following City & Guilds and CITB courses, NVQ candidates, and students working towards an Institute of Carpenters qualification....

Poland in the Modern World presents a history of the country from the late nineteenth century to the present, incorporating new perspectives from social and cultural history and positioning it in a broad global context Challenges traditional accounts Poland that tend to focus on national, political...

From award winning author Brian L Porter comes the thriller sensation of the year. 'Pestilence' leads where others will follow in creating a scare-fest that will terrify, entertain and astound the reader.Pestilence….breathe if you dare!The year is 1958, the place, an idyllic village in the heart of...

Considerations in international project management go beyond the project itself. They include areas such as culture, travel, resource management, and communication. Porter, with his international experience, explains in great detail the other aspects that may be overlooked by the inexperienced. His...

Un grupo de mujeres se reúne en una clínica belga de fertilidad, donde la Dra. Margherita Dumas ofrece un tratamiento revolucionario y experimental para sus problemas de infertilidad. Un año más tarde, cada una de las mujeres da a luz bebés sanos. Treinta años después, un misterioso...

En el nebuloso Londres victoriano, un despiadado asesino serial anda suelto. Mientras sus habitantes se horrorizan con la ola de crímenes perpetrados por Jack, el destripador, otra bestia menos conocida se pasea libremente por sus calles. La prensa oculta en sus páginas interiores apenas...

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,...

When James Bradley offers Mr Perkins a new job with accommodation thrown in Mr Perkins has no qualms in accepting the offer. But the accommodation is not a patch on their modern home in Empress Drive, Manchester; it's a lonely three storey high Victorian semi with next door boarded up in a run-down...

Jack Thomas Reid, nephew of Robert Cavendish who first appeared in A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper languishes in the secure Ravenswood Psychiatric Hospital, sentenced to confinement 'at Her Majesty's Pleasure' for a series of apparent 'Jack the Ripper' copycat killings in the picturesque...

En las ruinas de la antigua ciudad de Teotihuacán, el cuerpo mutilado de un joven aparece como mudo testigo de la obra de un asesino en serie. Luego de la trágica muerte de su hermano, el detective Juan Morales decide tomarse unas merecidas vacaciones. Sin embargo, aquel cadáver de un joven...

Un esqueleto y una mujer desaparecida. Un romance condenado. Un misterio que abarca a dos generaciones. Liverpool, 1961. Un grupo de jóvenes se reúne en busca de fama y fortuna mientras los novedosos sonidos de los locos años sesenta se apoderan de la ciudad. Muy pronto, Liverpool se convertirá...