Bruce Porter: 9 books

Book cover of Ace!: A Marine Night-Fighter In World War II
by Colonel R. Bruce Porter with Eric Hammel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009

"From flight training, Bruce Porter's aeronautical skills as a Marine day- and night-fighter pilot defined the term fighter ace! Bruce's book reflects the keen, analytical mind of a fighter pilot's technical skills projected into combat. This book is a 'must' for anyone interested in combat aviation...
Book cover of Destroying the Shadow Agenda: A Christian Manifesto
by Bruce Porter
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2019

A "Shadow Agenda?" First, the Shadow Agenda is NOT A political movement, (even though it utilizes politics and human government as a means to accomplish its agenda.) It also isn't "religious," (but will readily cloak itself in religion to blind people to its real agenda.) So...
Book cover of Snatched

Snatched

From Drug Queen to Informer to Hostage--A Harrowing True Story

by Bruce Porter
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016

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...
Book cover of BLOW

BLOW

How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All

by Bruce Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014

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...
Book cover of A Rebel Without a Cause Becomes a Rebel with a Cause
by Bruce Porter
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017

This is the story of a shy boy who then became a bit of a terror and who led others astray. He rebelled about almost everything. Some of his activities included playing truant and playing tricks on people without any thought about the results. This behavior continued until he was challenged and gradually...
Book cover of The King of Kings
by Bruce D. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011

With worshipful reverence, we sing hymns and bear testimony of the one Being whose omniscience, power, and splendor allow him to reign as the King of Kings. In this eloquent and personal book, Elder Bruce D. Porter teaches and bears witness of Jesus Christ. He explores the feelings and spirit surrounding...
Book cover of War and the Rise of the State
by Bruce D. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002

States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective...
Book cover of Wildlife Policies in the U.S. National Parks
by Frederic H. Wagner, Ronald Foresta, Richard Bruce Gill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1995

This volume presents the results of a five-year study of wildlife-managempolicies in national parks. It synthesizes interviews with individuals inside and outside the National Park Service, provides a comprehensive review of published and unpublished literature, and draws on the collective experience...
Book cover of Cooperation in Economy and Society
by James Acheson, Matthew Bird, Gracia Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010

The essays in the book analyze cases of cooperation in a wide range of ethnographic, archaeological and evolutionary settings. Cooperation is examined in situations of market exchange, local and long-distance reciprocity, hierarchical relations, common property and commons access, and cooperatives....
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