Authors:Jane Porter, Anna Marie Porter,
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: hearth, winter, tales
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-06-23
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0766188574
ISBN-13: 9780766188570

1826. Jane and Anna Maria Porter were English romantic novelists of Irish descent whose works have been translated into several foreign languages and gained for each of them some measure of success. Though Anna Marie began her writing career at age 13 and wrote throughout her life, it was Jane who achieved more lasting fame over the centuries. Jane co-authored this work with her sister Anna Maria. This is Volume II of II. See other works by these authors available from Kessinger Publishing. Volume 2 ISBN 0766188566.

Authors:Dr. Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Roy Porter G.S. Rous
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: gout
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0300082746
ISBN-13: 9780300082746

Gout has fascinated medical writers and cultural commentators from the time of ancient Greece. Historically seen as a disease afflicting upper-class males of superior wit, genius, and creativity, it has included among its sufferers Erasmus, the Medici, Edward Gibbon, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, and Robert Browning. Gout has also been the subject of powerful medical folklore, viewed as a disease that protects its sufferers and assures long life. This dazzlingly insightful and readable book investigates the history of gout and through it offers a new perspective on medical and social history,

Authors:F. Porter, Frank Porter, Porter,
Publisher: CRC
Keywords: marcell, dekker, engineering, mechanical, handbook, zinc
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 1991-04-29
List price: $279.95
ISBN-10: 0824783409
ISBN-13: 9780824783402

Summarizes information on all aspects of metallic zinc and gives references to additional source material, including major books and reviews. At the heart of the reference are 16 chapters that cover coatings and electrochemical protection of steel by zinc. Other chapters address: occurrence and prod

Authors:M. E. Porter, Michael E. Porter,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: harvard, business, school, colloquium, research, global, industries, competition
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 1986-11-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0875841406
ISBN-13: 9780875841403

Essays discuss technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, capital, government policies, coalitions, competition, and leadership in the global marketplace, and look at specific cases.

Authors:Rosalie Pedalino Porter, Rosalie Porter,
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: perspectives, vol, read, children, language, minority, educating
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2000-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 076580669X
ISBN-13: 9780765806697

READ Perspectives, a refereed annual publication of the Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ), Washington, D.C., begins its sixth year with the theme "Educating Language Minority Children: An Agenda for the Future." Volume 6 features presentations from a Boston University conference organized by READ and the Pioneer Institute. The essays represent truly diverse viewpoints on the education of limited-English students, rare in the complex and contentious arena of bilingual education. The lead article, "Rethinking Bilingual Education," by Charles L. Glenn of Bost

Author: A. P. Porter
Publisher: Carolrhoda Book
Keywords: hurston, trailblazer, biographies, neale, zora, sun, story, jump
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0876145462
ISBN-13: 9780876145463

Zora’s mother used to tell her to "Jump at de sun." She wanted Zora to be proud of herself and to do great things. This biography tells of her courageous struggle to write about the culture she valued. Zora was one of the first scholars to promote African-American culture as a self-contained heritage. Photos.(Y oung Adult)

Author: Roy Porter
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: history, humanity, medical, mankind, benefit, greatest
Number of Pages: 872
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0393319806
ISBN-13: 9780393319804

Samuel Johnson once called the medical profession "the greatest benefit to mankind." In the 20th century, the quality of that benefit has improved more and more rapidly than at any other comparable time in history. With all the capabilities of modern medicine’s practicioners, however, we as a people are as worried about our health as ever. Roy Porter, a social historian of medicine the London’s Wellcome Institute, has written an dauntingly thick history of how medical thinking and practice has risen to the challenges of disease through the centuries. But delve into its pages, and y