Bøker av Bruce Porter

This survey of American art, with a particular focus on the art of California, provides an overview of painting, sculpture, and architecture from past to present. The book also discusses the representation of these arts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which took place in San Francisco in 1915 and was a major event in the history of American art. Written by an expert in the field, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in American art and its history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The road to retirement often has more twists and turns than the country roads of the Ozark Mountains near Springfield, Missouri, the area in which financial advisor Bruce Porter has spent his life. Navigating such a road usually requires additional knowledge, and often no small amount of courage. Here in his first book, Porter addresses many of these retirement-related issues. Among them: creating streams of sustainable income that can last as long as you do; understanding options available under Social Security; understanding the intricacies of Medicare and supplemental insurance coverage; financing possible long-term nursing care; preparing an estate plan. Foremost among the elements of Porter's roadmap to retirement is an emphasis on retirement investment options that emphasize security, protection against loss of invested principal and the potential for growth.

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 the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite into a massive and unimaginably lucrative enterprise-- one whose earnings, if legal, would have ranked the cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500.The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn't about to go down alone. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught.With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a super-charged drama of one man's meteoric rise and desperate fall, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's life using unprecedented eyewitness sources in this critically acclaimed true crime classic.

Knowledge Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence, is concerned with encoding knowledge on computers to enable systems to reason automatically. This book reviews twenty-five key topics in knowledge representation. It is useful for students, researchers and practitioners in various areas of Artificial Intelligence.