Bob Porter

Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice, Volume 1, offers EMS students and professionals a foundational and reference guide to paramedicine. Designed to stay ahead of industry trends and practices, the series meets current National EMS Education Standards and Paramedic Instructional Guidelines. Critical-thinking opportunities include a running case study linking content to real-world scenarios and a You Make the Call feature giving learners practice applying principles. Procedure scans illustrate the step-by-step performance of core skills, while patient care algorithms offer graphical "pathways" integrating care and assessment. For the 6th Edition, the 5 volumes of this series have been condensed into 2, streamlining content for students and instructors alike. The new edition further emphasizes clinical applications and critical thinking, while aligning content with the latest guidance and standards.

"Almost Naked" is a collection of anecdotes, both humorous and serious taken from the extraordinary experiences of Bob Porter. This is a book about lessons he learned from people, many of who are legends. It is presented as a series of verbal snapshots. Snapshots from "those golden days of yesteryear" in his father's wild west in the Oklahoma oil fields. Snapshots of hilarious travel experiences. Snapshots of his mentors in the intelligence and business communities. Snapshots of his out-dueling cancer and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease. Finally, he and his wife's poignant struggle with the tragedy of their brain-damaged child. He describes his personal journey, conveying with equal skill the droll and the tragic. His witty and insightful style establishes him as a raconteur of note.

"Almost Naked" is a collection of anecdotes, both humorous and serious taken from the extraordinary experiences of Bob Porter. This is a book about lessons he learned from people, many of who are legends. It is presented as a series of verbal snapshots. Snapshots from "those golden days of yesteryear" in his father's wild west in the Oklahoma oil fields. Snapshots of hilarious travel experiences. Snapshots of his mentors in the intelligence and business communities. Snapshots of his out-dueling cancer and the early onset of Parkinson's Disease. Finally, he and his wife's poignant struggle with the tragedy of their brain-damaged child. He describes his personal journey, conveying with equal skill the droll and the tragic. His witty and insightful style establishes him as a raconteur of note.

Richard Wellington is a former CIA employee who now travels the world as an international oil consultant. On his way to Athens, he stops in the airport bookstore. He picks up a “tell all” nonfiction book about Operation FLYSWATTER, a CIA plan to sabotage the Iranian bacterial weapons program. Its plan went awry and several thousand people were killed. Was this an accident or part of a larger conspiracy to steal 10 million dollars? When Richard opens the book he learns on the first page that the central character, and probable villain, had used Richard’s name as his cover name, and also has his age, eye color, hair color, and many background similarities. When Richard arrives in Greece he finds that his identity confusion puts him and his friends in mortal danger. He meets a former girlfriend, Margie, who is now with the CIA. It’s indeed a very small world, manipulated by an ingenious and sinister criminal mind which twists the “six degrees of separation” theory to his advantage. Richard and Margie become the target of some of the most brutal people on earth. Survival depends on “T. I. T. S.,” “the Voice,” and the “condor position.”