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  • Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)

    The stern look on the cover of this book should not fool you. David Dixon Porter was one of the wittiest, most erudite men to have served in the American Civil War and once you've read his memoirs, you won't miss the twinkle in those eyes.What most Americans know about the Civil War centers around Union and Confederate land campaigns. But without the U.S. Navy, the absolutely essential blockade of ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of Will Dodican

    "The Death of Will Dodican" originated with a promise to his paternal grandmother that the author would try to unravel the mystery of her uncle William Dodican’s death far from home in the New Mexican desert in October 1905. The puzzle had tormented Will’s sisters throughout their lives. Is there a clear answer to the question “Who killed Will?” Read Porter’s diligent effort to sort through the ... Read more

    $2.00 CAD

  • Slaves of the Emperor

    Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners

    Honorable Mention, 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900), Association for Asian StudiesShortlisted, 2024 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationChina’s last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Slaves of the Emperor

    Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight Banners

    Honorable Mention, 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900), Association for Asian StudiesShortlisted, 2024 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationChina’s last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    757

    A BRAND NEW Dark Ages adventure of power, succession and rivalry from MJ Porter

    by MJ Porter ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - House of Mercia

    Unabridged

    12 hours 37 min

    This is Mercia. The year is 757.A king will fall. A king will rise.But first, civil war will rage.King Æthelbald's forty-year vice-like rule over Mercia has been rigid. But he lacks a legitimate heir despite his insatiable bedchamber antics.Offa must stand hostage to his family’s good behaviour, when his father missteps in removing his mother from Æthelbald’s bed. Shockingly, his younger sister ... Read more

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  • Come Know Me

    I have known a tremendous amount of what we call Christian Living and Christian Devotional books in my life. Some of them have transformed me in profound ways. However, I have also found that many of them do something I know to be unintentional, but happen nonetheless: They appeal to our selfishness. We open the pages asking the central question, if not overtly then subconsciously, what will I get ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Taking Fire!

    Memoir of an Aerial Scout in Vietnam

    As a first lieutenant in the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army pilot David Porter was section leader in an Aerial Scout platoon in Vietnam. Their mission was to conduct reconnaissance in OH-6 aircraft (a.k.a. Light Observation Helicopter or "Loach") near the Cambodian border. Finding and engaging the enemy at low altitude in coordination with an AH-1 Cobra gunship circling above, these ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Buzz Me In

    Inside the Record Plant Studios

    The inside story of Record Plant studios—the real "Hotel California"—that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.In the seventies, Record Plant studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. With studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording trucks, Record ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Go Up, You Baldhead and other short stories

    by David Porter ...
    This is the fourth collection of short stories by David Porter. Some are from old ideas, others newer. All share a direct style, twists and turns from the dark side of life and some amusing elements.The stories are drawn from a varied life of performing in theatre in education, high school drama teaching, political organising, serving as Member of Parliament for a decade, examining/assessing and ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

  • Undead Labor

    Capitalism's Zombie Worker

    How the zombie represents capitalism’s fantasy of limitless laborMuch more than just an enduring figure of horror entertainment, the zombie is a uniquely modern symbol representing capitalism’s most brutal demands on human life. Examining the push to extract surplus value from human bodies in ways that exceed their natural limits, David Bering-Porter shows how this notion of the undead is both ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Hell on Earth

    The Wildfire Pandemic

    The world is burning, and it appears that we are to blame. Conditions that create large-scale fire disasters are occurring more frequently every year, spurred on by global warming. And the potential for damage, loss of life, and greater harm to the environment is staggering.As devastating fires increase throughout the western and southern United States, the number of fires in the Brazilian rain ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • No Lack of Madmen - you can never be too paranoid

    by David Porter ...
    Former MP David Porter's third novel is set in an East Anglian care home for one-time MPS, Lords and senior civil servants, that boasts its own 'Commons Chamber' to relive their glory days.Prone to falls, James Ellington reluctantly moves in to satisfy his family and is at once immersed in a nightmare world of deluded, confused, decrepit shadows of their former selves. After attack from a mobility ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD