John Porter: 45 books

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational...

Drug dealing can be dangerous. Other dealer... police investigations... self indulgence. Those are just the more glamorous hazards. But the insidious threats of greed and arrogance can do far more harm in the end, as one grower/dealer discovers. One in a series of stories from a compilation entitled A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death. In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy. Sometimes it’s very difficult to know...

An inspirational book for budding authors who have yet to let their fingers fly across the keyboard, or dip plume into ink, but yet who have a burning desire to turn their thoughts into words and influence the world. The author has allowed voids to encourage the potent and powerful creative urges...

A Christian meditational guide containing true stories of encounters with everyday angels, thoughts on the nature of God, and a description of a vision of Christ. Humorous in places, and useful for new Christians, seekers, small home church groups and bible study.

No erotica in this collection, despite the title! Just tales of people getting filthy mad at each other, commiting dirty deeds out of greed, lust or jealousy, and generally a whole swag of grubby goings-on. Some are filled with wry humour, others will make you laugh out loud, and some are filled with...

For a visually impared man living alone, it's imperitive to maintain a strict set of systems. Even things which to sighted people would be disasterous can be dealt with comfortably, as long as the systems are adhered to... One in a series of ten stories from the compilation A Collection Of Dirty Little Stories.

Two females each competing for the same male... a recipe for heartache and horror. Perhaps this story was drawn from something I overheard many years ago, or maybe something I read about or dreamed of when I was younger. If you find that it rings a bell… schh… don’t let the cat out of the bag…...

A sometimes humorous, sometimes thought-provoking look at how animals think and act, how people treat animals, and what happens to dogs in the afterlife. Tales from ancient Egypt and even further back in the primordial past, right through to the story of a futuristic world set centuries in the future,...

The date is 2280, and the world is very different. Virtual reality has replaced much of the actual world, and many of the planet's inhebitants are no longer even made of flesh and blood. But children are still children... they still crave new toys and games... they still deceive their parents... and...

With utter certainty each creature has, at some point, needed to confront the mystery, pain and anguish of their own death, and possibly that of others too, sometimes welcomed, but often not. And as far as we who remain tied to our mortal bodies know, many have also experienced the surprises the afterlife...

There are a number of things which almost all human beings that have walked on this planet have had in common. Ever since he first hauled himself upright and stopped dragging his hairy knuckles along the forest floor, man has pretty much both suffered and enjoyed the same emotions year after year,...

A young boy grows to adulthood watching the horrors of the Pol Pot regime destroy Cambodia.One in a series of ten stories in the compilation A Collection of Dirty Little Stories.

As the Western World was reaching out to investigate the remains of long-dead civilisations, the increasing speed of technological advances - the motor car, the telegraph and photography - seemed to push out all the Mumbo-Jumbo of the native peoples from whose lands ancient artefacts were exhumed...