Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 was the first attack on a Middle Eastern country by a Western power in modern times. He was just twenty-eight when he invaded Egypt & it was an episode which contained in embryo many seminal events in his later life. This work looks at his epic military victories & his declaration of himself as emperor. ...

Napoleon Xylophone is set to become a hero with a walking disability. When adventure comes knocking, Zam doesn't let his disability get in the way of fighting the changelings, wytes & gargoyles that come to life in the underworld beneath Newcastle. ...

Haythornthwaite brings his reputation as a leading Napoleonic historian to bear on the examination of all parts of the French army: the cavalry, infantry, artillery, Imperial Guard, staff & supporting services. Napoleon's innovations & tactics are described, from Austerlitz to Waterloo, demonstrating the reasons for his success & decline. ...

Napoleon's Polish Lancers of the Guard were unique in their appearance & in their loyalty. This book reveals their varied & colourful uniforms as well as their long & loyal service for the Bonaparte cause. It provides an insight into the fighting li ...

One of the most famous regiments of Napoleon's cavalry, the (Dutch) 2nd Light Horse Lancers of the Imperial Guard were known as the Red Lancers from their scarlet uniforms. This work looks at their organization, uniforms, weapons & tactics in detail. ...

Contrary to popular belief, narcissists do not love themselves or anyone else. They are unable to accept their true self, relying instead on a fixed mask that hides an inability to feel. This title explains how feelings & emotions can be restored, & the integrity of the self regained. ...

Details: Narcissus & Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character.
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Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices & ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl & mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters & eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric & utterly original prose. ...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona's examination of the indigenous use of story as a healing modality points the way to a new model of medicine--a health care system that draws its effectiveness from listening to the healing wisdom of the past & also to the present-day voices of its patients. ...

Richard Newman provides a 25-page introduction to a revised autobiography of Henry Box Brown, a fugitive slave who in 1849 devised his own escape to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. ...